Elyse: I’ll Never Get Used to This

Last Day

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

You might know Elyse Myers from her viral video about buying 100 tacos on a first date. That TikTok led to a Cinderella story of overnight fame, where she quickly became a household name. But the taco tale is only the tip of the iceberg. Elyse gives Stephanie the never-before-seen look at her path to becoming who she is today — from moving overseas to leaving a church that didn’t practice what it preached. Her life has evolved almost too many times to count, and she talks with Stephanie about what she hopes will stay the same.

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0:00.0	Hi, last day listeners. It's Julia Louis-Dryfus. Hearing the stories of other people like Stephanie
0:09.1	does so well here on last day, it's so important. I want to know why the hell don't we hear
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1:27.0	I would usually wake up at four, make a video, and then be done by like six-ish and I'd pump,
1:35.2	I would pump right when I was gonna write, you know, press pump, and then I would go film it,
1:39.2	edit it, and then come up by like six. And that was my morning. And then I would do the
1:43.4	kids stuff and the husband stuff, and then I would go to work, and that was my real job.
1:47.4	It's the fall of 2021. Elise Myers is a fledgling social media creator. She has a full-time
1:56.3	tech job during the day. The carves out a little time every morning, very early in the morning,
2:02.8	to make TikTok videos, just for fun. Then one morning out of nowhere, she went a little rogue.
2:12.1	She told a long, bizarre personal story, and made it into a video. You know, push the on the
2:19.6	low a little bit. And I remember coming off and it was like 10 am, and it was light out, and I was
2:26.8	like, how long have I been down here in my basement? Like what happened? I blocked out. And then like about
2:32.0	an hour later, I'm working like my job in Jonas. I was like, have you seen the video recently? And
2:39.1	I'm like, what do you mean? Like you should look at it. And it was like in a million views. And I was
2:44.7	like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, like, oh, my god. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
2:58.3	This is last day. A show about the moments that change us. I'm your host, Stephanie Woodles-Wacks.
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