The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - A FAMILY ROAST ｜ Drew Afualo ft. Krit ｜ THE COMMENT SECTION EP 32

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00:01:24.960 Hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring me, Drew, your favorite.

00:01:30.100 We all know blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:01:31.360 Today, I'm very, very honored to introduce you all to my guests and it's also my very first Samoan guest, the one and only Chris.

00:01:42.120 So excited.

00:01:43.440 Was I supposed to join in on the show?

00:01:45.460 Me alone.

00:01:47.460 I'm so f***ing excited.

00:01:50.380 I'm excited too, yeah.

00:01:51.760 My first us on the show.

00:01:54.720 I mean, we're not usos, but still.

00:01:56.380 Right.

00:01:56.600 You know, that's so close to usi.

00:01:59.120 Like, it's always like, oh, wait, wait, you know, but we're Samoan, so it's all right.

00:02:03.420 Yeah, that's okay.

00:02:03.920 We can say that.

00:02:04.700 Right.

00:02:04.900 You know what's funny?

00:02:05.580 One time on my TikTok, I said, um, sometimes I got to drag the usos.

00:02:10.640 Yeah.

00:02:11.000 Right.

00:02:11.220 To be funny.

00:02:11.900 And then someone goes, did she say usos like the WWE wrestlers?

00:02:16.180 I'm all, that stands for brothers, babe.

00:02:18.480 Translate it.

00:02:19.500 Right.

00:02:20.100 They actually named off the Samoan word.

00:02:22.880 They're brothers and they're called the brothers.

00:02:25.420 Exactly.

00:02:26.360 That's the joke.

00:02:27.280 But I'm so excited to have you.

00:02:30.000 I've been a fan of you for a long time.

00:02:31.680 I appreciate that.

00:02:32.860 I don't know why, but you know what?

00:02:34.660 But I appreciate it.

00:02:35.700 Honestly, Crit is so cool on like Twitter and Instagram, especially Twitter is where I

00:02:41.040 found you initially.

00:02:41.860 But, um, I saw you talking about Samoan people, Samoan language, and you were also talking

00:02:47.920 about some of the issues that we have in our culture, which I not only agree with you on,

00:02:53.520 but I felt, I found very refreshing because it's like thought provoking and they're important

00:02:58.400 conversations to have about our culture.

00:03:00.240 So I thought that was really cool.

00:03:02.380 So I actually showed you to my sister.

00:03:04.620 I was like, look how cool this guy is.

00:03:06.200 And I followed you on Twitter.

00:03:07.560 Oh, well, I appreciate it.

00:03:09.100 I mean, you know, I, and I, I mean, I've just come to learn of your work recently as you've

00:03:14.200 grown up and I've been, yeah, I've been enjoying everything that you've been putting out there.

00:03:17.700 And I love the fact that, you know, you have this podcast and you're amplifying, you know,

00:03:21.960 other, other people from communities that don't necessarily have their voices, you know,

00:03:26.600 out there.

00:03:27.400 So, yeah, absolutely.

00:03:29.080 We talk about, we've talked about it a lot, like prior to this, but like representation

00:03:32.720 is so important.

00:03:34.280 Uh, that's like the one thing whenever I do like any sort of interview or anything like

00:03:39.200 that, um, it makes me emotional.

00:03:41.540 Like when I spoke with Coconut, like that was like the first time I've ever cried in an interview.

00:03:45.680 I was like, don't tell the man it'll ruin my street.

00:03:47.640 Yeah.

00:03:48.020 But like that, uh, was the first time I got emotional cause I was talking about representation 0.62

00:03:51.740 and like how, when I was growing up, I didn't have Samoan women to look at in mainstream 1.00

00:03:56.960 media.

00:03:57.620 Cause I feel like more often times than not, like when people think of Samoan people,

00:04:02.320 they, a lot of times think of athletes more than anything.

00:04:05.240 They're like WWE athletes.

00:04:07.420 Right.

00:04:07.880 Pretty much it.

00:04:08.560 Right.

00:04:08.900 That's where it starts and stops.

00:04:10.260 So I, as someone who's been able to be like more like mainstream, not, not known for like

00:04:17.180 playing a sport or something.

00:04:18.280 Right.

00:04:18.680 I think that's really cool.

00:04:19.820 Yeah.

00:04:20.000 That's the same thing with you.

00:04:20.940 And you've been in media for a long time too.

00:04:22.860 So I'm sure you've seen countless times representation, like how there's not very much for us.

00:04:27.860 Yeah.

00:04:28.240 I mean, it's, it's different in New Zealand.

00:04:30.560 Well, you know, cause I grew up in Aotearoa.

00:04:32.160 So, so I feel like in the U S you don't get to have that same exposure.

00:04:37.840 Right.

00:04:38.140 So that's true.

00:04:39.080 Yeah.

00:04:39.480 So it was probably, was it like a culture shock for you when you saw like just kind of

00:04:43.560 the differences as far as like representation for us specifically in media, like whether

00:04:48.620 it's TV, movies, music, that kind of stuff.

00:04:51.640 Yeah.

00:04:51.900 I think it was, I think the, it's funny because you come here and you see a lot of Samoans 0.54

00:04:56.720 and you know, well, depending what state you're in.

00:04:58.980 Right.

00:04:59.380 Yeah.

00:04:59.540 But then at the same time, you don't see that, you don't have that, I guess the same

00:05:05.340 depth represented in media, whether it's mainstream media or just, you know, you don't even get

00:05:11.900 to see specifically Pacific Islander media either.

00:05:16.440 Right.

00:05:16.900 Yeah.

00:05:17.060 Absolutely.

00:05:18.120 Yeah.

00:05:18.460 So that, that was kind of a shock, but, but at the same time, it's refreshing when you

00:05:22.820 do see someone like yourself, you know, pop up and it's like, Oh, you know what?

00:05:26.220 Like things are changing, you know?

00:05:28.180 Yeah.

00:05:28.540 I think it's a sign of, I guess, our population growing too, I think.

00:05:34.040 And just, um, and then I think, you know, not just that you, you do stand out, you know,

00:05:39.320 I think what you've got to say has, you know, resonates with so many people and I just think

00:05:43.000 it's timely with, uh, this generation of, you know, what we've got going on.

00:05:47.160 Yeah.

00:05:47.460 Cause it's, I, I think I've, I've talked about this multiple times too, like here on

00:05:51.920 my show.

00:05:52.420 And then also like in other interviews or when people talk to me about like how I

00:05:57.940 came to be this way.

00:05:59.360 And I talk about how like Samoan culture is very matriarchal. 0.75

00:06:03.020 So we do hold women in very high regard, obviously.

00:06:05.920 And then like the gender roles within Samoan culture, like men cook and clean. 0.68

00:06:10.180 Yup.

00:06:10.600 Too.

00:06:11.100 Right.

00:06:11.740 Well, I don't know what my dad did, but yeah, but they do. 1.00

00:06:14.580 Yeah.

00:06:14.800 But they do typically.

00:06:16.200 Yeah.

00:06:16.360 So like it, for me, it was like the way American culture sees women, um, was much different

00:06:24.060 than how I was raised.

00:06:25.220 Right.

00:06:25.440 So like what we're raised around, like how we see older people in general, like how we

00:06:30.800 see women is, is a, is a lot different as far as like traditionally. 0.96

00:06:34.060 Right.

00:06:34.840 Um, so with my content, it really falls in line with how I was raised because it's, it was much

00:06:42.320 different than what I think the average American person experiences.

00:06:47.300 And I don't know if your experiences were the same in New Zealand.

00:06:49.560 Cause obviously we're all someone, but you were raised in New Zealand.

00:06:51.980 So.

00:06:52.240 No, for sure.

00:06:52.740 Like my mom and her sisters and all their relationships, they wore the pants.

00:06:57.080 I mean, I don't know if that's what you're trying to say.

00:06:58.820 Yeah.

00:06:59.160 That is what I'm saying.

00:07:00.320 Yeah.

00:07:00.440 Yeah.

00:07:00.760 Like they're like, I always say like, they're like the son of our families.

00:07:04.460 So we orbit around them.

00:07:05.740 Yeah.

00:07:06.120 Whatever they're doing, whatever they want to do, whatever they need, that's what we're doing

00:07:09.740 and what we need to provide for them.

00:07:11.840 As children of like mothers and also like sisters and cousins and all of that.

00:07:17.640 Cause our families are very big.

00:07:19.380 Yeah.

00:07:19.760 No, they are.

00:07:20.900 No, my mom comes from a family of eight and my dad comes from a family of nine and I've

00:07:24.680 just got like a million cousins.

00:07:25.920 But I've always, I think because of my mom's personality and her sisters, they have such

00:07:31.380 strong personalities.

00:07:32.580 I've always, and because they took great care of me too, I've always preferred the energy

00:07:36.980 of women in my life.

00:07:38.280 Yeah.

00:07:38.500 Like my best friend, like my, uh, as far as, um, like even when it comes down to a therapist,

00:07:43.940 like I'm not messing with a man, like I need a woman to, you know, a woman's energy. 1.00

00:07:48.620 Yeah.

00:07:49.040 I've always preferred that.

00:07:50.220 So yeah, that's how my little brother is.

00:07:51.940 Yeah.

00:07:52.180 He like prefers the feminine energy.

00:07:54.400 Yeah.

00:07:54.560 It's just a lot, it's different.

00:07:55.980 It's a different vibe.

00:07:56.680 And I think there's power in that knowing that you like that and also knowing that it

00:08:00.720 doesn't make you less of a man, whatever people want to say about that.

00:08:04.940 Right.

00:08:05.220 Because sometimes they'll cheapen it to like, like calling you like, I don't know, a soy

00:08:10.600 boy.

00:08:11.080 Yeah.

00:08:11.580 Whatever all the fancy terms are now for someone who cares about women. 1.00

00:08:15.760 Like it's just, it's someone who respects women and they're like, God, what a loser. 1.00

00:08:20.580 But that's so dumb because like, that's, that's, I mean, there's so much power in that 0.99

00:08:24.280 energy, right? 0.97

00:08:25.040 Yeah.

00:08:25.340 And, and like, I just feel like you're cutting yourself off from that power.

00:08:31.180 That energy.

00:08:31.800 Yeah.

00:08:32.060 And that's like a, we're a very spiritual, um, like culture as well too.

00:08:37.080 So as far as like ancestors and, um, people who have passed and all of that, like the energy

00:08:42.360 is something we believe in deeply.

00:08:44.260 So I totally know what you mean about feminine energy. 0.96

00:08:47.240 I feel that so deep.

00:08:48.220 Um, even though I myself identify as a woman, but I think too, like when it comes to my content

00:08:55.200 specifically, um, I did an interview with, um, a Samoan reporter for the Samoan observer

00:09:00.520 and, um, we spoke for a long time and she was so wonderful.

00:09:03.960 And she said, um, something about your content that has like, um, drawn me to it is like the

00:09:10.580 fact that it's been able to transcend culture, but at the very center of it, it's Samoan humor.

00:09:15.460 So like, aside from my laugh, because my laugh is not specific to me, like lots of Polynesian 1.00

00:09:22.400 people laugh like me.

00:09:23.320 It's not even just Samoan people, but it's like Polynesian people in general, they cackle 1.00

00:09:27.320 like I do.

00:09:28.400 That's just kind of our thing.

00:09:30.300 Um, but she was saying at the very center of your humor, it's very Samoan.

00:09:34.500 Um, like the way that you make fun of people, the things that you laugh at, like the way

00:09:39.100 that you know how to take a joke, that's all very Samoan. 1.00

00:09:42.060 Yeah.

00:09:42.180 So she was saying she loves seeing other people join in on the fun that are not Samoan because 0.98

00:09:47.660 they're kind of like experiencing a piece of our culture without like, you know, fully

00:09:52.780 understanding it obviously.

00:09:54.240 But I was like, that's, that's pretty cool.

00:09:57.040 I was like, that is true.

00:09:58.000 Cause sometimes people are like, how do you, how do you like, you know, deal with hate

00:10:01.280 or whatever.

00:10:01.960 And I always say like the way I grew up, like no one can hurt my feelings.

00:10:05.920 Right.

00:10:06.880 They're being hurt so bad.

00:10:08.220 Like, right.

00:10:08.980 Like after, after you grow up in a, in a Samoan family, like who's going to touch you after 0.99

00:10:12.860 that?

00:10:13.820 Literally, it's like, I've said before, I'm like, if you're a Samoan person, you get 1.00

00:10:17.720 it.

00:10:18.160 Yeah.

