Walker Ward
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And things like that. And so she'll be there to help me because, like, if I have the fake nails on, I can't, like, touch my phone. And, like, I've got, like, peanut butter.
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She's my PA slash boss. Boss.
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Yeah.
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Please Excuse My Grandma’s Breakdown of Social Media Stereotypes (Ft. Walker Ward)
We met in the Hamptons.
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We met in a share house. See, everybody? I know. This is why everybody loves the Hamptons. And this past summer, or excuse me, this past weekend, I was just at a wedding here in New York. I'm just going to toot my own horn for a second, where the couple met in a... House that I pulled together the summer that I was doing hot dog boy.
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I was like in, in the middle, I was in middle America, like literally like I had half a hot dog in my mouth and my friends called me. We had done a share house in Montauk the previous couple summers. They're like, Walker, what's up? We're not doing it this year. And I'm like, what? Yeah. It makes sense. It's COVID. But I was like, absolutely not. Like, I'm going to make this happen.
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So I called the landlord.
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You can't leave me hanging with these glizzies like out here in Iowa. Like, come on. So like, this is... Montauk has been like the anchor tenant of my summers. Like, I am looking forward to... It's my Super Bowl.
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So... I'm talking with my hands. I have to be better about talking with my hands. But I called the landlord of the house that we had rented the previous summer. And I was like, hey, we want the house. So I signed the lease with no one in it. And I was on the hook for like... It was only for two weeks. But still, it was like $20,000. Which I did not front. I didn't have $20,000.
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I wasn't on like a specific path, but I could spell check an email very well. Yeah.
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I still don't have $20,000. But it was more... I'm going to put myself on the hook. So like, there's no option. Yeah. I have to make it happen. So I then made an Instagram story and like, hey guys, I have this house in the Hamptons. Like who's interested? Two weeks in August. And I just sort of sifted through. Were you public or private? I was public.
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I was public, but I didn't have like a big following. Yeah. I had probably 4,500 or 5,000 followers, which is like sizable.
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Well, that's kind of where we're going. Sorry, I'm jumping in.
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Spoiler alert, yes. I basically would just sift through the responses. And it was a lot of people I knew, but like, okay, I know you. You're not really fun. Sorry, we're full.
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But anyway, where I'm going with this is there was a guy who I sort of knew who went to the University of Chicago who was like a cool dude. And he was like, hey, I've got like eight guys. Well, he's smart. We know he's smart. Yeah, exactly. We know he's smart. He's an academic weapon. I was like, yeah, you and you have like six buddies. That's great. That's like half the rent right there.
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Exactly. Now we're kind of obsolete.
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Lock it in. And then this girl who I grew up with, who I... We weren't, like, super tight, but, like, we knew each other. We grew up going to the same, like, little club in Princeton together. We did, like, you know, squash camp together or whatever. So she... That's where... There's some Chad coming in.
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I'm seeing. She was like, I have all these girls who want to join the house. And I was like, okay, great, because we can't have a house just with a bunch of Y chromosomes. We need to bring some girls into it. So... That's, it all happened kind of magically. And then two, one of the girls and one of the guys fell in love and they got married last weekend in New York.
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But long story short, I was working at a winery in upstate New York when I got a phone call from a family for whom I used to babysit. And so my mom runs a nursery school in Princeton where I went, Nassau Nursery School, class of 99. Go geese. And I – this family – so she was like the babysitting plug for my siblings and I our whole high school career.
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So the Hamptons really, I mean, if you think about it, it's not rocket science. I mean, you put 30 people in a four bedroom house.
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With mutual friends, people are going to end up falling in love.
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People really need the Hamptons. That's going to be so good. But I agree. And it's, and I mean, I had never even, I'd never been to the Hamptons. I had never even heard of Montauk until I moved to the city in 2018. Right. And I went out there and, you know, I was the Wall Street.
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It adds to the vibe. The atmosphere.
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My friends, one of my friends calls vibes, vobes.
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It adds to the vobes.
