Made a decision. I'll face sunny sad on. I had a vision.
So what's up, everybody, it's for crying out loud. We got a
special guest in studio. Very exciting show. Now this is just like an
ad on. Yes, somebody dropped by. It's a holiday day. We're
recording, so we brought a family member in a very bipopular demand. I'm
a family member, Yes you are, you're my son. Pay squad,
it's Xander Taylor. Everybody that's right, Wait, really Xander Taylor. Yeah,
from the son of Duran Duran John Taylor. Yep, Hixander, Hey,
what's up? What's up? Thanks for coming in, Thanks for clearing
your schedule world to come in today. Yeah, we really appreciately busy.
I had to fit this in. So we asked Sander if he wanted to,
like say hi to our people. Yeah, he's gonna do his best
not to butcher it, go for it. Go all right, here's the
squad we got. Oh my god, what's the first. I'm just gonna
call you Rachel newcomer because I heard I heard them say that. That's fine.
Randy nay Aimes was up? Was that Lori Gory May Oh my god,
Nikki, what's your last name? Nicki Collier Collier? Yeah, Ashley
she chic, Ashley chic, Chic is fucked. She she has fucked.
Leslie Acosta, right, Jacob Crowley, yep da, Bassett's bass close enough.
That's good. It's okay. You have a new name. You're good,
all right, Hero? Yeah, everybody, he everyone knows you except
for me. Yeah, nice to meet you, Hero. Elizabeth Williamson.
That would be really embarrassing if I got that wrong. She has a lot
of kids. Yeah, she has a lot of kids. Athena insured Polly,
Polly Butterfield. Yeah, it's a cool name. Yeah, Vali Valerie
Bub I'm just called I'm calling you Valerie Bub. That's right. Katrina said
her name, Katina mo Moler Yeah, all right, all right, just
do your best. There's a lot of pressure on mecause. It's okay,
you're doing great. Gabrielle, all right, I'm just not gonna ask questions.
Gabby fun, Gabby Fonseca, Hey, Missy Schaeffer. Is Sean.
I'm just gonna call you is Sean. He knows who we all know you,
Shan even I know you. Rebecca Lubin Kelly Bryant, she's so cute.
I'm gonna take your word for it. Kelly Brant, she's your aunt,
She'll take you to him. But I like this name. You're ready
for this? Alicia Escalante very good m M. And then Leslie Leslie wyke
Off, very good. Yeah. And then Sarah Stefano she's my kiss.
Oh my god. Jennifer falls. Yeah, she falls all the time.
For stopped falling. Christy Sandra Green, I bet you don't fall as much
as Jennifer. Chris the stroop. It's telling me to say you make me
on a stroop. Don't even know what that means. And I'm sorry,
Christa Stephanie Stinker Wrinker, Yes, yes, what good job. Welcome everybody?
Yeah, su what's up, so Xander? I got some questions?
You're ready? Yeah? I got some answers. You're very funny. Do
you think you get your humor from your mom or your dad? Because your
dad I hung out with over the weekend and he's pretty funny too, Are
you sure? Yeah? I'm positive he was cracking us up. We're here
between me and that's funnier. M. I think Peepo's really funny. He
doesn't want to answer that. Okay, guys, I can't. I can't
answer mom. What what is it? Another question? What is it like
having a celebrity? Mom? Is it? Is it annoying when like people
come up to you and want like they want a picture with her and get
autographs and stuff like that. No, it's only when they go to find
her instagram. Oh like, okay, y'all, okay, take a breather.
I've had to clean out my instagram. Oh really, I am aunt
Sadie. They're both. They just get embarrassed by stuff because you know we
in your instagram. If you go all the way back on my instagram and
can tell a lot of pictures of them when they were living, Oh you
didn't like that, Well, it was told her to take those down.
I told her to take them down. Look, I'm a I'm a teen.
I can't have I can't have my people seeing those pictures. Your squad,
my squad, and I have to be like, Okay, my mom
has a transgender profile picture just because she's an ally. She's an ally.
