The Comment Section with Drew Afualo

00:00:00.000 there's a reason why you're here in the first place yeah right so trust your

00:00:03.020 instinct because i'm really handsome just unbelievably talented i have a huge fat ass

00:00:08.300 god i got everything in spades i don't even know what to tell you

00:00:12.480 everyone's it's just a race for second it really is

00:00:15.600 i'm glad you plays some people don't even play yeah grateful exactly

00:00:30.000 hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring me your fave

00:00:34.600 everybody knows me who cares about me on to the guests today we have the iconic the hilarious

00:00:39.860 the amazing bowman martinez reed welcome to the show thank you for having me oh my gosh it's an

00:00:49.000 honor honor and a pleasure last time we saw each other oscars party also an honor and a pleasure

00:00:55.220 yes because we got to have tea we got tea we got tea together and we got to witness history

00:01:01.640 repeat itself we saw things change right before our very eyes in that room i'll never forget i'll

00:01:08.300 never forget you know what's funny is when we witnessed it happen again like the history repeat

00:01:13.240 itself you were like oh i wish i was there the first time because i wasn't oh yeah you weren't

00:01:18.080 there and then shallon goes you were there and you're all was i and shallon goes you were literally

00:01:23.760 sitting at the table with us and then you were like oh i don't remember i do not recall

00:01:27.640 you were like but we saw tea we were literally like talking about the tea actually from last year

00:01:33.880 and then the tea walked in the room it was actually quite crazy spilled all over us i was dripping

00:01:40.280 drenched and not scalding hot it was really scary but it was but it was fun bonded yeah we bonded

00:01:47.200 seriously something about those parties like weird shit happens and you're like did anyone else

00:01:52.180 watch that or was it just me yes the weirdest vibe in those parties the strangest energy it's either

00:01:59.160 like really stale like like you don't want to be there or it's like the exact opposite or it's like

00:02:06.420 super exciting but but i feel like in those rooms everybody's experiencing both at the same time

00:02:11.380 totally and it's a warring of emotions yes and you're experiencing it together yes it's and it's so

00:02:18.300 funny i keep bringing this up because this happened last week when i filmed but i've told people like

00:02:23.120 sometimes people are like i can't believe you don't get starstruck like me and you've met so many

00:02:26.720 people too and i was like you would be surprised do you get starstruck oh you don't not at all

00:02:33.300 not for anybody beyonce walks into the room no beyonce was the only person i was just about to say i saw

00:02:38.300 that happen don't act sick she was the only person okay that ever made me feel like that and i was

00:02:46.900 truly like i felt because i was meeting her at the same time as britney we were standing together

00:02:52.120 outside i truly was thinking i have to lock in right now or i'm gonna unleash something in that room that

00:02:58.480 i can't take back the room's gonna set up in flames it's just something bad's gonna happen i'm gonna

00:03:03.200 black out i'm gonna wake up like the incredible hulk naked in a ditch beyonce is naked in a what

00:03:08.320 beyonce is so serious she like that is i feel like they're i don't get um i'll only get starstruck

00:03:15.400 over a real housewife okay see that's like the only your favorite housewives i or what's your

00:03:20.880 favorite like city yeah um atlanta is the best one or it used to be they're struggling right now

00:03:28.900 um but i like i was walking on the street and i was re-watching the real housewives of atlanta okay

00:03:35.580 and i was re-watching it with my boyfriend and we were walking down melrose and i i was like why is

00:03:41.280 there a crowd drawn up here like what's going on and nimi leaks was standing in the street doing like

00:03:48.580 street interviews and i could not believe my eyes i like literally couldn't believe it i love nimi yeah

00:03:54.480 that was crazy she's funny and honestly she cracked me the fuck up on when she was on glee

00:03:59.060 oh my god her character on glee people forget nimi was on glee like yeah literally that's history oh

00:04:05.760 please a bronze medalist insane so funny so good coming for sue's gig yeah that was she was hilarious

00:04:13.300 really funny i love her she needs another shot i need i honestly need more i need to study up more

00:04:19.800 on housewives i don't really know much about housewives we can fix that we can you can give me

00:04:24.480 some homework i feel like every podcast i do i start i just talk about housewives the entire time

00:04:28.360 you're just doing pr like here we go yeah they should hire me but you need to get into housewives

00:04:33.200 of atlanta i think that's like the one that you if you'd watch it you'd be like oh this is funny

00:04:37.720 okay too it is like funny okay there's so many like memes and stuff from that show there are

00:04:43.040 i know like isn't like that one that's like that's my opinion that's from a housewives yes yeah

00:04:48.720 there's so many housewives housewives memes like yeah like inside jokes yeah that have turned into

00:04:54.000 like internet jokes but they originated from yeah the and honestly nini has so many iconic lines

00:05:00.700 many iconic lines white refrigerator are you kidding me yeah when i saw that white refrigerator

00:05:06.360 and you know what somebody said she changed the refrigerator industry you cannot have a white

00:05:14.720 refrigerator in this day and age she shifted it drastically it's embarrassing yeah because then

00:05:19.460 people say the quote it's it's horrible that's horrible i'd love to talk about your start on like

00:05:26.820 just social media in general because obviously um if everyone should know who bowman is if you don't