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Okay, that's good. The Hamptons vobes. I like it. But long story short, we... Anna Catherine and I met in Amaganza. So that's the other thing. You know, there's kind of like a hierarchy. Look, just so nobody who's like a true Hamptons person flames me, I am well aware that I am like a total transplant. So when I'm talking, when I'm about to say this Hamptons hierarchy situation,
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He knows from nothing. Exactly. This is a hierarchy among the riffraff, like among the people who go out there. But like Montauk is – and technically Montauk isn't even the Hamptons, but it's like obviously the old school fishing village, et cetera, fishing town. Beautiful now. And basically Montauk is where – you're like, I mean, you're in it. It's, you can't even, there's so many people.
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It's just over, it's crazy.
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And then where I'm going with this is like, so we did Montauk for a few years and then you kind of think, oh, okay, you know what? I've done Montauk. You're getting too old for Montauk. I want to go to, I need to wake up and go to like Balsam Farms or like do a workout class and be a little bit more of a contributing member of Hampton society. So we're going to rent in Amaganzit. Right.
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So Amaganzit is, What was kind of the second chapter of my Hamptons career, if you will. And that's where I met my girlfriend.
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Yeah.
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So I babysat – I was kind of like the Manny in Princeton. That was like my job in high school. It was fun. I love kids and – anyway. That was great. And so this one family who I babysat for all the time, we obviously became very close.
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Totally.
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I'm not in a position to ever disagree with grandma.
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Yeah.
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But it is. I mean, it's like a post-apocalyptic world. It is. And you think you can't get out.
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You're just going to walk in and be like, do you know who I am? I'm Grandma Gail. Yeah.
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My Hamptons content did get me a little flex. Got me a little bit of pull out there. So I was like, but that's the other thing. Tying it back into Anna. I have a girlfriend, by the way.
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She's just like because people ask me this they're like does Anna think it's cool like when people stop you and like want to get a picture or like you could cut a line or something and it's she just if anything she thinks it's like cringe Walker just like shut up and like stop like I don't even care.
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And so fast forward, however many years later, I get this phone call from the dad and he's like, hey, Walker, we're hiring a junior sales guy at this like Wall Street sell side company. Would you be interested in applying for the job? And I was like, yeah, I'd love to move to New York. I mean, I was held back in math in high school.
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Absolutely not. She was here pre-clout big time. She'll like we'll walk on the street and somebody like hi like can I get a picture and she'll literally just keep walking. No, I'll take the pic and then I'll like run up and catch it. But anyway, this is my day, not Anna Karenina.
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No, true. That's really the reason. Totally.
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Like is it... specific people in your life that you're thinking of or what you think your audience will like yeah it's a good question I would say I'll answer it kind of as like a brief two-parter number one like I'm always just trying to come up with new fun ideas and like anything There's inspiration everywhere. Yeah.
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No, but like anything that I see – I mean being in New York, there's so much going on. I'll be at a bar. I just try to listen. Like I will hear – I'll be like at the gym, okay, for example. And I will hear some guy like walking around with his headphones in talking about like a deal or something. Yeah. At like – A very unacceptable volume in a public setting.
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And he's just, I'm just like, dude, like, come on. And then, okay, that's a video. Yes. Like, literally no one, like, that guy in the gym or whatever. So, like, that's more of, like, a generic one-off character. And I'll try to mix those in. Same with, like, the fit checks. Like, if I'm doing, like, a girlies in the fall fit check or whatever. Those are more, like...
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catering to the algorithm, trying to grow my following, get more eyeballs on my page, that kind of thing, a little more basic. Then there are the sort of recurring characters like Palm Beach Dad. Which I love. Or Chad or, you know, whomever. Like my pregnant get ready with me girl or like whatever.
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That's more like I'm really building out a character kind of with a little bit of a storyline and like more goes into that. More goes into that. I take a little bit more pride in like the dialogue, what I'm writing, trying to make it clever. Yeah. But I have some friends who I'll base things off of for sure, like little tidbits. Yeah. But the inspo really is like I just –
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I mean, anything, I'll watch a movie or a show or see somebody in the airport and I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna come up with something there.
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Totally, sharing's huge.
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If you ever told me I would have had the opportunity to have like, you know, a classic, you business job, at least dip my toes into the financial world. I was like, yeah, and I want to go to New York and that'll be great. So I took the job and worked there for five years, five and a half years. And then the last summer I was let go from the job.