00:10:18.380 Like the way that, the way that no one can hurt your feelings, like, you know what I'm saying?

00:10:23.000 Like the way I'm built, I'm built different.

00:10:25.320 Like the way my mom raised me built different.

00:10:28.280 Like the things my family has said to me when I was growing up, even if they were, they 0.98

00:10:32.900 were so like small and stupid, but like the way they just absolutely changed my perspective 0.98

00:10:38.680 on how I see myself. 0.99

00:10:39.800 Cause I was like, my mom would tell me all the time, she's like, you got to learn to

00:10:42.500 take a joke.

00:10:43.180 Yup.

00:10:43.640 But she would do that.

00:10:44.500 Like Samoan, she'd be like, nobody joke with Drew. 1.00

00:10:47.080 She can't take, she can't take a joke.

00:10:48.720 I guess someone can't take a joke. 1.00

00:10:50.120 But everyone's roasting the absolute shit out of me. 0.99

00:10:53.220 And I'm like, Oh, like I'd like be in despair. 0.99

00:10:55.320 I used to not be able to take a joke.

00:10:57.300 And so my mom would tell me like, if you don't learn how to do that, like no one's going to

00:11:00.880 want to be your friend or joke around with you. 0.98

00:11:03.080 And I was like, damn, really? 0.95

00:11:05.120 I guess I got to start learning to laugh at myself. 0.98

00:11:08.180 But I think it's very someone.

00:11:09.800 No.

00:11:10.400 So I was talking to my mom, you know, when we were talking about, when I think of Samoan

00:11:15.720 humor.

00:11:16.220 Yeah.

00:11:16.760 And then she started breaking down like the nicknames that my grandma gave her and her sisters. 0.77

00:11:21.400 Yeah.

00:11:22.200 So my auntie Anna, her nickname was Vaisa Sapa, which means crooked feet because she had 0.99

00:11:31.260 corns.

00:11:31.800 Like, why would you call a child crooked feet?

00:11:36.060 You know, like, like that.

00:11:37.380 Because of the corns.

00:11:37.680 Yeah.

00:11:37.960 Because she had corns. 1.00

00:11:38.900 It's like, like my grandma was vicious.

00:11:41.220 And the way they're just like, why?

00:11:42.520 What?

00:11:43.100 What's wrong?

00:11:43.760 Exactly.

00:11:44.360 Why is that bad?

00:11:44.880 Why are you crying?

00:11:45.760 Like, why are you upset?

00:11:46.320 Yeah.

00:11:46.520 They're like, why are you crying?

00:11:47.760 Right.

00:11:48.100 And you're like, I don't know.

00:11:49.100 You just call me crooked feet.

00:11:50.460 Like, okay.

00:11:53.460 Yo.

00:11:54.180 That's so funny.

00:11:55.180 And my auntie Naila, her nickname was Isupapa, flat nose. 0.99

00:11:59.280 Like, damn. 0.99

00:12:00.440 Like, why? 1.00

00:12:01.400 Like, how is that?

00:12:03.060 This is why we need therapy.

00:12:04.400 Like, you know, like, these are things that, you know.

00:12:06.800 Yeah.

00:12:07.440 And it's so like, what?

00:12:09.860 Like, it's so casual.

00:12:10.860 Right.

00:12:11.440 And then if you get upset, then you're being disrespectful.

00:12:13.600 Yeah.

00:12:13.820 And you can't do that.

00:12:14.880 So you got to just take it.

00:12:15.940 Yep.

00:12:16.240 That's what I'm saying.

00:12:17.060 I said, like, you guys don't get it.

00:12:19.100 Yeah.

00:12:19.380 You're too sensitive.

00:12:20.360 Yeah.

00:12:20.800 Yeah.

00:12:21.320 You wouldn't last a day.

00:12:23.200 Right.

00:12:23.680 In my family.

00:12:24.460 That's why, like, let alone with other cousins, aunties and uncles.

00:12:27.880 Like, just the way that you show one sign of weakness and they all start ripping on you immediately.

00:12:36.220 Immediately.

00:12:36.980 I, like, the way I grew up is so, I'm, like, thankful for it now.

00:12:41.260 Because now, because of what it is I do now, it's like, I need it.

00:12:44.960 You know what I mean?

00:12:45.360 I need that armor.

00:12:46.880 It was the training ground.

00:12:47.840 You got to get your reps in.

00:12:49.740 Yeah.

00:12:50.020 That's how you get good.

00:12:50.960 That's how you get tough.

00:12:52.940 But the way I, like, make fun of people.

00:12:55.680 Like, the things that we laugh at, the things that we find funny.

00:12:58.120 It's, like, it's so specific to someone people.

00:13:01.200 Like, the way that the things that we find funny.

00:13:03.080 It's, like, it's silly most of the time.

00:13:05.020 Yeah. 0.93

00:13:05.440 So, that's why I'm, like, some of the things I say, they're literally so silly.

00:13:09.620 Like, they don't mean anything. 1.00

00:13:11.600 Like, it's just the silliest shit in the world. 1.00

00:13:13.580 Yeah. 1.00

00:13:13.740 And they fold immediately.

00:13:15.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:13:16.080 The way they crumble almost instantly.

00:13:19.140 Bizarre.

00:13:19.820 Yeah.

00:13:20.100 I can't believe it.

00:13:21.060 And someone, people know how to make fun of someone.

00:13:23.220 No.

00:13:23.660 I'll tell you what.

00:13:24.960 Like.

00:13:25.900 So, what are your experiences with being roasted or roasting?

00:13:29.700 Ugh.

00:13:30.220 Cousins, friends, family.

00:13:31.440 Yeah.

00:13:31.780 So, I mean, I mentioned my grandma and how she named, like, you know, my mom and her sisters

00:13:38.800 and that.

00:13:39.160 So, she had names for me, too.

00:13:40.640 Yeah.

00:13:41.300 Makabuvi, which is big eyes.

00:13:42.560 That was a popular one.

00:13:44.580 Which is, like, translates to cow eyes.

00:13:46.740 But it's, like, you know, your eyes are as big as a cow.

00:13:48.800 So, that was a big one.

00:13:49.940 That's a read.

00:13:50.440 Yeah, that's a read.

00:13:51.260 That's a drag.

00:13:52.140 And then, Bumper Lips. 0.74

00:13:53.540 That was another one.

00:13:54.280 And my lips, so, my lips aren't as bumper as they used to be.

00:13:57.220 But as a child, there was another one.

00:13:59.960 Cow eyes? 0.98

00:14:00.860 Cow eyes.

00:14:01.480 Yeah.

00:14:02.120 Eyes as big as a cow.

00:14:03.880 The way, that's so mean.

00:14:05.160 Right.

00:14:05.820 Like.

00:14:06.500 You just have, like, giant, vacant eyes.

00:14:09.020 No.

00:14:09.260 They, like, remind me of a cow.

00:14:11.140 So, that one still, like, that still goes today.

00:14:14.820 I'm like, wow.

00:14:16.820 It's carried into your adulthood.

00:14:18.640 Yeah.

00:14:19.200 Yeah.

00:14:19.500 And then, well, this isn't me, but my cousin, Sarania.

00:14:23.700 She, she had, and this isn't fun.

00:14:25.460 I'm not trying to make fun of her, but she has bad, she used to have bad eczema. 1.00

00:14:30.500 Okay.

00:14:30.760 And so, they used to call her Luffa, which is, like, rash.

00:14:33.060 Like, and she, and as a baby.

00:14:34.880 Luffa's also ringworm.

00:14:36.220 Right.

00:14:36.460 Exactly.

00:14:37.300 So, it's like, so, you mean to tell me, like, my cousin used to respond to Luffa as a baby.

00:14:43.440 Like, it would be like, Luffa.

00:14:44.460 And, you know, she'd be like, like, that's her name.

00:14:46.280 Like, that's how, that's, that's how I'm on humor.

00:14:49.120 Like, one, why, why do so many of us have skin problems?

00:14:52.760 I think that's.

00:14:53.220 Oh, yeah.

00:14:53.900 I think it's the air.

00:14:55.260 The dry skin?

00:14:55.780 Yeah.

00:14:56.000 Yeah, yeah, because, like, a lot of times, my, my, if my family members, like, had that

00:15:00.320 kind of issue with skin, if they moved to, like, Hawaii, where it's, like, super moist

00:15:04.160 and everything, it would go away.

00:15:05.740 So.

00:15:06.260 So, it's the air.

00:15:06.800 So, we all got to move to.

00:15:07.760 There you go.

00:15:08.200 Yeah.

00:15:08.560 It's the diaspora. 0.58

00:15:09.780 That's why you have that, man.

00:15:11.520 It's colonization.

00:15:12.620 That's what it is. 1.00

00:15:13.480 Damn, well. 0.99

00:15:14.120 It's the displacement. 0.99

00:15:15.300 Well, I just found out we have something else in common.

00:15:17.560 We both have relatives with bad skin who get.

00:15:21.620 Who get made fun of.

00:15:22.640 Exactly.

00:15:23.160 We make fun of them for their bad skin.

00:15:24.180 Yep, we both have that. 1.00

00:15:25.040 Damn. 1.00

00:15:26.640 That's so, like, laugh is so much worse. 0.99

00:15:29.240 That's so funny because, um, or, like, um, we would make, um, there was someone else in

00:15:35.580 my family.

00:15:36.140 I will not say who it was.

00:15:37.600 But, like, we would, like, they would joke all the time because, um, their hair was so,

00:15:44.560 like, big and thick.

00:15:45.540 And they would joke all the time saying that they had ukus.

00:15:48.400 So, they would say, like, call him, like, uku.

00:15:50.880 And I'm, like, that's lice. 0.88

00:15:52.480 Ukus is lice.

00:15:53.580 And I was, like, that's messed up.

00:15:55.860 If your hair was all messy, they'd be, like, oh, she probably has uku. 0.99

00:15:58.280 That's probably why.

00:16:00.120 What a mean thing to say.

00:16:01.980 Like, you see, you hear that.

00:16:04.220 And then people are, like, I can't believe that it doesn't bother you when white 15-year-old 0.99

00:16:08.440 men call you fat. 0.96

00:16:09.680 Right. 0.97

00:16:09.860 No.

00:16:11.040 Doesn't even compare.

00:16:12.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:16:12.560 It doesn't even.

00:16:13.900 It pales in comparison.

00:16:15.600 Like, especially, you, you, again, you've had the training grounds, like, as a child.

00:16:20.400 Like, what are you going to do?

00:16:21.860 Like, what's that?

00:16:22.240 And then you, like, learn to laugh at yourself, even if it's, like, because of something like

00:16:26.880 that.

00:16:27.280 But I also have big eyes.

00:16:29.080 So, your grandma would also probably call me cow eyes. 1.00

00:16:30.860 You guys are fine.

00:16:31.680 Like.

00:16:32.140 I got giant eyes, too.

00:16:33.520 I think they're just, like, the lashes, that's what they are.

00:16:36.480 Yeah.

00:16:36.600 Sometimes people are, like, why do you get so many lashes?

00:16:38.140 I'm, like, I got a lot of real estate.

00:16:39.760 You know what I mean?

00:16:40.600 They're bugging out of my head.

00:16:42.280 I, like, when I don't have them, they look even bigger.

00:16:44.380 Yeah.

00:16:44.880 Which is crazy to think.

00:16:46.660 But that's such a Samoan trait. 0.92

00:16:48.640 That's why, like, I ripped up a Samoan dude once. 1.00

00:16:53.020 And I was talking about his eyes for, like, 10 minutes.

00:16:56.580 I was, like, jeepers creepers.

00:16:58.280 Yeah.

00:16:58.440 Where did you get them peepers, babe?

00:17:00.020 Yeah, yeah.

00:17:00.600 Can you see in the dark with those things?

00:17:02.140 Because it's so big.

00:17:03.440 Yeah.

00:17:03.700 But that's, like, when I made fun of him, he laughed.

00:17:05.780 Yeah.

00:17:06.620 Even though he was being the worst, he was, like, he laughed.

00:17:08.700 So I'm, like, because they know.

00:17:10.000 They know how to take a joke.

00:17:11.240 Exactly.

00:17:11.640 They get it.

00:17:12.120 They're, like, yeah, that's fair.

00:17:13.860 Well, I mean, you got to pay respect.

00:17:15.280 Like, if you can get one on him, then it's, like, well, you know what?

00:17:17.880 I think that all the time, too.

00:17:19.380 I'm, like, well, you know, like, you got to real recognize real.

00:17:23.260 Yeah.