00:05:32.400 you're you're either brand new to take talk or you're crazy you need a life and a job yeah and

00:05:37.060 you're a loser yeah anyways you smell bad and it's science yeah so don't know what to tell you um but

00:05:44.620 i'm curious like how did you get into content creation like what made you want to start because

00:05:47.600 obviously you're known for your iconic like reality tv show sketches but i know i feel like you're a sketch

00:05:53.620 comedy girl like you really love sketch comedy which i i love too so i'd love to know how you got

00:05:58.480 started like well what were you doing beforehand yeah yeah so legend has it i was um studying radio

00:06:05.820 and television oh my degree was media production okay period um and this was 2019 and i was tiktok

00:06:13.800 was not cool yet yeah at all like it was that was around the time i heard about tiktok 2019 um i was

00:06:19.340 dating a guy who was on tiktok okay and it was a red flag it was like he uses tiktok like that's like

00:06:27.060 embarrassing you have to like stop seeing yeah because how old are you i am 26 okay i'm 28 so i

00:06:32.900 around that time you're kind of like everyone's so young because it was like still a young app and

00:06:37.760 it was like thirst trappy like yes and you would like i remember downloading the app to cringe watch

00:06:44.020 tiktoks with my friends yeah me too you know what's funny is i also downloaded it because one of my

00:06:48.940 cousins was making secret tiktoks and i just wanted to see what she was posting that era was crazy you

00:06:54.220 have like a friend start to or like a family member start to make tiktoks and it was like we

00:06:58.800 have to tune in i had to go look um and unfortunately i was that person for many people

00:07:03.800 right because i started making tiktoks my friend was like um he showed me jack in and in love who

00:07:10.640 actually like lived in my neighborhood at the time and i would see him around and be like oh my god

00:07:14.640 that's jack and i uh my friends were like you know how to like edit videos yeah you're kind of

00:07:19.760 funny why don't you like try and i was like no ill yeah then that guy that i was seeing went viral

00:07:27.760 and he's not funny so i was like wait if he can do this wait a second i could do this yeah

00:07:35.020 and so then i remember having not spite motivation literally no literally i was like i gotta get him

00:07:41.500 and so then i started making tiktoks um my first tiktok was like me telling my other two brain cells

00:07:48.560 that i'm gonna start making tiktoks and it was like a conversation with myself okay too um and

00:07:53.000 then i think it was like february 2020 i made um i started making these reality tv tiktoks yeah where

00:08:01.760 i would take mundane problems and turn them into these like reality tv epics yeah um they it was just

00:08:09.380 like what i was just doing them for fun at the beginning and you add the the noises the noises and

00:08:15.180 the sounds yes yeah um i actually had a digital series on youtube yeah um in high school called

00:08:22.260 read it and weep read like my last name genius and um i was like making like a reality tv show with my

00:08:30.200 friends and so that's is that just because or was it through school i was like obsessed with the

00:08:35.160 housewives and so then i remember telling my family one day like i want my own tv show and my brother was

00:08:40.240 just like why don't you just make it and i was like oh so that's why i started that in high school

00:08:45.040 full circle we're jumping i know i know so then i started that in high school and then stopped doing

00:08:50.420 it and then when tiktok was cool i was like wait i know how to like mock edit reality tv why don't i

00:08:57.040 try this so i remember the headache that it like the headache i had where i was trying to figure out

00:09:04.620 how to take a whole reality tv storyline and put it into one minute yeah because i was before because

00:09:09.580 that was yes yeah and so i was like trying to figure it out anyway i made this one video where

00:09:13.800 my professor sent me the read the syllabus email yeah and i was so stabbed in the back and i went back

00:09:19.300 to bed and then i made another one where um this actually happened yeah i had a roommate at the time

00:09:25.240 and i opened the door to my room i saw a pile of dirt on the ground and a broom next to it

00:09:30.540 and i was like what is that he had swept but he left the dirt beside the garbage just because just

00:09:39.140 for me to clean up i guess he's all you know what to do i was literally i'm so pissed this guy never

00:09:44.940 cleaned ever and the one time he does i have to finish it are you kidding me he couldn't even he

00:09:49.920 couldn't even i was so pissed like right next to it so i looked at it and i was like should i make a

00:09:54.900 tiktok about this so i was the brain rot literally yeah so then i made a tiktok where i was shot in

00:10:01.320 the gut from the disrespect i fall to the floor much like the dirt on the ground i am worthless

00:10:06.020 i decide to pass away and then the rest of the video is me lying there dead yeah um and then that

00:10:10.820 went viral and then a few weeks later was that your first one that was the first one yeah and that

00:10:15.420 was crazy it was like oh my god this is what it's like to get like two million views on a video

00:10:18.800 yeah really yeah it's a crazy feeling crazy and then i was also like posting them on tiktok and

00:10:25.600 then i was posting them on twitter so that they would go viral on twitter too because that's what

00:10:29.320 was happening with like rosa and britney so i was like but i was like i'm doing this to go like i'm

00:10:36.080 not doing this for fun this is i was like i'm gonna put in the work here no i have a mission yeah i will

00:10:42.680 accomplish of course absolutely so then uh 2020 happened then it was a pandemic yeah and then i

