Hi, guys. Welcome back to another episode of Hot Mess with Alex Earle. This week has been a rough one because it is Art Basel week in Miami. It's basically like the fashion week of New York for Miami. Everyone's down here. Every brand is throwing an event. We've been going out non-stop. And you guys have been writing in saying that you really want to hear how I met my roommate, Kristen. She's also my best friend. I feel like this was pretty fitting because she is an artist. So she's been making these surfboards all week for Art Basel. Actually hasn't left her room. It's a cave for a week. But they're so cool. They're sitting over there. I'm going to show you guys what they look like. I'm so proud of her. I feel like it would be fun because we have a lot of funny stories together. And the story of how we met is not really what you would expect. I want to have her on and have you guys meet her. I know she's been on before, but it's never been just us two sitting down. We're like Yang and Yang. We're polar opposites.

I feel like this will be fun for you guys to meet her. I was literally just sitting in my bed reading through my DMs from this past week's episode, Alex versus Acne. And the stuff you guys have been writing in is so nice. And I don't know, I just keep crying. It makes me emotional because you guys are getting emotional. And thank you guys for all of the support. It's just nice to hear that I'm not alone with going through those struggles. And hearing what you guys have to say about the episode has just been so nice. Also, if you haven't listened to that, go listen to it. Last week's episode, Kristen and I went out last night and I was like, Oh, shit. We have to wake up in podcast. We were literally sitting in the Uber coming back from going out last night, and we were like, Okay, we have to talk about this. We have to talk about this. We were so excited. Our apartment right now is basically just a whole art studio/podcast studio. It is a disaster in here. You can't really see right now. This is the one clean part of our apartment is the window.

Finally, we're bringing on the woman that everyone loves, definitely more than me. I post-Kristen, and everyone's like, She is an angel. You need to stay friends with her. She's keeping you so grounded. I'm like, Great. Everyone thinks I'm crazy. Everyone loves Kristen, but she really is the best and actually does keep me grounded and sane, so maybe you guys have a point. But let's bring her on. That's your cue, Kristen. Get over here. I'm syncing. Yay, Kristi's here.

Hello. Why am I late? I need to not be nervous right now. Why am I nervous?

I don't know. Well, this is intimidating, and I feel like it's slept on. I was recording with my mom, and it really was so awkward because she was like, Alex, I don't know how to speak right now. I know. We're having a conversation, but there's a really big set up over there, but we're just.

Going to ignore it. Something about it just makes me timid. I'm like, You got your toenail. Don't stop. I thought you would miss that. I just flabbed it.

Let's keep.

Those out.

Let's tuck those dogs away. I'm breaking Krista out of her cave right now because she's been working on her art all week. She's like Picasso grinding away.

Thank you. It's been a very long week with that, but I'm.

So excited. Okay, and you know what makes me really emotional is that I think... So it's our week. Friday, Kristen is having a little exhibit at the Fountain Blue for her art. And I get the chills just thinking about this, because last Art Basel, we were at this event, and we were walking through, and Kristen was like, Next year, I'm going to do something for Art Basel. She put it out there. Why am I getting the chills? I'm going to cry. But at your event, I'm probably going to just start blowing my eyes out.

Stop. Thank you. I am very excited. I was bummed out because I didn't finish any work in time to submit for the actual art shows that are going on. So this is a collab with me and the Fountain Blue. So it's a great way to do something for Basel without having my own work in art shows, which is the Gulf for next year.

But.

I'm very excited. I'm really bad at receiving attention and praise, so I'm scared for Friday.

No, it's going to be so good. I'm going to be so awkward. All of our friends are going...

I know. I'm excited. I'm wondering who's going to be there that's not our friends. I don't know. I'm fine if it's just.

Our friends. Art Baselgoers. We really did not want to get up and record today because we went out last night. I knew it was going to be a crazy night. I knew when we went out in the start of the night, I was just like, I know it's going to be a long one. But Kristen and I need to put our foot down sometimes because we.

Knew-we knew when it was time to leave and we had the uber-call and we were ready to leave. We were so close to making the right call, and then we got peer pressure into going somewhere else. It just was not a vibe and it was far away.

At this new club opening, which is a new club, it's literally right down the street from our apartment, and it's really cool there. It's a different vibe for Miami.

It was sick.

And we knew it was time to go home, but you're with the normal Miami celebrities that are always out, I guess really big celebrities in general. But there's always these ones that are creeping out of the woodworks at all these events in Miami. We're with them at this table, and then everyone's like, Let's go to this next party. And I was like, You know what? It would really be responsible of us to just get in an Uber. We're one block away from home and go to bed. And we didn't.

We were so close.

We.

Didn't. We went to this... I also just cross the threshold last night that I did not mean to cross. I woke up hung, which was not the goal.

I was definitely drunk last night. -but from the get-go.

I had things to do today, but alas.

This is my best friend since the beginning of college. Yes. I feel like... Okay, we told this in the very first episode of Hot Mess, how we met and became friends. But I feel like we need to recap it in case anyone doesn't know.

Yes. So I slid in Alex's DMs. She slid in. In February 2019, because you followed me. Yeah. And I saw you had 10K followers, and I was like, Oh. And she had the U. Miami 23. And her bio, and I was like, Oh, my God. This girl looks so cool. And I was dying to go to you, M. But I hadn't heard back yet. I did regular decision and got deferred, which we addressed in the first episode. I was just about that. I was still waiting here back, and it was my last school I was waiting to hear back from, and I was dying to go. I was like, I'm just going to reach out to people from there. I slid in the DMs. I was like.

Hey, girl. She slid into a big Al's DMs.

You seem so cool. I'm pretty sure I was like, I love your picks.

