The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - NEXT QUESTION Ft. Scott Evans ｜ Episode 244

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00:01:08.880 Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another spooky episode of the Comment Section Show.

00:01:13.640 Starring me, your favorite.

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00:01:16.860 On to the guest.

00:01:17.840 Today, we have the hilarious, the iconic, the legendary, Scott Evans.

00:01:22.980 Woo!

00:01:24.040 Yeah!

00:01:25.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1.00

00:01:26.000 That thong, that thong, thong, thong.

00:01:30.300 Scott tried to trick me or he did trick me.

00:01:32.540 I mean, I think we did.

00:01:33.520 Yeah, you did.

00:01:34.140 You successfully tricked me.

00:01:35.240 The gag was I also got tricked. 1.00

00:01:37.780 You're trick-or-treating this motherfucker. 1.00

00:01:39.300 You know what I'm saying? 1.00

00:01:39.820 I got tricked.

00:01:40.880 Can someone explain to me why every time I leave my house,

00:01:44.380 I somehow spend $200?

00:01:46.500 Like I went outside for a coffee.

00:01:48.420 Why am I suddenly in financial ruin?

00:01:50.200 And don't even get me started on how many subscriptions I'm paying for.

00:01:54.680 At this point, I'm personally funding the entire entertainment industry.

00:01:59.180 Sometimes I just want to come home, sit on my couch, turn my brain off, and watch something good without another monthly charge showing up on my credit card.

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00:02:50.380 stream now pay never I got told that Scott was like oh I feel so bad I didn't have time for a

00:02:56.300 costume and I was like oh my god don't even worry about it you'd be surprised how many times people

00:02:59.480 don't wear costumes and I'm dressed like an meanwhile she's like oh no it's fine it's

00:03:03.440 totally fine like I love this dress this is my favorite dress I was like I it's a laundry day

00:03:06.860 for me so no worries and I was like then Scott comes in the studio and does that exact like call

00:03:13.140 Cisco call yeah it's a mating call and I was literally so shocked I was like they said you

00:03:18.220 I didn't dress up.

00:03:19.060 He was like, look great to me.

00:03:22.060 And imagine you were like, I didn't dress up.

00:03:23.900 I didn't dress up.

00:03:24.840 This is my outfit. 1.00

00:03:25.360 What the fuck are you talking about? 0.99

00:03:27.640 It's Friday. 1.00

00:03:29.080 I'm going to the club after this.

00:03:31.000 Okay, it's casual Friday.

00:03:31.960 What's the problem?

00:03:32.780 What?

00:03:32.940 Oh, you can't wear leather pants in LA?

00:03:35.420 What?

00:03:35.700 It's after Labor Day, white leather's out?

00:03:37.640 Yeah.

00:03:38.460 I don't know if this is latex pleather or what,

00:03:40.660 but like you can't wear grocery bags after September?

00:03:43.820 You're noisy as hell.

00:03:45.040 Baby, it's...

00:03:46.040 Wait.

00:03:46.160 You try to get gnat sound, trying to get room sound and you're just like

00:03:50.100 Yeah, room tone. 60 seconds of room tone

00:03:52.660 It's like, if you stand close to me, it just sounds like the ocean

00:03:57.100 That's so T. You're right, I'm listening to a shell

00:04:00.620 Yeah, or like a thunderstorm, the quiet storm

00:04:04.220 Oh yeah, those like Ambiance YouTube videos

00:04:07.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah

00:04:12.240 I'm so sorry, audio, I'm so sorry

00:04:13.760 Yeah, run that to me

00:04:15.440 Because what I clearly need is more caffeine.

00:04:19.680 This is you off not one gram of caffeine.

00:04:22.160 Oh, no, baby.

00:04:23.180 It's 130.

00:04:24.420 I've had three cups of coffee already.

00:04:27.040 Oh, trust.

00:04:27.960 And so what I need right now is another.

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00:04:41.760 I love Scott dearly.

00:04:43.400 we have been like admiring each other from afar for a while but I do want to say before I get

00:04:49.600 into asking you some questions I have admired you as a host for a long time I mean as a host

00:04:54.800 obviously I like love watching other people host but the way that you host is so incredible and

00:05:01.300 connective and it's done in a way that I feel like mirrors what my goal is when I interview people

00:05:07.720 which is to have them feel seen yeah and I feel like you are so incredible at that and I want to

00:05:13.200 tell you that before we get we keep getting silly and we lose the ability to be serious for a sec

00:05:17.260 i have to tell you that because i genuinely think you are one of the best hosts in the game right

00:05:22.240 now oh wow and i think it it's very obvious like based off your interviews and how well they go and

00:05:27.400 how people are able to open up to you in a very specific and like earnest way i think you're

00:05:32.720 incredible so i just want to tell you that before we get any sillier no i really appreciate that and

00:05:36.780 now i wish i had not been in full cisco drive well i heard that what do you mean that's how

00:05:42.280 it's supposed to.

00:05:42.840 I know, right?

00:05:44.720 And I will say, too,

00:05:46.060 we're, like,

00:05:46.760 I would say 100 years old

00:05:47.820 compared to a lot of people

00:05:48.680 on the internet right now.

00:05:49.560 So do I have to explain

00:05:50.120 who Cisco is?

00:05:50.560 Yeah, they're not gonna know, bro.

00:05:52.320 They're not gonna know.

00:05:53.420 You know Thong's song.

00:05:54.620 Yes.

00:05:55.180 You know Thong's song.

00:05:56.260 You have to.

00:05:58.960 Girl, I saw a thing recently

00:06:05.460 that this high school

00:06:07.080 had a 2016 throwback spirit day.

00:06:11.180 I hate it here.

00:06:12.280 Oh my god, I'm decrepit, I'm ancient. 0.71

00:06:15.340 I hate it.

00:06:16.640 I was like, in high school?

00:06:17.860 2016 was what?

00:06:19.440 What, you're saying that's vintage?

00:06:21.260 I know.

00:06:22.060 Get me out.

00:06:22.720 I know.

00:06:23.420 Where's the closest bridge?

00:06:24.400 In the 2010s?

00:06:25.460 I want out.

00:06:26.240 You see the Tesla car that can fly?

00:06:28.220 Yeah.

00:06:28.700 Strap me in.

00:06:30.240 I want out.

00:06:31.100 Let's test it with you.

00:06:32.060 Maybe test it.

00:06:32.700 I'm down.

00:06:34.100 Next run.

00:06:35.060 Take care of my family.

00:06:35.980 I'm out. 0.99

00:06:36.940 Because this shit here, this is getting crazy. 0.99

00:06:39.480 I know. 0.99

00:06:39.940 And like, we all knew that we would become uncles and aunties, right?

00:06:45.100 Like we knew when we were making fun of them at the last family gathering,

00:06:47.940 it wouldn't be too long before we too would be a member of that community.

00:06:52.760 I agree.

00:06:53.320 But I'm not rushing it.

00:06:54.440 Slow down.

00:06:55.920 2016.

00:06:56.500 You guys need to relax.

00:06:57.460 Yeah.

00:06:59.020 2016.

00:06:59.800 Can you believe that? 0.57

00:07:00.820 That's also 2016 gave us some good ass music.

00:07:05.460 I'm just going to tell you.

00:07:06.180 So I get it.

00:07:07.140 I agree.

00:07:07.620 But watch yourself.

00:07:08.440 Yeah.

00:07:09.300 Okay.

00:07:09.500 watch yourself tread lightly okay i'm gonna backpedal for a sec i would love to know i know

00:07:15.500 you've been hosting for a long time i would love to know how you got into hosting like was the goal

00:07:20.200 always entertainment was it hosting specifically did you just kind of find yourself there i feel

00:07:24.380 like you have such clearly such a natural magnetism so i think you're gonna end up in this

00:07:28.640 industry regardless i'm just curious is hosting something that you thought of early on or was it

00:07:32.920 something that kind of came to you okay so first drew i have to say thank you for your very very

00:07:38.160 kind words i want to say that i appreciate your like the what the way you use your platform

00:07:45.240 to love on and big up other people but also to like state put a stake or a flag in the ground

00:07:51.420 of like hello this is good this is quality thank you um and this matters pay attention to this

00:07:57.600 i really really appreciate it thank you i always wanted to be doing i'm living my dream yeah you

00:08:05.060 You know what I mean?

00:08:05.900 Like I'm literally waking up in the morning

00:08:08.220 and that is not to say it's without obstacle or challenge

00:08:12.880 or even difficulty or hardship.

00:08:15.240 But I, in the third grade, knew I wanted to do this.

00:08:18.480 My sister booked me on a gig

00:08:22.060 where I played a young Reggie Miller

00:08:23.340 or a young Michael Jordan,

00:08:25.300 depending on, I guess, your exposure to black people.

00:08:29.740 And so playing against a young Larry Bird

00:08:34.920 for the player intro videos for the Pacers.

00:08:37.420 And I got a day out of school and 50 bucks,

00:08:39.240 but I felt like I was on a movie set.

00:08:40.760 Looking back, it was one cameraman and one audio engineer.

00:08:43.840 And I was just like, Steven Spielberg, I've been cast.

00:08:48.340 I've made it.

00:08:49.180 Mama, no more chores for me in the third grade.

00:08:53.120 And my sister- 0.99

00:08:53.960 You tell your mom you can retire.

00:08:54.800 I was like, you know what?

00:08:56.240 You working too hard, baby.

00:08:58.480 I think you know what, I think we done with that.

00:09:00.720 Right.

00:09:01.800 Let's go get on this boat.

00:09:02.740 And she was like, how about you get these dishes

00:09:04.300 at this dishwasher?

00:09:05.140 For real.

00:09:06.940 But as a kid, I knew this is what I wanted to do.

00:09:09.700 I wanted to, and I remember going to the first game

00:09:12.160 where they played the video, the first home game,

00:09:14.360 and the lights go down and the crowd goes crazy.

00:09:17.540 And I didn't even then have this misconception

00:09:20.440 that they were cheering for me,

00:09:22.240 but I did have an idea or an understanding

00:09:24.440 that the work that we as a team put together,

00:09:28.600 people were reacting to.

00:09:30.040 Totally.

00:09:30.880 And we were a part of this bigger spectacle,

00:09:32.460 this bigger show.

00:09:33.480 And I wanted to be able to impact people that way.

00:09:35.880 I wanted to work on teams where that was the intention.

00:09:38.540 And so I pursued this thing from literally the third grade.

00:09:42.360 Look at you.

00:09:43.200 And started as, we had a television show on MTV2

00:09:46.680 when I was in high school called 360 Degrees.

00:09:50.320 It's still my email address to this day.

00:09:53.320 That's so cool.

00:09:54.100 I love that.

00:09:54.620 To this day.

00:09:56.420 And so we were like youth producer, youth directed television show.

00:10:00.080 And like we talked about everything.

00:10:02.320 Very cool.

00:10:02.680 You know what I mean?

00:10:03.080 From like teen homelessness to college to sex to like I remember I did a demonstration.

00:10:08.640 I did a demonstration on 360 on how to properly put on a condom.

00:10:13.100 Whoa.

00:10:13.500 And I also put a condom on some of the most outrageous things to show that it will always fit.

00:10:21.520 Don't let them lie to you.

00:10:22.740 Girl, it don't, baby.

00:10:24.160 Nice try.

00:10:24.900 It don't.

00:10:26.120 I'm wearing it as a stocking right now.

00:10:29.160 That gon' fit in that.

00:10:30.240 Right.

00:10:30.940 Or it ain't goin' in that.

00:10:31.940 Yeah, I could put it on like a compression sock

00:10:33.780 so you can fit in there.

00:10:34.620 Quite literally.

00:10:35.580 Yeah.

00:10:36.240 Three of you.

00:10:37.560 With no problem.

00:10:38.460 Let's all get in together, actually.

00:10:39.460 Matter of fact, let me get in.

00:10:41.560 You do what you was gon' do and I'm just be in it.

00:10:44.220 So we, you know, early on, and I was affirmed in that,

00:10:49.100 right, like we had demonstrated success on this show.

00:10:51.360 I remember I interviewed Erykah Badu in her dressing room after a performance and we sat down on the floor and we talked for an hour.

00:10:58.320 And I remember she grabbed my face and she was like, you protect this.

00:11:02.060 I was maybe a junior in high school.

00:11:04.380 She was like, you protect this.

00:11:05.740 This is not easy or common.

00:11:08.400 Me getting chills.

00:11:09.660 Yeah.

00:11:10.020 Thinking about Erykah Badu doing that to me.

00:11:11.480 Grabbing my face?

00:11:12.460 Yeah.

00:11:12.920 V?

00:11:13.600 Anointed.

00:11:14.200 Erykah Badu?

00:11:16.240 She anointed you.

00:11:17.140 For real.

00:11:17.540 Baby, I feel like for real though.

00:11:19.660 No, for real.

00:11:20.380 And so, like, it has been a crazy, crazy, crazy ride ever since.

00:11:25.600 I mean, I went to, I worked hard news before working in entertainment news.

00:11:29.160 I was going to ask, too, if you've ever dabbled in other areas of, like, broadcast journalism.

00:11:32.980 Like, if you had ever done serious news, too.

00:11:34.820 How was that?

00:11:36.140 I did hard news for a while first.

00:11:39.040 Yeah.

00:11:39.420 And then got the fuck up out of that.

00:11:41.880 I just, I remember my, the last story, the last, like, ongoing story or conflict that I covered in hard news or CBS news.

00:11:50.380 Anchored Channel One News, famously also anchored by Maria Menounos, Anderson Cooper, Lisa Ling. 0.98

00:11:58.520 And so to be on that wall, that mantle of excellence, I was like, oh, shit, this is really something awesome. 0.97

00:12:07.840 And I watched Channel One when I was in school. 0.98

00:12:10.200 So, yeah, I was covering Boko Haram.

00:12:13.240 I don't know if you remember.