Yeah, you mean to like the people that, like, I haven't told
yet. I'm like, guys, there's nothing wrong with being in la it's
Pride month now, well not anymore. It's like July. What, Yeah,
it's about to be July fourth. Guys, there's even an American flag
in here. I feel so patriotic right now. Yeah. So, I
mean I'm an ally, but I don't. I'm not like advertising anything about
my family. It's mostly me. I'm pretty narcissistic self centers. You let
your do you take pictures with your mom? Like because my kids, well,
Sonny lets me, but Natalian no, I can never take a selfie
with her. I mean, mom just hates me, so she doesn't really
ask to take photos. Oh, I'll take pictures with you, mom,
right. I In fact, I took a really cute picture of him the
other day, but I would I know better than to even say, like,
can I post this on my Facebook? Because I know he'd be like
probably not right? But I and I always have to get everybody's permission if
I take a group photo, like if we're at dinner together and I want
to show and put sure all of us, right, I always have to
say like, and I can usually let you you just I'm gonna be real
to all the fans. Mom doesn't take great photos? What that doesn't surprise
me, doesn't surprise anyone. Sander, we're old, we're not good at
like selfies, and I mean that's pretty good. But he's a photographer,
so oh, I'd say he's a right like. He likes taking photos,
he likes, he likes, he likes cameras. Yeah, Sanders good at
a lot of things. Yes, I've I've heard, yes, and pretty
talented. I am fascinated the fact that you taught yourself how to play guitar
basic guitar. Yeah, off of YouTube. So you just picked it up
and started like looking at videos and tell us what the process was because you
originally, well, let's be real, Sadie wanted to play guitar. So
you were like, so do I. So we got you guys an acoustic
guitar. Yeah, and then it sat around for a while and then what
happened And Dad had said this was during COVID, and Dad had said,
I'll get you guys lessons and then you take it from here. Okay,
So Duran, Duran bought a guitar during COVID. You'll call him like John
from durand right, Yeah, okay, so he bought he bought a like
acoustic guitar. Also, Mom, I had been wanting to play for like
a long time. It wasn't just like yes, I it wasn't just like
since he but I've been asking Dad. So he got a guitar for me
and Sadie to learn. He wanted to take get his lessons. But online
lessons or like online colasses and stuff, it just doesn't really, it doesn't.
It doesn't. It didn't seem that fun for me. So he sent
me up on this one lesson and it was trying to teach me how to
play. Mary had a little lamb on one string, and I was like,
no, we're not We're not doing this to I want to shred Okay,
shredding is not Mary had a little lamb. So you did the one
lesson though. I did the one lesson and it got me nowhere. Okay.
So you basically said I don't want to do these. Yeah, I
just I just said I didn't want to do it. I tried, it
didn't love it. So I just I started using This was in like twenty
twenty or like twenty twenty, yeah, right, And so at first I
was just I was kind of into it. So I was doing like I
was doing like YouTube videos and stuff, learning how to play. Like I
remember I learned this one song it was like shallow from that one movie A
Star Was Born, which was fun watches a dove and if you guys can't
tell, I also take singing lessons. Yes I love that song. Well
no no no no no no, okay, I'm done singing, so like,
um, yeah, so I did like a few. It was like
I was just learning songs. So I just went on YouTube like easy to
play, and then I think I just kind of but first, didn't you
learn like some really simple songs at first? Like country Roads? Remember you
you taught me Country Roads? But then you taught yourself because you came out
and you're like, hey, I learned this on YouTube? Did it?
So? Did it teach you literally literally teach you like the chords? Yeah,
so I like looked up YouTube. It was in it had to tell
me, okay, so put this finger here. This is it just told
me how to play chords. And then it was like this is basically how
every like no matter what difficulty. It's like, okay, so you're gonna
play these chords. This is how you play it. Put them in this
order and suddenly you're playing country roads m and so I thought that was really
fun. So I did a few simple songs like that. I think I
did like Heather by Conan Gray, which was fun. I'm trying to remember
some other ones. I don't remember them all. Okay, uh, honestly,
there's not much to it. It's like I think when you did some
food Fighters you did yes, yeahs that you did Everlong ya Hello, Yeah,
I played Everlong. I played monkey Wrench, but that was like,
wow, you played monkey right, played monkey Wrench. It's really fun.