Well, Kristen sent in my DMs, and she was like, I'm still not sure if I'm going to you, Miami, yet, but I'm waiting to really make sure I get in and whatever. I was like, Wow, this girl is stunning. I really hope she doesn't get in. I remember being like, Okay, Luki, I feel like we could be friends. But I'm also like, She is so pretty and actually Barbie. And you know what we need to touch on right now? Is that Kristen's a bitch because her hair is her hair. This bleach blonde hair that she has is her natural color. That's not dye at all.

It gets lighter in the sun. Someone commented on my TikTok last night. I was like, I think you're lying. And I was like, I'm not lying. I would never lie about that. That's such a psycho thing to lie about your whole life. Imagine if I was just keeping up this intense lie.

Well, I thought she was lying. We became friends at first, and I was like, Okay, be so for real. You did not pop out of the womb with perfect Barbie blonde hair. We literally would be at pre-games, freshman year of college, and I would be sifting through her hair because I wanted to find the roots where it was growing out. So I was like, don't believe her.

It's darker underneath. You've seen when we tan, I come inside and my hair is lighter. It just happens.

Every time. She's a bitch. I'm at the salon for 10 hours spending all this money, frying my hair off my head, and she goes and lays out at the pool and comes back with 10 shades of lighter hair. And I'm like, Actually, FU. No, it's not okay.

Well, thanks, queen.

I appreciate it. But anyway, just had to get that one-off.

My chest. Yeah, that's covered. We can move on.

We were talking. We Snapchated. We did the initial meetup freshman year. And Kristen was a shy little- I.

Was very shy. -caterpillar. She hasn't grown up yet. My whole life, I was very shy. And I don't know, I was just very intimidated by everyone. Everyone that I met immediately was such huge personalities, not shy at all like you in the best way ever. And so I was so scared and I don't know. When you're a shy person, you just shut down around those people, especially when you're nervous, trying to make friends and make a good impression. So I went nonverbal for the first week of college.

I don't think you guys understand, the first week or month of freshman year, we would have these pre-games in the dorm. You're just hanging out on your twin beds and invite everyone to your room to drink before going out. And Kristen would sit. I specifically remember Kristen sitting cross-legged, arms wrapped around each other in the corner of the room. She does this thing where she twists her legs. I don't pay attention.

My legs are just like this all the time. I'm putting-I'm putting-My legs are just like this all the time.

I'm going to put photos right now because that's Kristen at.

All points. If you saw that Victoria's Secret thing from Halloween. I did not want to be in that for the record, and my legs are literally twisted around themselves. I look so awkward. If you want to get a.

Full look at that. -kristen is always twisting her legs.

-i'm always twisted.

Anyways. And she's bent up in the corner, and we're all having fun, but everyone was like, Well, this girl doesn't talk. Everyone was really mean to Kristen.

They were. Okay, but I did talk. I was trying so hard, you guys. I was really putting myself out there. Just because someone is shy does not mean they're not cool. You have to give them a chance. And it took me a stuck to break out of my shell. But I literally just found texts. A few days ago, I was trying to find something on my computer, and I found text with my sister from freshman year. And I'm like, It's so sad, honestly. I'm like, I'm trying... So hard. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Everyone is just leaving me out and not nice to me. The only one that's nice to me is Alex. I literally said that multiple times. So at any time I texted her about anything, I saw all of them. She was like, What about Alex? Why don't you hang out with Alex? Kristen, I.

Remember everyone being like, That girl, Kristen, doesn't really talk. And you have to remember this is like we're meeting people for the first time, and no one really knows anyone. So they're like, Maybe she's a weirdo.

Whatever. Also, mind you, I did not party in high school.

Yeah, no, she did not. At all.

I was baptized by fire at the University of Miami that first week.

Yeah, Kristen's never seen alcohol in her life.

Well, genuinely. We're going to these and she's just clammed up in the corner and everyone was really mean about Kristen. I was like, Guys, I think we need to give her a chance. Whatever. Eventually, I feel like everyone started to make plans without Kristen.

Guys, it's actually so fucking sad. I have text with my sister, like I said, and there's screenshots of me texting the group chat, being like, Hey, guys, do you want to go to that SAE thing tonight? Nobody responds. And then I see them all posting the SAE thing, and I'm at home in bed. I get so sad thinking about that. There was a time when that was a big problem.

No, this was actually a big... Kristen was there in the beginning, and then Kristen dissipated.

I branched out, and then it went down their way back to each other.

We always remained friends. Yeah, we always did, because I didn't feel... I'm always benefit of the doubt. Let's see it through with these people. Give them a chance, which sometimes is a bad decision, and I end up hanging around people for longer than I should because I'm like, maybe they're... I don't like seeing people left out. I genuinely, I was left out a lot in middle school and early high school, and I was the shy one. I remember I would talk, and everyone would just talk over me. I was never heard, and it took me a long time to be confident in being myself. I always have sympathy for people who are shy and whatever. So me and Krista would always hang out. I feel like one time that we really connected was we went to the dining hall together.

Yeah, our dining.

Hall session. So this is in the midst of everyone ditched Krista because they were like, She's weird and.

Doesn't talk. Me and Al were still sneaking around behind her back.

I was like, Hey, girl. Maybe we go to the dining hall together. Because I felt bad. But I also was friends with these girls, but I was like, This isn't like we can't bully this girl. Whatever. We go to the dining hall together, and we had a really big bonding session more than small talk.

We bonded over our childhood trauma.

Childhood trauma came out over the disgusting food at the dining hall. Over our.

Star-foam chicken patties.

I don't know. It just made me see a different side to Kristen, where I'm like, She's so perked. She's just shy. You were telling me that you were upset that you were feeling left out and stuff. I was like, You know what? We're going to fix this. We had these pre-games, still Kristen would come, and Kristen was, because she's so pure and perfect, she was afraid to use a fake ID to get alcohol. So she was... Okay, so that was another thing as we would go-I thought that if.

I walked in the public so the fake ID, the cops would come and arrest me, which my luck would happen.