00:17:23.560 Game recognize game.

00:17:24.500 You know what I mean?

00:17:25.080 Like, you made fun of someone.

00:17:26.240 I made fun of you.

00:17:26.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.93

00:17:28.140 The whites don't take too kindly to that.

00:17:31.920 You know, from a Samoan person. 0.89

00:17:33.480 Yeah, from a brown person. 0.93

00:17:34.620 I think that, too.

00:17:35.540 Like, especially when sometimes, like, one time I posted.

00:17:41.080 I forget what they were.

00:17:41.840 They were, like, glam pictures of some kind, but you could see my tattoo in them.

00:17:45.160 And this guy tried to make a joke.

00:17:48.720 And he was, like, she has, like, the map to Treasure Island on her hand, which is a lame joke on top of that.

00:17:54.320 Yeah.

00:17:54.800 But I was, like, this is called a Malu, which is a tattoo given to women of chiefly descent.

00:18:01.920 From Samoans. 0.55

00:18:02.440 It's typically on the legs.

00:18:03.620 And I was, like, but racism is so funny.

00:18:06.200 I know that.

00:18:07.280 And then tweet deleted immediately.

00:18:08.720 Yeah, yeah, like.

00:18:09.560 Account privated immediately.

00:18:10.580 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:18:11.160 That's also, like, sometimes when men try to be racist towards me, they don't even pick the right race.

00:18:16.260 So I always think, you're not even close.

00:18:19.520 Like, you got to pick, you got to pick the right one.

00:18:22.080 If you're going to be racist, like.

00:18:23.400 Yeah.

00:18:23.620 Yeah.

00:18:23.960 And then if you do find out that I'm Samoan, what are you going to say?

00:18:26.680 Right.

00:18:28.600 You know what I mean?

00:18:29.180 You're athletic.

00:18:30.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:18:30.680 Like, they don't know anything.

00:18:31.840 They don't know enough about us to even, like, target us like that.

00:18:34.960 So it's even crazier to me that they're, like, they're trying to say anything and everything to, like, get to me.

00:18:40.500 Yeah.

00:18:40.780 And I don't know if you've received hate, too, on your platforms.

00:18:43.720 Whether it was from, like, non-Polynesian people or Polynesian people. 0.74

00:18:48.600 Like, I don't know if you've ever experienced that.

00:18:50.640 No, I definitely have.

00:18:51.660 Yeah.

00:18:51.860 Like, especially, so, I mean, from both, right?

00:18:54.580 Yeah.

00:18:54.720 Whether it's, you know, whether I'm talking about, you know, some of the programming that we have.

00:19:00.080 Yeah.

00:19:00.320 You know, within the community.

00:19:01.280 Whether it's around religion or, you know, issues that around homophobia or things like that.

00:19:08.940 And then, you know, people come at you and it's, like, but it's kind of necessary, right?

00:19:15.080 Yeah.

00:19:15.180 To have the conversation.

00:19:15.960 Yeah, just to spark it, get it going.

00:19:18.040 Yeah.

00:19:19.060 Yeah, because that first step is awareness.

00:19:22.120 And you just hope that whoever's out there will learn something.

00:19:26.880 Yeah.

00:19:27.140 Or people who might be going through something can see that, oh, you know what?

00:19:33.260 There are people who actually stand for this or whatever.

00:19:35.900 Yeah, absolutely.

00:19:36.820 And then it's more powerful, too, when you're a Samoan person and maybe you also feel the same way.

00:19:42.240 And then you see a Samoan person talking about it and bringing awareness to it and kind of, like, trying to, like, have the conversation about it.

00:19:49.980 Because that's why, like, when I have talked about Samoan men before, like, I have made fun of them or whatever.

00:19:57.000 It's because of misogyny and that's prevalent in our culture as well.

00:20:01.280 Even though it's matriarchal, there's still, like, misogyny in there as well. 1.00

00:20:05.980 But that's, like, that's a white supremacy thing.

00:20:08.860 Right.

00:20:09.020 That's colonization.

00:20:09.860 That's literally, it's so much deeper rooted than just, like, you know what I mean? 0.87

00:20:14.440 They just hate women. 1.00

00:20:15.560 Yeah.

00:20:15.620 It's, like, it's so much deeper than that.

00:20:18.680 So having that conversation, like, I've literally talked about, I talked about a different guy once.

00:20:24.320 And I said to, like, I was telling him in Samoan, I was basically saying to him, like, do your, does your mom know that you say these things?

00:20:32.360 Has she seen these videos?

00:20:33.940 Yep.

00:20:34.480 Have you shown them to her?

00:20:35.760 Probably not.

00:20:36.520 Yeah.

00:20:36.660 I doubt it.

00:20:37.680 I f***ing doubt that you've said any of this to her face.

00:20:40.620 Right. 0.84

00:20:40.980 I doubt it.

00:20:41.800 So I bring that up all the time because, again, we are matriarchal. 1.00

00:20:46.060 So they do, a lot of times, especially Samoan men, are very close to their moms.

00:20:51.340 So, like, their moms, their sisters, whatever.

00:20:53.740 Would you say this to them?

00:20:55.120 Right.

00:20:55.340 Would you want another man to say this to them?

00:20:57.640 So that's, like, something it's important to talk about because it is there.

00:21:00.900 Right. 0.95

00:21:01.300 So, like, bringing awareness to it doesn't mean that you're, like, shitting all over your own people.

00:21:06.200 It just means that you recognize an issue and that you think it's important we talk about it.

00:21:09.520 So I think that's what your whole platform is.

00:21:11.660 Yeah.

00:21:12.040 Yeah.

00:21:12.320 But, you know, sometimes, but it's easy to get petty sometimes.

00:21:15.500 Yeah.

00:21:15.700 You know, like, it's like, and then it's like, okay, Christian, is this about you or is this about, oh, excuse me.

00:21:19.920 Yeah.

00:21:20.640 Is this about you or is this about the bigger picture?

00:21:22.800 And then that's when it's like, okay, like.

00:21:24.640 Yeah, especially when it's coming from your own people, too.

00:21:26.720 Like, it's easy to kind of fall prey to that because you're like, this is something that you and I will benefit from if we exercise out.

00:21:34.180 Yeah.

00:21:34.380 Right.

00:21:34.580 If we get rid of it, if we diagnose it and then work on learning it, it'll help both of us in the long run.

00:21:41.400 Yeah.

00:21:41.860 Right.

00:21:42.140 So, but it is hard.

00:21:43.260 It gets hard, especially, like, I've never really had too many negative interactions with other Polynesian people.

00:21:50.940 Typically, like, if I do, they're men.

00:21:54.140 If I do, it's always men. 0.83

00:21:55.560 Yeah.

00:21:55.720 Um, but they, they all say crazy things.

00:21:58.880 Like, even when I was, um, I was an API trailblazer for TikTok.

00:22:03.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:22:03.740 Congrats on that, by the way.

00:22:04.900 Thank you.

00:22:06.220 Just me and one other Samoan girl.

00:22:08.960 The two of us.

00:22:10.160 There's not many of us.

00:22:11.220 There's, like, none of us.

00:22:12.140 Yeah.

00:22:12.400 So, uh, with that, I, I had some Samoan dudes be like, um, oh, she's like, uh, she makes me ashamed to be Samoan or to, to be a Pacific Islander. 1.00

00:22:23.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:22:23.400 I'm like, I'm what makes you ashamed?

00:22:25.300 Right.

00:22:26.780 You must not have been very proud in the first place if that was the case.

00:22:29.520 You must not tell very many people that you're Samoan. 0.99

00:22:31.640 But I was thinking, like, you're a liar. 0.99

00:22:33.760 Yeah. 0.99

00:22:34.040 There's no way.

00:22:34.920 I'm the reason why you feel bad.

00:22:36.520 And that's why I said, like, I know, I know you don't talk to your mom that way.

00:22:41.000 Right.

00:22:41.680 There's no way.

00:22:42.300 Yeah. 1.00

00:22:42.740 You know, so, especially if you are actually Samoan or not just a s***ing liar. 1.00

00:22:46.460 Yeah. 0.99

00:22:46.600 So, um, but speaking of, right, getting roasted, your poor cousin, Lafa. 0.92

00:22:53.580 Oh, Lafa.

00:22:54.400 Saranya.

00:22:54.920 Sorry.

00:22:55.140 I'm sorry.

00:22:55.600 Sorry.

00:22:55.920 Sorry.

00:22:56.320 Saranya.

00:22:56.920 Like, if you're watching this, I just put your business on the street.

00:23:00.400 Honestly, I feel it.

00:23:01.880 I feel it.

00:23:02.720 Like, we've all been there, unfortunately.

00:23:05.920 But speaking of, I want to talk about it with you because there's no one better to talk about

00:23:09.500 it with you is, like, our topic for today is talking about our Samoan humor, but basically

00:23:15.180 how we got so good at roasting.

00:23:17.100 Yeah.

00:23:17.340 And it's just, like, I feel like it's an art form we've perfected.

00:23:21.000 Right.

00:23:21.480 As Polynesians in general.

00:23:22.840 Polynesians in general can make fun of anybody. 0.89

00:23:24.740 But, like, the way that we've, like, meticulously put it down to things, that's what I'm saying,

00:23:31.160 a skin condition, like, the way that we've, like, tailored it specifically to the person,

00:23:37.020 it's an art.

00:23:37.580 Yep.

00:23:37.980 I think it's an art form.

00:23:39.260 So, here on the comment section, what we like to do is we bring videos that I was tagged

00:23:42.960 in and we bring them here that are applicable to our topic.

00:23:45.980 Okay.

00:23:46.140 And then we just talk about it, laugh, make jokes, all that fun stuff.

00:23:49.080 Yep.

00:23:49.240 So, this first one that we have is basically a video of a Samoan man saying that non-Samoan

00:23:56.220 or Polynesian people blindly getting Samoan Polynesian tattoos is an example of cultural

00:24:01.540 appropriation.

00:24:02.560 And, obviously, they were getting lit up in the comments.

00:24:05.880 And I'd love to know your thoughts on that, just in general.

00:24:08.940 Yeah.

00:24:09.280 Yeah.

00:24:09.800 Around non-Samoans getting... 1.00

00:24:11.420 Yeah.

00:24:12.220 Listen, so, you know, in L.A., in Hollywood, you go to the gym, I guarantee you, at least once

00:24:18.600 a week, you're going to find a white man wearing with a Samoan sleeve.

00:24:22.660 Someone tribal. 0.98

00:24:22.860 Yeah.

00:24:23.160 And I remember I was like, you know what?

00:24:26.940 I'm going to go and talk to them, you know, engage in conversation.

00:24:29.700 So, I'll go up to them and I'll be like, hey, I'd really love to know what made you

00:24:34.960 get this, where you found out about it, where you found this design, and what made you get

00:24:39.460 it.

00:24:39.720 And I'll take a photo of them.

00:24:41.340 And one guy was just like, I just got it because I thought it looked hot.

00:24:44.660 I was just like...

00:24:45.600 Hot?

00:24:46.440 Not hot.

00:24:47.840 On you?

00:24:48.840 And I was like, first of all, you are not hot.

00:24:52.200 That's the first thing.

00:24:53.040 First off.

00:24:53.280 Right.

00:24:53.740 And then, second of all...

00:24:54.900 You're missing one half of that.

00:24:56.320 Exactly.

00:24:56.900 Like, what's going on?

00:24:58.460 Yeah.

00:24:58.820 And then another one...

00:25:00.600 The other...

00:25:01.100 Okay, so, I posted these online, too, right?

00:25:03.100 Yeah.

00:25:03.580 And then the second guy, he was like...

00:25:06.520 He was just like, oh, you know, I spent a lot of...

00:25:08.540 He was French, and he was like, I spent a lot of time in Tahiti or whatever, and this

00:25:12.260 was a tribute.

00:25:12.800 And I was like, okay, whatever.

00:25:13.680 Is that Samoan tribal?

00:25:15.100 Yes.

00:25:15.420 And I was like, okay, not Samoan, but he was in Tahiti.

00:25:19.100 But anyway, he...

00:25:20.420 Okay.

00:25:21.200 So, I posted them online.

00:25:22.140 But see, the second guy, he was more conventionally attractive, right?

00:25:25.320 Oh.

00:25:25.540 So, all the Samoans were like... 0.95

00:25:27.040 That's okay.

00:25:27.640 Yeah, no to the first one, but the second one, you know, he could keep it.

00:25:30.260 I was like, yo.

00:25:32.160 Right.

00:25:32.560 No.

00:25:32.860 No.

