Tyler Cameron (Part 1)

You're listening to Jojassewa now with me Jojo Siwa and iHeartRadio podcast and just like that, we are back. Welcome back to Jojaswa. Now this is my second podcast, and uh, I mean, I got tough competition with my first one, but I think I'm gonna like this one even better because today I'm gonna be chatting with one of my best friends in the entire world, mister Tyler Cameron. We met on Special Forces and Tyler became I mean, he's a brother to me. Now he's more than a friend.

Jojo where am I? Right now?

You are in the Jojo Ciua merch room slash podcast station.

Now you are, I'm in Jojo universe.

Did you ever think six months ago you would not only be in a bedroom with me, but be in this.

Well, hello Jojo. There's lots of interesting start if you if.

Someone would have told you that, would you have believed them.

Together?

If you're just listening. Basically, the room setup is a ton of old school Jojo merch. So there's I mean, there's dolls, there's toys, there's books, there's furniture, there's bikes, there's bows, everything, and.

It is literally like picture Toy story, right, Yeah, you're in the Toy Story Kids section, you know in the movie when the away and all that suff Yeah, but it's all Jojo. You know, it is unreal.

It's there's a lot of me staring at you. It's kind of freaky, it is.

It is. It's like all different versions of you too.

Yeah, you know, all throughout the year. So this the merch ranges from the time I was like fourteen to seventeen is all the different photos. But we got these weird two teeny tiny kiddy twin beds out about an inch off the floor.

And Tyler, do you sleep in these beds?

Oh god, no, God no, no, these these beds. I'm honestly shocked we haven't fallen through them yet.

This is something, This is something.

It is something.

I'll give you this. This is the most epic podcast room I've ever been in. Okay, I'll give you that. I've been in some podcast rooms that you around the block. There is nothing that it's like this.

This is it is an adventure. I'm happy with how it turned out.

I think what's cool. It pays homage to like your like your past. It does where you've come from, Thank you. It does like they knew you on the mic though.

On the mike was spitting bars up in here. I mean, that's why, That's why I Joe, is you now this podcast? That's what I wanted it to be is it's kind of my my past, my president, my future, and especially me learning how my past is affecting me now and affecting my future in positive ways and negative ways and mutual ways. And so that's kind of that's kind of where I want to start with you. I mean, obviously I've gotten to know you on a real true friend level.

Yeah. Man, I was a wild child, and I was like back sixteen years old, I was like in love with this girl. She broke my heart and I was like I will never ever have a girlfriend, never again. Yeah right, And so from sixteen to like twenty four, I never had a girlfriend. Wait actually yeah, and I was just partying.

You went around like you had all around. I never black.

Yeah, So I mean I I.

You know, my friend was like, oh my god, we were we were at a bar with Tyler one night. I was like, yeah, you were never real a.

Girl, but I saw. So I went through like this crazy wild phase and I was playing college football, yeah you know, and I let partying honestly take over my career and everything and my goals. Like I just I did I walked the line too much. I didn't do what I was supposed to do always and I kind of spiraled, you know, and I failed. I felt really hard on my face at Wake Forest, really and uh

Wow.

Yeah, and then I actually got a girl friend that year too. Maybe step made a step, you know, But what was good was like I really learned like, oh wait, it's good to be religo, it's good to open up the people and all that. So I was a little bit of a wild child. I like to have a lot of fun. I still do, but you know, I was a little out of control. Then I think I've doubted in much better. Yes, and realize that you can

Did you so you wanted to become a re baller, you did. Ah, do you think your life would be different? I mean, obviously, obviously it would be very different.

It would be different.

Do you think you would enjoy it more? Or do you think like where you're at is?

I think I think what I'm doing is a you know, critical life. Yeah. I make good money. I am able to do a lot of really cool experiences, really cool things, things that I would I would have just been a guy struggling to stay on the team. Yeah, I was playing football.

Still, you know what position did you play?

I was like a tight end, fullback.

