The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - COORDINATED AND CLOSETED Ft. Blake Silva

00:00:00.000 I'll get the comments on my PR sometimes.

00:00:02.440 My four-year-old would love this.

00:00:04.120 I'm like, OK.

00:00:06.200 OK.

00:00:08.320 Your four-year-old doesn't need Everyman Jack Spider-Man body

00:00:11.040 wash, but OK.

00:00:14.840 OK.

00:00:22.960 Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode

00:00:24.840 of the comment section show, starring me, your fave.

00:00:26.760 Everybody knows me, cares about me.

00:00:28.560 Onto the guest today, we have the icon, the legend himself,

00:00:32.320 Blake Silva, a.k.a.

00:00:33.760 Blake's Popnuck.

00:00:34.600 Oh, my gosh.

00:00:36.800 There was no way that was about me.

00:00:38.600 Oh, my god.

00:00:39.680 The icon, no.

00:00:40.680 Welcome to the show, King.

00:00:42.160 Oh, my gosh.

00:00:42.680 I, like, am taking it in.

00:00:44.000 I am thinking about paying rent here.

00:00:46.280 Like, this is so cool, thank you.

00:00:47.760 Can I be honest?

00:00:48.520 You came when we're on our fancy studio time,

00:00:52.160 because you haven't seen some of the trenches

00:00:54.440 we've been in filming the show.

00:00:56.920 We had a summer where we filmed in a literal, like, storage

00:01:00.600 house with no AC.

00:01:02.280 You know what?

00:01:02.840 And thank god to my guests, I appreciate you.

00:01:04.840 Thank you.

00:01:06.680 That's how we got here today.

00:01:07.640 Yeah, so you came to the bouche time.

00:01:08.960 I love that.

00:01:09.840 Thank you.

00:01:10.240 Well, AC is important.

00:01:11.360 Yeah, I'm so glad that we are in this space

00:01:14.080 when we have Blake's Popnuck on.

00:01:15.440 Oh, my god, period.

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00:01:47.440 You're my first Disney creator.

00:01:48.960 Wait, I love that so much.

00:01:50.560 So I tune in, obviously.

00:01:53.360 I watched the episode talking all about Disney adults.

00:01:56.800 Yes!

00:01:57.680 Literally two weeks ago.

00:01:58.560 With Maggie?

00:01:59.200 Yeah.

00:01:59.680 Okay, first of all, I don't know.

00:02:01.440 Is it called Subway Takes?

00:02:02.880 Yes, Subway Takes.

00:02:03.920 I ate that up when I saw her.

00:02:06.320 And of course, I'm sitting on my couch like, yes.

00:02:08.240 Like, please vouch for us.

00:02:10.000 Providing for Disney adults.

00:02:10.240 Yeah, yeah, literally.

00:02:11.440 Wickets for us, too.

00:02:13.840 So I loved that episode.

00:02:14.800 Also, thank you so much for the sweet shout out.

00:02:16.800 Very kind.

00:02:17.040 Oh my god, are you kidding?

00:02:18.480 I talk about you all the time.

00:02:19.520 I sing, I shout your name from the rooftops.

00:02:22.000 Every time someone's like, oh, Disney creators,

00:02:23.600 I'm like, mmm, Blake's Popnik.

00:02:25.040 Obviously, I think about you and Megan,

00:02:27.440 the magical millennial.

00:02:28.320 Oh, my queen.

00:02:29.760 I told her I was coming here today

00:02:30.800 because I saw another episode where you mentioned her

00:02:33.680 and her Mystery Open Monday.

00:02:35.120 Yes.

00:02:35.760 Big shout out, Mystery Open Monday.

00:02:37.120 Yes.

00:02:38.000 Yes.

00:02:38.560 So I love that.

00:02:39.520 I told her I was going to be here.

00:02:40.640 Tea.

00:02:41.840 Yeah, I know.

00:02:42.480 I'm so excited.

00:02:43.360 Oh my god, I'm so excited to have you.

00:02:44.960 I need to tell you when I first discovered you

00:02:48.240 because obviously your blind boxes have been amazing

00:02:53.040 and I love to watch them.

00:02:54.240 But honestly, watching you complete sets of mystery pens,

00:02:58.400 I was on that, bitch.

00:02:59.680 Listen.

00:03:00.240 I was on that.

00:03:01.040 I was like, oh my god, is it going to be the one?

00:03:03.840 Every time I watch it, I'm like, is it going to be the one?

00:03:05.680 Oh my god.

00:03:06.160 That's so awesome.

00:03:06.800 Like, I saw you complete the Zootopia Molly one.

00:03:08.800 Yes.

00:03:09.360 How ironic.

00:03:10.000 You said I didn't want the whole collection

00:03:11.280 and then you had to finish the collection.

00:03:12.880 Okay, so I will be completely honest.

00:03:14.720 My phone is in my bag and the screen is open

00:03:17.200 because I am uploading a TikTok right now.

00:03:20.960 But it's from another, so there's like other ones.

00:03:23.840 They're not from the same set.

00:03:24.960 Gotcha.

00:03:25.280 But it's something that I said I wouldn't buy

00:03:26.480 and here I am.

00:03:27.760 And I said in the video, like, you're all going to clock me

00:03:30.240 because I always say, I'm not interested in the whole set.

00:03:33.040 And then there we go.

00:03:34.560 And when you say that, the universe makes sure you complete the set

00:03:37.360 before you get the one that you want.

00:03:39.120 Yeah, okay.

00:03:39.600 But thank you for locking in.

00:03:41.040 I always think to myself, like, because I get that comment a lot.

00:03:43.600 Like, I'm so dialed.

00:03:45.200 Like, even people who don't do pins.

00:03:46.640 Yeah.

00:03:47.280 And I'm like, I wish I could experience it.

00:03:49.920 But then I'm like, no, I am.

00:03:50.960 Like, I'm like the one making video.

00:03:53.120 Experience you opening it.

00:03:54.320 Right, right.

00:03:55.040 I'm like, I want to watch.

00:03:56.000 I know, for real.

00:03:56.960 I'd love to know how you got into creation.

00:03:59.200 Like, just general Disney creation overall.

00:04:01.600 Well, COVID, which I feel like is pretty classic.

00:04:05.120 Yeah.

00:04:05.520 Like, what's your background in?

00:04:06.880 What were you doing?

00:04:07.760 So, I have always been an artist.

00:04:10.000 Love.

00:04:10.720 I went to college for graphic design.

00:04:12.320 Okay.

00:04:12.800 So, I've worked professionally as a designer for like eight years.

00:04:16.480 Love.

00:04:16.960 I went to Cal Poly in like Central California.

00:04:19.680 T, Cal Poly Pomona.

00:04:21.120 Hi, K.I. Mustangs.

00:04:22.240 Yeah.

00:04:22.960 So, I, yeah, I like got a job straight out of school working for my dad,

00:04:27.040 who's also a designer.

00:04:28.080 Nice.

00:04:28.240 He like runs a firm in my hometown, Ventura.

00:04:31.200 And I just like worked there in house like as a like agency job.

00:04:35.760 Mm-hmm.

00:04:36.160 And then I started working for Press Juicery.

00:04:38.880 Oh, okay.

00:04:39.520 In 2020.

00:04:40.560 So, was so fortunate to get a job when everyone was losing their job.

00:04:44.800 Right.

00:04:45.120 So, I worked there just as a print and digital designer and like assisted our photographer

00:04:51.200 and stuff.

00:04:51.680 Um, and was there for like almost three years.

00:04:53.920 Oh, okay.

00:04:54.480 And I got laid off in 2023.

00:04:56.080 Damn.

00:04:56.640 It was like layoff season.

00:04:57.920 Oh, okay.

00:04:58.880 I like healed.

00:04:59.840 I, I have love for you pressed.

00:05:01.440 Like it's all good.

00:05:02.480 Um, that's good.

00:05:03.840 Cause I don't have any healing whatsoever with the people who fired me.

00:05:07.760 Yeah.

00:05:08.080 I have like, I have friends who still like, we're like at the mall and we like walk by

00:05:11.120 the store and they like give a little middle finger and I'm like, it's fine.

00:05:13.280 It's fine.

00:05:13.680 Like, it's okay.

00:05:14.320 We're good now.

00:05:14.880 Yeah.

00:05:14.960 Yeah.

00:05:15.280 We're not buried hatchet.

00:05:16.400 Yeah.

00:05:16.640 Yeah.

00:05:16.880 The hatchet is buried at six feet under.

00:05:19.200 Um, so I was super bummed, but like I had been casually creating content like since COVID.

00:05:24.800 Yeah.

00:05:25.200 Um, at least in like the Disney space and stuff.

00:05:27.680 Cause I actually have just for fun.

00:05:28.960 Yeah.

00:05:29.200 Just for fun.

00:05:30.000 I have like a kind of a rich history and not rich actually.

00:05:33.680 Cause I was always broke, but, um, I have like a rich history and content because I've

00:05:37.680 had Instagram since its creation.

00:05:40.080 Right.

00:05:40.560 And in high school I was like a VSCO girly and we're like exactly the same age, right?

00:05:44.880 Yeah.

00:05:45.040 I'm 32.

00:05:45.840 Yeah.

00:05:47.120 So like, so I was there with you.

00:05:48.960 Yeah.

00:05:49.520 Like on the ground floor.

00:05:51.280 Yeah.

00:05:51.600 That was when social media was purely fun.

00:05:53.520 Oh yeah.

00:05:53.840 It was just pictures by the way.

00:05:55.440 Yeah.

00:05:55.840 By the way.

00:05:56.560 Yeah.

00:05:56.880 Just fun and exciting.

00:05:58.480 I was not locked into the built in filters on Instagram.

00:06:01.440 I was a VSCO girl.

00:06:02.880 I like cared about the aesthetic, the vibe and I was like an art kid too.

00:06:06.800 So like I loved all of that.

00:06:08.080 But in college I kind of started like doing self portraiture and stuff and I was like really

00:06:13.840 in my like lifestyle bag from like 2018 to 2021.

00:06:17.280 Oh gee.

00:06:17.840 So like if anyone ever does a deep dive on my like personal page, Blake A Silva, shout

00:06:22.480 out to the old me.

00:06:23.520 Um, it's like I was doing like high concept, like, like self portrait on the side of the

00:06:29.600 road with a tripod, like just crazy all the time shooting every day.

00:06:33.840 Um, and I just got so burnt out cause I wanted it so badly and it was before like video was a

00:06:39.440 big thing.

00:06:40.160 So, um, I like to think that now I get to kind of do all the things that I love cause I worked so

00:06:45.440 hard on like doing lifestyle stuff and I didn't even know what I wanted out of it.

00:06:49.440 I was like, I guess I could work with like clothing brands or like whatever.

00:06:52.640 Right.

00:06:53.120 And that's probably why it didn't hit the same way your stuff hits now.

00:06:56.720 Yeah.

00:06:57.120 Cause it was no, there, it wasn't like attached to you.

00:07:00.160 Yeah.

00:07:00.560 And like, it was just like, I want it to look good and it's fun, but I also like wanted to

00:07:04.720 pop off and I think that's why I didn't.

00:07:06.720 And that's tea.

00:07:07.840 I say that all the time.

00:07:09.040 I'm like, sometimes if you want it too bad or if you go into it with the explicit,

00:07:13.520 I want to be rich and famous.

00:07:15.200 I really do think the universe like withholds.

00:07:17.280 Yeah.

00:07:18.080 I do think like I was making friends and stuff, but like I had zero community.

00:07:21.760 Right.

00:07:22.480 And like, now I have such a cool community.

00:07:24.880 Yeah.

00:07:25.120 And so like in COVID, I was like, you know what?

00:07:27.840 Let me just like post about my Funko pops and let me post about my animal crossing island.

00:07:32.320 Yeah.

00:07:32.640 And things that bring you joy.

00:07:33.760 And that's actually where my username came from.

00:07:35.760 Oh, really?

00:07:36.880 It was never, my name was not in it at first.

00:07:38.800 It was just the pop nook.

00:07:40.480 And I was posting about my Funko pops and I was posting about my animal crossing island

00:07:43.600 because Tom Nook from animal crossing.

00:07:46.000 So fast forward, like it's like evolved and stuff so much.

00:07:49.280 And, um, I remember I like got invited to my first like movie premiere.

00:07:52.640 Oh, and what was it?

00:07:54.320 Do you remember bullet train?

00:07:55.520 Oh, bullet train.

00:07:56.320 I went to that one, the one here in LA.

00:07:58.240 Oh my God.

00:07:59.520 I know for real.

00:08:00.480 I literally went to that one.

00:08:01.760 I'm not kidding.

00:08:02.320 I walked carpet.

00:08:04.080 Yeah.

00:08:04.480 If I remember, yes, I do remember it.

00:08:05.920 I walked the carpet.

00:08:07.040 I walked off, got in my car, went home.

00:08:09.280 Exactly.

00:08:09.840 I didn't even see the movie.

00:08:10.640 So I was sat front row.

00:08:12.240 I was like this and like, I was nervous.

00:08:15.280 Like my roommate and I, at the time we went and like probably had like a little bit too

00:08:19.040 much to drink.

00:08:19.440 Cause it was free.

00:08:20.320 It was like getting my bearings.

00:08:22.320 And so it was not good.

00:08:23.360 I was like, so sick sitting in the front.

00:08:24.880 Like, I don't even know what's going on.

00:08:26.080 Oh my God.

00:08:26.400 I can't even imagine the motion sickness, but was really close to Benito.

00:08:29.520 So trade off.

00:08:31.440 Yeah.

00:08:32.080 So it worked off.

00:08:32.720 It worked out.

00:08:33.120 But that was like my turning point where I like added my name into my handle because

00:08:36.880 I was on the red carpet and I was like, oh my God, I'm like so embarrassed.

00:08:40.800 They're probably like, what, what the hell is a pop nook?

00:08:43.280 Like she's like holding my paper.

00:08:44.640 That's like at the pop nook.

00:08:46.400 And it's fine.

00:08:46.960 Like a lot of people don't have their name in it, but it was just sort of this like moment

00:08:50.160 where I was like, I really like occupying these spaces and I want people to like know that I'm

00:08:54.000 here because it's me, not just like some thing.

00:08:55.760 Branding.

00:08:56.400 Yeah.

00:08:56.720 So added my name.

00:08:58.560 I won't get into it right now.

00:08:59.520 I could like tell you later, but there's like some drama with like my username right now

00:09:03.520 where I had a little situation recently.

00:09:05.760 Interesting.

00:09:06.160 So I'm actually like kind of rebranding, but it's just me.

00:09:09.600 So like my handle on TikTok currently is just Blake Silva and like YouTube and stuff.

00:09:14.720 And it's not, I don't have it on Instagram yet, but that's just the goal.

00:09:17.840 It's just, I've, it's become such an extension of just like my truest self that I'm like.

00:09:21.520 Which is true.

00:09:22.160 That's who I am.

00:09:22.880 It's a multifaceted thing.

00:09:24.240 Yeah.

00:09:24.640 Like it's, it's gone so far beyond.

00:09:26.480 Totally.

00:09:26.880 Like just Funko Pops or anything.

00:09:28.160 And when people say hi and stuff, it's like, are you Blake Silva?

00:09:31.040 They don't say, are you the pop nook or whatever anymore?

00:09:33.680 So I've sort of like grown into this like different space.

00:09:36.160 Yes.

00:09:36.480 I love Disney.

00:09:37.120 Yes.

00:09:37.360 I love pins, but like it's become this like really cool new thing.

00:09:42.160 Yeah.

00:09:42.640 And that's what I want anyway.

00:09:43.920 And I also like really believe in the like creator to talent pipeline.

00:09:47.360 Like I want so much more than just like making videos.

00:09:50.640 So, um, that's like long way around to be like, that's how I got into it.

00:09:54.560 But I went full time when I got laid off cause I just was at the new like rewards program

00:09:59.520 on Tik Tok came out and I was like, wow, I just made like four months of salary

00:10:04.240 pay in one month on Tik Tok.

00:10:05.520 No dead ass.

00:10:06.320 And so I was like, okay, like, yeah, for real.

00:10:09.680 It's one of those like, okay, I think this is like, that was gonna be my next question

00:10:13.120 is when you felt like, okay, I think this is becoming a thing.

00:10:15.760 Yeah.

00:10:16.080 And I wasn't sure.

00:10:16.800 Like I, I never would have quit my job for it.

00:10:19.040 Right.

00:10:19.360 I never, yeah.

00:10:20.240 I never would have been like, I'm going to do it and I'm going to take the leap.

00:10:23.680 I just kind of got pushed.

00:10:24.960 Right.

00:10:25.280 Same.

00:10:25.600 And I always just say that press set me free.

00:10:27.600 Like they didn't let me go.

00:10:28.800 So that's so T.

00:10:30.320 Yeah.

00:10:30.640 That's so T.

00:10:31.280 And I know like your story too.

00:10:32.560 Cause I'm a fan.

00:10:33.920 So like, no, you're right though.

00:10:35.680 Like, and sometimes I joke and I'm like, you guys want to be famous on Tik Tok, you gotta

00:10:38.480 get fired.

00:10:39.360 No, literally, literally.

00:10:41.120 Don't do that.

00:10:41.680 Go to your boss.

