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The Hype House in its Prime with Haley Sanchez

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the hype house in 2020 was peak tiktok culture. everyone wanted the invite… but not everyone got it.

in this episode, I sit down with Haley Sanchez and we’re talking about what really happened, who got invited, and what it was like during that era.



#hypehouse #tiktok2020 #tiktoknostalgia #influencerculture #storytime

SPEAKER_01

Hi, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the Spay Podcast. We have a different setup going on today. We are doing like the whole video call situation. It's very crazy. So we have a very special guest today. This is Haley. Hello, guys. So I met you, I feel like it's how long has it been? Did we say how long?

SPEAKER_00

So it's been about two years. So it's been a while. Um, but it feels like yesterday. Love you to death. Love that.

SPEAKER_01

So, did you go to school in Knoxville? Is that why you were here?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So I went to school at um UT and then I transferred to South Carolina.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, cool. So when you came in, we had a little conversation that had me shook, and I was like, okay, well, we have to dive into that. I have so many questions for you about your life and like social media. Okay. So you are an influencer. You're gorgeous. You're doing the thing. So um you told me that you were like one of the OG, like, well, I would presume that you were one of like the little OG TikTok girls, right? Yeah. What did your life like? You were in high school during that, right?

SPEAKER_00

I started when I was 16, and then I just made videos like for fun, like um not really thinking anything of it, and I made about six videos a day. So it was like my job right out of school. I went home, I made videos on my parents' car outside, and from like when the sun was out till the sun left, I was making videos, and one day I got a video that got 10 million views, and that blew up. And now I have 220,000 followers, and yeah, it pretty much started it. What was the video? It was a video of me and my mom in a doctor's office, and it was a song, Don't Be Suspicious, don't be suspicious, and I was pranking her that I was pregnant. Oh yeah, I was pranking her that I was like that I was having a kid. So I was making it seem like in the doctor's office, it was like I was hiding it from her, and the doctor gave me my paperwork saying I had strep throat, um, but gave me my paperwork, and I was like like closing it and hiding it, making a funny video. All of a sudden, 10 million views later, and all the comments were like, I have to come back for part two, and there was no part two, and people were pissed, people were mad because they were like, Where's the baby bump?

SPEAKER_01

And I was like, Oh, it was oh my goodness. So I guess like you just didn't expect it, it was totally random, which that's mostly like that that's what happens to everybody when you blow up. It's just kind of like, oh yeah, okay, it just happens one day, which is so crazy. Um, so when you first popped off and you were doing after your first viral video, what kind of content did you do after that?

SPEAKER_00

Um, after I made that video, I didn't really know what branding was until now. Um, but back then I was like, I'm just gonna make videos that are like trends. So like it would be like pointing to the sky, it's like this person is gonna be your next husband. C L J. I was doing stuff like that, and then I was also making outfit videos where I'd buy a lot of stuff on Amazon and I would do Amazon reviews. I was 16, so like I don't know where that came from, but I was making Amazon reviews where I was showing off dresses, um, hair products, and then that also blew up, and then I had brands um sponsor me like Jurgens, Lotion, I had um Keratin, Keratis or whatever the brand, and um Olaplex, and they sent me products. I made videos for them. So yeah, that's what pretty much you know, that's all my branding back then. Now it's completely different.

SPEAKER_01

I love that. That is such like a especially when you're 16, that's like so cool.

SPEAKER_00

Like to Oh, your you your brain gets your head gets a little bigger.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

It gets a little bigger, and then you have to walk a little bit. You're trying not to walk a little bit on a you know, new shoes type of thing.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh. So I have to ask you about this hype house situation. Yeah. So you were invited to the hype house to find content.

SPEAKER_00

So I got invited to California. I went for about a week. Um, I went to that so that there's a place called the Hype House, not a content house. Um there were so many houses, so many, and they're all different groups, and you're they text you and they say, Hey, look, we're having 50 people over, we're having a couple people over. Do you want to come make videos? So I was like, duh, I'm in the area, I'll be there. So we're all making videos on like this giant gate, and there's a pool in the backyard, and we're all hanging out, and it feels like surreal because you're like, wait, I'm 17 years old, I shouldn't be here. Um, or 18, I think I was 18. And I was there and we just made fun content. I don't remember, like, I just remember Cynthia Parker and some of them that were there. Um, Madison, oh, she dated Jane Hostler. Um, but I just remember all of them there, and I was kind of starstruck, but I was trying to also act like I've been here before. I've done this before. For one of them. One of them. And I wasn't. They had millions of followers, and I had I think 150k at that time. And then um they were super nice, everyone was super nice, and I filmed content with them. Um, and I put everything I posted, it blew up, and then um, yeah, I loved going there. I loved LA. I want to move back.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh, I love that. I haven't been to LA since I was like literally 15. And that was 12 years ago. Oh, long time. I know. I need to go like now and experience that now that I'm like doing this, I would be so cool to like see what I could do down there.

