Hello, welcome back to another episode of Hot Mess with Alex Earl. Today's gonna be a very fun light-hearted episode. We're going back to college. Again, everyone's like Alex, leave it in the past, leave it alone. I cannot, okay.

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I am like the frappoy that comes around for like a six year. He's still going to the parties and like meeting the freshmen girls. He's like 28. So that's me. We're gonna be going back to the UMI Emmys.

We're gonna go to a tailgate experience. Not only are we going to talk about it, but we are actually gonna go to a tailgate in this episode. You guys have no idea how dark it is about to get.

But for anyone listening who didn't go to like a big school where they had a football team and they did tailgates, I'm gonna tell you how they kinda go or at least how they went at UMI Emmys.

It has their own frat house. It's right across the street from campus and they'll each host their own tailgates. At each of these houses, they will have a big tent set up and they'll have bleachers for you to stand on. Sometimes they have mechanical bowls, little activities. They have big buckets, which are basically just trash cans filled with like beers or white claws.

And tailgates are always a very, very, very, very dark day because you are getting up at the crack ass of dawn for these tailgates.

There's a rule that the tailgate has to end a few hours before the actual football game of the school. So if there's a football game that's at like noon or at 1pm, the tailgate has to end at like 11am, which means that it has to start at like 8am.

So there are times where we would get up in college and start getting ready for these tailgates at 6am, 7am. Like it is so scary but so fun. Best times of my life.

And the thing about UMI Emmys tailgates in particular is that nobody goes to the football games. Our stadium is about 45 minutes away. It can be like an hour with traffic. So no one actually attends the football games. I think I went to one or two football games my whole time at the University of Miami.

Which is very sad. And I don't know. We kind of like our team was really, really good before I came to school and then like they kind of fell off a little bit before. So I think people just like got uninterested and like the stadium was really far away.

But that was always a part of like school spirit that I miss. Like I wish we actually went to the football games. But we didn't. We would just party in our bikinis at these tailgates, get drunk. We would walk down the road to go to Chipotle and then we would all go to bed by like 2pm.

And the other thing that's different about UMI Emmys tailgates is you are in a hot sweaty tent under the Miami sun. You feel like you are dying in there like just any makeup you put on it's coming off like you are going to be droplets of sweat wet hair like don't wear your hair down just not a good idea like it's just going to get soaked.

So that attire for these tailgates is a little bit different. It's definitely not like the southern schools that they're wearing like very pretty dresses and cowboy boots and like they look so beautiful and put together and nice and classy.

We're like the opposite over here. It's like usually a bikini any type of like Miami gear that you have or like Miami colors. But we can't put on a lot of clothing because it is so hot.

So, you know, we're the opposite of the southern girlies over at Miami. It's like, you know, bikini and maybe some jean shorts over it. We're just having fun. We're there for a good time. So these are until gates where you're at the football stadium, which is what most people think. I'm pretty sure they used to tailgate at the stadium when like everyone would go to the football games. But now everyone just goes to the frat houses and goes to bed. There's just something about day drinking, especially in the Miami heat. Oh, it's scary.

You don't know if you're ever going to get out of there. You never want to leave. It's a dark hole in there like, oh, you get trapped. And I have so many scary memories at these tailgates, which is why naturally me and all my friends who graduated. We are alumni now are going back to another college tailgate. Alex, why are you going to a tailgate? Don't go to a college party. That's so weird. You graduated. I know. I know.

But it is alumni weekend. So this is the one and only time that we have an excuse. And we're like, oh, no, we're forced to go reunite with everyone. Like, I really, I don't want to go back. But, you know what, we're going back. And it's because we all really want to. And we have been dying for this weekend all semester, not that we have a semester anymore, but we're just pretending we do. And we are going back full force and all of my college best friends, the ones I lived with my senior year of college.

They're all flying down and they're coming to stay with me in Miami. There's going to be six girls staying in this apartment. And honestly, it's okay. Now, like, I got some bedside desks like you guys haven't seen these before furniture. Hello, I ordered a rug today. And then the card got declined. So then I didn't order a rug. Never mind. We blew up an air mattress. We are going to be having a lot of fun this weekend. And all of the Kasa and more girlies are back together. What's Kasa doing?

What's Kasa more? That was the name of my college house, my senior year. We lived six girls in this house. And it basically blew up on the internet. Like, this house was like infamous. And it was infamous for being dirty, disgusting, filth, depression, done.

I think they use the word squallering and filth. I don't even know what that means. But I have all the Kasa and more girls here with me. And we are going to go sit on the couch in the living room. We have a couch now.

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