00:12:13.940 it was the there was a there was a campaign um uh these girls were stolen from their school

00:12:20.920 stolen from their school kidnapped from their school and were missing for months oh my god

00:12:27.980 and then started to return to uh villages pregnant oh my god and um michelle obama led this campaign

00:12:37.920 called Bring Our Girls Back, and I covered that news story,

00:12:43.420 that occurrence, because it was more than a news story,

00:12:45.500 and this is why I got out of it, because I started,

00:12:48.900 because of the sheer number of things you're covering

00:12:51.960 at a time, and the amount of terrible things

00:12:55.260 that are happening in our world at any given point,

00:12:57.180 in order to move through it with any sort of sanity,

00:13:03.320 you have to sort of sanitize those experiences like remove the humanity from it in order to

00:13:10.040 just do your job to be able to like stomach it and go through it yeah and so that the our job

00:13:15.620 in particular was also we were informing the next generation of leaders um um creatives uh

00:13:22.760 adults and so how we covered those stories are really really important yeah right we took it

00:13:28.100 very very seriously yeah and i'll never forget like there was another school shooting yeah and

00:13:34.620 one of the conversations because it just has to be up top was how many dead yeah and i was like

00:13:42.020 i cannot i cannot do this yeah i cannot do this yeah you'll you won't be able to keep going at

00:13:47.180 the pace yeah i it is not healthy for me yeah and i i think i have done what i needed to do

00:13:53.200 yeah like almost too empathetic right you know to be able to do that kind of reporting i get it

00:13:57.860 And I didn't want to develop the kind of skin

00:14:02.060 that would be required for me in order to do that.

00:14:06.560 And so I started with a class of freshmen

00:14:09.440 as viewers of the show.

00:14:11.420 And then as they graduated in four years as seniors,

00:14:15.500 I graduated from that experience

00:14:16.900 and went directly into Access Hollywood.

00:14:19.380 And then how was that shift when you pivoted?

00:14:21.700 Baby!

00:14:22.380 Access Hollywood?

00:14:23.220 Toodaloo!

00:14:24.300 Oh my God! 0.51

00:14:25.460 But what was so crazy is I walked right out of like Boko Haram and the madness of the news cycle in Hard News and walked directly into Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair reveal.

00:14:42.740 Oh my gosh.

00:14:43.700 Like I showed, I remember being on the carpet for the CFDAs and I showed Kim Kardashian the cover for the first time.

00:14:50.520 Oh my gosh.

00:14:51.140 She was like, oh my God, I've not seen it in person.

00:14:54.300 That's crazy.

00:14:55.080 Like that was my first story for Access Hollywood. 1.00

00:14:58.480 Damn. 0.99

00:14:59.320 My first interview was Taylor Swift for Access Hollywood. 0.99

00:15:01.660 And I wasn't even working for Access Hollywood at the time. 0.98

00:15:03.580 Damn, they say cold plunge, just start getting there. 0.98

00:15:05.320 What you gonna do? 1.00

00:15:06.160 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:07.000 What you gonna do? 0.97

00:15:07.840 Sink or swim, mama? 0.94

00:15:08.680 You gonna sink or swim?

00:15:09.520 Hello?

00:15:10.360 Yeah. 1.00

00:15:11.260 And look at you, swimming girl.

00:15:11.840 You hear me?

00:15:16.740 Swimming.

00:15:17.560 That's crazy.

00:15:18.560 Yeah, it was nuts.

00:15:19.400 And I'm sure the pivot too,

00:15:22.280 and then just kind of being tossed in the deep end,

00:15:23.840 how did you feel?

00:15:24.520 Were you excited?

00:15:25.480 Stuff like that excites me sometimes.

00:15:26.920 Yes.

00:15:27.100 Oh, my God.

00:15:27.440 I was so excited.

00:15:28.220 Yeah.

00:15:28.680 And when I knew it was going well when we were slated for a seven-minute interview with Taylor.

00:15:33.080 We were slated for a seven-minute interview, and by, like, 15 minutes in, no one was in the room, like, and she was, like.

00:15:42.300 Yeah, that's the best.

00:15:43.400 You know what I mean?

00:15:43.680 So, like, she was leaned in.

00:15:44.520 Yeah.

00:15:44.760 You can get someone like Taylor Swift who's been interviewed a billion times.

00:15:49.280 Billions of times.

00:15:50.460 You know, not anymore because, you know, we don't do interviews anymore.

00:15:52.920 But like, you know what I'm saying?

00:15:54.640 Right, right.

00:15:55.160 But like when you get someone like that to lean in

00:15:57.500 because they're having a conversation

00:15:58.660 they've not had before or weren't expecting.

00:16:01.340 Right.

00:16:01.780 I was like, okay, cool, cool, cool.

00:16:02.760 So then we went like another, I think it was 20 minutes.

00:16:05.500 Look at you.

00:16:06.040 Over 20 minutes.

00:16:06.800 And she was like, oh my God, did you get what you needed?

00:16:08.300 Because I was just talking to you.

00:16:09.260 I'm like, I'm so sorry.

00:16:10.480 I was like, girl, yeah, we good.

00:16:12.520 You're like, yeah, honestly, you're really holding me up.

00:16:14.540 So if you can head out, that'd be great. 0.99

00:16:15.680 Yeah, I was like, can you wrap this shit? 0.99

00:16:16.140 Can you talk about me? 0.99

00:16:17.220 Yeah, you're kind of doing a lot of this, mama.

00:16:19.020 I got things to do.

00:16:20.040 If you can give me one of these.

00:16:21.920 I'm sorry, what's your name again?

00:16:23.140 Yeah, I'm really over it.

00:16:24.220 Yeah.

00:16:24.780 Wow.

00:16:25.340 Another album?

00:16:26.800 How does she do it?

00:16:28.360 No, it was wild.

00:16:30.320 That's crazy.

00:16:30.960 I was like, yeah, no, we're good.

00:16:32.440 Can we take this selfie real quick?

00:16:33.860 And she was so accommodating.

00:16:36.460 She was so pleasant, so sweet.

00:16:39.760 Yeah.

00:16:40.080 She sent an email and a voicemail after that to the producer and was like,

00:16:44.620 anytime y'all want me to do something I want to do with him. 0.98

00:16:47.140 You're crazy.

00:16:47.620 anytime you want send him we'll get it done yeah you got that magic about you i love that it was 0.97

00:16:54.320 awesome and it is a superpower it's a skill like it really is and i you know i'm sure you can relate

00:16:59.120 to this too because you've been doing it far longer than me but i i literally have told people

00:17:03.300 before like interviewing like the the questions obviously are important your research is important

00:17:07.140 all of that is important but like 60 of the gig is like personality it's like magnetism it's the

00:17:14.080 ability to get them to like you like it's it is it is quickly because they only have so much time

00:17:19.000 anyone I mean I shouldn't say anyone the perfectly phrased perfectly researched question right can

00:17:25.540 die yes by the connection created in the room yes or with I should say can die without the the the

00:17:33.460 best connection in the room yeah and so I have always felt like I want the the energy to be

00:17:41.500 one of like, oh, this is an interruption

00:17:43.800 of all of the other stuff I've done today.

00:17:46.220 If we're in a junket and they've got 40 interviews

00:17:48.320 they've gotta do in this day,

00:17:50.660 I want when I walk in the room that it feels totally different

00:17:53.120 than anything else that has happened that day.

00:17:55.340 Yeah!

00:17:57.540 You know what I mean?

00:17:58.300 I was gonna ask you too,

00:18:00.400 do you approach interviews differently

00:18:03.020 depending on who it is?

00:18:04.860 Or do you kind of have a set standard of like,

00:18:07.640 this is the kind of energy I like to establish

00:18:09.380 and kind of see where it goes?

00:18:10.760 I'm so curious.

00:18:11.600 What do you think and feel going into interviews?

00:18:13.960 Because you've obviously interviewed so much A-list level talent.

00:18:17.000 Because a lot of people, I think, worry.

00:18:18.480 I'm sure you get questions all the time if you get nervous.

00:18:20.860 I don't know about you, but I never get nervous talking to people

00:18:23.540 only because I see them as people.

00:18:25.560 I don't see them.

00:18:26.880 I don't pedestalize them the way that I think a lot of people do.

00:18:29.940 Oh, baby, I do.

00:18:30.800 I do in the sense of I honor their talents, but I never think they're better than me,

00:18:35.980 if that makes sense.

00:18:36.620 Let Oprah Winfrey sit in this chair. 0.99

00:18:38.420 She better than me. 0.99

00:18:39.300 I say all that unless I talk to Beyoncé and that's different. 1.00

00:18:42.220 Oh my god!

00:18:44.720 Look, I wish I could be, I wish I were evolved enough that I could be like,

00:18:49.640 oh, these people that I love, their work that I followed for years

00:18:52.800 and has been a part of my life, that I wish that I could be like,

00:18:55.940 yeah, it's really no big deal.

00:18:57.520 And I think part of the way that I channeled those nerves,

00:19:00.740 and I don't mean to say that, like, your experience is...

00:19:04.340 No, no, no, I get what you're saying.

00:19:05.740 You know what I'm saying?

00:19:05.920 No, we're, honestly, I think saying the same thing,

00:19:07.920 looking at it from two different sides.

00:19:09.300 Because I think the way you're saying it, too, is like it's like acknowledging that I can be honest.

00:19:14.120 If I'm honest about like how much I do love them, then it kind of takes this weird energy out of the room.

00:19:19.340 Yeah. And it doesn't necessarily have to be that like I need to share with you.

00:19:22.760 Oh, my God, I love you so much.

00:19:24.020 This song that you wrote when I was in middle school, really like it was the soundtrack.

00:19:29.120 I'm not saying that that's what I have to share.

00:19:31.340 No, totally.

00:19:31.860 But certainly, because of that feeling, that history, I do want people to feel like I know what I'm talking about.

00:19:41.700 That too, yes. Totally.

00:19:42.600 I do want people to know that there's a deeper history than me sitting here with these questions.

00:19:47.820 Right. And I think that the even in my like genuine awe of of how people in particular creators, creatives, performers are able to do what they do, because that is like awe inspiring to me.

00:20:07.760 Yeah, totally. There is also an element of like, I want to show up the most myself.

00:20:13.300 Yes. I possibly can. Totally. And for so long, I didn't.

00:20:16.540 because I thought I had to do something else.

00:20:18.640 Yeah, or appear a certain way when you're talking to them.

00:20:22.880 Yeah, I think that's kind of where I was trying to go with it

00:20:26.040 is more so like, I think if I'm so convicted in myself

00:20:29.280 and my abilities, it kind of takes the fear out of it

00:20:31.960 because I don't feel inferior.

00:20:34.460 Now that's real.

00:20:35.600 And that would make me feel like

00:20:37.260 I have to prove something, right?

00:20:38.960 So I don't necessarily feel like I have to prove something

00:20:40.740 but I do want to show it prepared and professional.

00:20:43.700 But I also want to be myself, like you said.

00:20:45.540 I love the that's why I think I love your interview so much because so much of you is put in the

00:20:50.660 interview it's like it's like a genuine conversation and I think that's why celebrities really love you

00:20:56.240 because it's like they they've been interviewed many many times they answer the same questions

00:21:01.280 constantly they say the same things always especially when they're promoting the same

00:21:04.460 project right but when they talk to someone like you they feel like they can have like a conversation

00:21:09.000 and that's like something where you're both talking and you're both kind of feeding into

00:21:12.880 this conversation of like whatever you're talking about whether it's their career or your personal

00:21:16.920 experiences like there's room for all of it yeah and that's why I love your interviews so much yeah

00:21:20.720 I appreciate that because you get that yeah and it's also your approach yeah you know what I mean

00:21:25.520 yeah totally how can I also bring the person watching this into this interaction how can I

00:21:30.460 bring the person who's who's engaging with this on social media into this interaction right how

00:21:36.060 can I make it how can I be so myself that someone watching feels like it's them in the chair yes

00:21:43.420 exactly totally and if it's not them that maybe that Nina Simone said that she believed and I

00:21:49.100 believe that's attributed to Nina Simone that the job of the creative and I'm paraphrasing but the

00:21:53.400 job of the creative is to create in such a way that those who experience your art go in pursuit

00:22:00.660 of a richer, fuller, truer expression of themselves.

00:22:05.140 That the art is so real, it's so true, it's so authentic,

00:22:08.720 that it inspires other people to be like,

00:22:10.420 you know what, you did, I gotta do something.

00:22:14.220 Yeah, yeah.

00:22:15.780 I can't just like this, I gotta.

00:22:18.000 Yeah.

00:22:18.840 Woo.

00:22:20.260 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:22:21.420 You know, just like, you gotta, I gotta do something. 0.94

00:22:24.700 This man is going to kill me.

00:22:26.820 He's like, all of this sound coming from this little- 0.96

00:22:28.660 Believe it or not, he's used to hearing me.

00:22:30.360 So it's all right.

00:22:31.300 I've broken that sound barrier with Dylan many times.

00:22:33.440 Oh my God. 0.98

00:22:34.440 Dylan is like, shut the hell. 0.98

00:22:36.200 Could you bring it down? 0.99

00:22:37.900 Could you bring it down?

00:22:39.440 Before we started, he was like, you want to bring that?

00:22:41.520 I said, you probably want to put that.

00:22:41.940 He's like, yeah, go ahead and move that away from you.

00:22:43.440 Yeah, go ahead and put some distance between you and that mic.

00:22:45.260 Yeah, I'm just trusting me.

00:22:47.120 Trusting me on this.

00:22:47.980 He took the headphones off.

00:22:49.300 He said, don't need that. 1.00

00:22:51.220 He's a poof, I can hear you. 1.00

00:22:52.600 I can hear you. 1.00

00:22:53.000 I don't need you.

00:22:53.300 I don't need it.

00:22:54.460 Just take the mic off.

00:22:56.120 Just turn it off.

00:22:56.500 so speaking of like what was your first interview i mean obviously you started out the gate real

00:23:02.440 strong but like what was the first interview you had where you're like oh my gosh i can't believe

00:23:07.400 it like one that you were like oh my god i can't believe i get to talk to them finally or this is

00:23:11.040 awesome like whether they don't necessarily have to be so many times but just the most what what

00:23:16.200 was okay your first most impactful i'll tell you the one that that really i'll tell you the one

00:23:20.780 that that i've had that feeling a lot but the one that surprised me with like how they showed up in

00:23:25.760 that like really stands out

00:23:27.800 that I haven't talked about before,

00:23:29.800 Eddie Murphy.

