The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - THE TEA WALKED IN THE ROOM Ft. Boman Martinez-Reid

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

00:00:34.400 fave everybody knows me who cares about me on to the guests today we have the iconic the hilarious

00:00:39.880 the amazing bowman martinez reed

00:00:42.540 welcome to the show thank you for having me oh my gosh it's an honor honor and a pleasure last

00:00:50.820 time we saw each other oscars party also an honor and a pleasure yes because we got to have tea

00:00:57.380 we got tea we got tea together and we got to witness history repeat itself we saw things

00:01:03.460 change right before our very eyes in that room i'll never forget i'll never forget you know

00:01:09.360 what's funny is when we witnessed it happen again like the history repeat itself you were like oh

00:01:14.800 i wish i was there the first time because i wasn't oh yeah you weren't there and then shallon goes

00:01:19.420 you were there and you're all was i and shallon goes you were literally sitting at the table with

00:01:24.760 us and then you were like oh i don't remember i do not recall you were like but we saw tea

00:01:30.480 we were literally like talking about the tea actually from last year and then the tea walked

00:01:35.060 in the room it was actually quite crazy spilled all over us i was dripping wrench scalding hot

00:01:42.840 it was really scary but it was but it was fun bonded yeah we bonded seriously something about

00:01:48.840 those parties like weird shit happens and you're like did anyone else watch that or was it just me

00:01:53.460 yes the weirdest vibe in those parties the strangest energy it's either like really stale 0.92

00:02:00.740 like like you don't want to be there or it's like the exact opposite where it's like super exciting

00:02:07.480 but but i feel like in those rooms everybody's experiencing both at the same time totally and

00:02:12.480 it's a warring of emotions yes and you're experiencing it together yes it's and it's so

00:02:18.320 funny i keep bringing this up because this happened last week when i filmed but i've told

00:02:22.600 people like sometimes people are like i can't believe you don't get starstruck like me and

00:02:26.240 you've met so many people too and i was like you would be surprised do you get starstruck oh you

00:02:32.300 don't not at all not for anybody beyonce walks into the room no beyonce was the only person i

00:02:37.500 was just about to say i saw that happen don't act sick she was the only person okay that ever made

00:02:45.340 me feel like that and i was truly like i felt because i was meeting her at the same time as

00:02:50.620 brinny we were standing together outside i truly was thinking i have to lock in right now or i'm

00:02:56.800 gonna unleash something in that room that i can't take back the room's gonna set up in flames

00:03:00.920 something bad's gonna happen i'm gonna black out i'm gonna wake up like the incredible hulk 0.92

00:03:05.380 naked in a ditch beyonce is naked in a what beyonce is so serious she like that is i feel 0.81

00:03:12.540 like they're i don't get um i'll only get starstruck over a real housewife okay see that's

00:03:17.680 like the only your favorite housewives i or what's your favorite like city yeah um atlanta is the

00:03:24.840 best one or it used to be they're struggling right now um but i like i was walking on the street

00:03:32.380 and i was re-watching the real housewives of atlanta okay and i was re-watching it with

00:03:37.100 my boyfriend and we were walking down melrose and i i was like why is there a crowd drawn up here

00:03:43.140 like what's going on and nini leaks was standing in the street doing like street interviews and i

00:03:49.960 could not believe my eyes i like literally couldn't believe it i love nini yeah that was

00:03:55.000 crazy she's funny and honestly she cracked me the fuck up on when she was on glee oh my god her

00:04:00.300 character on glee people forget nini was on glee like yeah literally that's history oh please a

00:04:06.520 bronze medalist insane so funny so good coming for sue's gig yeah that was she was hilarious

00:04:13.340 really funny i love her she needs another shot i need i honestly need more i need to study up more

00:04:19.820 on housewives i don't really know much about housewives we can fix that we can you can give

00:04:24.420 me some homework i feel like every podcast i do i start i just talk about housewives the entire time

00:04:28.380 you're just doing pr like here we go yeah they should hire me but you need to get into house

00:04:33.060 wives of atlanta i think that's like the one that you if you'd watch it you'd be like oh this is

00:04:37.280 funny okay it is like funny okay there's so many like memes and stuff from that show there are

00:04:43.080 i know like isn't like that one that's like that's my opinion that's from a housewife yes yeah

00:04:48.740 there's so many housewives housewife means memes like yeah like inside jokes yeah that have turned

00:04:53.840 into like internet jokes but they originated from yeah the and honestly nini has so many

00:04:59.200 iconic lines many iconic lines white refrigerator are you kidding me yeah

00:05:04.460 and you know what somebody said she changed the refrigerator industry you cannot have a

00:05:14.620 white refrigerator in this day and age she shifted it drastically it's embarrassing

00:05:18.060 because then people say the quote it's horrible that's horrible i'd love to talk about your start

00:05:25.640 on like just social media in general because obviously um if everyone should know who bowman 0.79

00:05:31.540 is if you don't you're you're either brand new to tiktok or you're crazy you need a life and a job 0.98

00:05:36.480 yeah and you're a loser yeah anyways smell bad and it's science yeah so don't know what to tell 0.97

00:05:43.160 you um but i'm curious like how did you get into content creation like what made you want to start 0.98

00:05:47.480 because obviously you're known for your iconic like reality tv show sketches but i know i feel

00:05:53.020 like you're a sketch comedy girl like you really love sketch comedy which i i love too so i'd love