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Shares. Shares are like the most important metric I would say when it comes.
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And some of it's like very niche, some of the stuff that I do. But like even if it's niche, I just try to make it like relatable.
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Yeah, yes.
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Yeah.
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To keep the lights on.
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Yeah. I mean.
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That's a good question. Um, I, well, I want to 100% be a film and, and, or TV actor at some point. I want to win an Oscar one day. I want to, that's my goal. That's where I want to go. So are you writing? Yes. You are writing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I write. And really the, when I started doing this last summer,
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2023, I... My original goal was just, I just want to, like anything, you just have to be consistent. I'm going to make one video a day. Like, that was my only goal.
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And, you know, it's like going to the gym. You're not going to look better if you show up once every month or something. You got to be consistent. So... I just started making videos every day. And some of the things that I was doing didn't click and weren't, you know, funny or whatever. You didn't drop those. Exactly. So it's, you know, kind of trial and error sort of thing.
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And one thing working for yourself, you could do that. Yes, exactly. That's a very big plus. That's a very – it's very motivating to like every day, no matter how hard I work or how much I put into my day or – how little I put into a day. It's all going back into something that I'm building, which is definitely motivating.
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But so to answer your question, Kim, the goal is I want to get into TV and film. However, over the course of the last year, I have realized like, I really like being a content creator and coming up kind of on a microcosmic scale. I'm not shooting a feature film here, but it's a mini feature film. That's really fun and coming up with characters.
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So maybe there's something that will come of it in – like a little media company will come out of it or something. I don't know. I don't think –
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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And in that vein, like, I... in July was approached by WME, the agency, and I ended up signing with them at the beginning of August. And that has opened a lot of doors for me. I was just in LA, which was super cool, meeting with a bunch of studios. And we have some fun stuff cooking. That's great. Which is exciting. So we're just getting warmed up. But that is the end goal. Right.
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And then that was really the impetus for kicking off the content. I will say COVID, when COVID hit, like so many people March 2020, I'm, you know, all the offices, everything shut down. I'm back in my like childhood bedroom in New Jersey. And I started this little nature show called Nature Walks with Walker that I filmed on my Instagram.
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Like in acting, I'm going to say as we say, even though I'm not really doing any acting right now. You know, an actor has their super objective, like the end goal. That's the winning an Oscar, being in movies kind of thing for me. But then just the objectives, the day-to-day stuff, I'm just trying to come up with new characters. And really just enjoy myself doing it.
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But I love just going out into the world and just like kind of being a sponge and listening to what people are saying.
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That's where the inspo comes from.
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Yeah.
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I think, I mean, at the end of the day, I think it probably depends. Everybody's different. Everyone has a different personality. I'm someone who is, shocker, pretty social. So, like, I like meeting people in person. Yeah. At a party or at a bar or, like, in a Hamptons house or, like, whatever. So, I mean— You're not paying. It's hard. No.
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I mean, I will say the apps, though, I remember even when I had them like three years ago, they make it hard for you to not have to pay. Like at least some of them. Like they'll be, you know, you could have like a certain – like maybe five swipes and they're like, okay, if you want any more, you have to pay.
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So I would, I mean, personally, I don't think it's worth it. I'm, I am very much a believer in like, meet people in person. I mean, I love having conversations with people in general. So like I get wanting to like chat with somebody, you know, it's basically like you're texting, but I like just going, going sort of old school meeting.
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And basically I rented a, like a raft on Amazon, like a blow up raft and like a captain's suit. And I was just posting these little vignettes videos. This was like pre-reels, like reels weren't even a thing. It was just Instagram videos. But anyway, I, That was really where the content actually started. I had a full-time job, but as we know, everybody was remote.
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That makes total sense. I didn't even really, I legitimately haven't looked at a dating app over three years. So I don't, I didn't even realize that you could pay for like, filters and stuff?
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But, Anne, to your point, Grandma Gail, I appreciate what you're saying, too. I mean, I was answering that question from sort of like a mid-20s to a 30-year-old guy in New York City.
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As you should. I wasn't thinking of, you know, there are so many people who don't fit that profile who are in Topeka, Kansas or something, and they're 50 years old.