Yeah, theoretically, that's what's supposed to happen. And Kristen's a rule follower. But we'd go to these pre-games and you know when there's a person that never brings their own alcohol and steals it from everyone else, and you're like, Uh, that's always her.

-that was giving.

Me a bad -That was Kristen, but it was because she was afraid...

I was like, You guys are so... I had no idea.

She's not cheap. She's not trying to steal from us. She'll send us a Venmo for the damn white club. But she was afraid to get it for herself.

So I... That was such a problem at the beginning of school.

-yeah. -yeah. I would buy extra white claws and stuff, and I think you had a pink little backpack that you would bring to pre-games.

I don't know why. I still have the exact backpack.

It's Kristen's pink little, slouchy backpack she would bring to the pre-games. I would put extra white claws in there for her so she didn't have to feel weird about coming across the room to take them. I would hide them in the corner for Kristen.

You literally were saving me at the pre-games. I'm going to cry. That was such an issue for me because I was like, Oh, my God. I don't have anything to pre-game with, but I have no way of getting it. When my sister came to visit me for my birthday, which is in September. Oh, my God, another story about my birthday, I can tell. She bought me an Armageddon of white claws to keep in my room. The whole underneath of my bed was just casesin case of my class. She was stuck up. So I was stalked for the rest of the semester.

Knowing your luck, the RA would come in your room and be like, This fucking alcoholic bitch.

What's happening? Seriously, I would have been kicked out. Another story where Al was the best person ever. I've been calling you Al so much recently. I know. Do you like that?

I do. It just comes out.

I.

Don't know. Big Al then Al. But I've never had a nickname before, so I.

Love it. I enjoy it. Anyways, I digress. It was my birthday, and I was staying at the one hotel in South Beach with my sister because I was like, I don't really have any close friends.

I remember this because she was posting up in the one hotel, it's the nicest hotel in Miami, and she's posting up looking so slow there. And I was.

Like, Damn. No, I was literally like, Oh, my gosh. My birthday is coming, and I don't really know what I'm going to do for it. I don't really have that many close friends yet. So I was like, My sister's coming down and we're doing something together. I'm moving out for the weekend. And so I was staying there, but this guy texted me. I'm terrible that everyone was going to this place in Winwood. And so I was like, Okay, you know what?

I'm down to go. No, this story is so sad.

No, it's.

So sad. I forgot about this. It's so sad.

Okay, go. Continue. So I go to Winwood, and I go to the place, and I was in there for a little bit, but it was like everyone was leaving to go somewhere else. And so we're all outside. I met up with the whole squad there. I don't even think I knew you all were going, but we just both were there. And everyone's leaving to go to the next location. And there's an Uber and there's one spot left. Everyone's piled in the Uber and me and Alex are standing on the street, and there's one spot left. And everyone's like, Alex, come on. And I'm like, It's my birthday.

And everyone's.

Like, No, Alex, it's fine. Come on.

This was actually like- It was so sad. This is like the mean girl core. It was Kristen's birthday. We're leaving one bar to go to another bar, and everyone's piled in the Uber. And also it's like, I feel like everyone always just piles in Ubers anyway. No one's actually sitting in their seat with their buckle on.

Yeah, but I think it was a scenario where they were like, No, only one more person.

Can come. Only one more person can come.

You were like, I'm not going to leave her. Literally, everyone was like, No, it's fine. Everyone in.

Front of Kristen's face was like, Alex, just get in the car. It's fine. Just leave her. I'm standing there and I was like, No.

You're like, No. I stayed and I was like, Just go. Me and Kristen will find our own plan. But it was just-I forgot about that. -kristen alone on her birthday on the sidewalk, and everyone was trying to convince me to just get in the car and leave her alone.

Yeah. That was a moment that I was like, You are a true friend, a true person. I was like, I love this girl. But I.

Don't even think if I was your friend or not. I don't think I would have left someone sitting alone on the sidewalk, let alone on their freaking birthday. I don't think I would have done that. That's just like...

It was really bad. It was. But honestly, it was the first month of school, which is always weird making friends at hard. After that period of time, things started looking up. We started hanging out more.

I feel like this is going to be really helpful for girls, because I get a lot of questions of girls who are like, I'm starting college. I don't know how to make friends.

It's very scary. We sleep on that. It's very hard. When you are not a naturally outgoing, loud person, it's hard to put yourself out there and make friends. I really had to step out of my comfort zone. And I ended up... I'm not shy like that at all anymore.

No, she's not. Just took her a minute. But- Just took me a.

Minute to get comfortable. And I was still so happy amidst that just because I loved college so much. So it was all good.

But-it took a minute. Yeah. The whole first semester of college, Kristen was out. Alex was in. I came.

Back around later this.

Semester, I feel. And then, sorority vouch happened. And, Big Al didn't make it into the cool sorority, and Kristen did with everyone else. So then all of a sudden, I got boothed out of the front group. Then all of a sudden, the same people started to lowkey not text me for plans and whatever. And I was like, Oh, my God. I'm on the outs now because I didn't make it into the cool sorority, whatever.

Oh, my God. I have the clearest memory of walking into the rush thing when you got dropped from one of them. And you're like, It's fine. It's all good. I just know I'll be in the other one now. It's cool. Yeah. And then I had come back-.

And I.

Got dropped. -and you were balling. And I was so fucking sad.

I didn't know what to say. We were sitting in a classroom together during rush, like you're in these little recruitment groups, and the only person I knew in the room was Kristen, and I was hysterical, like balling my eyes out, and you were like, It's okay. And I was like...

I was like, It doesn't matter. And honestly, throughout college, I was the one at literally everything, being like, Just come. It doesn't matter.

That's the only reason that... After freshman year, continuing on everyone's back at school sophomore year, Kristen would invite me to all the pre-games if it was even sorority stuff, she would just tell me to come. And I was the annoying girl that was showing up to the sorority events that wasn't in the sorority. And everyone was like, I can't let her in because she get out of here?