00:23:31.340 Interesting.

00:23:32.200 Eddie, because you know,

00:23:32.880 Eddie can be Eddie.

00:23:34.580 Listen to me.

00:23:35.920 Eddie Murphy, of course.

00:23:36.840 You know, Eddie can be a little,

00:23:38.980 you know, tough to interview.

00:23:40.580 Yeah.

00:23:41.020 I've heard that.

00:23:41.980 If you've ever interviewed him,

00:23:43.040 he is not the persona

00:23:44.380 that he is in any of his movies

00:23:46.160 or on SNL.

00:23:47.340 He is almost stoic.

00:23:49.060 Yeah.

00:23:49.640 And you really do have to like,

00:23:52.620 one, you have to show up

00:23:53.740 and you have to know your stuff.

00:23:55.380 Yeah.

00:23:56.260 And you have to almost like cue memories of his

00:24:00.360 because he's also an incredible storyteller

00:24:02.140 and he's got some of the most unreal stories ever.

00:24:05.180 Oh, girl, I can only imagine.

00:24:06.180 Do you know what I'm saying?

00:24:06.900 And so we were, I'll never forget,

00:24:08.640 we had gotten all these like ground rules

00:24:10.580 about one of the movies he was promoting.

00:24:13.900 It must have been Beverly Hills Cop.

00:24:17.580 Oh, okay.

00:24:18.400 Beverly Hills Cop.

00:24:19.060 Yeah.

00:24:19.460 And I just remember seeing the trailer.

00:24:22.400 At that point, we hadn't seen the movie.

00:24:23.480 Yeah.

00:24:23.760 And he was jumping on these rooftops

00:24:28.600 in these really tight jeans a couple weeks ago.

00:24:31.580 It was like, you're currently wearing

00:24:34.000 the OG Beverly Hills Cop jeans.

00:24:37.160 And I was like, I must have said something

00:24:38.960 to the effect of like, bro, I know at some point

00:24:41.480 you were like, can we add another button to these jeans? 0.67

00:24:43.240 Because these tight ass jeans, 0.99

00:24:45.320 I'm over here rocking and rolling. 0.99

00:24:46.900 I'm chaining.

00:24:47.740 Yeah, my God.

00:24:48.580 He was like, nobody.

00:24:50.500 He said, thank you for saying that.

00:24:52.860 He was like, I know I look good in them, but hell. 1.00

00:24:55.680 But damn. 0.99

00:24:56.260 He said, at one point, I was like, I'm not doing no more running. 1.00

00:24:58.720 He said, you got it.

00:25:00.080 You got it.

00:25:00.700 I'm clocked out.

00:25:01.940 I said, you want to get your time cruise on?

00:25:03.780 And there was something in that that like he looked at me and he was like,

00:25:10.300 you're excellent.

00:25:11.420 Yeah.

00:25:11.980 Is the feeling that I got was like you.

00:25:13.940 And so then the junket tried to wrap me.

00:25:17.020 Yeah.

00:25:17.540 And he was like, no, no, we're good.

00:25:19.420 You got another question? 1.00

00:25:20.480 And I was like, shit, do I? 1.00

00:25:22.860 Oh my God, do I? 0.99

00:25:24.920 And then he ended up telling me this incredible story

00:25:28.680 about him introducing Kenan Wayans to Rick James at the club

00:25:39.200 while he was wearing the leather outfit from his,

00:25:42.760 while Kenan was wearing the leather outfit

00:25:45.680 from his stand-up special.

00:25:46.820 And I believe it was the delirious.

00:25:49.620 Yeah, the all red and black one?

00:25:51.480 Yeah.

00:25:51.680 he's wearing it

00:25:53.140 Kenan is wearing

00:25:55.280 Eddie Murphy's

00:25:56.780 it was tight on Eddie

00:25:58.880 he's like Rick James I'm so sorry

00:26:00.200 he ripped through it at the club

00:26:02.300 he ripped through it at the club

00:26:04.400 he told me this story that was one of the most

00:26:06.820 like so Rick James

00:26:09.260 moments

00:26:10.160 like so Rick James moments

00:26:12.080 and I remember getting up to walk out of the room and he was like

00:26:14.440 I had a pleasure talking to you

00:26:15.980 that's so cool

00:26:17.400 and I was like I could just die

00:26:19.780 period

00:26:20.880 Cool. I was like, turns out I need a raise.

00:26:24.220 And also, can I say Party All The Time by Eddie Murphy is one of my favorite songs.

00:26:28.140 Sorry.

00:26:28.720 Like legitimately.

00:26:29.560 He ate down with that one.

00:26:31.160 Every time that song comes on, I feel like.

00:26:32.480 My girl wants to party all the time.

00:26:35.080 I'll do it in the red. 1.00

00:26:36.000 Party all the time.

00:26:37.220 I was like, he needs to get back in the booth.

00:26:38.680 Make more of those.

00:26:39.540 You know what I'm saying?

00:26:40.280 Should have won a Grammy.

00:26:41.240 And he's still hot about it because Lionel Richie won.

00:26:43.660 Really?

00:26:44.380 Lionel Richie won or got to number one instead of Party All The Time that year.

00:26:49.860 That's crazy.

00:26:50.360 on that billboard chart

00:26:52.180 and he was like 1.00

00:26:52.940 what the fuck 0.99

00:26:54.000 that song is so good 1.00

00:26:55.500 it's

00:26:55.820 have you heard

00:26:56.720 what's up

00:26:58.600 what's up

00:26:59.720 what's up

00:27:00.760 with you

00:27:01.720 I don't think so

00:27:02.540 it's Eddie Murphy

00:27:03.460 and Michael Jackson

00:27:04.840 oh no way

00:27:06.020 also

00:27:06.360 the references

00:27:07.600 the leather

00:27:08.820 I was gonna say

00:27:09.960 the red leather

00:27:10.100 cues

00:27:10.820 I was like

00:27:11.460 yes

00:27:12.680 I am

00:27:13.300 they're all running through me right now 0.90

00:27:14.940 it's ridiculous

00:27:15.760 if you have not

00:27:17.260 ever seen that

00:27:18.120 what's up

00:27:19.280 please

00:27:19.880 it's like

00:27:21.000 it's like

00:27:21.760 two people

00:27:22.680 at the height

00:27:23.620 of their fame

00:27:24.640 who just

00:27:25.940 you can't tell them no

00:27:27.280 yeah

00:27:27.840 and so they were like

00:27:28.740 they could just do whatever

00:27:29.400 they were like

00:27:29.980 probably shrooming

00:27:31.380 in the backyard

00:27:33.340 just in there 1.00

00:27:33.960 doing bullshit 0.99

00:27:34.620 and Eddie said 1.00

00:27:35.740 turn the fucking camera on 1.00

00:27:37.360 and Mike said 1.00

00:27:39.420 what's up

00:27:40.540 what's up

00:27:41.860 what's up

00:27:42.760 what an insane story

00:27:44.200 to have too

00:27:44.980 like what an insane

00:27:46.160 story to have

00:27:46.960 and then

00:27:47.440 to have put it out

00:27:48.720 it's like a single

00:27:50.280 what's up

00:27:52.540 well when you're Michael Jackson you could do anything

00:27:54.900 he did yeah that's why I said you could do whatever

00:27:56.860 you want honestly and Eddie is like in the

00:27:58.740 music video with sunglasses on he's just like

00:28:01.140 crazy

00:28:01.680 I said what is

00:28:04.980 this what is this

00:28:06.620 that is crazy thank y'all for putting the home videos on

00:28:08.840 appreciate it

00:28:10.740 before they were PR trained enough 1.00

00:28:12.960 to not do that to not do that shit 0.99

00:28:14.160 because right now there's an influencer right 1.00

00:28:16.860 now like what's up

00:28:17.980 No, no.

00:28:20.340 Documenting their every waking thought.

00:28:21.900 Not the same. 1.00

00:28:22.660 We never used to get that shit. 0.99

00:28:23.900 It's not the same. 1.00

00:28:25.220 You have earned that.

00:28:27.780 I was like, that's actually a good transition

00:28:29.300 because I'm so curious to know your thoughts

00:28:30.640 since you've been, you hosted in broadcast journalism

00:28:32.980 a very traditional way.

00:28:34.040 And then obviously now you have your own show as well too,

00:28:36.140 which we will get to also.

00:28:37.600 But I'm so curious how you've seen the shift

00:28:40.220 in terms of like the industry blending with the internet

00:28:43.340 and like hosting.

00:28:44.200 because I'm sure you've seen plenty of people

00:28:48.300 who are influencers first, they get asked to host things,

00:28:52.000 and they offend celebrities, they say the wrong thing,

00:28:54.260 they do something that is like, I guess would not be,

00:28:59.000 I guess expected of a traditional journalist.

00:29:00.980 Like 101.

00:29:01.820 Yeah, and then you see this discourse about like,

00:29:03.880 this is why we shouldn't have online people on carpets,

00:29:05.900 this is why everyone should be a journalist, all that stuff.

00:29:07.700 And I will say, and I have said this before,

00:29:09.880 I do have a degree in journalism.

00:29:11.480 Hello.

00:29:12.320 I did major in broadcast journalism and I learned how to write.

00:29:15.620 I have a whole like real key though.

00:29:18.580 Key though.

00:29:19.140 Learned how to write.

00:29:19.820 Yeah.

00:29:21.720 I mean, 1.00

00:29:22.280 cause we got motherfuckers who got jobs. 1.00

00:29:23.560 Can you read? 1.00

00:29:24.120 That's what I'm saying.

00:29:25.060 That's why,

00:29:25.440 yeah.

00:29:25.560 The literacy crisis is up mama.

00:29:28.020 And I'm just saying,

00:29:29.360 I'm just saying it.

00:29:34.020 We,

00:29:34.360 it has to be said.

00:29:35.480 I'm just saying we got to talk about it.

00:29:37.400 Okay.

00:29:38.280 Y'all gotta,

00:29:38.860 y'all gotta know how to read.

00:29:39.940 You gotta start reading again.

00:29:41.020 Okay.

00:29:41.240 let's bring reading back let's bring who thought we'd ever be at a time where we would say that

00:29:47.000 please bring reading please learn how to read if you're gonna have a job please please thank you

00:29:53.520 just read the words that are there right actually yeah i'm so curious to know your thoughts on like

00:29:59.460 on that kind of discourse that wrote that kind of um understanding of it because what i've said

00:30:04.360 before when i've been asked about it is like it really you can have all the training in the world

00:30:08.440 and you could still offend someone.

00:30:09.900 So that is possible that will happen.

00:30:12.600 Oh, it's happened to me.

00:30:13.400 Yeah.

00:30:14.120 And I didn't even do it.

00:30:15.520 Right.

00:30:15.960 Like it was a headline that was written. 1.00

00:30:17.800 Oh, shit. 1.00

00:30:21.900 Ooh, caught that one. 1.00

00:30:24.240 I also have a degree.

00:30:26.420 And know how to read.

00:30:29.000 Because the offense is certainly rarely intentional.

00:30:34.160 Yeah.

00:30:34.500 Right?

00:30:34.920 I agree.

00:30:35.240 And so there are things that you can control.

00:30:36.620 things you but all experience is what teaches you a lot of that exactly and and the thing about

00:30:43.280 journalists when you're trained is you have opportunities with smaller audiences or no

00:30:49.080 audiences to try things right fail exactly or to learn hard lessons uh to not repeat right when you

00:30:57.220 throw an influencer into the job that that typically either a trained host yeah or journalist

00:31:04.640 would typically have

00:31:05.600 they're learning

00:31:06.580 those lessons

00:31:07.300 on the broadcast

00:31:08.800 yes

00:31:09.480 we all gotta learn

00:31:10.660 them baby

00:31:11.020 yeah that's true

00:31:11.820 you just learned

00:31:12.300 yours live

00:31:12.880 baby

00:31:13.240 and with a huge

00:31:14.520 and I hope the fee

00:31:15.600 was worth it

00:31:16.380 I hope the fee

00:31:18.900 was worth it 1.00

00:31:19.760 shit girl 1.00

00:31:20.140 don't even get me started 0.99

00:31:21.080 I hope the exclusivity

00:31:22.620 ran quick

00:31:24.000 listen

00:31:24.360 yeah 0.83

00:31:24.640 cause baby 1.00

00:31:25.860 the exposure

00:31:26.740 more than anything 0.99

00:31:27.660 that damn exposure 0.99

00:31:29.060 yeah well 1.00

00:31:29.600 and that's also why

00:31:30.360 don't pay me 0.89

00:31:30.820 in no damn exposure 0.79

00:31:31.520 me too 0.62

00:31:32.560 don't pay me 0.85

00:31:33.320 in no damn exposure

00:31:34.160 oh we're gonna we're gonna post it and we're gonna collab yeah okay well that's great we can 0.99

00:31:39.460 we can do that too i can't eat a collab i can't pay a mortgage with a damn collab shit i said they 0.99

00:31:45.740 don't take that they don't accept that you matter of fact you call the bank and you tell them that 1.00

00:31:50.040 and see what they tell you they accept and then you pay me in what they accept yeah that damn 0.99

00:31:53.680 experience shit they're like oh it's just you get to be there okay and i could also be at home 0.99

00:31:58.820 Baby, have you seen my house? 1.00

00:32:00.840 I love my house.

00:32:01.960 I could be at home.

00:32:02.980 Baby, I could be digging in my nose.

00:32:04.700 Yeah.

00:32:05.700 And it would be worth more than this collab.

00:32:10.340 Right.

00:32:11.940 Collab.

00:32:12.880 Collab.

00:32:13.360 You don't even have a YouTube page.

00:32:16.000 What are we collabing on?

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00:34:31.000 where I can no longer see the surface of my desk,

00:34:33.640 huge win, huge.

00:34:35.220 And there's something about cracking open

00:34:37.020 an ice cold, perfectly fizzy Coca-Cola

00:34:39.740 after finally doing the thing that just hits.

00:34:42.580 It's crisp, refreshing, and feels like my own little reward.