I asked, as if I would know anything besides a quarterback. I know one position. I couldn't even tell you what the quarterback does.

No, I know how long?

Yeah, yeah, football is not my sport.

I'm gonna take you to a football game. I remember you told me never been to a football You knows.

I'm screwed up.

So I did.

I did a deal with the NFL, right, and I'd never been to a football game. And I was doing a Super Bowl deal and they were like, oh, so, like, tell us about a football game experience that you've had. And I was like, I've never been to one. And They're like Okay, well, your first game is not the super Bowl. You have to go to a game before the super Bowl. So they sent me to a Raiders game, okay, and I didn't know why. I was like, why it is?

Yeah, you're there for the concert at halftime anyways.

Yeah, like justin never like that year, That's what I was there for. It was just a football game before and I after. But I was like, okay, I get it out, Like this has actually been doing since then, I've obviously learned much more. And how so.

Pro football is one experience, but going to a true SEC college football game is more. It's crazy, there's tradition, there's all these things that go to it. Like I gotta take you to one of those one day.

That'd be fun, Yeah, I feel like, but it'd be so.

Far yeah yeah, out of control.

Oh man, Okay, so you when did you stop playing football? And when did you because you first got known on the Bachelorette, what was the in between period? How like give me your timeline.

Yeah, so this is a funny period of my life. So I am finishing up school, I'm getting my GC license. That means I can build houses under my name.

He's a construction boy, got those thirst traps are coming next, Get ready for that.

We're already working on.

It.

But the so, I'm in construction, and then there's this random guy that keeps commenting on all my posts. Yeah, and you know, I'm posting like random pictures here and there. Yeah, you know, And I'm like, I's got his profile. It says like casting director for such and such. So I hit him up. I'm like, what do you do? You know? He's like, oh, scout you know, blah blah blah blah.

Scout hotman for.

You.

Didn't want to your own horn there, but I'll do it.

He's like, he's like, have you ever modeled? I was like, no, never modeled. He goes, you should give it a shot. I was like, okay. He's like, send me digitals and I'll help you. I'll try and find you someone for you to model for. It's like, what's a digital? So he sends me a bunch of pictures of dudes in their underwear and I'm like, I'm gonna send this random guy pictures of me and I sat on it for

But I think they'd go real well in your houses.

Yes, so we send them. So I sent them to him, like screw it, why not? Yeah, And he actually sends them to people, and then he got me modeling, uh like opportunities, and I started working with these people and and I got you know, I got my miling jaws all that, and then randomly one day I was still like home, like not getting any jobs yet. Modeling, and yeah, I saw an ad for the w WE, so I sent them an application and send it out modeling. W Yeah. When I said to my boys, my boy's like, this

A nervous Oh yeah, has this habit when he's nervous, he talks with his arms.

Up and I'm nervous to put my hands on my head and talk. And so yeah, I sign up for the Bachelorette or whatever, and they call like a week later, and then they start interviewing me, and I keep passing on the interviews and then.

Is that a long audition process?

It is like three times so zoom in person Fort Lauderdale and then the flying out to LA and that's the final.

Yeah.

Yeah. So after the finale, I foundly got my first modeling job. So I'm like, damn rich. I got paid one thousand dollars to sit outside of Cardier and a bell hop suit, you know what I mean. I had like a red jacket, little hat, all these things and I'm like handing out champagne to everyone on Valentine's Day. Yeah, and I get a call from the Bachelerette. I got the green light to go on the show. So let's god like me and the boys. We all party that night. And that's kind of how it all got started.

Okay, so you're going in to do the Bachelor atte right you obviously you signed yourself up for it and then you got it. What was your expectation going on the Bachelrette versus your reality of it.

My expectation of it was, I'm just going on for an adventure. Yeah, and if I fall in love with this girl, I end up liking this girl.

You know who it is before you go? Do you know the girl?

So at this point in time when they inter after I made the show, they come to do like a home video of you. Yeah, for like your the first episode and it's either going to be hannahb Be or Hanna Gee. We don't know who it is somebody.