00:10:42.480 No, I'm scared.

00:10:43.600 Go do something fucked up and get fired.

00:10:45.440 Slide him a 20.

00:10:46.480 Please let me go.

00:10:47.600 No, yeah, no, for real.

00:10:48.720 But you're right.

00:10:49.280 Because I feel like it, even though we've only hung out a couple of times, I really do feel like

00:10:53.120 you're like me in the sense of, you know, this is great and this is fun and I really

00:10:56.800 do want to do this, but I have responsibilities.

00:10:58.640 Yeah.

00:10:59.040 Which is how I was too.

00:10:59.840 Like paying rent.

00:11:01.040 Right.

00:11:01.440 Like I have bills.

00:11:02.720 Yeah.

00:11:03.040 Like, man, I have to feed myself.

00:11:04.560 Like there are, there are things that I have to take care of.

00:11:07.440 So it was the same thing for me, even though I wasn't creating content or anything at the

00:11:11.040 time I got fired, it was one of those where like, I was never going to leave.

00:11:14.160 Like I had, I had to be shoved like off the edge in order to actually pursue it.

00:11:19.600 And even then, like, I was so lost after I got fired.

00:11:22.560 I was like, never in my life had I ever felt like that before.

00:11:25.600 So it really did kind of like just happen, like the same way that you're describing it

00:11:29.840 happened.

00:11:30.320 Thank God.

00:11:30.880 Like, Oh shit, girl, you're telling me.

00:11:32.880 Thank God.

00:11:33.280 Yeah.

00:11:33.680 Like.

00:11:34.080 It's so cool.

00:11:34.560 I don't know.

00:11:34.880 I'm like, so grateful.

00:11:35.920 I, I literally like every time I'm in a space, I mean, I think a little healthy imposter syndrome

00:11:40.080 is good sometimes because it keeps you like grounded.

00:11:42.880 Yeah.

00:11:43.280 Yeah.

00:11:43.680 And not to be like, I'm so humble.

00:11:45.280 I walk in the room and don't think I deserve to be there.

00:11:47.040 Like, I know that I deserve to be there.

00:11:48.480 Right.

00:11:48.800 But I have these moments all the time where I'm like, someone's going to ask me to leave.

00:11:53.600 Well, it's also one of those things where it's good to check in with yourself.

00:11:56.480 Yeah.

00:11:56.800 Because I, I've said that before about this business, which I'm sure you know now too,

00:12:00.320 it gets to a point sometimes with me that we're like, I'm like, yeah, see, I, I get

00:12:06.960 why sometimes this business makes people turn evil.

00:12:10.640 Oh, totally.

00:12:11.360 Because the, the money, the access, the like exposure, like if you're not grounded in something,

00:12:18.800 like whether it's reality or something else, it really will turn you into a monster because

00:12:23.040 you just have too much free reign, I guess is the point.

00:12:26.720 Yeah.

00:12:27.040 So I'm like, it is good to check in with yourself and be like, am I being crazy?

00:12:31.520 Like sometimes I have to check in with myself and be like, I'm never bigger than the program,

00:12:35.760 I guess is my point.

00:12:36.560 I always try to keep that top of mind, but that's also probably because we came from nothing.

00:12:40.880 Right.

00:12:41.120 So like, it's easy for us.

00:12:42.000 It's like an accident.

00:12:42.560 Yeah.

00:12:43.120 Yeah.

00:12:43.520 And it helps to have like a partner that grounds you.

00:12:45.680 Like, you know, you have that.

00:12:47.200 And like my partner, Matt, shout out.

00:12:49.200 Yeah.

00:12:49.680 We love Matt.

00:12:50.480 Love Matt.

00:12:52.160 He's just so wonderful.

00:12:53.280 We're like going on 10 years and he's seen me through like-

00:12:55.520 You and me both queen.

00:12:56.480 I know.

00:12:56.880 We're literally the same.

00:12:57.920 It's kind of cuckoo.

00:12:58.800 We're twins, literally.

00:12:59.680 But like, he's seen me through like every different phase of like my creative journey.

00:13:03.840 Like he's a full-time musician, incredible singer.

00:13:07.040 And like, it's so wild to be in these like spaces where we like have both been in the

00:13:12.640 scenario where like, is this like scary to like pursue these like big dream careers?

00:13:17.920 Yeah.

00:13:18.480 But it's just so nice to like do it at the same time.

00:13:20.960 Absolutely.

00:13:21.680 Yeah.

00:13:21.920 So it's really great.

00:13:22.160 And then to have someone who understands, especially the scheduling of everything because

00:13:26.480 it is so random and like the travel is a lot and it's so random.

00:13:30.720 Yeah.

00:13:31.040 So like, I know you're-

00:13:31.680 And we do long distance.

00:13:32.400 Oh, that's right.

00:13:32.960 So like we go between Nashville and LA.

00:13:34.880 Yeah.

00:13:35.280 Um, so like doing that, I actually think it helps to be long distance in the jobs that

00:13:40.480 we're doing because we see each other all the time because I'll go on trips.

00:13:43.600 He was just with me in New York.

00:13:44.560 Yeah.

00:13:44.960 So like we get to go do all these things together and it kind of like makes that feel like less

00:13:49.680 because it almost feels like the time apart is like time that normal people would spend

00:13:54.000 like working apart.

00:13:54.880 Yeah, that's true.

00:13:55.600 So it's like we get to like come together for the work stuff and we just have fun and

00:13:58.880 yeah, it's great.

00:13:59.360 Yeah.

00:13:59.680 Sometimes when we talk to, I'm sure you have this too, like if you have friends or family

00:14:04.400 who don't do creative jobs for a living, because obviously most of my friends are in this business,

00:14:09.360 but I have a lot of friends and family who are not.

00:14:10.960 Yeah.

00:14:11.360 And sometimes when we go do things and I invite them, I'm like, sometimes my cousin,

00:14:16.640 like my cousin, Josh, he'll be like, girl, I have a real job.

00:14:18.880 Like I can't just fucking go.

00:14:20.160 And I'm like, okay, sorry.

00:14:21.600 You're like, well, it'd be super easy because it's like a Tuesday at 9am.

00:14:23.840 Yeah.

00:14:24.000 And I was like, yeah, literally I'm like, well, it's Wednesday and it's 12.

00:14:26.640 And I'm literally like, well, I have a bullshit made up job.

00:14:28.800 So that's why I'm allowed to do it because I have that frame, that reign to do so.

00:14:33.120 Yeah, totally.

00:14:33.760 Literally because I have a made up job.

00:14:35.040 Right.

00:14:35.440 Which you do too.

00:14:36.080 Yeah.

00:14:36.400 Like I created it actually from scratch.

00:14:38.160 Yeah, from scratch.

00:14:40.080 I also do want to tell you now that I'm thinking about all your many hats that you wear.

00:14:44.000 I'm actually not wearing a hat today, which I normally am.

00:14:46.560 Yeah, normally you are.

00:14:47.760 The metaphorical hats that you're always wearing.

00:14:50.160 Your cover of the song from Elemental.

00:14:52.880 I love it.

00:14:53.520 Oh my God.

00:14:53.920 I'm so dead ass.

00:14:54.960 I'm so dead ass.

00:14:55.840 I'm so dead ass.

00:14:56.640 It brings tears to my eyes.

00:14:57.600 Oh my God, shout out, steal the show.

00:14:59.120 And I know I'm laughing, but I'm laughing because it's so funny to tell you to your face.

00:15:01.920 I love you for that.

00:15:02.560 Thank you.

00:15:03.440 And that is one of my favorite Disney movies.

00:15:06.320 Oh, same.

00:15:06.960 So I literally showed, when you were posting that cover specifically, I showed my man and

00:15:12.000 I was like, he's eaten.

00:15:12.960 Like, I don't know what to tell you.

00:15:14.000 Thank you.

00:15:15.120 He's eaten.

00:15:15.520 Chew.

00:15:15.920 That's so kind.

00:15:16.880 Love.

00:15:17.200 And that's one of my favorite movies ever.

00:15:18.240 Thank you so much.

00:15:18.960 That's like some, I mean, I've been singing since I was in high school.

00:15:21.360 Yeah.

00:15:21.840 I love that I get to share that.

00:15:23.680 Yeah.

00:15:24.000 Um, and I did acapella in college.

00:15:26.320 Um, okay.

00:15:27.360 Okay.

00:15:27.680 Listen, wait, just one moment.

00:15:30.880 So San Luis Obispo, we call it slow.

00:15:32.880 Right.

00:15:33.360 My group was called take it slow.

00:15:35.360 Shout out, take it slow.

00:15:37.120 Um, listen, in the moment you like really think that acapella is the coolest thing.

00:15:43.680 It's like equivalent to me to improv.

00:15:46.720 Okay.

00:15:47.120 So like everyone, trust me, many people I know and love dearly, Amanda herself.

00:15:51.440 She's one of them.

00:15:52.080 She takes improv.

00:15:52.880 I love that.

00:15:53.520 I know because she tells me every Wednesday I have to leave because I have improv.

00:15:56.720 She tells me every Wednesday.

00:15:58.400 So like a lot of my friends take improv.

00:16:00.160 Every time they talk to me about it, they're like, yeah, was it humiliating and awful?

00:16:03.280 Yes.

00:16:03.840 Totally.

00:16:05.200 But also it was life changing.

00:16:07.600 Like the journey.

00:16:08.320 And I think that's how acapella is.

00:16:09.600 No, like recently I kind of like snapped out of it.

00:16:11.760 Like, I'm not even going to lie.

00:16:12.960 Cause Matt, again, we were like talking and I think something came up.

00:16:16.320 I said something like, oh yeah.

00:16:17.520 Like, you know, throwback to like when we did this and take it slow.

00:16:20.160 And Matt was like, throwback to when you did acapella.

00:16:22.880 And I was like, why did you say it like that?

00:16:24.880 First of all, what was that?

00:16:25.680 First of all, like drag me also, like, yeah.

00:16:29.440 But I had a moment where I was like, wait, yeah, not great.

00:16:33.680 Not great.

00:16:34.480 But like, we're on Spotify.

00:16:35.600 Like it's crazy.

00:16:36.480 Okay.

00:16:37.040 And that's the funniest part because my friends who do improv, same thing.

00:16:41.680 They're like, no, yeah.

00:16:42.800 Like obviously humiliating and awful.

00:16:45.120 And I'm really proud of all the work I put into it.

00:16:49.040 I don't know if improv has like any of the, uh, pretentious community, but like acapella,

00:16:54.480 like I do not find community in acapella people in Los Angeles because I'll be at like a function

00:17:01.360 and you know, small talk.

00:17:02.560 People are like, where'd you go to school?

00:17:03.680 Like, what do you do?

00:17:04.480 What did you do before this?

00:17:05.520 And acapella always comes up because like, why not?

00:17:08.400 It's like a fun nugget.

00:17:09.440 Yeah.

00:17:10.160 And like, I'll talk to the wrong person and be like, I did acapella.

00:17:13.520 And they're like, what grade were you in?

00:17:14.960 And I'm like, oh my God.

00:17:16.560 Like, oh, an acapella elitist.

00:17:18.560 I swear you don't know my group.

00:17:20.880 It wasn't USC and it wasn't Berkeley.

00:17:23.680 You're going, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:17:25.680 You're trying to assign me to these bad ones.

00:17:27.360 Yeah.

00:17:27.680 I wasn't a good one.

00:17:28.560 12 followers on Instagram.

00:17:29.760 Like, don't worry about it.

00:17:30.960 Don't Google.

00:17:32.240 It's really fun.

00:17:33.840 That's so, and honestly, like I, this is like sometimes shocking to, to people to hear,

00:17:38.560 but like, I was an athlete growing up.

00:17:40.800 All I did was sports.

00:17:41.760 Like, that's what I did.

00:17:42.400 I did all throughout all my levels of schooling.

00:17:45.200 I, all I ever played was sports.

00:17:46.880 And if I had the time, I promise you, I would have been in every improv group.

00:17:52.160 If I could sing, I would have joined choir.

00:17:54.240 Well, I, we have soccer in common.

00:17:56.000 Yes.

00:17:56.560 And I played soccer for like 10 years.

00:17:58.160 Me too.

00:17:58.880 And I got to college and I was like, I'm over it.

00:18:01.520 I'm not playing soccer anymore.

00:18:02.720 And so I did acapella.

00:18:05.360 I needed an extracurricular.

00:18:06.720 Literally.

00:18:07.200 And when I went to college, that was when I really started taking like fun classes,

00:18:12.160 like I, like in the arts, because all I fucking did was sports.

00:18:15.120 And then I was also a good student, not a flex.

00:18:17.120 It's just true.

00:18:17.840 Right.

00:18:18.160 I was a good student too.

00:18:19.120 So I was in like all the serious, like hard classes.

00:18:22.560 And then I played sports.

00:18:23.360 That was it.

00:18:23.760 Yeah.

00:18:23.920 I didn't get to do anything fun.

00:18:25.040 Yeah.

00:18:25.520 So I took like drama.

00:18:27.040 I took like fun, little, like different, like, um, which, what was another one?

00:18:31.200 I took, I took one about like, um, it was like college.

00:18:34.800 Yes.

00:18:35.120 I took like cultural history.

00:18:37.040 I took one where, um, like in my Samoan language class, which I took in college too,

00:18:41.280 which was cool.

00:18:41.760 They offered it as another language.

00:18:43.840 And it was a four credit course because it was so fucking hard.

00:18:46.880 There was like extracurriculars.

00:18:48.000 So that too, where we could go to like, uh, do an umu, which is like an earth oven

00:18:51.680 and stuff like that.

00:18:52.160 I was taking all the fun.

00:18:53.040 Yeah.

00:18:54.000 I was like, I never got to do anything fucking fun.

00:18:56.160 Cause I was playing sports for so goddamn long.

00:18:58.000 Right.

00:18:58.320 But now when I tell people that I'm like, no, I honestly was an athlete.

00:19:00.800 They're like, really?

00:19:01.440 You never did improv or anything like that.

00:19:02.880 I was like, no bitch.

00:19:04.000 I just came out like this.

00:19:05.040 Yeah.

00:19:05.600 I was like, my family's just like really fast and funny.

00:19:08.000 And that's kind of how it worked out for me.

00:19:09.920 Hey, and now we have jobs from scratch.

00:19:12.000 Yeah.

00:19:12.640 And now we have made up jobs.

00:19:13.760 Yeah.

00:19:14.640 Okay.

00:19:14.960 Tell me about singing.

00:19:15.920 What's your goals with singing?

00:19:17.040 Like, I would love to know, like,

00:19:18.240 no, I appreciate you even bringing it up because I like sometimes forget that I'm like

00:19:21.840 wildly passionate about it because I just like have so many things like,

00:19:24.800 Cause you're a workhorse like me.

00:19:26.000 I sure am your eyes on the money.

00:19:28.480 I sure am chasing.

00:19:30.480 Um, so acapella was kind of like the first, like ironically, the first time I ever like

00:19:34.560 took it seriously and, um, I am a person of faith.

00:19:37.760 I come from a Christian household, but I also am a black sheep because I have kept my faith

00:19:43.440 intact even being homosexual.

00:19:45.600 So I am a firm believer that you can be both.

00:19:48.800 Hell yeah.

00:19:49.280 Um, because Jesus is not, Jesus is not the one that everybody says he is.

00:19:53.200 I don't think.

00:19:53.600 No, I agree with you.

00:19:54.320 Yeah.

00:19:54.560 And so I, um, I'm actually a worship leader currently.

00:19:57.440 Oh, wow.

00:19:58.080 Look at you.

00:19:58.720 So worship has always been a huge part of my life.

00:20:00.640 Yeah.

00:20:00.880 And that was kind of where I like got into singing in high school.

00:20:04.080 So that was like, it was always just something that was sort of a small part.

00:20:07.040 Yeah.

00:20:07.440 And so now with like my audiences and stuff online, like people desire to know more of

00:20:13.440 those things about you and people also love to find out the new things.

00:20:17.840 Like, that's why it's so fun to even just do stuff like this where we're, we're kind

00:20:20.960 of getting to know each other as well, because I'm like, I don't know, some people might not

00:20:23.760 know that I did acapella or whatever, like what my group was called.

00:20:26.720 Right.

00:20:27.280 But I played soccer, like there's so many things.

00:20:29.520 And that's also one thing about being a creator, especially in like the Disney sphere where like

00:20:33.360 people kind of just like, they're like, okay, you're in the box and I'm

00:20:37.280 closing the box and then I'll come get you when I want to open the box.

00:20:39.200 So you're a Disney person.

00:20:39.520 Yeah.

00:20:39.680 Yeah.

00:20:39.840 Yeah.

00:20:40.320 And I try really hard to like be more than that.

00:20:42.720 It's also part of the name change and everything, like changing my handle, it's just me.

00:20:45.760 Which is good, that's a beautiful thing.

00:20:46.000 Yeah.

00:20:46.560 So with singing, I always was kind of like, I want people to like know it about me,

00:20:49.920 but I don't really know what I want from it.

00:20:51.520 Yeah.

00:20:52.160 And so it's always, I think I've always had a really beautiful relationship with music

00:20:55.280 because I didn't ask anything of it.

00:20:57.680 And that's a beautiful way of looking at it.

00:21:00.480 Yeah, totally.