00:34:46.180 So this is me officially giving you permission

00:34:48.800 to celebrate the small stuff.

00:34:50.460 You folded the laundry,

00:34:51.740 you made the appointment you've been putting off,

00:34:53.800 You finally did the annoying little task

00:34:56.180 that has been haunting your to-do list all week.

00:34:58.860 Congratulations, babe.

00:35:00.400 Enjoy your win.

00:35:02.000 Actually, I just finished another podcast shoot day,

00:35:05.420 so I think that counts too.

00:35:08.000 Okay, enjoy Coca-Cola.

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00:36:23.620 I really do think too that like,

00:36:25.480 when that discourse has come up,

00:36:26.820 I've talked about how like,

00:36:28.520 it is something that you learn on the job, right?

00:36:31.120 But I've also been like,

00:36:32.160 this is also something I've been saying

00:36:34.080 for a long time too, hosting is a skill.

00:36:36.440 It is, it is, it is a skill.

00:36:38.920 It is something that you learn over time.

00:36:40.960 Exactly.

00:36:41.800 Through repetition, and feedback, right?

00:36:46.800 back yes right and so like anything else you learn like anything else you develop it does take time

00:36:52.360 yeah I think that the the to answer your question from earlier I think that the industry is

00:36:57.640 constricting in so many ways yeah while pretending to be expanding yeah right and so it's like the

00:37:05.420 things that people used to take a chance on now have to have an immediate return right and had

00:37:11.080 and they have to have a return in such a way that's like otherwise this department goes away

00:37:15.640 yeah right like these people no longer have a job or they don't get the budgets they used to get

00:37:19.200 and so they try to bank on things that they feel like are sure things or sure bets yeah because

00:37:24.940 the numbers are there right the follower count is there you're not even looking at engagement

00:37:30.280 because baby don't even get me on that yeah don't even get me started on that i have to put the ski

00:37:33.840 mask back on because like it's it's we're in this situation where everyone is looking for a win

00:37:40.620 yeah um one of the the members of netflix uh development one of the development executives

00:37:46.860 over there said baby you need a hit yeah you've got to have a hit if you don't like what are we

00:37:51.820 doing if there's not a hit yeah and so people try to to to use um individuals who have hits in other

00:37:58.940 places like oh that must translate exactly that's that that's my exact point because i'm saying just

00:38:03.840 just because someone is comfortable talking to their phone yes does not mean that they will do

00:38:09.220 well in this environment hello and something else i i for the people in the bat yeah like and it's

00:38:13.820 it doesn't in in your i feel like there's like this complete misconception on hosting and how

00:38:18.680 it feels to be on carpets and you know this too when you do get talent you got about two minutes

00:38:23.680 max literally i was sitting in your green room beautiful green room by the way also the lights

00:38:28.860 the the snacks i said drew got budget oh my god money i'm like yeah look at these costumes

00:38:36.000 They're paying the bills.

00:38:39.700 Believe it or not, you know, this right here is what's putting food in that green room.

00:38:44.120 Thank you, Chips.

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00:38:49.960 I think that, you know, there's this idea that, like, you went over there, you're going to win over here, and it's going to be all good.

00:38:58.340 Those carpets are madness.

00:39:00.740 They are. 0.99

00:39:01.160 They're insane.

00:39:01.580 I was just like, I was just talking to a producer and very good friend of mine who's now an agent.

00:39:05.540 And she was like, hey, I'm going to be bringing a client to you.

00:39:07.640 Oh, when is this?

00:39:08.840 When is this?

00:39:09.520 This comes out next week.

00:39:11.280 So this was it.

00:39:12.620 So I just did the Victoria's Secret fashion show.

00:39:14.760 Yes.

00:39:15.260 And unreal.

00:39:17.980 Killer. 0.63

00:39:18.460 They could not have picked a better person, by the way.

00:39:20.200 You know what?

00:39:20.880 I'm going to stand on that.

00:39:21.740 Yeah.

00:39:22.400 I'm going to stand on that.

00:39:23.700 I'm going to stand on that.

00:39:24.020 I don't even need to see the evidence to know that's true.

00:39:26.380 Baby!

00:39:27.980 And there's like a really cool story that like ties into this.

00:39:30.820 Very cool.

00:39:31.340 decade in the making it's unreal but like i was talking to a friend who was bringing one of her

00:39:35.460 clients by and she was like she sends me this like i mean maybe six or seven questions yeah she's

00:39:39.980 like you i know you're gonna it's gonna be great here's some questions here's some ideas blah blah

00:39:42.920 and i was like we got two minutes what's the question yeah yeah i got one what's the one and

00:39:48.420 she was like oh my god this is why i love you because we need to get right to the thing and i

00:39:51.080 was like yeah let's get right to the thing right we don't have time for nothing else right and

00:39:54.100 it's never like calm cool or fun no the carpets no it's always hot girl i can't

00:40:01.120 It's always hot, it's always too close,

00:40:04.500 with like strangers, elbows.

00:40:06.920 The Oscars is one of the most difficult carpets.

00:40:11.240 I agree, and also hottest, there is never any air,

00:40:15.080 and every year they're like, God, it's so hot in here.

00:40:16.800 It's almost like you guys do this every year.

00:40:19.240 It's almost like you do it every year

00:40:20.240 and you still don't know.

00:40:21.080 Is this a different team?

00:40:22.560 Have you never seen the Oscars before? 0.99

00:40:25.020 And it's in the same spot every fucking year. 0.99

00:40:27.460 And they're always like, well, 0.98

00:40:28.280 I guess we can't put air in here.

00:40:31.120 please be here the night before

00:40:33.000 so you can be on the carpet

00:40:35.640 no for real

00:40:36.620 well a little shade to the Oscars

00:40:39.620 they'll be fine it's okay

00:40:41.460 I'm just saying give us some AC

00:40:43.340 that's the hashtag we need

00:40:45.640 less flowers more AC

00:40:47.080 less flowers I know you spend crazy money on those flowers

00:40:50.020 more AC

00:40:51.140 Oscars so AC is what we should be saying

00:40:53.900 Oscars so cool

00:40:54.980 Oscars so chilly

00:40:57.080 I would love to say that

00:40:58.720 Yeah. So, you know, these carpets are the people I all the time I hear. Oh, my God, I want to do what you do. Yeah. Or, you know, I want to be a red carpet host. And it's like, I don't know if that's really what you want to do. I'm not going to yuck your yum. But I will say, if that's something that you want to be doing, you should be doing some element of that now.

00:41:20.120 Yeah. So like what what kind of carpet, what kind of carpet coverage could you be creating, promoting or not creating, developing, using what's already happening if you can't be on a carpet.

00:41:30.300 Right. So that you're a part of those experiences. You're part of that content. Cutting your teeth. Yeah. And getting well. And that's why that's why, like, I'm glad you you're like with me on the same the same kind of wavelength of like talking in front of a camera, talking to a camera by yourself is one thing.

00:41:43.600 Being able to engage someone else who first of all is really fucking famous also has been heard has heard every question

00:41:50.800 You could possibly think of every single and also might be irritated when they get to you very likely ready to go 0.99

00:41:55.960 Because you know why it's hot as fuck. Yeah 0.99

00:41:58.660 It's hot as fuck and this is my 30th interview. Oh my god, and what did you say your name was again? 0.98

00:42:05.440 Well, and that's another reason why did you just ask me if I had to audition the sounds this jacket

00:42:13.600 is sending me

00:42:15.280 the obscene sounds

00:42:16.200 your jacket is making

00:42:17.320 my god

00:42:17.660 I love it

00:42:18.860 me too

00:42:19.760 I love it

00:42:20.280 I'm enjoying it

00:42:20.880 it's just like

00:42:21.460 to have that like

00:42:22.880 okay bet

00:42:24.100 yeah

00:42:24.580 I hear you

00:42:25.160 you're so me

00:42:25.980 that's why I was like

00:42:26.580 I knew you would get me on that

00:42:27.920 because I almost feel like

00:42:29.100 I'm like well I guess we'll see

00:42:30.120 won't we

00:42:30.440 I guess we'll see

00:42:31.000 won't we

00:42:31.400 it's because you're just like me

00:42:32.320 where I'm like it's really hard

00:42:33.220 to not love me

00:42:33.920 baby

00:42:34.720 it's hard

00:42:35.080 when she say

00:42:35.760 I make it so easy

00:42:37.260 how could you not

00:42:39.540 how could you not love me

00:42:40.840 listen

00:42:41.080 yeah

00:42:41.940 and I know that's why

00:42:42.900 I know that's part of your magnetism too.

00:42:44.800 And that's also something I've told people,

00:42:46.720 that's like the only part that I think is untouchable

00:42:49.520 and is specific to the host, right?

00:42:51.560 Having that kind of magnetism

00:42:53.180 because that's just inlaid in them

00:42:54.600 and that's not something you can control.

00:42:56.420 But I agree with your point on like,

00:42:58.520 there is like a level of skill you have to develop

00:43:01.600 to get to those kinds of carpets

00:43:03.460 because not for nothing, sometimes I'm like,

00:43:05.900 well, when people are hypercritical

00:43:07.660 of influencers on carpets, I understand it,

00:43:10.580 like to an extent.

00:43:11.300 and then there's also the other half of it which is like maybe it's not influencers maybe it's who

00:43:15.820 they're picking like maybe maybe they should be picking people who regularly host who do things

00:43:20.220 quite frequently where they're with other talent hello but i also think i'm like or are interested

00:43:24.700 exactly the other the other half of that too is like they just wanted to be there so they went

00:43:29.520 not necessarily because they want to host they just wanted to go to the event hello and award 0.97

00:43:32.900 season is fucking hard like that is a marathon girl yeah it ain't for you better drink your 0.93

00:43:39.920 juice oh my god the way i'm just trying to stay alive i literally do you hear me when i did actor 0.98

00:43:44.740 awards last year one of the questions i asked was so this is like second to last award show of the

00:43:50.620 season like if you're not counting emmys obviously because they just count up to oscars and then

00:43:53.940 emmys they have more break between what the hell yeah i'm like it's the emmy season for the year

00:43:58.200 yeah i was like how does it feel i was like is it feeling like you know my nipples are bleeding

00:44:02.760 and this is my last lap on the marathon or are we finishing strong are we pacing strong yeah and

00:44:08.520 And they're always like, God, you know, I'm feeling good.

00:44:10.180 I'm feeling good, exhausted.

00:44:11.920 And it's like one of those where I feel like

00:44:14.080 if you have enough experience, you can sense energies better.

00:44:18.140 And you have a shared experience.

00:44:19.740 Exactly.

00:44:20.580 It's not so like, oh my God, the spectacle of this.

00:44:23.340 Isn't this great?

00:44:24.180 Exactly. 1.00

00:44:25.000 And it's like, no, bitch, I'm at work. 0.99

00:44:27.460 They're like, I can't breathe in this dress. 1.00

00:44:29.060 Right.

00:44:29.900 I'm trying to figure out how I can take these shoes off.

00:44:31.560 Right. 0.99

00:44:32.560 My dog shit in the car on the way here. 1.00

00:44:35.160 And your breath stinks. 1.00

00:44:36.640 No, I'm not having a great time. 0.95

00:44:38.800 We need to address stinky breath in this industry.

00:44:43.060 It is an unspoken issue.

00:44:47.200 But it is a prevalent issue.

00:44:48.000 We do not cover enough. 0.99

00:44:49.220 How many times have you been confronted with shit like that 0.99

00:44:51.620 from the most famous people in the world? 0.99

00:44:53.500 Sometimes I'm like.

00:44:54.980 That's a ooh.

00:44:57.820 Can I tell you something? 1.00

00:44:59.600 Oh God, fuck it. 1.00

00:45:00.580 You know what? 1.00

00:45:01.420 This is my life.

00:45:02.800 I was interviewing .

00:45:04.840 on a carpet and

00:45:07.280 love him.

00:45:09.220 Take that back. Like him a lot.

00:45:12.420 I don't

00:45:13.040 know that man. I don't love him. That's crazy.

00:45:15.640 I don't. Love him is nuts.

00:45:18.120 See what happens when you get

00:45:19.180 in the red later? I love him.

00:45:21.480 I don't love that man.

00:45:23.180 That's crazy. Perfect. I've

00:45:25.040 met him a handful of times. Got you, got you.

00:45:26.960 And the second time,

00:45:29.140 baby.

00:45:31.080 You know, he's taller than me.

00:45:32.560 And this is a real close carpet.

00:45:35.360 And what I mean by close is that the crews are close,

00:45:39.120 which means the stops are close,

00:45:40.300 which means I can't back him up enough

00:45:43.380 that I don't have to look up at him like this.

00:45:44.880 So we're talking like this.

00:45:46.060 I hate when it's like that, yeah, it's awful.

00:45:48.700 And I don't know if you know this about ,

00:45:52.320 but he gets very excited sometimes about things.

00:45:55.320 And this was a really exciting thing.

00:45:56.600 He had a huge role in this movie,

00:45:58.180 and I was excited for him, with him.

00:46:01.620 And his first response, the mouth got a little juicy.

00:46:09.300 And he went to answer the question

00:46:11.900 and I saw the little bead of spit leave his mouth

00:46:17.740 and land on my cheek.

00:46:22.300 And I saw him see me, see it, see on my skin.

00:46:26.640 I saw it in real time.

00:46:28.720 I saw him-

00:46:29.720 The real time exchange.

00:46:30.780 See me, see it, see my skin, right?

00:46:35.340 That was the order.

00:46:37.620 And before, there's, okay.

00:46:41.280 I had to calm down.

00:46:42.120 I was like, I had to take a breath.

00:46:43.760 You're on my heart so I could-

00:46:44.740 My racing.

00:46:46.820 Is that Kevin?

00:46:47.660 As I'm reliving.

00:46:48.500 Reliving trauma.

00:46:51.200 He very clearly was like, I just spit on this man's face.

00:46:56.320 What do I do?

00:46:57.880 But I didn't notice that in the,

00:46:59.540 this is, after watching the video back.

00:47:01.460 Yeah, yeah.

00:47:02.380 In the moment, I went, ugh.

