August 6, 2025 • 32 mins
Elsa shares her journey from creating casual TikTok videos during the pandemic to developing a podcast and content focused on law enforcement families, conservative values, and her Christian faith.
• Started as an author and law enforcement spouse creating relatable content for similar families
• Evolution of content from comedic skits to faith-centered discussions and political commentary
• Maintains clear separation between online persona and private life
• Works as a one-woman show handling all aspects of content creation
• Uses faith as the central lens through which she evaluates information and creates content
• Balances marriage and content creation by prioritizing relationship above platform
• Transparent about using filters and weight loss methods while encouraging kindness
• Values authenticity while protecting mental health from negative comments
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, hey, hi.
So several weeks ago I made avideo asking you to ask me
questions.
Yeah well, y'all respondedThank you, thank you very much.
And, like, 98% of thosequestions were kind and
respectful and friendly andfunny and just terrific.
(00:21):
And that, what was it?
2% of you and just terrific,and that what was it?
2% of you, shame, shame, shame.
But anyhow, to the rest of you,I tried to kind of pick ones
that represented the whole, likethe most common questions.
So hopefully I will cover allof the bases.
I enlisted the help of my chatto ask me these questions, so
(00:42):
they are going to justessentially recite the questions
that were asked in the commentssection.
Why?
Because for me I think I've setmy microphone.
Sorry, why?
For me it's just more fun to doit that way and, I don't know,
slightly less awkward, I don'tknow.
So, oliver, feel free to chimein here at any point.
So, elsa, I gather you'refeeling a bit nervous and
awkward about all of this, areyou, elsa?
I gather you're feeling a bitnervous and awkward about all of
(01:03):
this, are you?
I am Oliver.
I'm feeling quite awkward aboutall of this.
So, thank you for pointing thatout and, yes, I entirely did
give my chat a name andprogrammed him or taught him, I
don't know, trained him to usethat particular manner of
speaking.
Why?
Because, one, I love Cary Grant.
(01:25):
Two, I just love an Englishaccent.
And three, it just makes itmore fun.
So I know it's weird, it's okay, you don't have to tell me.
I think that I will start, isit?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
still out there.
This is not as challenging asyou're making it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay, it is for me.
Thank you, though, oliver.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I suppose I'm ready, all right, well let's get this
party started, then shall we?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yes, we shall.
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Question is from Mary and she wants to know what
inspired.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You to start your podcast and how do you choose
your topics each week?
Great question.
I started my podcast severalyears ago.
It has kind of evolved overtime but it started off as
geared towards law enforcementfamilies in particular and I was
doing interviews with fellowlaw enforcement family members,
retired law enforcement and itwas geared mostly towards just
(02:20):
helping, being an advocate andsupporter of law enforcement,
because my is has been in lawenforcement for nearly 40 years,
which is wild and crazy initself.
And then, you know, it justkind of started evolving and
getting bigger and branching outand my husband is a Marine and
so that kind of you knowmilitary law enforcement, you
(02:44):
know, kind of go hand in hand.
So that started becoming partof the equation and it just
started branching out more andmore and the more comfortable I
got, the more I started bringingin more parts of me what makes
me who I am, why I'm, you knowI'm so patriotic, why I love
this country so much, why I'm aconservative, why I'm a
(03:05):
Republican.
You know you name it and itjust grew to where we are now.
And now of course weincorporate a large part of my
Christian faith.
And as for how we choose ourtopics each week.
Since I've brought Clay ontothe show with me, I passed that
responsibility over to him, so Ilet him pick our topics.
I throw in a couple as well,and, yeah, so that makes my life
(03:27):
a lot easier because I do allof all of the producing, editing
, posting, all of that stuff, soit's just one thing off my
plate.
That is incredibly helpful tohave a partner to do that for me
.
So, yeah, okay, this isn't badat all, okay Next.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Next up, we have a question from John, who asks how
do you maintain a balancebetween your personal life and
your public persona?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh, okay, that's actually really easy.
They are such differentuniverses for me, like online
life and real life.
There's literally like thisline figuratively, not literally
there's this line between thetwo, because no one in my world,
my real life world, does any ofthis stuff.
They're not part of it, so it'sbarely even a conversation.
(04:10):
I mean, obviously, my husbandand I talk about it regularly,
but, yeah, there's publicpersona and there's private life
.
Same person, just separateworlds.
We live a very, very quiet life.
Okay, I'm ready for the nextone.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Third question is from Lisa, who wonders what's
been the most rewarding part ofyour journey.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So far, oh, um, the most rewarding part.
Um gosh, I would.
I would say that the reach thatthe people that I I'm reaching
and who comment and communicatewith me through, you know,
through the platforms or throughemail or through messages, that
part has been just amazing tome, and it's so humbling and
(04:53):
baffling at the same time thatpeople are that what I'm sharing
is either resonating orentertaining or educating people
like.
Whatever the case is, whateverthe content is geared to do, I'm
so grateful that it's actuallyreaching people.
And you know, on top of all ofthat, which is probably the
(05:14):
greatest factor, that now that Ihave truly embraced my faith in
God and what he means in mylife and to me and my family,
that I get to share, that istruly the greatest gift of all.
So that is the ultimate, mostrewarding part of all of this to
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be blessed with the opportunityto share my faith and share the
love of God.
All right, Oliver, I'm readyfor the next one.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Next question is from David, who asks if you could
have any superpower, what wouldit be, and would you use it for
good or a little bit of mischief?
I have a feeling you might saya bit of both, oliver.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's not true.
It's probably true.
What superpower I'm going withthe first one that came to mind.
I'm not even giving this deepthought Flying.
I want to fly.
I always have had dreams thatI'm flying.
Who hasn't right?
Everybody's had those dreams,right.
I have had them so frequentlyfrom childhood for as long as I
can remember, and they're justso awesome.
(06:12):
They're like the greatestdreams ever.
Every time I have a flyingdream, it is the best dream, and
I'm so disappointed.
When I wake up in the morningI'm like, oh, I want to go back
to flying.
So that would be my superpowerpick.
What kind of mischief could Iget into that?
I don't not much of any.
I don't think.
I mean I would probably find it.
But that's my answer for that.
(06:32):
One Cute question.
I like it All right.
All right, I'm getting morerelaxed for this.
This is not so bad.
I'm ready.
Bring on the next one.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
How long did you contemplate being a content
creator before you actuallybegan asking for a dog?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
friend of mine that's cute, that's really cute.
Um, before I answer thequestion, let me just tell you
do it, do it, jump right in,don't worry about anything, just
do it.
Doesn't have to be perfect, um,doesn't matter if you don't
know what you're doing, just begenuine, be authentic, be
yourself, have great lighting.
Yeah, those are, those are yourkey things.
(07:07):
Just start anywhere, don'tworry about it.