00:21:01.200 I love that.

00:21:01.360 Like I, cause I don't.

00:21:02.160 It's a passion.

00:21:02.640 Yeah, absolutely.

00:21:03.760 But I think it's, it's found a really nice way into my life as of late, where I feel

00:21:10.320 like I can sort of like have a harmonious, like give and take where I'm like, I do kind

00:21:16.640 of want something of this, but I'm just going to like invest myself in it first and then just

00:21:21.360 like see how that turns out.

00:21:22.480 So I like love that that's something that you bring up, like that's something on people's

00:21:28.240 mind when they see me now.

00:21:29.360 Like that's a fun thing for people to know.

00:21:32.640 So the big goal, I would love to like, with my Disney self, I would love to like sing in

00:21:38.160 a show for a firework show or something.

00:21:39.840 Oh, how fun.

00:21:41.440 Me getting chills.

00:21:42.240 Oh my God.

00:21:43.600 I want to so badly.

00:21:44.800 So I'm working on an album right now.

00:21:46.320 How fun.

00:21:47.120 It's all Disney covers.

00:21:48.400 How cute.

00:21:49.440 So you mentioning steal the show.

00:21:50.800 It's like my favorite thing I've ever done.

00:21:52.000 Really?

00:21:52.560 I didn't know that.

00:21:53.280 I love that song so much.

00:21:54.640 I do too.

00:21:56.160 And also like-

00:21:56.800 That's why when I saw it, it brought tears to you guys.

00:21:58.880 And also like normalize.

00:22:00.480 Where's my camera?

00:22:01.200 Normalize listening to your art.

00:22:02.880 Okay.

00:22:03.600 Like I want to hear the things that I did because I cared enough to record them.

00:22:09.840 Girl, listen, one thing you don't got to do here is justify gassing yourself to me.

00:22:14.240 Right.

00:22:14.320 So I'm like, that's my favorite thing I've done.

00:22:15.680 I say that same thing about my book.

00:22:18.080 Yeah.

00:22:18.560 Because even when my book came out initially-

00:22:20.160 Fabulous, by the way.

00:22:21.200 Thank you.

00:22:21.600 And I did the audio book because I wanted to hear you.

00:22:23.840 I'm serious.

00:22:24.880 Yeah.

00:22:25.360 And thank you.

00:22:26.080 I appreciate that.

00:22:26.720 But even when I was like first talking about marketing it, like, especially because like

00:22:31.760 my kind of content is very specific.

00:22:33.840 And so like, they were like, you know, like how comfortable do you feel like self-promoting?

00:22:38.080 Yeah.

00:22:38.880 Because there is an option.

00:22:40.000 Like a lot of times you don't have to do that if you don't want to.

00:22:42.160 And I was like, oh, let me tell you something.

00:22:44.480 If I worked that hard on that book, someone's going to hear about it.

00:22:46.800 Absolutely.

00:22:47.600 It's my page.

00:22:48.640 I'm going to post about it.

00:22:49.680 I labored.

00:22:50.320 Because I'm proud of it and that matters.

00:22:52.240 Like, and I'm a firm believer too, that like putting it out in the universe in a well-intentioned

00:22:58.000 way will reward you.

00:22:59.200 Totally.

00:22:59.600 And I was like, I'm going to talk about it because I'm proud of it and I love it.

00:23:02.000 And if you don't like it, that's okay.

00:23:03.600 But I love it.

00:23:04.240 Yeah.

00:23:04.640 And that's, and that's all that matters.

00:23:05.920 Yeah.

00:23:06.320 I encourage you to do that more.

00:23:07.920 Yeah.

00:23:08.320 Thank you.

00:23:08.800 Because I think that's a beautiful thing.

00:23:09.600 Yeah.

00:23:09.760 And with like music and singing, like I'm sitting on this thing that I love and I'm passionate about.

00:23:14.160 And I also love to pour myself into, and I have this audience or audiences and we have the ability

00:23:20.080 to be seen by so many people.

00:23:21.840 Yeah.

00:23:22.320 And my manifestation this year is that I'm being talked about in rooms I don't know exist.

00:23:25.920 So like, that's the big thing is like, I put a video out and I have no idea who's going to be like,

00:23:31.280 wait, him, you know what I mean?

00:23:32.480 So.

00:23:32.880 And can I tell you something?

00:23:34.480 This is the spot you manifest because I was like, literally so many of my friends who have come on here

00:23:40.240 and talked about, oh, I really want to do this.

00:23:41.840 It has come true.

00:23:42.800 I love that.

00:23:43.440 Perfect example is Ms. Dylan Mulvaney.

00:23:45.920 Yeah.

00:23:46.240 In Six.

00:23:47.120 Last time she was here.

00:23:48.320 I saw your comment.

00:23:48.400 I'm so excited for her.

00:23:49.520 Last time she was here, she talked about wanting to be in Broadway.

00:23:52.880 We talked about Six specifically.

00:23:54.400 Anna and Nia, same thing.

00:23:55.840 Anna and I, when she came here the second time, talked about Broadway.

00:23:59.760 I said, what's your dream show?

00:24:01.120 Like, tell me.

00:24:01.760 There's something going on right now.

00:24:02.720 What are they in?

00:24:03.120 She's in Rocky Horror.

00:24:04.080 Period.

00:24:04.640 And I was literally like, and let me tell you something.

00:24:07.760 I, I control it.

00:24:08.960 I'm puppeteering.

00:24:10.400 Well, no, I was actually on the way here.

00:24:12.160 I was listening to you and Eric and you were talking about your like Virgo manifestations

00:24:16.640 or like your, your, uh, being in tune and you were talking about all these things.

00:24:21.280 And I was like, okay, I'm going to go sit in that chair.

00:24:23.120 That's why I said this is the chair.

00:24:24.640 I'm like absorbing all the people who came before me.

00:24:28.560 All the good juju.

00:24:29.120 All the good juju.

00:24:30.000 Yeah.

00:24:30.480 And I think that's a beautiful thing.

00:24:32.000 And I think it's well within reach, obviously.

00:24:34.480 Totally.

00:24:34.800 And there's like so many things you can do with it.

00:24:36.240 Like it, at the end of the day, I'm immortalizing like a time in my life,

00:24:39.280 the songs that I love, the things that I'm doing.

00:24:41.120 So like, I'll always be able to have that.

00:24:42.560 And I have a duet with Matt coming out at the end of this month.

00:24:45.200 Oh, fun.

00:24:46.240 You'll be in my heart.

00:24:47.200 Spoiler.

00:24:47.760 Oh, how cute.

00:24:49.280 Um, and you know, I have a couple other duets.

00:24:52.160 One actually with the magical millennial, Megan.

00:24:54.240 Oh my God.

00:24:55.200 No, wait, me getting chills again.

00:24:57.120 She has a beautiful voice.

00:24:58.240 No fucking way.

00:24:58.960 And we did a song together from the movie Wish.

00:25:01.440 Oh, cute.

00:25:03.440 And, uh, yeah, I'm just like so excited about all the things.

00:25:06.640 And whatever comes of it, amazing.

00:25:09.680 If nothing came of it, that's actually impossible because I have the thing.

00:25:13.280 Exactly.

00:25:14.320 Um, I don't even know if it's done, if I'm going to do more.

00:25:16.800 I have like nine tracks right now.

00:25:18.720 Three of them haven't come out yet, but they're all different.

00:25:21.840 And I just want them to kind of serve as like a vocal, real portfolio.

00:25:25.440 Like I also really like,

00:25:26.880 it's a dream of mine to like voice a character in a movie or something.

00:25:29.520 So, um, if I also sing, I feel like I have like a leg up, even if that's,

00:25:34.320 I don't know.

00:25:34.720 No, you're actually right.

00:25:36.000 Because especially for Disney ones, they do ask you, can you sing?

00:25:40.640 And I can say that confidently because they have asked me and I've said no.

00:25:44.080 And they still made me sing.

00:25:45.280 Oh no.

00:25:46.560 Oh my God.

00:25:47.600 So, and, and just in case you're wondering, no, I didn't book it.

00:25:50.960 And I think it's cause I can't sing.

00:25:53.680 Wait, so you're not going to be the star of the next movie.

00:25:57.920 That is a musical.

00:25:58.640 Right.

00:25:59.040 Okay.

00:25:59.440 Right.

00:26:00.080 And you know, what's funny is like,

00:26:01.120 I can say this now cause it's been long enough now.

00:26:03.600 Um, before Moana 2 was announced, I like two years before that,

00:26:09.440 I like got a read from Disney and they were like, oh, like we love Drew.

00:26:14.480 We really want her to read for this role.

00:26:16.640 Mind you, I hadn't been doing any acting anything at the time.

00:26:19.280 Yeah.

00:26:19.520 So they reached out to me and then they said like, can she sing?

00:26:22.320 And this is the one I've talked about before where I like had,

00:26:24.240 they had me saying like my team goes, no, she can't.

00:26:27.920 Cause I said, no, I can't.

00:26:29.200 Like I told my team, I cannot sing.

00:26:30.880 Um, that doesn't mean I'm tone deaf.

00:26:32.720 I just like can't sing.

00:26:33.840 So like, it's, I think there's a big difference.

00:26:35.920 Right.

00:26:36.160 I agree.

00:26:36.640 So I was like, it's not that I'm bad.

00:26:38.320 It's just, I'm not good enough to call myself a singer.

00:26:40.800 If that makes sense.

00:26:41.680 Totally.

00:26:42.080 So they were like, okay, yeah, no, perfect.

00:26:43.760 And then like, I don't know, a month goes by and then they go, okay,

00:26:46.880 we need this audition by Friday, a minute, acapella singing, no music.

00:26:51.200 And I was like, how the fuck did they say like, sing this?

00:26:54.000 Yeah.

00:26:54.400 Well, they said, sing a song.

00:26:55.920 Please sing a song that is like popular or like most people would know.

00:26:59.760 Okay.

00:27:00.160 Like, so they said like, don't sing a deep cut essentially,

00:27:02.400 but they wanted me to film myself singing acapella.

00:27:05.760 And like also the, the lines that I had gotten,

00:27:08.400 it was clear that it was like a older woman and she was supposed to be bad.

00:27:12.480 Like she's supposed to be evil, but the,

00:27:14.880 the character lines they had me read were for a two headed bird.

00:27:18.160 So I was like, right.

00:27:19.680 Right.

00:27:20.640 And also it said the woman was in her forties, right.

00:27:22.800 Okay, perfect.

00:27:23.920 A woman in her forties who can't sing.

00:27:25.600 I can't sing.

00:27:26.640 So then I did the lines.

00:27:27.760 I also did the acapella, whatever.

00:27:30.400 Now that Moana 2 has come out and I worked with Moana 2 and loved it.

00:27:35.360 I think it was for the role of the woman who like helps her get out of that upside

00:27:40.480 down like place, like the big woman who has the bats and all that.

00:27:43.920 Wait, so wait, for the live action?

00:27:46.240 No, for Moana 2.

00:27:47.120 Oh, I was like, are they merging the stories?

00:27:49.600 No, no.

00:27:50.160 For Moana 2, you saw Moana 2, right?

00:27:52.320 I loved it.

00:27:53.200 Yeah, I loved it.

00:27:53.840 And she ends with my tattoo.

00:27:55.200 Barlow and Bear did all the music.

00:27:56.800 And they're also my friends, Emily Bear and Abigail.

00:27:59.440 And Abigail's also on that new run with Dylan.

00:28:01.840 Yeah, I saw that.

00:28:02.960 Isn't that crazy?

00:28:03.520 So cool.

00:28:04.160 Oh my God.

00:28:05.040 It all connects.

00:28:06.320 But I, I literally, when I saw Moana 2 and I saw that character, I was like,

00:28:10.320 oh, you bitches are tripping.

00:28:11.280 You thought I could sing that shit?

00:28:12.640 Oh, and she sings.

00:28:13.680 Are you nuts?

00:28:13.760 Yeah, I was like, oh, and she sings down.

00:28:15.440 Yeah.

00:28:15.600 I was like, oh, you're nuts.

00:28:16.560 Yeah, I wouldn't have picked.

00:28:17.200 Kind of iconic though.

00:28:17.840 I was like, I wouldn't have picked me either.

00:28:20.320 Yeah, don't pick me.

00:28:20.960 Don't pick me.

00:28:21.280 I would have ruined it.

00:28:22.080 Don't pick me.

00:28:22.480 You said older.

00:28:23.360 And I was like, Grandma Tala, are we okay?

00:28:26.560 No, for real.

00:28:27.200 When they started talking about the live action, they were like, oh my God, girl, you should

00:28:30.960 have been in there.

00:28:31.440 And I'm like, right?

00:28:32.240 And they go, yeah, Grandma Tala.

00:28:33.440 I said, hold on.

00:28:34.640 Hold on.

00:28:35.200 Okay.

00:28:36.000 Not even Moana's mom.

00:28:41.280 Yeah, preach.

00:28:41.760 Thanks, guys.

00:28:42.240 They're like, yeah, you'll voice the spirit that doesn't talk.

00:28:46.240 You're a big fat Maui.

00:28:47.200 Why don't you do him?

00:28:48.320 All right.

00:28:49.200 I was like, because my cousin's already taken by my cousin, obviously.

00:28:52.560 Oh, my God.

00:28:53.920 What are some of your favorite Broadway musicals?

00:28:56.000 Oh, my God.

00:28:56.880 Since we're talking Broadway.

00:28:58.000 Well, I am obsessed with Six.

00:29:00.000 Me too, girl.

00:29:01.360 I was just talking to your mom before this.

00:29:02.640 I'm like, I've seen Six, six times.

00:29:05.920 I've seen the tour.

00:29:07.200 I've seen it on the West End.

00:29:08.160 I've seen it in New York.

00:29:08.960 Oh, T, okay.

00:29:10.080 I really wanted to go see Dylan.

00:29:12.800 But literally, I was in New York.

00:29:14.560 Yeah.

00:29:14.880 And I think I left the day that she started.

00:29:16.560 So we'll see.

00:29:18.480 Like, please stay on because I need to see it.

00:29:20.640 Her run is till April, I think.

00:29:23.120 Okay, it's possible.

00:29:24.000 I was texting her about it because I was like, I have to see you.

00:29:26.000 I have to see you.

00:29:26.480 I have to see you.

00:29:26.880 I mean, I am sitting in the chair.

00:29:28.400 So I will see it.

00:29:29.920 Manifest.

00:29:30.400 Manifest.

00:29:30.960 Manifest.

00:29:31.360 Honestly, I'll tell Six for you.

00:29:33.200 They follow me on Instagram and they love me.

00:29:35.280 I'll DM them.

00:29:35.840 Yeah.

00:29:36.400 Hey, big fan right here.

00:29:37.840 Six on Broadway, if you're watching.

00:29:39.360 Please hit up Blake Silva, please.

00:29:40.640 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:41.200 I know it's famously off-Broadway, but Little Shop of Horrors is my jam.

00:29:44.960 Love.

00:29:45.680 I would love to play Seymour.

00:29:47.040 Another thing.

00:29:47.520 I was going to say, I was going to say, you're giving Seymour.

00:29:50.160 I was Seymour for Halloween.

00:29:51.760 Matt and I did a singing video for it.

00:29:54.240 I love Hamilton.

00:29:55.200 Oh, yeah.

00:29:57.200 And I don't know.

00:29:58.480 I hate to be like Wicked because everybody loves Wicked.

00:30:01.360 But it was the first show that I saw on Broadway, Broadway.

00:30:04.160 Yeah.

00:30:04.640 That's probably like my top four.

00:30:06.480 Love.

00:30:07.120 What about you?

00:30:07.680 Six is one of my faves.

00:30:09.680 I always recommend Six to people because I always tell them whether you love Broadway

00:30:14.480 or you don't really care for it, you're going to love that show.

00:30:16.560 Exactly.

00:30:17.040 Because it's like a big concert.

00:30:17.920 No intermission.

00:30:18.480 Yeah.

00:30:18.880 And it's quick and it's funny and it's entertaining.

00:30:21.760 Like when we first saw it, it was for my mom's birthday.

00:30:24.480 So we all went to New York.

00:30:25.360 My mom wanted to see a Broadway show.

00:30:26.960 So I took everyone to Six.

00:30:28.240 Actually, because Six messaged me and they were like, do you want to come see the show?

00:30:30.400 And I was like, fuck yeah.

00:30:31.280 Yeah, I do.

00:30:31.920 Shut up.

00:30:32.480 So we came and I brought like my man.

00:30:35.360 I brought my dad, my brother, all of whom and my sister, all of whom don't really care

00:30:40.560 for Broadway at all.

00:30:41.600 And they had a blast.

00:30:42.560 Yeah.

00:30:42.800 They loved it.

00:30:43.600 It's a good time show.

00:30:43.760 So every time I'm like, if you have a mixed group of people, pick Six.

00:30:47.040 Yeah.

00:30:47.200 Like that's a great one.

00:30:48.000 Oh, yeah.

00:30:48.560 And it's not too long either because sometimes they're really, really long shows.

00:30:52.240 Yeah.

00:30:52.640 But I love Broadway.

00:30:53.440 I love Six.

00:30:54.320 I love Legally Blonde is one of my favorite.

00:30:56.480 I have not seen Legally Blonde.