And I was like, That was one thing I got weirdly feisty about, was you and that scenario. I would be like, I don't know, I'd be like, Why? It doesn't matter. She can come whatever, fine, I'll leave. I would be so aggressive about it because I was like, back off.

Kristen had my back because I had her freshman year, so then she stuck up for me. I don't know. I feel like it was always pre-game going out settings and maybe some pool days we'd hang out. But then junior year is when we got really close. We got closer.

We started hanging out a ton during end of sophomore year because then I came and stayed with you in Jersey the summer before junior year, which was fun. And that's when I met your whole family and stuff for the first time. And then junior year, we were literally glued the whole year.

I don't think you guys want to say me and Kristen slept together.

We still had to sleep.

Over every night. We did not sleep together. We slept in bed together every night. So Ia big chunk of our friends went abroad, and then the girls I lived with went abroad. And then the girl that Kristen lived with had a boyfriend that she...

She just wasn't there.

Kate, we're calling you out. It's okay.

I love you so much, but it's true.

She disappeared off the face of the earth because she got a boyfriend. So it was just us two together, conquering the world. We would sit in bed every night together, go out every night together.

I would wake up and come up to your room or vice versa.

Yeah, we lived two floors apart. So it was wake up and immediately was in the elevator on the way to her room. I don't know. That was, I think, when we got super, super, super close. And then it was best friend territory. Definitely. And then senior year, we lived together with six girls. Casa and Moore.

Yes. Obviously-casa and Moore. And Alex did not want to live in Casa.

And Moore. No, I was against it at first because I was like, There's no way that six girls are going to live in a house together. It's not going to be a shitshow. We're not going to fight. I was like, This house, I don't even think we're going to have room to walk around. Oh, my God.

That was so stressful, too, because it's so hard to find a house. And I was the only one in communication with the realtor trying to figure it out. And it was during finals week, and it's a situation where the house comes available and you have to sign the lease that day or it's gone. And so I was trying so hard to sell everyone on the house. In one day, I literally made a packet. I made a 10-page packet for everyone to give to their parents of why we should.

Live in the house. Yeah, Kristen made a literal, whole document of why we need to live in Casa or something. I was like, Bitch. I don't know. And we did. We did. And honestly, best decision of my entire life. I would still live there now if we could. And Kristen and I had a Jack and Jill room. So basically, that means it's like two rooms that are connected by a joint bathroom. So I think our joint bathroom was our first, I don't know, our first experience living together, how we were as partners.

Oh, the bathroom was objectively.

So good. No, the bathroom was.

Really bad. Without us in there, it was not a great bathroom.

Yeah, it was small. Our toilet was a children's toilet.

Our toilet was a child's toilet.

It was on the floor, and it was a children's toilet, and sometimes it couldn't handle all that we were given it.

And it would just break.

It would break all the time. We would literally pee in the toilet would break. Yeah, we.

Do nothing in the toilet break, honestly. And the landlord's like, What do you guys do into it? I'm like, I promise we're not putting it through that much stress.

We would have plumbers at points where... Because we had a house with all these girls, and if we had people over, our bathroom was the closest to the living room. So it would be the party bathroom. So it would just... Sometimes it would get a little crazy in the toilet, and it would break, and then people would just keep going to the bathroom. And the plumber came one time, and actually, he looked at us and was like... And he was like, This is disgusting. And we were like, I'm so sorry.

But that wasn't a good example of our cleanliness because it was always pretty bad in there. It was disgusting. You know a nice bathroom, you're like, It's easy to keep nice, but like a crusty bathroom, it's hard to keep.

It nice. We had a shower curtain that didn't really fit. I feel like it was too small. It was way too short. So you would shower and just the whole floor was soaked. And I guess the cheap bathmats that we got from Amazon didn't work either because they would be.

Soaked in moldy.

They would be sopping wet. Oh, my God. And just all of our products. This is when I started to get a lot of skincare and makeup products.

All in the bathroom. There was two shelves in the middle that was just a literal Sephora product at all times.

And I don't know. It was a little crazy in our bathroom, but...

I don't know. It's okay. It's not like that now. The bathroom was a bridge from my safe space to the Dungeon.

We called my room the Dungeon because it was quite literally there was not a window in the room, and it was mountains of just everything on the floor. There was no floor of my room. As you go from Kristen's nice room with her surfboards and her palm trees.

You turn the corner and.

Then it starts to get a little creepy in the bathroom. You're like, Oh, a little moldy mat, a little hairball over here. Things are shifting. And then you walked into my room and it was disgusting. I'm surprised that you said yes to living with me this year after that year. -with my Dungeon.

-well, I feel like I know that you're not gross. You're messy. I'm messy, but you're not a gross person.

Yeah, there's a difference.

Maybe there's a false narrative about that. I think people don't get... I think people think you're... Just kidding. Just kidding. Okay. Never mind. You know what I mean? Everyone's so dramatic about it. You're not gross. You're just messy.

Yeah, there's a difference. I'm a hot man. Please. It's not like the person that you don't want to touch because she stinks and she doesn't shower. I'm always so clean. But I'm just messy.

And I also my whole life have not been a super neat, clean person by any means. My whole literally life until college, my room was like that at all times. Clothes everywhere, 30 cups on my night stand always. And then I feel like in college, living in smaller spaces, I started to adapt to being cleaner. And now I'm really clean and neat, and I never been like that.

But I feel like we need to describe to them how we live together. How we are as roommates. Okay, I will say neither of us are neat freaks. No, not at all. Right now we have a lot of dishes in the sink, but we're fine with letting that sit there for a day or two, and then we get it done. But I've lived with Sarah before where if there was a dirty plate on the counter for one second- -It was like.

An army general.