00:25:33.540 I just think, like, of all the things you could get.

00:25:37.240 Right.

00:25:38.220 Get something else.

00:25:39.120 Exactly.

00:25:39.540 You know what I mean?

00:25:40.120 Like, of all the things.

00:25:41.460 Of all the things.

00:25:42.280 Exactly.

00:25:42.620 And you have your own culture.

00:25:44.520 Like, why not honor that?

00:25:47.180 Yeah.

00:25:47.380 Or, you know?

00:25:47.900 Yeah.

00:25:48.240 I think that, too, because I know sometimes people are like, well, it's just, like, it's

00:25:52.060 just...

00:25:52.340 It's art.

00:25:52.840 It's expression.

00:25:53.680 Okay, so express something else.

00:25:55.020 Right.

00:25:55.180 Why do you have to express what means a lot to me?

00:25:58.200 Right.

00:25:58.580 Why can't you express what means a lot to you?

00:26:00.460 Because a lot of times, it isn't just about expression.

00:26:03.320 It's not about expression solely.

00:26:06.500 It's literally...

00:26:06.980 It's like, it goes no deeper than that.

00:26:08.760 Right.

00:26:08.880 It's so superficial.

00:26:10.080 The understanding of it is, I liked it.

00:26:12.560 Right.

00:26:12.840 So I put it on me.

00:26:13.620 Yeah.

00:26:14.000 Okay, well, you could tattoo a cat on yourself.

00:26:15.940 Why don't you do that?

00:26:16.660 You know what I mean? 1.00

00:26:17.080 You could literally write ass on yourself. 1.00

00:26:20.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.99

00:26:20.380 And, like, that's a form of expression.

00:26:22.260 So, but you chose to use something that means a lot to someone else.

00:26:26.880 You know what I mean?

00:26:27.360 Right.

00:26:27.740 And I, like, for me, I can smell it from a mile away.

00:26:31.200 If you're a Polynesian, if you're a Samoan, especially if you're a Samoan, I know. 1.00

00:26:34.980 Yeah.

00:26:35.140 I could tell.

00:26:35.720 Even just by looking at you, I can sniff it off of you.

00:26:38.760 Yeah, yeah.

00:26:38.880 So sometimes I've had people be like, oh, I'm Samoan too.

00:26:42.380 And I'm like, are you?

00:26:43.440 Yeah.

00:26:43.740 Because they don't look it, which is not an indicator at all, but I could just tell.

00:26:48.540 And then you ask, like, if you're a Samoan, if you're a Polynesian at all, and you tell

00:26:52.260 people that you are, the first thing they ask you is, what's your last name?

00:26:55.520 Yep.

00:26:55.820 And where are your parents from?

00:26:56.800 Mm-hmm.

00:26:57.200 And if you don't know the answers to those questions, are you?

00:27:00.420 It's like.

00:27:01.480 Yeah.

00:27:02.080 And it's like, okay, maybe you are.

00:27:03.720 But if that's the case, study up.

00:27:05.800 Yeah.

00:27:05.980 You know what I mean?

00:27:06.460 Or spend more time with other Samoan people.

00:27:09.320 You know what I mean?

00:27:09.900 Yeah, that's one thing, like, you know, whatever reason, you might not know the culture and

00:27:16.660 stuff, but if you're going to start claiming this and that, like, at least know the issues

00:27:19.660 that are going on in the community.

00:27:20.600 Exactly.

00:27:21.040 And know something, you know, like.

00:27:22.160 You got to know something.

00:27:22.860 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:27:23.220 You got to know not just the good, but also the bad.

00:27:25.620 Like, you have to understand.

00:27:27.040 That's why I think, too, it's like, it's one of those things with tattoos, especially,

00:27:31.420 they mean a lot to a lot of us.

00:27:33.500 Like, that's our culture.

00:27:35.260 It means a lot to us.

00:27:36.100 Every tattoo typically is supposed to be your journey through life.

00:27:38.980 That's what they're supposed to be, right?

00:27:40.900 So, like, especially if you have something sacred, like, or, like, any sort of, like,

00:27:46.580 Malu or anything, those are even more sacred.

00:27:49.000 So, like, I don't know.

00:27:51.800 If you don't live the experience, don't get it.

00:27:53.540 Right.

00:27:54.160 I agree.

00:27:54.560 I think it's pretty, I think it's pretty, you said he was more conventionally attractive.

00:27:58.440 That's all.

00:27:58.740 Yeah, I mean, I didn't think so, but a lot of people did.

00:28:02.040 That's what the internet thought.

00:28:03.300 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:28:03.500 Yeah, I think making exceptions for people is why it continues to be an issue.

00:28:08.280 Exactly.

00:28:08.560 It's why it continues to be, like, well, who cares, blah, blah, blah.

00:28:11.520 Like, I mean, yeah, is it going to affect me?

00:28:13.920 Is it going to keep me up at night?

00:28:15.600 No.

00:28:16.220 But is it inappropriate?

00:28:17.820 Yeah.

00:28:18.220 Right.

00:28:18.420 I think that's fair to say.

00:28:19.400 Yeah.

00:28:19.700 You could say it's inappropriate.

00:28:21.060 That's okay.

00:28:21.800 And this day and age, like, it's 2022 now.

00:28:24.880 Yeah, yeah.

00:28:25.400 Google, like, why is this still happening today?

00:28:29.200 Yeah, or Google the meaning behind them, the tattoos themselves, like, why are people getting this?

00:28:34.360 Like, what does it mean to them?

00:28:36.320 Like, what's the part of the culture?

00:28:37.980 Like, I also think, too, if you're someone who's married to someone who's Polynesian, sometimes I think they think that's a pass.

00:28:46.220 Yep.

00:28:46.540 And it's not.

00:28:47.600 Right.

00:28:47.940 I've said this on my platform before.

00:28:50.160 You are Samoan adjacent.

00:28:52.220 You're not Samoan. 1.00

00:28:53.420 Just because you had a little Samoan in you. 0.95

00:28:55.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:28:56.080 I'm like, that's because you have kids.

00:28:57.680 If you have kids and all that, that's great.

00:28:59.560 Wonderful.

00:29:00.280 Teach your kids their culture.

00:29:01.480 That's wonderful.

00:29:02.160 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:02.440 Right?

00:29:02.720 But, like, to start acting like you're the expert.

00:29:05.360 Yeah.

00:29:05.800 Or that you have a pass to do certain things.

00:29:08.340 No.

00:29:09.020 Yeah.

00:29:09.380 There's a way to appreciate culture, and then there's a way to appropriate culture.

00:29:13.640 I think the lines get blurred a lot.

00:29:16.120 And it doesn't help when sometimes these tattoo artists, Samoan tattoo artists, are giving them out. 0.67

00:29:22.560 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:23.340 It's just like, so we've got to start.

00:29:24.860 We've got to take some of the responsibility.

00:29:25.760 We also play a role in it.

00:29:26.960 Yeah.

00:29:27.100 So I was like, I get it if you're in your bag.

00:29:29.120 I understand.

00:29:29.980 Yeah.

00:29:30.400 To an extent.

00:29:31.340 But sometimes, even sometimes, like, tattoo artists, like, they'll literally be like,

00:29:35.140 I mean, that's someone, and I know you're not.

00:29:36.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:29:37.440 So, like, they'll express their disinterest in it, and if they're still like, I don't care,

00:29:41.600 I want to get it, sometimes they'll give it to them, sometimes they won't.

00:29:43.900 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:44.400 You know what I mean?

00:29:44.880 And they'll be like, I can't in good conscience do that.

00:29:47.280 Right.

00:29:47.660 And that's fair.

00:29:48.400 Like, whatever makes you comfortable.

00:29:49.700 I just think, like, you know you're cultural appropriating.

00:29:52.480 Don't try to call it anything else.

00:29:53.820 Right, right, right.

00:29:54.400 Like, don't try to call it appreciation.

00:29:55.900 Don't tell them that you love the culture.

00:29:57.000 Like, they don't want to hear that.

00:29:58.600 Yeah.

00:29:58.900 Nobody wants to hear that.

00:29:59.880 Just literally just, I don't know, stick to your own.

00:30:03.000 Like, get a butterfly.

00:30:04.040 Yeah, yeah.

00:30:04.480 I don't know.

00:30:05.240 What do Europeans do? 0.96

00:30:06.740 Yeah.

00:30:07.200 I don't know, tattoo tea on you or something.

00:30:09.020 Yeah.

00:30:09.440 Tea and crumpets.

00:30:10.460 I don't know.

00:30:11.080 What do English people do? 0.99

00:30:13.060 What do colonizers? 1.00

00:30:14.220 Let's not get started on what English people do. 1.00

00:30:16.140 As I said, what did the colonizers like when they came over?

00:30:19.660 Tattoo that on you.

00:30:20.420 Okay, some of the comments on this, this one says, question, what if someone that's non-Polynesian

00:30:27.480 that grew up with you asks for permission to get it?

00:30:32.660 Listen.

00:30:33.200 I mean, I think you know the answer.

00:30:34.460 Right.

00:30:34.720 If you have to ask, I feel like you know the answer.

00:30:36.980 Right.

00:30:37.340 Right?

00:30:37.840 Like, just because you're one friend, you know, who's going to say yes to everything, that

00:30:41.740 doesn't mean that person speaks for the whole culture.

00:30:45.060 Yeah, exactly.

00:30:46.100 I feel like if you have to ask, I think you know the answer.

00:30:50.120 Right.

00:30:50.540 Just don't.

00:30:51.220 I feel like it's not hard to not do that.

00:30:53.240 Yeah.

00:30:53.540 Like, err on the side of caution.

00:30:56.120 Yeah.

00:30:56.480 If it's questionable, just don't do it.

00:30:58.880 Yeah, exactly.

00:30:59.560 If you're unsure.

00:31:00.020 Also, the way that, like, you could make a sleeve like a tattoo, because typically that's

00:31:05.200 what they're talking about is, like, the sleeves, right?

00:31:07.260 Especially on men.

00:31:08.480 But, like, because they do look nice.

00:31:10.640 Yeah.

00:31:11.280 They look great.

00:31:12.080 Right?

00:31:12.380 They were created by us.

00:31:13.640 Right?

00:31:13.900 So, yeah.

00:31:14.480 I know.

00:31:14.900 We know how good they look.

00:31:16.080 But, like, the sleeves, you can make a sleeve out of anything.

00:31:19.020 Right.

00:31:19.400 You could literally make a sleeve out of anything.

00:31:21.060 You could put, like, superheroes on there.

00:31:24.340 You could do the ocean.

00:31:25.540 The MCU.

00:31:25.820 You could do that.

00:31:26.180 Yeah, yeah.

00:31:26.300 The MCU.

00:31:27.260 Yeah.

00:31:27.520 All four phases.

00:31:28.860 You could tattoo that on you.

00:31:29.840 Like, you could make a sleeve out of literally anything at all.

00:31:32.400 Flowers, sea animals, like, anything.

00:31:35.840 It doesn't have to be.

00:31:36.560 Why does it have to be that?

00:31:38.100 That's what I'm saying.

00:31:38.740 You're making a conscious choice to be disrespectful.

00:31:41.300 Yeah.

00:31:41.560 So, then you can't get upset when people are, like, that's disrespectful.

00:31:45.300 Right.

00:31:45.580 You know what I mean?

00:31:46.620 So.

00:31:47.540 And, like, why not do the research before you get, you know?

00:31:50.120 Yeah, yeah.

00:31:50.620 Exactly.

00:31:51.280 You gotta get this thing done.

00:31:52.040 And then now it's too late.

00:31:53.220 You got.

00:31:53.640 Yeah.

00:31:53.880 And then they're like, oh, well, my friend said it was okay.

00:31:56.140 Yeah.

00:31:56.740 Okay.

00:31:57.080 Good luck saying that for the rest of your life.

00:31:59.320 Right?

00:31:59.800 This says you can't blame non-Polynesians for getting traditional tatau because it's the traditional

00:32:05.800 tattooists that are giving it to them.

00:32:08.320 No, you for sure can't blame them.

00:32:11.640 Yeah.

00:32:11.760 Yeah.

00:32:12.200 You can for sure blame them.

00:32:13.700 It's a two-way street.

00:32:15.040 Right.

00:32:15.360 Like we just said.

00:32:16.640 Right?

00:32:17.100 Yeah.

00:32:17.440 That feeds into it if they're willing to give it to you.

00:32:19.860 Right.

00:32:20.060 But there's still not an excuse.

00:32:21.500 Yeah, yeah.