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Exactly. I mean— Absolutely not. Yeah. I just like to walk in and try to be funny or whatever.
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Okay, yeah. Do guys care if you have a good career? You mean, like, among the guys? Like, this isn't, like, a dating thing.
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Yeah. Okay, sorry. Yeah, this was written by a girl. Yeah, I mean, I would definitely think that guys... You want to be with someone who, of course, you know, is motivated and, like... She is working towards something for sure. If I met someone who didn't have a good career or something, I wouldn't write her off and be like, okay, I'm not going to see this through.
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But it's definitely a plus for sure.
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And I was loving it. And I sailed this little raft down this river in New Jersey that runs through our backyard. And I pretended to be stranded in— So fun. The wilderness and like knock off little like ode to Castaway instead of Wilson the volleyball. I had Tito the vodka bottle. So good. With like little hair of grass. And I carved a face in it.
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There's a cover for it. That's so good.
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I love Broadway. I love Broadway.
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Three of my favorite things about New York are, one, just the energy in general I love. Number two, the sort of – what am I trying to say? The fact that you – if you're having – Yeah, exactly. And the fact – if you're having like a lazy day, like a hungover day or something – The fact that you could have pretty much anything you need delivered to your door.
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Exactly. A hundred percent. And a task rabbit to like close the shades because like I'm too lazy to get up.
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That is phenomenal. Right. And then three, I love, I'm a very nostalgic person. kind of emotional person. And I love just like the holidays around New York. Beautiful. Just the, I mean, I'd love it if we could get a little snow, you know, around.
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Christmas time. I know that's not probably in the cards, but.
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This is my Santa wish list. But yeah, that's my third, just the holidays, like walking around, you know, like. Zach's window. Exactly. Lucy's window. The window shopping. I love.
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Exactly, yeah. So that sort of, that feeling I love about New York. And then something I don't like, I mean... I'd have to agree. It feels like there is more garbage pileup than normal, which is, I mean, not my favorite thing in the world. I can live with it.
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The rats.
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The only other thing I would say is I feel like, and this isn't maybe, maybe this isn't just New York. This is cities in general, but like social media. And it kind of happened with the Hamptons. We were talking about like, Ironically, I think social media has sort of, ruined might be too strong of a word, but made certain spots just become too popular and impossible to get into.
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So anyway, that was the first kind of taste of content. And the thing I loved the most about it probably was that I still do is – kind of going into my little hole and cooking up fun ideas and then making a little, you know, 60 to 90 second video story, whatever.
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And it's like some great little restaurant in the West Village that can only handle people. 40 or 50 people, you know, like, it's just, you can't get into some of these great little spots anymore because everyone knows about them. Because you and Kim are talking about them. Because Kim and I are talking, exactly. Because Chad's like in line, you know, making some viral video and ruining it.
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So I know that's kind of a... Double-edged sword, what I just said. But maybe that is Lee's favorite.
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Totally.
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How should a woman approach a man in the wild that she wants? I guess the wild is a relative term, but I know what you mean. I know you. I would just say... It's not easy. It's not. And I'm someone who is very open and like.
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Yeah, I mean, I would say—I mean, if you ever—I'll put it this way. If you ever want to go for it, you know, always shoot your shot. I'm such a believer in you never—with anything in life, you never know what's going to happen. Assumptions are going to kill your dreams. You can't assume that someone's going to say yes or no. Right. So go for it regardless. And if you want to be—
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funny or clever or... I think being clever is really great if you can come up with something funny. Building just that little bit of that breaking the fourth wall, like, rapport.
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If it's standing at a bar drinking something, like, buy a drink with a cocktail napkin and write something funny on there. Or not funny, funny is such a cop-out, but, like, relevant or, like, or, like... I don't know.
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Yeah, exactly. Um... Yeah, or, like, have the bartender say something. Like, kind of get creative with the surrounding. Like, if I'm a girl and there's some, you know, cute mans over there, and I'm like, hey, to the bartender, tell him that, like, the bombshell over here drinking the birdbath martini wants to chat with him or something. Yeah. I don't know.