00:47:07.260 You're so mean.

00:47:08.880 I'm sorry.

00:47:10.360 I'm sorry that you spit on me. 1.00

00:47:14.560 Alexa, play only human.

00:47:16.440 I can't do this.

00:47:17.420 I cannot do this.

00:47:18.420 I'm sorry, I'm also a human.

00:47:20.560 I'm sorry. 1.00

00:47:21.400 Alexa, play Hot Toa. 1.00

00:47:23.860 Cause that's what it felt like. 0.86

00:47:25.780 I said, oh my god.

00:47:27.800 You said, oh.

00:47:28.740 I said, he said, I'm so sorry.

00:47:31.540 I said, it's okay.

00:47:33.900 Let's get back.

00:47:34.820 No, no, no.

00:47:35.860 I had to, I had to. 0.92

00:47:40.620 Girl.

00:47:41.220 Take it from the excitement.

00:47:42.340 Go ahead.

00:47:42.740 And then I was like, so what else would you want people to know?

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00:48:27.620 Yeah, right!

00:48:28.740 Umbrella, please.

00:48:30.840 And he apologized for it profusely from afar.

00:48:36.180 And it was like one of those moments where-

00:48:39.600 No amount of training in the world could prepare you for.

00:48:42.760 Baby, if we were live,

00:48:45.300 it would have been a conversation with a producer like Scott.

00:48:48.100 I'm like, he's big.

00:48:49.980 What do you want me to do?

00:48:50.820 What do you want from me?

00:48:52.360 What do you want from me?

00:48:54.680 You know what I'm saying?

00:48:56.240 The latex really, I'm channeling all of it.

00:48:58.680 You are, it's making you a little weird.

00:49:00.520 The latex is getting you weird.

00:49:01.680 It is getting me a little, but I'm into it.

00:49:03.340 But in a fun way.

00:49:04.180 Do you hear me?

00:49:05.020 Like Halloween, you know?

00:49:06.300 I look up to you as an interviewer a lot

00:49:08.200 because I feel like you have mastered the ability

00:49:11.320 to interject your personality into your interviewing,

00:49:14.980 into your hosting.

00:49:16.460 I would love to know about the show.

00:49:17.660 Tell me about the show.

00:49:18.660 I'd love to know the inception of it.

00:49:20.040 Like what made you want to put it in the backyard?

00:49:22.240 What made you want to do it at your house?

00:49:24.680 I'd love to know.

00:49:25.680 Um, first, Houseguest started as like a place I wanted to practice, right?

00:49:32.780 So like I'm looking at, you know, 10,000 hours as, you know, famously kind of marked mastery, right?

00:49:41.460 Marks mastery.

00:49:42.400 And so I was like, okay, how do I get my hours up?

00:49:43.980 I want to be a late night host, right?

00:49:45.980 Period.

00:49:46.540 Oh my God, I got chills.

00:49:48.540 I'm going to manifest that for you.

00:49:50.120 When I tell you everything comes true when people say it in those chairs, you're going to be the next host of late night.

00:49:55.360 oh my god Scott I got chills

00:49:57.600 Oprah and I are such good friends

00:49:59.680 I

00:50:00.800 I

00:50:02.000 boat

00:50:04.080 yes yes yes

00:50:05.360 I am a

00:50:07.160 multi

00:50:09.680 millionaire I don't want to be a billionaire

00:50:11.780 I don't want it

00:50:12.920 lying mostly

00:50:15.480 but I don't want it

00:50:16.960 you also give more

00:50:19.400 so when I make more I give more

00:50:21.500 and I know you do too

00:50:22.580 you'll never get there anyways it's okay

00:50:24.980 I'm just like

00:50:25.520 at this point

00:50:26.320 I'm saying billionaire

00:50:28.320 it's evil

00:50:28.980 that's why

00:50:29.740 and also like

00:50:30.240 I don't

00:50:30.560 right

00:50:30.880 you know what I'm saying

00:50:31.720 but like multi multi millionaire

00:50:33.300 yes yes

00:50:33.940 generational wealth

00:50:35.160 yes

00:50:35.740 yes

00:50:36.040 so I'm just

00:50:37.260 you know

00:50:38.180 manifesting

00:50:38.680 manifesting

00:50:39.240 perfect

00:50:39.860 oh my god

00:50:41.040 I literally got chills

00:50:42.140 like imagining you

00:50:43.120 as the new host of late night

00:50:43.900 you would be

00:50:45.300 incredible

00:50:46.300 so here's the thing

00:50:47.480 oh my god

00:50:48.060 that's so crazy

00:50:48.800 about what I'm about

00:50:49.920 this is about to be

00:50:50.560 really crazy

00:50:50.940 am I emotional

00:50:54.460 Oh, that's so sweet.

00:50:57.400 We created this show because I wanted to get my hours up.

00:51:00.240 I wanted to be able to demonstrate some success and proficiency in a late night format.

00:51:06.540 And so we tricked the internet with like a daytime looking show that was very nighttime in content.

00:51:14.160 Totally.

00:51:14.620 And so it was like, okay.

00:51:15.640 And we did it at the house because they can't tell me no.

00:51:19.700 Oh, sorry.

00:51:20.500 Studio's booked.

00:51:21.200 What do you mean it's booked?

00:51:21.800 It's my kitchen.

00:51:22.420 Yeah, period.

00:51:23.760 Who booked it?

00:51:26.240 Who gonna check me, boo?

00:51:27.300 Right.

00:51:27.840 You know what I mean?

00:51:28.380 For real.

00:51:28.860 Spring, summer.

00:51:29.340 So it was like, how can we create our automatic yes?

00:51:34.900 How can we create a win for ourselves?

00:51:36.720 And initially, it was supposed to be an opportunity for me to practice in relative private, right?

00:51:43.780 We'd be able to garner a small audience and be able to try things and fail basically early on in my career.

00:51:51.680 like restart that

00:51:52.760 for late night

00:51:53.400 and the first episode

00:51:54.780 went viral

00:51:55.660 Haley Bieber

00:51:56.820 reaching out

00:51:57.360 and being like 0.99

00:51:57.900 this is the funniest shit 0.99

00:51:59.080 I have ever 0.99

00:51:59.600 this is hilarious

00:52:00.660 her and Erwan

00:52:02.480 going back and forth

00:52:03.240 over the smoothie

00:52:03.860 I was like

00:52:04.360 what are we

00:52:05.360 am I an influencer

00:52:06.940 right

00:52:07.480 like have we influenced

00:52:09.020 have we influenced

00:52:10.240 industry

00:52:12.520 right

00:52:13.280 so

00:52:13.840 it was like

00:52:15.260 an opportunity

00:52:16.360 for us to own

00:52:17.640 a win

00:52:18.640 for ourselves

00:52:19.300 yeah

00:52:19.680 and the reason

00:52:21.340 why i got emotional a moment ago is because i've never said this before but like i wanted to be

00:52:27.900 a late night host yeah and i am yes you are and so like when you realize that you're like for real

00:52:37.580 you're living your dream yeah and that your words have power that your actions are met with a

00:52:47.220 universe and energy that is conspiring or or interested in your highest good yeah your success

00:52:56.200 yeah like totally that's a wild wild thing to it is absolutely i also want to commend you too for

00:53:05.080 you saying you wanted to clock more hours like you as someone who had been working consistently at a

00:53:10.960 high level of interviewing and you're still sharpening your saw like you're still staying

00:53:16.080 you know like keen on like what can how can I be better how can I you know expand how can I evolve

00:53:22.260 or even just add more to your multi-hyphenate like already like you're just adding another

00:53:26.680 is the is the idea yeah when when someone is when someone is considering me for a job or

00:53:31.660 considering me for anything I want when my name comes up they're like yep right what I really

00:53:38.480 want is for them to creating to for them to be creating with me right in mind yes with me but

00:53:44.340 certainly that if that's not the case when my name comes up they're like yeah yeah in fact that the

00:53:49.640 the the biggest hurdle might be can we afford them yeah period and i guess we'll see and we'll

00:53:57.140 send the offer what's your budget yeah let's talk uh um uh negotiation 101 what's your budget

00:54:05.580 what do you mean what my rate card is i don't have a rate card what's your budget amen amen

00:54:10.360 You know what's funny? I do want to, well, I want to go back to Houseguest because I would love to know you've had some incredible interviews. And when me and Scott actually did a YouTube panel together the other day, and I was commending you on your Jill Scott interview because I thought it was just unbelievable and incredible and moving. And I love to see when, especially when hosts can connect, but also when they can connect on such a personal level.

00:54:34.200 and when you were talking about using one of her songs as a monologue I was moved to tears it was

00:54:39.080 so beautiful that's like one of my favorite parts of interviewing is getting to connect on that kind

00:54:43.140 of level yeah and then you get to see these people that people have revered and loved from afar like

00:54:48.860 for so many years you get to see them in a completely different light and you get to see

00:54:53.380 them in a way that nobody has ever seen them before and you brought that gift I think that's

00:54:57.400 so incredible and amazing so I would love to know you've had so many huge names on house guests

00:55:02.520 obviously and you've had these really impactful conversations but i'm curious who's been like one

00:55:07.080 of the coolest ones you've had i'm sure they're all the same level of cool no okay well perfect

00:55:14.020 i would love to know the same level of cool which one has been your most impactful because like the

00:55:18.060 you know there are different things that come up right like one is like super like one is super

00:55:21.780 fun another is like incredibly deep another is like oh that was all just like that is really

00:55:28.820 cool for the show that they came here that they wanted to do our show it's really a good look for

00:55:33.800 us totally regardless of what we talked about yeah i have had first thank you because and i

00:55:40.520 want to acknowledge that because the jill scott interview for me i worried when we finished it

00:55:47.360 was it too specific oh like to my to my experience like were people really going to rock with the

00:55:54.920 idea of like oh Scott is really moved by this woman and and they have seemed to connect in a

00:56:02.200 really really impactful way but will that translate to something meaningful to people watching yeah

00:56:08.000 and the thing that I got to to witness incredibly yeah was like when you wrong you wrong because

00:56:17.340 people the way that people stop and share with me either I didn't one of the things that was

00:56:22.580 someone said to me um not too long ago was it he watching that interview healed something in me

00:56:27.500 that i didn't even know yeah was was hurt absolutely like it woke up something in me

00:56:34.200 it it soothed something in me that i had become unaware of how to address right and now i'm

00:56:40.460 creating in another way we're living in another way and like that was really something special

00:56:44.900 yeah um truly truly truly i will say kamala harris coming to the house in your house for the first

00:56:52.420 the first interview

00:56:54.180 for her book

00:56:54.900 we didn't roll out first

00:56:56.740 because they had

00:56:58.540 some other commitments

00:56:59.440 but we were the first

00:57:00.540 conversation she had

00:57:01.440 about the book

00:57:02.020 crazy

00:57:02.720 and when she got 0.79

00:57:04.120 to the house

00:57:04.560 she was like

00:57:05.200 very aware of the show

00:57:06.800 like where is Earl

00:57:07.880 I was like 0.99

00:57:08.460 how the fuck 0.99

00:57:08.900 do you know about Earl 1.00

00:57:09.440 isn't that crazy

00:57:10.320 when they bring up

00:57:11.640 things that would

00:57:12.460 imply they've been

00:57:13.900 watching you

00:57:14.660 I said what

00:57:15.600 don't be watching me

00:57:16.660 do things

00:57:17.120 Kamala Harris

00:57:17.820 I said don't you

00:57:18.640 got something else to do

00:57:19.200 don't you got something

00:57:20.480 else to do

00:57:20.820 please don't watch me

00:57:21.920 live life Kamala Harris, I can't have you do that.

00:57:23.940 Please don't do that.

00:57:24.780 Where is the chicken?

00:57:25.620 Let me go get the chicken for him right now.

00:57:27.640 Meanwhile, bought a whole pizza oven

00:57:29.460 to make an anchovy pizza.

00:57:31.620 Period. 1.00

00:57:32.460 Also, don't do that shit. 1.00

00:57:34.940 I tried the umami, umami. 1.00

00:57:38.600 Yeah.

00:57:41.940 I tried, I tried, and if you eat it,

00:57:44.480 you gotta eat it hot, you gotta eat it right then.

00:57:46.160 That's not what you can eat.

00:57:47.160 Otherwise, yuck.

00:57:48.940 Yuck.

00:57:49.760 Yuck.

00:57:50.600 No way.

00:57:52.360 But no, that was unreal.

00:57:54.080 Like Secret Service, this is also the same week

00:57:55.800 that the president ended their funding for Secret Service.

00:58:01.720 And so she had private Secret Service

00:58:03.580 and they came to our house and like did the security sweep.

00:58:08.800 We're like, you need a hedge right here

00:58:10.120 because you need something right here

00:58:10.980 because this is a clear line of sight from another property

00:58:14.740 and that ain't gonna work.

00:58:16.100 And I was like, well, you got another shrub budget?

00:58:18.240 let me know you're gonna have to have somebody stand right there then huh

00:58:22.880 because we listen we we our budgets were cut too yeah you know what i mean and so literally

00:58:28.440 they had someone stand there that's crazy he was like cool bet i was like bet also uh there's a

00:58:34.620 how many secret service gonna be here yeah he's like he just appears behind you huh right he was

00:58:40.340 like i'm not telling you that i was like that's the hottest thing anyone has ever said 0.99

00:58:43.060 i'm not telling you that you being gay and annoying 0.99

00:58:47.200 I was like 1.00

00:58:50.160 don't

00:58:51.920 then don't

00:58:53.660 lock me up

00:58:55.520 I've committed a crime

00:59:00.800 I don't know if that's you

00:59:01.680 let me know

00:59:03.840 maybe after the interview

00:59:05.220 speaking of you being annoying

00:59:08.440 I do have some fun facts

00:59:11.000 about you

00:59:11.640 let's see if they're true

00:59:14.120 you'll let me know if they're fun

00:59:15.740 and then I always say this to every guest that

00:59:17.880 if you tell me they're not fun, then Amanda 0.99

00:59:19.880 gets a strike against her and she'll get fired. 1.00

00:59:21.620 How many strikes does she have? She's not even here. 1.00

00:59:23.840 Right now, I think she has one.