Anyway, that is.
That is, technically, my answeras well.
That was how I started.
I, during the pandemic, Istarted watching TikTok videos
along with so many other peoplein my age, demographic, and I
kept saying I'm never going tomake a video, I'm just going to
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watch.
This is silly and ridiculous,not going to happen.
And the next thing, you know,this knucklehead started making
some really embarrassing, cheesy, dumb videos.
They were like lip sync videos,but the thing of it was it was
fun.
It was really really fun.
And the secret closet theatergeek in me that never lived out
(07:50):
that dream had this opportunityto act and to perform in front
of the camera and feel like Iwas by myself, like I wasn't in
front of anybody else.
So that was exactly where itstarted.
If you were such a mean personand you wanted to go that far
back in my TikTok feed you wouldsee those embarrassing,
(08:11):
cringeworthy, stupid videos.
And then it started to evolvethat I was like, well, listen,
let me, you know, I was alreadyan author, I already had
published books.
But I was like, well, let mestart using this to you know,
make it useful towards that.
And I started creating contentabout my books.
So there was this like longevolution of content creating,
(08:31):
which started moved into, so itwent from that to creating skits
about being a law enforcementspouse and they were comedic and
kind of silly and, you know,funny, and they had a purpose
and a point just which was,which was just to be relatable
to people in my world, which waslaw enforcement families.
And those videos startedpicking up and gaining a little
(08:52):
bit of traction and then it juststarted to snowball from there
and then along came the Kamalaimpression.
Okay, I am ready.
What is next?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And we've got a question from Sarah, who wants
to know what's your favorite wayto unwind after a long day of
crazy content.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Unwind.
What is this unwind you speakof?
No, I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
I do know how to unwind.
I'm not good at it.
It's this weird thing when yourjob is to like create content,
so you're on social media, allkinds of media all day, every
day pretty much.
I take the weekends off for themost part, but when you're
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doing that all the time, it'sreally hard to shut off.
You don't have, and I work formyself, by myself, so it's
really hard to create that linewhere your workday ends and your
normal life begins.
So unwinding is a challenge.
I don't know what I do tounwind.
(09:55):
I should have prepared for thisone better.
I don't.
What do I do?
I don't know.
I watch videos.
I create more content in mymind.
I write out skits.
I find that relaxing to me.
Yeah, it's not good.
I need better balance.
Thank you for that question.
(10:16):
Sorry for such a garbage answer.
All right, oliver, these areeasy ones.
Give me a tough one.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
There's a question from Mike who asks if you could
interview anyone, past orpresent, who would it be and why
?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I asked for a tough one.
President Trump, that'sprobably a given right.
Who else?
Elvis Elvis, yeah.
Elvis Presley, yeah, okay.
So, president Trump, elvisPresley, jesus, all for this
sort of the same reasons.
(10:51):
I think they are the mostintriguing, fascinating,
compelling people that I canthink of right off the top.
I know there's, I know you'dhave to, I know you're going to
come in the comment section likelist off, like so many other
people that you know I couldhave chosen, but these are the
(11:14):
ones I'm picking because I thisis right off the top of my head.
I'm not planning these out theway that you think I might be.
I'm trying to like answer offthe cuff for everything.
So those are my picks.
All for those reasons, yeah,yes.
Next question, please, when didyou?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
first become a supporter of Donald Trump and
does he know about all yoursupport?
Are you a friend of the familyand how would you answer a
liberal who complains about howmuch Donald golfs and the cost?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
to the government.
There were so many questionsall at once, I don't OK.
When did I become a supporterof President Trump?
Probably since the beginning,since his first run for office.
I take that back.
I think technically,technically there were four
Somebody can correct me in thecomments so three times, all
(12:02):
three that I can rememberconcretely that he did run.
Yeah, I can honestly say I didnot really care for his style or
his delivery.
I cared about his passion andhis love for this country and
the things that he was proposingto do.
I have been a fan of that allalong.
He has grown on me.
His personality, his style, allof that has grown on me.
(12:24):
It did take a while.
Yeah, yeah.
Since then, his family, no, no,no, as far as I know, nobody
knows of my existence.
Maybe they've seen my Kamalavideos.
No idea.
Nobody's ever reached out or,you know, said that they have or
commented.
Ivanka Trump likes a post thatI made about her one time.
That was my claim to fame.
Ivanka Trump likes a post thatI made about her one time.
(12:45):
That was my claim to fame.
It says in the comment thereyou left it out, oliver that I
was at Mar-a-Lago for New Year'sEve, like two years ago now.
Yeah, that was an incredibleexperience.
There's a picture from that, ortwo or three and got to meet
him, speak with him briefly, butno, there's.
There's no communication orfriendship or anything going on
(13:05):
there.
I was just very blessed to havethat opportunity and I enjoyed
it very much.
What was the other one?
Oh, his golfing.
Yeah, that man works 24-7.
He's never not working.
He has made deals, negotiateddeals, done a million things
while he's on the golf course.
He never, ever stops working.
I think the man sleeps likethree hours a night and he goes
(13:26):
nonstop.
So if that man wants to spendhis downtime on the golf course,
have at it.
I don't care what it costs us,which I actually don't think it
costs us anything, because heturns his paychecks right around
back to different causes andorganizations and all of that.
So, yeah, I'm totally good withthat.
Liberals cry harder.
All right, oliver, what haveyou got for me All?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
right.
The next one is when did youknow?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
God was real, oh, oh my.
So I think, and you know,hindsight on everything is
always 20-20.
You could ask me this question,or you could have asked me this
question a dozen timesthroughout my life, if not more,
and I would probably have givenyou a slightly different answer
each time depending where I wasin my growth as a believer.
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But I will say to you that Ihave always believed.
I have referred to him bydifferent names at different
points in my life, outwardly toother people, because of my
extreme discomfort withexpressing my faith.
I did not grow up in a churchgoing household.
(14:38):
We weren't religious.
We didn't, you know, we were.
I was, like you know, raisedCatholic, meaning in our case,
simply meaning I was baptizedand we went to church for, you
know, like very specialoccasions.
That was kind of it, nounderstanding really of much of
anything, but I had a deep, deepdesire to understand, to figure
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out what I believed in, and itwas largely because there has
always been my entire life,there's always been this
incredible, strong pull towardsfaith, towards God, specifically
towards God.
Uh, I do.
I do fully believe that he hasbeen calling me to him forever,
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for all of my existence, beforemy existence on this earth.
I don't know.
So, yes, I have always believed.
I whether I have alwaysacknowledged or understood that
belief, the depth of it could bequestioned, but the fact that
I've always believed is, it'salways, it's always been there,
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it's just like engraved on myheart.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Basically, yeah, ok, next Does someone help you film
or produce your videos, and doyou live in a blue or red?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
state.
