Hello everyone!
Ya girl has been very busy lately, first with the Roast of Your Teenage Self, which went incredibly well. We ended up with over 100 tickets sold, which means I can finally emotionally release the 3-tickets-sold incident of 2021. That’s over. It’s done. I’ve basically forgotten all about it. Basically.
Apart from the live show, my beloved former Sup co-host Milly Tamarez and I have finally launched the ~secret project~ we’ve been working on since the summer - the Go Touch Grass podcast. Once we decided to leave Sup, Milly and I knew we wanted to continue working together on something that was purely our own and - frankly - purely rooted in comedy. Not sure if you’ve been following news and politics lately, but it’s not always very funny. At the end of the day, we’re both comedians who got into this industry to make people laugh, and that wasn’t always possible on a podcast that also has a responsibility to accurately and sensitively report the news.
So Milly and I put our heads together and asked ourselves, “How can we stay true to the things we loved about working on Sup while also not having to talk about school shootings all the time?” Enter Go Touch Grass, where every episode we’re going to break down what everyone is talking about online that week, from Twitter main characters to niche TikTokker drama to weird YouTube videos starring singing toilets. Our tagline is “We log in so you can log off,” because we want our listeners to be able to use our pod to stay in the loop about all the discourse without having to actually get involved with said discourse themselves. Will this discourse sometimes involve news and politics? Yes - but only when it’s funny and fun to talk about (for instance, anything involving George Santos.)
This week we launched our Patreon with three different paid tiers so the people who have missed us on Sup can start getting new content right now, but we’re also very excited to be launching a free ad-supported version of the podcast on one of our favorite comedy networks next month. Patreon subscribers will get access to our weekly newsletter, full test episodes leading up to the launch, bonus “Trending Topics” mini-episodes, and our companion “Search History” podcasts where we dive into iconic internet discourse from the past. If you sign up at the $10 level today, you’ll get access to that first newsletter, two “trending topic” episodes on Skibidi Toilet and the woman who ate 48 oysters on a date, a Search History on West Elm Caleb, and our first weekly episode. There is also a $1 tier that gets our weekly newsletter plus access to our pilot episode and a $5 tier that gets all that plus one Trending Topic and one Search History a month.
I’d love it if you could sign up at whatever tier you’re comfortable with and follow us @GoTouchGrassPod on TikTok, Insta, and Twitter/X so you can get all our updates ahead of the very exciting full network launch!
See you in the feed!
xoxo
alise
HALLLLLLELUJAH!!! Once you announced your retirement from betches (😭😭😭) I just kinda stopped listening to the Sup. You had been such an integral part of my Sup experience which started wayyyyy back in March of 2020. I am STOKED to have your voice blessing my AirPods once again!!!!