00:30:57.760 Oh my God, Blake, you have to watch Legally Blonde.

00:30:59.680 I need to.

00:31:00.480 Has Matt ever seen Legally Blonde?

00:31:01.600 I think so.

00:31:02.160 Okay.

00:31:02.880 I think you both are going to love.

00:31:03.840 Matt's the first person that I went to a show with.

00:31:05.200 So like, he's like in it.

00:31:06.560 Yeah.

00:31:07.040 You have to watch Legally Blonde.

00:31:08.560 Oh my God, the soundtrack is unbelievable.

00:31:10.400 And I've heard a lot of the songs.

00:31:11.440 So it's time.

00:31:12.000 It's so good.

00:31:12.800 So that one, The Color Purple, that's one of my favorite Broadway shows.

00:31:15.920 Matt's lost Cynthia twice.

00:31:17.040 No way.

00:31:17.840 I'm so jealous, me getting chills again.

00:31:19.680 I'm so jealous.

00:31:20.640 So good.

00:31:21.200 I told her when she was on the show, I told her, I was like, you know, your cover of I'm Here

00:31:27.680 from The Color Purple was my number one song two years in a row on Spotify.

00:31:32.080 Now, does that tell you where I was at mentally?

00:31:34.640 Yes.

00:31:35.760 But love that song.

00:31:38.320 Huge fan of that song.

00:31:39.280 Right.

00:31:39.840 Also, I know not a lot of people love it, but Dear Evan Hansen, I do actually really

00:31:43.440 love that.

00:31:43.840 Okay.

00:31:43.920 I have not seen the show, but I know like every song.

00:31:46.160 The soundtrack.

00:31:46.880 Yeah.

00:31:47.200 Soundtrack.

00:31:47.600 I saw the movie, but I heard the show's better.

00:31:49.280 I saw the movie too.

00:31:50.720 I saw the movie too.

00:31:51.520 And was it kind of bad?

00:31:52.640 Yeah.

00:31:53.200 But I still enjoyed myself.

00:31:54.720 Yeah.

00:31:55.200 Yeah.

00:31:55.360 Yes.

00:31:55.520 I did enjoy myself.

00:31:56.400 I still enjoyed.

00:31:57.040 I will say too, when we went to see that in theaters, I took my mom and sister and Jason,

00:32:02.960 again, doesn't really care for Broadway.

00:32:04.560 My mom loves Broadway, but doesn't watch it a ton.

00:32:07.600 So we go to Dear Evan Hansen, we were like five, 10 minutes late.

00:32:10.640 So I already know what happened.

00:32:12.080 My mom in the middle of everything going, who is that?

00:32:14.880 Who is that?

00:32:16.160 Is that guy new?

00:32:16.960 Who is that?

00:32:17.920 Oh, this is a musical.

00:32:18.880 Like my mom literally goes, oh, is this a musical?

00:32:20.480 And I go, you have to stop.

00:32:21.760 Like literally in the theater, I went, you have to stop.

00:32:23.520 You have to stop.

00:32:24.160 Please.

00:32:24.560 You have to stop.

00:32:25.120 Please.

00:32:25.440 You're killing me.

00:32:26.560 If you have any questions, hold them to the end.

00:32:28.560 Yeah.

00:32:29.040 Hold them to the end, mama.

00:32:30.320 And then when we got home, she was like.

00:32:32.240 You're valid.

00:32:32.880 You're seen.

00:32:33.360 Yeah.

00:32:33.840 Yeah.

00:32:34.400 She was like, who is that?

00:32:35.840 I don't know who that is.

00:32:36.880 Mom, you're killing me.

00:32:37.840 Mom, you're killing me.

00:32:38.960 Cause I was literally, cause that's like, I love the musical.

00:32:41.760 So I'm like, and I was pissed off.

00:32:43.360 Cause, uh, waving through a window is one of my favorite ones.

00:32:47.040 Also one of my top songs on Spotify, also alluding to my mental health at the time.

00:32:52.160 That's neither here nor there.

00:32:53.120 Yeah.

00:32:53.520 That show is like very poignant.

00:32:54.960 Yeah.

00:32:55.440 Yeah.

00:32:55.920 But I was also very like, I was so annoyed.

00:32:59.200 Cause we missed my favorite song.

00:33:00.640 Cause we were late.

00:33:01.280 Oh.

00:33:01.680 And then my mom goes, who is that?

00:33:02.960 Who is that?

00:33:03.440 I was like, you're killing me.

00:33:04.400 Thank God.

00:33:06.480 Those are some of my favorite shows, but I, you've been to the West end.

00:33:09.680 How fun.

00:33:10.400 Oh my gosh.

00:33:10.880 Yeah.

00:33:11.200 So I went to Europe last year, my first time ever, and I went to London and then Paris,

00:33:16.320 but I had like a free day in London and I went and saw back to back.

00:33:22.160 I saw wicked and then six.

00:33:24.000 Oh my God.

00:33:24.800 What a night.

00:33:25.600 It was so fun.

00:33:27.040 And I was by myself.

00:33:28.000 It was just like the best thing ever.

00:33:29.040 I was very jet lagged, but I was just like dozing, but like I'm, I'm here.

00:33:33.200 Yeah.

00:33:34.400 So fun.

00:33:34.960 I also saw the notebook last year.

00:33:38.240 Was it good?

00:33:38.800 I heard it was good.

00:33:40.080 Yeah.

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00:33:53.520 I heard the soundtrack is crazy.

00:33:55.680 So like Matt and I are Joy Wood stans.

00:33:57.760 Like she is everything.

00:33:59.680 I saw her in Little Shop.

00:34:00.640 We saw her in the notebook.

00:34:01.600 Matt saw her in six.

00:34:02.800 Oh, T.

00:34:03.760 Shout out six.

00:34:05.200 We do love six.

00:34:05.920 We're big six fans.

00:34:06.640 I mean, it makes sense.

00:34:07.520 Like if I had to clock a musical for you, I feel like six where they're like dragging a man.

00:34:11.200 I'm telling you.

00:34:11.760 It's perfect.

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00:34:56.240 Oh, wait.

00:34:56.720 This is such a sidebar.

00:34:58.160 Forgive me, but just to plug you and Dason, we went to see your show in Pasadena.

00:35:05.920 Oh, that's right.

00:35:06.880 It was so much fun.

00:35:07.680 Thank you for having us.

00:35:08.560 Oh my gosh.

00:35:08.960 The one with the insane Q and A.

00:35:12.880 So basically, we were just okay.

00:35:16.160 We're so blown away, first of all, because you two are so just like naturally funny.

00:35:19.200 Thank you.

00:35:19.680 But someone asked a question.

00:35:21.680 Like, I'm like on a journey to like try to be more mean.

00:35:24.400 Like, how do I do it?

00:35:25.600 And you were telling them like, you just have to like really go specific.

00:35:28.720 Yeah.

00:35:29.280 And I saw a comment the other day that like made me think of you.

00:35:32.400 And I was like, I have to wait to tell her on the pod because it's so funny.

00:35:36.320 So I'm on threads and like, you know, I like, I love I'm, I'm like on the very liberal side

00:35:40.800 of threads, but sometimes the like scary stuff comes on my explore page, but it's only because

00:35:44.640 of the comments that are dragging the person.

00:35:46.640 Yes.

00:35:46.960 So there was, of course, like something, I don't know what he was talking about.

00:35:49.360 Probably something problematic and dumb, but someone in the comments said, you look easy

00:35:56.480 to draw.

00:35:56.960 Yeah.

00:36:00.000 And I was like, right.

00:36:03.360 I don't like this man, but someone should check on it.

00:36:05.760 Yeah.

00:36:06.160 When you read it, you're like, damn, that kind of hurts my feelings.

00:36:08.080 And then below that, someone drew him.

00:36:10.880 And I'll prove it.

00:36:11.760 I was like, that's a good one.

00:36:12.640 We should put that in the arsenal.

00:36:14.400 But so good.

00:36:15.760 Yeah.

00:36:16.320 You could say you look like I could draw you from memory.

00:36:18.160 No, literally.

00:36:18.720 Yeah.

00:36:18.880 Like I've said that before.

00:36:20.160 That is so you look real easy to draw.

00:36:21.920 Yeah.

00:36:22.240 It feels straight, uh, relevant to six.

00:36:24.160 Exactly.

00:36:24.720 You're so right.

00:36:25.440 It's like, and that is a question I get constantly, which is like, how do I be meaner to men?

00:36:30.560 Like I was even doing a Q and A the other day and a girl was like, what do you say to men

00:36:34.880 who like, every time they see you, they say you're too tall or something like that?

00:36:39.840 Like, what's your response to them?

00:36:41.520 And I literally was like, what are you hanging out with awful short men constantly?

00:36:44.640 What do they owe you money or something?

00:36:45.760 Literally.

00:36:46.160 Who the fuck are you hanging out with them so often?

00:36:47.600 And I was like, I mean, I really, sometimes when people ask me very generalized things like

00:36:51.840 that, I have to tell them like, I would need more specifics to get like, actually mean

00:36:55.600 for real.

00:36:56.160 Yeah, yeah.

00:36:56.400 But I could give you some blanket ones.

00:36:57.760 Yeah, yeah.

00:36:58.080 Like I told them.

00:36:58.720 Here's some zingers for your back pocket.

00:36:59.840 Even then, like, I was like, you could just say, are you talking to me like real confused?

00:37:03.840 And then say, don't you have cookies to make in a tree somewhere?

00:37:06.800 Get out of here, you fucking Keebler.

00:37:08.720 Fuck out of here.

00:37:09.760 It's really like, it really is that easy to me.

00:37:11.920 I, you know, it's funny.

00:37:12.800 It's so funny you say that.

00:37:13.680 Cause this morning I was talking to my man about this because sometimes when I'm getting

00:37:18.960 tagged and stuff and I can't see the video, I know that person blocked me already.

00:37:23.760 And I know it's like, I know it's bullshit.

00:37:25.600 I know it's hate videos, whatever the fuck.

00:37:27.040 Yeah.

00:37:27.440 And it's literally because I made that video recently with the Hercules audio, which is

00:37:31.600 like Hades.

00:37:32.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:37:32.640 And it's like him saying like, and it was me saying like, me trying to convince women

00:37:36.560 to hate all men.

00:37:37.920 Have I, in the past, I have made it very specific because I was just like, well, this is who I'm

00:37:42.960 talking about.

00:37:43.920 But now I'm just like past the point of wanting to do that anymore.

00:37:47.360 Oh, for sure.

00:37:47.840 But of course I have a bunch of like ding dong head ass men coming in my shit going, wow,

00:37:54.000 even me?

00:37:54.960 Especially you, bitch.

00:37:58.560 Like I say that every time Blake, it kills me, it kills me.

00:38:01.280 It kills me.

00:38:02.160 I literally can't take it anymore.

00:38:03.520 I was like, I'm so sick of men coming over here and saying some bullshit to me about like,

00:38:08.080 wow, really hard to love myself.

00:38:10.960 Is it?

00:38:11.600 Imagine if it's hard to love yourself.

00:38:13.120 Imagine how other people feel.

00:38:14.400 Right.

00:38:14.880 Imagine how women and gay people and trans people feel.

00:38:17.440 Yeah.

00:38:17.680 Oh, is it hard?

00:38:18.640 That part.

00:38:19.200 Is it?

00:38:19.760 Yeah.

00:38:19.920 Is it fucking hard?

00:38:20.640 But find community in my comment section for sure.

00:38:23.120 No, but for sure.

00:38:23.760 Come over here and bother me about it.

00:38:25.200 Yeah, yeah.

00:38:25.600 You guys, they, oh my God.

00:38:26.960 The way they wax poetic about how fucking awful I am to them.

00:38:32.480 And yet they still come over here and ask me dumb ass questions.

00:38:37.120 Sometimes they'll literally say like, so I'm guessing you hate your, your husband.

00:38:42.640 Are you fucking dumb on purpose or is it just a hobby?

00:38:46.720 Like I literally said, are you a dumb bitch for, for sport or is it like someone paying?

00:38:51.040 Yeah.

00:38:51.280 Is it a full time job?

00:38:52.240 Because I get paid to be a dumb ass.

00:38:54.160 So do you get paid to be stupid?

00:38:55.840 Right.

00:38:56.240 Right.

00:38:56.560 Exactly.

00:38:56.960 Right.

00:38:57.520 I guess you hate your husband.

00:38:59.520 No, I don't.

00:39:00.640 Well, why not him?

00:39:01.600 He's better than you.

00:39:02.720 I, the, the questions are very simple.

00:39:04.080 I can keep answering them.

00:39:05.040 The answers are very simple.

00:39:06.160 Yeah.

00:39:06.400 I just don't think you'll like the answers to them.

00:39:08.160 And hey, some people let the hate get to them and you make a paycheck off of it.

00:39:13.440 So speaking of, do you get a lot of hate?

00:39:15.920 Oh my God.

00:39:16.400 Good question.

00:39:16.960 Is there, are people like mean in the Disney community?

00:39:18.960 You know, well, I guess I could say.

00:39:20.960 I feel like it depends.

00:39:22.080 I feel like it depends.

00:39:22.960 Yeah.

00:39:23.280 It's like a range.

00:39:23.920 I will say, I talk about this often with my partner and my family and my friends.

00:39:27.280 Like I really don't get a lot of hate.

00:39:29.920 Which is a good thing.

00:39:30.400 And I feel so lucky.

00:39:30.880 People are watching right now like, oh, you wait.

00:39:32.720 Oh, they're like, oh, you need some?

00:39:36.960 For real.

00:39:38.160 They're like, I could try.

00:39:39.120 Yeah.

00:39:39.840 No, I just, I feel very lucky.

00:39:41.280 Like I, I really feel like I have a, a pretty positive comment section to you.

00:39:46.720 Love.

00:39:47.200 Um, and I, I don't know.

00:39:49.520 I obviously like I get homophobic people like probably more often than anything else.

00:39:55.520 Um, but like, which is my favorite is when they just comment gay.

00:39:59.120 I'm like tea.

00:40:01.920 Did you have a question?

00:40:03.200 Like, I'm like, so it's like awesome.

00:40:05.520 You just write yes with a heart.

00:40:06.880 Yeah.

00:40:07.200 Yeah.

00:40:07.440 Yeah.

00:40:07.600 Precisely.

00:40:08.320 Yes.

00:40:08.800 Um, so it's like those things don't really phase me.

00:40:11.760 Um, I'm someone that is in my comments a lot because I like to reply.

00:40:15.360 Me too.

00:40:15.840 Um, and I, I feel like I, um, I pride myself on that because I think my viewers like know

00:40:22.640 that about me.

00:40:23.200 Like they know that if they comment, there's like a chance that I'll see it or, you know,

00:40:25.840 whatever.

00:40:26.560 Um, and there's a detriment to that when it's negative stuff.

00:40:29.440 Right.

00:40:29.600 Cause you don't want to like toil over it or like let it consume you.

00:40:32.080 But yeah, I do feel very fortunate that I have like a positive, um, like presence in

00:40:37.520 those spaces.

00:40:38.480 Yeah.

00:40:38.720 That's so good.

00:40:39.120 I'm glad to hear that.

00:40:39.920 And, and I don't like, I don't get people like messaging me crazy stuff or I just don't

00:40:44.000 see it and that's fine too.

00:40:45.040 Yeah.

00:40:46.000 Um, or, you know, obviously like I'm vocal about like the things that I believe in and

00:40:49.680 stand for.

00:40:50.160 And like, there's always, that's always met with something.

00:40:53.120 I got, I get a lot of messages that'll be like, I thought you were different.

00:40:55.760 And I'm like, you literally like are here looking for me to like support this thing.

00:41:00.960 For example, like the president or whatever.

00:41:02.560 And I'm like, you're on a gay person's page that is also not white.

00:41:10.240 So I actually, I actually am.

00:41:12.400 You're part white.

00:41:13.040 Yeah.

00:41:13.360 I know I, my, my background is Portuguese, Spanish.

00:41:16.480 So like, and it's not like, it's not like Spanish, Spanish.

00:41:19.520 And it's like colonizer Spanish.

00:41:20.800 So like, but like my sister, I think it's funny you know that though.

00:41:25.040 They do get, yeah, I get it.

00:41:26.640 Listen, I get it.

00:41:27.920 I'm, I'm mostly Portuguese.

00:41:29.360 I'm also Italian, which is just fancy white, ethnic white.

00:41:32.640 That's what I call it.

00:41:33.280 But, um, no, I, it's, it's just funny.

00:41:35.040 Like people come on my page and I'm like the same people that are like expecting me to

00:41:39.200 rally for the thing they believe in.

00:41:40.560 I'm like, you see my existence as political.

00:41:42.400 Like, yeah, like don't, lest we forget, I post my boyfriend all the time.

00:41:46.080 Like, are you, you're confused.

00:41:47.600 I know.

00:41:48.000 That's how I feel too.

00:41:48.720 When they give me the same, which I find even more shocking.

00:41:52.480 Right.

00:41:52.880 To like, come to me and be like, what do you mean you don't like Trump?

00:41:56.640 Are you, again, stupid for sport?

00:41:58.320 Like, I don't know what the fuck that is.

00:41:59.520 Like, again, it's like me.

00:42:01.280 Yeah.