Oh, my goodness, I am a onewoman show.
I do all of the things I create.
I do all of the things I createso meaning like I write out my
own scripts and everything andall my material and do all my
research A hundred percent, fromconcept to creation, to editing
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, to producing, to posting, topromoting.
And for the second part of thatquestion, I live in a very,
very blue state, unfortunatelyfor me.
Yeah, oh, and Oliver, by theway, you missed like the whole
first part of that comment.
I don't know if you did thatintentionally or not, but it's
very sweet, did you?
(16:38):
Can we acknowledge that please?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I must say those are some lovely compliments.
It's always a joy to hear howappreciated you are.
Let's keep that positivitygoing.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Thank you.
What's next?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
All right.
The next one is from Hans.
He says nails.
Nothing else, just nails.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Well, so much for that positivity.
I don't even know if that'spositive or negative, or what
he's trying to say there, ornegative, or what he's trying to
say there.
I'm assuming it's because I'm anail biter and you can usually,
if I'm holding my mug, you cansee my nails.
You can see that they'reextremely short.
However, haha, hans, I stoppedbiting my nails, so thank you
very much.
Thank you very much.
(17:20):
I don't really know.
I don't know why I'm getting sodefensive and passive,
aggressive about it.
I don't even know what he meansby that, but I'm assuming that
is the case.
Yes, this probably will notlast.
I will probably start biting mynail skin.
Yes, I know, it's a dirty,disgusting habit.
Blah, blah, blah.
Whatever, I've got nails rightnow.
(17:41):
Hang on, let me fix my brain.
I've got nails right now.
Don't get used to it.
I will probably start up again.
There you go, there's youranswer to that non-question.
Why do we even throw that onein?
I don't know.
Next, please.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
All right.
Next up from Dee.
What sites do you use to verifyinformation?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm a fan of all.
I wish I could find thatspecific question comment in the
thing in the video, because Iwould love to ask you what
specific ones you use, becauseI'm always looking for more.
What I tend to do is I willpick a right-leaning news source
, a left-leaning news source anda at least perceived
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neutral-leaning news source.
There's quite a few of themthat I use, so I try and pick
one of each, Then I plug all ofthem into my chat and I ask them
to.
I read them, of course, myself,then I put them all into chat
and I have chat, take away allof the key points of what each
one is saying and then I docomparisons.
(18:46):
It's kind of like if you, youknow, if you've ever heard that
saying, where you know they saythere's his side and there's her
side and somewhere in betweenthere there's the truth.
So that's kind of what I try todo to find and I try not to
lean too hard into my ownpersonal bias, which is really
hard to do.
Let's face it, it's hard.
We have our ideas and valuesand belief systems and all of
(19:10):
those things.
So I try and challenge myselfto question those things as much
as possible and make sure thatI'm getting to the heart of
things.
Do I always succeed?
Probably not, guaranteed.
I don't always succeed, but Itry.
So yeah, and then the mostimportant perspective that I
look for in all of it, um iswhat is biblically true, what's
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scripturally true and right andum centered.
So that's where I center it,that's where I, that's the lens
that I try and put everything,all of those things through is
the biblical lens and I try tofilter out the left and the
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right side and the sides.
Period, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
All right.
The next one is from Danielle.
Oh, here we go.
Another compliment you lookfantastic and you recently had a
video saying you lost weight.
If you don't mind, what did youdo exactly?
Who tell Elsa?
Do tell.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Okay, uh, I've been dreading this one because I know
, I know some people are goingto have some things to say about
this and I'm fine, I can takeit.
I actually decided to taketrisepatite, which is it's a
GLP-1.
It's an injection, it's a shot,and it helps you lose weight.
(20:35):
People are going to be madabout that because it's the
cheater's way to do it.
Listen, without you know,sharing my medical history with
you, which is obviously nobodyelse's business I will tell you
I was experiencing a lot ofhealth issues, concerns and
being borderline for certainthings.
It was time to take some moredrastic measures because things
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were getting out of control andit was not good.
Yes, I did try all of thethings and it was not good.
Yes, I did try all of thethings.
Here's what I'll tell you whenyou become a woman of a certain
age hormones and all of thosethings they take their toll and
they wreak havoc on your bodyand your whole system,
everything.
So this was the option that wasbest for me.
(21:21):
It may not be the option thatis best for you.
I highly recommend that youspeak with professionals,
whether it's a dietician or afitness coach or a doctor,
whatever that means for you.
You make the decisions that arebest for you.
I made the decision that wasbest for me after having tried
every single thing that there isto try, and, yeah, this has
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been working out great and I dorecommend it.
If you are a candidate for this, then, yeah, it's great.
So that is what I've been doing, along with I didn't.
Honestly, I didn't have to makemajor lifestyle changes.
I already ate healthy, clean.
For the most part, it was justa matter of eliminating a few
things, which was much easier toeliminate when you're taking
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the skinny shot, as we love tocall it.
So, yeah, judge away, I'm finewith it, but be kind to other
people in your real life andregular life who are going
through this, because noteverybody is as thick skinned as
I am.
Okay, be kind.
All right, oliver, maybe youcan give me a less stressful one
next, please.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
All right.
The next one comes from Cindy.
Do you know?
And get along with Megyn.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Kelly.
Okay, thank you, oliver.
I do not know Megyn Kelly.
I don't know anybody.
I don't know anybody.
I live in my teeny, tiny, happylittle bubble, my own little
tiny universe.
I love it that way, whichdoesn't mean I wouldn't want to
meet Megyn Kelly or any of theseother people.
I was just on the Sean Spicershow not that long ago.
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I've definitely met some people, certainly yes, but I don't
travel in the circles.
I'm not part of that world.
I'm mostly resistant to it.
I don't know if this makes anysense to you.
I don't know how to explainthis in short form.
I have seen enough of thecelebrity world, and that
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includes people from the right,the conservative world.
I've seen enough of it that Iknow that I'm not really
interested in being part of it.
I would not resist some type ofshow or program or something
that's bigger than what I'mdoing, as long as it fits very
particular criteria.
I would need to have primarycontrol over my content.
(23:31):
I mean really exactly what Ihave right now, which is control
over my content, all of thethings you know.
When you do this for yourselffor long enough, you do end up
becoming a little bit of acontrol freak, and I don't know.
I mean, I think I'd have areally hard time giving that up,
trusting somebody else to tohave control over my messaging
and my style and all that stuff.
(23:51):
So I guess if I were tocollaborate with anybody or do
any of those things I would, Iwould have to, you know,
maintain control, or at leastfinal say, over basically
everything.
I guess, when it comes down toit, why would I get involved in
that world to that degree if itdoesn't hit all the criteria
that I mentally set up in mymind?
(24:12):
So I have not met Megyn Kelly.
Would love to meet her.