00:32:22.280 You didn't have to go, though, in the first place.

00:32:24.800 Like, they wouldn't have given it to you had you not gone.

00:32:27.280 It's not like they're going around being like, get over here and let me give you this

00:32:30.360 tattoo right now.

00:32:31.660 Like, yeah, they play a role to an extent.

00:32:34.240 But also, you have to think, too, like, if you want to get, if you really want to get

00:32:38.060 into it, that's like capitalism is driving that, too.

00:32:40.200 Right.

00:32:40.440 Because they got to survive and make money.

00:32:41.680 Exactly.

00:32:42.220 Yeah.

00:32:42.500 So that's also based on white supremacy.

00:32:44.380 Yeah.

00:32:44.580 Unpack it.

00:32:45.460 That's what I'm saying.

00:32:46.180 Everything's tied back to that if you really want to get into the weeds about it.

00:32:49.140 But, yeah, you're still at fault.

00:32:51.720 I would argue you're still going to take responsibility for the part, which is the bigger part that

00:32:57.080 you played in this situation.

00:32:58.400 Yeah, which is being like, I'm going to get that.

00:33:00.120 Right.

00:33:00.600 Even though I'm not someone.

00:33:02.080 And I just think that's so embarrassing.

00:33:04.260 And you don't think, like, someone like yourself, like, I would be so humiliated.

00:33:08.240 Right.

00:33:08.520 If someone like yourself came up to me and was asking me questions about it, and I'm like,

00:33:11.480 I genuinely don't know.

00:33:12.540 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:33:12.860 I don't know what to tell you.

00:33:13.640 I don't know how to answer these questions.

00:33:15.160 Are you not humiliated?

00:33:17.220 Girl, stay home. 0.99

00:33:18.300 That's what I always say.

00:33:19.840 This last one says, I don't get it.

00:33:21.760 How does someone embracing the culture take that culture away from you?

00:33:25.500 To me, it's saying don't do Mendi because you're not Indian.

00:33:30.040 Well, I can't speak to that, but.

00:33:32.320 Right.

00:33:33.320 I mean, that's why I said appreciating and appropriating are two very different things.

00:33:38.980 Appropriating is taking it and putting it on like a mask and you don't like a costume

00:33:43.820 and you don't live the life of a Samoan person.

00:33:47.440 Just like the same way.

00:33:49.500 It's like in the same vein as like when white people get like box braids done. 0.91

00:33:55.240 Yeah.

00:33:55.520 Or they culturally appropriate hair.

00:33:57.600 To them, it's like it's just hair, but it's not.

00:34:00.600 Right.

00:34:00.840 That's what I'm saying.

00:34:01.460 It's it goes so much deeper.

00:34:02.960 And that's the problem.

00:34:04.480 Yeah.

00:34:04.720 You think it's just so superficial where it's just a tattoo.

00:34:07.480 Who cares?

00:34:07.880 And you don't think like you're completely void of like nuance or depth in any way.

00:34:13.740 So you're not ever thinking like this could mean a lot to somebody, somebody's life experience

00:34:18.640 that I've never lived.

00:34:19.720 Yeah.

00:34:19.980 You know what I mean?

00:34:20.840 Or it's like, you know, these are things that are deemed.

00:34:24.800 They've been deemed ugly or, you know, in a culture or ordinary or whatever.

00:34:29.620 Yeah.

00:34:29.700 Or unprofessional.

00:34:30.780 Right.

00:34:31.000 And then now it's all exotic.

00:34:32.460 And now, you know, it's so it's it's dressed up and sold as something new and original

00:34:38.100 and edgy.

00:34:39.140 And it's like, yeah, we don't get that same recognition, you know, like it wasn't like

00:34:43.020 that when it was with the creators of it.

00:34:45.900 Right.

00:34:46.200 But that's why I think, too, it's it's one of those things where it's like if it's that

00:34:51.380 superficial to you, that's the problem.

00:34:54.500 Right.

00:34:54.880 Like it's nothing more to you than like a thing on your arm.

00:34:59.220 That's the problem.

00:35:00.320 Like you don't see it as anything more than that.

00:35:02.740 That's why it's upsetting to like someone, people who like this is literally part of

00:35:07.740 their culture.

00:35:08.440 And this like tattooing is a sacred practice in Samoa.

00:35:11.900 Like it's something that's so like intimate and specific to the person.

00:35:16.800 So like that's why like when you get the pads, like it's a spiritual journey that you take

00:35:22.140 and you like do it over the course of like multiple days.

00:35:24.540 For those of you who don't know, like up as like the tapping on the legs and like for

00:35:30.800 it's the shorts.

00:35:31.860 They call it the shorts for for men. 0.99

00:35:34.240 It's like it's the legs, the butt, the butthole and also and also the belly button. 0.98

00:35:40.520 Yeah. 0.99

00:35:40.660 Right.

00:35:40.820 Which is the last one they do.

00:35:42.020 Right.

00:35:42.520 Yeah.

00:35:42.660 I'm pretty sure.

00:35:43.580 So like the whole thing, painful, expensive.

00:35:47.320 Yeah.

00:35:47.500 A journey like truly it takes so long to get it done the traditional way.

00:35:52.360 And they go like it's a whole community thing.

00:35:54.400 It's a whole process.

00:35:55.320 Holding your hand.

00:35:56.180 It's a whole ceremony and you can't do anything to like ease the pain.

00:36:00.320 You have to take every single tap.

00:36:01.940 It's like it's a whole thing.

00:36:03.520 That's why I was like you don't know any of that.

00:36:05.140 Yeah.

00:36:05.660 You know nothing about that whatsoever.

00:36:07.360 And you're like it's just a tattoo.

00:36:09.380 Who cares?

00:36:10.160 That's the problem.

00:36:11.360 That's why people get upset.

00:36:13.060 I always think they're like let people enjoy things.

00:36:16.020 Enjoy your own things.

00:36:16.920 Exactly.

00:36:17.420 Or just enjoy it on like Google, like YouTube or whatever.

00:36:20.960 Look up pictures of it.

00:36:21.580 Exactly.

00:36:22.120 Enjoy it from afar.

00:36:22.780 Just gaze.

00:36:22.820 Yeah.

00:36:23.360 Yeah.

00:36:23.700 From a safe distance.

00:36:25.180 Yeah.

00:36:25.320 Like you can look at it and be like wow that's beautiful.

00:36:29.340 And that's where it stops.

00:36:30.360 Yeah.

00:36:30.520 It doesn't need to go any further past that.

00:36:33.220 I think.

00:36:33.880 Go ahead.

00:36:34.320 No.

00:36:34.520 I was just going to say that that's the thing right is like so many you know white people 0.52

00:36:39.460 Yeah.

00:36:39.780 feel so entitled to.

00:36:41.640 Yep.

00:36:42.080 Everybody else's you know culture.

00:36:44.280 And it's just like anytime anyone puts up a boundary or shows resistance to that.

00:36:49.600 Yeah.

00:36:49.900 It's like you know like it's.

00:36:52.340 Yeah.

00:36:52.740 It's drama.

00:36:53.380 It's like you're.

00:36:53.940 Yeah.

00:36:54.140 You're so like why does it have to be that way.

00:36:56.480 Blah blah blah.

00:36:57.140 White supremacy.

00:36:57.840 Yep.

00:36:58.040 That's why I said like your entitlement to it.

00:37:00.800 That's why I've said that before about the way that I make fun of dudes.

00:37:04.820 It's I then they're like I just don't understand why you can't take the high road.

00:37:08.900 Why do you feel so entitled to my reaction to disrespect.

00:37:12.680 Yep.

00:37:13.160 I have to react in a way that's palatable and comfortable for you.

00:37:16.400 Why is that.

00:37:17.240 That's why I was like trying to police your tone policing.

00:37:20.560 Yeah.

00:37:20.960 Yeah.

00:37:21.360 And telling me what I should do when you upset me.

00:37:26.200 That's entitlement. 0.97

00:37:27.180 That's why I said you feel entitled to that because you're white. 0.95

00:37:29.760 Yeah.

00:37:29.960 And that's why and you're used to it.

00:37:31.160 Yeah.

00:37:31.280 And that's why I was like I wish I was welcome at every table.

00:37:34.020 I wish I had a seat at every table like you.

00:37:35.740 Yeah.

00:37:35.960 And that I could just tell people I don't like that.

00:37:37.460 Don't do it.

00:37:38.120 Yeah.

00:37:38.320 I wish.

00:37:39.620 Not the case.

00:37:41.680 I tell people like don't do this or I'm going to make fun of you.

00:37:45.040 They do it.

00:37:45.720 I make fun of them.

00:37:46.320 They're like I can't believe you did that to me.

00:37:48.200 Like we told like you was unnoticed.

00:37:50.900 Yeah.

00:37:51.180 Yeah.

00:37:51.380 I literally sent you the email.

00:37:53.020 I let you know ahead of time.

00:37:54.420 I gave you two weeks notice.

00:37:56.260 Yeah.

00:37:56.540 Like I was going to quit my job.

00:37:58.460 It's so it's just so that's why I said it's embarrassing.

00:38:01.280 Yeah.

00:38:01.760 You should be embarrassed.

00:38:02.980 Like enjoy your own things.

00:38:05.320 That's OK.

00:38:06.300 There's many things that I appreciate from other cultures that I will never appropriate. 0.99

00:38:10.800 Right.

00:38:11.360 Because they're not mine.

00:38:12.300 So I'm OK with that.

00:38:13.360 That's why I'm like I'm OK.

00:38:14.980 You don't need to have everything.

00:38:16.720 Right.

00:38:17.060 Everything doesn't need to be yours.

00:38:19.020 So now I'm going to move on to another video.

00:38:22.900 And all this is funny because it's all like in the same vein of like Samoan humor.

00:38:28.860 But this one was actually made by one of my mutuals.

00:38:31.600 I don't know if you've ever seen him on TikTok.

00:38:34.180 Excuse me.

00:38:34.600 But his at is half casted. 0.87

00:38:36.640 But his name is Stanson Afoa.

00:38:39.140 So he basically made a video.

00:38:42.000 And it was two women. 0.99

00:38:43.520 They're dressed in leis.

00:38:45.340 And like those party city leis.

00:38:47.440 And coconut bras. 0.90

00:38:48.960 And hula skirts.

00:38:50.100 And they're dancing.

00:38:51.520 And then Stanson stitched it and was basically calling them out for culture appropriation.

00:38:56.620 And doing their luau.

00:38:58.180 Yeah.

00:38:58.540 It was a luau.

00:38:59.520 As they say.

00:39:00.040 Yeah.

00:39:00.460 It was a.

00:39:01.060 Oh my God.

00:39:02.340 The way that gives me like itch.

00:39:04.580 Like it makes my my literal spine like twitch so poorly.

00:39:10.040 Yeah.

00:39:10.580 But yeah.

00:39:11.280 He basically lit them up.

00:39:12.580 He roasted the absolute hell out of them.

00:39:15.620 Which is funny because they were like they were in these like costumes and they were like twerking and stuff.

00:39:21.860 Oh God.

00:39:22.300 Which is disrespectful in a different way.

00:39:23.720 Right.

00:39:24.480 So like the absolute.

00:39:27.440 I don't even know how you would describe it of like hula.

00:39:30.660 Where like it's like.

00:39:33.420 It's just the stripping of it essentially of all its spiritual practice.

00:39:38.440 It's just the desecration.

00:39:39.060 Yeah.

00:39:39.500 Truly like the way that they've just obliterated hula.

00:39:42.500 Um obviously because as we all know like the way that it occupied Hawaii was also terrible.

00:39:50.020 But the the way that like their idea of Hawaii is that.

00:39:54.840 Yep.

00:39:55.380 Or just like culture in general.

00:39:57.760 Like I don't know how many times this has happened to you in your lifetime because you grew up in New Zealand.

00:40:03.120 So obviously it's a little different.

00:40:05.320 But like with in the States obviously like for me sometimes they'll be like oh what are you?

00:40:11.180 And then I'll say oh I'm Samoan and they're like so like Hawaii?

00:40:15.920 Yeah.

00:40:16.600 No.

00:40:17.140 Because if it was that I would have said that.

00:40:18.520 Right.

00:40:18.780 If I was Hawaiian I would have said Hawaiian.

00:40:20.620 Yeah.

00:40:21.140 No.

00:40:21.880 And they're like oh.

00:40:23.420 Well same thing right?

00:40:24.820 Yeah.

00:40:25.180 Yeah.

00:40:26.120 No.

00:40:26.860 Because they have two different names.