00:05:57.980 to know how you got started like well what were you doing beforehand yeah yeah so legend has it

00:06:03.700 i was um studying radio and television oh my degree was media production okay period um and

00:06:10.460 this was 2019 and i was tiktok was not cool yet yeah at all like it was like that was around the

00:06:16.820 time i heard about tiktok 2019 um i was dating a guy who was on tiktok okay and it was a red flag

00:06:23.520 it was like he uses tiktok like that's like embarrassing you have to like stop seeing yeah

00:06:29.060 because how old are you i am 26 okay i'm 28 so i around that time you're kind of like everyone's

00:06:35.240 so young because it was like still a young app and it was like thirst trappy like yes and you

00:06:40.720 would like i remember downloading the app to cringe watch tiktoks with my friends yeah me too

00:06:46.380 you know what's funny is i also downloaded it because one of my cousins was making secret

00:06:50.300 tiktoks and i just wanted to see what she was posting that era was crazy you have like a friend

00:06:55.200 start to or like a family member start to make tiktoks and it was like we have to tune in i had

00:07:00.120 to go look um and unfortunately i was that person for many people right because i started making

00:07:05.700 tiktoks my friend was like um he showed me jack in and in love who actually like lived in my

00:07:12.300 neighborhood at the time and i would see him around and be like oh my god that's jack and i

00:07:16.060 uh my friends were like you know how to like edit videos yeah you're kind of funny why don't you

00:07:20.520 like try and i was like no ill yeah then that guy that i was seeing went viral and he's not funny

00:07:29.720 so i was like wait if he can do this wait a second i could do this yeah and so then i remember having

00:07:36.740 not spite motivated literally no literally i was like i gotta get him and so then i started making

00:07:44.020 tiktoks um my first tiktok was like me telling my other two brain cells that i'm gonna start

00:07:49.240 making tiktoks and it was like a conversation with myself okay too um and then i think it was

00:07:53.980 like february 2020 i made um i started making these reality tv tiktoks yeah where i would take

00:08:02.300 mundane problems and turn them into these like reality tv epics yeah um they it was just like

00:08:09.620 what i was just doing them for fun at the beginning and you add the the noises the noises

00:08:14.940 and the sounds yes yeah um i actually had a digital series on youtube yeah um in high school

00:08:21.980 called read it and weep read like my last name genius and um i was like making like a reality

00:08:29.380 tv show with my friends and so that's is that just because or was it through school i was like

00:08:34.080 obsessed with the housewives and so then i remember telling my family one day like i want my own tv

00:08:39.240 show and then my brother was just like why don't you just make it and i was like oh so that's why

00:08:43.460 i started that in high school full circle we're doing i know i know so then i started that in

00:08:48.980 high school and then stopped doing it and then when tiktok was cool i was like wait i know how

00:08:54.040 to like mock edit reality tv why don't I try this so I remember the headache that it like the headache

00:09:02.000 I had where I was trying to figure out how to take a whole reality tv storyline and put it into one

00:09:07.860 minute yeah because I was before because that was yes yeah and so I was like trying to figure it

00:09:12.320 out anyway I made this one video where my professor sent me the read the syllabus email yeah and I was

00:09:18.040 so stabbed in the back and I went back to bed and then I made another one where um this actually

00:09:23.060 happened yeah i had a roommate at the time and i opened the door to my room i saw a pile of dirt

00:09:28.940 on the ground and a broom next to it and i was like what is that he had swept but he left the

00:09:36.080 dirt beside the garbage just because just for me to clean up i guess he's all you know what to do

00:09:42.440 i was literally i'm so pissed this guy never cleaned ever and the one time he does i have

00:09:48.080 to finish it are you kidding me he couldn't even he couldn't even i was so pissed like right next

00:09:51.900 to it so i looked at it and i was like should i make a tick tock about this so i was the brain 0.60

00:09:57.680 rot literally yeah so then i made a tick tock where i was shot in the gut from the disrespect

00:10:02.300 i fall to the floor much like the dirt on the ground i am worthless i decide to pass away and

00:10:07.560 then the rest of the video is me lying there dead yeah um and then that went viral and then a few

00:10:12.240 weeks later was that your first one that was the first one yeah and that was crazy it was like oh

00:10:16.400 my god this is what it's like to get like two million views on a video yeah really yeah it's

00:10:20.500 a crazy feeling crazy and then i was also like posting them on tiktok and then i was posting

00:10:26.140 them on twitter so that they would go viral on twitter too because that's what was happening

00:10:29.760 with like rosa and britney so i was like but i was like i'm doing this to go like i'm not doing

00:10:36.540 this for fun this is i was like i'm gonna put in the work here no i have a mission yeah i will

00:10:42.700 accomplish of course absolutely so then uh 2020 happened then it was a pandemic yeah and then i

00:10:50.140 had nothing to do but to make videos and nobody else had anything to do but to watch my videos

00:10:54.400 yeah and i made a video with my friend eden where she coughs and it went directly into my mouth

00:11:01.000 i had a vision and that went like very viral and that changed my life i actually think i remember

00:11:06.520 the i think the cough was the cough hurt around the world yeah i think that's the first one i

00:11:10.220 ever saw of you yes and you going like it was like directly in direct she coughed directly no

00:11:15.540 she coughed directly into my mouth like it was scary uh but that is how it happened that's how

