Milly Tamarez and Alise Morales
Milly Tamarez and Alise Morales are the hosts of Go Touch Grass.
Tell me about Go Touch Grass in ten words or less.
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Why are you the perfect hosts for it?
AM: Milly and I are both chronically online and love sending each other the crazy stuff that comes across our FYPs. We figure if we’re already going to obsessively follow every 50-part TikTok series, we might as well share the information with other people so that they can go and do more productive things with their lives.
Tell us about the Go Touch Grass listeners.
AM: We’ve got two types of listeners – the people with the same chronically online disease as us, and people who are not online at all but want to hear about all the drama that’s going on so they can keep up with the conversation, typically with their teenage kids. We are a bridge between offline moms and their teenage kids.
What are your three favorite “touching grass” activities?
AM: Milly and I both love movies (though I guess technically that’s trading one screen for another) and are almost through all of the Oscars Best Picture nominations. We also both have dogs who force us out of the house to literally touch grass (i.e. pick up their shit). We’re also both watching The Traitors now that Milly gave me her Peacock password.
What’s the process for putting episodes together? Are you pulling together things all week?
MT: Throughout the week Alise and I will be on the lookout for articles, videos, and conversations for topics for the next show. Our formula is finding topics that are trending but also that make for rich conversations. The beautiful thing about the web is that most things that cause discussion have overlapping points and are at the intersection of societal issues. For example a viral clip of Kim Kardashian saying “everyone needs to get off their ass and work” well that touches on female entrepreneurship, the exploitation of workers by the 1%, what does “work life balance mean” and how white women can literally make billions appropriating the aesthetic of black women.
Do you think being a podcaster is cool?
MT: I love podcasting as a medium and as an art form. I put alot of care into what I do but I feel like when people hear I’m both a comedian/podcaster they think it’s just a joke job. I feel like this is due to the market has been overly saturated with people who are just using podcasting as a tape recorder to their normal conversations. That’s not what we’re doing, every podcast takes hours of research and skill to think of how to break down topics in an engaging and entertaining way. Seeing every single celebrity and reality star make a podcast doesnt help either. At the end of the day the lack of work and care other people give to their pods shouldn’t effect how I feel about the work I do but I am a flawed human and Its still a struggle lol.
What’s a podcast you love that not enough people know about?
MT: I love This Is Uncomfortable. it’s one of my favorite pods. The way money effects everything around us is so true and so important to discuss
Thanks, Milly and Alise!