00:40:28.600 Yeah.

00:40:28.880 So it's uh hula.

00:40:31.500 Like that's literally something where they'd be like oh like like hula.

00:40:35.080 Yeah.

00:40:35.500 Yeah.

00:40:35.780 No.

00:40:36.560 No.

00:40:36.700 I get that here as well.

00:40:37.760 Not back home obviously but in the States.

00:40:40.220 Yeah.

00:40:40.560 Yeah.

00:40:40.660 Yeah.

00:40:41.500 You tell them I'm oh I'm Samoan.

00:40:43.300 Yeah.

00:40:43.680 And they're like oh.

00:40:44.940 Oh is that like oh you know oh so you do the haka. 1.00

00:40:47.940 No bitch I don't do the fucking haka. 1.00

00:40:50.700 You know. 1.00

00:40:51.100 That's different.

00:40:51.700 Right.

00:40:52.180 Exactly.

00:40:52.580 That's different.

00:40:52.800 I know I've had people ask me that too like about the haka and I'm like well I'm not 0.99

00:40:57.660 Maori so.

00:40:58.660 Right.

00:40:59.080 No.

00:40:59.780 I have done I've performed a haka before when I was dancing like cultural dancing but no

00:41:06.240 that's not something we do.

00:41:07.840 Yeah.

00:41:08.300 It's different.

00:41:09.660 Different.

00:41:10.400 Right.

00:41:10.940 We're not a monolith.

00:41:12.020 Yeah.

00:41:12.360 Literally.

00:41:13.180 Yeah.

00:41:13.600 That's that was honestly that was something that I thought about especially when Moana came 0.73

00:41:19.520 out well because when I was dating my boyfriend at the time when Moana came out too and like

00:41:24.900 when that had come out the amount of people that would be like you know who you look like.

00:41:31.000 Oh yeah.

00:41:31.660 Maui.

00:41:32.100 Someone said that to my dad.

00:41:33.580 Yeah.

00:41:33.780 My dad's bald.

00:41:35.200 My dad's a big baldy.

00:41:37.680 Yeah.

00:41:37.740 Like my dad's no like you're so you're not even close like just say that's the only idea

00:41:45.580 of Polynesia you have in your head and you're like these people are.

00:41:49.140 Right.

00:41:49.880 They're in the vicinity therefore.

00:41:51.600 They look like I bet you they would love that joke.

00:41:53.800 Yeah.

00:41:54.080 And it's racist to say that and I've said that to people before like I'm like no and

00:41:59.420 like when they they would say that to my boyfriend who looks even less like it's not

00:42:04.620 even close like and I started saying no he's just big and brown.

00:42:08.520 Yeah.

00:42:08.760 Yeah.

00:42:09.000 That's what I started telling people and they're like oh like they get embarrassed.

00:42:12.100 Don't know what to say.

00:42:12.840 Yeah.

00:42:13.320 Because why are you saying that.

00:42:14.780 Right.

00:42:15.180 That's the only thing you have in your head.

00:42:16.320 Keep it in your head.

00:42:16.940 Yeah.

00:42:17.060 I don't need to hear it.

00:42:17.760 Yeah.

00:42:18.140 You know.

00:42:18.460 I once my boyfriend and I were we were at like a bar and this guy came up to us and

00:42:24.460 he was like he was there alone red flag weirdo you're there by yourself at like two in the

00:42:30.460 afternoon.

00:42:31.000 That's weird.

00:42:31.760 Yeah.

00:42:31.880 So like he was there and he was like he started trying to talk to us and then he goes where

00:42:36.700 are you guys from.

00:42:38.020 And we're like oh we're from like Riverside County.

00:42:41.780 Yeah.

00:42:42.220 And he does this dude's from Ohio so he doesn't know anything about California.

00:42:45.920 Yeah.

00:42:46.360 We're like and so we go we're like we live like an hour away from here and he goes no

00:42:50.720 but like where are you guys from.

00:42:52.020 Oh yeah.

00:42:53.020 You know those questions when they do that I'm buckled in.

00:42:56.420 I'm not answering the question unless you ask me for real.

00:42:58.920 And then I go you know like Orange County.

00:43:01.580 Yeah.

00:43:02.160 Are you familiar.

00:43:03.140 I was like are you from here.

00:43:04.180 He goes no I'm from Ohio.

00:43:05.080 I'll go okay well then you wouldn't know where I'm from anyways.

00:43:06.880 Yeah.

00:43:07.180 Yeah.

00:43:07.400 And then he goes no but like where are you.

00:43:10.320 And then like after like two minutes he goes where are your ancestors from.

00:43:13.900 Right.

00:43:15.060 It's like what where are you.

00:43:16.360 Oh so you're Native American. 0.97

00:43:17.900 You know like you're from Ohio.

00:43:19.140 Oh so you're.

00:43:20.000 Yeah.

00:43:20.580 I know where yours are from.

00:43:21.860 Yeah.

00:43:22.020 Yeah.

00:43:22.080 That's what I told him.

00:43:23.500 Exactly.

00:43:24.220 And I was like if you're asking what our races were Samoan.

00:43:28.800 Oh I thought so.

00:43:30.140 I thought so.

00:43:30.800 I'm like you don't know any Samoans.

00:43:32.580 It's like why are you pretending like you do.

00:43:35.120 He's like I've been to Hawaii once.

00:43:37.740 Congratulations.

00:43:38.140 Congratulations like what do you want me to say.

00:43:40.600 Yeah.

00:43:40.940 Cool.

00:43:41.480 Different island but nice.

00:43:43.680 Did you like it.

00:43:45.320 Yeah.

00:43:45.660 He goes yeah you know like I just figured you know since you got.

00:43:49.480 Come on man.

00:43:50.240 Like I don't know if you're trying to relate but it's just racist.

00:43:53.060 Like the whole thing is racist.

00:43:54.660 I've said that too about my last name.

00:43:56.840 Last names mean a lot to us in Samoan culture.

00:43:59.720 So sometimes dudes will purposely mispronounce my last name.

00:44:03.200 Yeah. 1.00

00:44:03.620 I hate that shit. 1.00

00:44:05.380 So I've I've actually had Samoan men. 1.00

00:44:08.540 Stitch videos where dudes are purposely mispronouncing my last name.

00:44:11.720 And they're like if you're gonna talk about her pronounce the name right.

00:44:15.520 Which I'm like that's cool.

00:44:16.860 I've said that many times but you know they don't listen to me.

00:44:19.360 Yeah.

00:44:20.020 And I've talked about how that's a microaggression.

00:44:22.200 Yeah.

00:44:22.780 So I'm like once again study up.

00:44:26.260 Yeah.

00:44:26.420 And I've I've I've said this too on episodes but my last name is off wallow right.

00:44:32.480 So like they sometimes will I don't know where they got it from. 0.73

00:44:37.260 I think one dude said it and then it just kind of carried within the shithead community.

00:44:40.680 Yeah. 0.61

00:44:40.700 But like they call me Drew Buffalo which is also racist because like we're indigenous so it's like you know what I mean.

00:44:50.000 Like they're just like trying to think of a big fat animal and they're mispronouncing my name and on top of that.

00:44:54.920 Yeah. 0.99

00:44:55.120 You know what I mean it's like a little shit sandwich that I get to eat all the time. 0.99

00:44:58.540 Yeah. 0.99

00:44:58.860 But I was like I the creativity is lacking.

00:45:02.640 Wrong indigenous community too. 1.00

00:45:04.420 On top of that like. 1.00

00:45:06.180 That's so dumb. 0.98

00:45:07.640 I mean one it's not it's not even like a good. 0.99

00:45:11.460 Well it's not even a good insult.

00:45:13.160 And then.

00:45:13.500 Yeah.

00:45:14.060 But then two it's like like you said it's disrespectful.

00:45:17.420 Like these are these are names that come from that that are from our ancestors.

00:45:22.440 Yeah literally.

00:45:22.840 Like they're culturally like that's just culturally insensitive.

00:45:26.100 But then three like whether it was Buffalo or something like when you change.

00:45:30.160 The other thing is when you when you mispronounce a name or change letters or something it can take on a whole nother meaning.

00:45:36.580 Yeah.

00:45:36.620 You know which could be a swear word.

00:45:37.940 Yeah exactly.

00:45:39.400 And it's like yo you're not about to what what you're not going to do is disrespect my family.

00:45:43.820 That's what I exactly.

00:45:45.200 That's what I say too.

00:45:46.240 I'm like you can say whatever you want just pronounce my name right.

00:45:49.640 Like say it the way it's pronounced.

00:45:51.120 My mom's maiden name is Maunga.

00:45:53.440 So like that was also that's also a very important Samoan last name.

00:45:57.840 So I take a lot of pride in my name.

00:45:59.980 Sometimes when people ask me how do I start standing up for myself I always say like start with something like your name.

00:46:05.680 I know you'd let them mispronounce it.

00:46:07.640 I've met many people of different minorities who are like my name's actually this but people always call me this.

00:46:12.940 So I just let them.

00:46:14.120 And I'm always like not me.

00:46:16.380 So I tell them tell them if that's not your name tell them.

00:46:19.460 Yeah.

00:46:19.780 So like my boyfriend's government name is Pili like P-I-L-I.

00:46:23.660 So that means Billy in Samoan.

00:46:25.520 But like he lets people call him Billy because he was tired of having them say his name and then mispronounce it.

00:46:32.100 And then he was like I just you could just call me Billy.

00:46:34.520 Yeah.

00:46:34.640 So recently actually he's been telling people I think I want to start going by Pili again.

00:46:38.560 Nice.

00:46:38.920 I was like I think that's great.

00:46:40.580 Take it back.

00:46:41.600 Yep.

00:46:41.860 You know what I mean?

00:46:42.480 We conform so fast so easily.

00:46:44.820 Yeah.

00:46:45.260 To like just the whole the whole like notion of like having to assimilate.

00:46:49.840 Yeah.

00:46:50.080 To you know American culture or like be palatable.

00:46:54.200 Yeah.

00:46:54.540 For American people is like it's unfair to us. 0.94

00:46:57.380 Yeah.

00:46:57.740 That's always like pronounce it the way it's supposed to be pronounced.

00:47:00.420 No like like when my mom's family migrated from Samoa to New Zealand.

00:47:05.240 Yeah.

00:47:06.920 Basically they went to schools that were run by like the Catholic Church like nuns.

00:47:12.520 And they could like my one auntie her name was Fiatamali'i.

00:47:15.160 Yeah.

00:47:15.860 No like we can't say that.

00:47:16.720 We're just going to call it Anna.

00:47:17.780 Like how do you just like.

00:47:19.880 Nah.

00:47:20.180 It's such a beautiful name.

00:47:21.280 The way that they just are like I'm not doing that.

00:47:23.600 Right.

00:47:23.780 It doesn't even sound.

00:47:24.540 It doesn't even start with the same letter.

00:47:25.980 It's just like let's just call it Anna.

00:47:27.600 Yeah.

00:47:28.100 So that's my auntie Anna.

00:47:29.160 You know.

00:47:29.720 Yeah.

00:47:30.580 Well my boyfriend too his name's Peely obviously.

00:47:34.480 So that's his government name.

00:47:36.020 But like on the roll sheet like when they'd call his name.

00:47:40.060 Yeah.

00:47:40.340 They'd always say Phil.

00:47:42.100 I'm like you're adding a letter.

00:47:44.000 Like where did the H come?

00:47:44.580 And it's the wrong letter.

00:47:45.780 Like yeah.

00:47:46.300 Like no literally they'd always say Phil.

00:47:48.640 Yeah.

00:47:48.860 And he goes that's I'm here.

00:47:51.420 Like he just lets people like dude one time.

00:47:54.280 Yeah call me Phil.

00:47:55.180 Yeah.

00:47:55.580 One time this guy that we know that was like he used to work with my family.

00:48:00.040 Older white dude.

00:48:02.080 Right.

00:48:02.800 He came up to my boyfriend and he was like he was like patting him on the back.

00:48:07.560 He goes William.

00:48:08.960 Right.

00:48:09.540 And then he goes William.

00:48:11.460 He goes I bet you only your mom calls you that.

00:48:13.200 He goes no because my name's not William.

00:48:15.220 Yeah.

00:48:15.380 And then he goes well that's what Billy's short for right.

00:48:18.180 He goes my name's not even Pilly.

00:48:19.580 Yeah.

00:48:19.820 Yeah.

00:48:20.060 And he goes what's your name.

00:48:21.180 And he goes Pee-lee. 0.83

00:48:22.800 And this guy goes Pee-wee.