00:42:02.080 Of all people, are there some influencers, um, intentionally hiding the fact that they

00:42:06.960 don't vote or they voted for someone you don't like?

00:42:09.040 Yeah.

00:42:09.360 Yeah.

00:42:09.760 Totally.

00:42:10.240 Am I one of them?

00:42:11.360 Like, go be stupid somewhere else.

00:42:12.640 Like they don't ever ask me some dumb bitch question like that again.

00:42:15.040 The way that I move in this business, everything I've built and the way I've built it, what

00:42:19.120 on earth makes you think?

00:42:20.240 Absolutely.

00:42:20.800 That I would let bigots hang out in my house.

00:42:22.720 Yeah.

00:42:23.120 I really do feel like I have an endless can of Raid with them.

00:42:26.480 I'm like, it doesn't run out.

00:42:29.680 Every fucking time I like post anything about how much I fucking hate ICE.

00:42:34.800 Anytime I talk about trans women, anytime I like uplift gay people, every single time,

00:42:39.520 I'll have at least one dumb white person in my shit going, wow, really?

00:42:45.200 Yeah.

00:42:45.920 Wow.

00:42:46.560 Again.

00:42:47.040 Unfollowing.

00:42:48.000 Sex, sex, sex.

00:42:49.040 I know.

00:42:49.840 Every time they ask me, do you care if I, oh, so you want me to unfollow you?

00:42:53.680 Yes.

00:42:54.880 Yes.

00:42:55.360 Yes, I do.

00:42:55.920 Yes.

00:42:56.240 Oh my God.

00:42:56.560 You got it.

00:42:58.320 Yes, please.

00:42:59.200 Yes, leave.

00:42:59.680 That's so funny.

00:43:00.320 And you don't need to tell me.

00:43:01.360 That's okay.

00:43:01.760 Well, the flip side of hate is sometimes just like when people say stuff and it's like,

00:43:05.840 so like maybe they don't even mean it.

00:43:07.920 So example, this is like my favorite example of comments that I get.

00:43:11.520 Like so very blessed and lucky to get cool PR, right?

00:43:14.320 Right.

00:43:14.480 So like with PR, especially in the Disney space, like whatever.

00:43:17.680 Yeah.

00:43:18.320 They're stingy in the Disney space.

00:43:19.920 Oh, totally.

00:43:20.480 But like I feel so lucky every time, but you know, sometimes like they're sending like toys.

00:43:24.480 Like I collect stuff.

00:43:25.440 Like I love to post about those things.

00:43:27.440 So like, obviously I know that like it's something that kids like too, but I'll get the comments

00:43:32.960 on my PR sometimes.

00:43:34.480 My four-year-old would love this.

00:43:36.160 And I'm like, okay.

00:43:38.320 Okay.

00:43:39.600 Um, your four-year-old doesn't need Everyman Jack Spider-Man body wash, but okay.

00:43:46.400 Okay.

00:43:46.960 Okay.

00:43:47.360 But it's always so funny because I like love that comment.

00:43:50.000 Cause I'm like, I don't think that you're like trying to drag me, but drag me.

00:43:52.880 Yeah.

00:43:53.280 Like, they're like, oh my God, my impressionable young child also loves that stuff.

00:43:58.160 Yeah.

00:43:58.320 Yeah.

00:43:59.120 Wait, where do I get this for my three-year-old?

00:44:00.720 Right.

00:44:01.120 And you know what?

00:44:02.480 Sometimes, cause people ask also just addressing the questions.

00:44:05.440 Right.

00:44:05.840 Um, what do I do with everything?

00:44:07.280 Yeah.

00:44:07.680 Um, I give a lot of it away to be honest.

00:44:10.400 Me too.

00:44:10.880 Yeah.

00:44:11.040 It's good too.

00:44:11.840 Like you can give it to somebody who really, really wants it.

00:44:14.320 I love a lot of things that I receive, but you can't keep everything.

00:44:16.960 Like, Oh my God.

00:44:17.680 We would drown in it.

00:44:18.560 The way there's so many things.

00:44:20.240 Yeah.

00:44:20.640 So sometimes I get the comment, my four-year-old would love this.

00:44:22.960 And I message them and I send it to their four-year-old.

00:44:24.560 Oh, I love that.

00:44:25.600 That's really sweet.

00:44:26.160 It's great.

00:44:26.320 I'll like send over the whole PR box.

00:44:27.840 And I'm like, here, now your child with this body wash can smell like teakwood and tobacco.

00:44:31.280 Like, I don't know.

00:44:32.560 Enjoy.

00:44:33.040 Yeah.

00:44:33.360 Literally.

00:44:34.000 Um, but on the hate comment train as well, like, I feel like, like people, the, besides being gay,

00:44:42.720 it's like over consumption, final boss.

00:44:45.360 And I'm like, fork found in kitchen.

00:44:47.120 Right.

00:44:48.800 Well, you're also a collector.

00:44:50.160 And I'm squeezing joy out of this life.

00:44:52.400 Yeah.

00:44:52.560 Like, my bad.

00:44:53.520 My God.

00:44:54.480 Like, I don't know.

00:44:55.520 And like, yeah, I totally see it.

00:44:57.040 I know that I am like capitalist, like final boss.

00:44:59.920 Like I buy stuff all the time.

00:45:01.360 Right.

00:45:02.080 But I don't know.

00:45:03.520 Like I, I, it's worth it to me to like spark joy.

00:45:06.640 Well, it's also again, like we, we circle back to like critical thinking.

00:45:10.480 Right.

00:45:10.800 So it's like, is this black and white mentality helpful?

00:45:13.440 Right.

00:45:14.000 Is it a solution?

00:45:15.200 Or is it just to bitch and moan and get a viral mean comment?

00:45:17.840 Right.

00:45:18.160 Like, that's really what I think a lot of times about shit like that.

00:45:20.160 Totally.

00:45:20.560 Because it's like, you're nitpicking people for no reason.

00:45:22.960 Um, especially you're a collector.

00:45:24.960 Yeah.

00:45:25.200 That's different.

00:45:26.080 Yeah.

00:45:26.240 Like that's very different from buying shit and throwing it out.

00:45:28.800 Totally.

00:45:29.280 Like buying shit, throwing it out, buying shit, throwing it out.

00:45:30.960 Like even with all of the shit that I get too, like I give away 90% of it because

00:45:36.000 I just don't need that much stuff ever.

00:45:38.320 But also, um, when it's like to a point where no one in my personal life needs it or wants

00:45:44.000 it, I donate it to women's shelters, to boys and girls clubs.

00:45:47.440 Like there are lots of ways.

00:45:48.800 And take note of those because you don't always have the gift of goodwill.

00:45:51.040 Exactly.

00:45:51.760 And that's like, and that's where a lot of times I'll, I'll drop off beauty products,

00:45:55.600 especially feminine products, like anything like that.

00:45:58.720 This is a side note, but I have an entire drawer of like probably about 30 vibrators.

00:46:04.320 And I, that's just my truth.

00:46:06.400 That's just my truth.

00:46:07.520 And it, believe it or not, no one wants to take those.

00:46:09.760 Every time they come over to the house, I'm like, who needs a vibrator?

00:46:12.160 Anyone need one?

00:46:13.360 Let's get into it.

00:46:14.160 It's their gender list.

00:46:15.120 Do whatever you've got to do.

00:46:16.000 I really don't care.

00:46:16.640 Just get it out of my home.

00:46:17.680 Like I literally look like a sexual deviant.

00:46:19.680 That's just like the drawer.

00:46:20.960 That's just like a piece of scotch tape on it.

00:46:22.800 It literally carries laughing because she's been in my office and she made said

00:46:25.840 drawer full of vibrators.

00:46:26.880 She was like, okay, so all the vibrators are in this drawer.

00:46:30.240 Thanks girl.

00:46:32.320 And sometimes when I, when I have guests come over, I'll make little like,

00:46:35.920 baskets for them or whatever.

00:46:37.120 Yeah.

00:46:38.000 I love that.

00:46:38.960 I made one for my girlfriend and I put a vibrator in there.

00:46:42.000 And like, and I put a bunch of other shit too.

00:46:43.840 It wasn't just creepy, weird shit like that.

00:46:45.360 I put other shit in there too.

00:46:46.720 And then later, like, I want to say a year later, she was like,

00:46:49.440 and I wore that thing out, bitch.

00:46:53.360 I'm so glad it brought you joy.

00:46:54.560 Right.

00:46:54.960 I'm so glad.

00:46:55.680 But you know what?

00:46:56.320 Like on the topic of giving things away, even like I, just cause I'm not like posting.

00:47:01.040 Exactly.

00:47:01.600 Come with me to donate to, like, cause I'm not doing it for that.

00:47:05.360 Exactly.

00:47:05.920 I'm doing it cause I just want to give it to somebody else.

00:47:08.080 Right.

00:47:08.480 Or like when the fires happen, like I live in San Gabriel Valley.

00:47:11.280 So like I was literally like could see the Eaton fire from my living room window.

00:47:15.680 Right.

00:47:16.240 It's close.

00:47:16.800 So like you, there's always stuff going on where like, there's people who need stuff

00:47:20.240 way more than I do.

00:47:21.120 Absolutely.

00:47:21.680 Um, so I feel like that's important.

00:47:22.880 Well, yeah, and it is.

00:47:23.840 And it's also, again, it's like, again, critical thinking.

00:47:26.400 Like it's so void, especially on the internet now, like no one's ever thinking,

00:47:30.400 Oh, maybe they do this or maybe they do that.

00:47:33.120 It's always just like, I'm going to write something mean.

00:47:34.960 Right.

00:47:35.520 Like that's just like the first thing they think of.

00:47:37.120 And initially when you were bringing up like kind of like, uh, kind of weird, but draggy

00:47:41.760 comments, those are the only ones I've said for years, like, and they come from people

00:47:45.840 who love me, like who love me and, and love my content and think I'm awesome.

00:47:50.640 No bad intention.

00:47:52.000 No bad will.

00:47:52.880 I just put one in my close friends the other day that I was like, okay, no, because I did

00:47:59.840 a deal with Gymshark recently.

00:48:01.440 Love that.

00:48:01.920 Love that.

00:48:02.400 Photoshoot eight.

00:48:03.520 Period.

00:48:04.160 Thank you.

00:48:04.720 Yep.

00:48:05.120 And so like, I had to put it in my story too.

00:48:07.040 That was part of my deal.

00:48:07.760 So I like did that.

00:48:09.040 And I had a lot of people be like, Oh my God, I love it.

00:48:11.040 It looks so great.

00:48:11.760 You look awesome.

00:48:12.320 Whatever.

00:48:13.040 Very nice.

00:48:13.840 This one girl where she literally said, honestly, you know what I'm going to do?

00:48:19.600 I'm going to read it.

00:48:20.400 I'm going to read it because everyone deserves to hear the shit that I get on like a daily

00:48:26.800 fucking basis.

00:48:27.520 And it's meant to be a compliment.

00:48:28.640 Okay.

00:48:28.880 Here's what it says.

00:48:30.720 I just have to say, I'm so freaking proud of you.

00:48:33.520 I know you're a strong ass bitch, but you have a real body and I fucking needed that.

00:48:40.400 I'm so tired of chasing unattainable perfection.

00:48:44.080 Your body is perfect, but real.

00:48:46.720 Thank you.

00:48:47.200 Thank you.

00:48:48.560 Right.

00:48:49.120 So I put that in my close friends and I put, right.

00:48:52.240 Nope.

00:48:52.960 Perfect.

00:48:53.440 Right.

00:48:54.480 Right.

00:48:54.880 And even Anna and I messaged me.

00:48:56.320 She goes, Oh, it was so close to a compliment.

00:48:58.720 It was, it was right there.

00:49:00.160 It was right.

00:49:00.720 You're really on that line.

00:49:02.000 You, you got almost.

00:49:03.680 And it's like, God, you know what?

00:49:05.040 I'm so sick of seeing the Margot Robbie's.

00:49:08.080 I want to see a big fatty on my screen.

00:49:10.240 That's what I need.

00:49:11.440 I need a real body, not a good one, a real one.

00:49:14.560 It's such an interesting point.

00:49:15.760 Like, like they care about me and they love me.

00:49:18.800 And then I'm like, Ooh.

00:49:20.160 Yeah.

00:49:20.400 And then I'm like, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

00:49:23.760 That is something I have to swallow.

00:49:25.200 It almost not a lot.

00:49:26.080 Yeah.

00:49:26.320 That's why I was like, I know you thought that that would change my day.

00:49:30.400 Yeah.

00:49:30.800 It did.

00:49:31.280 Just probably not in the way that you thought.

00:49:32.960 Right.

00:49:33.440 Yeah.

00:49:33.680 And I literally had so many of my friends message me and be like, damn, so close.

00:49:38.880 Yeah.

00:49:39.440 Oh, she was right there.

00:49:40.560 Yeah.

00:49:40.880 Like to get.

00:49:41.520 And that's where I think, like, that's where I say all the time, like, men can never,

00:49:46.640 they're not smart enough or clever enough to ever really, truly insult me.

00:49:50.400 Yeah.

00:49:50.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:49:51.680 And especially not when women are moving like that with me.

00:49:53.760 Period.

00:49:54.240 That's someone who loves me.

00:49:55.200 Right.

00:49:55.760 Like that's someone who actually loves me.

00:49:57.360 Like you should see the things that people are a fan of me saying.

00:49:59.200 Yeah.

00:49:59.840 Like you have like.

00:50:00.560 You have nothing on me.

00:50:01.360 You have no idea just how crazy they can get.

00:50:04.160 But now that we've gone through your history, your lore.

00:50:06.800 Right.

00:50:07.360 We do have some fun facts.

00:50:08.800 Okay.

00:50:09.200 About you.

00:50:09.760 Are you ready?

00:50:10.320 I think I'm ready.

00:50:11.200 And Amanda text me an extra one too.

00:50:12.960 We'll get there.

00:50:14.000 Okay.

00:50:14.240 This one I actually did know, but you used to work at In-N-Out Burger.

00:50:17.440 I sure did.

00:50:18.320 As a level seven associate.

00:50:20.080 I sure did.

00:50:21.120 Whoa.

00:50:22.880 There's levels in In-N-Out?

00:50:24.160 There sure are.

00:50:24.960 Oh my God.

00:50:25.600 Yeah.

00:50:26.320 I worked there for like five and a half years.

00:50:28.560 T.

00:50:29.120 From right before senior year of high school through graduating college.

00:50:33.120 Damn.

00:50:33.760 And I loved it so much.

00:50:34.800 I literally tell people all the time, I miss it today.

00:50:37.360 Really?

00:50:37.920 Yep.

00:50:39.040 And I don't know.

00:50:40.080 It's like a combination of like I left and I was so devastated because I loved it so much.

00:50:43.760 But I think it was a lot of the people.

00:50:45.680 Yeah.

00:50:46.240 I made some amazing friends working there.

00:50:48.080 Oh, that's so nice.

00:50:49.040 And I don't think that I could just like walk into like the one down the street and like have

00:50:53.440 an amazing time working there because I wouldn't know anybody.

00:50:55.440 Yeah.

00:50:55.840 So like it's a combination, but it was so fun.

00:50:58.000 You worked so hard.

00:50:58.880 Did you have that giant paper clip?

00:51:00.400 Absolutely.

00:51:00.880 Or safety pin safety pin.

00:51:01.520 I still have it.

00:51:02.080 You still have it?

00:51:02.560 I have multiple.

00:51:03.680 I kept everything.

00:51:04.800 Listen, I was like, I'm taking an apron.

00:51:08.160 It was awesome.

00:51:08.800 There's seven levels.

00:51:10.000 Each of them comes with like different training and things that you have to learn to do as you

00:51:13.680 go up.

00:51:14.160 Interesting.

00:51:14.560 Level seven is just like you are able to do everything under the roof.

00:51:17.840 Oh, okay.

00:51:18.480 Like you can take the orders, you can make the food, you can run the shift.

00:51:22.560 Oh, okay.

00:51:23.440 The most like notable change for a seven from six because six is a cook is that you

00:51:28.240 start like running the shifts and like helping the manager.

00:51:30.160 Interesting.

00:51:30.320 So I was essentially like an assistant manager.

00:51:32.320 Look at you.

00:51:33.440 Yeah.

00:51:33.680 And you know what?

00:51:34.880 I left and there are rules in and out about appearance.

00:51:38.720 Okay.

00:51:39.280 Because your appearance is part of your uniform.

00:51:42.160 Your smile is part of your uniform.

00:51:43.680 They say that.

00:51:45.200 So yeah, like they want that to be like part of the whole picture.

00:51:49.280 The experience, yeah.

00:51:50.480 And things have changed now.

00:51:51.520 Like I have friends that still work there that like you can have tattoos and wear long

00:51:55.840 sleeves.

00:51:56.320 Oh, yeah.

00:51:57.040 Um, but like when I worked there, like I don't think guys could have their ears pierced.

00:52:02.240 No unnatural hair colors for anybody.

00:52:04.480 Yeah.

00:52:04.960 Um, guys had to be clean shaven.

00:52:07.040 Interesting.

00:52:08.000 Um, so like I posted a picture actually kind of recently like a throwback because like in

00:52:11.440 and out came up somewhere in a comment or something.