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Do you like well you said you don't remember who all was there? Did you get to meet like a Demilios's?

SPEAKER_00

I met the Demilios, I met um Josh Richards, I met um all of the Sway boys. In fact, everyone knows who the Sway boys are. Um, I met all of them, and I was in love with Jaden Hostler, and I was a I was literally like a baby to him because I think he was 23 when I was 18. Um, but I was like in love with the guy. Um Nessa Barra, I think was in a room. I it was so like every person that you could think of back then that was kind of big, Addison Ray, all of them were there. Um, yeah, yeah. And the accent is 100% real. Like her little country accent, like it's it's spot on. Um, but I loved I loved all of them. They were all so nice, so welcoming. Um, they totally don't remember me. Hopefully, I mean maybe some of them do because I was really close with them for a long time um and just made a bunch of videos, but I haven't been back since. But I'm going back next week. So very fun. And now I'm in LA next week.

SPEAKER_01

I love that. So I'm like a huge Addison Ray girl, like even still, I think that what she's doing is so iconic, and I love her vibe. So that is so cool that you got the Britney Spears look. Literally obsessed with it. No, yeah. Oh my god. Okay, look, I love dance bombs, and when she brought Maddie Ziggler out at the Coachella, oh my gosh, don't even get me started.

SPEAKER_00

I saw that and I freaked out. I saw that and freaked out. When she walked on the stage, I went, Who is that? And then it zoomed in on her face and I went, You're joking. I haven't seen her perform in years. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh. Literally, that's I am obsessed with her and just like literally anything, dance moms lore. Like, I can sit and talk about dance moms for like probably days. Adelie Miller. I love her. Girl she is insane, and there is so much. Do you okay? Have you listened to the Back to the Bar podcast with Christy and Kelly? No, I haven't. Girl, one day when you're bored, if you're like a dance moms fan and you've like watched all of it, if you Christy the blonde mom.

SPEAKER_00

I've seen it, they to drop everything, they drop all the lore. They talk about all how it was staged majority of the time. Like the the the um dance recitals that they if they they would win all the time, you'd wonder, oh my gosh, they're like number one all the time. Because some of them were staged. I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they say, like, and this is totally random, but I feel like I know so much about that stupid show because like I'm so like in love with it, and I love to listen to like the producer notes and all that, and it's like made me want to be a reality TV producer. Maybe that'll happen to me one day. I don't know. No, I could see it. Look at the look at the behind you. The I could see it. Literally, I'm manifesting it, but no, I'm I'm just obsessed with that. And some of the things that they've said about Abby like on their podcast, I'm like, that's I know.

SPEAKER_00

I thought they were gonna get sued. Like, I literally did.

SPEAKER_01

I saw that they were like saying horrible stuff, and I was like, wait, I thought everyone oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, and Nia, one of the girls, wrote a book, and yes, I I mean some of the things that she was saying, like in the book.

SPEAKER_00

The comments, like the not the raced comments, but like everything. Um, her hair, how are they gonna tame her hair? I was I felt so bad because why are we doing that? Why are we doing that? And Abby Lee would say comments to her like that all the time, and I didn't know that that would even happen like on the show because they cut it out. Like what?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, of course they cut it out. I don't know why they like always try to protect her for some reason when everybody knew she was a bad person, just no yeah, you know, but that's showbiz, apparently.

SPEAKER_00

Like, like if they're terrible, they could be terrible all they want, you know, they're making the show money. So just it's so sad. But the most person that came out was like Abby, Kenzie, um Mia, Kendall, Chloe. Oh my god, all of them. Chloe, yeah, they all have some type of perfume line.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, they're they're set for life for sure. But anyway, I feel like I talk about dance bombs every podcast episode, so I'm sure everybody's like, girl, shut up. But um, so back to when you were, you know, a super young girl teenager doing all this stuff. Did you feel um did you feel pressure to keep recreating viral moments like after that first video? Like you just realized you want to grind.