-it was like, she was up there with a mop, getting that shit off. We are okay with understanding that we can claim. I'm worse, okay? I will take the credit. I'm definitely the messy roommate in this case, but...

But you're not annoyingly messy in any way to me. There's not like you're... I don't know.

There's just a lot of stuff.

Around all the time. You have one fatal flaw.

-what?

As a roommate.

Wait, I don't... What are you about to say?

What? It's the one thing. It's every time you make two, now you leave it out. That's your one fatal flaw. And it's not the dishes. I feel like you make stuff, then you rinse it off and put it away. But for some reason, every time you make tuna, it sits out for three days.

Okay. That's like a key to.

Our salon. When you make tuna, you clean that shit.

Up because.

It's stank.

Tuna salad specifically. Tuna salad. I've had really an obsession for tuna salad.

Recently, and-But something about the tuna salad, you're like, Let me just.

Leave that there for days on it. I do. I don't know. It's not on purpose. Maybe I want to just sniff it when I go into the kitchen. Yeah, you were like, It doesn't smell bad. -what do you mean? -i don't.

Think tuna salad.

Smells.

Bad. That is a universally stanky smell.

I'll make tuna salad. I'll make tuna salad, and I come into Kristen's room, and I try to eat it, and she's telling me I have to... I will sit outside across the hall and eat my tuna salad, but with her door open so I can still be a part of hanging out.

With.

Her. That's like I.

Matured from that, though, because I one time have this clear memory when I lived with Kate that I ate tuna salad in bed and she was like, Kristen, like, That is foul. And I was like, Really? And so I'm like, Okay, my brain rewired. -it's not.

Tuna salad is so good. But maybe.

Not your.

Living quarters. But it does just happen that every time I make tuna salads, the day that I don't do the dishes.

And this ends up sitting there and marinating for hours.

I think it's still missing.

Right now. You left the tuna salad out before you left on that literally month long trip, and I was like... Well, I did? -when I was out of town as well. So I didn't know until I got back. -unless you came back in a week. So I got back and it had been marinating for like six days. It's okay, though. I still love you. -it stink, but that's your one flaw. -that's your one flaw. But I can look past that.

It's okay. I don't get better about it. Well, let me tell you about your flaw. I don't think I have one. Oh my God, my hair just froze. I'm really trying to think of something right now, but... The only thing is maybe sometimes, but this hasn't actually been bad recently. This is Kristen's art she does in the apartment. There's been points where I think this happened once really bad in Casa Amore. I don't think it's really happened here, but no, no.

-because I use the laundry room as my stew. No.

When you do the things with the spray. Oh, say, oh, yeah. One day, Kristen got her whole house actually high of these chemicals because she was doing it in the furthest corner of the house that she possibly could. So you think it wouldn't smell by my room, but I was.

Like-it was breathing of scrape paint. -asmosis, man. Or is it diffusion? I don't fucking know.

I don't know what osmosis is. I was just.

Going along with it. I definitely don't think it's that.

Osmosis, man.

Osmosis. We do.

Get high from Kristen's chemicals.

I have an existential crisis this summer about that because I would always carelessly spray paint. And then I saw this Miami graffiti artist died from that. He got cancer from the spray paint fumes. And so I literally haven't used it since. I'm too scared. I would always wear one of.

Those masks. She has a gas mask that she wears when she's painting. But then we're walking around the house, and I'm like, give us a gas mask.

Doing it inside is a big no. I don't know why I did that. I would just be working out something and be like, Oh, just a little bit there. It's fine.

Yeah, no, it was really bad. I've never done that here though. I'm just scared of- You have the mask, though, that's from... Is it the conjuring that grandma wears? And it's like... Do you.

Know what I'm.

Talking about? That's the mask that Kristen wears. Kristen and I are best friends, but we're actually couldn't be different of human beings, I think.

In some ways. Yeah, we are. We overlap on all the right things.

Yeah, we're like yin and Yang.

Yeah, we are. We yin and Yang.

Kristen's like soft, esthetic, beachy, sweet, nice. Even when she talks, your voice is so nice.

Thank you. I'm like.

Monster bitch.

I don't know. No, you're just crazy in the best way.

But I don't know. I always say Kristen, I think I have been really attracted to her. Attracted to her is like a best friend because you're so similar to Ashton, my sister, who's obviously my other best friend. You're just the same as Ashton. You give off the same energy. Ashton. You guys are just like, soft and slow and sweet.

You attract docile people. I do.

Even Bibi. Even like, Bibi, that's what we call NFL man Braxton. We call him Bb. He is just like angel, perfect, and I... Because I can't be around someone who's as crazy and devilish as me. It will never work.

You have a thing for North Carolinians- I do.

That's also something that's so crazy, and.

We see it on-And I'm KK and he's Bb from NI. So Kristen.

Is from North Carolina. Braxton is also from North Carolina.

So the common denominator here is North Carolina.

Yeah, she's KK, he's Bb. There's a lot of weird invisible string things with Braxton, I will say. Yeah.

I love invisible string.

Invisible String. Invisible String theory? Maybe we'll get into that another time, but there's so many weird things that I'm like, We've been connected for years.

Okay, let's back it up.

Yeah. And Kristen, I will say Braxton is the first boyfriend I've ever had that hangs out with my friends, even besides me. Or he'll call Kristen or text Kristen. I don't know, it's like having him hang out with us feels like another friend. I don't know.

That's like-Although I have been your DTW for three boyfriends.

What's.

That mean? Your designated.

Third wheel. Oh, designated third wheel.

Yeah. I'm always there. One thing about me is I always will be there with you and your boyfriend.

Because for me, I can't stand... It really bothers me when people get boyfriends and then drop off the face of the Earth and ditch.

Their friends. Yeah, you're.

So good about that. So Kristen's always... What did you say? The DTW? The designated third wheel? Because if we're doing something, we're obviously bringing Kristen.