So no, no, no, no, no no no no no no
no no no. Wah, my god, we should be a duo,
I know. Jeez. Yes, I could be the singer with you too.
Hey, keep going. My name is Zander. I'm on a podcast.
What rhymes of podcast? Word? Dropped the mic? Wait? I
can't drop the mic. It's attached to a table. Yeah. Hey,
that's my mom. She's wearing green. Wow. That's great. This was
some This is some talent right here. All right? So then, so
you did you how did you know when to like up your difficulty because you've
gotten really good at guitar. I was just feeling bold. I was like,
hey, this song looks hard, let me try it, and then
it was really difficult, and then I got frustrated, and then I was
like, hey, I can play it. That's so crazy. That's it
must have been very satisfying once you get it right. Yeah, it was.
I guess it was like I started doing difficult songs maybe like a little
bit too early, so it was like really difficult, but then it started
but then as I just kept on trying them, it started getting less and
less difficult until they were all like pretty easy. And then I went onto
some like more difficult songs. I do a lot of food fighters. I'm
amazing, but it's a great quick break. Yeah, okay, we're back.
Now. What about the improv classes you've been doing, because you seem
like you're very you could be very good at improv ground lanes. Yes,
and yes and yeah and sleigh. Yeah. Was that fun for you or
did you, like, were people in your age group at that time?
Because Natalia did un so Natalia so Xander did is doing the one that's for
fourteen to eighteen year olds. Right, what Natalia did was a drop in
class and it's open for ten to eighteen, So you're going to get a
bunch of younger kids because they do ten to thirteen year olds and then fourteen
to eight eighteen year olds, right right, So but in the with the
drop in, it's all of those and they're mostly going to be younger kids.
Xanders is he's going to be on the young side. Yes, yeah,
I was. I'm definitely one of the youngest because they're all they're all
like sophomores. Well, it's kind of weird because it's in the summer,
so like I'm an incoming sophomore, they're all incoming juniors. But so I
actually like being on the younger side. Yeah, of this class, it's
pretty fun. We're all like, it's not like there's any ten year olds
there. I mean, we're all pretty similar ages. But it's really fun
because I feel like we're all on like a pretty similar level. And I
just, yeah, I really enjoy the Groundlings classes. I think they're super
fun. They sound fun, and I think you would be really good at
it, like the keep going. I think you would be great. Thank
you. Yeah, Now we don't say the name of your school, but
I would love for us to talk about I don't know if other parents out
there I think a lot of kids. I know that Xander has had,
you know, maybe some frustrations with like making friends and finding like kind of
his tribe, you know. But and I always wonder if that has to
do with like we've changed schools a lot. But like I'd love to hear
sort of the pros and cons of going to a small school. Yeah,
okay, so I definitely say I'm just a negative guy. I'm gonna start
with the cons first, So I'd say, like the definite cons is,
like there's not a lot of friend options. So like, like you said,
it's like pretty dang hard to make friends when there are forty five kids
in the freshman class. It's crazy. And I'm a social butterfly, and
there just weren't I couldn't flap my wings very much. There weren't very many.
There weren't a lot of people that were like my speed there, I
guess. And then I did end up finding some people like beginning of year,
but then shit hit the fan, and like drama started out of nowhere,
and then suddenly like those people aren't as close, and it's like I'm
constantly trying to like find some new people to hang out with. Yeah,
it's pretty difficult. And this is the school you're at now, yes,
okay, and it's it's it's like a performing arts school. No, no,
it's a it's an academic school. Yeah, it just happens to have
a lot of arts of your kids there. Yeah, it's like a college
prep school. But there's a lot of really I mean, it feels like
an art school to me, Like it's actually that's something that I really like
about my school. Like there's a lot of really cool I mean, there's
a lot of really cool things about it, like music. There's the music
program thing, and then there's like there's a lot of different arts and then
I mean the dance team is not that good. Not to cull anyone out,
but like you have compared to a lot of bigger schools, you have
all those things. You have like school newspaper that you want to work on.
But plus in addition, you have music lab, which is like a
whole performing arts It's like, yeah, people can either bring in their own
instruments, but they provide a ton of instruments and they just form little bands
and it's really cool. It does sound like a performing art school. Yeah,
it's super fun. I mean, I love the music Lab program.