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah, like you honestly feel more responsibility and pressure to give people what they want. So when people are commenting and saying, Where's part two? Where's part two, and you don't have part two, you will lead, you will like go this way while everyone's going this way. You're trying to distract and be like, Oh, look at my clothes, look at my shoes. And um, that kind of upset my followers for a bit because they were waiting on that. That's why they followed me. And then after they saw my content, they were like, Oh, wait, I like this girl, I'm gonna stay. So I didn't lose any followers, I just kept gaining them. And I remember one morning I woke up um after that video went viral. Um, it um I got about 50,000 followers in one night. Wow, and that was a lot. Um, or I would say in one day, because at night I'd say it's like 30,000, and then during the day it was growing, growing. So every second I remember I was stressing, looking at my phone, like, oh my gosh, 20,000 more followers, 10,000 more followers, and I kept running around the house showing my family they didn't care. They were like, they didn't know what TikTok was, they didn't care. So I was like, you don't understand, I'm famous. I was freaking out because I was young, I was freaking out. I was like, guys, even 10 followers. I was like, guys, and and now my mom, after she was like, Let me like let me talk to my friends about it. So she talked to her friends. How why is my daughter TikTok famous? They go, Oh, you didn't see the video of you and your daughter? And I was like, Oh, they're telling my mom, like nobody can tell my mom. And my mom came to me, I'll never forget it because she was so upset until I explained to her mom, we got this, we're we're gonna go to, you know, we're gonna go to the moon. And I showed her the video, she was really upset that I faked it because she didn't want it to be like a big deal, and family members started texting us about it, and then um after she realized, like, you know what, it's a harmless joke, let's just run with it. And then I made some more viral videos with her that got a couple hundred thousand views um or millions, um, because my mom, I think she's so pretty. So a lot of the comments were like little young 15-year-old boys that were hitting on my mom. Yeah, so and then it kept growing and growing, and then now we're here.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh. Well, I love that. And did you ever feel like because I feel like every time I have a video and it does really well and there's a lot of comments, like I can't sleep because I have to be like, Yeah, you want to check them all. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You get anxiety because you're hoping that nobody's making fun of you, nobody's making your voice, the way you look. And there's gonna be some haters out there that will like try to tear you down and tell you, like, you're not good enough. I don't like watching this, and then you just have to look past it and go, you know what, there's other people that love my content, and there's people that hate it. I'd rather focus on these this group, you know. So I started to have to change my mindset to what people like this, and obviously boys aren't gonna like get ready with me's and look at this new dress I got. Um, they like more um, they like more like monster trucks, I don't know, like guy stuff. So they were the ones who were commenting, this is trash. I'm like, uh block John. You're blocked, John.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and you know, like since I don't like the way that my pages is so like it's not me. It's like not about me. Yeah. And there's men in my comments that love to say things like about my clients, like that are in the videos, or they'll you know, they'll they make everything a dirty joke. Oh, a facial. And it's like, okay. What?

SPEAKER_02

I did not know that.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my oh, I have some words listen, girl, I've had somebody trying to purchase the dirty massage table sheets from one of my clients, yes. Or well.

SPEAKER_00

You're lying. That's that's okay. That's called um not a kink. What's it called? A fenetine. Is it? It's like a fetish.

SPEAKER_01

I wouldn't have said a kink. Who does fetish? I don't know. That's just disgusting. Like I was like, I yeah. And you know, I've gotten like some weird messages from guys, and I mean, anything that I'm like, I don't know. I I people have always said, and I try to not say this because even if it's true, I don't want it to be out there. But people say that like massage and facials are sensual, they're not sexual, and I think that men don't know how to differentiate that.

SPEAKER_00

No, they don't, they don't they don't, but that's that's I I could totally see guys commenting stuff like that. I could just totally see that.

SPEAKER_01

That's have you ever had yeah, I know it it is what it is. Um, have you ever had like a crazy like stalker or somebody that's like so obsessed with you? It's insane.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, I had a guy um on social media that my number, I don't know how it got leaked um on TikTok. I think I was doing a giveaway or something, and it got leaked. And this guy, I'm not even kidding, I blocked him. He found a way, I think he had an app that you can change your number. Because every day I had a text, I had a call, uh, email, this, that, that. And I was really scared because I was so young, and I also didn't want to tell my parents to freak him out. So, like to to have them say, wait, we need to stop this whole social media. But that's like that was my dream, like to do social media. And whenever um he was like stalking, he was like, all of my pictures commented on anything I did, he was watching. And then one day I got a text of my exact address to my text messages, and it said, I am on my way and I will be there soon. And it was just a uh XOXO type scary thing, and that's when I had to go to my mom about it and say, Look, this has been going on for this long, what can you do? And she was pissed. I was off social media for a long time, but that's why I also deleted all my content and restarted because I was like, Okay, I'm gonna make it more girly so that I don't get crazies like that. And um, my mom, I remembered that after um he said, like, my address. I'm not even kidding, you're looking at your phone. Like, I was looking at my phone and I went, I I I remember like threw my phone and I ran downstairs. I was terrified. I was like, oh my gosh, but that's what you're gonna get, like, when you're a young girl and you're um you know, making fun content or whatever, guys will find any way to like be weird. I don't know. And and it just sucked, but then I blocked him on everything. I still remember his name. It's really scary, so I won't say it. But I remember he goes by a specific um he he goes by a specific name that's like from a movie. And I and I I still don't know who he I know what his face looks like, everything. I don't know his real name. So I only know his his stage name. Yeah. It's like say Batman 93. His was something like that. Oh. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh my god, was that so scary? Oh yeah. I couldn't sleep for probably like a week because I thought he was gonna show up. I locked my doors, like, yeah. I called the cops one time because I was terrified. Uh-huh. Did they were they able to like track him down at all? So you had to pay a private like investigator. Oh. And yeah, that was that was uh so my parents weren't too worried because they were like, I mean, he he obviously, you know, I mean he knew where I lived, so I was like, what do you mean you guys aren't terrified?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I mean, also though, like, to play devil's advocate, you can literally Google somebody's name and their address will pop up without scrolling once. So he probably just googled like your name and it probably just popped up. He probably was nowhere near you.

