HOLIDAY ALL STARS: MONET X CHANGE | Episode 150

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TEAM!! In honor of it being Christmas AND our 150th episode of The Comment Section, we’re gifting you another All-Stars Episode… with the legend herself, Monét X Change!! Monét returns to the studio to unpack the epidemic of boyfriends and husbands who don’t put in effort during the holidays, tree-trimming parties, terrible gifts, rank Wicked songs, regifting, confusing your ex with your current partner, and so much more! Monét IG: https://www.instagram.com/monetxchange/?hl=en Monét Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themonetxchange?lang=en Get tickets to Monét’s Life Be Lifin’ Tour: https://www.obsessedwith.co/monet-x-change-live Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:32Drew Afualo?

  I remember when I was younger, I was like in high school, when I was still using pads. And I remember one time I was talking to my sister, I was like, "I hate putting them on at school because I feel like it sounds like I'm doing arts and crafts in the fucking bathroom." It's like, shh, shh, shh, shh. Right? Like, it's just so fucking loud. Sounds like Velcro. It's loud as fuck. And then everyone knows I'm putting a fucking diaper between my legs.

• 0:58Drew Afualo?

  Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Comment Section Show. Sorry, me, your fave, everybody knows me, who cares about me? But first, before we go on to the guest, happy holidays, clearly. If this doesn't go live on Christmas, I'm gonna be mad. Okay? Anyways, on to the guest today. We have an all-star episode returning, the one and only, the iconic, the legendary Monet Exchange.

• 1:21Speaker 02

  You're having me back, girl.

• 1:22Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my gosh, thank you for coming back. I'm sorry you had to come back like this.

• 1:26Speaker 02

  Girl, so I got my double-foot BBL.

• 1:28Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 1:29Speaker 02

  And I'm very excited about it.

• 1:30Drew Afualo?

  There's a lot happening right now. I'm in this fit, you have two sandals on. It's a mess in here.

• 1:37Speaker 02

  Well, you know, I'm literally so like, I'm not supposed to be driving, but I was like, I am going to drive myself to Jerusalem.

• 1:43Drew Afualo?

  I know. You were telling me, yeah, there's all kinds of things. Right, literally right before this, Monet was telling me, "Oh, I'm just so sick of not having my autonomy. I don't want to have to ask people for help." I was like, you know what? I gotta do something. I go, and naturally you picked the safest thing to do, which is drive.

• 1:58Drew Afualo?

  She was like, well, yeah.

• 1:59Speaker 02

  Why not?

• 2:01Drew Afualo?

  Don't let someone cook for me, but I'll drive myself.

• 2:04Speaker 02

  Oh my god, this is so great. The smells in here are beautiful.

• 2:08Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 2:08Speaker 02

  It feels very festive.

• 2:10Drew Afualo?

  Look at it.

• 2:10Speaker 02

  It feels like Christmas.

• 2:11Drew Afualo?

  Look at us.

• 2:11Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:11Drew Afualo?

  We're celebrating the holidays together.

• 2:13Speaker 02

  I haven't celebrated the holidays. Well, my boyfriend is really big into holidays.

• 2:16Drew Afualo?

  Ooh, okay.

• 2:17Speaker 02

  So he's like, we're like, he's like decorating. There are trees, there are lights on things. I'm like, it's too much. I just like to just.

• 2:23Drew Afualo?

  You like to chill.

• 2:24Speaker 02

  Because they have to take it all down.

• 2:25Drew Afualo?

  That's.

• 2:25Speaker 02

  That's the part that's annoying.

• 2:27Drew Afualo?

  That's true.

• 2:28Speaker 02

  And then we had a tree trimming party the other day. And, you know, uh, uh.

• 2:33Drew Afualo?

  What kind of party is that?

• 2:34Speaker 02

  Right. So I, that seems like a very caucus activity.

• 2:38Drew Afualo?

  Right, right.

• 2:39Speaker 02

  For the mounts of caucus.

• 2:40Drew Afualo?

  That's why I said, what is that for?

• 2:41Speaker 02

  Exactly, I've never done a tree trimming party. So you invite what it is.

• 2:45Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 2:46Speaker 02

  Which is honestly, you invite a whole bunch of people over to your house.

• 2:48Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 2:49Speaker 02

  There are baked goods and eggnogs and stuff.

• 2:51Drew Afualo?

  Fun.

• 2:51Speaker 02

  And your guests decorate your home for you for the holidays. So your guests are coming to set up the tree.

• 2:58Drew Afualo?

  To work.

• 2:58Speaker 02

  To work. So everyone came over, so as, as it's going on, I'm like, so the guests are doing the work for us decorating our home for holiday? He's like, yeah, that's a tree trimming party. I was like, you know, you should be ashamed of yourself. This is crazy.

• 3:12Drew Afualo?

  Free labor?

• 3:12Speaker 02

  Literally.

• 3:13Drew Afualo?

  You like that?

• 3:13Speaker 02

  Free labor. Horrible.

• 3:15Drew Afualo?

  It's like a painting party or a moving party.

• 3:18Speaker 02

  A moving, oh my god, move, I'm, girl.

• 3:20Drew Afualo?

  I was like, don't call it a party.

• 3:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 3:22Drew Afualo?

  Parties are fun.

• 3:22Speaker 02

  Parties and that is not, like, I'm, I'm, why am I packing up your dirty dishes? You should have run this two more times in the psych, girl.

• 3:28Drew Afualo?

  Why am I doing that?

• 3:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 3:29Drew Afualo?

  I know, I used to feel that way about moving parties in college. I felt like it was like, oh, I'll buy pizza and beer. And then I have to do physical labor for 12 hours? Oh, let me think.

• 3:41Drew Afualo?

  I say that, but honestly, my senior year of college, my friend asked me, she was like, if you come help me move, I'll buy dinner. And I was like, alright.

• 3:48Speaker 02

  In times like that, you're like, girl, I will. And I'm, I'm, I'm ordering the most expensive general salad chicken you ever heard, honey. I'm getting double rice and I'm getting double chicken.

• 3:57Drew Afualo?

  And I'm getting a milkshake.

• 3:58Speaker 02

  One hundred.

• 3:58Drew Afualo?

  On top of that.

• 3:59Speaker 02

  On top of all.

• 4:00Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and you know what's funny is I, it was just the two of us and we moved for hours.

• 4:05Speaker 02

  Damn.

• 4:05Drew Afualo?

  And you better believe I got a double, a double Patty hamburger, bitch.

• 4:08Speaker 02

  You're a good friend.

• 4:09Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 4:09Speaker 02

  That will help you move is a friend indeed.

• 4:12Drew Afualo?

  I think so.

• 4:13Speaker 02

  So when I left college, I moved into my own space. My grandmother, this, I, this, I come from a long line of strong, fierce women. My grandmother, who at that point was, she was, she was 69 years old.

• 4:24Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 4:25Speaker 02

  She helped me, myself and my grandmother only, move all of my furniture, my bed, my dresser, everything, into my second floor walk-up apartment in the Bronx in New York together. My grandmother carrying my dresser on her back, like, up the stairs.

• 4:36Drew Afualo?

  In New York too is crazy.

• 4:38Speaker 02

  Girl.

• 4:38Drew Afualo?

  Cause you know the parking situation is crazy.

• 4:40Speaker 02

  Yes, double parked.

• 4:42Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 4:42Speaker 02

  I'm getting a ticket, I'm getting told, I'm like, grandma, you got it, girl. I'm gonna pull the car out, be right back.

• 4:48Drew Afualo?

  Damn.

• 4:48Speaker 02

  Yes, I love my grandma. Shout out, grandma, I love you.

• 4:51Drew Afualo?

  Period. We know you're a huge fan of the show. We know you're a huge fan of the show.

• 4:54Speaker 02

  But she watches everything I do.

• 4:55Drew Afualo?

  I love that.

• 4:56Speaker 02

  I know, but no, cause I'm pretty dirty.

• 5:00Drew Afualo?

  Not everything you do.

• 5:01Speaker 02

  Girl, not everything that my grandma needs to watch. And sometimes she's like, oh yeah, I saw you, I saw you on that show talking about, you know, the douching thing. And I was like.

• 5:11Drew Afualo?

  And you're like, grandma, that wasn't me.

• 5:12Speaker 02

  Grandma, that was my alter ego.

• 5:14Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that wasn't me, grandma. Please, grandma.

• 5:16Speaker 02

  That was tone, mona.

• 5:19Drew Afualo?

  So what have you been up to?

• 5:22Speaker 02

  You know.

• 5:22Drew Afualo?

  How's life?

• 5:22Speaker 02

  Life is good. Life be life-ing.

• 5:25Drew Afualo?

  Period.

• 5:25Speaker 02

  Which is my tour in January.

• 5:27Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 5:27Speaker 02

  I'm very excited and I'm doing.

• 5:28Drew Afualo?