Either way, it's a Hannah.

It's a Hannah, you know. So they make you do a take for Hannah, they make you do a take for the other Hannah.

Got it?

You know, Like when talking about like the girl and like why do you want to be with her?

So and you see what the girl looks like, you maybe get like a little bio on that or something exactly.

And like you're supposed to know a little bit of who they are because they were on the season before God and Hannah Brown. Hannah Bee was like, well, I hope it's Hannah be because like she was like much more like like energetic. Yeah, she had a whole lot going on, like she's a ton of energy.

Yeah.

I love being around a lot of energy.

Yeah.

So then I foun it was her. I was like fired up. I was like, Okay, this might actually work out. Yeah. And then the reality of it is is the first night came, I got that limo. Yeah, freaked out.

Panic.

I panicked it was your first TV show, first time, first time doing TV show. Wow. Yeah, And so I panic and I like, I still say what I'm supposed to say, but I blackout door remember anything? Yeah, And I like come back into like the house now I'm in the mansion. I'm like, what the heck just happened? What did myself up for? Yeah? And then I was like I didn't get to talk to her that whole night. Yeah, and so I'm like, right now I'm going home night one.

Whoa, I didn't know y'all started with that much.

Yeah, I think so wow, So they cut us all, you know, So like that night, they're cutting people and I see her start giving roses to some of the guys you didn't talk to. It might be a chance, but I'll sweating it up. There got the rose.

The arms went over the head guaranteed.

Yeah, if I could, but I'm the only one up there.

Like this, Why it is Tyler doing head shoulders and some toast not no reason, but uh but yeah, then it just kind of transpired and I kind of found my voice like a week into it, and like we started to open up and talk and I had the best time.

Yeah, it was so much fun. And I think some people have like bad tastes in their mouths from it, but it's because they don't control what they want to do.

Yeah, you know that makes sense, but I.

Only said and do what I wanted to do. Yeah.

That's something that's so true with reality TV is because you don't have a say so in reality TV on how it gets edited or how it's a It's a really tough tough gig. With reality you get no saying what ends up going out to the world. So you do have to just make sure that while you're there, you really are doing things that you want to be doing, and that you're happy with your choices that you're making, and you don't get pure pressured into anything.

It's at the end of the day, like we all gotta we gotta. We got a name and a family at home. You got a name it yeah, you know. So it's like, I'm not going to say and do things it's gonna mess up my family or throw them under the bus, yeah, to put them in a bad situation. So that was kind of always what my head was when I saw everyone else was just like, I'll tell any story, I'll do that.

I was like, that's uh, your your people to protect exactly. Okay, so you do you do? Bachelor, you got second, second, first place to lose, as Abby Lee would say, first place to lose you met able yesterday. Oh my god, we had this party yesterday. It was the episode three Special Forces Watch party. You had it at the house, and all of my world's collided. So Abby Abbey Lee was there and DSQ was here, and so having my

I could have seen it. Yeah, a couple more drinks maybe.

He went up to her chair and like started yelling at her because she's she's confined to a cherr yet, and he like started yelling at her, and she was like, oh, lap dance, Like oh god, no, this is not.

It was so cool seeing her, was it? Yeah? But also kind of like yea when I saw her, Yeah, because just two weeks ago we were talking about you and we brought up there iconic yep.

Well, if you yell at you, I'm gonna cry yeah. Yeah.

I was like, damn, that lady's me. Yeah, you know what I mean.

Yeah, I would give a piece of my mind.

I got to know him, like I'm protective now, you know what I mean. I'm like, Damn, that was harsh.

Yeah it was. It was one hell of a childhood, that's for sure.

But I think all that stuff is what made you strong and ready to go for Special Forces.