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And then putting it out, not to be dramatic, but like into the world and letting people see it, you know, and, and seeing the comments and watching other people enjoy something that I have really loved making is a very good feeling. So that was love the process of the process, but that's how it started. And then my parents were like, You know, kids pack up the car.
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Yeah, exactly. And then you're kind of the omniscient narrator of the situation. Yeah. Waiting. Yeah. I like that, using a pawn, a third-party pawn in the bar.
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Exactly.
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Okay.
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I love a call.
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I really do.
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course not course not or setups dating apps or setups I the apps were more happened more but setup for sure okay would you move in together before getting engaged or wait until you're engaged married to live together my girlfriend and I were waiting till we get engaged so I love this guy you're like the first person to say that on this show yeah that's really exciting Yeah, wait till engaged.
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I 100%. The guy should pay. I appreciate the splitting thing and with my girlfriend she always offers to split but I I don't know take pride in being able to get her a nice meal and enjoy each other's company so yay Kimberly I finally found the guy who
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Really?
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This one I would... I would put someone on social media prior to an engagement.
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They raised him, right?
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Yes. Oh, big time.
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And how long were they married? They, my, so my mom's parents, we call, Bobby and Pops. Pops passed away, but Bobby's still cooking. Oh, love it. They were married, I want to say for 60. Yeah. A little over 65 years.
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And they were—they had kind of a classic, I would say, relationship where, like, pops—my grandfather kind of just took the back seat, and Bobby really drove it, and he was just— Kind of a happy wife, happy life situation. He loved her so much that he – anything that she could do no wrong kind of thing. So that was what I kind of grew up there. And they grew up in Princeton where I grew up.
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So I saw them more than my dad's parents who were from Philly. And that relationship was a little bit more of like – My grandfather sort of ran the show. Yeah, was the patriarch. And G, we called her G, she was just like the loving, incredibly sensitive, loving grandma. I didn't really get love advice and stuff from my grandparents.
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We don't know what's going on with this virus. We're driving across the country to Idaho. We grew up going to Idaho. And I said, Mom, Dad, like, how are you going to pull the rug out from underneath me? I have this huge nature show. You have a huge following. And this is definitely pre-following. This is like...
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But from seeing how they held themselves in their relationships, I saw a lot of great things.
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She I think she she thinks Again kind of what I was saying earlier. I've always just kind of been a character. So she's just like She's not on Instagram I've put her on Like she did like a skincare cameo like last Christmas time and But she is, she's just like, I mean, she's kind of checked out on what I'm doing. She's just like, Walker's a character.
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And like, he'll tell me about it at the Thanksgiving update.
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When I was freshman year of college, one night I was at a party and one of my good girlfriends, like not romantic, just girls who are friends. She was like, she just called me WalkSauce. She was like, WalkSauce, like hand me this beer or whatever. And I was like, WalkSauce, that's kind of a fun name.
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And then a year later when I actually made an Instagram, I was trying to think of a name and I was like, I liked WalkSauce.
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It's always in my head. And then 42 was just my hockey number my whole life growing up because I'm an athlete. And so because I had to put a number in it because like walk sauce was taken. Right. So 42.
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Thank you so much for having me. Grandma Gail and Kim. I had such a blast. I look forward to each one of your little. Thank you so much. We should do a collab in Palm Beach. Absolutely.
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Yeah. Grandma Gail and Chad vote.
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I had like my normal, like whatever, 3000 Instagram followers who I just kind of cornered all over Manhattan. I was like, follow me. Um, but no, they were just my friends. And then, so because we were driving across the country, I was like, I have to take advantage of this road trip. So I came out with hot dog boy.
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So Hot Dog Boy was just this – me and I would review gas station hot dogs every time we stopped at a rest stop. But we – the drive probably took three days, and we stopped probably six or seven times. We had a dog. We had my mom, my sister, my brother. There were like eight people traveling with us. So we stopped a lot, and I would release one video a day. So people thought I was on the open road.
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For like a month. But it was just, you know, we just shot it quickly. So anyway, bringing this whole answer full circle. Sorry for the rant. No, I love it. That was how it really started. Nature Walks with Walker and Hot Dog Boy. And I still get people messaging me today who are like, bring back Nature Walks. Bring back Hot Dog Boy. And this was all when I obviously, as I said, when I had...