  I'm so excited for you.

• 5:29Speaker 02

  Well, I'm coming to do an LA show and I would love to invite you and the boo.

• 5:34Drew Afualo?

  And it's on camera.

• 5:35Speaker 02

  Yes, it's on camera.

• 5:36Drew Afualo?

  So you can't rescind.

• 5:37Speaker 02

  No, definitely. But it's like this show I'm doing, I'm talking about my life in a really candid, open way. I'm talking about some really crazy intimate things. And it's a mix of like stand-up, storytelling and some music in there.

• 5:47Drew Afualo?

  Oh, so fun.

• 5:49Speaker 02

  And people are leaving the show and I get like the mentions and they're like, girl, I was not expecting to cry tonight. Like, what can I, it's like, it's getting real, cause I talk about.

• 5:56Drew Afualo?

  And you also can sing the house down. Can I just fucking say, when it has an incredible voice.

• 6:01Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 6:02Drew Afualo?

  I'm pissed the fuck off about it. All I got was funny. I got hit with the funny shit and that's it.

• 6:07Speaker 02

  Well, you, you, you don't do any type of music or instruments or anything?

• 6:10Drew Afualo?

  No.

• 6:11Speaker 02

  Really?

• 6:11Drew Afualo?

  Not at all, girl. I started, I asked for a keyboard for Christmas, like, when I was in probably 7th grade. And I got it and then I taught myself like three songs and then I was like. Well, I think I pretty much got the gist. Just like moved on. I was just like, I wish I had that in me.

• 6:30Speaker 02

  I wish I could play piano. I'm like proficient. I could like, like, you know, place like the bare minimum. Cause I had to be proficient for, I did music in school.

• 6:38Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 6:38Speaker 02

  But like, I cannot play like that. When I see people, when I see someone playing piano, it is so hot.

• 6:43Drew Afualo?

  Right. That's so true.

• 6:45Speaker 02

  Yes. To get on piano, just get there and just whatever.

• 6:47Drew Afualo?

  Right. I know, but that's how I feel about singing too. And then I was joking about this with my sister once, but I was talking about how like, you know, sometimes, and this is specifically to influencers, cause I'm an influencer. I wanna joke about being a dickhead online, but like, sometimes when they want you to know they can sing, or they're like, gonna try to transition into singing. They'll post like fifteen seconds of them doing a little riff. And they'll be like, I don't know, drafts. Right? This just sing, right? That's what I always say, just sing. And I was laughing about it, but then I started thinking, I'm like, but let me find out I can sing, cause if I do, I'm gonna do the same shit. And I'm a hypocrite. Sorry.

• 7:25Speaker 02

  Well, you know, Frank Sinatra found out late in life that he could sing. And he became Frank Sinatra. So it may be a secret talent that you don't even know, girl.

• 7:33Drew Afualo?

  And you know what? You've never seen me and Frank Sinatra in the same room.

• 7:38Drew Afualo?

  So who's to say, really?

• 7:42Drew Afualo?

  Sometimes I hope, sometimes I think, I'm like, maybe I am an amazing singer.

• 7:46Speaker 02

  Girl, you might be.

• 7:46Drew Afualo?

  And then maybe I just need to find the right song.

• 7:50Speaker 02

  You might, girl, you might.

• 7:51Drew Afualo?

  But I love your voice. I think you're a fantastic singer. And you're fucking hilarious. That's insane. And I know you have your new podcast, which is so exciting.

• 7:59Speaker 02

  Yes, Monet Talks.

• 8:00Drew Afualo?

  Yes, let's talk about it.

• 8:01Speaker 02

  Oh, I, okay, so I, I, like you, I think we have this in common. I love to talk.

• 8:05Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 8:06Speaker 02

  Talking is my favorite thing to do.

• 8:07Drew Afualo?

  Period.

• 8:07Speaker 02

  Every report guy was always, Kevin is really smart. He won't shut up. I had to move Kevin across the room again. Please. Like, I, I've always been a talker. I love talking. And I had the podcast with Bob, but I was like, you know, we have our own dynamic, but I, I used to have my show, Exchange Rate, my talk show.

• 8:21Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 8:22Speaker 02

  I used to love having guests. I bet you had like RuPaul, all kinds of crazy people on there. And I wanted to kind of invoke that energy again.

• 8:29Drew Afualo?

  Totally.

• 8:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, this is so fun. Like, I love talking to people, talking to people about their, about their lives, but also. Like finding out, are you an Instacart type of girl or like, are you not? Because Instacart is a shady business.

• 8:39Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 8:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:40Drew Afualo?

  I think so.

• 8:40Speaker 02

  Yeah, they're shady. They do not respect your food. They will get you the shittiest bananas they could find. I'm like, did you, did you run over these bananas with your car before you brought them to my door?

• 8:49Drew Afualo?

  And don't let me get a male Instacart driver.

• 8:52Speaker 02

  Girl.

• 8:52Drew Afualo?

  Cause cancel my order and give me a mystery bag instead.

• 8:55Speaker 02

  The worst.

• 8:56Drew Afualo?

  Fuck out of here.

• 8:56Speaker 02

  The worst.

• 8:57Drew Afualo?

  They don't even try.

• 8:58Speaker 02

  They don't care.

• 8:58Drew Afualo?

  I had, I, I, not even kidding, a week ago, I got, I had a pretty big order because I needed some stuff. But I needed a duvet cover, right? And I was like, okay, I need a new duvet cover. And then they're, they're pretty standard duvet covers.

• 9:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:12Drew Afualo?

  It was for Target. And it's like probably a 60 year old man that's doing it. And then he messages me, he goes, there's no duvet covers. And I go, you're in Target? So I find that really hard to believe.

• 9:24Speaker 02

  Impossible.

• 9:25Drew Afualo?

  That's actually impossible that they don't have any. He goes, I checked, they don't have any. Sends me a picture, nothing but duvet covers. Hey queen, let's try reading.

• 9:34Speaker 02

  Gary, get it together.

• 9:35Drew Afualo?

  I saw, I see at least four in this picture.

• 9:37Speaker 02

  Like, come on. Yeah. Yeah, they're just, they're shopping for you with reckless abandon. They barely care. They're, it's horrible. No, no, no, no, no. I can't mess with it.

• 9:46Drew Afualo?

  You want to know something crazy? One time, I was really sick and I was on my period at the same time. And I needed, I, my washer and dryer were broken and I needed underwear, like clean underwear, obviously. But I needed like, regular looking underwear, not a thong or something, because obviously I'm on my period. And I had to order, I ordered it from Instacart because it was late. And my, my man was like, let me just go to the store. And I was like, no, please don't leave. Like, I feel so sick. I don't want to be alone. Yeah. And so I ordered it. Of course it's a man that gets my order. And then I'm like, God, this is gonna give me the worst underwear in the world. My legs are gonna turn purple because it's gonna be too small. And I was like, fuck. And I was like, it's such a bad mood.

• 10:25Drew Afualo?

  And then he sent me the most detailed pictures. He was like, okay, they have brief bikini cut thong. And he's like, they have a multi-color pack, black or all white.

• 10:35Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 10:36Drew Afualo?

  And I was like, okay, king. I said, one of each. He said, one of multi-color, one in black. I said, yeah. He said, okay, perfect. I'll get both. Do you want to try? The other one too, I said, no, that's fine. He drops him off. When I tell you that's the best underwear I have now, girl?

• 10:48Speaker 02

  Word!

• 10:48Drew Afualo?

  I'm not kidding.

• 10:49Speaker 02

  Okay, so we need to find his, we need to, we need to dox him, because he, that is an eligible bachelor, okay? Yes, that's great.

• 10:57Drew Afualo?

  I was shocked. I was like, because all that was in my order was literally just three packs of underwear, that's it.

• 11:01Speaker 02

  I love that.

• 11:01Drew Afualo?

  And then he was giving me, he's like, okay, are you sure you don't want me to look around? I could do one more lap. I said, no, King, you did your job. I appreciate you. Thank you.

• 11:08Speaker 02

  He's like, this one is some Edgishum cotton, and I just feel like it will crease when you, you know what I mean? I love that.

• 11:13Drew Afualo?

  Imagine he messages me again, he goes, no, send me a picture of you in them.

• 11:17Drew Afualo?

  You ruined it.

• 11:17Speaker 02

  I ruined all of it. Recently, like last year, I was, I was, I was walking, I was in Target. This is not sponsored by Target, by the way, but you should sponsor the show, hello.

• 11:27Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 11:28Speaker 02

  And I walked to Target, and I'm in the aisle getting something, but in next to it was the female, uh, the female hygiene stuff.

• 11:34Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 11:34Speaker 02

  Pads and tampons and stuff.