I think she's just incredible.
Yeah, nope.
All right, oliver, what do yougot for me?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
That's definitely a fun question.
Let's keep it going, all right.
The next one is from CarrieTell us about your husband.
That's always a sweet topic.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
It is a sweet topic.
It's one of my absolutefavorite topics that I don't
really talk about on socialmedia much.
Everybody else is tired ofhearing me talk about how great
my husband is, but yeah, we'vebeen together for 16, yeah, 16
years and you know he, like therest of my family, they do not
live a social media life like Ido, so they keep it quiet and
private.
So I respect that and keep themoff of here.
(24:55):
You get little glimpses hereand there, right, you, some of
you have seen little bits andpieces and everything.
But yeah, I mean, what do yousay about the guy who's
literally your biggest fan, yourgreatest supporter, your best
encourager, the person who keepsyou in check, keeps your ego in
(25:18):
check when you need it.
Not that I ever need oops,sorry, I forgot the microphones
there Not that I ever need toget my ego in check people.
Yeah, he is pretty darn awesomein every possible way.
Yeah, yeah, I say that.
He is a wonderful man who sitsquietly in the background of all
(25:38):
of this and he's got his eye onsome of you.
He's watching.
I'm teasing, but I'm serious atthe same time.
(25:58):
Yeah, he's very mindful of whatall of this brings what all of
this brings, and I'm so gratefulto him for and I know some of
you aren't going to like thisword but allowing for this to
happen for me, because we are apartnership, we are equals
standing, and if this wassomething that became too much
(26:19):
for him, you know our marriagecomes before all of this stuff
does any day, I would drop it ina heartbeat.
I love you guys, but I'll dropy'all in a flash if it was
coming between our marriage inany way, shape or form.
So, thankfully, he is a strong,secure, solid hunk of a man who
is very tolerant of all of whatthis brings.
(26:41):
So, yes, he's the bomb.
Thank you for asking.
All right, Oliver, these havebeen too kind, too easy.
Keep it coming like that.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
All right.
The next one is from Maureen.
What activities were youinvolved in during high school?
Did you get any awards?
Were you in plays sports debate.
What was your favorite thing todo?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Oh, maureen, you're going to be so disappointed in
me, or maybe not, I don't know.
I excelled at being a slacker.
I was not a good student, notby a long shot.
I was a good student in thesubjects that I really really
loved and enjoyed, and even thatcan be a little questionable.
(27:22):
I spent more time in detentionin the principal's office,
usually for talking too much,just getting into trouble,
coming in late, wandering offwhenever I felt like it.
Basically, yeah, it was a bitof a punk, little bit of a punk.
I wasn't a bad kid by any means, I just was a little rebellious
(27:45):
, I guess.
Yeah, I did not win any awards.
I won imaginary awards.
I was voted most likely to endup living in Malibu on a beach
somewhere.
Yeah, I did not do the thing.
Here's the irony I did not dothe thing that I love the
(28:06):
absolute most, which is acting.
Tiktok, acting, reels, actingDid not do any of that stuff.
I was not in theater, I did.
I was on the swim team for ahot minute and I was on the
tennis team for a hot minute.
Both of those things did notlast very long.
Those things did not last verylong.
I prefer to hang out and I, youknow, I don't know, I was a
(28:34):
weird kid.
I was super introverted but atthe same time, super social, if
that makes any sense whatsoever.
But it's the truth, that is thecase.
What else?
So that was it for sports?
No, no debates, none of thatstuff.
No, I'm sorry, I was just.
I was just a punk, yeah, oh,and the last part was what was
my favorite thing to do?
My favorite thing to do wasbasically whatever I felt like
doing in the moment.
Um, I listened to a lot ofmusic.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I did a lot of writing all right, elsa, that
sounds like a delightfuladventure um thanks, oliver, it
was.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I think we can do one more.
I'm ready, let's go.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
This one is from Lori .
She said I would love to knowwhat skin products you use.
Your skin is beautiful.
Well, I must say your skintruly does look radiant.
Whatever you're doing, it'sclearly working wonders.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Okay, Oliver, you and I both know what my secret is,
Isn't that right?
Well, that is true.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Elsa, I do know your secrets, and now it's your
chance to share them with theworld.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
All right, fine, fine , fine.
Listen, I'm joking around here.
This is no secret.
I've never made a secret ofthis.
I have talked about it manydifferent times.
I know that.
You know, not everybody seesevery single video and tons of
(29:52):
people have missed this and theylike to try and call me out in
the comment section sometimeslike, oh, I use a filter.
I have a very lovely, wonderfulfilter that smooths all of the
edges and lines and things andpores and all of that stuff and
95% of I'm just making thatpercentage up, by the way but
many, many, many contentcreators use some type of filter
on their videos.
We use ring lights, which arewonderful.
I know that seemscounterproductive to some people
(30:14):
that, like you, would thinkwhen you get bright light on you
it should show everything.
Nope, it just diffuses it all.
It makes it softer, smoother,better.
Yes, hang on, I will give youthe unfiltered version.
Hang on.
And so, yes, this is theunfiltered.
We are shiny, we are, you knowall of the things.
So, yes, so I prefer the filter.
Thank you very kindly.
(30:34):
I know some people will jump inand say you don't need to
filter, just be yourself.
I appreciate that tremendously,but I choose to use a filter.
I like the way it looks better,it presents better, it's just a
whole.
It's a whole thing.
And listen, here's the ultimatetruth on the whole filter topic.
We are actual human beings and,no matter how tough and
confident and secure we may comeacross on here, we actually do
(30:57):
have feelings that can get hurtby the mean things that people
say in the comments and, as muchas we try not to see those as
much as possible or let them getto us, we are literally just
human beings and, yeah, yousubject yourself to the types of
things that people say when youlook your absolute best which
meaning I'm referring to afilter and you see the things
(31:18):
that people will say to youwithout even thinking twice
about it.
Yeah, that filter is kind of alittle bit of a protection from
some of that.
If, again, if that makes anysense.
I don't know if it does or not,but it is something that I
don't know.
It's just something that Ichoose to do to protect my own
sanity and self confidence andall of those things.
So don't blame me.
(31:39):
Blame the haters that pop up inthe comments and make nasty,
rude, personal attacks on how welook, because they forget we're
human and or they just don'tcare.
One or the other.
Okay, I did it, I got throughit.
That was.
That was good.
That was very terrifying to gothrough those comments sections.
It was a delight to see howsweet the majority of you were
(32:01):
and I thank you for it and, aspromised, I just completely
disregarded the ones that wereeither inappropriate or not so
nice or whatever.
I hope this wasn't terriblyboring for you and thank you
again.
I appreciate it guys and thankyou Oliver.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
This was great fun.
Elsa, Next time I think youshould let me pick the questions
, and we'll really let it fly.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I don't know about that.