I mean there's I normally really love the music Lab program. It's a little
hard when you're a freshman because like me and my friend Alec, Me and
my friend Alec, we were the only two freshmen in that class. But
overall it was like really fun because you get to be really creative and there's
a lot of times where you could like there's a lot of times where you
could just jam, and then there's other times because we have this we have
this like concert type thing that we do like maybe like three times a year
where we all get into groups and like form songs and perform them in like
kind of like a club. It's like it's like a kind of club for
Mattie thing where it's like there's like a set list in everything, and it's
like it's really fun. That's really cool, And you guys have to come
up with your own songs or do you go do you cover songs? It's
a lot of covers. Yeah, But then there are some people that really
want to do their own songs and that's okay, good for that, good
for them. The rock stars of this generation, yeah, I mean they
have that, and then they have theater and he was doing some cool stuff
in theater and he did this monologue that I really wanted to post online because
it was so did a monologue, really, yeah, I did a monologue.
It is really fun from what I don't even know. It's like not
from It wasn't from like any type of movie. It was just like one
that people write. I guess. It was this monologue and it was I
am like this Karen who's like following It's like, I'm this Karen who's like
following around this lady because she threw a bag of trash onto like the four
or five and I'm like chasing them to like it's it's really funny. Really,
My favorite part about it was that I got to target some rand.
It was like a showcase we were doing, so I got to target some
random person to be like the lady and the Red Prius who I'm arguing with
pre us. Yeah, it's the whole thing was it started with hey,
you lady in the Red Prius. Like it was really funny. But I
got to target my teacher, like my history teacher, and he's normally really
strict, so it's really funny because I was just like yelling at him,
and I was like getting really close to his face and like going, wow,
that's so cool. It's really funny. I love that. Yeah,
And I just don't feel like, I mean, because whenever he's having just
a hard time with school and you know, and I go, oh,
so, but and I would, I would change his school if that's what
he wanted. But the one school that he would want to change too doesn't
have any spots. There's a very long waiting list and other things. I'm
like, I don't know how you're gonna right. He's kind of a big
fish in a small part now, right, and then you go to be
a small fish in a big pond, which has its benefits for sure.
And I wouldn't tell him no if that's what he wanted. But we can't
get into that school right now. So you would be okay going to another
school without Sadie, I'm not. I mean, we've never done that,
right, So I mean, I'm not completely sure how i'd feel. But
I mean we don't. I mean, I wouldn't say we see each other
too much, like at the school we go to right now, I mean,
we don't really hang out at lunch and we kind of hang out with
our respective people. But I mean, I haven't really thought about it.
I mean, I think i'd try it, but I'm not sure how i'd
feel when we're actually at separate schools. And what about the other school you
were at? It was a big school, right, How did you feel
about that middle school? Yeah? Yeah, I don't care if you say
the name of it, because you're not there anymore. Okay, I like
it. Or that's the one you started a month into eighth grade? Yes,
okay, and Elbie went there, right, No, oh, so
they were at the school called Valley Charter, which is a charter school,
small school. This is where I used to complain about the school, and
people would be like, send your kids to a bigger school. But they
but when it came to middle school, they didn't want to go to a
bigger school. They wanted to stay at a small school. So we stayed
at a small school. It didn't work out. Moved them to another small
school because of because COVID happened and the school they were at really was sucking.
I remember to this other small school then that wasn't then then that school
because sometimes the nature of very small schools is the people that are running those
schools. When when the head person the principal quit and was like wanted to
stay home with her baby, and then the assistant principal had already quit too,
and she was They were both like they were the reason the school was
great. So then it was like all these changes and they hired really basic
teachers and so and then Xanders and then we call your friend Lylewile Crocodile,
but we call them so Lyle Lyle Crocodile moved schools and Xander was like,
I want to go to school with le Crocodile. So we moved and that's
when we went to this big school and then what happened. Okay, So
I'd say, okay, so there's I'd say, it's kind of like a
complete flip of how I feel about the school I'm at now because I think
the social parts of can I say the name, yeah that one? Yeah?