00:10:50.120 had nothing to do but to make videos and nobody else had anything to do but to watch my videos yeah

00:10:54.820 and i made a video with my friend eden where she coughs and it went directly into my mouth i had a

00:11:01.820 vision and that went like very viral and that changed my life i actually think i remember the

00:11:06.660 i think the cough heard around the world yeah i think that's the first one i ever saw of you yes

00:11:11.480 and you going like it was like directly in direct she coughed directly no she coughed directly into

00:11:16.600 my mouth like it was scary uh but that is how it happened that's how it started that's crazy and you

00:11:23.320 know it's so funny too how like you're one of the few people i've met whose degree is like being used

00:11:28.940 like mine is too oh period yeah because i did journalism and communications so i but i did media

00:11:34.160 journalism so i was mostly trying i always had to do packages i'd learn how to edit had to learn to

00:11:39.340 talk on camera yeah and i recently was telling my boyfriend i was like you want to hear something

00:11:44.200 so humiliating i was privating a bunch of old ass videos like some of my very first ones when i was

00:11:51.880 like kind of having a little bit of falling but nothing substantial at all i was just making them for

00:11:56.140 fun yeah but i was the way i it's not because anything's bad in them it's the way i'm talking

00:12:01.360 i fucking hate oh and it's because i talked like a media person so i like i would make today on drew

00:12:09.860 offloads you're crazy i literally was talking like two octaves higher because my voice sits at a pretty

00:12:16.840 low register for a woman so like trust me i hear it all the time from the men who hate me um but i love

00:12:22.820 the tenor of my voice but it's like i was making it higher and more like sing-songy almost like it

00:12:28.580 it's humiliating i can't imagine and i saw i i someone was like going through it was the same

00:12:34.980 person but they were going and like watching my earliest videos and then they were liking all of

00:12:39.020 them and i told my way when i was literally just following that person i was following them every

00:12:43.400 single one they like i click on it oh hate it private and then i'd click on it oh hate it private

00:12:47.420 like i was i wouldn't dare watch my old videos me either oh my god i would not dare like 2021

00:12:54.920 backwards i know horrific oh it doesn't i will i will not watch it ontario the wait is over the

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00:14:03.000 was so cool i thought i was so funny and a genius and now if i look back especially like there was an

00:14:09.060 era where i had kind of given up it was like 2021 and in canada our lockdown i forget i know

00:14:17.800 our lockdown was forever like it went from march 2020 until literally like uh oh my what was called

00:14:26.180 omicorn omicron omarion it went on for omicorn what's the name of that fucking strain whatever that

00:14:36.420 was now i'm freaking out because i can't say it either but it went on for months yeah there was a

00:14:41.500 point where i was like oh i give up and i was making these like green screen videos where i was

00:14:47.720 like me as if i were i would just like pick a job like a doctor or like me as a politician or something

00:14:55.140 and they're like fine yeah oh my god like do you you cringe watching it so cringy like stop that's how i

00:15:02.240 feel too honestly so horrible yeah when i look at the old ones i'm like yeah when i look at i'm

00:15:08.380 like i wouldn't have followed me no i'm glad other people did but literally i'm actually quite

00:15:14.040 annoying when i watch the old quite horrible yeah hey i get why i was getting all that racism and

00:15:19.220 fatphobia back then i get it i would have hated me too you add on top of what it is i actually am

00:15:26.160 doing oh man nothing like it yeah but i i find that so fucking cool though that you're like

00:15:32.000 able to utilize your degree um to the extent especially with the level of editing that you do

00:15:36.700 i'm so tired because i was actually going to ask you if you edit your own stuff edit all of my like

00:15:41.120 all of it i still edit all of it and even when do you film on a do you film on a phone or do you film

00:15:45.300 i use like a little vlog camera to film because it has a beauty a beauty filter that's the only reason

00:15:50.660 why and that's tea like i want to look flawless obviously and i don't want to do the work um no

00:15:57.060 yeah i edit everything myself i'm tired i'm even when i but even when i like ask for help i'll like

00:16:04.660 post on my story hey is there anybody want to like edit my videos or something and people will be like

00:16:09.600 i would love to i still can't give it to somebody else like it's just like i can't it's to me it's so

00:16:15.800 much easier if i just spend the half an hour and do it that's how i do it too yeah you still edit all

00:16:20.320 of your own videos too oh yeah girl oh my gosh every single one but i'm one of the few like

00:16:24.620 fucking colonial women on the app who like films in app like i'll film in app in in their camera

00:16:30.780 crazy i know every time i tell another content creator that or what like one like you or someone

00:16:36.440 who has like a lot of followers too or someone else they'll literally be like you're fucking crazy

00:16:40.940 you're crazy that you edit and i edit them in there too sometimes isn't that great it's i'm one of

00:16:46.480 those the idea of you being like hold on i just gotta edit this video is wild like what do you say

00:16:53.800 that because britney has a picture of me because we went away from my sister's 30th birthday we went

00:16:59.520 to san diego and like we were all staying in the same uh like little thing i rented and the after

00:17:06.060 the night we got there the next morning her and i both had some work to do and so some other people

00:17:10.320 did too so we were editing deal like brand deals and stuff and we were sitting next to each other