• 11:36Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 11:36Speaker 02

  And then so, I'm there, I'm, I'm gonna, and I hear these two women, like, this woman is on the phone, talking to someone, another woman on the phone, and she's like, being like really quiet about like what she's asking. She's like, hey, do you, da, da, da, da. And I was like, I was like, this, I turned around, I was like, this is none of my business.

• 11:49Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 11:50Speaker 02

  But I was like, and please, I know this is not my place, but I want you to talk with your chest, girl.

• 11:55Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 11:56Speaker 02

  Do not like, I was like, do not feel the need for me or anyone in the house in here, talk about what you need, a heavy flow, blah, blah, blah, and like, see, like, don't be embarrassed about it. She's like, she's like, oh my God, thank you, I needed to hear that. I was like, here, girl, just say your shit, say your shit out loud.

• 12:09Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 12:09Speaker 02

  Why you don't, it's a human function that we, like, half, literally more than half the population does.

• 12:15Drew Afualo?

  Right, amen.

• 12:16Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 12:16Drew Afualo?

  Right, and that, and I love that you said that. I think that's really sweet. I remember when I was younger, I was like in high school, when I was still using, or pads, when I was still using pads. And I remember one time I was talking to my sister, I was like, I hate putting them on at school, because I feel like I, it sounds like I'm doing arts and crafts in the fucking bathroom. It's like, shh, shh, shh, shh, right? Like, it's just so fucking loud, something like Velcro, it's loud as fuck. And then everyone knows, I'm putting a fucking diaper between my legs. I'm, I'm walking around with a pool noodle between my fucking thighs. And then like, my sister, I'll never forget, my sister goes, I don't give a fuck when I open them. I'm like, really? She goes, no, because I need it, so why do I care?

• 12:51Speaker 02

  Yes, I love that.

• 12:52Drew Afualo?

  And I remember thinking, I hear- First of all, my sister's a lesbian. Need to mention that every episode. But I shouldn't have known then. I shouldn't have known then. My sister was like, who gives a fuck? Right? She's like, no, everybody gets them. Who cares? And then I was like, actually, that's tea. I never forgot that because now I never care about how quiet. For some reason, I would get so embarrassed if it was so quiet in there.

• 13:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, no.

• 13:12Drew Afualo?

  As if no one in that bathroom knows what that is. Please.

• 13:14Speaker 02

  And then in my house, like in like both, in both my guest bathrooms, I make sure I have, I'm stocked with tampons, pads, everything to just in case.

• 13:20Drew Afualo?

  That's so sweet. I love that.

• 13:23Speaker 02

  When I was a kid, like, you know, not until the past five years I've been conscious of it, but now, now that I've,

• 13:28Drew Afualo?

  Now that you're a host.

• 13:29Speaker 02

  Behind the curtain of Oz, I'm like, oh yeah, like I need to be more conscious and thoughtful about that.

• 13:35Drew Afualo?

  That's really sweet. I love that. Speaking of Oz, what a weird transition. We love Wicked.

• 13:40Speaker 02

  So good.

• 13:40Drew Afualo?

  We love it.

• 13:41Speaker 02

  So are you good?

• 13:43Drew Afualo?

  Speaking of periods, we love Wicked.

• 13:46Speaker 02

  And I'll just tell you, I was so jealous because so many of my friends and people I'm obsessed with and parasocially obsessed with, like Drew, like they're at the Wicked premiere. And I was like, oh my God, I wish I was there, but I couldn't go because I was in Colorado doing a role with Denver, with Colorado Opera. But I was just.

• 14:03Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, the opera, mind you.

• 14:05Speaker 02

  But you know, but I would have, and I'm so grateful for the opera. Thank you so much for having me on Opera Colorado. But to be going to the premiere of Wicked, like seeing it.

• 14:13Drew Afualo?

  It was crazy.

• 14:14Speaker 02

  I'm sure.

• 14:14Drew Afualo?

  I will ask you, I want to ask you my question though. One of my fun questions I was asking on the carpet.

• 14:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 14:19Drew Afualo?

  I asked Bob to this question. Um, so I did a fuck, marry, kill.

• 14:22Speaker 02

  Uh huh.

• 14:23Drew Afualo?

  But with songs from the movie. So I did The Wizard and I, Defying Gravity, and What Is This Feeling?

• 14:29Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 14:30Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 14:30Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 14:31Drew Afualo?

  I'd love to know your answer.

• 14:32Speaker 02

  Okay, I'm going to fuck Defying Gravity.

• 14:35Drew Afualo?

  Right. That was pretty popular.

• 14:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, because I mean, literally orgasmic. Cynthia Revo, her version of it is.

• 14:42Drew Afualo?

  Unbelievable.

• 14:43Speaker 02

  Incredible.

• 14:44Drew Afualo?

  I got chills like she's here. Like she's singing right now.

• 14:48Speaker 02

  Well Drew, it is Christmas and we have a surprise here at you at your show.

• 14:52Drew Afualo?

  Imagine I open, imagine I open this up, she's inside it. She is that small, though she really could fit.

• 14:58Speaker 02

  Okay, girl, so Jinx and I, really, sorry.

• 14:59Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 15:00Speaker 02

  I, A D, A D H D.

• 15:01Drew Afualo?

  No, you're 21.

• 15:01Speaker 02

  Jinx and I did that thing for, for, for the premiere. We did a thing with her and Ariana.

• 15:05Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 15:05Speaker 02

  And when I tell you Cynthia and Ariana walked in a room, they were literally a fifth of my size.

• 15:12Drew Afualo?

  Girl.

• 15:12Speaker 02

  And I'm in heels.

• 15:13Drew Afualo?

  Teeny, teeny, tiny.

• 15:14Speaker 02

  And just towering over these women. And they're probably, the, the security was like, whoa, we need to hold this bitch back.

• 15:19Drew Afualo?

  No, for real.

• 15:20Speaker 02

  They are just teeny tiny ladies.

• 15:22Drew Afualo?

  They're bite sized.

• 15:23Speaker 02

  Bite sized.

• 15:23Drew Afualo?

  Like, truly so small.

• 15:24Speaker 02

  And they were in heels and still, like, beating me at my waist.

• 15:26Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 15:27Speaker 02

  Anyway, um, okay, so fuck, Define Gravity.

• 15:30Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 15:30Speaker 02

  Um, The Wizard and I, what, what's, what's the other one?

• 15:32Drew Afualo?

  What is this feeling?

• 15:33Speaker 02

  Um, um, because of the choreo, I'm gonna say marry, uh, what is this feeling, loathing?

• 15:39Drew Afualo?

  Fun, love.

• 15:40Speaker 02

  And I had to kill the wizard and I, oh, I love that song too.

• 15:43Drew Afualo?

  I know, me too.

• 15:44Speaker 02

  That's tough, that's tough.

• 15:45Drew Afualo?

  Oh, I love that. Would you consider yourself an Elphaba or an Aglinda?

• 15:49Speaker 02

  So Bob and I had this conversation.

• 15:50Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 15:51Speaker 02

  And I think that in our dynamic, I think he is the.

• 15:57Drew Afualo?

  Elphaba.

• 15:58Speaker 02

  The Elphaba.

• 15:58Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 15:59Speaker 02

  And I'm the, and I'm the Glinda.

• 16:00Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 16:01Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think so.

• 16:02Drew Afualo?

  What about Just By Yourself?

• 16:03Speaker 02

  Just By Myself, I'm Elphaba, girl.

• 16:04Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 16:05Speaker 02

  I'm Elphaba, I misunderstood.

• 16:09Drew Afualo?

  Right, and I'm mean as fuck, that's mine.

• 16:13Drew Afualo?

  I don't give a damn what anybody thinks, I'll dance for my goddamn self.

• 16:15Speaker 02

  You know what I'm saying?

• 16:16Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 16:16Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 16:17Drew Afualo?

  When I saw that Ozdust ball scene.

• 16:19Speaker 02

  Oh, my god.

• 16:20Drew Afualo?

  I, okay, well, I watched it at the premiere, that was the first time I'd ever seen it, obviously. When I, my sister and I, first of all, both sobbing quietly, trying to be. I was crying so hard, I thought I was gonna have to go to the bathroom. Like, I was like, I have to excuse myself, I'm like, losing my mind. Like, I'm literally having a heart attack, like, if something's wrong with me. And also, I, can I just say?

• 16:40Speaker 02

  What?

• 16:42Drew Afualo?

  I don't care about the goat song.

• 16:44Speaker 02

  Oh, my god, okay.

• 16:45Drew Afualo?

  I hate that song.

• 16:46Speaker 02

  So, in my Apple, like, I, I downloaded the whole album, obviously. And I deleted, I deleted from library that one.

• 16:53Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 16:54Speaker 02

  And I also deleted from library, uh, A Sentimental Man. Because when I listen to this, to the thing in full, I just don't wanna hear those, no shade. No shade, uh, Peter Dinklage, you're incredible.

• 17:04Drew Afualo?

  I know.

• 17:04Speaker 02

  Uh, uh, uh, Mr. Man, Mr. Wiz.