Okay, So I'd say, like the social I went to Portola,
Like the social parts of it I thought were better because it was like a
really big school with a lot of different options. So it was like if
I didn't really want to hang up with this friend group anymore, there was
like other people I could hang out with, and I didn't feel I didn't
feel like too much, like I didn't have people to hang out with at
that school. The things I didn't like were like the academics and stuff.
I really disliked a lot of my teachers. Yeah, mister Zippity Duda,
mister Zippity Dooda. Oh my god, the nightmares, nightmare nightmares about that
guy. And then I was so close. I was so close to not
having this science teacher because she retired, like she like I was her last
year. Then she retired, but like really didn't like her. It was
really difficult to figure out how to like do well on her tests and stuff.
So I was failing them a lot until I started, like, you
remember that, mom, Like I kept failing those tests even though I was
like, I'm studying everything. She made him do a test like his first
or second day at school. I remember that they and then she was giving
him a hard time about it and how would he know anything that you've been
teaching, right, I remember that, Yeah, And then it was just
crazy. I'd be like going home crying because I'd be like, how I've
studied so much of what you told me to How am I supposed to do
well on these tests? Until I just like figured out that there's a lot
of the stuff she didn't tell us to study is what was actually on the
test. Suddenly I'm getting like ninety and one hundred percent on this freaking test.
And wasn't one of the teachers really mean to say d two? Was
it the math teacher or oh? Yeah, yeah? And then I had
yes, the math teacher was That was when I had to write an email,
right, I had to. And then when we had the five oh
four plan meeting and oh yeah, lying in the meeting and telling me things
about how that was. You remember he was mister Zippity Duda was lying do
you remember the story and saying that you guys hardly had any homework, And
I was like the homework and it was like sixty problems doesn't sound like a
lot, but like the problems he was giving they were all like these long.
It was it was it was gonna take like, yeah, it was
a lot. It was so much. Yeah, it was just you have
like one after another. I don't think you had. I think you have
like one teacher you liked. Yeah, I loved her. That's terrible.
It's so because Italian Sonny, they've had teachers that they like, they don't
like this year. I think every teacher she has she loves, and it's
made a huge difference in her grades. She ended the school year, both
of them with a's and b's because these teachers and this girl, they just
happened to get this one grade there, and they've been told like once you
get to you know, junior years, it's that all the teachers are great
and they like Natalie's like, mom, how when am I ever interested in
American history? Like? You know? She sits and she listens. She
they engaged and makes such a big difference when you have a good teacher that
loves their job versus somebody that's been there forever and is just collecting a paycheck.
You know. I mean, I crushed it anyway. So, yes,
you're I think you're a good student, right, Xander. Do you
want to go off to college? Of course I want to go off to
college. Good for you, thank you, Yeah, keep it up.
Any ideas of where you want to go? No idea? Nah, what
do you want to do when you grow up? Do you know? That's
a great question. The two things, like ideally like the two kind of
fields. I'm looking at either comedy or music, That's what I'm I mean,
something something like snl oh really fun for me. I know it's like
very hard to reach and I get I get that. So I'm just hoping
to do like something that I love, like comedy or music. Well i'll
tell you at your age, if you stick with the comedy at the at
the groundlings and you keep going, I mean, sky's a limit for you.
So um, in school, in like English class, they had to
do this project. And it's just kind of funny because I sort of relate
to this myself. But he wanted to write. They had to pick something
or they could write or you could do write a song or you could do
which one is this? Because we had like three this is the thing that
you won all he won it. So remember so he had they had to
write. It was about technology. Yeah, it was about like AI and
so we were my English My English teacher has an interesting curriculum. She likes
to teach things that sometimes don't always relate to English. So we had like
this whole we were learning about like chat, GVT and stuff like that.
So we had this. We had this kind of creative project where we just
had to do something relating like that relates to AI in any way. So
it was like we could write a story. We could, we could.
It was like a lot of writing. We could write a song or anything.
Did you use the AI chat thing to just write it for you?
Nope? Thank god. So Zander was trying to brainstorm what he wanted to
write, and I told him he should write something funny because he's really funny
writer. So and he was like, oh, I don't know, like
and then remember then we okay. So there's this book called It's It's Do
you remember Plants versus Zombies the whole thing? Yea, yeah, remember that
plants versus Zombies. There was a book that was called like Crazy Dave,
Crazy Dave's Guide to like Zombie what to do if there's a zombie Apocalypse.