00:17:13.960 but i was editing on my phone and she was editing on her laptop and i was literally i was like

00:17:18.600 holding it like this because i have horrible vision too so i have to like sit and i had cord

00:17:22.100 headphones in so i could hear and i was like this mind you she takes a picture of me i'm laughing at

00:17:27.280 my own video like i'm literally going that's crazy i'm watching my own shit that is so funny i have a

00:17:35.040 problem where i'll like my friends always make fun of me because if i'm watching one of if i'm

00:17:39.960 watching myself yeah i like mimic what i'm doing like in the video so i'll literally be watching

00:17:46.340 myself like

00:17:46.920 like you're so me i it's hard you're so me it's like it's hard and i'm like watching and sometimes

00:17:55.340 i'll laugh like it's not me yeah i laugh my ass i'm like i'm like killing it we're funny like i'm

00:18:00.940 sorry like why else would i be sorry what do you want me to say so so like sorry sorry we're all

00:18:06.140 gonna sit here and lie okay literally funny is funny like even if it's me don't know what to

00:18:13.540 tell you uh i'm curious like what were you doing uh prior to that were you were you working at all

00:18:18.400 did you just get out of school i was in school um i so i was studying i graduated in 2020 where'd

00:18:24.780 you go i went to um toronto metropolitan university okay t um for radio and tv canada's a bit different

00:18:33.100 there's no there's no like you don't leave the province um to go to like a different school

00:18:39.440 some people would but in ontario there's like 8 to 12 different universities that you can choose from

00:18:45.680 and you pick by the program rather than like how good the school is gotcha as at least that's like

00:18:50.140 my understanding of it yeah um so i was studying radio and tv and then i would work in the summers i

00:18:56.580 would do like an internship oh cool so for example i was an intern at a pension firm

00:19:02.080 and i was uh the person that was calling the members so i was in member services okay uh usually

00:19:10.720 that's where the members call in yeah but my i was like in a little closet with two other interns and

00:19:16.940 we had to call the members the pensioners and you know what a pension is of course yeah so i would

00:19:23.080 call them to tell them that we got their mail because they would have moved okay and so then

00:19:29.800 i had to be like hi ma'am like we got your mail back did you move and then i'd have to like update

00:19:35.020 their address and that's all you did that's all i did and then one day we had to like stuff envelopes

00:19:40.660 we stuffed like 2 000 you're like a tv intern you know like on tv when they're like oh i have an

00:19:46.120 internship it's just sitting alone in a closet stuffing envelopes and it's funny because you tell

00:19:50.280 people i have an internship congratulate that's that's amazing the reality is literally like me

00:19:56.100 with like chopped up fingers like it's the most tedious job in the world it's like a job literally

00:20:02.060 nobody would want to do it's horrible then i had an internship doing um i worked at a tech company

00:20:08.060 okay but this was like tech support got for other companies okay and i was brought on to do their video

00:20:15.440 content okay why a tech company needs video content i have no idea he's like our fans are dying our fans

00:20:24.340 would love to see more of our staff to see more and i showed them um so that's what i did and then i

00:20:31.740 interned at um mtv canada oh cute yeah i well um bell media which is like it has a whole bunch of

00:20:39.800 different brands but i was editing like the mtv canada social stuff but i actually have an it was

00:20:45.240 an internship at the place that my show is on oh my gosh that's crazy so now i have a show and i went

00:20:52.380 into the studio like the offices yeah well like to be i went into the offices to like do um the

00:21:00.000 marketing one-liners yeah i like look into camera and i'm like hi canada but i'm like in this studio

00:21:05.940 that i used to be in where we would set up shoots for like other celebrities and stuff to like come

00:21:12.380 in so wild i i would love okay we'll transition into the show that's perfect segue yeah like how

00:21:17.360 did the show come about first of all congratulations thank you i'm so fucking happy for you thank you

00:21:21.320 and i would love to know about the show like tell me all about it like how it came to be

00:21:25.420 so i um basically uh crave which is so in canada there's like there's bell and as i mentioned bell

00:21:36.320 has like a whole bunch of different channels like mtv much music discovery yeah yeah yeah and then they

00:21:41.540 also have crave which is like a streamer that has like a ton of different um channels on it like hbo

00:21:49.440 stars fx yeah yeah and then they all they also have their own originals okay so crave was like

00:21:56.200 hi you want to make a show and at first they didn't really know what the show was going to be

00:22:02.680 i didn't really know what the show was going to be i just knew that i wanted to be a part of it like

00:22:08.120 i wanted to have some control otherwise who knows what's your sign i'm a capricorn

00:22:15.240 do you have any virgo in you i don't think so really yeah why am i giving virgo honestly yes

00:22:22.160 honestly yeah you are to me i'm a virgo but capricorns i've like talked shit on capricorns

00:22:27.100 just to be silly my sister's a capricorn moon but my thing with capricorns is my thing with capricorns

00:22:32.820 i've said it before i think capricorns are the most like magnetic like funny love like people it's true

00:22:40.000 oh yes oh my god it's so crazy yeah oh my god that's so wonderful yeah it's like everyone loves

00:22:46.120 a capricorn a capricorn does not love everyone and when when capricorns like lose interest like when