00:52:13.600 And like people were like, I don't even recognize you because I had a baby face because like

00:52:17.520 no facial hair.

00:52:18.320 So I quit.

00:52:18.880 I got my nose pierced.

00:52:19.600 I got a hand tattoo and I grew up my facial hair because I was like, I, I, I had to make

00:52:24.160 it so I couldn't go back because I loved it so much.

00:52:25.840 Oh, and like they want lifers there.

00:52:28.000 Like I was 17 and the guy was like, how long do you want to work here?

00:52:30.400 I was like, well, go to college.

00:52:31.920 So like maybe like a year.

00:52:33.200 He's like, I want to hear 10.

00:52:34.720 And I'm like, I had like, I have to go.

00:52:36.720 Like, I think I'm okay.

00:52:38.640 But like truly in the time flew like five years and I could have been there forever

00:52:42.800 because you just get stuck.

00:52:44.320 And I know that sounds negative, but like I was 19 in college and I was training for

00:52:49.040 my level seven cause I got it like two and a half years into working there.

00:52:51.520 Okay.

00:52:52.320 And I went pretty quick and the store manager, uh, pulled me into the office and like calculator.

00:52:58.880 Like this is what you could be making.

00:53:01.280 And I'm like, Hey, so like I'm a student.

00:53:02.960 Yeah.

00:53:03.360 And he's like, how much do you care about like going to school for that?

00:53:06.240 I'm like, bro, you are literally trying to like get me to quit college and work at

00:53:10.400 In-N-Out right now, right now, right now.

00:53:12.400 Yeah.

00:53:12.960 At 19.

00:53:13.600 Okay.

00:53:14.160 Like I'm impressionable mind.

00:53:15.200 That's so crazy.

00:53:16.320 Yeah.

00:53:16.640 I mean, it was a lot of money.

00:53:17.600 Because I had that experience too when I worked in a restaurant for a fucking spell.

00:53:21.600 I only worked there for like three-ish months, but it was the same kind of deal where they

00:53:25.760 were like, he literally was like, well, if you want to be taken seriously in the restaurant

00:53:29.760 industry, who the fuck said that?

00:53:32.880 You're like, Hey, so like I'm 17.

00:53:34.720 Hey, so who started that rumor about me that I wanted to do that?

00:53:37.760 I don't want to fucking do that.

00:53:38.960 Like, I was like, what are you talking about taking this seriously?

00:53:42.240 If I could go back for just like one day, just to like have fun and cook again or something.

00:53:45.520 Right.

00:53:45.920 So fun.

00:53:46.800 Let me cook.

00:53:47.840 Let me cook.

00:53:48.400 Literally.

00:53:49.280 Yeah.

00:53:49.600 For real.

00:53:50.080 You're like, well, you know, if you're ever in there and a cook goes down, you're like,

00:53:54.160 now I'm ready.

00:53:55.200 Like, is there a doctor here?

00:53:56.480 Is there, is there a previous level seven associate here from In-N-Out Burger?

00:54:00.640 Is there one in the house?

00:54:03.280 Please.

00:54:03.680 Literally.

00:54:04.400 That is so funny.

00:54:05.280 Yeah.

00:54:05.600 I think that's amazing.

00:54:06.480 Did you have any crazy experiences working there?

00:54:08.480 Like with customers?

00:54:09.600 Um, yeah.

00:54:10.240 Some like, some just crazy like regulars that would just order the most absurd things.

00:54:16.080 Um, oh gosh, what was it?

00:54:18.240 Uh, I think you were talking with Sarah about a coffee shop story.

00:54:23.440 I'm like telling you, I watch.

00:54:24.880 Oh yeah.

00:54:25.280 No, you watch, girl.

00:54:26.160 And also you have all the best people on.

00:54:27.680 Thank you.

00:54:28.000 These are all my like, my mutuals.

00:54:29.680 I'm like, it's great.

00:54:30.720 Sriracha.

00:54:31.520 Sriracha.

00:54:32.160 Love her.

00:54:32.560 Yeah.

00:54:32.880 She's a barista.

00:54:34.000 Yeah.

00:54:34.560 Yeah.

00:54:34.800 And so she was talking about this, the lady who like stuck her whole hand in the coffee.

00:54:38.320 And it's scalding hot.

00:54:39.600 Yeah.

00:54:39.760 She's like, and look, third degree burns.

00:54:41.360 Yeah.

00:54:41.680 And look it.

00:54:42.480 I'll never forget the, um, I was working in the drive-through window and this lady over the

00:54:47.920 speaker was like, I'd like to get an iced tea.

00:54:50.880 And I was like, okay, no worries.

00:54:52.720 I just brewed it though.

00:54:53.840 So it's like, like really hot.

00:54:55.760 Yeah.

00:54:56.240 How about I just like give you the cup with the drink and I'll give you the ice on the

00:55:00.320 side.

00:55:00.480 So it can like cool off.

00:55:01.280 Yeah.

00:55:01.600 And she was like, oh no, no, no, I don't want ice.

00:55:03.440 I'm like, okay.

00:55:03.840 So you did say iced tea.

00:55:05.760 Like, by the way.

00:55:06.160 Okay.

00:55:06.240 Perfect.

00:55:06.560 I just wanted to make sure.

00:55:07.280 No perfect.

00:55:07.680 And she's like, no, I want it to be hot.

00:55:09.360 And I'm like, so what if I hadn't just brewed it?

00:55:12.400 Like, what if it was cold?

00:55:14.160 Broom temp maybe?

00:55:15.040 Like, I don't know what to tell you.

00:55:16.000 Well, when you say iced tea.

00:55:17.680 Correct.

00:55:18.160 What's your definition of that?

00:55:19.520 Yeah, doesn't want any ice.

00:55:21.600 So I'm like, okay, like this lady is not listening.

00:55:23.760 Like she, this, like, it hurts to touch the container it's in because it is so hot.

00:55:28.800 Yeah.

00:55:29.200 I just brewed it.

00:55:30.000 Yeah.

00:55:30.320 So I poured into the cup and I'm like, she doesn't know what she's talking about.

00:55:33.600 And I put like four ice cubes in it that fully melt like on the spot.

00:55:36.800 Yeah.

00:55:36.960 Like immediately because it's scalping.

00:55:38.400 So she gets to the window.

00:55:38.960 I take her money.

00:55:39.440 I give her the thing.

00:55:40.240 She takes a sip of the drink and she goes, was there ice in this?

00:55:43.840 And I go, no, I'm like literally clutching my pearls.

00:55:47.840 Like, I didn't want to lie.

00:55:52.160 I was like, I, I put like three and she goes, Blake, you're so nice.

00:55:57.680 I would have been like, nope.

00:55:58.640 I didn't.

00:55:59.200 I didn't want ice.

00:56:00.480 And I go, I'll get you a new one.

00:56:02.320 Like fully, here's your hot tea in the in and out cup.

00:56:06.320 There's still like steam coming up.

00:56:08.160 John 316, by the way.

00:56:08.880 Like, it's crazy.

00:56:11.040 Read the bottom of that fried container.

00:56:12.320 Yeah.

00:56:12.480 So people were just so interesting.

00:56:13.680 We had a regular that came in every single day.

00:56:15.360 Got this like absurd order, um, not kind of, not, not, not a funny story, but, um,

00:56:21.520 I got a complaint one time from a customer, um, that was at our store.

00:56:26.880 It was kind of late.

00:56:27.520 Like I would work late night a lot.

00:56:29.120 And we call it two man jam where you're like, there's only a couple of people

00:56:32.880 working the kitchen.

00:56:33.680 Okay.

00:56:34.240 And so it was like pretty, pretty, uh, pretty busy for a couple of people working.

00:56:37.840 And I had had friends that were working with me and stuff.

00:56:39.760 And so I was, um, having fun.

00:56:42.160 Cause like, I'm with my friends.

00:56:43.520 We have to make the best of it.

00:56:44.480 No one's helping us.

00:56:45.200 We just got to get through all the, all the orders.

00:56:47.040 Yeah.

00:56:47.600 So having a good time or whatever, we get a complaint later.

00:56:50.720 And, um, my manager calls me into the office and he like reads it to me.

00:56:54.240 And I'm telling you, like, I see on the computer screen, this complaint is like this long,

00:56:57.760 like tiny text, like a, like an essay.

00:57:00.720 Like an essay.

00:57:01.360 Yeah.

00:57:01.600 Like, and this person essentially is like, I don't want a gay person making my food and

00:57:08.480 is like, like insane.

00:57:10.080 Like he, he says this person, like he, I did, no one told me that he was gay, but I know one

00:57:15.120 when I see one and says he does, he's going to get AIDS from his burger.

00:57:20.560 Like insane.

00:57:21.280 I'm not even joking.

00:57:22.560 Also, I stood in the office and I just burst into tears cause I was so embarrassed.

00:57:25.680 Well, yeah.

00:57:26.320 And my manager's also like, I'm not showing you this because you're in trouble.

00:57:29.520 I'm like nothing.

00:57:30.320 I'm just showing you this because I'm like, this is a little scary.

00:57:33.680 Yeah.

00:57:34.160 And like, I got like walked into my car that night, like crazy.

00:57:38.240 Oh my God.

00:57:38.880 I've never experienced anything like that before.

00:57:40.640 Also like, what do you mean you could tell?

00:57:43.120 Are you an idiot?

00:57:44.400 Also, what do you mean you could tell?

00:57:46.640 Right.

00:57:46.960 Because I'm like, I wasn't doing like death drops in the kitchen.

00:57:49.440 Like, are you joking?

00:57:50.480 You're like, like, what is happening?

00:57:52.480 You're evoking.

00:57:53.600 I'm like evoking.

00:57:54.480 Yeah.

00:57:54.720 I was like, oh, oh, me experiencing joy somehow told you that I was gay.

00:57:58.560 That's the way I cut onions was like a little.

00:58:00.400 Yeah, like it was a little.

00:58:01.920 Well, that's why I'm saying even a broken clock is right two times a day.

00:58:06.240 Right.

00:58:06.560 So you just threw some shit at me and like you just so happened to be right.

00:58:10.400 Exactly.

00:58:10.960 Unless of course he's gay.

00:58:12.000 Or you just like heard me laughing or whatever.

00:58:13.920 Like, I don't know.

00:58:14.400 That's why I said experiencing joy just generally tells you what.

00:58:18.320 Like that's why I was like.

00:58:19.200 Super gay.

00:58:19.920 Right.

00:58:20.320 Super gay.

00:58:20.880 Yeah.

00:58:21.520 Um, so yeah, that was like crazy.

00:58:23.120 But just like, there's like lots of stories.

00:58:24.960 That is insane.

00:58:25.520 Can you believe that?

00:58:26.240 No, that's fucking nuts.

00:58:26.720 And also I'm like, well, I make the best burgers here.

00:58:28.720 So bummer.

00:58:29.760 Yeah.

00:58:30.400 And the person.

00:58:31.200 Don't want to catch whatever I'm putting in these awesome burgers.

00:58:33.200 Right.

00:58:33.600 And this was also an over the phone complaint.

00:58:35.120 So he like set this whole thing.

00:58:37.760 Had to be tagged out by someone.

00:58:39.440 And the customer service person, like obviously they're like not really trying to handle that.

00:58:44.880 But they were like, well, like we don't, like there's no discrimination based on blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:58:49.120 Right.

00:58:51.120 Like they're saying all the like HR proper things.

00:58:52.400 And then like, of course, my, my store manager was like mad that my manager showed me and then all stuff.

00:58:56.080 And I'm like, and then I was upset.

00:58:58.240 Yeah.

00:58:58.640 And I didn't want to come to work for a couple of days because I was just like tarnishing.

00:59:01.200 Like that's like my happy place.

00:59:02.320 Like I was like, I love it here.

00:59:03.680 Yeah.

00:59:04.160 And yeah, it was crazy.

00:59:05.360 But, um, lots of, lots of stories, um, nothing like that ever happened again.

00:59:09.760 Like it like blew over or whatever, but yeah, kind of wild.

00:59:13.840 Yeah.

00:59:14.080 Let's circle back to earlier when I was saying that straight men fucking complain about

00:59:18.960 me going like, um, I hate men.

00:59:22.400 And then they're on here going, wow, so hard to love myself.

00:59:25.280 Meanwhile, that's what the fuck minority people are going through.

00:59:28.400 Right.

00:59:28.640 In real life, like in real fucking life.

00:59:30.480 Right.

00:59:30.800 Like before the internet.

00:59:32.160 And I guess what?

00:59:33.120 I had to go back and keep making.

00:59:34.400 Yeah.

00:59:34.720 Yeah.

00:59:35.200 Like, hello.

00:59:35.600 That's.

00:59:36.240 Yeah, exactly.

00:59:37.040 And also you have to go back into that work environment and everybody knows.

00:59:41.120 Like getting a walk to your car.

00:59:44.400 I'm a grown man too, like, because I have so much privilege in that.

00:59:47.360 Like I don't have to worry about going and walking.

00:59:50.240 Like walking alone at night.

00:59:51.520 Yeah, exactly.

00:59:52.560 That's kind of wild.

00:59:53.360 No, that is fucking insane.

00:59:54.320 But it had nothing to do with the company.

00:59:55.600 Obviously, like I say all the time, I miss it.

00:59:57.440 Like, I love it.

00:59:57.840 No, it's literally food service.

00:59:58.960 Like, it's like, just, it's one of those things I've talked a lot about that specifically,

01:00:03.680 because that's one of the few like, uh, service jobs I had was food service.

01:00:07.440 And I literally was like, that is one of the hardest jobs ever.

01:00:12.000 Yeah.

01:00:12.320 And you work fast food, which is even harder.

01:00:14.160 And I was like, I was like, they're both like apples and oranges, different kinds of hard.

01:00:17.440 But I just like think I've said before, like, sometimes I really did think as a server

01:00:22.000 that like people went out with the explicit intention of being fucked up to servers.

01:00:26.560 Oh yeah.

01:00:26.960 Like they go out to torture people because they have, I don't know, a fucking problem.

01:00:31.040 Like they literally go out to be difficult, to be annoying, to be rude and disrespectful

01:00:36.000 and sometimes attack people.

01:00:37.280 Like it's really insane.

01:00:38.560 It's crazy.

01:00:39.120 It's like, actually, I'm like food service people are frontline soldiers.

01:00:42.720 Not all heroes wear capes, but they do wear red aprons.

01:00:44.960 Yeah.

01:00:45.200 And giant safety pins.

01:00:46.080 And they have really good safety pins.

01:00:48.160 Exactly.

01:00:48.880 And Disneyland name tags.

01:00:50.720 Right.

01:00:50.800 Because we have the same, that's a fun fact.

01:00:52.720 They do the same shape as Disneyland.

01:00:54.800 Oh, that's so T.

01:00:56.080 And I remember, if I remember correctly, it's because In-N-Out wanted to like mirror the

01:01:00.400 customer service off of somewhere so great.

01:01:02.080 T.

01:01:02.640 Isn't that cool?

01:01:03.600 And also Disney workers.

01:01:04.560 It all comes back.

01:01:05.040 Even Maggie was telling me too, because she worked at Disney World for a minute.

01:01:08.320 That's right.

01:01:08.720 DGP.

01:01:08.880 Yeah.

01:01:09.120 And even she was saying like, that was one of the scariest and hardest jobs I've ever

01:01:13.920 had, but also really fun.

01:01:14.960 Yeah, yeah.

01:01:15.520 So she's like, I had a blast.

01:01:16.560 There are a lot of creators who have like a cast member to create a pipeline.

01:01:21.040 Yeah.

01:01:21.440 A lot of my friends were cast members before they were like Disney influencers,

01:01:24.960 if you want to call it that.

01:01:25.600 Mm-hmm.

01:01:26.160 And I am not one of them.

01:01:28.080 I never worked for the company.

01:01:29.200 That's crazy.

01:01:30.080 Just work with.

01:01:30.720 Yeah.

01:01:31.200 Now you work with them alongside them.

01:01:33.440 It's even better.

01:01:34.000 Yeah.

01:01:34.560 Okay.

01:01:34.880 And then next one.

01:01:35.920 Next fun fact says you used to be a graphic designer for press juicery.

01:01:39.680 Absolutely.

01:01:40.240 Very fun.

01:01:40.720 I'm impressed with the lore.

01:01:41.760 Yeah.

01:01:44.000 And says in college, you photographed the San Luis Obispo cow parade.

01:01:52.400 You taking pictures of cows?

01:01:54.000 Take a picture of this one.

01:01:54.880 Just kidding.

01:01:55.280 Wait.

01:01:55.760 Oh my gosh.

01:01:57.360 I'm like, did I, like I forgot about.

01:01:59.280 Okay.

01:01:59.600 Um, so San Luis, Cal Poly is like very agriculture.

01:02:03.840 Yeah.

01:02:04.160 So like cowboys is a super engineering school, but also agriculture.

01:02:07.520 Yeah.

01:02:07.920 Yeah.

01:02:08.160 So there was this thing.

01:02:09.520 Oh my God.

01:02:10.160 This is like crazy.

01:02:11.120 Yeah.

01:02:11.600 Cow parade.

01:02:13.360 You've piqued my interest.

01:02:14.400 Right.

01:02:14.720 Yeah.