SPEAKER_00

Nowhere. I mean, I was on famous birthdays right now. Yeah, I'm on famous birthdays and it says where I live. It says just Chicago, Illinois. It doesn't say my address. Oh, well, I'm on famous birthdays too, and it I don't even know if it has my location. Hold on. No, mine says Chicago, Illinois, and then it also says what I like to do, where my family's from, like everything. And I'm like, how do you guys know this stuff?

SPEAKER_01

Wait, what does mine say?

SPEAKER_00

Oh gosh, it's probably it. I remember mine said she lives here, she moves from here. I'm like, wait, how do you know this? Um, I think they stock your Instagram and see like your tagged locations, to be honest.

SPEAKER_01

Literally, the only thing they say under family life, it just says she is from Knoxville, Tennessee. Everything else is about like my TikTok. And probably because I don't share a lot of my personal life, which yeah that is. That's a good thing.

SPEAKER_00

But yeah, I I shared a little too much, I think. And I don't know how First Birthdays found that of me. Um, but they have it on yours too, so I guess they find it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I mean, that's wild that they have that on you. I mean, mine's public because of my business, but I don't know, that's crazy. Yeah. Anyway, so the friendships that you made during your TikTok girl era, not that you're not in it now, because you still are. But no, yeah. When it was the Prime. Yes. Like, do you still have those friends or did they like, you know, cut you off and continue?

SPEAKER_00

I was friends with some girls. Um, from I was an influencer for uh a thing called Rock the South. It's like a country thunder concert. It's a country concert, and I was an influencer. You get to be put on stage, like the blown up on stage, and you get to do a meet and greet. I did a meet and greet with some people, and um, it was pretty awesome. I loved it. And those girls that I did it with, um, we still we kept in touch for about a year, and then they started getting millions. I'm talking 10 million, and then immediately went that way, and then I went that way. Like, yeah, it I think it's honestly just depends on who you are. If you want to keep them around, if you think that you, you know, um want super famous friends. I don't know what they were thinking, but I did that. I loved them for the season that I met them, they were great. Um, and then some of them I met a guy off his name's Parker panel um forever ago, Tate Hoskins. I don't know if you know him, he's an LGBTQ creator, and he's the funniest, coolest guy. I he I um he's gay. My favorite, yeah, he look him up, Kate Hoskins. And I don't I know he still makes videos, but I think he has around um more than two million, it has to be. Um, but he is the sweetest guy I've ever met. Um, and he basically was my best friend during the whole Rock the South. Like, I loved hanging out. With him, talking to him, and we were friends for a while, and then we just kind of it kind of like um died down. But Tate Hoskins loved him. Yeah, yeah. And then um the other one was Parker Panel, and you probably know him. He was on Nickelodeon. Um you can look him up and I know faces. Hold on. Um, you know his girlfriend, she's blonde, she's a cutie pie. Um, but Parker Panel, P-A-N-N-E-L-L. He um was on Nickelodeon. He makes funny videos, relatable videos. What show was he on? Um I don't remember, but I know he had his like own. Like he kind of like ran his own thing. Oh. Yeah, he was like a big deal on it or something. But I remember um when I was 16, that was I looked at him like he was a famous movie star from Nickelodeon. Oh my gosh. So yeah, pretty cool. So yeah, I I I don't keep in contact with a lot of influencers. A lot of them are in Chicago now, and we're all 23 years old, we're all you know, um, make different content than we were 16. So I have a lot of friends that are here. Oh yeah, growth.

SPEAKER_01

So if you had to name let's name drop. Who is the coolest person that you've ever met like doing this whole social media journey?