Maybe Oliver's awfully sweet tome, so I trained him well.
All right, guys, Until nexttime.
Thanks for watching.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
In a world chasing feelings, we're standing on
truth.
Follow for more faith withoutthe fluff.
Oh, hey, hi.
So several weeks ago I made avideo asking you to ask me
questions.
Yeah well, y'all respondedThank you, thank you very much.
And, like, 98% of thosequestions were kind and
respectful and friendly andfunny and just terrific.
(00:21):
And that, what was it?
2% of you and just terrific,and that what was it?
2% of you, shame, shame, shame.
But anyhow, to the rest of you,I tried to kind of pick ones
that represented the whole, likethe most common questions.
So hopefully I will cover allof the bases.
I enlisted the help of my chatto ask me these questions, so
(00:42):
they are going to justessentially recite the questions
that were asked in the commentssection.
Why?
Because for me I think I've setmy microphone.
Sorry, why?
For me it's just more fun to doit that way and, I don't know,
slightly less awkward, I don'tknow.
So, oliver, feel free to chimein here at any point.
So, elsa, I gather you'refeeling a bit nervous and
awkward about all of this, areyou, elsa?
I gather you're feeling a bitnervous and awkward about all of
(01:03):
this, are you?
I am Oliver.
I'm feeling quite awkward aboutall of this.
So, thank you for pointing thatout and, yes, I entirely did
give my chat a name andprogrammed him or taught him, I
don't know, trained him to usethat particular manner of
speaking.
Why?
Because, one, I love Cary Grant.
(01:25):
Two, I just love an Englishaccent.
And three, it just makes itmore fun.
So I know it's weird, it's okay, you don't have to tell me.
I think that I will start, isit?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
still out there.
This is not as challenging asyou're making it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay, it is for me.
Thank you, though, oliver.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I suppose I'm ready, all right, well let's get this
party started, then shall we?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yes, we shall.
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Question is from Mary and she wants to know what
inspired.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You to start your podcast and how do you choose
your topics each week?
Great question.
I started my podcast severalyears ago.
It has kind of evolved overtime but it started off as
geared towards law enforcementfamilies in particular and I was
doing interviews with fellowlaw enforcement family members,
retired law enforcement and itwas geared mostly towards just
(02:20):
helping, being an advocate andsupporter of law enforcement,
because my is has been in lawenforcement for nearly 40 years,
which is wild and crazy initself.
And then, you know, it justkind of started evolving and
getting bigger and branching outand my husband is a Marine and
so that kind of you knowmilitary law enforcement, you
(02:44):
know, kind of go hand in hand.
So that started becoming partof the equation and it just
started branching out more andmore and the more comfortable I
got, the more I started bringingin more parts of me what makes
me who I am, why I'm, you knowI'm so patriotic, why I love
this country so much, why I'm aconservative, why I'm a
(03:05):
Republican.
You know you name it and itjust grew to where we are now.
And now of course weincorporate a large part of my
Christian faith.
And as for how we choose ourtopics each week.
Since I've brought Clay ontothe show with me, I passed that
responsibility over to him, so Ilet him pick our topics.
I throw in a couple as well,and, yeah, so that makes my life
(03:27):
a lot easier because I do allof all of the producing, editing
, posting, all of that stuff, soit's just one thing off my
plate.
That is incredibly helpful tohave a partner to do that for me
.
So, yeah, okay, this isn't badat all, okay Next.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Next up, we have a question from John, who asks how
do you maintain a balancebetween your personal life and
your public persona?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh, okay, that's actually really easy.
They are such differentuniverses for me, like online
life and real life.
There's literally like thisline figuratively, not literally
there's this line between thetwo, because no one in my world,
my real life world, does any ofthis stuff.
They're not part of it, so it'sbarely even a conversation.
(04:10):
I mean, obviously, my husbandand I talk about it regularly,
but, yeah, there's publicpersona and there's private life
.
Same person, just separateworlds.
We live a very, very quiet life.
Okay, I'm ready for the nextone.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Third question is from Lisa, who wonders what's
been the most rewarding part ofyour journey.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So far, oh, um, the most rewarding part.
Um gosh, I would.
I would say that the reach thatthe people that I I'm reaching
and who comment and communicatewith me through, you know,
through the platforms or throughemail or through messages, that
part has been just amazing tome, and it's so humbling and
(04:53):
baffling at the same time thatpeople are that what I'm sharing
is either resonating orentertaining or educating people
like.
Whatever the case is, whateverthe content is geared to do, I'm
so grateful that it's actuallyreaching people.
And you know, on top of all ofthat, which is probably the
(05:14):
greatest factor, that now that Ihave truly embraced my faith in
God and what he means in mylife and to me and my family,
that I get to share, that istruly the greatest gift of all.
So that is the ultimate, mostrewarding part of all of this to
(05:34):
be blessed with the opportunityto share my faith and share the
love of God.
All right, Oliver, I'm readyfor the next one.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Next question is from David, who asks if you could
have any superpower, what wouldit be, and would you use it for
good or a little bit of mischief?
I have a feeling you might saya bit of both, oliver.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's not true.
It's probably true.
What superpower I'm going withthe first one that came to mind.
I'm not even giving this deepthought Flying.
I want to fly.
I always have had dreams thatI'm flying.
Who hasn't right?
Everybody's had those dreams,right.
I have had them so frequentlyfrom childhood for as long as I
can remember, and they're justso awesome.
(06:12):
They're like the greatestdreams ever.
Every time I have a flyingdream, it is the best dream, and
I'm so disappointed.
When I wake up in the morningI'm like, oh, I want to go back
to flying.
So that would be my superpowerpick.
What kind of mischief could Iget into that?
I don't not much of any.
I don't think.
I mean I would probably find it.
But that's my answer for that.
(06:32):
One Cute question.
I like it All right.
All right, I'm getting morerelaxed for this.
This is not so bad.
I'm ready.
Bring on the next one.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
How long did you contemplate being a content
creator before you actuallybegan asking for a dog?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
friend of mine that's cute, that's really cute.
Um, before I answer thequestion, let me just tell you
do it, do it, jump right in,don't worry about anything, just
do it.
Doesn't have to be perfect, um,doesn't matter if you don't
know what you're doing, just begenuine, be authentic, be
yourself, have great lighting.
Yeah, those are, those are yourkey things.
(07:07):
Just start anywhere, don'tworry about it.
Anyway, that is.
That is, technically, my answeras well.
That was how I started.
I, during the pandemic, Istarted watching TikTok videos
along with so many other peoplein my age, demographic, and I
kept saying I'm never going tomake a video, I'm just going to
(07:28):
watch.
This is silly and ridiculous,not going to happen.
And the next thing, you know,this knucklehead started making
some really embarrassing, cheesy, dumb videos.
