Ever wonder what Joey Sasso’s favorite social media app is? Curious about where Lauren Speed-Hamilton goes dress shopping? Why won’t Jill Zarin’s daughter teach her to use TikTok? And what is Tayshia Adams’ favorite emoji?
Find out all this and more in this installment of the Internet Interview, where the Daily Dot gets the inside scoop on the premiere season of The GOAT and deeper insights into these reality stars—and their internet habits.
This new reality show, hosted by Daniel Tosh, features legends of reality television competing to earn the title of ‘greatest reality show contestant’ of all time. And we sat down to talk to some of the cast.
Daily Dot: Which meme would describe this season of The GOAT?
Jill Zarin: Just in my mind, it would be probably Daniel Tosh in one of his outfits. I mean, he comes dressed to the party.
Lauren Speed-Hamilton: I’m gonna say the dude who holds the phone.
Joey Sasso: They could kind of apply to anything. Like, I’m the dude. If I’m, if I’m, like, throwing a GIF-GIF, I always go to like, Zoolander, because I feel like the blue steel is like a perfect reaction to everything. So we’ll even throw the blue steel on The Goat. It exemplifies everything.
Tayshia Adams: Probably the scene from The Office where he’s like, it’s happening and tapping everyone like running around frantically because it’s just, it’s a beautiful dumpster fire.
DD: Which emoji best represents your experience filming during the competition?
JZ: Is there a two thumbs up? There should be, if it’s not, it’s one, but it’s multiple ones in every color, by the way, rainbow color.
LSH: That’s a good one. Okay, I would say the emoji where the mouth is like, that could be happy or no, it could be like, oh god. So I would say it’s a mixture of both of those that’s a good representative of my emotions throughout this show.
JS: Fire, smiles, death.
TA: Why don’t we go with maybe like this smiling face with a little crying tear right here?
DD: If you could’ve had any celebrity as a supporting teammate, who would it have been?
JZ: I’d probably pick Bethenny [Frankel]. She’s smart. She’s got the greatest one-liners.
LSH: I would have had I love New York Tiffany. I think that she is so amazing. She’s definitely golden, she’s strategic, she’s funny, she is fun. And I would have loved to been an alliance for her.
TA: Beyonce, because she’s just the go. And she and I are both born on September 4, and so we have very high Virgo energy. And like, nothing can get past two Virgos. So, like, she would also, just like no one would ever like, penetrate Beyonce’s energy.
DD: What’s the last thing you googled?
JZ: Glam squad, I went on to make an appointment for hair and makeup, and before that, Jet Blue checking in, checking in for tomorrow’s flight. So practical stuff, but I also Google the weather.
LSH: It was myself, but only because, only because I was actually working with a brand, and it was a phone company, and I was, we were like, looking at stuff. They’re like, Google something. And I was like, Well, me, so that’s sounding real conceited. I don’t just randomly be Googling myself. I promise I don’t.
JS: I open my Safari and I’m the dude that has 97 tabs, because every time I have a new question, I open a new tab. And then I’ll go to x them out. I’ll be like, whoa. I depend on this way to pretty the simplest of things. Like, it’ll be like, you’ll say something in kind of like a word, and I’ll be Uh huh. And then I’ll go to Google that one whatever word definition. Oh, okay, know what she meant. All right, cool.
DD: Are you a phone person or a laptop person?
LSH: You know what? I’m starting to become a laptop person, because, you know, I’m out here handing in business okay, I’m a business woman, so sometimes that’s just easier when you’re on your laptop, because you’re on your phone, it’s all extra small, and you’re trying to, like, do things, emails and stuff. So I would say laptop for business, phone for pleasure.
TA: The clicking of the keyboard is made one of my favorite sounds. So makes me feel very productive. So I love a keyboard.