SPEAKER_00

Either Griffin Johnson. I met him, he's one of the sway boys, or hmm, what's a good one? Hmm. I met FaZe Rug.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. He's pretty cool. I think he has what? Like so many millions on YouTube subscribers. Millions. Um, he's like up there with Mr. Beast, I feel like. Yeah. But I met him, loved him. Him and his family, they're like exactly how they are on social media in person. I met his dad, his brothers, like um, it was insane. Um, they are the coolest people. So I'd say FaZe Rug, Griffin Johnson.

SPEAKER_01

Um I did see um there was a video. So earlier today, I was like looking up different, um, I was looking up your name so I could try to think of different like things to talk to you about. Yeah. And um I saw a video of you with somebody, and I was like, oh my gosh, I know that girl, but who, oh my gosh, who was it? Really? Yeah, it was like like this was an old video. This was like probably 2020-ish.

SPEAKER_00

Yep, that's her. Yep, that's so that's the girl that I went to rock the south with. Okay. Yeah, the girls that I was friends with. They have she has over eight eight point one million on TikTok or something like that. Um, and I was really close with them for the concert, and we all texted after, they were super nice, and then um they both lived in LA, and I lived in Alabama, so I never really got to hang out with them as much, and then they became friends, and I was like, oh, it's okay because I'm so far away, you can't really fly there if you like at that age, you don't really have like a ton of money to fly there and back and there and back, so yeah, her and then I was friends with them for just the concert and a little bit after, and that was that. But her and then this girl named Madison, um, not Madison Humphrey. I love her. Um it's a different Madison, but I remember um they all had like millions, and I was like, I loved them, sweetest girls.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I love that. I love that there's like because I feel like people who aren't like in this world think that all these influencers are just fake.

SPEAKER_00

And I just don't think that's even the little like that's or they keep the camera like they're always like this, like yeah, looking at themselves and they're full of themselves. Not everyone's like that. No, no, and they just want to make fun content, they want to make content that people like to watch and enjoy. And I need to start making content, honestly, where I am talking to the camera like this. Like I am having a conversation, like I'm on FaceTime, and I'm telling everyone like my life, like what I like story times of like I've had the worst dates. I've had the worst dates where I would show up and there's a bunch of beer cans in the backseat, and like, okay. Um yeah, but like I've even had dates where I was on with an NFL player, and then I've had a date where I was with a guy who you know was a fisher, or I don't know, something like low-key versus high key. I've done it all, and I think it just really depends on like the heart and stuff. So like I have so many stories with guys that I could tell that people would be like, what the heck?

SPEAKER_01

You know, you would thrive at that, you have to do that. I think wings do it actually.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I think I should because I have so many stories, even with people that everyone knows. Oh my god. Mm-hmm. So yeah, I might have to get into that.

SPEAKER_01

Love. Okay. So um let's see. So let's kind of like pivot to your life now. You seem very like just like you're like a ray of sunshine. You're just like the most precious little angel soul. And um, did you ever feel like back when you were doing all this? Did you ever feel like burnout, pressure? Um like for what? So like with with what? Like just like social media, just being so young.

SPEAKER_00

Did you ever feel just like yeah? Um, well, keeping up in high school when I was really young, um, it was really hard because people gave me a lot of crap. Like I remember I took off the last semester of senior year because I got bullied by a lot of girls. Um, and it was not nice, it was not fun, and they didn't know who I was as a person, so um, I don't really judge anyone who like anyone that was mean because we're they were young, they're immature. Um but it did take a toll on me, and I stopped doing social media for a while because I um had a lot of pressure from school. Um, my parents were always asking me what I'm posting because they're so young, they don't want me to be posting, you know, inappropriate stuff. And then um yeah, so it was a lot of pressure just from mainly school friends, um, and yeah, and even even um when I stopped doing social media, people were asking me why where's your videos? I want to see more, I want to see your videos, and I couldn't do it, I couldn't tell my audience, hey, you know, because that back then I was getting 100k views every video, and I had a big community, and they were like, We want to see your videos, why are where are you at? And then all of a sudden I'm just you know not posting. So I felt really I felt like that was a little bit of guilt and regret on my end. I should have just ignored the haters and fully went, fully made content, ignored everything because when you're at your prime, you keep going. Like the motivation to keep going is there. Keep doing it. Forget what anyone says about you, what your looks. I had super blonde hair, and people were telling me it looks terrible, da-da-da. Or you look too you look too skinny, you're you know everyone's gonna pick apart you, and then you start reading it the more you read it. So I stopped making content and I that's the only thing I regret. Um, but I try to have not any regrets. But yeah, I literally wish I just kept going because you don't I don't even know where I'd be right now. I'd probably be living in California like I wanted to and not go to college. I'm glad I got my degree. Um but I just for a reason.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, definitely that maybe that wasn't your path at the time. Maybe it is now, you know? Like you can just rewrite your story as many times as you want. Rebrand. That's just you definitely like you have that, you are an influencer in your soul, like you can do it.