00:11:21.380 it started that's crazy and you know it's so funny too how like you're one of the few people

00:11:26.760 i've met whose degree is like being used like mine is too oh period yeah because i did journalism

00:11:31.660 and communications so i but i did media journalism so i was mostly trying i always had to do packages

00:11:37.340 i had to learn how to edit had to learn to talk on camera yeah and i recently was telling my 0.98

00:11:42.520 boyfriend i was like you want to hear something so humiliating i was privating a bunch of old ass 0.92

00:11:48.540 videos like some of my very first ones when i was like kind of having a little bit of falling but 0.88

00:11:53.640 nothing substantial at all i was just making them for fun yeah but i was the way i it's not because 0.80

00:11:58.840 anything's bad in them it's the way i'm talking i fucking hate oh and it's because i talked like 0.95

00:12:05.480 a media person so i like i would make today on drew off you're crazy i literally was talking 0.96

00:12:13.860 like two octaves higher because my voice sits at a pretty low register for a woman so like

00:12:19.680 trust me i hear it all the time from the men who hate me um but i love the tenor of my voice but

00:12:24.300 it's like i was making it higher and more like sing-songy almost like it's humiliating i can't

00:12:31.020 imagine and i saw i i someone was like going through it was the same person but they were

00:12:35.560 going and like watching my earliest videos and then they were liking all of them and i told my

00:12:40.280 i was literally just following that person i was following them every single one

00:12:43.740 and then i'd click on oh hate it private like i was i wouldn't dare watch my old videos me either

00:12:52.820 oh my god i would not dare like 2021 backwards i know horrific oh it doesn't i will i will not

00:12:59.640 watch it and at the time oh I thought I was so cool I thought I was so funny and a genius and

00:13:07.160 now if I look back especially like there was an era where I had kind of given up

00:13:11.420 it was like 2021 and in Canada our lockdown I know our lockdown was forever like it went from

00:13:21.700 march 2020 until literally like uh what was called omicorn omicron omarion it went on for 0.60

00:13:30.820 omicorn what's the name of that fucking strain whatever that was now i'm freaking out because 0.85

00:13:37.700 i can't say it either but it went on for months yeah there was a point where i was like oh i give 0.96

00:13:42.700 up and i was making these like green screen videos where i was like me as if i were i would

00:13:51.340 just like pick a job like a doctor or like me as a politician or something and they're like fine

00:13:57.040 yeah oh my god like do you you cringe watching it's so cringy like stop that's how i feel too

00:14:02.780 so so horrible yeah when i look at the old ones i'm like yeah when i look at i'm like i wouldn't

00:14:09.140 have followed me no i'm glad other people did but literally i'm actually quite annoying when i watch

00:14:15.220 the old quite horrible yeah hey i get why i was getting all that racism and fat phobia back then

00:14:20.040 i get it i would have hated me too you had on top of what it is i actually am doing oh man 0.74

00:14:27.300 nothing like it yeah but i i find that so fucking cool though that you're like 0.73

00:14:32.040 able to utilize your degree um to the extent especially with the level of editing that you do 0.77

00:14:36.760 i'm so tired because i was actually going to ask you if you edit your own stuff edit

00:14:39.860 all of my like all of it i still edit all of it and even when i'm on a do you film on a phone or

00:14:44.960 do you film I use like a little vlog camera to film because it has a beauty filter that's the

00:14:50.320 only reason why and that's tea like I want to look flawless obviously and I don't want to do the work

00:14:55.560 um no yeah I edit everything myself I'm tired I'm even when I but even when I like ask for help

00:15:04.260 I'll like post on my story hey is there anybody want to like edit my videos or something and

00:15:09.140 people will be like I would love to I still can't give it to somebody else like it's just like I

00:15:14.280 can't it's to me it's so much easier if i just spend the half an hour and do it that's how i do

00:15:18.780 it too yeah you still edit all of your own videos too oh yeah girl oh my god every single one but 0.89

00:15:23.400 i'm one of the few like fucking colonial women on the app who like films in app like i'll film 0.99

00:15:29.040 in app in in their camera you're crazy i know every time i tell another content creator that 0.99

00:15:34.480 or one like one like you or someone who has like a lot of followers too or someone else 0.99

00:15:38.980 they'll literally be like you're fucking crazy you're crazy that you edit and i edit them in 0.96

00:15:43.060 there too sometimes isn't that great it's i'm one of those the idea of you being like hold on i just 0.99

00:15:49.100 gotta edit this video is wild like what do you say that because britney has a picture of me

00:15:56.660 because we went away from my sister's 30th birthday we went to san diego and like we were

00:16:00.980 all staying in the same uh like little thing i rented and the after the night we got there the

00:16:07.060 next morning her and i both had some work to do and so some other people did too so we were editing

00:16:11.440 deal like brand deals and stuff and we're sitting next to each other but i was editing on my phone

00:16:15.520 and she was editing on her laptop and i was literally i was like holding it like this because

00:16:19.640 i have horrible vision too so i have to like sit and i had cord headphones in so i could hear

00:16:23.240 mind you she takes a picture of me i'm laughing at my own video like i'm literally going

00:16:29.600 that's crazy that is so funny i have a problem where i'll like my friends always make fun of me

00:16:37.820 because if i'm watching one of if i'm watching myself yeah i like mimic what i'm doing