00:59:25.660 As far as I know. Let's run that up.

00:59:27.860 I'm like, and me just making up numbers, probably.

00:59:30.340 She did send me more fun facts

00:59:31.840 because she said you had mentioned a few

00:59:33.840 of them already. So here's, oh, one

00:59:35.860 of them is that you are in your high school hall of fame.

00:59:38.920 Yeah, that's true.

00:59:41.340 That's cool.

00:59:42.000 I didn't know your high school has a hall of fame.

00:59:44.140 Baby, and I'm in it.

00:59:45.740 I said, good for me.

00:59:48.600 There is a wall or something at my high school,

00:59:51.240 if I can remember correctly,

00:59:52.100 where they put really famous alum.

00:59:55.960 I wonder why they haven't put me on there.

00:59:58.560 Maybe they put you on there

01:00:00.300 and they just haven't told you yet.

01:00:01.980 It's a surprise for me.

01:00:03.020 Yeah, you gotta go back.

01:00:04.580 Have you been back?

01:00:05.660 No, I haven't.

01:00:06.500 Okay, you gotta go back.

01:00:07.520 You think?

01:00:08.360 No, you do have to go back.

01:00:09.460 Just to get that feeling?

01:00:10.540 No, you have to go back

01:00:12.180 so they can be like, you're here.

01:00:14.480 We've been waiting for you.

01:00:15.620 And I'm like, wow, okay, while I'm here, let's get some housekeeping stuff in order.

01:00:18.780 Did you guys put me on that alum wall or what?

01:00:20.640 Yeah, like, here's the photo I want used also, by the way.

01:00:22.960 This photo.

01:00:23.620 Do not use another photo. 1.00

01:00:24.700 Or I'll have this shit shut down. 0.99

01:00:26.840 Or else I'll have it painted over. 1.00

01:00:28.320 Yeah.

01:00:29.080 Yeah.

01:00:29.640 You'll be out of a job, buddy.

01:00:31.940 Oh, calling a grown person buddy.

01:00:33.560 Yeah.

01:00:34.280 Oh.

01:00:35.420 Oh.

01:00:36.500 Nice try, buddy. 1.00

01:00:37.580 Oh, white people, you ate with that. 1.00

01:00:40.520 Buddy. 0.98

01:00:41.300 Oh, my God.

01:00:42.240 Call a white person at Starbucks buddy. 1.00

01:00:44.480 I love when white people say white people shit like that. 1.00

01:00:46.980 Oh, it's so good. 1.00

01:00:48.080 Oh, my gosh.

01:00:48.600 One time I watched this guy yell at this crazy homeless woman that was harassing us. 1.00

01:00:54.160 But she said something like, fuck you. 1.00

01:00:56.800 And then he went, in your dreams, sister. 1.00

01:01:00.780 That ate.

01:01:01.500 Eight. 1.00

01:01:02.040 Hey, ate that bitch up, by the way. 1.00

01:01:04.400 Seven, one. 1.00

01:01:06.480 Seven, one.

01:01:07.700 In your dreams, sister.

01:01:09.340 Sister.

01:01:10.820 Straight guy, too.

01:01:11.940 Baby, you can tell.

01:01:14.480 In your dreams, sister.

01:01:17.700 Wouldn't they probably tuck one in the lips?

01:01:19.160 Well, you probably didn't tuck one in the lips.

01:01:22.440 They don't really have to do that.

01:01:23.660 I mean, not all of them.

01:01:25.120 You know what I'm saying.

01:01:26.080 If you know, you know.

01:01:28.220 You know, sister.

01:01:29.900 Ooh, that's good.

01:01:31.340 Right.

01:01:32.260 Okay, another fun fact.

01:01:34.360 When you first moved to LA, you worked as a live-in nanny.

01:01:37.880 Okay, first of all. 1.00

01:01:41.260 Amanda?

01:01:42.160 Amanda, that's not fun.

01:01:43.540 Amanda, let me tell you something.

01:01:44.920 If you wanted to bring up triggers and traumas,

01:01:48.920 is that what this show is about?

01:01:50.540 Oh, I see how it is.

01:01:51.880 Oh, oh, oh, oh. 1.00

01:01:52.940 So all of that shit was to get us here. 0.99

01:01:54.440 Yeah, so first of all, you make me wear this jacket. 0.99

01:01:56.540 And then second of all, you ask me about that.

01:01:57.800 And so I tried to play the bit like you didn't make me wear the jacket.

01:02:01.040 Like this is not clearly not my jacket.

01:02:03.100 I didn't have a jacket in your exact size when I got here.

01:02:05.680 And a ski mask.

01:02:06.500 What's the ski goggles for? 1.00

01:02:09.160 Black people don't go skiing. 1.00

01:02:10.980 Not for real. 1.00

01:02:12.240 You know what I mean? 0.66

01:02:12.620 You live in nanny, huh? 0.93

01:02:13.860 Live in nanny life.

01:02:15.640 I moved to L.A.

01:02:17.040 I've moved to L.A. three separate times.

01:02:18.980 So I want to say this to say, like, people who are in the, like, the initial struggle or the prolonged struggle of the pursuit of their dream, please understand that, like, I am not someone who is like, oh, I'm going to move to L.A. 0.95

01:02:34.300 And then shit just happened.

01:02:36.500 Like, it is tough. 0.99

01:02:38.380 Yeah.

01:02:38.900 And, like, if you're in the tough, baby, keep going.

01:02:42.620 Yeah. It is refining you. It is bringing it is it is honing you. It is growing you, stretching you, preparing you.

01:02:50.620 Yeah. Like just keep going. Yeah. I'm telling you. So I moved to L.A. three separate times.

01:02:57.240 The third one stuck. And the first time I left college, came here to and continued college online, but left the university and moved out here to work with a production company.

01:03:08.980 And shortly after I worked the job, the company disbanded.

01:03:13.700 The brothers could not agree.

01:03:15.000 They couldn't move forward, and they split.

01:03:17.900 And so we was out here in L.A. without a job.

01:03:20.500 Now, gas wasn't $7, but it was still $4.

01:03:23.160 Yeah, yeah.

01:03:23.840 It was still $4 a gallon. 1.00

01:03:26.060 And so baby needed a job. 1.00

01:03:28.680 I said, I got two baby sisters. 1.00

01:03:30.700 I could take care of some kids. 0.98

01:03:32.220 Yeah.

01:03:33.100 What you got to do?

01:03:34.580 How old are they?

01:03:35.280 And they were working in the business.

01:03:38.160 and so I was driving them to set

01:03:39.960 driving them to auditions

01:03:41.900 and stuff like that and the middle kid

01:03:43.860 is a daughter, a girl who

01:03:45.520 booked this Oscar Mayer commercial

01:03:47.820 and the amount

01:03:49.840 of money she got paid 0.88

01:03:51.740 to be in this commercial

01:03:53.800 for this long

01:03:55.020 the amount of time

01:03:59.860 we were on set 1.00

01:04:01.300 for her to be in the commercial for 1.00

01:04:03.640 girl 0.99

01:04:05.620 I said you didn't even get to spell Oscar Mayer

01:04:08.140 You didn't even get to do the stuff?

01:04:10.400 You didn't even talk.

01:04:12.020 That's how much you got paid? 1.00

01:04:13.320 I said, oh, I'm in the wrong, this nanny shit? 1.00

01:04:15.960 Yeah. 1.00

01:04:17.940 It ain't for me.

01:04:19.180 I bet you're so good with kids.

01:04:21.120 Love them.

01:04:21.560 I bet kids love you.

01:04:22.900 Yeah, I mean, I love kids.

01:04:24.080 I really do.

01:04:24.880 I should say this.

01:04:25.860 I don't.

01:04:28.780 Again, with the love, like, I, what, that's crazy.

01:04:34.220 And for that, I apologize.

01:04:35.620 You maybe just cut that whole part, because that's weird.

01:04:38.140 I love kids.

01:04:39.180 And then I was like, that sounds weird.

01:04:40.280 I was like, no, I don't, which sounds weirder.

01:04:42.140 No, yeah.

01:04:44.460 It only sounded like I walked.

01:04:45.660 Right, I mean, I somehow made it worse.

01:04:46.980 I didn't mean to do that.

01:04:48.760 Next question.

01:04:51.560 Have you ever got that?

01:04:53.200 Next question.

01:04:54.080 Yeah, like where you're in your interview,

01:04:56.520 and they very clearly signaled to you,

01:04:58.540 maybe they don't say next question,

01:04:59.960 but it's very clearly like,

01:05:02.460 have you ever experienced that?

01:05:03.800 I don't know if I've ever experienced it

01:05:05.440 like as stark as that.

01:05:07.700 Like I have like sensed, yeah, I'm just not there yet.

01:05:11.400 I haven't had as many, I haven't clocked as many hours as you.

01:05:13.900 I'm sure it's going to happen to me.

01:05:15.660 It has happened to me in the sense where I could tell they wanted to answer me truthfully,

01:05:19.740 but couldn't because they're on camera.

01:05:21.880 No, because it's real, right?

01:05:22.880 It is, it is.

01:05:23.520 You get in these situations, especially when you are a person who like obsesses about the preparation.

01:05:28.060 Right.

01:05:28.440 You have like a, it's not that you're planning their answer, but you are setting them,

01:05:32.300 you're creating the scene.

01:05:33.380 Quincy Jones says this thing about him being a creative,

01:05:37.480 about it not making magic.

01:05:39.820 That's not our job.

01:05:40.960 It's about setting the space,

01:05:42.880 creating the kind of environment that magic can come

01:05:45.620 and be welcome and then get out of the way.

01:05:48.720 Yeah, absolutely.

01:05:49.820 Like let it happen organically.

01:05:51.220 Yeah, prepare and then go with whatever,

01:05:53.560 however the moment is calling for,

01:05:55.080 whatever the moment is calling for,

01:05:56.440 that's what's real.

01:05:58.300 Be prepared anyway.

01:05:59.440 Yeah.

01:06:00.140 And so it's really interesting to hear

01:06:02.200 the like okay cool so that's not it moving on you know what I mean instead of instead of trying to

01:06:09.460 like make that because like there are some people you've seen it where they'll double down on like

01:06:13.260 no but like for real like no I know when I watch it I'm like oh my god like what do you think why

01:06:18.740 would you keep why would you keep doing that why would you do that oh my god I'm curious to know

01:06:23.580 what's your favorite thing to work like if it's an award show is it like a specific premiere is

01:06:28.360 it a specific thing like what what would you say is one of your favorite things to work this is

01:06:32.540 gonna sound ridiculous in the words of kiki palmer i hate to sound ridiculous but my favorite thing

01:06:39.400 is house guests thank god my favorite thing is house guests i'm so glad because it's we put so 0.56

01:06:45.520 much heart into this show hell yeah we put so much energy and resource into every single interaction

01:06:51.340 absolutely and it's all it's still a surprise to people when they show up and they're like you

01:06:55.160 live here and i'm like yes this is really my house can you please take your shoes off

01:06:57.700 no I'm just kidding

01:06:59.640 I never asked him to take his shoes off

01:07:00.500 thank you so much Kamala Harris 1.00

01:07:01.440 yeah please take your fucking shoes off 1.00

01:07:02.580 what do you need 1.00

01:07:04.980 some booty 1.00

01:07:05.640 some booty

01:07:06.140 some socks

01:07:07.740 what do you need

01:07:08.260 just imagining

01:07:11.940 telling Kamala Harris

01:07:12.780 to take her shoes off 1.00

01:07:13.380 that's the things 1.00

01:07:15.700 this cult will do to you

01:07:16.380 right hello

01:07:17.080 but I really do

01:07:18.840 like people walk in

01:07:19.620 and they're immediately

01:07:20.620 like the food that they love

01:07:22.700 is cooking

01:07:23.420 or ordered

01:07:25.140 a cocktail

01:07:27.320 or a beverage they love is being made,

01:07:29.540 sounds, music that they love is being played,

01:07:31.860 smells are like, it's familiar.

01:07:33.800 People walk in and are like, oh my God,

01:07:36.020 this is so sweet.

01:07:37.540 You're a genius.

01:07:38.460 Do you know what I mean?

01:07:39.020 It's true, it like softens them.

01:07:41.240 It makes it easier for them to want to open up,

01:07:43.620 which is a beautiful thing.

01:07:44.740 Yeah, yeah.

01:07:45.320 And I think you,

01:07:46.240 I also think you bring this like artistry

01:07:48.240 to interviewing too that allows for there to be,

01:07:51.560 like I said, conversation,

01:07:52.580 but it's not like a gotcha kind of conversation,

01:07:54.900 like which we kind of talked about

01:07:55.900 at the YouTube thing we did,

01:07:56.840 But like that that kind of interview style to me is I don't like personally. 0.66

01:08:02.140 And even even when I was writing like a journalist like in college and I was working after like I was very adamant about not doing that because I that kind of shit is just it doesn't attract me at all.

01:08:14.180 It doesn't feel the wrong kind of energetic existence. 0.81

01:08:18.200 I agree. And I and I felt like I was like, yeah, and I like to seek connection like you do and like to understand people on a different level.

01:08:25.540 And I feel like that's another reason why when I was first in broadcast, I was like mostly doing sports.

01:08:30.660 And I thought like, oh, I'll be like, you know, on air talent.

01:08:33.800 Maybe I'll be able to do like broadcasts, that kind of thing.

01:08:36.220 But when I started looking at it, I'm like, I don't like the game of football.

01:08:39.480 Like, yes, I understand it.

01:08:40.580 But like I was much more interested in who they were off the field and who they were in their families and like what they also loved, like other things that they loved.

01:08:49.120 And hearing, getting to talk to them in that regard was more rewarding to me.

01:08:53.380 And I just don't feel like you get that kind of feeling

01:08:56.300 from trying to hunt for something

01:08:58.340 or make people uncomfortable.

01:08:59.500 Or trap people.

01:09:04.680 I'm not interested in that.

01:09:05.800 Don't get me wrong, I understand that there are

01:09:08.500 whole industry, or portions of the industry

01:09:10.580 that are dedicated to that.