Yeah, I'm always there in all of your dates and plans. There's times where Kristen's.

Like, Hey, maybe we should go out to dinner Saturday night. And I'm like, So can Kristen come to you? Obviously, she's going to be there.

That's so funny. When's the day going to come that you're my DT of V.

I don't know. Never. Kristen is really good about setting standards for guys. We need to applaud this more. She has a standard... And she's like, If someone doesn't meet it, she's done. That's why you haven't had a boyfriend in a minute, but it's in a good way. She has standards that other girls are just like, Well, man, I want a boyfriend, or whatever. They see past it. Kristen is like, If he's literally not out of 10, bye.

But- Can we say that? But? But the few far between that I do give the time of day just suck.

Yeah, the ones that she does have stick around are times questionable.

But there's been literally none of those.

Yeah.

But just like- I just am.

Very picky. Yeah, she's very picky, and she's very good with that. But the one boy that she did pick at college was very bad. But that's okay because I was a crush when.

You were- I was young and naive. It's okay. I was fresh out of our relationship. It happens.

It's all good. It happens, yeah.

We all had our moments of weakness.

-kristen. Kristen can't have a boyfriend, actually, because I'm her husband. You're my hubby. We always say, so when it's in a relationship, the guy will do things for the girl. He'll order stuff, or if something's wrong, he'll speak up about it. We go out and Kristen orders food, and if the waiter... Say Kristen, for example, is like, Can I have the Mac and cheese? He's like, Oh, okay, a tuna salad. Or if.

He's like, Oh, do you want American or Chedda? I'm like, Look to Alex.

She looks at me for approval before ordering all the time. We will literally be out, and he's like, So what do you guys want to eat? She looks at me and she's like, So what should we get? I'm like, Kristen. My hubby. I am the hubby. We're both.

Hubby, though. We both call each other hubby.

So we have a lot of hubby vacations because very grateful, but for work, I get to travel a lot and go on trips. And obviously, Kristen is my designated trip partner.

My DTP. My DTP.

She's also my DTP. So it's always like our hubby vacations, we call them. They're our Honeymoons.

Our Honeymoons. We've honeymooned in so many places now. We have Key Largo was the first one.

Key Largo.

Super.

Bowl. Super Bowl was Arizona.

-la.

-la.

Vegas. Vegas, Montauk.

Montauk.

I feel like I'm missing one. New York.

New York. There's way more.

But I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. And they're all perfect.

Have they all not been perfect? We literally will do a couple of things together, a couple of massage at the spa, and we're like, Just our hubby things. Just our hubby things. Probably my favorite honeymoon that we've had, though, would be the Super Bowl.

I think that is too. I was thinking about this recently. All of them are great, but I think that one, that was just such a fun, packed, crazy weekend. We went to Fashion Week first in New York. It's also crazy. We were just in school at this time. Bye.

We're going to Fashion Week on Wednesday. We're going to Fashion Week, and then we're in New York, and we really want to go to the Super Bowl. The only tickets that we could get on this big ass flight to Arizona were... I was in the last row of this plane, and it was.

One of.

The 10 rows across.

I forgot about that.

That.

Was funny. Yeah, so we went to New York for 24 hours, and we went to the Super Bowl, which was crazy. I never would have dreamed that I'm going to the Super Bowl. Just not even a team. I like it. It's plainly just for fun.

That was insane. And I love you. And I love you for coming, baby. Krista and I always find ourselves in such niche situations with such celebrities or famous people. And it's just us two.

And it's so funny. It's so funny because I'm like, What business do I have to be here? We're literally like, What are we doing? You said this before. You're like, Why am I with all these famous people? But if you think that you are a famous person. No, I'm not. -how does it know I feel. What business do I have been there? None. It's just funny. And Super.

Bowl in particular... Okay, so the suite we were in the Super Bowl was with.

All these rappers. -every rapper on earth.

-every rapper on earth. -rappers, the City Girls were there. Sweetie was there. It was awesome. And just us. -and then us. -we couldn't be more out of place.

-it was so fun, though. We had the best time ever.

We were like, What are we doing here? And we tried to have conversations with everyone because we're trying to be friendly.

-yeah. -but we were- Should we tell them... I'm not going to say their name.

We had a little bit of a blonde girl. That white girl.

We had a blonde girl moment.

Blonde girl, white girl moment. This was really embarrassing.

So to set the stage and we get there and it's just us and all these rappers, first of all, one thing about Alex is she does not know one famous person. That is just something she does not know. I don't.

Think they know that.

I don't.

Know any actors, singers, like celebrities. If there was people to know them-If.

They're TikTok.

People, you know them. Tiktok people? But anything actual pop culture, I have no idea. She doesn't know. But there would be, I think I knew the City Girls, obviously. Oh, yeah.

You.

Love them. That's my type of music, like Nicky, Monage, Sweetie. That's actually the one thing I do, nichely, know. But all the other rappers, I'm like, I have no idea who's here, Kristen.

Literally any fans or whatever. I'm like, Oh, yeah, you know that actor that's in literally everything as one Oscar.

We were also with Cher and nick Jonas.

-yes, insane.

-we were like, What are we doing here? Why are we sitting with these people? Love them, but why are we here? We don't deserve this.

It's so funny. Anyways, I was telling her who everyone is. There's this one guy who I remembered from childhood, having a reputation of just being intimidating and scary. -he was scary. -we were picking up those vibes. He's just in the corner, not fucking with anyone, not talking to anyone. His friends come up and talk to him, and he's just like... He was nonverbal in the corner. Alex was like, I'm going to make him my best friend. Because Alex likes.

A challenge. For me, I love a challenge, one. And two, a lot of the times I don't know who these people are, so I don't care or I don't care if you're such a big celebrity. I don't know. I'm like, Come on. Let's have a little fun. I'm trying to poke them and bring him out of his shell because this is like-You.