00:16:43.240 like in the video so i'll literally be watching myself like

00:16:46.980 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

00:16:55.380 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 0.77

00:17:01.000 sorry like why else would i be making sorry what do you want me to say so so like sorry sorry we're 0.74

00:17:06.100 all gonna sit here and lie okay literally funny is funny like even if it's me don't know what to

00:17:13.580 tell you uh i'm curious like what were you doing prior to that were you were you working at all

00:17:18.440 did you just get out of school i was in school um i so i'm studying i graduated in 2020 where'd

00:17:24.820 you go i went to um toronto metropolitan university okay um for radio and tv canada's a bit different

00:17:33.160 there's no there's no like you don't leave the province um to go to like a different school

00:17:39.500 some people would but in Ontario there's like eight to twelve different universities that you

00:17:45.100 can choose from and you pick by the program rather than like how good the school is as at

00:17:49.700 least that's like my understanding of it yeah um so I was studying radio and tv and then I would

00:17:54.920 work in the summers I would do like an internship oh cool so for example I was an intern at a pension

00:18:01.720 firm and i was uh the person that was calling the members so i was in member services okay uh

00:18:10.420 usually that's where the members call in yeah but my i was like in a little closet

00:18:14.200 with two other interns and we had to call the members the pensioners

00:18:19.600 and you know what a pension is of course yeah so i would call them to tell them that we got their

00:18:25.380 mail because they would have moved okay and so then i had to be like hi ma'am like we got your

00:18:32.480 mail back did you move and then i'd have to like update their address and that's all you did that's

00:18:37.460 all i did and then one day we had to like stuff envelopes we stuffed like 2 000 you're like a tv

00:18:43.380 intern you know like on tv when they're like oh i have an internship it's just sitting alone in a

00:18:48.260 closet stuffing envelopes and it's funny because you tell people i have an internship congratulate

00:18:51.780 that's amazing the reality is literally like me with like chopped up fingers like it's the most

00:18:59.140 tedious job in the world it's like a job literally nobody would want to do it's horrible then i had

00:19:04.080 an internship doing um i worked at a tech company okay but this was like tech support got for other

00:19:11.920 companies okay and i was brought on to do their video content okay why a tech company needs video

00:19:19.240 content i have no idea he's like our fans are dying our fans would love to see more of our staff

00:19:26.760 to see more and i showed them um so that's what i did and then i interned at um mtv canada oh cute

00:19:35.120 yeah i well um bell media which is like it has a whole bunch of different brands but i was editing

00:19:41.160 like the mtv canada social stuff but i actually have an it was an internship at the place that

00:19:47.180 my show is on oh my gosh that's crazy so now i have a show and i went into the studio

00:19:53.220 yeah well like to be i went into the offices to like do um the marketing one-liners yeah i like

00:20:01.780 look into camera and i'm like hi canada but i'm like in this studio that i used to be in where

00:20:07.620 we would set up shoots for like other celebrities and stuff to like come in so wild i i would love

00:20:14.580 okay we'll transition into the show that's perfect segue yeah like how did the show come about first

00:20:18.400 of all congratulations thank you i'm so fucking happy for you thank you and i would love to know

00:20:22.480 about the show like tell me all about it like how it came to be so i um basically uh crave which is

00:20:31.220 so in canada there's like there's bell and as i mentioned bell has like a whole bunch of different

00:20:37.400 channels like mtv much music discovery yeah yeah yeah and then they also have crave which is like

00:20:43.200 a streamer that has like a ton of different um channels on it like hbo stars fx yeah and then

00:20:52.300 they all they also have their own originals okay so crave was like hi you want to make a show

00:20:57.960 and at first they didn't really know what the show was going to be i didn't really know what

00:21:03.820 the show was going to be i just knew that i wanted to be a part of it like i wanted to

00:21:09.080 have some control otherwise who knows what's your sign i'm a capricorn do you have any virgo in you

00:21:17.460 i don't think so really yeah why am i giving virgo honestly yes honestly yeah you are to me 0.96

00:21:23.700 i'm a virgo but capricorns i've like talked shit on capricorns just to be silly

00:21:27.940 my sister's a capricorn moon but my thing with capricorns is my thing with capricorns i've said 0.50

00:21:33.160 it before i think capricorns are the most like magnetic like funny love like people it's true

00:21:40.040 yes oh my god it's so crazy yeah my god that's so wonderful yeah it's like everyone loves a

00:21:46.340 capricorn a capricorn does not love everyone and when when capricorns like lose interest like when

00:21:53.860 they're like kind of like i'm done with this they let you know almost immediately i have a big

00:21:58.900 problem and the problem is i cannot control my face yeah yes and your ability to detach almost

00:22:04.800 immediately is shocking it shocks me if i'm out the room i'm gone like i if i don't want to be

00:22:10.780 here anymore you'll know yeah like i will shut down and then that was also the thing about the

00:22:15.900 show was when we would like talk about what the show could be you could see that i i was like no

00:22:22.460 this the show light leaving your eyes gone yeah easily because i just like i wanted it to be cool

00:22:28.260 yeah totally and especially like canadian television like we all want it to be cool

00:22:32.840 yeah and so that was like obviously the vibe was like let's make it cool and it's yours and it's

00:22:37.640 mine like it's my show yeah you want to be able to like have a full yeah say and also like have