00:22:53.820 they're like kind of like i'm done with this they let you know almost immediately i have a big problem

00:22:59.320 like the problem is i cannot control my face yeah yes and your ability to detach almost immediately is

00:23:05.800 shocking it's shocking if i'm out the room i'm gone like i if i don't want to be here anymore

00:23:11.100 you'll know yeah like i will shut down and then that was also the thing about the show was

00:23:16.280 when we would like talk about what the show could be you could see that i i was like no this the show

00:23:23.300 like leaving your eyes gone yeah easily because i just like i wanted it to be cool yeah totally and

00:23:29.360 especially like canadian television like we all want it to be cool yeah and so that was like

00:23:34.100 obviously the vibe was like let's make it cool and it's yours and it's mine like it's my show yeah

00:23:39.360 you want to be able to like have a full yeah say and also like have them take your ideas seriously

00:23:44.420 exactly so um eventually we i met with a showrunner and we basically created this concept we were like

00:23:52.000 what could this show look like and the network was like just make the show you want to make and pitch

00:23:57.500 it to us which is like a dream that does not happen never they trusted us a little too much

00:24:02.900 it was a little scary um so we basically made this show where it's every episode i take on a

00:24:08.980 different reality tv genre and it's um it's me and a celebrity advisor love uh from that respective

00:24:15.560 genre love and we go on the journey and it ends in like a final challenge so yeah so we have dating

00:24:22.340 cooking news sports drag and slice of life like housewife kardashian how fucking cool girl and how

00:24:32.140 was it filming it it was so ridiculous it was ridiculous it's terrifying because there's like

00:24:37.800 a lot of imposter syndrome of like oh i bet am i supposed to be like is this actually been working

00:24:43.140 towards it for so long and i was like i was in i was behind the scenes for a lot of it yeah i was a

00:24:48.700 10 minute drive from the production office so i was there oh that's every day i was so great though

00:24:53.500 i know but i was like and i was in the writer's rooms too so we're like talking about all these

00:24:59.060 things i'm like okay and then i'm gonna like run out into the street and i'm gonna like scream this

00:25:03.880 and then oh and then this happens and i'm gonna like do drag and then i'm gonna and then the day

00:25:08.820 came where i'm the guy that has to do all of these things that i wrote and i was losing my mind i was

00:25:15.440 like oh my god i can't do this you're like who wrote this i'm like who wrote this trash this is

00:25:20.740 horrible no it's terrifying yeah um but it ended up being so fun and all the celebrities too that we

00:25:28.160 got were like perfect oh that's so great they're good sports oh my god a little too good i'm so glad

00:25:34.540 though yeah that's like what a fucking i know it could have gone the opposite it's a real dice roll

00:25:39.120 sometimes especially for something like as huge as your first season of your big show i know so

00:25:45.300 you're like i want it to go well and like that's probably a control thing too because you're like

00:25:49.180 i can't control how they do i have no idea what they're gonna show up and do hopefully they're

00:25:52.520 down for the vibes i love when someone's down though like when they come and they're like a

00:25:56.880 really good sport about it have fun challenge yeah like bring back fun bring back having fun

00:26:02.160 literally i know i feel like it's such a i don't think there's been very many instances i've had

00:26:08.120 where i've had to like act or do something fun with a celebrity and they weren't game yeah there

00:26:13.020 was like a couple times where i was kind of like okay i can't tell if you fucking hate me or if you're

00:26:17.060 like having fun like i literally can't tell i'm scared don't meet your heroes like i'm scared to do

00:26:22.600 things sometimes my manager will be like do you want to do something with like a housewife or like

00:26:26.260 do you want to do something like i know this celebrity maybe we could get you guys in a room

00:26:29.520 together and i'm like anytime somebody's like my friend of a friend knows kim yeah we should get you

00:26:37.880 guys like in a room together and like make a video and i'm like i don't know if i should do

00:26:42.460 that yeah it's like girl i think she'd hate my guts oh she'd hate me there are certain people where

00:26:49.840 i'm like i think i would entertain the fuck out of her but i think she wouldn't like me or she'd find

00:26:55.140 me weird there are quite a few of those where i'm like it's all fun and games till you meet me in

00:26:59.600 person huh is there is there anybody that you like are dying to meet or or do you not care

00:27:06.480 because honestly after you meet and see them yeah and are like in rooms with them it's just like so

00:27:13.080 like it's just doesn't matter anymore it's just like oh that's them yeah i recently hosted a thing

00:27:17.740 with um tiktok canada it was like the tiktok summit oh and snoop dogg was there t which that was

00:27:24.580 cool of course but it just felt so like he like walked into the green room till he was like is

00:27:29.960 there a bathroom in here yeah it's over there yeah but like it's just like so real like they're just

00:27:37.100 normal so normal like it's it's crazy how normal they are and how cool they are when you also act

00:27:42.780 normal like it's it's very strange because you especially when you grow up like because we're

00:27:48.560 around the same age but like did you grow up like watching youtube and stuff like that like just

00:27:52.620 really into social media yes but specifically youtube like same and so when i see youtubers

00:27:57.700 and like you know when you grow up in this era of media you're kind of like you have this