Literally like, I'm going to break him out of.

His shell. No, it's like, I want to make this.

Guy laugh. -there's this older woman sitting in front of him, and the only time I heard him speak words the whole night was when he would be like, You good mama? How's it going mama? You good mama? And so me and Alex were like, Oh, my God, that's so sweet. You brought me. He brought his mom. That's so sweet.

I go up to him, and me and Krista, I have my intro. Here we go. I was like, Oh, that's so sweet. You brought your mom. This man.

He literally slowly, Cox's head was like, Look.

I'm a semi.

And he's like-He's like, That is not my mother. And we were.

Like-he was just using lingo like, Yeah, like mama, whatever.

But then he's just like, look at us. And then he just starts dying, laughing. And he was like, It's like an expression, like a phrase. Like, ha-ha, I like you guys. And we were like, yes.

We've made it in because I'm a dumb blonde white girl. We've succeeded. I have no idea what he's saying.

Dude, that was so funny. The second you said that and he had that reaction, I was like, Oh, my God, we're idiots.

We know we are idiots. Actually, we couldn't have been more of an idiot. But it worked out. He gave a wiggle, and then he went back to his death glare.

And then we were friendly. I think we could say we're friends now.

Yeah.

And then the rest of the night, we had the sickest plans.

Lined up. Yeah. So after the Super Bowl, the Chiefs win, and they're like, This party, this party, whatever.

Yeah, everyone's here. We're doing this, this, and this. And we're like, Hell, yeah. Fun night ahead. We go back and we order food, which I also don't know why we order food because if I remember correctly, I ate an actual metric ton of Raisin Cains at.

The Super Bowl. Yeah, we did eat so much food, but obviously we.

Wanted soup. We ate so much Raisin Cains, but obviously we wanted soup.

We're.

Big soup girls. Because that's another thing that I think we sleep on? My family, if they were here to attest, I have been addicted to soup my whole life. Me too. I would write stories about soup and I have to find... What? No, I'm not even getting it. There's a drawing that was hanging in my pantry that was called The Chronicles of soup that I made.

Because I was the only one who ate. You made a story called The Chronicles of soup. I did. Oh, my God. See, sometimes she's so weird. I know.

We've been fast-paced. Okay, I was a child and it was my favorite food. I'm kidding.

But I am a soup girl, too.

So, yeah. So, naturally, we ordered soup.

We ordered ramen noodles. And next thing.

I know, I wake up two hours later, Alex is face down in her ramen next to me. I'm still in my outfit, so confused, and we just have completely slept through.

The whole night. We slept through the whole party. My face was in the bowl of ramen noodles.

The ramen was spilled all in the bed, and I was just like, Oh God.

And we did not go to any Super Bowl after parties. We didn't go.

To anything, which is so disappointing. But it's okay.

It's okay. But it was a fun weekend anyways.

We had.

So much fun besides that. We did. I ran into... My ex-boyfriend was there at the time, and I had posted on TikTok. Okay, so Kristen and I have a dynamic of like, I want to do something bad, and Kristen is the one who's like, Alex, don't do it. I posted it on TikTok, get ready with me. I was like, I'm in the mood to start something tonight. I'm in the mood to start some drama. It was because my ex-boyfriend was there and was texting me and was like, Come hang out with us at whatever. I was like, Maybe we should, whatever. Then it turns out spiraling six months later because there was also some conspicuous drama around the Super Bowl with me and Braxton, which is just a complete lie and was really annoying. Everyone took this get ready with me that I'm talking to Chris, and I'm like, Should I start some drama?

You can hear me in the back like, No.

Which, I mean, makes sense, I guess, to an outside viewer. I would be like, That's probably what she's fucking talking about.

But yeah. No, alas, it was.

Not that. Alas, it was not. And no drama. So the.

Super Bowl was just awesome. Great. And then the next day that we left, we were both cripplingly hung.

I just-We were delusional-.

We were also sick, remember? I was sick, I remember. And so it was just all around terrible. And we had to drive two hours away. Although we were so lucky we flew home with someone that we met randomly.

Yeah, someone randomly was like, I'm going back to Miami and have a private jet and you guys can come. Why does this happen to us?

I don't know. It was awesome. I was like, Yes, I would love that. And so we drove like two hours. That was when the cows were driving to the desert and there's a neighborhood of houses up on the hill. And I was like, Oh, my God, cows.

And we.

Were like, Babes. And you're like, Babes. No.

Wait. It was cows, right? No, it was houses.

I'm blind. Oh. Yeah, one thing might be is I'm blind. But anyways, we get to the plane and I am like, so just on my deathbed. I just look terrible. It's one of those hungovers where everyone's just like, You look miserable. And I'm like, Yeah, the person was really sad. I'm not having this. I'm green in the corner, sweating. And so we're sitting at a table, and they whip out this monopoly card game.

Yeah, it was like monopoly, but instead of the board, it was like a shortened version for cards. We didn't know it. We had to learn it.

Yeah, and it was like, you know when you're sober, fully clear mind, it's so annoying getting explained the rules of a card game. Someone's explaining it to you, and that's just over your head, and you're just like, Nothing happening in here. Imagine this complicated monopoly game, and you're so hungover and shivering in the corner, dying. And they're so into it. The people we were with were so into it. And you got really into it as well. It was.

Really good.

And I was not having it. I didn't process the direction, so I had no idea what was going on. I didn't want to try to play. I wanted to sit there with my eyes closed and a ball. And... I was like, every time it would get to me, I would just do something that just didn't make sense. And everyone's like, Oh, well, you should have done this. And like, correct me. And I'm just like, I don't care. I do not care. We were playing.

This monopoly game and it was like, rule number one. And she would just keep fucking it up and keep doing it. And everyone was like, Girl, come on. And she was like, Everyone else was I got really into the game. You were really into it. You were a very competitive person. And I don't know, it was a great game. Kristen struggled bust on the way home.