00:22:43.280 them take your ideas seriously exactly so um eventually we i met with a showrunner and we

00:22:49.980 basically created this concept we were like what could this show look like and the network was like

00:22:55.220 just make the show you want to make and pitch it to us which is like a dream that does not happen

00:23:00.520 never they trusted us a little too much it was a little scary um so we basically made this show

00:23:06.720 where it's every episode i take on a different reality tv genre and it's um it's me and a

00:23:12.640 celebrity advisor love uh from that respective genre love and we go on the journey and it ends

00:23:18.860 and like a final challenge so yeah so we have dating cooking news sports drag and slice of life 0.71

00:23:28.000 like housewife kardashian how fucking cool girl and how was it filming it it was so ridiculous 0.94

00:23:34.540 it was ridiculous it's terrifying because there's like a lot of imposter syndrome of like oh i bet 0.96

00:23:40.860 am i supposed to be like is this actually happening working towards it for so long and i was like i

00:23:45.920 was in i was behind the scenes for a lot of it yeah i was a 10 minute drive from the production

00:23:49.900 office so i was there oh that's every day i was so great though i know but i was like and i was

00:23:55.820 in the writer's rooms too so we're like talking about all these things i'm like okay and then

00:24:00.320 i'm gonna like run out into the street and i'm gonna like scream this and then oh and then this

00:24:04.920 happens and i'm gonna like do drag and then i'm gonna and then the day came where i'm the guy

00:24:10.600 that has to do all of these things that i wrote and i was losing my mind i was like oh my god i

00:24:16.660 can't do this like who wrote this i'm like who wrote this trash this is horrible no it's terrifying

00:24:22.540 yeah um but it ended up being so fun and all the celebrities too that we got were like perfect

00:24:30.040 oh that's so great they're good sports oh my god a little too good i'm so glad though yeah that's 0.54

00:24:35.460 like what a fucking i know it could have gone the opposite it's a real dice roll sometimes especially 0.85

00:24:40.300 for something like as huge as your first season of your big show i know so you're like i want it 0.99

00:24:46.060 to go well and like that's probably a control thing too because you're like i can't control

00:24:49.880 all they do i have no idea what yeah so hopefully they're down for the vibes i love when someone's

00:24:55.080 down though like when they come and they're like a really good sport about it have fun challenge

00:24:58.760 yeah like bring back fun bring back having fun literally i know i feel like it's such a

00:25:05.500 i don't think there's been very many instances i've had where i've had to like

00:25:08.860 act or do something fun with a celebrity and they weren't game yeah there was like a couple 0.52

00:25:13.620 times where i was kind of like okay i can't tell if you fucking hate me or if you're like having 0.78

00:25:17.500 fun like i literally can't tell i'm scared don't meet your heroes like i'm scared to do things 0.89

00:25:23.060 sometimes my manager will be like do you want to do something with like a housewife or like

00:25:26.320 do you want to do something like i know this celebrity maybe we could get you guys in a room

00:25:29.560 together and i'm like anytime somebody's like my friend of a friend knows kim yeah we should get

00:25:37.760 you guys like in a room together and like make a video and i'm like i don't know if i should do

00:25:42.520 that yeah it's like girl i think she'd hate my guts oh she'd hate me there are certain people 0.54

00:25:49.680 where i'm like i think i would entertain the fuck out of her but i think she wouldn't like me or 0.72

00:25:54.860 she'd find me weird there are quite a few of those where i'm like it's all fun and games till you 0.73

00:25:59.260 meet me in person huh is there is there anybody that you like are dying to meet or or do you not

00:26:06.340 care because honestly after you meet and see them and are like in rooms with them it's just like so

00:26:13.140 like it's just doesn't matter anymore it's just like oh that's them yeah i recently hosted a thing

00:26:17.780 with um tiktok canada it was like the tiktok summit and snoop dogg was there t which that was

00:26:24.620 cool of course but it just felt so like he like walked into the green room to like he was like

00:26:29.880 is there a bathroom in here yeah it's over there yeah like it's just like so real like they're just

00:26:37.140 normal so normal like it's it's crazy how normal they are and how cool they are when you also act

00:26:42.820 normal like it's it's very strange because you especially when you grow up like because we're

00:26:48.600 around the same age but like did you grow up like watching youtube and stuff like that like just

00:26:52.660 really into social media yes but specifically youtube like the same and so when i see youtubers

00:26:57.740 and like you know when you grow up in this era of media you're kind of like you have this

00:27:01.700 understanding of celebrity culture of influencer culture you're like oh i think i understand it

00:27:05.480 yeah and when you actually like enter it it's way different so different it's so different and it's

00:27:10.700 so like i it i know exactly what you mean it's like regular i guess is the description it's hard

00:27:15.380 to explain it's not the glitz and the glam that you yeah and you're almost shocked that you don't

00:27:19.920 feel that way yes right you're kind of like i don't feel anything at all i guess that's cool

00:27:24.300 but you can almost apply that to anything like even with my show it was like this is a dream

00:27:29.200 totally but i had to realize that even in it when you know you have this like a dream of something

00:27:35.720 you're still gonna have things about it that you don't like yeah or that there's you're still

00:27:39.340 you out that stress you out you're gonna have like bad days where you come home and you're not happy

00:27:43.220 yeah and you don't want to work you don't want to wake up and go do it like that's normal it is