• 17:06Drew Afualo?

  Jeff, uh, Jeff Goldblum.

• 17:08Speaker 02

  Jeff Goldblum, you're incredible. But when I'm listening to the full of the songs, I just don't need to hear those.

• 17:13Drew Afualo?

  Show me the girls.

• 17:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, help me the girls, that's what I'm here for.

• 17:15Drew Afualo?

  Let me hear the girls, I don't wanna hear.

• 17:16Speaker 02

  That's what I'm here for.

• 17:16Drew Afualo?

  That's why I can't wait for our part two, act two.

• 17:18Speaker 02

  Which is coming in, uh, a four, in, in, in, in next half moon. It's like, why we have to wait a year?

• 17:26Drew Afualo?

  I know, I don't know, but I was like, the second act is like my favorite act.

• 17:30Speaker 02

  No Good Deed?

• 17:32Drew Afualo?

  Girl. And thank goodness.

• 17:36Speaker 02

  I am going through climax when I hear No Good Deed. Okay, I just can't wait. I can't imagine what they're gonna do. Oh, I can't wait. It's gonna be so good.

• 17:43Drew Afualo?

  We're only talking about Wicked now. Don't care, love it. Huge fan.

• 17:49Speaker 02

  Okay, I have a question for you.

• 17:50Drew Afualo?

  Okay, let's hear it.

• 17:51Speaker 02

  When did Santa be got, when did, when did?

• 17:54Drew Afualo?

  The Santa illusion drop?

• 17:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, go away for you. Do you remember what age you were?

• 17:59Drew Afualo?

  No, I don't remember what age like exactly, and that's honestly a credit to my parents, because my parents were doing, like, there was never one present under my tree until Christmas morning. Never one.

• 18:12Speaker 02

  Same.

• 18:12Drew Afualo?

  So I would wake up and be like,

• 18:14Speaker 02

  Same.

• 18:14Drew Afualo?

  My parents couldn't have done this. There's far too many. Right? Like, I would just always think that. It's probably just I aged out of it. I think I just, like, middle school, maybe like,

• 18:24Speaker 02

  Middle school.

• 18:25Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like,

• 18:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think,

• 18:26Drew Afualo?

  Twelve, eleven, twelve?

• 18:27Speaker 02

  I was nine when it happened.

• 18:28Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 18:29Speaker 02

  Because up until nine, I was full, I was like, yo, Santa, like, this nigga is fierce.

• 18:35Speaker 02

  He's all over the world, he out here, like, this, like,

• 18:37Drew Afualo?

  He's hustling, dude.

• 18:38Speaker 02

  He is magic, yeah. And then, at nine, at my, the nine, my Christmas when I was nine, my mom said, like, she sent me in her room to get something, like, it was one of those things, like, she was in the, in the living room and I had to go get whatever. I was like, fine, I went to her room. And it was like,

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• 20:30Speaker 02

  I don't know, magic. I was something, like I heard a little voice said, "Look into the closet." And I saw some presents wrapped in there, and I was like, "That's interesting."

• 20:41Drew Afualo?

  Interesting.

• 20:42Speaker 02

  And I woke up the next morning, and it was the same presents that were in her closet under the tree. I was like,

• 20:48Speaker 02

  "No! That isn't real."

• 20:50Drew Afualo?

  Did you confront her?

• 20:52Speaker 02

  I did not. I never, until this moment.

• 20:55Drew Afualo?

  And I said, "Well," and she comes out.

• 20:57Speaker 02

  And I was like, and I remember being so, I was like, "Oh, my God, he's not real." But I also, also as a kid, I was like, "But kudos to my parents for really doing that."

• 21:06Drew Afualo?

  That's how I felt, too. Exactly. I felt the same way. And I, and I remember, too, like, sometimes, like, when I started getting a little bit older, I would say, like, elementary school, I started feeling pressed by my friends, because I was like, "No, he is real." Like, I was, I was like, "You'd think I was defending him in court, bitch." I was literally like, "You guys don't know what the fuck you're talking about." And I was, and I'm a vergo and a big fucking know-it-all. So of course, I'm like, "You're wrong. You're wrong. You're wrong. You're wrong." And so I remember I would, like, do shit to, like, prove it. So I would, like, write letters to Santa, but I would, like, leave them by the tree. And I'm like, "This is specifically for Santa, and if he's for real, he'll write back to me, and I know he will." And I remember one year I did it, because I was so pissed off at this girl that kept telling me he wasn't.

• 21:47Drew Afualo?

  Wasn't real. And I was like, I'm telling you he is, and I'm gonna prove it. So I like, I wrote a letter and I like, left it by the tree and I'm like, he's gonna respond. I know him. I know him like I do. Know him like myself.

• 21:59Speaker 02

  He's gonna do it.

• 22:01Drew Afualo?

  And the next morning, I remember running downstairs and I went to go get it. And this is before Christmas. So I was like, Santa, this is an emergency. So do what you gotta do.

• 22:10Speaker 02

  Tap in.

• 22:11Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, exactly. Lock in with me.

• 22:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:13Drew Afualo?

  And then when I went downstairs, like I got a letter back, but it was on like Christmas parchment paper. Like it was like branded, like monogrammed paper. And the handwriting was so like, it was like such a script looking handwriting. Like I knew what my mom's handwriting looked like. I know what my dad's handwriting looked like. And I was like, well, unless a white man broke in here and just did this shit, I know it's Santa Claus. And so I was so like, I was so convicted in it. I took it to school. I showed that girl in my class and she was like, she was gagged bitch. I gagged her. Yeah. She was like, and everyone was like, oh my God. I was like, see, told you.

• 22:49Speaker 02

  Damn.

• 22:50Drew Afualo?

  And then she was like, well, it's probably your parents. I go, my parents don't write like that. And I was showing her like things my mom had written. I go, see?

• 22:56Speaker 02

  I am dead. You were.

• 22:58Drew Afualo?

  Know it all. I'm a know it all. Receipts, receipts up to my eyeballs, bitch. I have them all. I've thought of every possible thing she could have said. A burgo to my core. And then she was like, what if it was your cat who wrote it? And I said, case closed. I just said that I said, I won. I won bitch. You look like a fool. Cats can't write. I'm talking about Santa being real. You fucking dumbass.

• 23:25Speaker 02

  Word.

• 23:26Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. So that was like, I, that was probably when I was in like fourth or fifth grade. So I think when I aged out of it, I just kinda was like, my parents were doing the craziest shit to keep the.

• 23:35Speaker 02

  Committed though. I love that.

• 23:37Drew Afualo?

  Fantasy alive. I love that. What would you say is your most like fun or like memorable present you've ever gotten in your Christmases?

• 23:43Speaker 02

  Ooh, my most memorable present. Oh, I'll tell you. It was around the time, um, Home Alone was really, Home Alone two was popping.

• 23:50Drew Afualo?

  Okay. Lost in New York?

• 23:52Speaker 02

  Yeah, Lost in New York. Which I was, I was last night, at the, at the treeing party we had a few, whatever. Um, I was asking people, I was like, what's, which one is more iconic? Home Alone one or Home Alone two? I'm a Home Alone two stan.

• 24:04Drew Afualo?

  Really?

• 24:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think of the New York connection and like, I just love.

• 24:08Drew Afualo?

  Now, Home Alone two was huge, I will say.

• 24:10Speaker 02

  It had, um, not Tim Horton, what's his name? Uh, Tim Curry?

• 24:14Drew Afualo?

  I have no clue.

• 24:15Speaker 02

  The man from Casta meets Wendy.

• 24:18Drew Afualo?

  I have no clue.

• 24:18Speaker 02

  Anyway, the guy who played the bellman, the hotel guy.

• 24:21Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 24:22Speaker 02

  Tim Curry, it has the pigeon lady.

• 24:24Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yes.

• 24:25Speaker 02

  It has some iconic women in it.

• 24:27Drew Afualo?

  True.

• 24:27Speaker 02

  Um, and so Home Alone Two was was out, it was popping, and I asked for his like, the the walk, the talk back thing he had. He would like record himself on a thing and play back to his parents.

• 24:37Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 24:38Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 24:38Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 24:39Speaker 02

  I asked it up for Christmas, and then like, my mom was like, you know, it's gonna be tough to get, blah, blah, blah.

• 24:45Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 24:45Speaker 02

  And I got it for Christmas, and it was like, I don't know why, I just loved that I had this thing from this iconic movie.

• 24:51Drew Afualo?

  That's so sweet, though. I love that.

• 24:53Speaker 02

  Loved it.

• 24:53Drew Afualo?

  I love when you get a gift that you're like, you never really think you're gonna get.

• 24:57Speaker 02

  Mm hmm.

• 24:57Drew Afualo?

  That's so fun.

• 24:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 24:59Drew Afualo?

  I love that.