From the Super Bowl though. Yeah, and that game started before the plane took off and did not end until it landed.

Yeah, we played Monopoly for six hours, and Kristen was hungover and wanted to shoot us all in the head.

But you know what? There are definitely worse situations to be in, so it's okay. At the end of the day, it's.

All good.

At least we were on a private job. Yeah, it's all good. But I was miss.

Going off of that, talking about being jealous or competitive. I'm a competitive person. But I feel people wonder sometimes with... Well, I guess friends in general. Some friends get very jealous and competitive and I don't know, dealt with that a lot.

Weird people. Yeah, that's just the farthest thing from any feeling I would ever have towards you. That just has never been a thought.

In my mind. But either of us, I feel like we're good friends in the sense of we both have our own things going, our own careers, and we love to hype each other up. I don't know, Kristen is my biggest.

Supporter, actually. Literally, everything you're at, I'm the mean girl's mom. Kristen is actually my.

Biggest fan and supporter. I don't know. I feel like that's a good... What am I trying to say? That's a key to having a good friendship and relationship. I don't know. It's like supporting each other. Because there are friends who are weirdly competitive and guys, anything. I don't know. I feel like we're very good at wanting the best for each other.

Yeah, I want.

To ask you that they are. Because we're obviously a.

Married couple. We are. We're a heavy. I'm so happy for everything that you do.

I'm so happy for.

Everything that you do. I genuinely am beaming at any time you have something. That's how it should be. You should be genuinely filled with excitement any time something like.

That's happening. I was at this event last night, and there was a little carpet moment. They were asking questions. First of all, those questions that they ask, you have no idea. The social clips that you see of people from carpets, it's not talked about enough how horrible and scary those are. They're actually like, Hey, so what's your name? And I'm like, Tiffani. I have no idea. They are asking me these questions. I'm giving the dumbest answers ever. I actually sound like a dumb ass. They finally ask me. They're like, So what are you looking forward to most this week? I was like, I went on a tangent about Kristen's art event on Friday. I'm like, My best friend, my roommate, so Last Art Puzzle, she really wanted to do this event. I'm rambling on and the girl behind the camera is like, wrap it up, bitch. Let's go. She has these really cool things. She's painting these Frank Sinatra-esque pieces on these surfboards. She does oil paintings. She does oil paintings. It's so cool. I'm rambling on and everyone is looking at me behind the camera. I think I spent 10 minutes answering this question.

We need the footage. If this magazine, Social Post-it on TikTok, one, I'm going to be embarrassed if they post the other questions, but if they post this one, it'll be fun for us all to laugh at because I was really excited I'm getting so emotional and everyone's like, Girl, get off. Move. I was like, Pack it up.

We don't care about your friend.

But yeah. That's so sweet.

That's Alex and Kristen.

Yeah, did we hit on the bases, do you think?

I don't know. There's definitely more bases.

Yeah, we could go.

On all day. We can't give them everything in one spiel.

Yeah, you're right. We just notoriously are the best.

I have not one bad thing to say. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like it was just a natural progression of becoming best friends and supporting each other from the beginning. We really did support each other from the beginning.

We really did.

Which was great. She was down. I was down. We were picking each other up.

We were picking each other up. And look at us now. And I'm very excited for all of our adventures to come. I know. We're going to be-Do.

We have any more honeymoon trips planned?

Not that I know of. We can make some.

Oh, my goodness.

We have no trips. We're going.

To get on that. They'll come for sure. Next week we have my birthday.

Yes, I'm so excited.

Which I- -birthday queen. -love my birthday. Some people don't like their birthday.

Yeah, that's like, I hate my birthday.

Yeah.

Kristen doesn't like her birthday. Like I said, I hate receiving.

Attention, so I'm like... My birthday, I think about it all year until the next one comes around.

Which is so amazing. That's going to be.

So fun. Last year, my birthday, we had a lot of fun. We'll save this for next week's episode because I think that, of course, knowing me, I planned a whole day of plans for my birthday, and all of our friends are going to be there. I'm thinking of trying to film the whole day for Hot Mess. I think that could be fun. Take everyone along with me. We sent out the invites for my birthday party today. So more to come next week. That's going to be amazing. And I guess we'll fill you guys in next week if we do end up going to Vegas for a day.

Yeah.

We'll see. I don't know what that's going.

To be about. I never thought I would go back to Vegas twice in the same three weeks back.

Vegas is scary, but we have a lot of fun.

We had a lot of fun on our last trip. I loved it. After our senior trip to Vegas, I was like, I'm never stepping foot here ever again, but I had the best time ever. I was like, Oh, I'll.

Come here in chicken. -yeah, we love Vegas. Oh, my God. This is so fun. That was Kristen, everyone. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming on.

Of course.

The Earle Girls love you. Everyone likes Kristen better than me. Everyone's like- I love that. Stop. Kristen makes my reputation better because I'm the walking hot mess. And then Kristen's there and they're like, Well, she hangs out with her. She must be a good person or something. She must be okay because she's hanging out with her. So thanks, Kristen, for helping my reputation all the time.

Everybody gasses me up too much. It's not...

You don't get enough gas. Stop.

I love you. Okay.

All right. Bye.

Are we yin and Yang-ing?

That was a heart. Bye. We're ever losers. I'm crying. So we've made it to Kristen's art exhibit. Here it is, her big boards over here. She's like, Picasso. This is the photo she was looking at for this one. This is so good. And look at this whole cool, full room that we're in. I am just so proud of her. I cannot believe she did all of this. Kristen's sister is coming right now. She has actually no idea that she flew here from South Carolina, and she's about to walk through the door and surprise her. I'm freaking out because Kristen's going to freak out and cry, so we have to get her reaction. Three, two, one, and then… I don't know. I'm not trying to do that. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it.