00:28:01.660 understanding of celebrity culture of influencer culture you're like oh i think i understand it

00:28:05.440 yeah and when you actually like enter it it's way different so different it's so different and it's so

00:28:10.900 like i it i know exactly what you mean it's like regular i guess is the description it's hard to

00:28:15.460 explain it's not the glitz and the glam that you think yeah and you're almost shocked that you don't

00:28:19.880 feel that way yes right you're kind of like i don't feel anything at all i guess that's cool

00:28:24.240 but you can almost apply that to anything like even with my show it was like this is a dream

00:28:29.160 totally but i had to realize that even it when you know you have this like a dream of something

00:28:35.680 you're still gonna have things about it that you don't like yeah or that there's you're still

00:28:39.300 you out that stress you out you're gonna have like bad days where you come home and you're not

00:28:42.760 happy yeah and you don't want to work you don't want to wake up and go do it like that's normal

00:28:48.060 it is but it's hard yeah and then you you have those moments like and that's where my imposter

00:28:53.620 syndrome kicks in sometimes too because then i'm like i feel ungrateful and i'm not ungrateful i'm

00:28:58.820 just like i'm experiencing a human emotion which is i'm tired or i'm stressed and it's like then

00:29:03.380 you're like okay wait this is like a dream come true i'm very happy i'm very grateful so i go and i do

00:29:07.320 it and it's always fun yeah but then when you have those moments it's very i know exactly what you're

00:29:11.580 it's such a weird especially when you work normal jobs like i've told people before i was

00:29:16.380 so fucking normal like prior to doing this i worked nine to five i sat in gridlock like

00:29:21.320 i paid bills i made minimum wage barely like i was like struggling to survive i was very normal

00:29:28.340 just like everybody else and then now you just go 180 into the next world and then it's like how do

00:29:33.200 i how do i do this yeah i get but i also think that it's a testament for me it's like i having good

00:29:40.800 people around you totally is so important it's so cliche ew but like but it's true but it's so

00:29:47.360 true because even i um i got i was i got asked to do like a trader's uh brand trip to go to like

00:29:54.680 scotland oh yes girl i know the exact trip you're talking about and i'm glad you brought that up

00:29:58.840 because everyone i love was on that trip including bowman and i did not get invited and no you're all

00:30:03.680 wondering no i didn't get invited thank you very much for asking anyways back to the trip i'm like the

00:30:07.700 way i know every single one of those people and they are all well love that well i almost said

00:30:14.040 no i almost said no yeah because i was like i don't really get it like and i've never gone on

00:30:18.320 a brand trip i don't know what they are like i didn't get it same honestly but then i said to my

00:30:22.480 friend like i don't know that i'm gonna do this i was like what are you crazy get your ass on that

00:30:28.780 trip and go and i was like okay period and then i had the best time but yeah it literally was and

00:30:33.500 then suddenly it was like me and all my friends right on like a little like friend trip to scotland

00:30:38.200 are you kidding me how fucking cool girl that was so fun and was it like how long were you guys there

00:30:42.280 like a week or something like five days and how was it like just overall it was a dream it was it

00:30:47.380 like the fact that it was like friends aside yeah the people made it wonderful yeah i was not expecting

00:30:55.080 such a lavish experience i was gonna say that in a castle in scotland girl that shit looks crazy

00:31:02.360 the guy who owns asos owns that castle it's like his like that's crazy like crazy casual and then

00:31:09.660 we would be like at dinner and then there's like like in the corner there's like a woman playing the

00:31:13.840 celtic harp like and then the chef would come out and be like here's what you're eating today it's so

00:31:19.180 like magical it was magical i saw you and teffy's a detour

00:31:23.720 the way i know uh how like a handful of tiktokers just terrorizing that castle horrible like the

00:31:33.480 minute you get there you're like i got at least five bits oh they wanted us out of there i we made

00:31:39.120 that tiktok like 10 minutes before we had to like get in the car and leave and the staff at the castle

00:31:45.700 was like good oh you could tell they were like ushering us they're following kept like moving

00:31:50.380 closer and closer to the door like cornering us it was crazy that's so fucking awesome though like

00:31:57.500 yeah and i feel like it's especially good when you meet people in this industry like specifically

00:32:03.120 creators that are not the worst sometimes you meet people and you're like i get why people hate

00:32:08.520 influencers yes fucking same yes it's like sometimes you meet them and it's crazy huh but you know what

00:32:13.920 it's so easy to like be horrible to like do this and be like even when i was starting i feel like i

00:32:20.600 had to like make the conscious effort sometimes that like everybody around me doesn't do this yeah and

00:32:26.740 i have to like be mindful of that be mindful of why you were invited to the section exactly

00:32:31.100 no but like like some people are actually horrible they are like shut up like shut up challenge

00:32:40.840 like impossible level impossible oh my god like talked about it like i've talked about it with

00:32:46.800 other creator friends even when i meet creators who are like new to the game and they're kind of

00:32:50.480 coming up now if they ask me for advice like other than get a really good lawyer and get a really good

00:32:55.840 team like agent manager very important yes both are important don't do it by yourself yeah past that

00:33:01.300 i always tell them to make friends that are also creators like build community yeah because it's so