01:09:12.040 And for whomever and whoever feels like

01:09:15.560 that is what they want to do, 0.56

01:09:17.600 I'm not gonna yuck your young. 0.80

01:09:19.120 But that's not what I'm interested in.

01:09:20.760 Those aren't the kind of interactions I'm interested in.

01:09:22.960 And there are some questions I have asked

01:09:25.860 that I know have probably seemed like,

01:09:28.560 where did that come from, right?

01:09:30.200 But it is my intention to make an offer to our space,

01:09:35.320 our shared space, before I ever make a request

01:09:38.240 that might be more than what we would otherwise

01:09:42.140 be doing in this kind of interaction.

01:09:43.900 I love that.

01:09:44.740 There are sometimes you ask a question of someone

01:09:47.560 and you know that if there were no cameras,

01:09:51.000 I would not be asking you this.

01:09:52.620 I would not be asking about your divorce

01:09:54.880 and it's the second time I've met you.

01:09:56.860 I don't have that kind of, that's not my personality.

01:10:00.300 But I remember with Mary J. Blige

01:10:02.520 asking her about that commercial.

01:10:06.380 And I thought that, here's what I'll say.

01:10:09.780 I was prepared for that question to go either way.

01:10:12.320 And I said, if we're having a good time,

01:10:15.540 I think I will earn the right to ask her that question.

01:10:18.940 I haven't seen it anywhere.

01:10:20.340 You're so me.

01:10:21.080 Yeah, I feel the same way.

01:10:22.440 it's a give and take like it's it's a dance like it really is like and it's also i feel like

01:10:28.460 now especially with hollywood like and the internet and the intersection of the internet

01:10:32.260 like some celebrities have been what i've been describing as like lobotomized to a point where

01:10:37.680 like they won't show you an ounce of personality because they're afraid and they like don't want

01:10:43.540 to anymore i gotta i'll get canceled yeah commentary online i've got projects i've got

01:10:47.280 to sell I've got things I'm not just famous I'm these are things I'm creating and need to sell

01:10:53.220 right and so have been aware or been made more aware because especially now clips end up

01:10:59.380 everywhere things and the commentary is way more easy than it used to be and so it's like I gotta

01:11:04.260 make sure that this is somewhat sanitized so that I don't have any issues blowback yeah on me yeah

01:11:09.660 especially with the intensity of the internet now yeah so I I really do like I love how you look at

01:11:16.180 it because i feel the same way about it and i feel like like you said you both win when when

01:11:19.780 you're like able to reach them on that level when they're they softly open up like everybody wins

01:11:25.700 like they get to see you in a much different light um i get to the joy and pleasure of getting you

01:11:30.520 there like the comfortability i always like sometimes when i have people on my show and

01:11:34.640 they're nervous like if they're nervous i'm like oh no don't worry about it like you just i like

01:11:38.640 i'm steering this shit you just take in the views i'm gonna steer us you just take it in and you 0.98

01:11:44.360 have a good old time girl you're so fucking good oh my god okay i'm gonna pivot back to your fun 0.99

01:11:51.680 yeah and you're taking the view taking the sights mama i'm gonna tell you this right now 0.93

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01:13:20.580 I'm into it.

01:13:22.360 Okay?

01:13:23.500 I mean, I don't know if you feel it, but...

01:13:26.260 Listen.

01:13:27.000 Listen.

01:13:27.580 It is a lot like foreplay.

01:13:29.520 Baby, what I'm telling you is that...

01:13:30.840 Yeah, and it's important.

01:13:31.640 It seems like you're ready.

01:13:35.420 Girl, I know you're ready.

01:13:36.420 See, some interviews want to skip the foreplay, but then the payoff's not good.

01:13:39.560 Hello?

01:13:40.580 Don't rush.

01:13:42.560 What's the rush?

01:13:43.360 We gotta take our time.

01:13:44.420 We gotta take our time.

01:13:45.340 Gotta take our time.

01:13:47.520 Now, I ain't no dog.

01:13:50.540 I ain't no mutt.

01:13:52.420 But we do gotta take our time. 0.98

01:13:54.300 Amen.

01:13:54.980 Period.

01:13:55.580 Okay, other fun facts.

01:13:56.240 Warm it up.

01:13:58.220 What I'm letting you know right now is I'm hot.

01:14:00.560 Okay?

01:14:01.080 You're hot.

01:14:01.720 Me too.

01:14:02.200 You got me hot.

01:14:04.400 And I mean that in the best way.

01:14:05.880 Okay, I think I have.

01:14:07.060 Taking the views.

01:14:08.000 Yeah, girl, feel free.

01:14:09.420 It's all yours.

01:14:09.860 Ooh, that was so good.

01:14:10.720 Okay.

01:14:11.180 This one says, at 19, you became the youngest on-court host for the NBA.

01:14:15.480 Yeah. 1.00

01:14:16.100 Look at you, bitch. 1.00

01:14:17.300 Yeah. 1.00

01:14:17.520 No wonder you're in that Hall of Fame.

01:14:19.040 Yeah, I was hosting the Indiana Pacer games going back to where it all started.

01:14:23.520 That's so cool.

01:14:24.760 So they still had the video. 0.99

01:14:27.260 Damn. 0.99

01:14:27.780 Right? 0.99

01:14:28.000 They still had the video.

01:14:28.700 So I walk out on the court my first game, and they're trying out several people.

01:14:32.940 And by the end of the game, they're like, yes.

01:14:34.540 And by that time, I had also moved to L.A.

01:14:39.260 and so this job

01:14:41.040 opportunity came up

01:14:41.840 and I was like

01:14:42.320 so am I going back

01:14:43.220 to Andy Nevers already

01:14:44.220 I mean we did

01:14:45.720 we did one commercial

01:14:46.940 and at the end

01:14:51.080 of the game

01:14:51.660 the executives

01:14:53.480 came over to me

01:14:53.980 and they were like

01:14:54.440 hey so

01:14:55.660 if you want the job

01:14:56.980 it's yours

01:14:58.020 look at you

01:14:59.000 I was like

01:14:59.540 how much is it pay

01:15:00.800 yeah I want this job

01:15:03.120 I didn't even wait

01:15:04.460 until he said the answer

01:15:05.540 I was like

01:15:06.320 yeah I want the job

01:15:06.980 yeah where can I start

01:15:08.300 y'all gonna move me

01:15:08.960 he said move you

01:15:10.820 I got health care

01:15:12.160 I got a parking space

01:15:14.240 and I did I had a parking space

01:15:16.660 I had a badge

01:15:18.340 I was going to concerts wasn't paying for them

01:15:20.900 it was great I can say that now

01:15:23.120 because statute of limitations you can't come

01:15:24.260 after me for that

01:15:25.320 sorry you are so powerful

01:15:29.120 like you're I really do feel

01:15:31.080 like you I feel

01:15:32.780 first of all co-anointed now

01:15:34.980 that I've spent more time with you

01:15:36.360 but I really do think you are so

01:15:38.780 likewise I really do feel like you are so impactful to the space and I feel like you're

01:15:44.720 so important and I look up to you a lot as an interviewer I really do and I watch your clips

01:15:50.060 all the time I watch your show all the time because I feel like I learn a lot from you

01:15:54.820 so I want to thank you for your like perspective because it it does feel like it's kind of widened

01:16:00.120 mine a little bit too now that I'm I love to host I I really do I love interviewing people I love

01:16:05.220 hosting just generally.

01:16:07.080 You are good at it.

01:16:07.920 Thank you.

01:16:08.840 You never seem rocked in a space where everything is ready to rock you.

01:16:16.520 Do you know what I mean?

01:16:17.560 Likewise.

01:16:17.760 It's so easy to be like, oh, God, this, what did she say?

01:16:22.100 Yeah.

01:16:22.840 You know what I mean?

01:16:23.660 Like, it's very easy.

01:16:24.800 And no one would even fault you for it.

01:16:26.420 Yeah.

01:16:26.860 And I think that probably is part of your sports background.

01:16:30.320 Oh, probably.

01:16:30.860 Right?

01:16:31.100 like there's just like

01:16:31.800 there is a cool factor

01:16:33.080 to people who

01:16:34.120 can't cover sports

01:16:35.580 you're right

01:16:36.080 and to athletes

01:16:37.000 and they're just like

01:16:37.700 and you know better than

01:16:39.300 I'm sure you know this too

01:16:40.620 athletes are hard as 0.99

01:16:42.300 fuck to interview 0.99

01:16:43.660 it's like why are we here 1.00

01:16:44.680 girl oh my god

01:16:45.980 I'm like you're

01:16:46.580 you're acting like

01:16:47.600 I'm torturing you

01:16:48.160 tweet it

01:16:48.460 tweet it

01:16:48.880 tweet it

01:16:49.700 nevermind

01:16:50.260 you know what 1.00

01:16:50.640 fuck it 1.00

01:16:51.260 nevermind 1.00

01:16:51.880 cut it

01:16:52.380 cut it

01:16:52.660 they are so hard to talk to

01:16:54.300 they have no personality 0.56

01:16:55.520 didn't you just take a shower

01:16:56.520 you know how good I feel

01:16:58.740 after a shower

01:16:59.300 why are you so

01:17:01.020 upset. Y'all won!

01:17:04.500 I said

01:17:05.080 let me see the ring. Yeah, and sometimes I'm

01:17:07.040 like, and you're supposed to be the smart one. My

01:17:08.900 God! Yeah, you're the one that they pick because

01:17:11.020 apparently you can talk better, and I can't

01:17:13.020 tell from this conversation. You wanna start over?

01:17:15.700 I've done that.

01:17:17.820 You said you wanna start over?

01:17:18.980 I have done it. I need you to know

01:17:20.920 this is when I knew

01:17:22.720 I was coming into my own,

01:17:24.900 into this, like, own your space.

01:17:26.860 Love. Right? Like, own your space. Yeah, totally.

01:17:28.740 We're having this interview, and it was just like,

01:17:30.040 weird energy it was like a total misread and I think it was a carryover from another interview

01:17:35.500 that spilled over into mine yeah it was like just every response is kind of like

01:17:40.520 darts yeah back at me yeah and I was like you everything you good

01:17:44.520 because cut the cameras are you are you good yeah yeah I'm fine are you sure because it just

01:17:55.400 it feels a little like maybe I've offended you in some way and if I have I apologize but I just

01:18:00.680 want to make sure that you and I are good like no I'm great okay cool let's let's start over 0.97

01:18:04.540 good for you bitch period like start over I was like I'll take the three minutes but yeah we got 1.00

01:18:10.760 to start this over yeah because I'm not gonna take this back to the show that I work for no for real 0.99

01:18:15.080 this be the representation that we have of this interaction I came here prepared yeah you were on

01:18:19.880 time let's have a good time yeah and if we're not gonna have a good time let's call it a thing a

01:18:24.260 thing and you say it yeah because i don't want nobody thinking it's me yeah for real if it ain't

01:18:29.600 yeah do you want to do this again

01:18:31.060 oh my god i'm gonna tell you something when i when i sat my butt in that movie theater i had

01:18:43.860 no idea how this thing was gonna go but i'm gonna tell you it didn't even the the credits hadn't

01:18:49.260 even started on the film the opening sequence hadn't even started and the buzz that was

01:18:53.920 happening in that movie theater.

01:18:55.780 You could have cut the excitement with sheer, thank you.

01:18:59.600 That's crazy.

01:19:02.200 You're so me though.

01:19:03.100 Cause also that's another thing too,

01:19:04.620 is they don't expect to be confronted either.

01:19:07.260 Especially not live and in the moment.

01:19:08.760 Like when you-

01:19:11.560 Something has gone wrong.

01:19:13.420 Yeah.

01:19:14.260 You know what's funny?

01:19:15.100 And I'll tell this last thing

01:19:16.200 and then I'll wrap you really quick.

01:19:17.800 But I, when I was at the Emmys once,

01:19:20.600 I talked to 0.98

01:19:22.660 who was so unbelievably fucking rude. 0.99

01:19:25.680 Wait! 1.00

01:19:26.520 Bitch. 1.00

01:19:28.240 Yeah, like I literally was like, I'm not even kidding. 1.00

01:19:31.440 I was, and you know what's funny?

01:19:34.020 His rep came up to me and said,

01:19:36.060 you probably don't want to talk to him, right?

01:19:37.680 And I said, I love , I'd love to talk to him.

01:19:40.740 Why wouldn't I?

01:19:41.580 And I was like, why not? 1.00

01:19:42.420 Fuck it. 1.00

01:19:43.260 You're in the Emmys? 1.00

01:19:44.100 Yeah, yes.

01:19:44.940 Why wouldn't I?

01:19:45.780 Yeah, so I said, yeah, please.

01:19:46.600 And so he comes over.

01:19:48.460 I'm like, hey, how are you doing?

01:19:49.840 Nice to meet you, I'm Drew.

01:19:51.280 What's up?

01:19:53.080 Okay, first of all, you're a little too old

01:19:54.540 to be using that greeting, but no worries.

01:19:56.680 I go, no worries, okay.

01:19:58.280 Are you ready to go?

01:19:59.180 No worries is great.

01:20:00.160 Yeah, no worries.

01:20:00.800 No worries?

01:20:01.280 Okay, just wanted you to know that didn't go

01:20:02.480 how I thought it was gonna go, but to ride.

01:20:03.960 Yeah, and then I was, every question I asked,

01:20:06.980 it felt like a stone wall of like, I don't know. 1.00

01:20:10.240 Bitch, why are you here? 1.00

01:20:11.700 Like, I literally was like, why are you at my shrub dog? 1.00

01:20:14.000 And then at a certain point,

01:20:15.400 at a certain point, I got so irritated

01:20:18.480 that he kept giving me these one word answers.

01:20:21.280 That like the third time he did it, I went, yeah.

01:20:25.380 And then it was awkward and silent.

01:20:28.500 And we were staring at each other.

01:20:30.360 Ooh, Drew.

01:20:31.000 That's it, huh?

01:20:32.020 Drew.

01:20:32.560 And then after that.

01:20:33.560 You're making me feel for me.

01:20:36.380 Because, yes.

01:20:37.900 Yeah.

