Please Excuse My Grandma’s Breakdown of Social Media Stereotypes (Ft. Walker Ward)
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Who is Walker Ward and what is his background?
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. Today, we are joined by a very special guest, Walker Ward. I'm excited because Grandma really was looking forward to this one and that always means that it's going to be a good one. If you don't know WalkSauce42 on social media, I don't know what algorithm you have because he's all over our feed. He's hilarious. He has all of those spot on impressions from girls who do the Get Ready With Me videos to characters like Chad who are going to the US Open. He's known for kind of poking fun at those everyday stereotypes, especially New York characters. So Walker, welcome to the show.
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.
Yes, we had some family connections, which made it easy to get in touch. And then my mom was also very excited.
Oh, let's go. What's your mom's first name?
Barbara.
Hey, Barb. Good to see you.
That's what we call her, Barb or Barbie. Um, so to get started, tell us your social media journey. When did you start posting? What was your job before? Cause we all had a job before.
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. 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.
Yeah.
I wasn't on like a specific path, but I could spell check an email very well. Yeah.
What inspired Walker to create content on social media?
And now we have chat GPT for that.
Exactly. Now we're kind of obsolete.
Yeah.
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. 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. 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.
How did COVID influence Walker's content creation journey?
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. 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. 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.
But you were enjoying it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Walker Ward and what is his background?
0:00–1:55
2
What inspired Walker to create content on social media?
1:55–2:53
3
How did COVID influence Walker's content creation journey?
2:53–10:22
4
What is Grandma Gail's Old-Fashioned Dating Quiz?
10:22–12:10
5
What does Walker's family think about his career?
12:10–15:33
6
How does Walker balance his relationship with content creation?
15:33–17:37
7
What are the challenges of staying relevant on social media?
17:37–20:13
8
How did Walker meet his girlfriend?
20:13–51:42