01:02:15.040 So I don't, I, if I remember correctly, I don't remember there being like a processional

01:02:22.080 of sorts, but there were, there was a season where people would hand paint these like statue

01:02:28.480 cows.

01:02:29.120 Oh my God, this is crazy.

01:02:31.200 Um, and they would put them all over town on campus and all over town.

01:02:35.680 Interesting.

01:02:36.000 So you could like go around.

01:02:37.440 Wow.

01:02:38.160 Take pictures of that?

01:02:39.680 Yeah.

01:02:40.160 And it was like a thing.

01:02:41.440 You would like go find all the cows and they were like life-size statues of cows.

01:02:45.760 Was it the same people every year?

01:02:47.600 Or was it different people?

01:02:48.320 No, I think it was different.

01:02:49.280 Interesting.

01:02:49.680 I think I had a friend who got to contribute to one.

01:02:51.280 She was like an art student.

01:02:52.320 Oh, fun.

01:02:53.440 But yeah, they would like be on campus and then like downtown.

01:02:56.080 That feels like one of those things where you're like, you never know what people are

01:02:58.160 doing.

01:02:58.320 You really never know.

01:02:59.120 You never know what people are doing behind closed doors.

01:03:00.640 Exactly.

01:03:01.120 And some of them are paint cows.

01:03:02.320 Yeah.

01:03:02.640 And some of them are photographing.

01:03:03.360 And some of them are photographing.

01:03:04.080 Yeah.

01:03:04.720 In public.

01:03:07.600 Oh my gosh.

01:03:08.320 I love that.

01:03:09.120 I love that you were like, now this I have to document.

01:03:11.680 Yeah, absolutely.

01:03:12.880 I could probably find a picture somewhere.

01:03:15.040 Okay.

01:03:15.280 This one says, this is your junior year yearbook photo.

01:03:19.920 Oh God.

01:03:20.560 Can he break down this outfit and was this a sleeveless vest?

01:03:25.120 Oh, Jesus Christ.

01:03:26.240 I don't know if you can see, like, I don't know.

01:03:31.840 That's not even my yearbook.

01:03:33.440 It is my yearbook photo.

01:03:34.400 That's my ID card.

01:03:37.680 This is so insane.

01:03:39.680 You know what?

01:03:40.080 Wait, let me see it again.

01:03:41.920 Okay.

01:03:42.240 This was like in my era.

01:03:43.200 I was like trying to grow my hair closer to God.

01:03:44.880 Yeah.

01:03:46.720 Sleeveless vest, for sure.

01:03:48.240 Zipper.

01:03:48.720 Low key.

01:03:49.120 Yeah, it looks like it.

01:03:49.840 I probably wore it more than once a week.

01:03:51.680 It looks like a matching shirt too.

01:03:53.600 Yeah.

01:03:53.920 You know, coordinated, closeted, coordinated and closeted.

01:04:00.160 Wait, that's crazy.

01:04:01.600 Yeah.

01:04:02.000 I went to a really like known to be nerdy high school.

01:04:06.720 We had no sports.

01:04:07.760 Oh, really?

01:04:08.320 So when I say I played soccer, like we had to go,

01:04:10.720 I think this is like how it is for everybody ever,

01:04:13.520 but you have like a boundary school,

01:04:14.960 like the one that's like closest to where you live or whatever

01:04:16.880 in your school district.

01:04:18.320 So my boundary school was Ventura High School.

01:04:21.440 I lived in Ventura, but I went to Foothill and Foothill had no sports.

01:04:25.600 So I had to go play sports at Ventura.

01:04:27.120 So like we had seven periods.

01:04:28.960 And if you played sports, you didn't have a seventh period.

01:04:30.560 And they would like shuttle us on a bus over to the school for soccer practice.

01:04:33.840 Interesting.

01:04:34.640 So that has nothing to do with the fact that I was dressed like a dweeb.

01:04:39.040 I don't even know what year that was.

01:04:40.400 You know what's funny?

01:04:41.120 Is this your junior year?

01:04:42.000 Is this your junior year?

01:04:42.960 Okay.

01:04:43.360 Yeah, grade 11.

01:04:44.320 So like 2013.

01:04:44.880 According to your ID card, it says grade 11.

01:04:47.200 According to your ID card that actually has your ID number on it.

01:04:49.520 Yeah, it does.

01:04:50.400 In fact, it's in full view.

01:04:52.960 Wait, I think I remember it.

01:04:54.000 What?

01:04:54.640 What?

01:04:55.040 The ID number.

01:04:56.000 Oh, you do?

01:04:56.720 501-808-784.

01:05:04.000 What's your sign?

01:05:05.280 I'm an Aquarius.

01:05:06.160 Okay, okay.

01:05:06.880 You're an Aquarius.

01:05:07.200 So when we saw you at your show, it was like three days after my birthday.

01:05:10.080 Oh, yes, that's right.

01:05:11.280 Okay, yeah.

01:05:11.840 So I'm like freshly 30.

01:05:12.800 Oh, T.

01:05:13.920 Yeah, Aquarius.

01:05:15.680 I don't know like much about my stuff, but I'm a Taurus moon.

01:05:18.880 I was curious if you have Virgo anywhere in you.

01:05:21.920 Earth sign, Taurus, right?

01:05:23.360 And Cancer rising.

01:05:25.200 Oh, T.

01:05:26.240 I'm a Virgo sun, Cancer moon, Sagittarius rising.

01:05:29.760 And Matt's a Cancer.

01:05:30.720 Oh, T.

01:05:31.840 Okay, do you know his big three?

01:05:33.200 I actually don't.

01:05:34.000 I don't know if he does too.

01:05:34.880 He like had like some drama recently where he like couldn't figure out his birth time.

01:05:40.080 Sometimes if you just guess like general time, it can get pretty specific.

01:05:44.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:05:44.800 If you know like morning, afternoon, night, that might make it a little bit easier.

01:05:47.920 Yeah.

01:05:48.240 What I was going to say though is your ID photo.

01:05:50.240 That's so funny.

01:05:50.800 Like my freshman year of high school, for some reason they would do these like freshman

01:05:55.200 orientation things like during summer where you go and get your schedule ahead of time.

01:05:58.480 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:05:58.880 I think because you're a kid.

01:05:59.520 We would do that too.

01:06:00.160 And so like you could only do it as a freshman though.

01:06:02.960 And I think you could come pick up your schedule at any other grade, but like they had this whole

01:06:07.440 day planned out for freshmen.

01:06:09.120 So I remember my sister had told me about it already.

01:06:11.040 I was like, okay, cool.

01:06:12.240 Went, they like separated us into groups to like, and they wanted you to do icebreakers,

01:06:17.280 all this stuff.

01:06:18.000 And then they wanted the groups they separated us in.

01:06:20.400 The worst by the way.

01:06:21.280 Yes.

01:06:21.840 Oh my God.

01:06:22.720 Fucking terrible.

01:06:23.440 Like even in college, no better.

01:06:25.120 Like they get worse when you get older.

01:06:26.480 Absolutely.

01:06:26.960 So like when I, when I was in my group, they wanted each person to like, or each group

01:06:33.360 to be themed or something.

01:06:35.200 And they, they gave us like, they're like, oh, and then you're going to see if you can

01:06:37.920 cheer the loudest.

01:06:38.800 It's like ASB shit.

01:06:39.680 Yeah.

01:06:40.080 Right.

01:06:40.320 They're just trying to get you to participate.

01:06:41.600 Yeah.

01:06:41.840 But there was probably like 20, 22 of us in each per group.

01:06:46.240 So of course, like being the know-it-all and the Virgo I am, I'm like, I'm going to take charge.

01:06:50.000 So I was like helping designate things to people.

01:06:53.280 And they gave us like spray hair stuff and like glitter and all that.

01:06:58.400 Yeah.

01:06:58.720 And like little things to like dress your team up, whatever the fuck.

01:07:02.880 And I remember I was like, oh yeah.

01:07:04.880 Like, do you guys want to use this hair stuff?

01:07:06.960 Like, cause there were some people with really long hair and they were like, yeah, fuck it.

01:07:10.240 So I was like putting all this like spraying color, like in people's hair.

01:07:14.080 And I'm like, woo.

01:07:14.960 And then they asked me, do you want to do it on your hair?

01:07:16.480 And I was like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

01:07:18.320 Oh, that's for them.

01:07:18.960 Yeah.

01:07:19.120 I was like, I don't know.

01:07:20.000 I don't want that on my hair.

01:07:20.640 I'm actually the leader.

01:07:21.280 No, yeah, I'm in charge.

01:07:22.240 So I'm the sprayer, not the spray.

01:07:24.720 And so like, I was like, no, I'm good.

01:07:26.240 I'm good.

01:07:26.480 And then we went to the, did the assembly thing.

01:07:28.240 And then I did not know this.

01:07:30.160 No photos were not that day.

01:07:31.200 Yeah.

01:07:31.440 Like literally they took freshman year photos that day, right after that assembly.

01:07:36.160 And they were like, a lot of the people in my group were like, can I go wash this out?

01:07:40.640 And they were like, no, we have to go take it now.

01:07:43.200 I was like, I did feel bad.

01:07:45.520 I did feel bad.

01:07:46.080 By the way, those are your haters now.

01:07:47.280 Yeah, for real.

01:07:49.040 I'm like, they're actually in your DMs.

01:07:51.040 No, for real.

01:07:51.600 And I do remember though, in order to participate, I did, they had like a little choker and it was

01:07:57.280 a Jonas Brother choker.

01:07:58.480 I remember this so distinctly.

01:07:59.680 And I was fresh off my Jonas Brother phase.

01:08:01.920 And I was like, well, obviously I'll wear the Jonas Brother choker.

01:08:04.560 Yes.

01:08:05.040 So I was like, I wore that, forgot to take it off.

01:08:07.360 So I do in fact have a Jonas Brother choker on in my ninth grade photo.

01:08:11.760 Iconic.

01:08:12.320 So that is my karma.

01:08:14.320 Right.

01:08:14.560 So some people had like, you know, green Raccoon stripes in their hair.

01:08:18.160 Right.

01:08:18.800 And some of us were wearing a Jonas Brother choker.

01:08:20.160 And maybe you were lucky and the yearbook was in black and white.

01:08:22.960 And I was like, mine was in full color.

01:08:24.640 And it was a bright red stripe and it was on my neck.

01:08:27.440 That's crazy.

01:08:28.080 But you know, I was like, even when I saw it, I was like, wow, I look gorgeous in that.

01:08:32.240 I look beautiful.

01:08:32.960 Yeah.

01:08:33.360 And I didn't have stuff in my hair.

01:08:34.480 And I remember my mom asking me, what are you wearing on your neck?

01:08:37.520 I was like, oh, they made me put this choker on and I forgot to take it off.

01:08:40.480 But it's okay.

01:08:41.040 Because I'm like, my face card is clearing.

01:08:42.960 So it's fine.

01:08:43.600 No worries, mom.

01:08:44.320 Cleared.

01:08:44.880 Don't worry about it.

01:08:45.600 Okay.

01:08:45.840 Last fun fact.

01:08:46.640 Okay.

01:08:47.040 I'm scared.

01:08:47.520 She said, you posted this on October 31st, 2012.

01:08:53.520 Do you remember what this Halloween costume was supposed to be?

01:08:56.880 And I'll open the pic now.

01:09:00.720 You're going, um.

01:09:01.840 Um.

01:09:03.040 Okay.

01:09:03.360 That is a photo at my church.

01:09:05.200 Okay.

01:09:07.520 We did.

01:09:08.240 Oh, God.

01:09:08.880 I think that was.

01:09:10.560 You're giving Book of Mormon in this.

01:09:12.160 So we did.

01:09:14.560 I performed with a lip sync group.

01:09:17.440 We like prepared a lip sync to Officer Krupke.

01:09:20.560 Okay.

01:09:20.880 From West Side Story.

01:09:21.680 Yes.

01:09:22.800 And that's what I was dressed as.

01:09:26.080 So it was just like.

01:09:27.360 I was like, what an interest.

01:09:28.640 Wait, that's crazy.

01:09:29.680 Okay, Facebook.

01:09:30.080 You're giving Peaky Blinders.

01:09:31.440 Right.

01:09:32.480 Honestly, Blake, handsome.

01:09:34.400 Look at you.

01:09:34.800 Thank you so much.

01:09:36.400 Look at you.

01:09:36.480 Baby face.

01:09:37.120 Yeah.

01:09:37.520 I was going to say, obviously, obviously you're so handsome now, but I'm saying you've been

01:09:41.040 a looker your whole life.

01:09:42.480 Thank you so much.

01:09:42.560 Look at you.

01:09:43.280 No wonder they were being homophobic.

01:09:44.800 They couldn't have you.

01:09:45.680 Hey, listen.

01:09:47.040 And also closeted.

01:09:48.320 And I have my art teacher from high school.

01:09:51.360 I remember, um, we're like friends now, which is so cool.

01:09:54.080 Oh, yeah.

01:09:54.560 Um, he was pretty young too when, when I was in high school, but he, I was talking to him

01:09:59.760 one day after, uh, after I had graduated, like two years after, I was with another student

01:10:05.280 who also is queer.

01:10:06.240 And, um, they were like, like, Justin, did you ever like have an inkling that like myself

01:10:12.240 or Blake like were queer?

01:10:13.840 And he was like, you, not so much to them.

01:10:16.880 And I was like, Blake, I kind of had a feeling.

01:10:21.200 And I was like, wait, why?

01:10:22.800 And he was like, because girls would just like throw themselves at you.

01:10:26.000 And you like, didn't care.

01:10:27.280 And you were like, and that's my sister.

01:10:29.040 And I was like, I'm a Christian.

01:10:30.800 Like, well, that was my faith, obviously.

01:10:35.360 That's so funny.

01:10:36.320 Um, but yeah.

01:10:38.080 No, that makes a lot of sense because you're tall too.

01:10:40.560 Tall and handsome.

01:10:41.280 Tall, dark and handsome.

01:10:42.320 Listen, I'm not saying that about myself.

01:10:43.680 But I'll take it.

01:10:44.480 It's true.

01:10:45.760 That's why I was like, yeah, he was like, I kind of had a feeling because

01:10:49.360 you're drowning in puss and you didn't want it.

01:10:52.480 He's like, you didn't bite.

01:10:53.600 And you're, and that's my best friend.

01:10:55.120 Yeah.

01:10:55.600 I love her.

01:10:56.400 Yeah, literally.

01:10:58.240 I'm like, no, she has great style.

01:11:00.160 Yeah, I was like, no, I love her.

01:11:02.080 She's the best.

01:11:02.880 Oh my God.

01:11:03.360 Well, I fucking love you.

01:11:04.480 Oh, I love you too.

01:11:05.120 Thank you for coming and hanging out with me today.

01:11:06.880 Oh my God, of course, wait, I do have something.

01:11:08.640 Oh my God.

01:11:09.360 So off camera, you gave me a gift today.

01:11:11.920 I did indeed.

01:11:12.640 And it's these really cool pins.

01:11:14.160 I don't know if I show them, would they be able to see them at all?

01:11:16.560 Oh, probably.

01:11:17.200 I could just like hold them up.

01:11:18.080 Oh yeah.

01:11:18.320 Or you could take them out of the thing if you want to.

01:11:20.080 I'm like, zoom here.

01:11:20.320 Yeah.

01:11:20.880 But these are really cool.

01:11:22.160 They are VIP tour exclusive pins.

01:11:24.560 Yes.

01:11:25.680 From Disney.

01:11:26.480 Yes.

01:11:26.960 And I do not have these.

01:11:28.480 So thank you so much.

01:11:29.280 You're welcome.

01:11:30.240 But we obviously like, I love to talk about all the things unrelated to the things that

01:11:34.240 everybody sees me talk about daily.

01:11:36.480 So this has been amazing.

01:11:37.600 Yeah.

01:11:37.920 But I did bring you a mystery.

01:11:39.600 Oh, and I love my mystery pins and I also love my Winnie the Pooh.

01:11:45.920 Yes, you do.

01:11:46.640 And so I brought, it's not from Disneyland, but it is an official Disney Winnie the Pooh mystery

01:11:50.960 pin.

01:11:51.200 Oh my God.

01:11:51.840 How exciting.

01:11:52.480 And I brought two so that we can open them together.

01:11:54.160 Yes.

01:11:55.120 Okay.

01:11:55.600 And we can like manifest having a Disney day or something.

01:11:58.400 Big pin.

01:11:58.720 Love.

01:11:58.800 Yes.

01:11:59.120 Of course we can.

01:12:00.000 So there's some really cute options in here.

01:12:01.840 Yes.

01:12:03.200 And I did also bring you and Dason Mickey family keychains when I came to your show.

01:12:08.880 Oh my God.

01:12:09.440 Yes, you did.

01:12:09.680 So not to be like annoying, like I always come with some like mystery box, but.

01:12:13.200 No, he's so sweet.

01:12:14.400 He's always bringing gifts and leaving them at my altar like you guys.

01:12:17.120 Listen.

01:12:17.840 At least these ones are nice ones and they're not terrible men I have to yell at.

01:12:21.200 Yeah.

01:12:21.680 Oh my God.

01:12:22.160 Okay.

01:12:22.320 Wait, should we, which ones?

01:12:23.760 Yeah.

