so the first few, like the first two episodes we were really like, we just needed to utilize who we had in our immediate corner and a friend of mine, this guy, Allan Mindel, I hit him up and I was just like, "Hey, we're doing this podcast, If you have any talent ideas as time goes on, let me know.: He was like "What do you think about Julia Fox?" I was like, "Oh, I love Julia Fox, she's great. She was just coming off 'Uncut Gems' ". Then he's like "she would love to write one." I was like "oh yeah, I didn't even know she's a writer. Then he's like, would you let her write one? I was like, ah, of course!"
So Julia ended up writing one of our first episodes and at the time was just like, again, coming off on her, such a good opening, she was a good person to have been involved in the opening of it. It took a long while for it to take off and we are featuring a lot of very great, talented people with huge platforms. Every episode highlighted the charity and we were raising money for whatever was happening in that current moment. So we very much tried to be in good timing with what was most likely necessary during these times.
It was very discouraging at first. because we were five, six episodes in and we're like, wow, these episodes are pretty powerful. They're all talking about what's happening in the world and also inspiring people while highlighting charities. It sounds like it's a beautiful escape and it's meant to help people and it's like, nobody cares. Then we got an episode with Camila Mendes and Lucas Hedges, which people responded well to, obviously they're both such incredible and respected actors. The numbers started turning around and people were like, I'm curious, what is this?
The biggest turning point for us was I think it was the following episode of two or so episodes after was an episode with Josephine Langford. It was a 15, 20-minute long script of her just speaking about mental health and not being okay. It is okay to speak about not being okay and we know that she was as big as she was international. Sometimes we always tried to get the episodes out at night, by 8:00 PM because it took so long, but for this one, we couldn't and we didn't get it done until 5:00 AM. Then it really kind of caught on, but it bracketed us into this young demographic, which all these girls are 14 to 18, just sobbing and being like,"oh my God, that's my favorite actress" but they didn't understand at first what it was.
They were just like "wait, my favorite actress is speaking about how she feels right now and I feel the same way and this is so important." So I think people were just like, oh, but they didn't know what was happening. Then they started to dive in and then they're like "oh wait, why are all these other actors I like in it too." From that point is where things changed.