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the full-time job. So my HR department sort of caught onto it and they were like, Oh, this is kind of funny. Morale at work is kind of low. People are bored. They're cooped up in their homes. Will you do some like kind of virtual standup for us at work?
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You're fired. No, don't worry. I didn't get fired until a couple of years later. Um, but I, they were like, yeah, like, will you do some, do some standup for us? So I basically had this series where I recreated our company, our sales team, zoom calls where like I was each person in the frame.
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Cause like, you know, like when you work with people, people have the same mannerisms and like, you know, one guy always, you know, like does one thing and one girl's always doing this. So I was each person.
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Thank you so much for having me, ladies. I'm so excited to be here. Let's go. I'm honored to have been a hand selected by Grandma Gail. I feel like I'm not worthy, but I'll do my best.
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Square. So that really COVID, 2020 was when I kind of got a little bit of a bug for the content. And then, you know, a year goes by and we're kind of going back into the office and I couldn't really do it anymore. You know, all the time where you had to look busy at your desk, you could film stuff, you could eat hot dogs.
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My mind was elsewhere. And then so I went back to the office and I kind of went back into the grind. I did do this like little martini tour, this teeny Tuesday tour where I'd wear a tuxedo and walk into different restaurants in New York and review martinis and food. But really it was last summer when I was officially – when I officially left my company and That was when it started full time.
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For sure. Yeah. No, definitely. And I think I didn't even really realize that I... I always knew that I was, I don't know, a relatively creative person.
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Yeah, well, sometimes. Depends who I'm talking to. But I just... I didn't realize that I was... that I needed to be creative, not to be kind of dramatic, but like until I was removed from an environment, because I feel like you and I, Kim, have had sort of a unique... we sort of hit life at a unique time because we grew up and everything was kind of just societally.
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It was still kind of like the textbook. You go to college, get a degree, get a job, et cetera. And then really COVID, you know, flipped everything upside down and people started going remote and people started being influencers and content creators. And like, what does that even mean? And, um, we kind of, uh, you know, at least I sort of had exposure to both worlds.
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And so I really loved, I didn't realize until I left the, what I thought I was supposed to be doing, supposed to be doing, that I really like being creative and entertaining. I love to entertain people. Right. That's my thing.
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In person or on the phone.
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Oh, let's go. What's your mom's first name?
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Yeah, that's a good question. So, and I guess I should add on top of that. when I left my job last, not this past July, but July, 2023, you know, I didn't have any money. I wasn't, didn't have any consistent income. So I had to sublet my apartment to, luckily I sublet it to a friend. So I didn't have to like move a bunch of stuff out.
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Hey, Barb. Good to see you.
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It wasn't like a whole thing, but I moved back into like my childhood bedroom. To the basement. Exactly. Exactly. And so I'm, my parents, my, My parents were very supportive. My whole family was very supportive. I think something that people will tell you, like sometimes I'll be with friends and people will ask like, you know, was Walker always like this? Like kind of what's the deal?
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And like, I'm not being any different than like what I, than who I am naturally. It's not like I'm one person on camera and someone different. Obviously I'll play characters.
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I'll be Chad, like deleting Chicken Tenny Towers and like crushing Whispering A. Yeah. Or I'll be like Palm Beach Dad dropping the kids at PB Day and like complaining about a flat tire on my, you know, super fancy car. But it's still me. I've always been this way. I've always done this kind of thing. So my parents, I think I had that, Sort of in my corner. That was like mom and dad.
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I'm like, they, they believed in me because they knew that maybe I could do it, but they definitely were.
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Exactly. And that's the thing. They were just cautious. They're like, Walker, look, do it. We believe in you. We support you. But like, you know, you gotta make some money. You gotta pay your rent. You gotta, you don't have healthcare anymore. You gotta, good old Cobra, you know, all that stuff. So, they believed in me.
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They were supportive, but they were like, you know, they were checking in on me. They were like, Walker, how's it going? Like,
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Yeah. I mean, definitely now that we're kind of a year and change into the process, I'll call it, trust the process. It probably took seven or eight months for me to actually like make a dollar.