SPEAKER_00

I feel it. Yeah, I literally feel it in my soul too. I literally feel like I'm meant for more.

SPEAKER_01

Um, so what are you doing like right now? Do you have anything crazy big going on? What are you doing for work?

SPEAKER_00

So, right now I am a social media strategist and a director for a couple businesses in my town. Um, in Chicago, I do about five businesses and I run all our socials. So, like I do Instagram, TikTok, I go in, make videos, I leave, and then I don't have to go in for like a week. I'm on my own schedule. Love it. Um, I pretty much like my favorite thing to do the most is food reviews. So I work, I do like a cafe and I get to make random drinks, and then they have fruit mousse, like the viral fruit mousse cakes sauce. Yes, it have every flavor, everything. So I have a strawberry and an actual mango. So I in my videos, I'm just like, try this mango drink with me, or whatever, fruit mousse cake, and then I just take a bite, show the camera. It's like my favorite thing to do. So like the mukbang, mukbang vibes. That's like haunted. So I do it, I do that for now. Um, and then I what my goal, my true goal, is to own a clothing brand. And yeah, an athletic wear. Oh girl, that'd be so much like matching sets. I want to do loungewear, I want to make comfy socks, and I think it'll be a such a hit because I would make um designs that no one has. Like no one just wants two stripes on the side. I would make not just polka dots, but I would make it so cute, like the colorways, light blue and light yellow. I would make everything, you know, different, unique. So that's like the main goal.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh, I love that. Well, you need to do a skincare with Morgan Collab and do a little cute. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we are.

SPEAKER_00

We're totally doing that. Once it takes off, let's do it. We'll do one of the facials with the butterflies, we'll do a butterfly one. Oh yes. Oh, how cool. I love when you put stickers on people. Oh my gosh. I love that. You were, I think you put um for Valentine's Day, you put hearts. The charm hearts. I'll never forget that because I went, that's so unique. I love that.

SPEAKER_01

You know what? I love doing that, and people don't get it. And you know what? I think it's funny, and it obviously doesn't do anything, but I still still get comments. So, what is this doing for their skin? And I'm like, No way. Are you guys being like mean when you ask me that? Or are you being serious? Because if you're being serious, um Yeah, we need to go back to school.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, let's let's like what? Yeah, I don't think if you see a sticker on your face, you know, it'll help rejuvenate, you know, collagen. And this butterfly sticker gets rid of acne. Yes, yes, it does redness, all of the above. I'll take it. Give me a give me a sticker then.

SPEAKER_01

So I saw on your story that you are you're opening and help helping open a coffee shop, and it looks beautiful. Like your uh the photo that you brought up beautiful.

SPEAKER_00

Bang. Yeah. So that it's called Aldila, and in French it means beyond or further, like there's more to it. Um, there's past, like um death, like there's more to it. Um, and um me and my boss and co-workers, like co-owners, we all um decided on like the look of it because it's in Little Italy in Chicago, so it's right beside um um UIC, which is University of Um Chicago. So it's like right down the road, one block away, and it's gonna be the coolest coffee shop you've ever seen. Like futuristic. All the walls we made, there's no corners, it's all gonna be like a dome-looking thing. And um, there's so many windows we're doing, so I'm like designing, I'm helping design all of it, like from the countertop colors, from where the pastries are gonna go, how many of this do we need, how many of that, and then I'm running the socials for it. So once we open in about like two months, hopefully, I think it's gonna be two months or sooner, um, then we're gonna have line out the door, that's the goal, and I'm gonna be making videos, and I'm just stoked for it. I'm I it's like it is gonna be it's such a fun project already. Um, when I went to go visit it, the contractors were there and like, who's this? And they're like, Oh, she's like helping us with everything, like she's designing it, um, you know, and um I love just being a little designer, and I'm also because I do social media mostly, like like all of it, um, I started getting into like interior design. So I've been helping, I actually did a house already, a full house by myself, yeah. And their budget was like no budget, and I kept it under I think 60 grand for the whole house.