01:20:38.440 I am also at work.

01:20:39.920 Yeah, girl.

01:20:40.620 Yeah, believe it or not, I'm also sweating.

01:20:42.720 Okay?

01:20:43.080 And my dress is corseted.

01:20:44.820 So you are actually struggling more than you.

01:20:46.780 And like, I'm excited to be here.

01:20:48.460 And I'm excited to have this interaction.

01:20:49.660 But we also don't have to do this.

01:20:51.280 No, for real.

01:20:51.760 And you don't have to answer.

01:20:53.560 I was like, and it was every,

01:20:55.120 it was like he was trying to give me a hard time.

01:20:57.180 Like, that's how it felt.

01:20:58.440 And then I was like, yeah.

01:21:00.980 And then it was like, we were just looking at each other.

01:21:02.600 I was like, that's it, huh?

01:21:04.220 Cool.

01:21:04.400 And then he went, well, you know.

01:21:06.800 And then after that, it opened him up.

01:21:08.920 Yeah, I bet it did.

01:21:10.120 I bet it did.

01:21:12.420 Yeah, because game recognized game.

01:21:14.020 Let's do this.

01:21:15.200 Yeah.

01:21:15.920 And then again, because that did feel like that.

01:21:18.960 I was like, yeah.

01:21:19.540 I probably just quit looking crazy.

01:21:22.400 Yeah. 0.99

01:21:24.020 I really did feel like I was like, again, like you, like you fucking tell them that you don't 0.98

01:21:27.620 want to talk to me then. 0.95

01:21:28.680 And then after that, I had this bit that I did not use on everyone because I knew not

01:21:33.380 everyone would find it funny, but I do have a tip jar.

01:21:35.820 So like sometimes if they're feeling fun or if they're being annoying.

01:21:39.140 Wait, no, wait.

01:21:39.560 I've seen this.

01:21:40.420 At the end, I'll bring out a tip jar and I'm like, you know, never required, but highly

01:21:44.200 encouraged.

01:21:44.920 So and then if they say no, I'm like, well, you can pay me in compliments.

01:21:47.740 tell them what's your favorite thing about me like and and that's like my bit it's like a running bit

01:21:52.760 i have so i tell him and then if they say they don't have cash i'm like what are you hard for

01:21:56.420 the money funny it's all funny it's so i bring out the tip jar and i was like everybody wants a tip

01:22:02.840 yeah hello and then i went i was like you know never required highly encouraged and then he went

01:22:08.640 oh yeah brings out a big stack of money starts thumbing off these hundreds and then i'm like

01:22:14.940 and then 20s and then he's getting to the like single digit bills and I'm like you don't want

01:22:19.280 to throw me one of those hundreds didn't find it funny at all put four bucks in the jar and I was

01:22:24.940 like and I went for I was like four dollars huh anyways all right thank you so much it was so nice

01:22:30.860 and he like kind of laughed and then left but that was one of those where I was like girl you're

01:22:34.620 gonna give me something if you're gonna torture me like this give me something like a hundred

01:22:39.320 dollars make it worth my wow for the inconvenience I was like I know those royalties are paying fat

01:22:44.840 that show's been on the air for 30 years do you and he don't get paid for another 30

01:22:51.000 they got like what 30 episodes a season yes hello with no end in sight not a nary

01:22:57.880 like they're spinoffs yeah hello uh so to kind of wrap us at the end uh obviously i've jacket

01:23:05.400 i'm so sorry obviously i i talked about your just amazing career and how how wonderful you've been

01:23:13.280 able to evolve your skill in in just so many different ways and so i'm curious if you have

01:23:17.960 any advice for any aspiring hosts or uh carpet whether it's carpet or their own show like you

01:23:24.040 um what are some advice or a piece of advice that you have for everyone yes a great question

01:23:30.320 because i i do think that we can use we should use as much as we can from other people yeah to

01:23:36.600 inform our own decisions now i'm not saying like you gotta do exactly what someone else has done

01:23:40.940 but there if there are people who have gone before you yeah like they're they are inheriting or they

01:23:46.320 are experiencing things before you are the pitfalls of that kind of stuff you can kind of navigate

01:23:50.220 around hopefully and so i would say first start yeah like that's the thing that's killing most

01:23:57.540 of us that's the thing that's that's that is drowning most of us is that we're planning yeah

01:24:03.280 or we're thinking about it like the fear of it but we're not doing it and so like you're always

01:24:08.200 gonna be a little bit afraid yeah and even though we talked about it before like we're not nervous

01:24:12.240 for real but like there's always an element of like a little bit of fear yeah is good yeah i think

01:24:17.940 even a lot of fear fear is good i think it informs you on how much you care about something yeah i

01:24:23.220 think it keeps you alert yeah you know you walk through spaces and you're that you're afraid and

01:24:27.020 you're like okay i gotta look around yeah you know what i mean totally i don't think it should be the

01:24:30.680 thing that stops us though i think we gotta be hand in hand with fear on the on the journey

01:24:34.460 recognize it yeah and be able to move through it yeah and so um and and use it harness it it's

01:24:41.180 energy totally you know what i mean and so i would i would say get started like move you know

01:24:46.680 what i mean take action yeah and so and there's never been an easier way or should there's never

01:24:51.020 been more opportunities to promote or publish your work totally to try and to fail in in it with

01:24:58.880 smaller audiences to practice to hone yeah get started now you will refine as you go totally

01:25:04.260 waiting until the perfect time or the perfect idea or all the things are solved and figured out

01:25:08.740 baby we're gonna be waiting forever that's true and we do not have time to wait for you yeah we

01:25:15.300 need you right now you're thinking about it you're looking at me like he ain't talking to me no

01:25:20.160 I'm talking right to you that idea right that you've been mulling over that you've been sick

01:25:25.460 over that you've that you've held so close to you that maybe even your friends don't even know this

01:25:29.620 is a dream or desire of your heart get that thing out on paper first write it down writing down

01:25:35.000 writing down a thing a thought makes it real brings it into the tangible so write it down and

01:25:40.100 get it as clear as possible when i pitched uh we had a a um sports history doc in development with

01:25:47.060 nbc sports and i pitched it to the then chairwoman of nbc um in an elevator

01:25:55.080 She said, what are you working on?

01:25:56.160 And I was like, oh, this.

01:25:57.900 And it was one sentence.

01:26:00.000 In an elevator.

01:26:01.940 By the time the doors opened, she said, we're doing that.

01:26:05.060 That's crazy.

01:26:05.680 And then we walked into this.

01:26:06.780 Your literal elevator pitch.

01:26:07.920 Quite literally.

01:26:08.700 I had refined the pitch, the idea down to one sentence.

01:26:13.500 They call it a log line.

01:26:15.160 And when we got into the bigger meeting that we were there for in front of all these advertisers and all these production partners, she announced the show.

01:26:23.740 Look at you.

01:26:24.340 using the same sentence that's the same sentence that i had written down on a piece of paper yeah

01:26:30.000 so like get clear about that thing yeah you will never be closer yeah without that that that step

01:26:35.640 i think look at you and then get going that is so oh my god i have chills like get going that is so

01:26:41.280 because we need you also that's true i i agree i was like and i i love that you have that mentality

01:26:47.020 too because i've talked about this when i get asked about hosting too that i really do feel

01:26:51.680 truly that there is enough room for a lot of different kinds of posts like there's so much

01:26:56.640 room at the table I know other people like I've seen other people in this industry to

01:27:00.980 kind of have a scarcity mindset when it comes to that and it because you're going for the same

01:27:05.300 gigs you're working in the same circuits like but I really do think in abundance and I think in like

01:27:10.500 I think I have something very special to offer you have something very special to offer so many

01:27:15.600 people have so many different special skills to be able to offer to this industry specifically

01:27:19.440 and also I'm like you've seen what hosts look like traditionally they do not look like us so we need

01:27:25.800 more diversity too on top of that we need more representation in that and everyone offers unique

01:27:30.320 perspective I love that you see it that way I see it the same way we created house guests and like

01:27:35.060 it wasn't I wasn't I didn't go for Jimmy Fallon's job because Jimmy Fallon still has his job right

01:27:39.140 so we created this show and it became something so undeniable that now people call us and are like

01:27:45.540 hey, we would love for you to bring the houseguest energy to what we're creating.

01:27:49.560 We're thinking about developing this idea or this IP or this event or this experience.

01:27:54.360 Can you bring what you do to that?

01:27:56.720 And so we're creating the job.

01:27:58.440 Maybe the job will create itself.

01:27:59.800 Yeah, literally.

01:28:00.320 If you work the thing and you dedicate to the thing and you allow the thing to grow,

01:28:07.680 which means drawing to you the right team, then I'm telling you that you will create the job.

01:28:13.520 yeah you're so you're so real because i've said that i'm like i made up my own job i made up my

01:28:18.820 own job i have the most made-up job in the world because i created it myself and you're you're so

01:28:23.400 me twin when i said when i sign those contracts and they're like title i put something different 0.74

01:28:28.020 every time me too i'll be like shit i don't know what was my title i know sometimes i put the bad 0.66

01:28:33.680 girl yeah her she i know sometimes i put talent sometimes i put host i like don't really know 0.93

01:28:42.680 what to put yeah like i know that the are the the accountants are like they're gonna get us

01:28:47.500 yeah you got to say you're gonna get us audited stop doing that and i'm like well it's too late 0.61

01:28:52.560 they're coming to get us baby i fucking love you i love you right i i really do and i actually mean 0.87

01:28:57.840 it that me too and i mean it i mean that i'm not gonna walk it back in a second i really really 0.99

01:29:02.380 i do i really fuck with you i really likewise i and i and i knew i knew when i loved you from 0.82

01:29:09.220 afar and then i remember we met for the first time at like a spotify party i think and um 0.98

01:29:14.000 yeah that party was like normal yeah i know what we're gonna talk about after

01:29:20.020 but i i remember in that i remember that night um one of the people who worked there was like

01:29:28.840 oh like scott really wants to meet you like um he's talked about you i was like oh my god i would

01:29:32.280 love to meet so when we met i i just knew i was like you and i are gonna connect on a spiritual 0.51

01:29:38.460 level baby i just felt it they fucked up no listen i should i should have asked you to start pairing 0.75

01:29:46.000 us for stuff and i'm so serious about that no they don't yeah no they do not no they don't 0.95

01:29:52.100 because then that then then we get the then we get the celeb we get the actor up here and we're

01:29:55.620 like oh hey give us a minute yeah so could you believe we're having too much fun without the

01:30:03.280 guests oh my god the guests oh sorry hey timmy come on up you know drew they don't want that

01:30:13.580 yeah then but maybe they do they'll never hear the end of it honestly hello or they'll never 0.89

01:30:17.460 hear the end of this jacket well thank you so much for coming on the show i fucking genuinely

01:30:22.940 adore you and i think you're amazing you are the bomb and i can't wait like when you get on late

01:30:28.640 like if you ever take the tonight show which i'm manifesting for you i really i'm gonna come back

01:30:34.360 to this and i'm gonna clip this please and then i'm gonna say you guys are welcome i manifested

01:30:39.880 that for scott and i'll be like how much do i owe you look like like i see what do you say

01:30:46.600 35 45 65 four dollars yes four dollars exactly thank you so much crazy i know to to count past 0.95

01:30:55.200 all the hundreds yeah do that shit over here yeah he said no i want you to know what i said you're 0.97

01:31:01.120 being mean to me yeah i wanted to know it was me yeah i want her to know i want her to see it 0.98

01:31:06.960 thank you for coming on the show i fucking adore you uh for maybe the two people that don't know 0.56

01:31:14.000 who you are or don't know where to find you where can they find you hello my name is scott almost 0.79

01:31:18.800 at Cisco.

01:31:20.640 The spirit of him

01:31:21.600 has taken over you.

01:31:22.420 I mean.

01:31:23.060 Yeah.

01:31:23.960 I am Scott Evans.

01:31:25.320 Yes.

01:31:25.700 Everywhere.

01:31:26.400 YouTube,

01:31:27.060 Instagram,

01:31:27.660 TikTok,

01:31:28.640 Snapchat.

01:31:30.520 Yep,

01:31:30.860 still on Snapchat.

01:31:31.960 Substack,

01:31:32.700 you know what I mean?

01:31:33.260 Love.

01:31:33.580 Maybe even another

01:31:34.940 platform near you.

01:31:36.620 But definitely head

01:31:37.560 to YouTube,

01:31:38.940 Apple,

01:31:40.300 Spotify

01:31:40.820 to watch Houseguests.

01:31:42.100 We release new episodes

01:31:43.220 every other week

01:31:44.280 and in alternating

01:31:46.200 of those weeks

01:31:47.060 we have new

01:31:47.540 House Party

01:31:48.380 fun I'm sorry not we have new um game night episodes it's like I it's still so new that

01:31:54.360 I'm not even used to saying it like I've always wanted to be a game show host and so I'm living

01:31:58.320 my wildest dream with y'all so come come hang out with us oh my god Scott the way you can do

01:32:01.900 literally everything is crazy trying girl that's insane I gotta get this money I gotta set my 0.99

01:32:06.760 pussy up girl yeah girl I mean I don't know if you step it up you wrap it up I'm gonna set mine 1.00

01:32:11.320 up for you yes I'm gonna do that for you I'm trying to I'm trying to imagine how one steps 1.00

01:32:16.140 up their pussy don't worry about it it'll when you'll know when i do it you'll feel it i'll be 1.00

01:32:21.300 like pussy step up the pussy is up it was here i felt the shift we was here pussy 1.00

01:32:27.860 guaranteed guaranteed obviously thank you all so much for tuning into this episode of the 0.99

01:32:36.060 comment section show thank you so much to my amazing guest scott evans make sure you follow

01:32:39.420 scott on everything and obviously y'all know house guests make sure you tune into house guests

01:32:42.780 obviously thank you so much don't forget new episodes drop every Wednesday you can stream

01:32:46.560 the audio on all streaming platforms but the video lists for free and exclusively on our

01:32:49.700 favorite platform YouTube thank you so much to my guests thank you all so much to you and I'll

01:32:53.480 see you next week bye

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