00:27:49.320 but it's hard yeah and then you you have those moments like and that's where my imposter syndrome

00:27:53.960 kicks in sometimes too because then i'm like i feel ungrateful and i'm not ungrateful i just like

00:27:59.180 i'm experiencing a human emotion which is i'm tired or i'm stressed and it's like then you're

00:28:03.580 like okay wait this is like a dream come true i'm very happy i'm very grateful so i go and i do it

00:28:07.500 and it's always fun yeah but then when you have those moments it's very i know exactly what you're

00:28:11.620 talking about it's such a weird especially when you work normal jobs like i've told people before

00:28:15.800 i was so fucking normal like prior to doing this i worked nine to five i sat in gridlock like

00:28:21.360 i paid bills i made minimum wage barely like i was like struggling to survive i was very normal 0.93

00:28:28.380 just like everybody else and then now you just go 180 into the next world and then it's like how do

00:28:33.240 i how do i do this yeah yeah i get but i also think that it's a testament for me it's like i

00:28:39.720 having good people around you totally is so important it's so cliche ew but like but it's

00:28:46.820 true but it's so true because even i um i got i was i got asked to do like a trader's uh brand

00:28:53.740 trip to go to like scotland oh yes girl i know the exact trip you're talking about and i'm glad

00:28:58.180 you brought that up because everyone i love was on that trip including bowman and i did not get

00:29:02.700 invited and no you're all wondering no i didn't get invited thank you very much for asking anyways

00:29:06.560 back to the trip i'm like the way i know every single one of those people and they are all well

00:29:10.820 love that well i almost said no i almost said no yeah because i was like i don't really get it like

00:29:17.440 and i've never gone on a brand trip i don't know what they are like i didn't get it same honestly

00:29:21.300 but then i said to my friend like i don't know that i'm gonna do this i was like what are you 0.96

00:29:25.960 crazy get your ass on that trip and go and i was like okay period and then i had the best time 0.97

00:29:32.160 but yeah it literally was and then suddenly it was like me and all my friends right on like a 1.00

00:29:36.720 little like friend trip to scotland are you kidding me how fucking cool girl that was so

00:29:40.680 fun and was it like how long were you guys there like a week or something like five days and how 0.71

00:29:44.720 was it like just overall it was a dream it was it like the fact that it was like friends aside

00:29:51.580 yeah the people made it wonderful yeah i was not expecting such a lavish experience i was gonna say 0.95

00:29:59.040 that in a castle in scotland girl that shit was crazy the guy who owns asos owns that castle it's 0.97

00:30:05.120 like his like that's crazy like crazy casual and then we would be like at dinner and then there's 0.99

00:30:11.820 like like in the corner there's like a woman playing the celtic harp like and then the chef

00:30:17.000 would come out and be like here's what you're eating today it's so like magical it was magical 1.00

00:30:21.280 i saw you and teffy's ad tour the way i know uh how like a handful of tiktokers just terrorizing 0.83

00:30:31.820 that castle horrible like the minute you get there you're like i got at least five bits oh they

00:30:36.460 wanted us out of there i we made that tiktok like 10 minutes before we had to like get in the car

00:30:43.180 and leave and the staff at the castle was like good oh you could tell they were like ushering

00:30:49.080 us they're following it kept like moving closer and closer to the door like cornering us it was

00:30:54.020 crazy that's so fucking awesome though like yeah and i feel like it's especially good when you meet

00:31:01.540 people in this industry like specifically creators that are not the worst sometimes you meet people 0.88

00:31:06.900 and you're like i get why people hate influencers yes fucking same yes it's like sometimes you meet 0.60

00:31:12.360 them and it's crazy huh but you know what it's so easy to like be horrible to like do this and be 0.82

00:31:18.500 like even when i was starting i feel like i had to like make the conscious effort sometimes that

00:31:24.060 like everybody around me doesn't do this yeah and i have to like be mindful of that be mindful of

00:31:29.340 why you were invited to the section exactly yeah no but like like some people are actually horrible 0.91

00:31:37.160 they are yeah like shut like shut up like shut up challenge shut up challenge impossible level 0.76

00:31:43.240 impossible oh my god like talked about it like i've talked about it with other creator friends 0.95

00:31:47.560 even when i meet creators who are like new to the game and they're kind of coming up now

00:31:51.160 if they ask me for advice like other than get a really good lawyer and get a really good team

00:31:56.240 like agent manager very important yes both are important don't do it by yourself um past that

00:32:01.340 i always tell them to make friends that are also creators like build community yeah because it's

00:32:07.520 so important and i always tell people no one relates to your problems anymore every problem 0.68

00:32:12.700 you have no no one can relate to that shit other than a creator no or your team so like no oh my 0.77

00:32:18.060 gosh you have to lean on them i find it hard because i'm in canada yeah where like everybody's 0.98

00:32:22.400 not nobody's doing this yeah and i mean i have some creator friends but like they're either

00:32:27.580 they've either moved away yeah like moved to here or they just do you want to move here

00:32:33.860 are you thinking about it or maybe bi-coastal kind of thing bi-coastal so bad my boyfriend's

00:32:39.480 here and so we do technically you're already kind of doing that so yeah i'm already kind of like i'll

00:32:45.060 come for like a week or two weeks yeah but i think i if i was going to be here i would need like my

00:32:50.580 own space because we're very like we need our own space um okay and that's okay the important thing