00:48:24.880 Oh my God.

00:48:25.580 And then my boyfriend goes yeah.

00:48:27.420 Yeah.

00:48:27.840 I give up.

00:48:28.840 Yeah.

00:48:29.420 Yeah.

00:48:30.140 Yeah.

00:48:30.760 And then I was all why did you tell him that.

00:48:33.100 Now he thinks your name's Pee-wee.

00:48:34.680 And then he goes because I don't want to sit there and explain it.

00:48:37.940 Like I don't.

00:48:38.360 Right.

00:48:38.620 And if this is what's going to end this conversation faster then let it be done.

00:48:43.960 Yeah.

00:48:43.980 Literally that's what he's all about.

00:48:45.280 He's like yeah just yep yep Pee-wee. 1.00

00:48:48.160 Yeah.

00:48:48.520 He just lets people call him Pee-wee.

00:48:50.320 I'm like that's that's so weird.

00:48:53.020 Like he's like yeah well.

00:48:55.060 And we have some friends like our friend Carlo who's been on my show before.

00:48:58.860 He's from Guinea.

00:49:00.200 So he only calls my boyfriend Pee-wee because he was like you're not a Billy dude. 0.61

00:49:04.700 Like if I look at you I was like you're not a Billy.

00:49:07.360 I'm going to call you your real name.

00:49:08.620 Yeah.

00:49:08.960 Just really which I think is really sweet.

00:49:11.340 I'm like that's cool because we get it.

00:49:13.420 Yeah.

00:49:13.620 You know what I mean.

00:49:14.080 Like we all understand how that feels.

00:49:16.640 And it's like it's another form of a microaggression.

00:49:20.760 Yeah.

00:49:21.000 Right.

00:49:21.340 Like even it's a first name a last name doesn't really matter.

00:49:24.260 Like so that's why sometimes I like to ask.

00:49:27.040 Did you ever see that video.

00:49:28.740 Oh I wish I could remember who it was.

00:49:30.560 But you know like we said someone's Tongans a lot of times they are very prominent athletes and very talented.

00:49:38.760 Athletically.

00:49:39.560 And there was this one football player who was going to get drafted and he was Tongan.

00:49:44.720 And you know Tongans they have a lot of K's and a lot of A's in their names a lot of times. 0.68

00:49:49.500 So he had a really long name like last name and first name.

00:49:54.060 And I guess it was like a joke.

00:49:57.020 It was a it was a white lady. 1.00

00:49:58.840 She was a reporter.

00:50:00.320 Was this in Australia?

00:50:01.540 No.

00:50:01.840 Oh this was here.

00:50:02.540 It was here.

00:50:02.940 Oh snap.

00:50:03.560 And she she was like I'm going to try to pronounce your name like to be funny. 1.00

00:50:07.480 And it was very long.

00:50:09.240 Yeah.

00:50:09.500 And then she just like absolutely butchered it.

00:50:12.440 It was supposed to be a joke.

00:50:13.920 And he was with his mom.

00:50:15.420 Yeah.

00:50:15.860 They were walking the carpet together.

00:50:17.280 And then he goes no you weren't even close.

00:50:19.620 Right.

00:50:20.060 Like he was not laughing and it was not funny.

00:50:22.540 And a lot of people I saw a lot of people in the Polynesian community online be like this

00:50:27.380 is so disrespectful to do this in front of his mom.

00:50:30.700 Yeah.

00:50:31.100 On like one of the biggest nights of his life.

00:50:33.240 You're like trying to make a joke.

00:50:34.320 Yeah.

00:50:34.700 Jokey joke.

00:50:35.240 At their expense.

00:50:36.220 Yeah.

00:50:36.960 She's like isn't this so funny.

00:50:38.760 Right.

00:50:39.500 What's wrong with you.

00:50:40.600 Yeah.

00:50:40.800 You can't just be like are you excited for tonight.

00:50:42.480 Yeah.

00:50:43.160 Isn't your language and your culture and your like such a joke. 1.00

00:50:46.780 It's so funny.

00:50:48.160 It's not funny because it's so not real.

00:50:50.520 Like and I and back when I was in college there's like you know they have like the Polynesian

00:50:56.720 bowl in Hawaii for those of you who don't know.

00:50:59.120 So they have like all the Polynesian kids from all the prominent schools who play football.

00:51:02.980 They all come.

00:51:03.600 It's kind of like a pro bowl.

00:51:04.860 So they all come and they play in the same spot.

00:51:06.680 And I think it's really cute because you get to like amplify each other and like connect

00:51:10.440 with other Polynesian kids.

00:51:11.920 And so there's lots of Samoan Tongan people and everyone else who is Polynesian.

00:51:16.800 Right.

00:51:16.940 And I remember one time when I was a reporter one of the announcers he was like someone

00:51:21.820 who's announcing all the names on the roster.

00:51:23.840 You get the rosters ahead of time.

00:51:25.520 He was talking to me and he's like can I ask you a question.

00:51:28.700 Are you Polynesian.

00:51:29.780 I was like yeah I'm someone.

00:51:31.320 He goes oh okay.

00:51:33.060 I just like to know like can I run some of these names by you and can you tell me if I'm

00:51:36.520 saying them right.

00:51:37.620 Which I think is really cool.

00:51:39.440 I was like see like it costs you nothing.

00:51:41.500 Yeah.

00:51:41.640 To like be like hey how do you pronounce this so I don't say it incorrectly.

00:51:45.280 And he went through a list of like 30 names.

00:51:47.860 They were very Polynesian names too.

00:51:50.320 So like some of them were even kind of hard for me to pronounce.

00:51:52.420 Yeah.

00:51:52.760 But I was going through them with him and he was like oh okay okay.

00:51:55.580 He was recording me saying that so that he could practice and phonetically say them so

00:52:00.240 that they weren't butchered.

00:52:01.680 Yeah.

00:52:01.840 Which I thought was refreshing.

00:52:03.580 Good.

00:52:03.920 Good for him.

00:52:04.520 Yeah.

00:52:04.900 That's good.

00:52:05.220 I was like that's cool.

00:52:06.320 Yeah.

00:52:06.480 I did something similar so in Australia there's the NRL which is the National Rugby

00:52:12.500 League.

00:52:13.000 Yeah.

00:52:13.180 You know their competition out there.

00:52:15.060 And I think that's what it stands for.

00:52:16.960 I hope that's what it stands for.

00:52:18.340 Yeah.

00:52:18.660 So I used to work quite closely with a lot of the players.

00:52:23.420 Yeah.

00:52:23.940 Because almost 50% of the sport is made up of Pacific Islanders right. 0.71

00:52:27.380 Yeah.

00:52:27.680 Yeah.

00:52:28.180 The white commentators butcher their names every week so I took it upon myself to actually

00:52:33.840 get the boys and made like a game like a video like where it's just like okay so I'm

00:52:39.600 going to get you boys to pronounce it how the commentators say it and then pronounce

00:52:43.540 it how you're supposed to and then we like break it down.

00:52:46.700 And you know a lot of people like love the video and I was like okay you know and again

00:52:51.240 I tried to do it in a in a way that was palatable you know so that people would take

00:52:56.760 this take the lesson on.

00:52:58.440 Yeah.

00:52:58.720 Like try to learn.

00:52:59.900 Exactly.

00:53:01.340 Didn't really happen but you know.

00:53:03.100 Yeah.

00:53:03.580 They were just like ha ha ha so funny.

00:53:05.220 Yeah.

00:53:05.600 Like oh this video is cute and all.

00:53:08.060 Okay so did you learn the lesson from it?

00:53:10.140 And it's like not really but.

00:53:11.620 They're like no I'm not going to say that.

00:53:14.080 But oh but so I did that video but then like a year or two later New Zealand started to

00:53:19.920 kind of copied it and then and so it's starting to pick up now so.

00:53:24.400 Oh that's good.

00:53:25.000 Yeah.

00:53:25.160 So I feel like the commentators in New Zealand at least.

00:53:27.860 Are trying.

00:53:28.560 Are trying to take it more seriously.

00:53:29.200 Yeah like they're at least giving it a good old college try.

00:53:33.040 That's the least you could do.

00:53:34.380 Right.

00:53:34.560 That's why I always if I don't know I'll ask.

00:53:37.360 Yeah.

00:53:37.560 Before it starts.

00:53:39.020 Right.

00:53:39.120 I'll be like can you just so I understand.

00:53:41.500 Yeah.

00:53:41.580 Can you pronounce your name for me so I know.

00:53:43.480 Yeah.

00:53:43.600 And then it costs you nothing people appreciate it I love when people ask me that like before

00:53:48.320 they interview me whether it's like on something like live or if it's like for like a magazine

00:53:54.100 or anything like they'll ask me can you pronounce your last name for me so I have it on recording

00:53:58.900 so I say it properly when I talk about you.

00:54:01.120 Yeah.

00:54:01.880 That's great.

00:54:02.660 Two seconds.

00:54:03.480 Yeah.

00:54:03.740 Literally.

00:54:04.440 That'd be so awesome.

00:54:05.980 It's like so refreshing.

00:54:07.180 I promise you every single time people are going to like it like if they have a name that's

00:54:11.260 in any way shape or form complicated.

00:54:13.960 Yeah.

00:54:14.260 To the naked eye.

00:54:15.200 They're going to be like oh thanks.

00:54:16.680 This is how you say it.

00:54:17.480 Yeah.

00:54:17.780 Right.

00:54:18.100 And I promise you it'll it'll go like so far and not unnoticed for especially like

00:54:23.600 Polynesian people.

00:54:24.780 Okay so one of the comments on this cultural appropriation video it says why do people still

00:54:29.960 make themes for schools events or parties Hawaiian.

00:54:34.080 I think that all the time.

00:54:35.660 Yeah.

00:54:36.080 I think that all the time at this point.

00:54:39.520 What's the excuse?

00:54:40.480 Yeah.

00:54:40.920 Again.

00:54:41.360 What's your excuse at this point?

00:54:42.640 Yeah.

00:54:42.880 With all the knowledge you've gained at this point and Google is free.

00:54:47.100 It's okay.

00:54:47.900 You don't have to do that.

00:54:48.640 You could do anything.

00:54:49.300 You could do Western.

00:54:50.400 Right.

00:54:50.880 You could do medieval.

00:54:52.580 Any other time period.

00:54:53.800 You could literally pick anything.

00:54:55.820 Anything.

00:54:56.860 Yeah.

00:54:57.240 They still cute.

00:54:58.220 I was like you could do something made up like Game of Thrones.

00:55:00.880 Yeah.

00:55:01.060 That's like completely fabricated.

00:55:02.380 Pick that.

00:55:02.980 Yeah.

00:55:03.220 That's wonderful.

00:55:03.900 Pick that.

00:55:04.840 Fun.

00:55:05.380 Engaging.

00:55:06.500 I think like using it's the same thing I think too with like any sort of like Cinco de

00:55:12.160 Mayo type party.

00:55:13.460 Yeah.

00:55:14.000 Yeah.

00:55:14.160 By non-Latin people non-Hispanic people.

00:55:16.560 It's the same thing.

00:55:17.180 I've seen some pretty bad.

00:55:18.080 Yeah.

00:55:18.300 I've seen some terrible ones like what's the point?

00:55:21.180 Right.

00:55:21.440 Like you're like just don't.

00:55:22.440 Like you could just have a party.

00:55:24.140 Yeah.

00:55:24.400 You don't need a theme.

00:55:25.520 And when they do it on campuses as well.

00:55:28.020 Oh my God.

00:55:28.540 I know.

00:55:28.580 Like these are supposed to be learning institutions and this is like like these are supposed to

00:55:32.580 be the brightest.

00:55:33.380 Like y'all ain't that bright.

00:55:34.940 You know what I mean?

00:55:35.280 Like.

00:55:36.060 It's just so tone deaf.

00:55:37.340 Yeah.

00:55:37.580 It's like so.

00:55:39.140 That's what I feel like truly about anything having to do with Polynesian.

00:55:44.120 Like Hawaiian themes.

00:55:45.760 Luau. 1.00

00:55:46.120 It's like that type of shit. 1.00

00:55:47.260 Yeah. 1.00

00:55:47.460 And it's not a real luau.

00:55:49.720 It's like.

00:55:50.080 And it's luau.

00:55:51.180 Not luau.

00:55:51.460 Right.

00:55:51.960 Exactly.

00:55:52.460 That's why when I say luau.

00:55:54.300 Like you know.

00:55:54.840 Because that's how they be pronouncing it.

00:55:56.780 Yeah.