They were like lip sync videos,but the thing of it was it was
fun.
It was really really fun.
And the secret closet theatergeek in me that never lived out
(07:50):
that dream had this opportunityto act and to perform in front
of the camera and feel like Iwas by myself, like I wasn't in
front of anybody else.
So that was exactly where itstarted.
If you were such a mean personand you wanted to go that far
back in my TikTok feed you wouldsee those embarrassing,
(08:11):
cringeworthy, stupid videos.
And then it started to evolvethat I was like, well, listen,
let me, you know, I was alreadyan author, I already had
published books.
But I was like, well, let mestart using this to you know,
make it useful towards that.
And I started creating contentabout my books.
So there was this like longevolution of content creating,
(08:31):
which started moved into, so itwent from that to creating skits
about being a law enforcementspouse and they were comedic and
kind of silly and, you know,funny, and they had a purpose
and a point just which was,which was just to be relatable
to people in my world, which waslaw enforcement families.
And those videos startedpicking up and gaining a little
(08:52):
bit of traction and then it juststarted to snowball from there
and then along came the Kamalaimpression.
Okay, I am ready.
What is next?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And we've got a question from Sarah, who wants
to know what's your favorite wayto unwind after a long day of
crazy content.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Unwind.
What is this unwind you speakof?
No, I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
I do know how to unwind.
I'm not good at it.
It's this weird thing when yourjob is to like create content,
so you're on social media, allkinds of media all day, every
day pretty much.
I take the weekends off for themost part, but when you're
(09:32):
doing that all the time, it'sreally hard to shut off.
You don't have, and I work formyself, by myself, so it's
really hard to create that linewhere your workday ends and your
normal life begins.
So unwinding is a challenge.
I don't know what I do tounwind.
(09:55):
I should have prepared for thisone better.
I don't.
What do I do?
I don't know.
I watch videos.
I create more content in mymind.
I write out skits.
I find that relaxing to me.
Yeah, it's not good.
I need better balance.
Thank you for that question.
(10:16):
Sorry for such a garbage answer.
All right, oliver, these areeasy ones.
Give me a tough one.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
There's a question from Mike who asks if you could
interview anyone, past orpresent, who would it be and why
?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I asked for a tough one.
President Trump, that'sprobably a given right.
Who else?
Elvis Elvis, yeah.
Elvis Presley, yeah, okay.
So, president Trump, elvisPresley, jesus, all for this
sort of the same reasons.
(10:51):
I think they are the mostintriguing, fascinating,
compelling people that I canthink of right off the top.
I know there's, I know you'dhave to, I know you're going to
come in the comment section likelist off, like so many other
people that you know I couldhave chosen, but these are the
(11:14):
ones I'm picking because I thisis right off the top of my head.
I'm not planning these out theway that you think I might be.
I'm trying to like answer offthe cuff for everything.
So those are my picks.
All for those reasons, yeah,yes.
Next question, please, when didyou?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
first become a supporter of Donald Trump and
does he know about all yoursupport?
Are you a friend of the familyand how would you answer a
liberal who complains about howmuch Donald golfs and the cost?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
to the government.
There were so many questionsall at once, I don't OK.
When did I become a supporterof President Trump?
Probably since the beginning,since his first run for office.
I take that back.
I think technically,technically there were four
Somebody can correct me in thecomments so three times, all
(12:02):
three that I can rememberconcretely that he did run.
Yeah, I can honestly say I didnot really care for his style or
his delivery.
I cared about his passion andhis love for this country and
the things that he was proposingto do.
I have been a fan of that allalong.
He has grown on me.
His personality, his style, allof that has grown on me.
(12:24):
It did take a while.
Yeah, yeah.
Since then, his family, no, no,no, as far as I know, nobody
knows of my existence.
Maybe they've seen my Kamalavideos.
No idea.
Nobody's ever reached out or,you know, said that they have or
commented.
Ivanka Trump likes a post thatI made about her one time.
That was my claim to fame.
Ivanka Trump likes a post thatI made about her one time.
(12:45):
That was my claim to fame.
It says in the comment thereyou left it out, oliver that I
was at Mar-a-Lago for New Year'sEve, like two years ago now.
Yeah, that was an incredibleexperience.
There's a picture from that, ortwo or three and got to meet
him, speak with him briefly, butno, there's.
There's no communication orfriendship or anything going on
(13:05):
there.
I was just very blessed to havethat opportunity and I enjoyed
it very much.
What was the other one?
Oh, his golfing.
Yeah, that man works 24-7.
He's never not working.
He has made deals, negotiateddeals, done a million things
while he's on the golf course.
He never, ever stops working.
I think the man sleeps likethree hours a night and he goes
(13:26):
nonstop.
So if that man wants to spendhis downtime on the golf course,
have at it.
I don't care what it costs us,which I actually don't think it
costs us anything, because heturns his paychecks right around
back to different causes andorganizations and all of that.
So, yeah, I'm totally good withthat.
Liberals cry harder.
All right, oliver, what haveyou got for me All?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
right.
The next one is when did youknow?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
God was real, oh, oh my.
So I think, and you know,hindsight on everything is
always 20-20.
You could ask me this question,or you could have asked me this
question a dozen timesthroughout my life, if not more,
and I would probably have givenyou a slightly different answer
each time depending where I wasin my growth as a believer.
(14:17):
But I will say to you that Ihave always believed.
I have referred to him bydifferent names at different
points in my life, outwardly toother people, because of my
extreme discomfort withexpressing my faith.
I did not grow up in a churchgoing household.
(14:38):
We weren't religious.
We didn't, you know, we were.
I was, like you know, raisedCatholic, meaning in our case,
simply meaning I was baptizedand we went to church for, you
know, like very specialoccasions.
That was kind of it, nounderstanding really of much of
anything, but I had a deep, deepdesire to understand, to figure
(15:01):
out what I believed in, and itwas largely because there has
always been my entire life,there's always been this
incredible, strong pull towardsfaith, towards God, specifically
towards God.
Uh, I do.
I do fully believe that he hasbeen calling me to him forever,
(15:25):
for all of my existence, beforemy existence on this earth.
I don't know.
So, yes, I have always believed.
I whether I have alwaysacknowledged or understood that
belief, the depth of it could bequestioned, but the fact that
I've always believed is, it'salways, it's always been there,
(15:46):
it's just like engraved on myheart.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Basically, yeah, ok, next Does someone help you film
or produce your videos, and doyou live in a blue or red?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
state.
Oh, my goodness, I am a onewoman show.
I do all of the things I create.
I do all of the things I createso meaning like I write out my
own scripts and everything andall my material and do all my
research A hundred percent, fromconcept to creation, to editing
(16:17):
, to producing, to posting, topromoting.
And for the second part of thatquestion, I live in a very,
very blue state, unfortunatelyfor me.