It's like how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
something like that. So there was it was a really funny book that we
used to all read when the kids were younger, and it's just just a
funny, like our sense of camer So I told Xander, like, maybe
you could write something like that. But about like how to tell like a
guide if there was if like robots start like taking over or yeah. Good.
So he wrote this thing and he read it to me, and it
was so crazy funny. I was laughing out loud. I think I came
in and told you about it. Yeah, Xander wrote this thing and I
was genuinely laughing out loud, like if an adult wrote it was. It
was making me laugh. And then he was like, I don't know,
like what people are going to think, and then tell us how, So
how did the so they had to vote on? Yeah, so it was
like it was mostly it was mostly stories. So I guess my English teacher
printed out all of the stories and then we read them and then gave them
a ranking. We read them and so none of them had names on.
Yeah, it was a pseudonym things, okay, so it was like anonymous
and then we read them all then gave them rankings like one through five.
Yeah, my kids did this at one point, I think, yeah.
Yeah, and then we like narrowed it down to maybe like top three,
and then we did it again for then other class right yeah, yeah,
so we did it. We did for all the classes and then just like
narrowed it down to like the top ones in every class, then ranked it
again until we just got one winner. Wow, and Gractually he was like,
oh, I don't think people liked it. Somebody was making fun of
me. Someone someone was making there's always yes, that's what I told him.
I was like, oh, I mean it's not funny because somebody,
he said, he's so easily player hating him. Sorry, but he's like
somebody was like, oh, this one's like middling, right. He was
like, one, that's ridiculous, and then he wore them. Yeah,
oh that's awesome, thank you. Hey, let's take another quick break.
I wanted to ask Xander, um I thought this would be good about some
like scandals like things that we you and I don't really know, Lynette,
because we're an old mom, yes we are. I mean we're not that
we're old for moms, but we're like we're older, we're moms, so
we're not teenagers. I'm a mom. Why am I being left out?
Remember when you would when you and Albie and Sadie were being like when you
and Albie especially were being Christian moms. Really we had this, we had
this whole group chat like it was me Elbie, Sadie. We had this
whole group chat and it was just like the Christian mom group chat. Mom
when you were looking at my phone yesterday seeing that, like Stacy was texting
me, that's Albie's Christian mom name. Really yeah, So then Sadie's Flora
like the contemporary Christian mom, and then I'm Christa a great name. Yeah,
we had this whole We had this whole group chat going on where we
couldn't go out of characters and we just mean all these plots like going out
for like Sunday brunch and stuff. Oh my god, the three of you,
how cute. It was so funny. That's hilarious. Some of the
jokes, like I don't even remember. This wasn't like twenty twenty one,
So you guys went to brunch? Did you go to after church? Yeah,
we can see. Let me see if I still had this. I
think it was just called Christian mom chat. They were all like freaking out
because didn't one of them think their child was gay? Because we're not homophobic,
guys, player, this is your character. Yeah I forgot who,
but one of us was like, really, one of us thought our one
of our sons was gay, and we're like freaking, freaking out, freaking
and then we would use like the crying laughing emojis and like the wine emojis,
wine class emojis constantly. That's funny, that's funny. But I wanted
you to exp playing something because um, Lynnette and Calin might not even know
about this, But so do you do? You know who? You know
who? Miranda Sings is? Right? Really I don't either. What ye
should we make Caylyn play a little bit of like a Miranda Sings video.
Sure, we'll about explain it to people, probably probably. I mean basically,
Miranda Sings was she was just like this big YouTuber like like for for
when my age like when my age group was like younger. She was huge
on huge, Okay, she she was like she was like a memorable part
of the childhood of a lot of people my age. So she was like
this huge figure Miranda Sings. And so Miranda Sings, you can play like
a moment of a old Miranda Sings video. I got a hook in that.
It's gonna take me a minute. Okay, never mind, it's okay,
no mine, I'll just explain it. Miranda Sings, So she was
this character like this pretty she she this pretty annoying character, like it was
supposed to be annoying. And then the person behind Miranda Sings her name was
Colleen Ballinger. She was like the person play I'm explaining this too much.