00:55:57.120 Just like Hawaii.

00:55:58.160 Yeah.

00:55:58.700 Same thing.

00:55:59.700 That's why I'm like it's.

00:56:00.700 Of all the things in the world you could pick.

00:56:02.520 Why is it this?

00:56:03.320 Yeah.

00:56:03.660 You could pick anything else.

00:56:05.540 I think when the options are endless.

00:56:08.480 Pick one that you know is going to be okay.

00:56:10.160 Yeah.

00:56:10.540 Pick a safe one.

00:56:11.960 Yeah.

00:56:12.160 And I think sometimes too with we never we didn't really touch about this but just in

00:56:16.880 case fetishization is another thing that I think especially Polynesian men have to deal

00:56:24.060 with.

00:56:24.420 I would say Polynesian women are fetishized too for sure. 1.00

00:56:27.000 Yeah.

00:56:27.420 But I feel like with men it's a lot more brazen.

00:56:30.600 Yeah.

00:56:30.980 So if and it goes for all minorities but obviously we can only speak to the one that we're a part

00:56:36.100 of.

00:56:36.440 Yeah.

00:56:36.540 But like if you exclusively seek out Samoan men to date you got a problem babe.

00:56:43.660 You know what I mean?

00:56:44.120 And you're not Samoan and it's not like a culture thing.

00:56:46.720 It's not because you gravitate towards them culturally.

00:56:48.640 If you're only seeking them out and you say things like oh I'm trying to have some D1 1.00

00:56:54.080 athlete babies.

00:56:55.060 Oh god.

00:56:56.100 Yeah.

00:56:56.960 No. 0.98

00:56:58.120 Garbage. 1.00

00:56:58.400 Because all you're seeing you're just seeing us as sexual objects at that point. 1.00

00:57:02.060 Exactly.

00:57:02.340 And that's dehumanizing.

00:57:03.700 It's like it's commodities.

00:57:05.060 Yeah.

00:57:05.260 Right.

00:57:05.700 So like you want an athletic baby.

00:57:08.040 Right.

00:57:08.440 So you want a big athletic man.

00:57:10.180 That's weird.

00:57:11.360 That's weird.

00:57:12.060 I have heard that before.

00:57:13.120 Yeah.

00:57:13.540 Yeah.

00:57:14.320 That's a real thing.

00:57:15.000 I've had people make that joke to me and my boyfriend.

00:57:17.980 Yeah.

00:57:18.300 They're like you guys are going to have like D linemen for kids.

00:57:21.480 Because that's what we go for.

00:57:22.720 Yeah.

00:57:22.780 Yeah.

00:57:22.980 Yeah.

00:57:23.160 Exactly.

00:57:23.960 I'm like even if we did.

00:57:25.460 Right.

00:57:25.780 That's none of your business.

00:57:26.740 Yeah.

00:57:27.120 You know what I mean?

00:57:27.860 And that's I think that too like that's something with Polynesian people too especially Polynesian

00:57:33.280 men.

00:57:33.480 It's very very brazen.

00:57:35.760 Yeah.

00:57:35.860 So I always say like check it right.

00:57:38.900 Check it out the door babe. 1.00

00:57:40.580 Sometimes before this obviously before I got this platform older white women were very 1.00

00:57:46.340 brazen to my boyfriend especially when Aquaman came out.

00:57:50.000 Oh my God.

00:57:51.000 When Aquaman came out hell on earth for all of us.

00:57:53.880 It was we never I never knew peace when that movie came out.

00:57:57.320 Yo.

00:57:57.860 I can imagine.

00:57:58.720 I blame Jason Momoa for reparations.

00:58:01.220 Yeah.

00:58:01.540 Honestly I blame him.

00:58:04.040 This is your fault.

00:58:05.100 But the way that oh my.

00:58:07.620 The thirst was just.

00:58:09.000 The way that they would go feral like the frothing at the mouth was insane.

00:58:15.400 I've never seen anything like that.

00:58:17.040 And this was before I was a public person at all.

00:58:19.260 Yeah.

00:58:19.920 Oh my God.

00:58:20.720 The things that they would say and do around him especially when he was alone.

00:58:24.280 Yeah.

00:58:24.380 When I was with him sometimes they wouldn't care or they would say things like oh you're

00:58:28.480 so lucky girl keep it in your pants. 1.00

00:58:31.940 Yo.

00:58:32.460 That's so disrespectful right.

00:58:34.380 Right.

00:58:34.700 To my face.

00:58:35.440 Right.

00:58:36.020 I'm like are you talking to me?

00:58:38.140 Right.

00:58:38.400 So I was like girl ew.

00:58:40.500 Get away from me. 0.98

00:58:40.920 Get out of here weirdo. 0.99

00:58:42.060 Yeah. 0.86

00:58:42.740 That's why I'm like I if you have those thoughts keep them in there.

00:58:46.340 Right.

00:58:47.380 Keep them locked up tight and also maybe go to therapy if that's the case.

00:58:51.280 Or just take a cold bath.

00:58:52.600 Cold shower.

00:58:53.000 Yeah.

00:58:53.200 Yeah.

00:58:53.480 Yeah.

00:58:53.820 Like literally go take a walk.

00:58:55.600 You know what I mean? 1.00

00:58:55.960 Go touch some grass bitch. 1.00

00:58:57.520 Like that's what I always think. 1.00

00:58:58.480 Like get over yourself.

00:59:00.320 And so I think just to wrap up what do you want people to know about someone people humor

00:59:07.120 culture as a whole what's something that you want them to take away?

00:59:10.760 Oh that's a good one.

00:59:12.560 I think one thing I always encourage people to do is look like we are more than what our

00:59:24.740 colonizers have kind of placed upon us.

00:59:26.980 You know?

00:59:27.240 Yeah.

00:59:27.620 Absolutely.

00:59:28.060 So when I think of our culture I think of our values pre-colonization, you know?

00:59:33.000 And I really encourage people to just do your Googles, do your research because the information

00:59:38.440 is out there.

00:59:39.060 Yeah.

00:59:39.620 Just read up on our books that are written by Samoans that aren't, you know, because our

00:59:46.100 cultures are so intrinsically tied to Christianity and it's like we existed before that.

00:59:52.540 So I think that's what I think.

00:59:53.800 Well before that.

00:59:54.700 Yeah, exactly.

00:59:55.700 Centuries like.

00:59:56.780 Literally.

00:59:57.780 They came and bothered us.

00:59:59.060 We were over there living our lives.

01:00:01.040 Yeah.

01:00:01.340 Literally.

01:00:02.040 So I guess that's the big thing is just, yeah, as far as our culture, like, you know, we

01:00:08.120 had our own practices and our own knowledges and they are valuable, you know?

01:00:13.900 Yeah.

01:00:14.060 And I think even for other Samoans, like, we need to understand that because I think a 1.00

01:00:20.000 lot of us have lost sight of this.

01:00:21.520 Yeah, I think, yeah, I think, too, I always think to seek out Samoan creators like Crit,

01:00:28.580 right?

01:00:28.860 Like myself, like Stanson.

01:00:30.580 If you really want to learn more, if you want to, like, educate yourself, that's great.

01:00:35.460 I think that's a wonderful thing.

01:00:37.300 And I think, too, like, if you are Samoan and you want to connect to other Samoans, that's

01:00:42.700 another great way to do it, too.

01:00:44.680 Because, you know, seeking culture and community is natural, like, outside of your own family,

01:00:49.420 too, like, or maybe you're not close to your Samoan family and you want to get close to

01:00:54.060 something, that's another great resource is to utilize Google's.

01:00:58.240 I think also, too, if you are someone who's not Samoan and you admire them or whatever,

01:01:05.660 or you know a lot about them or you want to learn more, I think a huge thing I always

01:01:10.100 want people to take away, too, and I guess this goes for if you're Samoan also, is, like, 0.81

01:01:14.860 Samoans are so much more than what they bring to the table athletically.

01:01:19.420 Physically, because that's what they're typically known for.

01:01:22.380 Like you said, rugby, NFL players, right?

01:01:26.120 Samoan men are, like, four times more likely than any other race to get drafted to the NFL,

01:01:31.780 which per capita, that number is unreal.

01:01:35.700 That is way, way, way higher than, like, anything else ever.

01:01:40.460 So it's shocking, really, like, how often they're drafted to the NFL.

01:01:45.120 I mean, my dad was drafted to the NFL.

01:01:46.380 My dad didn't start playing football until he was in junior college, and my dad got drafted

01:01:50.640 in the seventh round.

01:01:51.520 So, like, my dad was only playing for, like, two, three years and got drafted.

01:01:54.840 So it's just something that comes natural to them, which is a great and beautiful thing.

01:01:58.440 It's given a lot of Samoan people lives and, like, futures because their family members

01:02:03.720 have been able to do these wonderful things, and that's great.

01:02:05.900 But there's so much more to Samoan culture than just that, than just rugby, than just

01:02:10.640 football, than wrestling, right?

01:02:13.140 So many of them are such talented artists, dancers, singers, right?

01:02:17.260 So much more, like, intellectuals, reporters.

01:02:20.540 Like, there's so much more to Samoan people.

01:02:23.260 You don't have to solely rely on your physicality to have purpose in this life.

01:02:28.700 That was, like, one of the things I probably would have done if I hadn't got into sports

01:02:32.900 heavily.

01:02:33.880 Yeah.

01:02:34.140 I would have helped Samoan men, especially, transition from college to the real world.

01:02:40.660 Yeah.

01:02:40.760 Because a lot of times, it's, you know, this is a Samoan thing, but we put so much emphasis

01:02:44.940 on sports because it's a way to a better life.

01:02:46.720 Yeah.

01:02:47.220 And not so much on academia, which is something I feel very passionate about when it comes

01:02:50.980 to secondary education.

01:02:52.000 So I feel like I highly encourage, especially Polynesian kids, to pursue a secondary education

01:02:58.680 if you can.

01:02:59.720 It's just so important to, like, I just think it's a wonderful thing and it's a blessing

01:03:03.140 to be able to have that.

01:03:05.240 But, you know, when you have that, you just know that your worth and value doesn't solely

01:03:10.240 come from what you, you know, can provide athletically.

01:03:13.440 Like, if you get hurt, right, if something happens, like, what are you going to do after

01:03:16.960 that?

01:03:17.560 And a lot of times, they're just left in the dust as soon as they get injured.

01:03:21.560 These corporations don't care about them, right?

01:03:23.360 Exactly.

01:03:23.680 They don't care about them or their education.

01:03:25.940 So that was something I was really passionate about was, like, helping them transition to

01:03:29.760 normal life and pursuing, like, avenues that don't have to be, like, something like construction,

01:03:36.640 right?

01:03:36.940 Or something that's blue collar.

01:03:38.520 It could be anything you want.

01:03:39.820 Literally anything you want.

01:03:41.300 Because you're so much more than what your body can provide the world, right?

01:03:44.820 Or a large corporation.

01:03:46.060 So that's what I would want them to know.

01:03:48.600 But I'm so, so happy I got to have you on my show.

01:03:51.940 So grateful.

01:03:52.760 No, I'm grateful to be here, too.

01:03:54.180 I really appreciate you having me.

01:03:55.540 Yeah.

01:03:55.860 Everyone, please go follow Crit.

01:03:57.920 He is incredible.

01:03:59.240 Where can everybody find you on socials?

01:04:01.240 Yep.

01:04:02.840 Just at what would, oh my gosh, I can't even remember.

01:04:06.720 What would Crit do?

01:04:07.840 That's what it is.

01:04:08.580 Yes.

01:04:08.800 Not Jesus, but Crit. 0.55

01:04:10.260 What would Crit do?

01:04:10.840 W-W-K-D. 1.00

01:04:12.580 Yeah, yeah.

01:04:13.000 On all platforms.

01:04:14.560 That's your handle on all platforms.

01:04:15.880 Yeah, yeah.

01:04:16.420 Okay, so make sure you go follow Crit.

01:04:17.880 Crit is an amazing someone, creator to follow, and someone who can teach you a lot if you

01:04:23.240 want to learn a lot, or if you want to feel closer to culture.

01:04:25.780 Thank you so much for coming.

01:04:26.900 I really appreciate you.

01:04:27.780 All right.

01:04:28.040 Malo lava.

01:04:28.740 Yeah.

01:04:29.360 Malo le soy fuu.

01:04:30.560 Okay, so thank you all for joining us on this episode of the Comment Section Show.

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01:04:49.780 We'll see you next week.

01:04:50.960 Bye.

The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - September 21, 2022

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