Yeah, oh, and Oliver, by theway, you missed like the whole
first part of that comment.
I don't know if you did thatintentionally or not, but it's
very sweet, did you?
(16:38):
Can we acknowledge that please?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I must say those are some lovely compliments.
It's always a joy to hear howappreciated you are.
Let's keep that positivitygoing.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Thank you.
What's next?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
All right.
The next one is from Hans.
He says nails.
Nothing else, just nails.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Well, so much for that positivity.
I don't even know if that'spositive or negative, or what
he's trying to say there, ornegative, or what he's trying to
say there.
I'm assuming it's because I'm anail biter and you can usually,
if I'm holding my mug, you cansee my nails.
You can see that they'reextremely short.
However, haha, hans, I stoppedbiting my nails, so thank you
very much.
Thank you very much.
(17:20):
I don't really know.
I don't know why I'm getting sodefensive and passive,
aggressive about it.
I don't even know what he meansby that, but I'm assuming that
is the case.
Yes, this probably will notlast.
I will probably start biting mynail skin.
Yes, I know, it's a dirty,disgusting habit.
Blah, blah, blah.
Whatever, I've got nails rightnow.
(17:41):
Hang on, let me fix my brain.
I've got nails right now.
Don't get used to it.
I will probably start up again.
There you go, there's youranswer to that non-question.
Why do we even throw that onein?
I don't know.
Next, please.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
All right.
Next up from Dee.
What sites do you use to verifyinformation?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm a fan of all.
I wish I could find thatspecific question comment in the
thing in the video, because Iwould love to ask you what
specific ones you use, becauseI'm always looking for more.
What I tend to do is I willpick a right-leaning news source
, a left-leaning news source anda at least perceived
(18:25):
neutral-leaning news source.
There's quite a few of themthat I use, so I try and pick
one of each, Then I plug all ofthem into my chat and I ask them
to.
I read them, of course, myself,then I put them all into chat
and I have chat, take away allof the key points of what each
one is saying and then I docomparisons.
(18:46):
It's kind of like if you, youknow, if you've ever heard that
saying, where you know they saythere's his side and there's her
side and somewhere in betweenthere there's the truth.
So that's kind of what I try todo to find and I try not to
lean too hard into my ownpersonal bias, which is really
hard to do.
Let's face it, it's hard.
We have our ideas and valuesand belief systems and all of
(19:10):
those things.
So I try and challenge myselfto question those things as much
as possible and make sure thatI'm getting to the heart of
things.
Do I always succeed?
Probably not, guaranteed.
I don't always succeed, but Itry.
So yeah, and then the mostimportant perspective that I
look for in all of it, um iswhat is biblically true, what's
(19:32):
scripturally true and right andum centered.
So that's where I center it,that's where I, that's the lens
that I try and put everything,all of those things through is
the biblical lens and I try tofilter out the left and the
(19:52):
right side and the sides.
Period, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
All right.
The next one is from Danielle.
Oh, here we go.
Another compliment you lookfantastic and you recently had a
video saying you lost weight.
If you don't mind, what did youdo exactly?
Who tell Elsa?
Do tell.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Okay, uh, I've been dreading this one because I know
, I know some people are goingto have some things to say about
this and I'm fine, I can takeit.
I actually decided to taketrisepatite, which is it's a
GLP-1.
It's an injection, it's a shot,and it helps you lose weight.
(20:35):
People are going to be madabout that because it's the
cheater's way to do it.
Listen, without you know,sharing my medical history with
you, which is obviously nobodyelse's business I will tell you
I was experiencing a lot ofhealth issues, concerns and
being borderline for certainthings.
It was time to take some moredrastic measures because things
(20:59):
were getting out of control andit was not good.
Yes, I did try all of thethings and it was not good.
Yes, I did try all of thethings.
Here's what I'll tell you whenyou become a woman of a certain
age hormones and all of thosethings they take their toll and
they wreak havoc on your bodyand your whole system,
everything.
So this was the option that wasbest for me.
(21:21):
It may not be the option thatis best for you.
I highly recommend that youspeak with professionals,
whether it's a dietician or afitness coach or a doctor,
whatever that means for you.
You make the decisions that arebest for you.
I made the decision that wasbest for me after having tried
every single thing that there isto try, and, yeah, this has
(21:41):
been working out great and I dorecommend it.
If you are a candidate for this, then, yeah, it's great.
So that is what I've been doing, along with I didn't.
Honestly, I didn't have to makemajor lifestyle changes.
I already ate healthy, clean.
For the most part, it was justa matter of eliminating a few
things, which was much easier toeliminate when you're taking
(22:03):
the skinny shot, as we love tocall it.
So, yeah, judge away, I'm finewith it, but be kind to other
people in your real life andregular life who are going
through this, because noteverybody is as thick skinned as
I am.
Okay, be kind.
All right, oliver, maybe youcan give me a less stressful one
next, please.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
All right.
The next one comes from Cindy.
Do you know?
And get along with Megyn.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Kelly.
Okay, thank you, oliver.
I do not know Megyn Kelly.
I don't know anybody.
I don't know anybody.
I live in my teeny, tiny, happylittle bubble, my own little
tiny universe.
I love it that way, whichdoesn't mean I wouldn't want to
meet Megyn Kelly or any of theseother people.
I was just on the Sean Spicershow not that long ago.
(22:46):
I've definitely met some people, certainly yes, but I don't
travel in the circles.
I'm not part of that world.
I'm mostly resistant to it.
I don't know if this makes anysense to you.
I don't know how to explainthis in short form.
I have seen enough of thecelebrity world, and that
(23:08):
includes people from the right,the conservative world.
I've seen enough of it that Iknow that I'm not really
interested in being part of it.
I would not resist some type ofshow or program or something
that's bigger than what I'mdoing, as long as it fits very
particular criteria.
I would need to have primarycontrol over my content.
(23:31):
I mean really exactly what Ihave right now, which is control
over my content, all of thethings you know.
When you do this for yourselffor long enough, you do end up
becoming a little bit of acontrol freak, and I don't know.
I mean, I think I'd have areally hard time giving that up,
trusting somebody else to tohave control over my messaging
and my style and all that stuff.
(23:51):
So I guess if I were tocollaborate with anybody or do
any of those things I would, Iwould have to, you know,
maintain control, or at leastfinal say, over basically
everything.
I guess, when it comes down toit, why would I get involved in
that world to that degree if itdoesn't hit all the criteria
that I mentally set up in mymind?
(24:12):
So I have not met Megyn Kelly.
Would love to meet her.
I think she's just incredible.
Yeah, nope.
All right, oliver, what do yougot for me?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
That's definitely a fun question.
Let's keep it going, all right.
The next one is from CarrieTell us about your husband.