01:12:24.080 Yeah.

01:12:24.240 So you have to say what you would want.

01:12:25.520 I mean, I don't have any of these yet.

01:12:27.440 So like I would love any of them, but.

01:12:29.280 Right.

01:12:29.520 And you always say first pin is the one we don't have.

01:12:31.440 Correct.

01:12:32.880 I always favor Pooh bear, but these ones are cool.

01:12:34.880 Cause on the back, they have like really special ones.

01:12:36.800 So like those ones are like all in black and white.

01:12:39.200 They're like more rare.

01:12:40.160 There's like a gold one.

01:12:42.400 Um, but yeah, these are all really cute.

01:12:44.240 I love Pooh bear with the trumpet.

01:12:45.680 Yeah.

01:12:46.000 I think they're all so cute.

01:12:47.360 Obviously I was a big piglet girl.

01:12:49.760 Yeah.

01:12:50.320 That was my, that was my thing.

01:12:51.440 Cause a pig is my favorite animal and pink was my favorite color.

01:12:54.560 Okay.

01:12:54.880 Yeah.

01:12:55.040 So I was always a piglet girl, but I'll take, honestly, they're all killer.

01:12:59.520 As long as we get different ones.

01:13:00.720 Love them all.

01:13:01.360 Yeah.

01:13:01.760 Okay.

01:13:02.240 T let's open up.

01:13:03.040 You go first.

01:13:03.760 Okay.

01:13:06.000 Oh, let's see.

01:13:08.320 Should I show y'all first?

01:13:10.720 Shut up.

01:13:13.360 Shut up.

01:13:13.760 I have to go.

01:13:14.880 I told y'all.

01:13:15.440 My brain is so powerful.

01:13:16.320 Cut the cameras.

01:13:16.880 I told you.

01:13:18.880 That's so cute.

01:13:20.080 Okay.

01:13:20.480 I believe you.

01:13:20.880 And I only said the one.

01:13:21.680 I believe you.

01:13:22.160 I believe you.

01:13:22.560 Period.

01:13:22.880 Okay.

01:13:23.680 Ready?

01:13:23.920 Let's see.

01:13:27.440 Oh, it's Tigger.

01:13:28.400 It's Tigger.

01:13:28.960 I love Tigger.

01:13:29.680 With the little drum.

01:13:30.960 It's so funny because my brother went through a huge Tigger phase.

01:13:34.400 Like, he loves the Tigger movie.

01:13:35.760 Like, he watched it 30,000 times a day.

01:13:37.680 Oh, it's so good.

01:13:38.000 Also, it's 25 years old.

01:13:39.120 Barf.

01:13:39.680 Oh, that's sweet.

01:13:40.560 If anyone wants to throw up right now.

01:13:43.360 You're old.

01:13:44.080 No, he literally loved Tigger so much.

01:13:46.080 He had this Tigger, like, suit, too, that was all fuzzy.

01:13:50.160 And my brother's a big sweater.

01:13:51.760 So he would sweat like crazy in it.

01:13:53.760 And then sometimes when he was watching and he'd be like, bounce, bounce, bounce,

01:13:56.560 bounce, bounce, like while he's watching.

01:13:58.160 And then sometimes I would unzip the hood, just the back of the head.

01:14:01.520 Just a little bit.

01:14:02.320 I'd just unzip it a little.

01:14:03.600 And then he'd be like, ah!

01:14:05.040 And then he would attack me and then we'd start fighting.

01:14:07.840 It was a fun memory.

01:14:08.720 Fond memories.

01:14:09.760 I mean, I grew up with Pooh Bear, so that's why I love him today.

01:14:12.240 I just never stopped.

01:14:12.640 Thank you so much.

01:14:13.600 Of course.

01:14:14.240 It's so fucking cute.

01:14:15.680 They are so cute.

01:14:16.560 I love it.

01:14:16.640 And what a great size, too.

01:14:18.080 Yeah, they're great.

01:14:18.880 Like, sometimes I always think pins will be tiny, teeny, teeny, tiny, but they're not.

01:14:22.080 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:14:22.640 Well, these ones that you gave me are, like, massive.

01:14:24.640 They're, like, heavy as hell, too.

01:14:26.160 Yeah.

01:14:28.160 And I was like, do you care if I bring you some pins that I have extras of?

01:14:31.760 And he was like, no, I don't care.

01:14:33.120 Yeah, that's the worst.

01:14:34.800 Yeah, I hate that.

01:14:35.600 Yeah.

01:14:36.480 As if I'd be like, oh, I'm okay.

01:14:38.320 Yeah, no, nah.

01:14:39.760 I think I literally said, I'll sign the adoption papers.

01:14:43.920 Well, thank you so much for the gift.

01:14:45.280 That is so sweet.

01:14:46.240 Of course, my pleasure.

01:14:46.640 And look at how you watched my manifestation in real life.

01:14:48.800 I really did.

01:14:49.360 So now that we're here at this part, what's something you're manifesting for yourself?

01:14:53.600 Oh, my gosh.

01:14:54.480 Well, I know I kind of already said it, but it's kind of a general thing.

01:14:58.320 Like, my manifestation this year is just that my name is being spoken in rooms I do not yet

01:15:02.880 know exist.

01:15:03.360 Love.

01:15:03.840 Beautiful.

01:15:04.000 And I love that.

01:15:05.680 But yeah, I think I would say that.

01:15:06.960 Yeah.

01:15:07.280 I try not to, like, put, obviously, you want to, like, ask for things.

01:15:10.000 Yeah.

01:15:10.480 But I try not to put too many specifics, because I want to just kind of take what comes my way.

01:15:15.120 You're getting scared.

01:15:16.240 I'm getting scared.

01:15:16.880 Don't be afraid.

01:15:17.840 Don't be afraid.

01:15:18.320 You watched the piglet in real time.

01:15:19.840 No, I really did.

01:15:20.560 You watched me in real time.

01:15:21.200 I'm like, wait, I can't say anything too much, because it will come true.

01:15:25.120 And I'll tell you what, I talk about that in therapy.

01:15:26.960 Sometimes my therapist goes, why do you get so afraid when you think bad, like, random

01:15:30.640 bad thoughts?

01:15:31.120 And I'm like, because everything I think comes true.

01:15:33.680 Yeah.

01:15:34.880 She was like, or sometimes.

01:15:36.480 I'm too powerful.

01:15:37.280 Yeah.

01:15:37.520 And she was like, well, what if you're wrong?

01:15:38.800 And I'm all, please.

01:15:41.280 Have a seat.

01:15:41.360 You don't know anything.

01:15:42.080 I told you I was a Virgo at the start of this.

01:15:45.360 Yeah.

01:15:45.440 Okay.

01:15:45.680 I told you that.

01:15:46.720 But I'm so happy you came to hang out with us.

01:15:48.560 Yeah, me too.

01:15:48.720 I fucking love you.

01:15:49.520 Thank you so much.

01:15:50.240 Last kind of like fun question.

01:15:52.240 Do you have any advice for any aspiring content creators?

01:15:55.280 Oh my gosh.

01:15:56.480 Yeah.

01:15:56.800 And I love that we kind of got to talk about it at the beginning.

01:15:59.120 Mm-hmm.

01:16:00.080 Don't go into making content with the goal of being famous.

01:16:05.520 Yeah.

01:16:06.320 Or popping off, as we like to say.

01:16:08.560 Right.

01:16:09.200 I just feel like I have so much experience that it's actually amazing that I can look

01:16:14.160 back and be like, I kind of, I don't want to say failed because I actually love that

01:16:18.240 part of my journey.

01:16:18.960 No, you didn't fail.

01:16:19.600 And I think it's part of why I love posting all my like outfit photos on Instagram or whatever

01:16:24.720 today.

01:16:25.120 Right.

01:16:25.280 Like because of that part of me that was so interested in being creative and like having

01:16:29.200 fun with the art of it all.

01:16:31.840 Yeah.

01:16:32.240 But, you know, I do have this like background where I sort of failed and then I didn't,

01:16:37.280 you know what I mean, and it was an accident.

01:16:39.200 So I always just tell people like, it's so much easier said than done.

01:16:41.760 And like, I recognize that like I had been told by people, don't worry about the numbers

01:16:46.880 when I was like wanting to be a creator.

01:16:49.200 And I was always like, well, it's easy for you to say you have numbers.

01:16:51.920 Right.

01:16:52.000 So I never say, don't worry about the numbers.

01:16:53.840 Right.

01:16:54.000 Because you're going to.

01:16:54.880 Right.

01:16:55.600 But I just always tell people like, just let being yourself be at the forefront.

01:16:59.600 I agree.

01:17:00.160 And like, and, and getting to know somebody.

01:17:02.160 Absolutely.

01:17:02.560 Like, especially if you're coming up or your brand new account, like there's no way to

01:17:07.360 get anywhere if you don't embrace like community and making friends.

01:17:11.120 Right.

01:17:11.280 And like, also that is a huge testament as to why I like have such amazing people in my

01:17:15.040 life now.

01:17:15.520 Like some of my best friends I met because of Instagram.

01:17:18.800 Me too.

01:17:19.280 Or TikTok.

01:17:19.920 Likewise.

01:17:20.320 Like it's so cool.

01:17:20.960 Yeah.

01:17:21.360 Um, so I just feel like that the writings on the wall, it's like, right.

01:17:25.200 If you just pour yourself into it because it's like your passion and who you are.

01:17:29.360 Um, also you shouldn't feel like you're trying super hard.

01:17:32.000 Exactly.

01:17:32.960 I agree with you.

01:17:33.760 And it's also one of those things where I, I constantly, I like always say like, I can't

01:17:38.480 tell you like a formula.

01:17:40.560 Like I really can't like, cause it just kind of happened.

01:17:43.200 Um, but what I do always say too, is that like, if you have something to contribute and

01:17:48.480 you are authentic about it and you would do it for free because I did it for free for

01:17:52.720 a long fucking time, if you would do it for free, then I think it will wake up.

01:17:56.880 It will work out on its own exactly the way it's supposed to.

01:17:59.280 And I think that's why I wouldn't count that as a failure for you.

01:18:01.920 I think it, it pushed you towards the path you're supposed to be on.

01:18:04.960 Yeah.

01:18:05.440 And it put you on the right one.

01:18:06.640 Exactly.

01:18:07.360 And I like never would have thought that I would like have a manager or all these things.

01:18:11.440 Like so much can happen if you just like kind of like let the fun and like the

01:18:17.440 excitement for whatever it is that you're talking about, just like lead it.

01:18:20.000 Yeah.

01:18:20.320 Yeah, absolutely.

01:18:21.280 I agree.

01:18:21.760 And you and I did it for free for a long time.

01:18:24.000 So we earned it.

01:18:25.760 We earned the made up job.

01:18:26.960 I'm trying to earn it still, you know?

01:18:28.080 Like yeah, the made up job.

01:18:29.520 Exactly.

01:18:30.000 Exactly.

01:18:31.120 Well, I love you so much.

01:18:32.320 Thank you for coming and hanging out.

01:18:33.600 Thank you so much.

01:18:33.840 You're the best.

01:18:34.400 Obviously you guys will see us at Disneyland eventually.

01:18:36.560 Period.

01:18:37.040 I'm sure together we have to go together.

01:18:39.200 Obviously that's on the, on the books.

01:18:41.520 Yes.

01:18:41.920 But everyone who doesn't know and doesn't know where to find you, where can everybody

01:18:45.840 find you?

01:18:46.160 Oh my gosh.

01:18:46.640 Well, I know it's sort of complicated right now because I have like two different usernames

01:18:49.520 at the moment, but I will always be Blake's Pop Nook, my little pop culture safe space

01:18:54.880 of the internet.

01:18:55.840 It is always going to be who I am, but my name is Blake Silva.

01:18:58.880 So I am Blake Silva.

01:19:00.560 That's my at on TikTok on YouTube and on Instagram.

01:19:04.800 Currently I'm still Blake's Pop Nook.

01:19:06.000 But if you just look up my first and last name, you'll find me.

01:19:08.480 Hell yeah.

01:19:09.040 You could throw something and hit me anywhere.

01:19:11.600 I'm like, I'm trying to do like Snapchat these days.

01:19:13.840 I don't know.

01:19:14.240 I'm just like everywhere all at once.

01:19:16.000 Yeah.

01:19:16.320 Right.

01:19:16.640 Yeah.

01:19:17.040 No, literally within reaching distance.

01:19:19.040 Yeah.

01:19:19.360 Same.

01:19:19.600 Oh, also like Spotify.

01:19:21.120 Yes.

01:19:21.680 I'm on Spotify.

01:19:22.560 Absolutely.

01:19:22.880 So, um, well, currently on this podcast, but also I released my music and I have a lot

01:19:28.080 of covers and I would love if you would listen to them.

01:19:30.160 Um, and they're so good.

01:19:31.920 Thanks.

01:19:32.400 I love them.

01:19:32.960 And there's more coming.

01:19:33.600 Yeah.

01:19:34.000 Choo, choo.

01:19:35.440 I'm so excited for you.

01:19:36.800 Thank you.

01:19:36.880 I fucking love you.

01:19:37.600 I think you're wonderful.

01:19:38.480 And I want to say too, I really do genuinely love your content.

01:19:42.960 I think your content is so heartwarming and so sweet and so authentic to you.

01:19:47.920 Like I'm, I'm very like, sometimes people are like, how the fuck, like, cause I just

01:19:52.000 like, I'll randomly bring up people on this show, like randomly.

01:19:55.600 And obviously not you cause you've been an established creator for a long time, but I'll

01:19:58.800 random people I'll lock on to.

01:20:00.720 And then they're like, how the fuck did you find them?

01:20:02.640 And I'm like, I love them because I love their content.

01:20:05.360 Yeah.

01:20:05.680 And that's how I feel.

01:20:06.320 I felt about you for a very long time.

01:20:07.760 Thanks.

01:20:08.240 Well, I've been a fan of yours for a while too.

01:20:09.920 Yeah, that's true.

01:20:11.280 I know you and Dace were friends before you and I were.

01:20:13.360 Yeah.

01:20:13.440 Well, the first mention of my name was two idiot girls.

01:20:16.400 Yes.

01:20:17.040 And I remember I got tagged by some followers, like, oh my God, my favorite podcast, like just

01:20:21.120 talked about you.

01:20:22.240 And she was like, I don't know.

01:20:23.360 I'm on Disney pin TikTok right now and I can't leave.

01:20:26.640 And here we are.

01:20:27.760 And she's so real for that.

01:20:29.120 Yeah.

01:20:29.200 Honestly, she, she third eyed that one before me.

01:20:31.280 She really did.

01:20:32.160 Yeah.

01:20:32.240 She way before me.

01:20:33.040 She sure did.

01:20:33.520 Yeah.

01:20:34.000 So now we're doing pin unboxings in the sprinter van at Disney World.

01:20:36.720 Right.

01:20:38.000 And she's like, Blake, which ones should I get?

01:20:40.640 I know.

01:20:40.960 Literally asking for tips.

01:20:42.960 No, for real.

01:20:43.520 She's like, I text Blake, Blake's pop nook.

01:20:45.760 The other day she was literally talking to Carrie and she goes, well, what's Blake's last

01:20:48.880 name?

01:20:49.120 And my sister goes, pop nook.

01:20:50.560 I don't know.

01:20:51.040 Like I have no clue.

01:20:53.200 Not the first time that's happened.

01:20:54.320 Yeah.

01:20:54.720 And then Carrie goes, that's not his last name.

01:20:57.600 There's no way.

01:20:58.320 You don't know me.

01:20:58.720 And she like looked it up.

01:20:59.680 That's my fifth fun fact.

01:21:00.880 And then my sister goes, oh, it's, it's Silva.

01:21:02.800 Sorry.

01:21:05.440 She told me that story when I got here this morning.

01:21:07.200 I love that.

01:21:08.000 Well, I adore you.

01:21:08.960 I think you're amazing.

01:21:09.920 Everyone, please go follow Blake.

01:21:11.280 Go check out his music.

01:21:12.640 It's amazing and so awesome.

01:21:14.960 And also just do it because I fucking said to do it.

01:21:17.280 Okay.

01:21:17.760 You guys know how I feel about that.

01:21:19.040 Anyways, thank you all so much for tuning into this amazing episode of the comment section

01:21:22.640 show.

01:21:22.960 Thank you so much to my amazing guest, Blake Silva.

01:21:24.960 Don't forget to follow him and don't forget new episodes of the show premiere every Wednesday.

01:21:29.120 You can stream the audio on all streaming platforms, but the video lists for free and exclusively

01:21:32.800 on our favorite platform, Spotify.

01:21:34.320 Thank you so much to Blake's pop dog, Blake Silva.

01:21:36.320 Nova.

01:21:36.960 Thank you so much to all of you and I'll see you next week.

01:21:38.720 Bye.

01:21:48.640 Spring break.

01:21:49.360 Isn't what it used to be.

01:21:50.720 It's better this spring.

01:21:52.320 Stay three nights and get a $50 Best Western gift card.

01:21:55.760 Life's a trip.

01:21:56.720 Make the most of it at Best Western.

01:21:58.640 Visit bestwestern.com for complete terms and conditions.

The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - March 04, 2026

COORDINATED AND CLOSETED Ft. Blake Silva ｜ Episode 211

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