00:32:58.160 is you know exactly um but i think eventually i know that what i'll end up in new york i think

00:33:05.980 new york matches you too you think so i think so yeah i think you would do well here but i think

00:33:11.360 new york is more your vibe you give like wisconsin oh oh oh well in the sense yeah you know in in a

00:33:18.700 sense that you know oh i said something nice okay um wait do you love it here here i would i mean i

00:33:26.400 was born and raised here in southern california not in la but in southern california so i was

00:33:31.740 raised in um on the way to San Diego like Riverside County I'm an IE girl that's the

00:33:37.240 Inland Empire so I'm from there so I'm not from LA and I know why people hate LA and I hate LA

00:33:44.160 if I'm being honest what's the theory like why do you why do you hate LA I mean I hate it just

00:33:49.280 because well besides the fact that parking is literally impossible but it's not a walkable 1.00

00:33:55.040 city which infuriates me yeah the traffic drives me you can only do two things in a day girl like

00:34:03.540 literally if it's like it literally the valley to hollywood like okay in the car for four hours

00:34:08.460 like it's just horrible there's no way everything is a road groceries is a road trip it's horrific 0.95

00:34:13.800 i gotta block out six hours just to go to trader joe's it's fucking terrible and my agent is 0.90

00:34:19.960 actually from canada she lives there now but she's a vancouver girl okay and um she tells me all the 0.91

00:34:26.360 made-up names of her towns and i forget them she when she she comes down a lot um to help me with

00:34:33.060 work and she always stays with me but when we drive like she's a motion sickness girl and i

00:34:38.520 kind of am too and she's miserable because we're in the car for hours you're just sitting motion

00:34:45.620 sickness is crazy when we were in scott remy is motion sick yeah she has it bad girl i look over

00:34:50.500 at remy in the car she's like like having a hand we were like winding so i get it but like god i 0.54

00:34:58.420 was like damn it's like that it's hard to see the one branch hold on the one brand trip i got invited

00:35:03.580 to was for a brand i absolutely love and adore and i'm not gonna say who it is but i did get 0.97

00:35:08.520 invited and i was like go i'll get okay let me tell you about that okay girl i went and i was

00:35:16.720 like or i said yeah and i was gonna take my boyfriend and i was like okay see and like i

00:35:20.640 knew some of the girls that were going and i was like okay this would be fun and i was nervous too

00:35:23.700 because i don't know i'd never been on a brand trip i don't know anything about them i went to

00:35:27.800 one but i don't know if you could count it because they let me bring my friends so i don't know if

00:35:32.560 you could count it okay but like and that was really last minute so this was to another country

00:35:36.380 and everything and it was tropical and i was like okay t the day comes they send like cars to come

00:35:41.120 get me and like we go to the airport uh they sent the car i think a little too late like a little

00:35:47.880 too close to the timing okay because then they got stuck in traffic because they shut down like two

00:35:51.720 lanes on the highway and so by the time i got to the check-in thing my shit's gone like my flight

00:35:57.640 took off and so i'm sitting there and they're like um well there's no other flights because

00:36:02.020 the place we're going you have to like i check a connecting flight and then you get on one of those 0.87

00:36:05.680 little fucking little planes and then go again because it was like an island and then i was like 0.72

00:36:10.600 i'm never gonna make it there so then they i decided to do a different trip just for vacay 0.99

00:36:15.980 but then they were like no no no don't don't plan another trip we'll put you on another plane

00:36:19.920 and i'm like okay because then at this point i'm like i've already lost a whole day it's gonna take

00:36:24.840 me a full day to get there by the time i get there i'm gonna have a day and a half so it's

00:36:28.740 like not worth it yeah and they're like no no no no no let us send you again so then they i stay in 0.78

00:36:34.700 a shit hotel i go back to the airport the next day i go they do a private check-in have you ever 0.98

00:36:40.600 done that shit no okay me either um because it's actual big money it's literally a completely 0.99

00:36:46.760 separate thing behind lax they drive you past it they drive you inside people come to your door 0.99

00:36:54.320 take out take all your luggage they check it immediately and they're like let me take you into

00:36:58.660 the into the building they take you in it's everything's free it's like full service full 0.96

00:37:04.540 bar full everything it's fancy fancy little chairs fancy everything and i was like damn and then they

00:37:10.220 were telling me because you know i'm a chismosa i'm super nosy so i'm like asking i'm like so

00:37:14.020 like who like flies to be that's like how like beyonce flies that's how like actual famous people

00:37:18.460 fly not dickheads like us on the internet so like i was like i fly like that but yeah well i mean

00:37:24.600 when you say really famous people obviously i'm talking about me but like and i was like okay see

00:37:29.220 while i'm sitting there my flight got delayed i think like three times and then i really wasn't

00:37:34.440 gonna make it and i said hey i'm gonna take the hint and i went home and i actually never went

00:37:38.980 that's what happened so you just like chilled at the airport and had a free apple like yeah i went

00:37:45.420 to the airport four times never left uh then went home and i was like god does not want me to get on

00:37:50.400 not playing and i will take the hint yeah do not come and then i went straight home and then it's

00:37:55.720 funny because my uncle was dog sending my dog and i came back three times and the third time he goes

00:38:01.280 are you like actually going this time or can i go home i was like you can go home and so you never

00:38:06.740 went no i never went so still haven't been on a brand trip girl period but i'm glad you got to

