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Delusional Diaries
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
this week on Delusional Diaries, Halley and Jaz are taking it all the way back to the early covid days, and realizing just how insane that era actually was. what started as a “two-week break” turned into a full identity crisis, and the girls unpack exactly where they were when everything shut down. from Halley barely surviving unpaid internships, college, and New York burnout, to Jaz thriving in her corporate era before getting abruptly pulled into HR for a literal covid exposure scandal, their origin stories are crazy, funny and life-altering. it’s the kind of hindsight that makes you go… wait, that actually changed everything.
they get real about how losing their routines, jobs, and sense of normalcy forced them into completely different paths: ones that ultimately led them to where they are now, together in the studio. from getting laid off and spiraling into depression, to starting TikTok “as a joke” and accidentally building careers, they talk about the weird in-between phase of doing nothing, doing too much, and trying to figure out who you are when everything familiar disappears. it’s honest, relatable, reflective, and lowkey proof that sometimes your lowest point is actually the setup.
of course, it wouldn’t be Delusional Diaries without the side quests. the episode spirals into thrift store hustles turned mini empires, fake designer accusations, high school party lore, and the kind of crazy teenage decisions that somehow make sense in retrospective. they discuss parenting topics & there’s also random debates, questionable choices, and a lot of “why were we like this?” energy. we’re sure that, you’ll find yourself in this episode, you’ll look back & reflect with the girls, and laugh just as much as they did…
Timestamps
0:28 - 6 years since COVID
18:10 - What were we all doing during lockdown
21:06 - Golfing
24:25 - Going to court
26:40 - Sweet 16 and high school parties
48:18: - Lemme send a good PR package
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, guys, welcome back to Delusional Diaries podcast. I'm Hallie. And I'm Jazz. We're wearing the same outfits as last week because we are double recording. A lot of travel coming up, to be honest. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah. But fun things. Fun things we'd love to see it. Definitely. |
| 0:27.7 | Isn't it crazy that COVID was six years ago? |
| 0:31.1 | I know we. Yeah, this is like just about the six years. It is so crazy. |
| 0:35.4 | What were you doing? Like what was like your origin story when it came to finding out, like, what COVID was and, like, what it was going to be? Like, tell your truth. Okay. I was interning full time, like the day, like nine to five. But like, I think it was maybe two or three times. So part time, but full time-time during the day. Whatever that makes any sense. |
| 1:11.1 | For a celebrity stylist that I really didn't like, because obviously... In New York. In New York, yeah, I was doing... I was in college. I was doing bitch work, which obviously, like, that wasn't the problem. It was just, I don't think they, like, were super nice, but it wasn't the worst experience ever. It was kind of just a typical New York fashion experience. And then I was also doing school full time. And then because I was unpaid at the internship, I also then like had no |
| 1:17.1 | money. So I was working nights after I was done and weekends at free people in Rockefeller Center |
| 1:23.4 | at their flagship. So let's just say I actually did not have like it, even if I think I'm the busiest ever now. I have actually never been busier than that period of time in my life. Like I literally would get home at like midnight 1, 1.30 a.m. depending on what time we closed free people. And then I would actually be up at like 7 a.m. to go, you know, whatever. So I was literally just sleeping at my apartment and that |
| 1:45.2 | was it. But also, like, I literally couldn't afford to even eat out and stuff like that. So I was like fucking struggling because like I can't cook groceries in my eye. Like it was the typical like New York college struggle. So I was literally like every night I would like late at it. I'd be like crying and be like praying to God. I was like, please be done with this. I was like, |
| 2:02.3 | I can't do this anymore. It's so bad. And I was only like, like, late dad, I'd be like crying. I'd be like praying to God. I was like, can't please be done with this? |
| 2:01.8 | I was like, I was like, I can't do this anymore. |
| 2:03.2 | It's so bad. |
| 2:03.7 | And I was only like... |
| 2:04.4 | Like, you're like saying no when you're trying to log in your bank account |
| 2:06.8 | because you're crying. Like, actually, yeah. You're going to keep it up for the subway the next day and it's like not recognizing your face. |
| 2:12.8 | 100%. |
| 2:13.2 | Like that is what was happening. |
| 2:14.3 | We didn't even have Apple pay back then actually on the car. |
| 2:16.4 | Like you had to have the subway card. |
| 2:18.7 | You get my point. |
| 2:19.5 | But yeah. Like that is what was happening. We didn't even have Apple pay back then actually on the car. Like you had to have the subway card. |
| 2:18.7 | You get my point. But yeah. |
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