She was like the person playing Miranda Sings, and Miranda Sings is like has
a really terrible singing voice. Colleen has a pretty singing voice, but Miranda
Sings is like, think she's a really good singer about she? How old
are these girls? Miranda ak Colleen now is like thirty six. She was
probably like late twenties, early thirties, okay watching her got it? Okay?
Yeah, so she was go on tour. I remember Julie Kayson took
like her girls Miranda things and it was like a huge deal. She wrote
a book that we bought. Wow. Okay. She also had a Netflix
show called Hater's Back Off. Oh okay, yeah I forgot about that.
Okay, So she was this big she started on YouTube. She was like
this big character. But now there's like this big drama. Why is this
happening with every giant YouTuber? It just turns out there all scumbags. Basically,
she is under a lot of grooming allegations. What. So I'm like
not an expert on this. I'm just like watching TikTok and YouTube. Yeah
That's where I'm getting my source from. But okay, so she first of
all, she's just done things like truck. She like went into her fans,
like underaged fans group chats like trauma dump about her divorce what and then
yeah, oh I didn't even know that one. Yeah, she went she
had a bunch of group chats with like her young fans where she would like
go to like trauma dump on them about her divorce with this other YouTuber and
then she would make like inappropriate jokes and stuff. She sent this one thirteen
year old like used underwear on on some live video. She made a law
fans. Her tour things were like interactive, and she made a bunch of
young fans really uncomfortable on the stage. Are you kidding? What's wrong with
this girl? What is wrong with her? I know? But so that's
really dark. But the big thing right now that's making this so different is
that she made a response, like like the famous apology videos, she made
this apology quote quote. I'm quoting apology video because there was no apology,
but she didn't talk. She sang it was Holly, it wasn't Miranda,
it was Colleen. She went onto like the there's two separate channels. There's
like the Colleen channel on the Miranda channel. She went on the Colleen one,
just sat there looking moby for a second, brought out her ukulele.
Hey guys, it's Colleen. You haven't seen my face for a while.
I've just been dealing with her. And then she just starts singing this song
called toxic Toxic gossip Train. What the hell where she's not apologizing. It's
like a mix between she's saying it's all lies, but she she's like not
apologizing. She's saying, like all of this is a lie. She's like,
I'm taking accountability, but none of this is true, and I'm riding
the toxic gossip train. But didn't she actually say I've I've changed my behavior,
Like she did cop to the fact that she had to have been doing
something, because she's like, I'm taking accountability and I've changed my behavior and
I've liked my saying everything is God. She's saying everything. She's like,
I've changed my behavior, but everything's a lie. Oh my, like good.
And then she was like trying to play the victim for most of it.
Like she the way she wrote this entire song, like she she wrote
this whole song with a chorus and even there was a bridge in there.
She did some improv. She was ready. You know, it wasn't just
one take. You know, she had to like reds. It was she
had like her whole lighting set up and stuff. I don't know, I
don't know what was going through her head, like, but she just had
this whole song toxic Gossip Train. Some of the lines were like time me
to the tracks and harass me from my past. Wow, Like it was
like it was insane. It was like buy buy a ticket to the toxic
gossip train. Or it's like spreading misinformation and stuff. But you, I
think what you're you really have to understand is just how famous Miranda sings.
Yeah, like all of our listeners, every most people know, like immediately
a huge scandal out there right now? Wow? And then did she get
like arrested or anything for this? No, there's no maybe nothing yet.
I mean it was I mean being canceled. That's like augh, that's the
tough subject. Because of course no one's gonna like her, but she's still
gonna be making money. So she's really like canceled. Yeah right right,
But then again, is she she's not even that popular anymore anyway, right
or is she? I mean she's she is like on a decline, like
no one really look, people more know her from like the past, but
she still has like a platform like ten point seven million subscribers on YouTube still
wow my god. And then she has like a bunch on TikTok and Instagram.
