Ali Macofsky Was Making Prank Calls for Ryan Seacrest at Age 7

Did I ever tell you I used to be on the radio? The radio? Yeah. I've told you this before. In another life? No, when I was like seven years old I was on um, Kiss FM. Did you tell me this? I have. Really? Yeah, Ryan Seacrest is the most of it probably. Yeah. Why did I not remember that? I don't know. Was it good? Yeah, I mean I had a job working as a radio personality for like four years from third grade until sixth grade? Really? Yeah, making prank phone calls. No, yeah, I don't think you told me this. I've told you. Did you tell me on the air? No. You told me in real life. I told you in real life. I don't know if you did. I don't remember it. Do you remember this? Mm-hmm. I've heard her talk about it before. But I was like a mini, I was like a little mini celebrity in my hometown, you know, like my dad would, he, I remember one time he had to get a rental car and they were gonna give him like, you know, a Toyota or something. He's like, do you listen to Kiss FM? Do you know Lil' Allie? It's my daughter. Can I get a convertible? Pick me up from school and a new, like a nicer rental car or something. Yeah, but I mean even that was hard and that was like nothing. How the fuck did that happen? I called in randomly. My sisters listened to Kiss FM when we would get ready for school. We'd listen to it. You were seven? I was seven. No one's watching you? My dad was home. My dad was home and my sisters were home. Probably, yeah. And you just grabbed the phone and started dialing numbers? I asked my sister. I said I want to call into the radio station. I want to like request a song or something. And my sister's like, I'm not giving you the number. You're gonna embarrass me. All my friends listen to this station. And so she tries calling in. She doesn't get through. My dad takes her to school. Me and my other sister at home. I press redial on the phone and I immediately get through and now I'm panicking. I don't know what to say and I'm like, can I get Britney Spears tickets? Talking to Ryan Seacrest and he's like, can you sing a Britney Spears song? So I'm like seven years old singing toxic by Britney Spears just being like the taste of your lips. I'm on a ride. And after I sing this song, he's like, oh we don't have Britney Spears tickets, but we have American Idol tickets. And I was like, I'll only go if they're VIP. Is that what you said? Yeah. We're just having a conversation back and forth. He's like, where are your parents? I'm like, I don't know. Dad's out. It's like seven in the morning. And so then I ended up getting a job making prank phone calls for them. How did it end? It ended with me not being little anymore. And didn't like you anymore. No, I was too old. I was like 12. Is that really what happened? They yeah. So I had a contract that would like, you know, expired and then they wanted to renew it, but in a different way and sign on to Ryan's production company. But my dad wanted to pimp you out. Yeah. Whoa. And you want a piece of you? Yeah. Really? Yeah. I think they want like 20 percent of everything you do from there on out. I think so. Whoa. And my dad was like, that's too much. And so we didn't end up doing if your stand up career took off, you'd be Ryan Seacrest's bitch. So for the rest of your career, if you'd signed that, it might be for life. I don't think it would have been for life forever. You produced a Kardashian show forever and ever. I always tell my dad we could have been the Mokovsky's keeping up with the Mokovsky's. Yeah, he fucked up, dad. No, but I'm so grateful because I mean, I don't know if anything would have come of that or anything, but like I'm glad I got to eat lunch in the bathroom alone in high school and like have all of those, you know, just awkward moments, weird, awkward, uncomfortable moments. Isn't that funny that at the time you think of them as being the worst thing ever? And then later on you realize there's kind of a gift in some of that weird angst. Catch new episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience for free only on Spotify. Watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify, including clips, easily, seamlessly switch between video and audio experience. On Spotify, you can listen to the JRE in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data costs all for free. Spotify is absolutely free. You don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes. You just need to search for the JRE on your Spotify app. Go to Spotify now to get this full episode of the Joe Rogan Experience.