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Creator gossip with big-sister reflexes.
Pretty Basic turns everyday updates into high-speed banter about internet work, relationships, beauty habits, home life, and pop culture. Alisha Marie and Remy Parsons keep the mood loose and funny, but their advice can land with surprising directness.
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Pretty Basic runs on the energy of two friends catching up before the thought has fully formed. Alisha Marie and Remy Parsons move quickly, interrupt warmly, and often find the actual point only after a few side streets. That looseness is the format. One episode can begin with dreams, stage nerves, and a book-tour story, then slide into gratitude, cooking anxiety, and a promise to return with a Coachella recap. Another can start with a new advice segment and turn into a firm conversation about situationships, emotional mistreatment, and knowing when to leave. The show is funny because it lets the detours stay visible. It is useful because the detours often reveal what the hosts actually believe. Creator life is a recurring frame, but not in a detached industry-news way. They talk about posting, consistency, burnout, self-consciousness, and the odd split between being a person and being a brand. Their advice to aspiring creators is direct: post what interests the creator, study the habits that feel stale, and practice a new approach instead of waiting for perfect clarity. The relationship episodes have a similar bluntness. When a story sounds like one person is settling for scraps, the answer tends to be quick and clear. Beauty, fashion, and body talk show up as lived-in daily material: hair extensions, outfits, monitors in the studio, post-wedding weight changes, hormones, and old beauty eras that now feel unreal. Pop culture threads run constantly through the background. Zara Larsson, Beyonce comparisons, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, music-award nostalgia, TikTok gestures, Disney food memories, and old YouTube all become conversational fuel. The show’s charm is not polish. It is the feeling that a private catch-up accidentally became a public archive of creator adulthood. Pretty Basic works best for listeners who like friendship-led talk with speed, confession, teasing, and a little chaos. It is light enough for commuting or getting ready, but specific enough to feel anchored in real routines and real anxieties.
Made for: Best for listeners who follow creator culture, YouTube nostalgia, dating discourse, pop references, beauty routines, and friendship-heavy banter. It especially suits people who like advice that sounds casual until it suddenly gets very clear.
What sets it apart: Pretty Basic stands apart by letting creator adulthood feel messy in real time. The show pairs rapid personal catch-up with practical instincts about posting, boundaries, confidence, and relationships.
Welcome to Pretty Basic, a weekly podcast hosted by multi-hyphenate creators and best friends, Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz. From TMI conversations about dating to big sister chats on how to feel more confident to the dark reality of influencing; each week you'll be left wanting more "content, baby, content." New episodes every Wednesday!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal mishaps and candid self-correction turn online work, friendship, and confidence into useful conversation rather than polished lifestyle instruction.
Pretty Basic with Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz turns friendship into a running editorial method: compare memories, expose the awkward part, then work out what happened together.
A blood-splattered laptop becomes friendship lore, and somehow you're invited into the debrief.
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A warm book-tour story about a missed entrance, unexpected hosting, and the gratitude behind a full room.
Pretty Basic gets a useful change of scenery from a book-tour event, where the usual co-host rhythm has to hold up onstage, in front of a live audience.
A fast, funny intervention for anyone mistaking intermittent attention for a relationship.
Bad relationships become easier to spot once the co-hosts say the details aloud. Relieved to have finished Smosh, they widen the conversation to situationships, conflicting gender-role demands, controlling behavior, and the uneasy fun of watching other people struggle through…
The episode makes creative consistency feel like retraining attention, not endless invention.
Becoming a content creator comes across here as less about discovering one reliable posting formula than learning to follow real interest with some honesty about old habits.
A frantic hotel exit and a very self-aware fangirl spiral turn Pretty Basic into a loose, lively catch-up.
Pretty Basic builds this single episode around a nicely sized comic mess: a 31st birthday, Super Bowl weekend, and a hotel-room scramble after a flight gets moved to 1 p.m.
A Grammys recap where rooftop glamour meets hotel rumors, party-bus jokes and a bloody laptop mishap.
What starts as a Grammys recap soon becomes a lively account of a glamorous, disorderly weekend. Hotel rumors and a rooftop gathering bring the shine, but the best moments puncture it.
A soup-warmed catch-up turns comedy nerves and a long friendship's fourth fight into something quietly tender.
Pretty Basic finds its shape in ordinary comforts: a cold morning, soup on the stove, and two friends easing into a long studio day. Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz move from Remy's Zupa Toscana to the strange appeal of soup for breakfast, then into the more exposed feeling of being…
A candid friendship conversation where honest communication sits comfortably beside running matchmaking jokes.
The episode frames friendship repair as something people have to practice, starting with explaining a personal perspective before rushing to blame.
Bravo recaps with receipts and side-eye.
Famous careers, regular-person details.
Pop culture, overthought with feeling.
Pop culture with studio-room chaos.
Comedy advice for the group-chat era.
Remy Cruz and her celebrity wedding planner Jason Rhee discuss wedding planning, sharing stories and answering listener questions.
Alisha reveals she was recently 'down bad and a little depressed,' questioning if she should have talked about it on the pod.
Cal FaceTimes to show his dogs and finds Alisha and Remi looking like 'little eggs' propped up watching Agatha on a tiny laptop.
Remy and Alicia Marie discuss taking a break from social media and the nuances of saying 'hi girl' in L.A.
Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz record Pretty Basic on location after flying to Oahu to visit Bretman.
Remi Cruz and Alisha Marie open Pretty Basic with Remi coming off the final stop of her book tour and calling herself “alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic and grateful.” The episode spends substantial time on the New York leg, including a sleepover at Alisha’s new house, a housewarming gift from her Ikebana vase line, and the delayed wedding gift she brought after the move.
Pretty Basic opens by introducing a new advice segment called “We Listen and We Judge,” built around situationships where one person is “playing games” and the other keeps settling.
Pretty Basic with Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz centers on Remi's cookbook, "Let's Get Cooking," which she says has 77 recipes and years of recipe testing behind it.
Remi and Alisha discuss Alisha's decision to keep her dating life private and why she's now ready to talk about it, along with pop culture and food trends.
Alicia and Remy discuss moving to a new house, future plans, and personal revelations about health and family.
Alicia and Remy discuss Alicia's embarrassing moment texting a guy on Valentine's Day and the pressure to always be 'on' due to the internet.
Remi and Alicia discuss Disney wedding fantasies, cheese addiction, and their new podcast monitors.
Lucia Marie and Remi Parsons reminisce about 2016 YouTube culture, discuss hormones in their 30s, and reflect on past beauty trends.
Alisha Marie spends much of Pretty Basic recounting how she fangirled over Boston Rob from Survivor at a Santa Clara hotel bar during Super Bowl weekend.
Alisha Marie says an elevator stopped open on the sixth floor and Cal recognized Kendrick Lamar by voice.