JS: My family yell at me, my sisters, my cousin can’t get all the where you been. What’s going on, my guys, I’m on the phone for one after another, after another, after another, and you have to have a presence on every single app, and you have to be doing stuff. And I’m also an actor, writer, producer, so I’m trying to get projects off the ground while keeping a presence. And then you got your life, and then you got your significant other. It’s just like, only 24 hours in a day. It’s It’s so hard. So I would bet right now I will take the challenge that I have the most screen time out of anyone on this show.
DD: For big purchases do you use your phone or laptop?
LSH: I’m gonna say laptop, because I need to see everything big, like I’m gonna spend my money. I need to read and look at everything and see it in, in big, large screens, not the little because I’m spending my money.
JZ: Phone, phone, phone. Amazon, phone.
JS: I’m very guilty that it’s like three o’clock in the morning and I’m listening to some unsolved murder doc on YouTube while scrolling Amazon. Then I’m just buying things that I don’t need, but I convinced myself that I need.
TA: You know what? It’s probably from my phone, and it’s probably after a fun night out, I will probably make my biggest purchases then, because, like, a girl deserves a bag or a girl deserves some more shoes. You know what I mean?
DD: Which social media app are you checking multiple times per day?
JZ: Okay, if I was checking multiple times a day, would be Instagram. It’s the only one I’m on. I’m not on Facebook. I’m not on Twitter. I only push out to it, like, by, you know, like, it’s like, push it out. I can’t do more than one, I could barely do one. I’ve tried to hire social media assistants. I can’t find the right marriage because I travel so much so, am I here? Am I there?
TA: I mean, Instagram.
LSH: I would say Instagram. Instagram is pretty much like my go to it’s almost like it’s bad, because I’m like a robot. You know how you just grab your phone and I just automatically go to Instagram, like, I have a problem. I think I’m addicted. Help.
JS: Instagram I’m checking in to see what’s happening. Like, that’s the number one Facebook is like my groups, I’m gonna die hard Kiss fans, I’m in all my Kiss groups. Check in with the vinyl collectors, what up? And family members, all those people act, spread same thing. I’m gonna go dish my thoughts or put lyrics or songs there, and then people, are you okay? Is everything all right? What’s happening? And I’m like, Guys, everything’s fine, My dear Lord, everything’s good.
DD: Which items have you been influenced to purchase via social media?
JZ: You know, what I find is a lot of them are like the ones from Shark Tank, you know, smart, practical solutions to problems, and that’s what I like to buy, and that’s what I like to sell.
LSH: Me and cam just renewed our vows back in November. So somehow, online, I found this dress shop. I ordered a dress for the vowel renewal. Girl, it came, and it was mismade. It had no back class I was in. It came late too. So it came like the day before I was supposed to fly out. And I said, Never again, man,
JS: We are living in the best time. But it’s terrible because everything is so expensive, everything is so at your fingertips like I literally have a rig that I’ve made for my iPhone 15. It’s a real rig. It’s an iPhone. How is that possible? This is so dangerous, I can’t stop myself. I don’t have any self-control. Well,
DD: If you could trade places with a contestant from a different reality show, who would it be?
JZ: Well it wouldn’t be Housewives, and it probably wouldn’t be a Bravo show, I don’t know, maybe a decorator makeover, probably like the decorator shows.
LSH: Tiffany, I love New York. I would trade with her because she had like eight spin-offs after that. And I just think she’s so funny, how she handles everybody’s personality.
JS: Zak Bagans from Ghost Adventures, I love that man. Love him, but I’m Zak Bagans. He’s just, you know, the intro, ‘A lot of people don’t believe in ghosts till they can face to face with one. I sit on a quest with my sweet. I sit on a quest to my three friends to capture everything on camera. This is our story, Ghost Adventures.’ And every episode he’s haunted, he gets possessed. And I’m like, Yeah, we’re here for you. We will, we will. We will come to the possession to make sure we get you back, bro, I want to walk in that man’s shoes for a day and see the way that he sees the world.
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