• 24:59Speaker 02

  Also, also the year I got a Playstation.

• 25:02Drew Afualo?

  That was a pretty big year, too.

• 25:03Speaker 02

  It was. The first Playstation, I was like, oh, my God, this is so cool. Everyone would come over to my house and play Mortal Kombat and shit. Love the Playstation.

• 25:10Drew Afualo?

  Are you a gamer girl?

• 25:11Speaker 02

  I am a gamer girl.

• 25:12Drew Afualo?

  Ooh, what kind of games do you like?

• 25:13Speaker 02

  I like third person players. I hate first person.

• 25:16Drew Afualo?

  Me, too.

• 25:17Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 25:17Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my God, you're so mean.

• 25:18Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 25:18Drew Afualo?

  I hate, I hate first person shooter games.

• 25:20Speaker 02

  I hate first, like Halo and Call of Duty.

• 25:22Drew Afualo?

  It's too much. Yeah, I can't do it.

• 25:23Speaker 02

  I don't like those kind of games. I like when I can see the person and like run around and do stuff like that. Love.

• 25:27Drew Afualo?

  You're so mean.

• 25:27Speaker 02

  Love, love, love.

• 25:28Drew Afualo?

  You're so mean.

• 25:29Speaker 02

  Did you play God of War Ragnarok?

• 25:30Drew Afualo?

  No, I, but my fiance played God of War, and that one's fun.

• 25:34Speaker 02

  I love God of War.

• 25:34Drew Afualo?

  That one's really fun.

• 25:35Speaker 02

  Love God of War.

• 25:36Drew Afualo?

  I played, have you played Red Dead Redemption?

• 25:38Speaker 02

  No, but I should.

• 25:39Drew Afualo?

  Girl, that one, okay, I played that during COVID, and when I finished, I was like playing it all the time, obviously, because we had nothing but time during that time. And I remember I was like so, I was in that weird transitionary period of my life because I got fired, and I had just barely started kind of doing TikTok, so I was really lost at the time. So I was like, I know what I'll do. I'll play a video game. And so I like balls deep in that game. I played it all the time. I would play till like two in the morning. And when it finishes, like at the end, the ending's sad, but like you can also determine the ending. It ends the same regardless. It's just like you're either a good person or a bad person, whatever. I always have to be a good person in the games. And then at the end, I was sobbing when it ended. I was crying like I lost a family member. And I was literally like, it's just, God, he's just such a good person.

• 26:24Drew Afualo?

  It's like having a nervous breakdown. Cause I had such like a connection to him.

• 26:28Speaker 02

  Okay, I'm gonna play, I'm gonna play it too then.

• 26:30Drew Afualo?

  It's so fun.

• 26:31Speaker 02

  I want to play Last of Us, love Last of Us.

• 26:32Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my sister's played that one.

• 26:34Speaker 02

  Oh, they're so good.

• 26:35Drew Afualo?

  They're scary.

• 26:36Speaker 02

  They are scary, but I'm gonna play through Last of Us 2 again, because I wanna, because season 2 of the show is coming out. I wanna remember how it goes.

• 26:44Drew Afualo?

  That's a good idea.

• 26:44Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 26:45Drew Afualo?

  I love that. Have you ever played the Assassin's Creed games?

• 26:47Speaker 02

  I never got into those.

• 26:48Drew Afualo?

  No?

• 26:48Speaker 02

  I never got into those.

• 26:49Drew Afualo?

  Those ones are pretty fun if you want a mindless one where you can run around a lot.

• 26:52Speaker 02

  Okay, maybe I should get into that, because now I'm home, recuperating.

• 26:56Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 26:56Speaker 02

  I wanna play, play something cute.

• 26:57Drew Afualo?

  You gotta need a new game.

• 26:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, new game, yeah. Cause I will replay a game over and over again.

• 27:02Drew Afualo?

  Me too, I've actually done that too. I think it's fun.

• 27:05Speaker 02

  I played through Final Fantasy X like 3 times now. Cause I think it's one of my, I think it's my top favorite video game of all time.

• 27:11Drew Afualo?

  Tee.

• 27:12Speaker 02

  Love Final Fantasy X.

• 27:12Drew Afualo?

  I've never played that one.

• 27:13Speaker 02

  But I don't like the other Final Fantasy games. Like, I don't like 7, I don't like 4, I don't like any one except 10. So, I don't know what that means, but it's the only one I like.

• 27:21Drew Afualo?

  That's so fun.

• 27:22Speaker 02

  It's also the gayest one, I think, too. Yeah.

• 27:24Drew Afualo?

  That's why you feel so connected.

• 27:26Speaker 02

  Yeah, she's like always doing like summonings, her summonings are so, I'm like, she's basically voguing, she's like...

• 27:32Speaker 02

  It's like summoning these goddesses and shit.

• 27:33Drew Afualo?

  And you said she's fierce. I love her.

• 27:35Speaker 02

  I like that.

• 27:37Drew Afualo?

  I like that about her. I know, I laugh, because when I play like, if I play like GTA or something like that, I like to play like the storyline, but if I like play with my sister, she likes to just fucking run around.

• 27:49Speaker 02

  Mmm.

• 27:49Drew Afualo?

  Which is fun too, I like to run around, but sometimes when we play together, I'm like, Dace, come over here.

• 27:54Speaker 02

  I'm like you, I'm like you.

• 27:55Drew Afualo?

  We're staying mission focused.

• 27:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, we, because this, this is why I can't play Breath of the Wild, that Breath of the Wild link, uh, link game.

• 28:02Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yes, I've heard of that one, yeah.

• 28:03Speaker 02

  Yeah, because it's like one of those open world games, but girl, you, like, you can spend 40 hours riding horses in a desert. I'm like, what is the mission? We need to save the princess. We gotta save the princess.

• 28:14Drew Afualo?

  I don't like this jack around shit. I don't like it.

• 28:17Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no, no. I'm like you, I wanna do the mission and like focus.

• 28:20Drew Afualo?

  There's a newer game that just came out called Black Myth Wukong. Have you heard of this game?

• 28:24Speaker 02

  No.

• 28:25Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 28:25Speaker 02

  It sounds problematic though.

• 28:30Speaker 02

  Should I play it? Oh no.

• 28:33Drew Afualo?

  It's like a fantasy game. But you're like, you're a literal, this sounds awful now that you said this, but you're a literal monkey, like an actual monkey. You're like a red furred monkey. It's like, he looks like a, I don't, what kind of monkey is that? I don't know what it is. Me acting like I know the difference of monkeys. It's just like, it's one with red fur and he has like a really long tail and really big ears. And like, that's the person you play as, which hate that. Immediately hate that. I told one of my fiance was like, just try it. Like, I think you'll like it. It's like an open, it's a open world game. It's a mission focused game, whatever. And I was like, I'm having, I'm having trouble connecting to the monkey.

• 29:10Drew Afualo?

  Spiritually. I'm having, I'm having trouble connecting to him. I don't know. We'll see. And I was like, I was trying it and that game is like reviewed, I guess, to be very difficult to play. Like the storyline is really hard, no matter how, what level you fucking put it at.

• 29:25Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 29:26Drew Afualo?

  Bitch, when I tell you, I'm only running around for a couple of minutes and then I have to fight two bosses already and I have no weapons, no skills. I don't know how to do shit. I'm pissed off.

• 29:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm angry.

• 29:36Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. And so I played and then of course, as soon as I got killed at least three times, I was like, well now all of my other plans are shot because I have to sit here and I have to beat this. And I got nothing else to do. I, my whole day is taken now. And then I literally haven't played it since after I played for hours just that one day. And it's literally because I don't like losing that many times. I was like, it's too hard. There's not enough like, let me fuck around. Let me like, figure it out. Let me learn my moves.

• 30:02Speaker 02

  Literally me as a kid playing Risk Bandicoot. I'm like my big brother.

• 30:05Drew Afualo?

  I loved that fucking game.

• 30:07Speaker 02

  But you go back and play those games, they were hard for someone in just get barely getting to double digit ages. I was like nine and a half trying to play this game. Like, I'm like crying because I can't beat this stupid platform game. I'm like, Sean, can you please do it for me, please?

• 30:21Drew Afualo?

  That's so funny. I, that's how I was too about games. I'd make my dad do it if I couldn't do it.

• 30:26Speaker 02

  But then when he couldn't do it, I was like, oh good. I feel validated.

• 30:29Drew Afualo?

  You feel good about it? I loved Crash Bandicoot and the Spyro games.

• 30:33Speaker 02

  Spyro, yes, the dragon one.

• 30:35Drew Afualo?

  Yes, I loved those games.

• 30:37Speaker 02

  We are soul sisters.

• 30:38Drew Afualo?

  Look at us, we're the same.

• 30:39Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 30:40Drew Afualo?

  We're the same.

• 30:40Speaker 02

  Love.

• 30:41Drew Afualo?