Yeah that is that is true, And I want to talk about forces. So we obviously we met on special Forces. So it's so annoying. The more and more I'm watching it, the more and more I'm like, I wish we could do it now with as close as we are, Like picture just the car rides now, with as close as we are, How fun it would be. Picture of the fights now, Like how fun it would be like to be like, Tyler, go get up.

You know what I mean, Jo, I don't know if I have as much energy as you, so I think I will still be slapping the car like you've probably be like come here, come here, come hang out.

Teaching the dance. Come on, let's go, Tyler. No. I feel like I feel like we were we were close while we were there. I want you to tell the story about how I be I became more your police and how you felt about it, and then you know what, Sorry, I'm talking about.

So so Jojo.

Gave an asshole on day two.

Yeah, so she pretty much comes in and like lays on the law because we keep getting reamed out because we don't we're not looking the same, We're not in uniform, we're not dressing up.

And I just wasn't down to get in trouble for wardrobe malfunction.

That wasn't gonna And some of them made this like andone was like, yeah, it makes sense. She's in dance and they always had to be in wardrobe, you know. And I was like, oh, that does make a lot of sense. Well, well, Jojo became the wardrobe police every day, like the worst cop you've ever had to deal with, and like I'd be so tired. I'd be like all I want to do is take my clothes off, you know. And I'd be like in my bed laying and like I have just like my undershirt on, and Joj like

Tyler wears gloves you know you had that was your band. Put your own band on.

And then and then I started to become the last person always out because I was always you know, I wasn't really listening to her first, So then then we kept me in trouble. And Rudy's like, you know, you got to stay ready so you don't have to get ready.

Yeah, stays ready.

And so I started wearing all my stuff all the time, started listening to Jolly like, damn, she's right.

I remember like day it was like day four, because I feel I became wardrobe police on day like end of day two, end of day and beginning of day three, and I feel like by like end of day four and maybe even end of day five, I remember you come up to me like we checked my mouth, and I think happily, because after that, we would get in trouble.

If you do the same thing, you happy. That was the exact thing right there.

We would get in trouble though. If one button was wrong, one zipper was undone, if our gloves were in opposite pockets, like and either way we're going to get in trouble, but not not for a button. I will happily get in trouble for anything for a button. Yeah. I always remember to being like these boys have to hate me.

But no, but I know I'm doing right thing for you to be twenty years old and take over that role of telling people do this, do this? Do that? That takes like balls, one composure, maturity, you know, like as being a true leader, and you were telling fifty two year olds forty year old you.

Know, not only that I'm selling Jack Osborne, Tyler Cameron, Nick Vile, Body Miller, Robert Robert Tyr Boots, Like why am I telling an NBA Hall of Famer to put his armband on his arm?

And like it takes a certain type of balls. Are crazy, you know, you decide. But it was like I'm like I'm always like when I look back, I'm like, that was so impressive because I was I was quiet for probably like two days because like usually when I get into a new setting, I always like to hear and feel it out. You are right to like leading, which is like that's important, you know, that's and that's a quality that is hard to find.

Thank you straight that I.

Did mess it. I did miss the button though one time. Remember remember, and you're like slowly moved. So we remember we were on the beds. Yep, we're on the beds and and ds Billy is going around and he is uh, he's like checking all of our things, and everyone's got three buttons all of a sudden, and I was asking are we two or three? Are we two or three? And I never got a clear answer. So I turned around after we made our beds and I look over.

So they put all of our beds in the middle of the braid square and just kept flipping. They made us like all our shit out on it and then flipped them and all our stuff out again, and then flipped them again and then laid all and out again.

I mean, this went and we're just getting so mad at each other. Like, guys, it's so simple.

I will say that last time we had it down packed because what we did is like the first few times, everyone was just folding their own stuff, and then shocker, I decided, all right, I'm just gonna tell everyone what to do. And I was like Tyler, everyone's shirt, Tom, everyone's pants, Jojo, everyone socks.

Which is genius because they all got folded the same way.

Everything got fulled the same way, every in person. I think I may have done two things, but everyone else only had to do one thing. That it was all the same, and that last round we did have it. I will not give them that we didn't.