SPEAKER_01

Nice, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So I do a lot of interior work now, but I love that coffee shop. Like I want everyone to go, all do law, everyone has to go, and it's in Little Italy, and yeah, you'll see me there all the time because I'm gonna be making content. If you see me, say hi and say, hey, look, I want to be in a video. Could I try a new drink? Oh my gosh, yeah. Like, here's a drink. Let me make let me take a picture, you know. Um, so that's super exciting, and hopefully, I open up my own, like what I said, like the clothing line. I want it right beside there. There's a for sale little building, so I kind of want to take it as my business um for my clothing.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh, yeah. Yeah. Are you gonna have like a signature drink at the coffee shop?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so every I was actually thinking about that. Every week we're doing a weekly drink. So we're gonna do like a Ferrari drink, a Porsche drink, a uh ice cream drink, something crazy. Um, and we made at the the we made up in a design called the cloud drink, and we saw all over Pinterest, but all over the cup, it's like with um, it looks like marshmallow, it looks like clouds. You fill it with marshmallow half and then blue the other half, so it looks like a sky. So, yeah, so we did that. It was a hit. Um, he has a coffee shop that I'm working doing the social media for now, and we did the cloud drink, and we had over like 15 people in like an hour, like just want it. And it was rapid firing. We were booked and busy. We sold out all of all of our viral mousse cakes, everything. So, yeah, so we're gonna have I want to get a drink that is like the Vic Vic Sanchez drink or Victoria's drink. Um, like how marijuana does it is what?

SPEAKER_01

What would it be if you had your own? Like what kind of drink would it be?

SPEAKER_00

I would say a strawberry matcha. Either that or hmm, I love Ube. I don't know if you've ever had Ube. Oh, yes. Yeah, I like Ube, so I'd probably make like a galaxy-looking drink. I like I like I like futuristic stuff like sci-fi. So probably something like that. Mm-hmm. That would be so yummy. Yeah, I want to, or maybe a cutie little drink with glitter in it, like a refresher. Uh like a mango refresher with glitter, edible glitter, something that would be so me. Oh gosh, that would be so cute.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I love that. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00

I think I need to come to Chicago. Oh, what term says that? Come stay with me. We'll I'll show you everything. You can touch the bean. Like, everyone always says, Where's the bean? I'm like, uh, it's ginormous. It's insane. People in Chicago, this lady licked it and was in the hospital for a week. Wait, for real? She licked the she licked the Chicago bean. Yeah. Why would you possess her to do that? Uh, she was nuts. I think it was for a TikTok video, to be honest. I was watching and I was like, what's this lady doing? She fully like up and down. And um, I remember I saw it on some TikTok page or something like that, um, of her getting ill. And I remember seeing that girl. So yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that's disgusting. People are sick. Yeah, people are crazy. Yeah, that's insane. All right. One last fun question. I always love to ask everybody like what their favorite movies are. So I gotta know your favorite movies.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, that's such a toughie. I love comedy and I love like sci-fi. I would say my absolute favorite. Oh, I'll do top three, top three. Yeah, two top five, even. Okay, one Interstellar, two, me before you. Very sad, very sad movie. Um, three, super bad. Oh, yeah. Duh. Four, hangover, and then yeah, and then five would have to be. Oh, there's so many good ones. There's so many good ones. Five would have to be anything like the grown-ups one and two. Yeah. I used to love grown-ups growing up. I still love that movie. It's so funny. It is so funny. Adam Sandler, dude, coolest guy. Madison Productions.

SPEAKER_02

Love it.

SPEAKER_00

So top five, yeah. Interstellar is like honestly the best movie I've ever seen. I don't care what anyone says. People say sometimes it's too boring or it's you know too long. And it is the most emotional movie I think I've ever been. You know, like it's just so cool. It just teaches you a lot more about life and stuff, so that's why I think I like it the most.

SPEAKER_01

I like that. I love it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, what's yours?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, we actually have a lot of the same favorite movies. So Shrek 2. Oh, shut up!

SPEAKER_00

I love Shrek. I was Fiona in the Shrek's musical in high school. Stop. Yeah, there's a princess. I sang. Yeah. I had a red wig, I had a red wig, I was wearing all green, and yeah, I wasn't um, I didn't turn green, I was actually the the pretty version. Okay. Thank the lord, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I love Shrek 2. So Shrek 2. I would also have to say the hangover. Um let me think. I love oh, Halloween.

SPEAKER_00

Oh I totally forgot about that. Yeah, top five too. Literally, honestly, like Marty, Marty or whatever, her name. Marty? Wait, are we talking about the same Halloween? The girl, Halloween movie with the girl with the witch.

SPEAKER_01

She's a witch. Oh, you're talking you're talking about Halloween Town. Halloween Town. Yeah, I'm talking about Halloween Town. I'm talking about Michael Myers Halloween. Oh, I don't I've never seen that. Yeah, that's completely different vibe. But no. I love Mesa Michael Myers. I love the Elvis movie. I've always just I've never seen it. Oh, girl. That's one that I just put on in the background. Yeah. And then what's another one of my favorites?