  Okay, period. Okay, wait, let's transition into this.

• 30:43Speaker 02

  Sorry, I'm just talking about.

• 30:44Drew Afualo?

  No, I love it. I love it. It's the best. Okay, so, our topic for today, we have boyfriends and husbands who overlook their partners during the holidays while expecting them to do all the work. Like, basically, all the basic domestic stereotype gifts, tree trimming but with no help. It's a tree trimming party, but it's just you at the party by yourself. Or not helping with cooking, cleaning, hosting, all of that stuff. Do you like hosting?

• 31:08Speaker 02

  I love hosting.

• 31:09Drew Afualo?

  Me too.

• 31:09Speaker 02

  I love hosting.

• 31:11Drew Afualo?

  Especially holidays, you host?

• 31:12Speaker 02

  No, because I don't love holidays.

• 31:14Drew Afualo?

  Oh, that's right, that's right, okay.

• 31:16Speaker 02

  But I love to. I do love to host. I do love to host. I host game nights pretty often, people roll through. By the way, I would love for you to come over for a game night.

• 31:22Drew Afualo?

  Oh, girl, don't threaten me with a good time.

• 31:24Speaker 02

  Nicole Byer, always we just play stupid games.

• 31:26Drew Afualo?

  I love a game night.

• 31:27Speaker 02

  And I just pretend, I just eat, do a bunch of mushrooms and pretend I can know what's going on, so.

• 31:32Drew Afualo?

  I get high as fuck too, and I sit there and have fun.

• 31:35Speaker 02

  But I love hosting, and I, because I will go out, I get all the drinks and foods and snacks, I want everyone to have a good time and shit. I love hosting a party.

• 31:43Drew Afualo?

  Me too. And like, I feel like, I love to host, but I love to host the way you do too, which is like, provide everything and just come and have a good time.

• 31:52Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 31:53Drew Afualo?

  It's always fun.

• 31:53Speaker 02

  I mean, I'm coming for the party too.

• 31:55Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 31:55Speaker 02

  Like, I want to have a good time, but I'm also, I have a little OCD, so like, while everyone's having a good time, I'm always cleaning up too, because like, I don't, like, my brain gets crazy. So, I kind of, I try to balance both.

• 32:06Drew Afualo?

  You're like, and you're not having fun?

• 32:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, you know what I mean? I'm like, I'm gonna have fun. No, I'm not having fun.

• 32:12Drew Afualo?

  You're like, I'm gonna have so much fun.

• 32:13Speaker 02

  But I love having fun doing that too, though, you know what I mean?

• 32:16Drew Afualo?

  I feel you.

• 32:16Speaker 02

  Seeing everyone else have fun makes me have fun.

• 32:18Drew Afualo?

  You're so me.

• 32:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, 100%.

• 32:20Drew Afualo?

  You're so me, I'm like, and sometimes I would like to tell my fiance, I'm like, do you think everybody's having a good time? And he's like, yeah, of course.

• 32:26Speaker 02

  Literally, me and my boyfriend, oh my god.

• 32:29Drew Afualo?

  I was like, do you think so? Okay, cool, I just want to make sure.

• 32:33Drew Afualo?

  I just want to make sure everybody, the vibes are high.

• 32:35Speaker 02

  100%.

• 32:35Drew Afualo?

  Love, okay, perfect, you're just like me, so. This one, we have, this first one. Okay, this is a response video to a skit called, "How Guys Buy Girls Gifts for Christmas", where two guys are shopping for their girlfriends, but they keep buying things they want for themselves. And a man admits that he once bought his girlfriend a vintage Trivial Pursuit game, just because he wanted it. Women in the comments who started to share their own real-life experiences with disappointing gifts. Have you ever gotten a disappointing gift? From a, like, romantic partner?

• 33:03Speaker 02

  Okay, yes.

• 33:06Drew Afualo?

  Okay, yes.

• 33:10Speaker 02

  Last year.

• 33:13Speaker 02

  Hi, babe.

• 33:15Speaker 02

  Last year, my work, my, and my boyfriend's normally really good at getting gifts.

• 33:18Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 33:19Speaker 02

  He's really good at, like, listening and, like, the thing, like, Valentine's Day or birthday or Christmas coming around, I'm like, oh, my god! That's, that's a good one, thank you for getting that. Um, but, and I never said I wanted to do this, but he got, kind of, it kind of works with what everyone was talking about earlier. He got me a PlayStation Portal.

• 33:34Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 33:34Speaker 02

  And which is a nice gift.

• 33:35Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that's the, the portable version of it, yeah, of the PS5.

• 33:38Speaker 02

  But, you know, in, in true Sony fashion, it's not like a Switch. Like, you can't just pick it up and, like, play anywhere.

• 33:44Drew Afualo?

  It doesn't work.

• 33:46Speaker 02

  It doesn't work.

• 33:46Drew Afualo?

  I'm pissed off at it.

• 33:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, you know what I mean?

• 33:48Drew Afualo?

  I'm so serious. I've tried to play, I've played, tried to play The Witcher on it, and I was like, girl, this thing doesn't work unless I'm right next to it.

• 33:54Speaker 02

  Literally.

• 33:55Drew Afualo?

  What's the point?

• 33:55Speaker 02

  So, and like, for someone, I, you know, travel, traveling a lot.

• 33:58Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 33:59Speaker 02

  Like, I want to be able to, like, be at a hotel and be like, okay, I'm gonna play my thing.

• 34:01Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 34:02Speaker 02

  It's impossible.

• 34:02Drew Afualo?

  I see, oh, so, I see where his mind was at.

• 34:05Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 34:06Drew Afualo?

  Just in practice, the product's not very good.

• 34:08Speaker 02

  It's not a good product, so...

• 34:09Drew Afualo?

  I don't know what's wrong with that thing.

• 34:10Speaker 02

  Girl, I tried, I literally tried it on one, and now it just, I've literally played it one time ever, and it just sits in the house.

• 34:17Drew Afualo?

  Me too. That's so funny, that is so funny you say that, because I got it for the same reasons. I was like, okay, when I travel, I'll take this with me, and that'll be something nice, that's not my phone, that I can play. And then, it doesn't work.

• 34:28Speaker 02

  It doesn't work.

• 34:28Drew Afualo?

  It has no signal, and then, you need to be connected to the same wifi.

• 34:32Speaker 02

  The same wifi, and it has to be, it's, it's a mess. It's a mess.

• 34:35Drew Afualo?

  My fiance tried to play it sitting in our room. Like, he was like, let me try it in the room. So, because we have a PS5 in the living room. So, he went in the room, and it still wasn't working.

• 34:42Speaker 02

  It still doesn't work, yeah, it's a mess. It's, it's a waste. Like, wherever he is like, ah, but he, he understands, but I think, and deep in his...

• 34:48Drew Afualo?

  And they're not cheap.

• 34:49Speaker 02

  They're not cheap, girl.

• 34:50Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 34:51Speaker 02

  Even in spirit, he's like, I really want you to play, and I'm like, well, it doesn't work, so... I mean, maybe I can like sell it to someone. I don't know.

• 34:57Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 34:57Speaker 02

  So that's a disappointing gift.

• 34:58Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that's, that's fair, though.

• 35:00Speaker 02

  But if it was in the right place.

• 35:01Drew Afualo?

  Yes, and it would have been a great gift if it worked.

• 35:04Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:04Drew Afualo?

  Right? Okay, too.

• 35:06Speaker 02

  He also got me a dice in one year because I, so I'm like.

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• 36:14Speaker 02

  This is a gift for the house.

• 36:18Drew Afualo?

  This is for us.

• 36:19Speaker 02

  Us. This is not a solo gift, girl. You know, but then also when I, when I get issued a gift, because I am a Pisces and, well, a Pisces Aquarius cuss. I'm a little vindictive. So for your next gift, gonna be, uh huh huh. Half measures avail of half measures, girl. So when it's your time to me give you a gift, it's gonna be reflective of the gift you gave me before.

• 36:41Speaker 02

  Hello?

• 36:42Drew Afualo?

  I don't think I've ever gotten one, like, if, if I did get one, it would be similar like that. Like where I'd be like, damn, it doesn't work. I don't think I've ever gotten one, though, where I was like, from a partner, romantic partner, where I was like, ugh.

• 36:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 36:55Drew Afualo?

  Like, we, my sister and I talked about it recently. Like, the only gifts I've ever gotten that I thought were, like, bad were like, they're almost like from family members that don't really know you that well. So they kind of just get you whatever.

• 37:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:06Drew Afualo?

  To which I'm always like, money works.

• 37:08Speaker 02

  Money.

• 37:09Drew Afualo?

  Gift cards.

• 37:09Speaker 02

  Money and gift cards.

• 37:10Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 37:11Speaker 02

  If you're next in the family, just give me money or gift card.

• 37:13Drew Afualo?

  Or a bottle of alcohol, like.