It's and then she has like two channels she has, like the Colleen
one and the Miranda one. It's just combine. It's Colleen, her her
altar. And so Miranda is like the character she's playing. Call he's the
actual person. Okay, I want to see if I could, so Miranda
sings as her. He's her stage name or it's her like, yeah,
it's her character. Yeah that she does, got it? I bet you
If I google of the name Colleen, it's gonna be the Colleen Ballinger is
the very first thing that comes up. Wow. Yeah. Crazy. So
it's like her entire thing was supposed to be an apology, but she didn't
discuss anything like one of the lines was I'm just gonna focus on the facts,
and then she gets into none. She gets into nothing about the facts,
doesn't even address the things that were already like they were screenshots of her
conversations with these children on like these group chats she did she sent that young
thirteen year old boy underwear on a live video. So she was saying that
she was focusing on the facts, but I addressed none of the facts and
just said everything was a lie. But I'm sorry guy, Like she was
like, I'm sorry and taking accountability, but it's all fake. Story in
the La Times right now is Colleen Ballinger's ex husband reacts to grooming claims,
and then the Independent has an article about all the grooming allegations against Colleen Ballinger
who created me Miranda sings, and then somebody guitar euro player shreds Colleen Ballinger's
apology video. Really oh, I learned how to play it on guitar too,
That's hilarious. I'll be on facetimes with my friends and I'll just randomly'd
be like, hey, guys, it's me Xander again. I haven't been
on this FaceTime for a really long time. I've just been dealing with it,
because that's her intro. She like just starts talking. She's just talking,
and then suddenly she's like, but all aboard the toxic gossip, train
me on the tracks, and harass me from my past. These rumors look
like facts if you don't mind the gaps. It's so oh my god,
wow horrible. The funny thing is she kind of like she likes to pretend
that some of its improv She'd like pretend like she's thinking and then suddenly she'd
like going out with the whole other verse. There's this moment like maybe like
twenty minutes into the video or she acts like she's about to end it.
She's like holding the camera, then she puts it down. She saw eyes.
She's like, you know what comes out with this whole other verse?
She like acts like she just had like a bunch of inspiration as she was
turning off the camera, and she was like, just because people make mistakes
doesn't mean you're a bad person. Isn't that crazy right? And I'm like,
Miranda, I'm not gonna lie. I feel like a lot of people
haven't made a mistake this big. Yeah, but this isn't like, this
isn't the mistake that this isn't like I don't know, yeah, this isn't
some small mistake that doesn't make you that person. I mean the fact that
she gave an underage kid her underwear on the screws more that she did,
but I'm weird. It was so weird to google this shit. It was
like worse that. I mean, YouTubers are notorious for making horrible apology videas,
but this one has to be the worst. I mean, there was
this other one. It was like this TikToker, like Sienna may or whatever.
She was under these like sexual assault allegations against this other guy, and
her great decision was to make an interpretive dance and are you kidding? It
was like the reason why it's better is because she actually somewhat apologized, but
it was mostly just like her doing like choreography, like her Chorea. She
it was her doing her interpretive Chorea, like on this on this camera,
like under a sunset. That's insane. Oh my god, oh my gosh.
Well this has been super fun. Thank you so much for coming in
and listen. Keep going with that improv and your music. But I think
you're gonna I think you're gonna go pretty far with your improv I could see
you on S and now just a few short ears a toxic gossip trader.
Fuck Pete Davidson, you'll be the next youngest si um. All right,
before we go, let's talk about The Family Skeptical. It's a great podcast.
It's about raising kids with no religion. Oh yeah, that's right.
Yeah, it sounds good, which I'm kind of doing anyway. I'm really
Christian. If you're doing that and you're like, gosh, is it cool
to like raise your kids without any kind of like formal religious beliefs, Yes,
and listen to the Family Skeptical and you'll feel better because they're going to
back you up. They do an episode every three weeks, so you shouldn't
have like a giant backlog, right, So go check them out. Yeah,
and then, of course, my friend Adam Lerner three one zero nine
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surrounding areas. There's no charge for his service. He gets he gets money
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and he will also sell your car. So like this is just this
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And he's like, go to a local dealership and test drive a car and
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took our car away, our old one, our lease, sold the car.
Um. Everything was just easy, easy sign the paperwork anyway. Okay,
that's it. Thanks everybody. Thank you Zander, thank you you're a
parent. Now do us good letting