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Like there was one guy on Nantucket. So when I left my job July, 2023, I My girlfriend actually was the one, because I had coworkers who were like, oh, Walker, like, because I was let go very like out of the blue, out of nowhere. It wasn't expected. Right. And so my coworkers were like, Walker, we'll help get you other interviews at competitors and that kind of thing.
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Yeah, we did. No, that's a great, that's a great question. And seriously, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here. So long story short, um, my, my, my God given birth name is not walks house 42. It's Walker ward. Surprise. Shout out mom and dad. Hi guys. Um, and I was born in New York city. I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. So I'm from the Garden State, God's country.
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I was like, I don't know you guys. Like, I'm not... This wasn't like feeding the soul or whatever, but it allowed me to live in New York and earn a nice living and whatever, which is great. So my girlfriend was like, Walker, why don't you just like start making content? Like you've always loved acting.
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You've always talked about how you want to be in movies and TV and like that kind of thing, which is something I've wanted to do since I was a little kid. But I never actually... really worked towards it. It was just kind of a fun idea. So I was like, all right, that's a good idea. I'm going to make some content.
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So the first character that I came out with was the Wall Street intern, the kind of basically Chad, but Chad comes from more of a, you know, the upper brow, higher brow, you know, Couth. He knows his way around fine dining and, like, the finer things in life. The Wall Street intern is the kid who's, like, it's his first time having any disposable income. He's in New York.
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He's living with some friends. He's, like, never been to the—I mean, he's a bull in a china shop. Right. And a little kid in a candy store at the same time. He's out in the Hamptons just like, oh, my God. Yeah. So— because I just come from that world, the world of wall street and like the Hampton, it was summertime. I was like, okay, we're going to do wall street intern.
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And that got a little bit of traction and it sort of snowballed. I was like, okay, people think this is kind of funny. So I'm just going to keep coming out with new characters.
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Yeah. It sort of depends on what I'm doing.
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No, we don't. She, we live separately. Um, She basically – we are very different from a personality standpoint. I am – as you could maybe tell.
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Yeah, exactly. I'm loosey-goosey. You know when I'm like within a three-mile radius probably. She is like stealth – In the shadows. Yeah. But, like, she's there. Right. Like, she watches. The sort of running joke is, like, I'm sort of her little, like, show pony. She likes to be, like, if we're at a wedding, like, she loves—it actually works really well.
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Like, she enjoys me, like, giving a toast and kind of being funny and being kind of— She's supportive. Yeah.
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Totally. Totally golden retriever black cat. Yeah. And her name is Anna Catherine. And so Anna Cat is what people call her. She has like kind of cat-like tendencies. But anyway, she is in the room sometimes. The reason I brought up the personality thing is she doesn't want to like be on camera.
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Like I have friends – like sometimes I'll be like – We have lots of relatives like that.
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I don't – Well, it's the same thing here. People are like, we want to see Anna Catherine. We're kind of sick of you. Right. Which I totally support. I'm sick of myself.
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Like editing all day, listening to my voice. I'm like, Walker, please just like stop talking.
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But like I'll do, as you may have seen, like Pookie and Jet. Right. Parodies where I'm like, it's a split screen and I'm both Pookie and Jet.
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Yeah.
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They do outfit checks and they're very much... I think they're very just true to who they are, but they're fun to watch. I'll put it that way. And so the humor for me in doing their...
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satire on them it's like I'm playing both characters so anyway people are like Walker we don't need to see you dressed as a woman please put like your beautiful girlfriend right in the shot and she's like absolutely you got a better chance at seeing Elvis than in any of my footage but um so she's she is totally supportive
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And I grew up there, went to college in upstate New York, and then I graduated in 2016. Didn't really know what I wanted to do. I was an English major. You know, I wasn't like – Same. Let's go. We're linguists.
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She's – the only time she's usually in the room is like sometimes I'll do some Get Ready With Me videos. Like she has like a true obviously like vanity and like real place to – you know, a little lab to cook it when I'm doing my stuff. And so sometimes I'll do videos there and she'll be like – I'll put like post-its or like random things as my – ASMR nails.