It was a sock underneath.

Then there was a sock underneath.

But I swear they think we talked to Billy. He claims he didn't put that sock there.

He claims Billy got it one which DS was your favorite? Which was your favorite drink filming? And which is your favorite?

Now? Favorite? During I think I wanted to earn d s Q's respect the most during filming. I don't know what it was like he really he was in my room, you know, my mirror room, and uh, it was just something about how how tough he was on us and how hard he was that I had to go prove to him, you know, because he was like kind of the like the the one who would guess when we were in trouble.

You know, he was, Oh my god, he's evil. Laughed.

It kind of became like a big brother figure for me in it post show favorites, they're all amazing. That's hard. It's hardly, Like Rudy cracks me up because like you see this guy he was so intense and strong and mean and then he's like the sweetest, nicest guy on Instagram and it's.

Like Q is so nice.

Yeah nice, but Billy, like I went, I went and watch episode one with him and he was epic and like I could have drank beers with him all night. Well, no, what is it? Is it? From what we called that is so funny.

It is the happiest photo of Billy. It was when we called on episode one everyone and there's this other one who he's like giving a heart it's so c.

But he's truly that happy of a person and like he's just such a joy to be around, just not when you're in uniform. Yeah you know. And then Foxy is just like such a smart alex so funny.

I don't know who that is.

Daddy Foxy.

Oh, Daddy Daddy fox Yeah, Daddy Foxy.

Oh why don't we talk about Daddy Foxy?

Okay, actually I would like to know, because you wouldn't have known what I was writing in my journal. Okay, right, but I did kind of toss around that I was naming him Daddy Yoxy. I don't know if you knew that before or not. When Billy so Billy diz Billy came in the room and it made us all stand out of attention right by our beds, and he was like, show me your spoon, show me your wet pants, show me your dry kids, show me your sock. He gets

Interesting boss relationship right there?

Get out of here, get out of here, more of like a like hmm boss. But it also was an f name. So we'll call him Frank. His name is not Frank, but we'll call him Frank. So she calls her boss Daddy Frank. And so Daddy Foxy went so well, like it just it worked. There was also I did call Billy Daddy as well. But it also is just because I'm gay and I can I can't do that

Fox He's a stud.

He is a beast. He is a study.

He's like a strong, good looking man. But he's got just like a certain type of kind of charisma to a charm. He's got charm. He's funny. He's really weird, you know, very sarcastic, super you know, he would show a little bit of human more so than anyone else would during this show.

I saw human in him and Rudy.

Yeah, Rudy did show when we.

Were at the Damn Wall, and Rudy was like yeah, and I had to go in the frozen Lake.

I remember that. Yeah.

So anyways, Billy comes up to me and he's showed me a journal, and I was like, shit, all right. So he takes my journal and he starts whipping through it and he reads out loud what I had wrote in my journal, which was when I got off the Damn Wall. Daddy Foxy looked at me and said, and then I already said, and so Billy read that out loud for everybody. What did you think when you heard that out loud?

I mean, it was just it was like it was it was like I felt like I was in middle school again and someone, you know, took your little path that you were writing about Vanessa in the front seat to the left, you know, like her boobs look good today, you know what I mean, Like she got the she got the Victoria's sek bombshell, bro, you know, And and it's like I felt like we're back to being like little kids. Like it was just so funny, so playful, you got busting with you.

It is so innocent and so wrong at the same time.

And just for you, of all people, to call him Daddy Fossey is just funny, outrageous.

Oh, Tyler, I gotta admit, dude, you are one of my favorite people ever and this has been so much fun getting to chat with you. But we still have so much more to talk about, So everybody out there stay tuned for Part two with Tyler Cameron. Thank you so much for listening. Everybody. Be sure to follow us on Instagram and TikTok at Jojesua Now podcast. Be sure to write us a review, and maybe, if you're feeling to leave us five stars, I'll see you next week.