00:33:07.740 important and i always tell people no one relates to your problems anymore every problem you have no

00:33:13.520 no one can relate to that shit other than a creator no or your team so like no oh my gosh you have to

00:33:18.660 lean on them i find it hard because i'm in canada yeah where like everybody's not nobody's doing this

00:33:23.740 yeah and i mean i have some creator friends but like they're either they've either moved away

00:33:28.800 yeah like moved to here or they just do you want to move here are you thinking about it or

00:33:35.700 maybe bi-coastal kind of thing bi-coastal so bad my boyfriend's here and so we do technically

00:33:42.080 you're already kind of doing that so yeah i'm already kind of like i'll come for like a week or two

00:33:46.440 weeks yeah but i think i if i was going to be here i would need like my own space totally because

00:33:52.020 we're very like we need our own space um okay and that's okay the important thing is you know

00:33:58.620 exactly um but i think eventually i know that when i'll end up in new york i think new york matches

00:34:06.760 you too you think so i think so yeah i think you would do well here but i think new york is more

00:34:12.100 your vibe you give like wisconsin oh oh oh well in the sense that you know in in a sense that

00:34:19.000 oh i said something nice okay um wait do you love it here here i would i mean i was born and

00:34:26.820 raised here in southern california not in la but in southern california so i was raised in um

00:34:32.980 on the way to san diego like riverside county i'm an ie girl that's the inland empire so i'm from

00:34:39.100 there so i'm not from la okay and i know why people hate la and i hate la if i'm being honest

00:34:44.860 what's the theory like what why do you why do you hate la i mean i hate it just because

00:34:49.620 well besides the fact that parking is literally impossible but it's not a walkable city which

00:34:55.560 infuriates me yeah the traffic drives me into you can only do two things in a day girl like literally

00:35:03.900 if it's like it literally the valley to hollywood like okay in the car for four hours like it's just

00:35:09.180 horrible there's no way everything is a road groceries is a road trip it's horrific i gotta block out

00:35:14.800 six hours just to go to trader joe's it's fucking terrible and my agent is actually from canada she

00:35:21.740 lives there now but she's a vancouver girl okay and um she tells me all the made-up names of her towns

00:35:27.380 and i forget them she when she she comes down a lot um to help me with work and she always stays with me

00:35:34.360 but when we drive like she's a motion sickness girl and i kind of am too and she's miserable because

00:35:41.860 we're in the car for hours you're just sitting motion sickness is great when we were in scot

00:35:46.860 remy is motion sick yeah she has it bad girl i look over at remy in the car she's like

00:35:51.420 like having a hand we were like winding so i get it but like god i was like damn it's like that it's

00:35:59.960 hard to see the one branch hold on the one brand trip i got invited to was for a brand i absolutely

00:36:05.220 love and adore and i'm not gonna say who it is but i did get invited and i was like did you go

00:36:11.100 i'll get okay let me tell you about that okay girl i went and i was like or i said yeah and i

00:36:18.020 was gonna take my boyfriend and i was like okay see and like i knew some of the girls that were going

00:36:21.660 and i was like okay this would be fun and i was nervous too because i don't know i'd never been on

00:36:25.360 a brand trip i don't know anything about them i went to one but i don't know if you could count it

00:36:29.220 because they let me bring my friends so i don't know if you could count it okay but like and that

00:36:34.580 was really last minute so but this was to another country and everything and it was tropical and i

00:36:37.820 was like okay t the day comes they send like cars to come get me and like we go to the airport uh they

00:36:44.360 sent the car i think a little too late like a little too close to the timing okay because then they got

00:36:49.760 stuck in traffic because they shut down like two lanes on the highway and so by the time i got to

00:36:55.080 the check-in thing my shit's gone like my flight took off and so i'm sitting there and they're like

00:36:59.760 um well there's no other flights because the place we're going you have to like i deck a connecting

00:37:04.400 flight and then you get on one of those little fucking little planes and then go again because

00:37:07.900 it was like an island and then i was like i'm never gonna make it there so then they i decided to

00:37:13.920 do a different trip just for vacay but then they were like no no no don't don't plan another trip

00:37:18.340 we'll put you on another plane and i'm like okay because then at this point i'm like i've already

00:37:23.160 lost a whole day it's gonna take me a full day to get there by the time i get there i'm only have

00:37:27.100 a day and a half so it's like not worth it yeah and they're like no no no let us send you again

00:37:32.440 so then they i stay in a shit hotel i go back to the airport the next day i go they do a private

00:37:39.700 check-in have you ever done that shit no okay me either um because it's actual big money it's

00:37:45.540 literally a completely separate thing behind lax they drive you past it they drive you inside

00:37:53.060 people come to your door take out take all your luggage they check it immediately

00:37:56.840 and they're like let me take you into the into the building they take you in it's everything's free

00:38:02.060 it's like full service full bar full everything it's fancy fancy little chairs fancy everything

00:38:08.400 and i was like damn and then they were telling me god because you know i'm a cheese mosa i'm super

00:38:12.600 nosy so i'm like asking them like so like who like flies to me that's like how like beyonce

00:38:16.720 flies that's how like actual famous people fly not dickheads like us on the internet