• 37:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, you can't go wrong with that. You know what I mean?

• 37:16Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 37:16Speaker 02

  But don't try to give me a shirt or a dress and like, they're like, oh, I know you do drag now, here's this dress.

• 37:22Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I do drag, but I don't dress ugly.

• 37:27Speaker 02

  Right, like, like, girl.

• 37:30Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 37:30Speaker 02

  You went to Ross and got me the $26 dress, and you thought you ate. Well, you should throw it up, because it's horrible.

• 37:38Drew Afualo?

  I know, I'm like, I feel like my sister and I had that kind of stint with like extended family, that they would get us either matching things, and we're like teens. Yeah, matching things, just like, one's purple, one's pink, like, okay, well, I'm 19, but thank you, right? Like, it's like shit like that, or, oh, one time, I said, like, my in-laws, it was like extended family on my in-law's side, so like, they never really see them, they didn't know me at all, this was their first time meeting me. Um, and I, and this was probably the second year I was dating my fiance, so I'm like fairly new, so I'm not expecting anything from extended family at all. Um, I brought something for everyone because I'm brown and it's just, I can't help it. So, but it was like bottles of wine and shit like that, just to be polite.

• 38:23Drew Afualo?

  And they were like, oh, we got you something too, it was like an extended family member. And I was like, oh, really? Like, for me? And they were like, yeah, yeah, like, of course, like, we know, it's like, you know, you're with Billy and we love you guys and blah, blah, blah, like, they're like really gassing the gift. And they're like, oh, we just, we had to get you one, we thought of you, and like, yeah, of course, I was like, okay. And they got it, and it was like these fancy, like, truffle chocolates, which I was like, oh, that's so sweet, like, thank you, like. And so, when I was looking at the gift later in the day, I was like, it had like a picture on the back, like, it was in a bag. It clear, it was clear the bag came with the chocolates, and so it had a little like diagram on the back of like, what truffle chocolates were in there, and I was like, oh, cool, and then I was like, well, let me open it. So I took out the box and a card fell out.

• 39:07Drew Afualo?

  And I was like, oh shit, I didn't even know they wrote me a card, and I like go and I opened the card, and it was a very detailed card to the couple that gave it to me, from tenants who live in their building, because they're like maintenance people. But it was a very detailed like, you guys are the best. You always help fix my sink. You're like the nice. And I read the whole thing. I go, oh. This gift wasn't for me. I was like, oh, oh, okay. And then I'm like, reading the intimate details in that card. I was like, well, this seems like a really meaningful gift for y'all.

• 39:41Drew Afualo?

  I was like, well, shit. And then I, I had to laugh. There's no way you can't laugh. I'm like, well, the thought was there. But I know it's on the way out. They're like, oh, shit. Billy has a new girlfriend. Grab that bag right there.

• 39:54Speaker 02

  I've definitely re-gifted things before, but I made sure it wasn't.

• 39:57Drew Afualo?

  Me too. That's my point. I'm like, I, trust me. I get it. Like you. And I think like, that's where I think if it's like a spouse that's new to the family, I think you can't go wrong with a gift card or candles, right? Or maybe like lotion or something. I don't know. A blanket.

• 40:14Speaker 02

  Yeah. Everyone needs a blanket.

• 40:16Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 40:17Speaker 02

  It's California. I use a blanket.

• 40:18Drew Afualo?

  Especially if we're like adults. I feel like those are, and then kids I feel like are easy to buy for.

• 40:22Speaker 02

  Oh, for sure.

• 40:23Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 40:23Speaker 02

  For sure. And then what, what, teens just get the money.

• 40:25Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 40:25Speaker 02

  Teens just want money. They don't, they don't care about anything but money.

• 40:28Drew Afualo?

  I love when kids are so blunt about, about gifts. Like it makes me laugh. Like I remember one time, my, my cousin, like, so my cousin, her, like, her dad is my mom's brother and he's a USC fan. So he's been to USC and he's just a diehard USC fan. And so everything, he loves USC visors, USC coolers. Like he's just one of those kinds of guys. And so he would get stuff for her all the time. He only has one child. She's a girl. And she's very girly. She loves girly stuff. But when she was like a child, like probably like nine, um, they were like, okay, let's open gifts. Cause we were like doing small gifts on Christmas Eve and she opens it and she's like, not more USC stuff. And she starts sobbing.

• 41:15Drew Afualo?

  We're all laughing. And then, and then she's like, I don't want this. Cause she was like nine years old. Hilarious. I love how honest kids are. It kills me. Do you have a lot of kids in your family?

• 41:26Speaker 02

  Um.

• 41:27Drew Afualo?

  For holidays?

• 41:27Speaker 02

  My brother has four. Kids, but like when I was younger, we used to celebrate our Christmas as like big family together. But not everyone is kind of like, he's like his wife and his kids.

• 41:36Drew Afualo?

  I feel it.

• 41:37Speaker 02

  Like everyone is separate a little bit.

• 41:38Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 41:38Speaker 02

  I don't see many little kids during the holidays.

• 41:40Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 41:41Speaker 02

  My, my, my partner's family has some younger kids.

• 41:43Drew Afualo?

  Oh, nice.

• 41:44Speaker 02

  Really, they're like between like nine and eighteen now, so they're.

• 41:47Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 41:48Speaker 02

  Like little kids.

• 41:48Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and it's kind of easy. I feel like kid, you're like, you're right. Money, gift cards.

• 41:53Speaker 02

  Just money and gift cards, but that's all they want. Also, being in opposition, like we get like, you know, I'm sure you get a lot of PR packages.

• 41:58Drew Afualo?

  Hell, yeah.

• 41:59Speaker 02

  Baby, I will re-gift some things in a PR package. So fast.

• 42:03Drew Afualo?

  Sometimes they come so pretty, I'm like, well, that's going in someone's stocking.

• 42:06Speaker 02

  Hundred percent, one hundred percent. Because also, you just can't use the amount of things you get.

• 42:10Drew Afualo?

  I know.

• 42:11Speaker 02

  It's just impossible to use.

• 42:12Drew Afualo?

  Absolutely.

• 42:12Speaker 02

  Bro, the amount of makeup I have, I have enough makeup to fill this room.

• 42:15Drew Afualo?

  I know, that's why, I know. And I always think too, like even, and you know, I'm sure you do this too because you love to host. Sometimes when people come to my house, when I'm hosting, I'm like, everyone grab a grocery bag.

• 42:25Speaker 02

  Yup.

• 42:25Drew Afualo?

  Go in that room.

• 42:26Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 42:26Drew Afualo?

  And take whatever the fuck you want.

• 42:27Speaker 02

  Whatever you want.

• 42:28Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 42:29Speaker 02

  Take whatever you want.

• 42:29Drew Afualo?

  And I, like, sometimes they'll be like, oh, do you want me to show it to you? I'm like, I wouldn't notice. If it's gone, take it, girl.

• 42:35Speaker 02

  Whatever you want.

• 42:35Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like, because I try to empty it as often as I can and donate it.

• 42:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 42:39Drew Afualo?

  But there's just so much of it. And it's just like, just take it. Like, I'll literally, like, you need a new skincare routine? Get in there, girl.

• 42:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, girl, just get into it. Also, some, some, some companies, they like go, like, I remember one year, I don't know if you, when Doritos released those dipping sauces, did you get it that year?

• 42:56Drew Afualo?

  No. I got their new flavored Doritos. I got that one. And that one was crazy, too.

• 43:00Speaker 02

  To my door showed up a pyramid that was at least like, I want to say three and a half, four feet tall, like a pyramid, like a big ass pyramid. For two dipping sauces inside of it. And I was like, this is insane. The marketing for this is crazy.

• 43:17Drew Afualo?

  Girl, I think that all the time.

• 43:19Speaker 02

  Girl, it was like two, and like, at, at, at the top of like the pyramid, you just pull out these two drawers, and there was like a dipping sauce in this big of, of cheese ranch. The other one was like another thing. And I was like, this big ass pyramid for those two dipping sauces is wild. But I was like, work Doritos.

• 43:34Drew Afualo?

  I know, sometimes they're extra as fuck. Like, I did a Miller Lite deal and they, but this. I needed, they they like dropped off, it was a a keg stand, like it holds a keg. And it's like a giant present, like humongous. It was up to like my shoulder. It was huge. And it's all metal and it came with like a big bucket to put a keg in. And then it holds a Christmas tree. And so it was enormous and it was, when it was dropped off, it was on a pallet and the the man who dropped it off was a hundred. And he was like, do you care if I just leave this pallet? Like, my back hurts. I was all, I guess not.

• 44:12Speaker 02

  I care, but now I can now I feel bad if I say.

• 44:15Drew Afualo?

  I actually don't want a pallet in my garage, but you seem like you're not really asking.

• 44:22Drew Afualo?

