Bobbi Althoff’s podcast success story is much different than Marc’s podcast success story. In fact, the concept of a podcast is very different than when WTF got started. Bobbi explains how she grew up in a chaotic environment where money was hard to come by and, after becoming a mom in her early 20s, she found viral fame by sheer force of will, as well as a guest appearance by Drake. They also talk about the grind of the content creation machine, the mental health drain of social media, and fame being an economic engine. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapter 1: What is Bobbi Althoff's background and childhood like?
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Jeez, that's a lot of yapping. Today on the show I talk to Bobby Althoff. I'd like to talk to you about her, if I could, because it's an interesting thing. Look, I'm a bit out of the game in terms of keeping up with... Whatever youth culture is or whatever the cultural momentum is to make us all part of youth culture. If there is even a culture that we can kind of frame as that.
But Bobby Althoff is somebody who, you know, I scroll. I have a problem. I have a scrolling problem. And she pops up occasionally. Maybe you've seen her. She does these... I don't even know if they're snarky, but she does these very intentionally awkward interviews. with a lot of black entertainers.
But maybe you've seen the one of her and Drake, where she has this disposition that's very kind of subdued and a bit pointed. And maybe you've seen her. She's got long hair. But I saw her do a bit with my friend Andrew Santino and my friend Bobby Lee. And I was kind of curious about her. I didn't know if she was a comedian or where she fell in the world. And I don't know a lot of that.
I don't know most of the people that are stars on TikTok or YouTube or Instagram. I don't know who these people are. I always assume, I'm always surprised when people are like, oh yeah, I sold out an arena. What are you? What do you do? I do conversations with my dog. I'm like, I have no idea who you are, but congratulations, I guess. But Bobby, I was curious about her.
I think it was driven initially by the fact like, well, I mean, if Bobby and Santino talk to her, I mean, why am I not part of this party? Why am I not part of what the kids are doing? Where's my time? But I did find her kind of curious. And I don't know a lot about this new landscape of show business. I do know that it's shifted.
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Chapter 2: How did Bobbi Althoff gain her viral fame?
Ich habe nie die Headphones.
Nein, wirklich?
Ja, ich mag es aber.
Na, ich meine, ich denke, wenn du Video machst, brauchst du es nicht wirklich.
Nein.
Ja, es hilft, wenn du Audio machst, um dich zu hören.
Ja.
Also, warum warst du spät?
Let me tell you.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Bobbi face as a content creator?
Yeah.
That must have been interesting to come from where you come from and then being in these nice families.
Oh, yeah. It made me... I was never jealous. I was just looking at them like, this is what I know is out there now. Like, I know you can be a happy family and have a nanny one day and do all of these things. And I wanted it so bad.
Were any of them, like, you know, impactful in your life, the families?
Yeah, I keep in touch with all of them. I worked for three families and I still keep in touch with them. I check in on their kids randomly because it was so nice going into somebody's house and seeing things that... Ja, genau. Yeah, and I loved it. They had three kids. One was a baby. I think I started when he was three months old. And then one was two and one was four.
And I did everything with those kids. I worked 70 hours a week at points because the parents were both working. It was amazing. And then one day they looked at me and they were like, we're moving to LA. And I said, they were like, so I'm so sorry. And I was like, I'll move with you. So I... Did you live in their house? No, I never lived in their house.
I went and found an apartment by them because I was like, I'm not losing this job.
So that's how you got here?
That's how I got back to LA.
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Chapter 4: What is the impact of social media on mental health?
During the pregnancy. So then that's when he started recording?
No, I started my podcast.
Yeah, or whatever you were doing.
I started that right after I had my baby.
Oh, so no... Yeah. And you did it through the second pregnancy?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so does COVID, that played into you...
Being home and starting to do that. Definitely. I think also, like I said, I've always been searching for what I would... I was never gonna be just a stay-at-home mom. I think as much as I wanted to want that, because it was like I needed... You know what? It also comes back to being insecure, because I was insecure about my... A lot of the moms I would meet were working moms.
And I was like, I can't just be the only one that has no college degree, no anything. I felt so inferior. Even the moms who were stay-at-home moms, they had college degrees. They were all just dudes. They had...
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