00:38:20.220 so like i was like i fly like that but yeah well i mean when you say really famous people

00:38:26.240 obviously i'm talking about me but like and i was like okay see while i'm sitting there my flight got

00:38:30.520 delayed i think like three times and then i really wasn't gonna make it and i said hey i'm gonna take

00:38:36.180 the hint and i went home and i actually never went that's what happened so you just like chilled at the

00:38:43.420 airport and had a free apple like yeah i went to the airport four times never left uh then went home and i was

00:38:49.020 like god does not want me to get on that plane and i will take the hint do not come and then i went

00:38:54.240 straight home and then it's funny because my uncle was dog sending my dog and i came back three times

00:39:00.360 and the third time he goes are you like actually going this time or can i go home i was like you

00:39:05.320 can go home and so you never went no i never went so still haven't been on a brand trip girl period

00:39:09.640 but i'm glad you got to go to scotland that was really fun yeah they flew me private too

00:39:14.580 so i actually know the airport you're talking about it's okay i'm actually extremely familiar

00:39:19.640 yeah it's fine anyways um i truly like adore you i think you're so incredibly funny and talented i know

00:39:28.460 and humble more importantly but i would love to know um because you've been doing this now and

00:39:36.260 now congratulations again on the show i'm so fucking excited for you thank you uh for anyone

00:39:40.620 who's like an aspiring like comedy whether they're a sketch comedy writer or an actor or maybe they

00:39:46.460 want to do stand-up or something like that uh i would love to know what your best piece of advice

00:39:50.480 is for them if they're pursuing it or maybe they're thinking about it yeah um i learned this so recently

00:39:56.520 um okay let me see if i can get the wording right i learned that uh in this process and in this job

00:40:05.760 and everything it's so easy that like to not trust yourself totally um and

00:40:11.980 trust like in those moments i tell myself that like i can't do it or that i i i won't be able to do it

00:40:21.720 and i think that the most important thing it's like everybody knows that they can do it yeah like

00:40:27.160 that's why we're sitting right here because like totally like we believe we can do it yeah totally

00:40:30.580 but it's you have to trust that you know what to do yeah because it can change oh t i know isn't

00:40:37.900 that so good you worded it perfectly i love that that's all right i've had so many moments where it's

00:40:42.120 like you know you're you're uh accomplishing things or like you're like i was this is my dream

00:40:49.080 the show was my dream absolutely um from when i was a kid and when it starts to like change

00:40:55.260 or take a different shape or turn into something else you i start to freak out yeah or even like

00:41:01.560 if i if i show up at like um like a hosting gig or like anything um i have a certain idea of how

00:41:09.400 it's gonna go and if it doesn't go like that you panic yeah because it's like this isn't how it's

00:41:13.780 supposed to go yeah this is how i planned it meticulously in my head literally but when it changes

00:41:18.340 you have to know that you know what to do absolutely because usually you do well and also

00:41:24.160 like there's a reason why you're here in the first place yeah right so trust your instinct i'm really

00:41:28.280 handsome just unbelievably talented i have a huge fat ass god i got everything in spades i don't even

00:41:36.420 know what to tell you yeah everyone's it's just a race for second it really is i'm glad you plays

00:41:43.460 some people don't even play yeah be grateful exactly i'm so uh incredibly incredibly excited

00:41:52.380 for you i'm so fucking happy for you thank you and you're so fucking funny and talented i can't wait

00:41:57.460 to see all the amazing wonderful things you continue to do should be interesting and i'll just pray on

00:42:03.840 your downfall in the meantime period get that voodoo doll ready girl thank you so much for coming on

00:42:09.400 the show you're amazing where can everybody find you you can find me um on at bowmanizer on everything

00:42:16.880 period um and you can also find me at the grocery store in toronto being humble being hounded by fans

00:42:25.620 and paparazzi if you see me in public i'm not going to take a photo with you i am like i just like leave

00:42:31.780 me i'm i'm normal like i'm i'm just like you guys i'm one of you um so that's where you can find me

00:42:37.960 and where can they watch your show you can watch my show on crave uh in if you're from canada and

00:42:43.740 if you're not from canada you can call your local tv service providers and beg and plead them to

00:42:50.560 purchase our show and put it on their streaming services

00:42:54.520 please and thank you yeah

00:42:58.080 i'm so uh incredibly honored to have had you on the show thank you so much for coming

00:43:04.100 honor to be here truly and thank you all so much for watching make sure y'all go follow bowman on

00:43:07.940 literally everything if you don't already i'm sure all of you do and make sure you tune in to your

00:43:12.840 show your amazing tv yeah made for tv i was gonna say please say the name of it you're like what's it

00:43:17.960 called again no i have it in my notes but i was like please say the name of it i don't think we've

00:43:21.300 said it yet tune into made for tv streaming july 12th period very exciting if you are canadian make

00:43:26.900 sure you go watch bowman's show otherwise you're not even really canadian yeah it's it's canadian

00:43:31.660 heritage otherwise you your citizenship gets revoked on like fast immediately yeah i got

00:43:38.300 justin trudeau on the line yeah thank you so much for watching i appreciate all of you i appreciate

00:43:44.300 bowman so much make sure and don't forget new episodes of the comment section come out every

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