Chapter 1: What inspired Rei Clarke to transition from a debt collector to a content creator?
Well, you guys, Tyler is out for the day. And I was like, I was going to do a solo episode by myself. And then I hit up my friend Ray. And I'm like, hey, Ray, you want to hop on Kate and Ty, break it down with me? Because I could either record by myself or have a friend. And I'd rather have a friend. So what's up, Ray? How are you? I'm great. How are you doing? Good. Just busy with the kids.
We took them all to school today. Raya did not want to go today. She was like, she missed like all week last week because she had some like weird cough going on.
Chapter 2: How does Rei Clarke address burnout in her career?
So, of course, she woke up this morning. She was like, the school is closed. School is closed. I'm like, school is not damn closed. You are going to school. She was like, yeah, I get to miss school again. She was like, no, I'm not going to school. But no, they all went to school. She was for it. She was like, look, school's closed. I got it, mom. They hit me up.
that's what she tells us she's like no school's closed and i'm like knock it it's open okay you're going um so i mean other than that it's quiet i'm enjoying the peace and quiet from the crazy weekend and yes oh has the you and uh you guys had a time change right we did yeah we sprung forward though How is how is because I don't have time change. Right.
Chapter 3: What challenges does Cate face raising daughters in the spotlight?
I'm out in standard time. We don't we don't change our time. So how is that or how does that like does that impact your guys's schedule at all? I would say it impacts the kids more than the adults. I mean, yeah. Like whenever we change the time, like going backwards sucks. I hate it when we lose an hour. It's just like because everybody's just so tired, like all the things. Right.
But I have noticed like it definitely takes more of a toll on the kids. And like they're just crabbier or more tired or, you know, you spring forward an hour. So instead of them getting up at 7 a.m., really their internal clock gets up and it's like 6 a.m. And I'm like, dude, I'm over it. I don't understand why we continue to do this whole time change crap. I hate it.
Chapter 4: How do generational cycles impact parenting styles?
I wish they would just get rid of it. And it makes no damn sense. But here we are in Michigan still doing stupid time change. Yeah. I mean, I know they did it before because of like farming and stuff. But. Now they have like lights. Right. I know. It's like the farmers are still out there in the damn fields in Michigan when it's dark as hell out. So I don't understand what's going on here. Yeah.
Yeah. And you're driving. We're driving to Cali.
Chapter 5: What role does friendship play in personal growth?
You see like all they have like all the lights and everything's set up for them now. So it's literally the fields lit up like a damn Christmas tree out there. Right. I mean, seriously, they do. They have those massive lights on those massive tractors. And I get it, like especially where I live, like we have tons and tons of farm like it's just farming everywhere. Yeah.
And if you're from if you're around the Lexington, Michigan area or, you know, of Lexington or Croswell, Michigan, it's all about the damn sugar beets that smell like straight shit. So it's like sugar beet fields everywhere. No, I'm dead serious. So like in the main town that we're closest. Well, we're in the middle of two towns, but the one town is known.
It's like we have a there's a sugar factory there. And if you've never been in a place that makes sugar, you will not understand what the fuck it smells like. My niece, so she lived with us for like a year and now she like works out here and stuff.
Chapter 6: How does Rei balance her work and family life?
She literally will be like gagging in the car and I'm just dying laughing. But it is like the worst. It's the worst smell ever. And then you have like little kids. the preschool teacher tells me that like little kids will go outside and they'll be like, smells like money because their parents like work at the sugar factory or whatever. Oh my God. Okay.
So where I grew up, it was like very agricultural and we did have a sugar factory. And so I understand the smell a hundred percent. But when we say it smells like money, it's because of the cow shit.
at that smell here too for sure for sure yeah so every time we we pass it we're like smells like money oh that is funny except yours is tied to cow shit ours here is like it smells like shit because of the sugar you would think like making sugar would smell good but not here it's horrible You would think so, yeah, because I love sugar. Right? Yeah, I like sugar like in my coffee.
I know I'm not really that much of a sweet tooth, but I love like a lot of sugar in my coffee.
Chapter 7: What insights does Rei have about advocating for children in the public eye?
Girl, I have to have it in my sweet tea. Oh, same. My sweet tea is not like sweet. I went to, I keep forgetting the name of it, but Cracker Barrel. I went to Cracker Barrel for the first time. So good. For the first time? For the first time, yeah. And I got, I got this mug there. I love it. Their store is super cool. Their store is cool. It's so cool.
But like we, I was like, I walk in, I was like, oh my God, this is like so cool. Like I love it in here, you know, but the sweet tea.
Chapter 8: What future goals does Rei have as a content creator?
Yeah. I thought it was going to be like super sweet. And I was like, I'm so disappointed. So I asked for like the sugar packets and I put like four in there. And then it's like for you, but.
yeah well and also too like you know because you drink sweet tea you you dump like the sugar packets in there it doesn't fucking dissolve you have to like put the sugar in there you know while it's still like warm to dissolve the shit or you're just like straws full of fucking sugar for your sweet tea yeah i'll also soak it up though it's really bad oh yeah yeah i know i get it that's why in the south the sweet tea in the south you can't beat it like i'm like anytime i'm in the south i'm like give me a sweet tea give me a sweet tea give me a
So bad for you, but it's so good. It's better than freaking black ass tea. I'd rather have sweet tea all day. Same. In my hometown in Cali, the sweet tea there is bomb. Anytime that anyone leaves, anyone that has lived outside of the Imperial Valley, if they go to visit, the first place they go is for the donut shop sweet tea. Yum. A good sweet tea brand is Milo's. Oh, yes.
They have good sweet tea. There's always like a jug in my fridge. Because now where you live now, you're not really around a lot of like agricultural stuff or anything anymore, are you? I'm on the outskirts of it, but yes, we still have agriculture. Oh, okay. Because I was going to ask, do you miss the whole farm life? The peacefulness of it? Just being in the middle of nowhere?
Or are you happy to be out of that kind of lifestyle? So I... I don't think I appreciated it as much then, but mainly because I had to work in it. Yeah, yeah. So when you work in it, you're like, I absolutely hate it. Like, I hate it. Now, like, I absolutely love it. I love the quiet. I love the peace. I love not hearing sirens every once in a while because we live near train tracks.
I grew up near train tracks and the train like the train would always like it was loud. Every time I passed by there, especially before school, he would always, like, wave. Oh, that's cute. I had somebody to, like, wave to on my way to school. Now, no. Even the train is quiet here. But I love it. I enjoy it.
Yeah, because I feel like when you're a kid and you're raised in the country... I wasn't raised in the country. I was raised in a trailer park. My friends were literally around the corner, across the field, wherever. It was full of kids. And same with Ty. He grew up in the town, too, so we could ride our bikes anywhere we wanted. Walk anywhere we wanted. Meet up with friends anywhere.
So I think growing up that way...
we kind of thought like well we want to do something different like raise our kids different more peaceful like playing outside playing in the creeks catching frogs snakes whatever you know but I feel like it's funny because me and Ty will talk about it sometimes and it's like there's like two sides to that coin though like sometimes as a parent I feel guilty because I'm like they can't just hop on a bike and ride over to their friend's house or you know like it's more like
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