00:38:10.740 go to scotland that was really fun yeah they flew me private too so i actually know the airport

00:38:16.320 what you're talking about okay i'm actually extremely familiar yeah it's fine um i truly

00:38:24.660 like adore you i think you're so incredibly funny and talented i know and humble more importantly

00:38:32.140 but i would love to know um because you've been doing this now and now congratulations again on

00:38:37.600 the show i'm so fucking excited for you uh for anyone who's like an aspiring like comedy whether

00:38:43.320 they're a sketch comedy writer or an actor or maybe they want to do stand-up or something like

00:38:47.660 that uh i would love to know what your best piece of advice is for them if they're pursuing it or

00:38:52.340 maybe they're thinking about it yeah um i learned this so recently um okay let me see if i can get

00:39:00.100 the wording right i learned that uh in this process and in this job and everything it's so

00:39:07.180 easy that like to not trust yourself totally um and trust like in those moments i tell myself that

00:39:16.820 like i can't do it or that i i i won't be able to do it and i think that the most important thing

00:39:23.800 it's like everybody knows that they can do it yeah like that's why we're sitting right here

00:39:28.100 because like totally like we believe we can do it yeah totally but it's you have to trust that

00:39:32.280 you know what to do yeah because it can change oh i know isn't that so good you worded it perfectly

00:39:39.440 i love that's all right i've had so many moments where it's like you know you're you're uh

00:39:44.860 accomplishing things or like you're like i was this is my dream this show was my dream

00:39:50.380 absolutely um from when i was a kid and when it starts to like change or take a different shape

00:39:56.840 or turn into something else you i start to freak out yeah or even like if i if i show up at like

00:40:03.120 um like a hosting gig or like anything um i have a certain idea of how it's gonna go and if it

00:40:10.720 doesn't go like that you panic yeah because it's like this isn't how it's supposed to go yeah this

00:40:14.800 is how i planned it meticulously in my head literally but when it changes you have to know

00:40:18.980 that you know what to do absolutely because usually you do well and also like there's a reason why

00:40:25.260 you're here in the first place yeah right so trust your instinct because i'm really handsome 0.80

00:40:28.700 just unbelievably talented i have a huge fat ass god i got everything in spades i don't even know

00:40:36.580 what to tell you yeah everyone's it's just a race for second it really is i'm glad you plays 0.89

00:40:43.520 some people don't even play yeah be grateful exactly i'm so uh incredibly incredibly excited

00:40:52.420 for you I'm so fucking happy for you thank you and you're so fucking funny and talented I can't

00:40:57.440 wait to see all the amazing wonderful things you continue to do should be interesting and I'll just 1.00

00:41:03.620 pray on your downfall in the meantime period get that voodoo doll ready girl thank you so much for 1.00

00:41:09.040 coming on the show you're amazing where can everybody find you you can find me um on at

00:41:15.300 Bowmanizer on everything.

00:41:17.220 Period.

00:41:17.800 And you can also find me at the grocery store in Toronto.

00:41:23.000 Being humble.

00:41:23.580 Being humble.

00:41:24.440 Being hounded by fans and paparazzi.

00:41:26.620 If you see me in public, I'm not going to take a photo with you.

00:41:29.880 Don't even think about it.

00:41:31.040 Just leave me.

00:41:32.460 I'm normal.

00:41:33.440 I'm just like you.

00:41:34.980 Guys, I'm one of you.

00:41:36.460 So that's where you can find me.

00:41:38.140 And where can they watch your show?

00:41:39.280 You can watch my show on Crave.

00:41:41.920 If you're from Canada.

00:41:43.560 And if you're not from Canada,

00:41:44.520 you can call your local TV service providers

00:41:47.600 and beg and plead them to purchase our show

00:41:51.920 and put it on their streaming services.

00:41:56.500 Please, and thank you.

00:42:00.180 I'm so incredibly honored to have had you on the show.

00:42:03.320 Thank you so much for coming.

00:42:03.960 It was an honor to be here, truly.

00:42:05.100 And thank you all so much for watching.

00:42:06.780 Make sure you all go follow Bowman on literally everything.

00:42:08.580 If you don't already, I'm sure all of you do.

00:42:10.520 And make sure you tune in to your show,

00:42:13.760 you're amazing yeah made for tv i was gonna say please say the name of it you're like what's it

00:42:18.000 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

00:42:21.340 said it yet tune into made for tv streaming july 12th period very exciting if you are canadian

00:42:26.700 make sure you go watch bowman's show otherwise you're not even really canadian yeah it's it's

00:42:31.440 canadian heritage otherwise you your citizenship gets revoked on like fast immediately yeah i got

00:42:38.360 justin trudeau on the line yeah thank you so much for watching i appreciate all of you i appreciate

00:42:44.360 bowman so much make sure and don't forget new episodes of the comment section come out every

00:42:49.100 wednesday you can stream the audio on all streaming platforms or you can watch the video

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00:42:57.260 they're on the past your bedtime youtube channel i heard you're complaining go watch them over there

00:43:01.140 if you want to see them on youtube they're over there but make sure you follow bowman canadians

00:43:05.040 Make sure you watch Moment on Crave and I'll see you all next week.

00:43:08.260 Love you. Bye.

The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - July 31, 2024

THE TEA WALKED IN THE ROOM Ft. Boman Martinez-Reid

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