That's always a sweet topic.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
It is a sweet topic.
It's one of my absolutefavorite topics that I don't
really talk about on socialmedia much.
Everybody else is tired ofhearing me talk about how great
my husband is, but yeah, we'vebeen together for 16, yeah, 16
years and you know he, like therest of my family, they do not
live a social media life like Ido, so they keep it quiet and
private.
So I respect that and keep themoff of here.
(24:55):
You get little glimpses hereand there, right, you, some of
you have seen little bits andpieces and everything.
But yeah, I mean, what do yousay about the guy who's
literally your biggest fan, yourgreatest supporter, your best
encourager, the person who keepsyou in check, keeps your ego in
(25:18):
check when you need it.
Not that I ever need oops,sorry, I forgot the microphones
there Not that I ever need toget my ego in check people.
Yeah, he is pretty darn awesomein every possible way.
Yeah, yeah, I say that.
He is a wonderful man who sitsquietly in the background of all
(25:38):
of this and he's got his eye onsome of you.
He's watching.
I'm teasing, but I'm serious atthe same time.
(25:58):
Yeah, he's very mindful of whatall of this brings what all of
this brings, and I'm so gratefulto him for and I know some of
you aren't going to like thisword but allowing for this to
happen for me, because we are apartnership, we are equals
standing, and if this wassomething that became too much
(26:19):
for him, you know our marriagecomes before all of this stuff
does any day, I would drop it ina heartbeat.
I love you guys, but I'll dropy'all in a flash if it was
coming between our marriage inany way, shape or form.
So, thankfully, he is a strong,secure, solid hunk of a man who
is very tolerant of all of whatthis brings.
(26:41):
So, yes, he's the bomb.
Thank you for asking.
All right, Oliver, these havebeen too kind, too easy.
Keep it coming like that.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
All right.
The next one is from Maureen.
What activities were youinvolved in during high school?
Did you get any awards?
Were you in plays sports debate.
What was your favorite thing todo?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Oh, maureen, you're going to be so disappointed in
me, or maybe not, I don't know.
I excelled at being a slacker.
I was not a good student, notby a long shot.
I was a good student in thesubjects that I really really
loved and enjoyed, and even thatcan be a little questionable.
(27:22):
I spent more time in detentionin the principal's office,
usually for talking too much,just getting into trouble,
coming in late, wandering offwhenever I felt like it.
Basically, yeah, it was a bitof a punk, little bit of a punk.
I wasn't a bad kid by any means, I just was a little rebellious
(27:45):
, I guess.
Yeah, I did not win any awards.
I won imaginary awards.
I was voted most likely to endup living in Malibu on a beach
somewhere.
Yeah, I did not do the thing.
Here's the irony I did not dothe thing that I love the
(28:06):
absolute most, which is acting.
Tiktok, acting, reels, actingDid not do any of that stuff.
I was not in theater, I did.
I was on the swim team for ahot minute and I was on the
tennis team for a hot minute.
Both of those things did notlast very long.
Those things did not last verylong.
I prefer to hang out and I, youknow, I don't know, I was a
(28:34):
weird kid.
I was super introverted but atthe same time, super social, if
that makes any sense whatsoever.
But it's the truth, that is thecase.
What else?
So that was it for sports?
No, no debates, none of thatstuff.
No, I'm sorry, I was just.
I was just a punk, yeah, oh,and the last part was what was
my favorite thing to do?
My favorite thing to do wasbasically whatever I felt like
doing in the moment.
Um, I listened to a lot ofmusic.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I did a lot of writing all right, elsa, that
sounds like a delightfuladventure um thanks, oliver, it
was.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I think we can do one more.
I'm ready, let's go.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
This one is from Lori .
She said I would love to knowwhat skin products you use.
Your skin is beautiful.
Well, I must say your skintruly does look radiant.
Whatever you're doing, it'sclearly working wonders.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Okay, Oliver, you and I both know what my secret is,
Isn't that right?
Well, that is true.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Elsa, I do know your secrets, and now it's your
chance to share them with theworld.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
All right, fine, fine , fine.
Listen, I'm joking around here.
This is no secret.
I've never made a secret ofthis.
I have talked about it manydifferent times.
I know that.
You know, not everybody seesevery single video and tons of
(29:52):
people have missed this and theylike to try and call me out in
the comment section sometimeslike, oh, I use a filter.
I have a very lovely, wonderfulfilter that smooths all of the
edges and lines and things andpores and all of that stuff and
95% of I'm just making thatpercentage up, by the way but
many, many, many contentcreators use some type of filter
on their videos.
We use ring lights, which arewonderful.
I know that seemscounterproductive to some people
(30:14):
that, like you, would thinkwhen you get bright light on you
it should show everything.
Nope, it just diffuses it all.
It makes it softer, smoother,better.
Yes, hang on, I will give youthe unfiltered version.
Hang on.
And so, yes, this is theunfiltered.
We are shiny, we are, you knowall of the things.
So, yes, so I prefer the filter.
Thank you very kindly.
(30:34):
I know some people will jump inand say you don't need to
filter, just be yourself.
I appreciate that tremendously,but I choose to use a filter.
I like the way it looks better,it presents better, it's just a
whole.
It's a whole thing.
And listen, here's the ultimatetruth on the whole filter topic.
We are actual human beings and,no matter how tough and
confident and secure we may comeacross on here, we actually do
(30:57):
have feelings that can get hurtby the mean things that people
say in the comments and, as muchas we try not to see those as
much as possible or let them getto us, we are literally just
human beings and, yeah, yousubject yourself to the types of
things that people say when youlook your absolute best which
meaning I'm referring to afilter and you see the things
(31:18):
that people will say to youwithout even thinking twice
about it.
Yeah, that filter is kind of alittle bit of a protection from
some of that.
If, again, if that makes anysense.
I don't know if it does or not,but it is something that I
don't know.
It's just something that Ichoose to do to protect my own
sanity and self confidence andall of those things.
So don't blame me.
(31:39):
Blame the haters that pop up inthe comments and make nasty,
rude, personal attacks on how welook, because they forget we're
human and or they just don'tcare.
One or the other.
Okay, I did it, I got throughit.
That was.
That was good.
That was very terrifying to gothrough those comments sections.
It was a delight to see howsweet the majority of you were
(32:01):
and I thank you for it and, aspromised, I just completely
disregarded the ones that wereeither inappropriate or not so
nice or whatever.
I hope this wasn't terriblyboring for you and thank you
again.
I appreciate it guys and thankyou Oliver.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
This was great fun.
Elsa, Next time I think youshould let me pick the questions
, and we'll really let it fly.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I don't know about that.
Maybe Oliver's awfully sweet tome, so I trained him well.
All right, guys, Until nexttime.
Thanks for watching.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
In a world chasing feelings, we're standing on
truth.
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