SPEAKER_00

Oh like think of like I like do you like any romance or like what? Oh yeah. I mean Fault in Our Stars. That's a good one. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_01

That's a good one. Why can't I think of them right now? Hold on.

SPEAKER_00

I know, right?

SPEAKER_01

One that I put on. Oh, um, Call Me by Your Name. I love that movie. That's a romance. I love that one.

SPEAKER_00

I've never seen it.

unknown

I haven't.

SPEAKER_01

Oh god, you gotta do that. You gotta watch that one too. It's good.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I'm on it. Oh, and then there was one movie that me and you both love. I know you have to love it because everyone loves it. It came out in theaters. It came out in theaters and everyone was sobbing.

SPEAKER_01

I love Avatar. Oh, yes, me too. Honestly, Avatar is so good. Wait, what movie were we sobbing?

SPEAKER_00

Or I was sobbing. Um what was it? It's about the woman, the the man ended up remarrying or something.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, oh, hold on. Is it when she forgot like she lost her memory or something? Or is that something else?

SPEAKER_00

I think so. I think wait, no, and then he remarried and she went to go.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, are we are we talking about the Channing Tatum movie?

SPEAKER_02

No.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, then that's not what I'm thinking of.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, no. Mine was like it came out, I remember it was thrown on the theater and like a thrown on the like they they hyped it up for like a year. And then when it came out, I think it was sold out for forever. It was like a love movie. Wait, was it recent? No, this was like two years ago. But it was like the top movie. I feel like I somebody in the like the comments would totally know. But it's like a top movie where the girl falls in love, um, and then she gets in a car accident, and then the guy remarries, and she ends up fighting him, and then he wants to be with her, and she remarries. Ugh.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, I don't know if I've seen this.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know. Huh?

SPEAKER_00

It came out a while ago. Oh, um, there's another one with Lady Gaga and Bally Cooper. A Star is Born. Oh my gosh, Bohemian Rhapsody. I've never seen that one.

SPEAKER_01

I never watched it.

SPEAKER_00

You're lying, Bohemian. Top top ten. Like Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01

I need to so good.

SPEAKER_00

So good.

SPEAKER_01

Honestly, Cheetah Girls too. I love this.

SPEAKER_00

I know. Guess what? Oh, fun fact. They based the Mean Girls movie off my neighboring high school in Chicago. If you type in what is the Mean Girls movie based on, it'll say Winneka High School. Wait, based on Mean Girls is a true story? The true yeah, it's based on a true like true thing at a high school. Yeah. What? Yeah, it they're based, they they they got the inspo from this high school called Winneka High School. Yeah. In my that's yeah. If you look, I looked it up and I literally couldn't believe it. And I could believe it because all the girls are mean here. I mean, back then in high school, I mean I could now you could see it. Now I know why. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's why. Think of like what I went through this with how that was. Think about it. And I came in senior year brand new. So oh girl. Coming in new to a new school. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01

Brutal.

SPEAKER_00

Brutal. Yep.

SPEAKER_01

Ooh, you know what other movie I love from the 2000s? Aquamarine. I love that movie.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, Addison Ray made a song, Aquamarine. I know. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

That is literally my favorite Addison song.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, that's like my favorite.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh. I love her. I want to go see her in concert so bad.

SPEAKER_00

You know, she's coming to Chicago. She is? I thought she was coming for Lala. Is she not? Oh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Probably. She was at Coachella. I'm sure she'll be there.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I thought she was coming to Lala, I guess. Well, I'll have to look into it because I love I love how she's like, the world is my ocean. And like the diet Pepsi. I play that all the time.

SPEAKER_01

Same as a gun. Yes. Listen, she's an icon. People that don't get it, they just the haters.

SPEAKER_00

They're the haters. No, oh my gosh. She's like the next thing she wants to be, and I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. She was made for it. She was literally made for the stage, and it's like so obvious to me like that she belongs up there.

SPEAKER_00

But oh, you could see it. You could see the star like a star is being born for sure.

SPEAKER_01

Love it. Okay. Well, I think it's time to wrap this up.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It was so great talking to you, and um You too, Morgan. I think it was so much fun.

SPEAKER_00

So where can we find you? So my at, it's called your, like you are friend Vic. So your friend Vic. And then on Instagram, it's H-A-L-E-Y V Sanchez. So Haley V Sanchez with two Z. Okay. That's my Instagram. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Awesome. All right. Well, thanks everybody for watching this episode of the Spa Day podcast. I hope you guys like this little like video call setup. Yeah, it's literally a FaceTime call because I'm probably going to be doing this more because it was so much fun. But you guys have a great night, and I will see you on the next episode. Bye.