  And I told, like, it's so funny. I was like, anyone that came over, I was like, do you guys like Miller Lite or know anyone that likes Miller Lite? Do any of you want that? My dad was trying so hard to take it. My mom was like, that thing is ugly. No. Cause it is, it's it's enormous and I don't even remember who I gave it to. I I gave it to someone. But they were like, I'm gonna take this to my brother's frat house. And I was like, perfect.

• 44:45Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I know what you mean. There's just, it's too much.

• 44:49Speaker 02

  And I am not a hoarder, like I. I love throwing shit away.

• 44:55Drew Afualo?

  Same. I'm like, it doesn't spark joy. Bye.

• 45:00Drew Afualo?

  Okay, well, these are some of the comments about awful gifts people have gotten. Like this one says. My ex is a giver of what he likes. He does it with the kids too. He believes his tastes and interests are superior. He can't lower himself to buy things he thinks are unworthy.

• 45:18Speaker 02

  Then then don't expect things from other people.

• 45:19Drew Afualo?

  No, for real. It's so funny. We were talking, my mom's sister and I were talking about this on the way down here, but we were saying how like. Sometimes when men are so convicted, like straight men are so convicted that they're a good gift giver. It's like because they buy shit that they would want. And I said, whereas women and other people that are not straight men. They tend to listen to what you want and get you something like that.

• 45:46Drew Afualo?

  I don't care if I like it, you like it. It defeats the purpose of a gift.

• 45:50Speaker 02

  It defeats the whole of a fucking gift. Wasn't it kind of cursed?

• 45:53Drew Afualo?

  No, yeah, of course we had.

• 45:54Speaker 02

  Fucking gift. It's ridiculous.

• 45:57Drew Afualo?

  We'll go on to the next video. So this, in this video, a man is recording his family on Christmas morning and he films all the kids opening their stockings, films his own stocking and then films an empty stocking sitting on the couch and he says, "Whose is this?" And his wife says, "Mine." And he says, "Why is it empty?" And his wife says, "Santa forgot about me, I guess." And the man laughs. And the caption says that this woman's husband forgot to fill her stocking for 10 straight years.

• 46:22Speaker 02

  10 years?

• 46:23Drew Afualo?

  10 years? A decade? Don't waste a second more, run.

• 46:29Speaker 02

  I know, right? A decade, being forgotten by your husband for 10 years.

• 46:34Drew Afualo?

  On Christmas?

• 46:35Speaker 02

  It may seem so minimal, like just as, like, I'm sort of like, well, it's just a stocking, but that to me is a symptom of a bigger problem.

• 46:42Drew Afualo?

  Exactly.

• 46:43Speaker 02

  You know what I mean? Of a bigger situation that's happening.

• 46:45Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 46:46Speaker 02

  If it just, if this happened on Christmas, imagine the other way she's being forgotten about.

• 46:50Drew Afualo?

  No shit, like, not even birthdays and anniversaries are out of the question.

• 46:53Speaker 02

  I know. Or honestly, maybe even sexually, like, he's not like one of these motherfuckers that, once he got his nut?

• 47:00Drew Afualo?

  Done.

• 47:00Speaker 02

  Oh, he's done.

• 47:01Drew Afualo?

  He's tired all of a sudden.

• 47:02Speaker 02

  Like, when was the last time this woman had a great, pleasurable sexual experience? From this man who forgot about her on Christmas?

• 47:08Drew Afualo?

  Probably.

• 47:08Speaker 02

  You know?

• 47:09Drew Afualo?

  10 years before she met this guy?

• 47:11Speaker 02

  That's the last one, 10 years ago.

• 47:13Drew Afualo?

  For real, it's like, like, these comments, "God, calm down in the comments, my husband never remembers." Girl, that's one of those things where they'll say something that they think is so funny and relatable and you're like, "Oh."

• 47:27Speaker 02

  I know.

• 47:28Drew Afualo?

  That sounds awful.

• 47:29Speaker 02

  It's terrible.

• 47:30Drew Afualo?

  Like, it's like, it's, it doesn't have to be that way, actually. It doesn't need to be that way at all, actually. Like, the way people are like, "Oh, girl, my husband never remembers me either."

• 47:42Speaker 02

  Like, baby, we're not, we're not celebrating that.

• 47:44Drew Afualo?

  Well, then I'm holding both your hands. Like, what the fuck?

• 47:47Speaker 02

  No.

• 47:48Drew Afualo?

  I'm thinking of both of y'all in this moment.

• 47:50Speaker 02

  Like, girl, my husband never remembers me. My husband has no idea who I am.

• 47:55Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my husband hates me. He fucking hates me. This one says, "All of y'all weirdos for attacking that man. How are you more mad at him than his own wife? Ridiculous internet warriors." I don't know. His own wife, it's her fault that she didn't get any gifts.

• 48:10Speaker 02

  Right.

• 48:11Drew Afualo?

  And then this one says, "Damn, all the single women are mad as fuck."

• 48:14Speaker 02

  That's, that's another, people love to like blame it on like, or not blame it on, or victimize a single woman. No, like, single women are, if I was a single woman reading, I'm like, bitch, I'm happy I'm not in that. I'm happy that it's not my reality. I'm happy that it's not something I have to deal with every year for the past 10 years.

• 48:29Drew Afualo?

  Exactly.

• 48:30Speaker 02

  What?

• 48:31Drew Afualo?

  It's like, yeah, it's like, phew, when you see that. It's like that comment that sometimes people leave and they're like, may this love never find me. It's one of those. That's how I feel when I see it. And also, it's sad, cause it's like, especially when I see, cause that's like one of those things where women, sometimes women will post like, things about their husbands being so thoughtless and disrespectful, in a very obvious, but not like flagrant way. So it's not like they're being like physically abused or anything, but they're being like neglected emotionally and it's very obvious.

• 49:05Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 49:06Drew Afualo?

  And then everyone's like, oh, girl, that's terrible. And then when she follows up with videos and she'll say things like, you guys don't even know him, it's not even that serious. Like, I remember a couple of years ago, I was getting tagged in this video and it was like these, this couple getting married and they were exchanging vows. And this, this video went super viral on Twitter and stuff too, because it was just that bad. But all, it was, like, you could hear her, her vows were very like intimate, sentimental, like, like they're supposed to be, they're fucking vows.

• 49:33Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 49:34Drew Afualo?

  His were like, it was like he was trying to be funny, like do like, almost like a roast, like.

• 49:39Speaker 02

  Oh, no.

• 49:41Drew Afualo?

  And he was like, making jokes about having sex with her and like, I promise to like, put my, my wiener inside you every night at this time, or whatever. It was like gross, weird, disrespectful shit like that.

• 49:53Speaker 02

  In your, in, in, these are in the wedding vows?

• 49:55Drew Afualo?

  Yes, girl. Like, they're at the altar. Like, he's reciting them and their parents are there, they have children and their children are there, to which I'm like, and I remember I was getting tagged in it a million times and that girl, like, was getting, she kinda got mad that I was getting tagged, even though I didn't say anything. And she was like, you are all fucking single and you're all like mad, that's how we joke around, that's what we do, like, he's a big jokester, he likes to joke, blah, blah, blah. And I remember I kept getting tagged in it, so much so that I was getting. Annoyed cuz I was like, this is clearly awful and I'm sending love and light her way. That's pretty much all I can do. But like, I talked about it and I was like, for those of you tagging me like, I get it, but I also, I feel bad for women who are in this situation and have to make peace with it.

• 50:40Drew Afualo?

  So they find reasons to be okay with it.

• 50:42Speaker 02

  One hundred percent.

• 50:43Drew Afualo?

  It's the same thing as this with the gifts. It's like, you find reasons to make it feel less awful because it is awful objectively. But I was like, but let's just say he's trying, he is a funny guy, right? Is, are your wedding vows, is that the time to start trying out new material? Like, I don't give a fuck if you're the headmaster of Chuckles University bitch. Why are you working a tight five here?

• 51:07Speaker 02

  On our wedding day.

• 51:08Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like in front of me and our family and the Lord, fuck you. You know what I'm saying?

• 51:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, doing us, doing a roast of your wife at your wedding day is.

• 51:18Drew Afualo?

  Oh, this will be hilarious. So that's how I feel. Like, that's not the time to do that shit. You fucking bitch, for real.

• 51:24Speaker 02

  See, this is why I'm scared to get married. What if like, everything is going so well at the wedding, I found out this person is there, I'm like, well, no, but she's saying he, that's how he always was. So I guess she always knew, yeah.

• 51:35Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, so it's like one of those, but that would be scary, huh? If you got married and that's where they decide to show you.

• 51:40Speaker 02

  I know, I'm like, damn.

• 51:42Drew Afualo?

  They like, they're finally like, now I can be myself.

• 51:45Speaker 02

  I'm like, call, call in for the prenup.

• 51:48Drew Afualo?

  Okay, this is, these are comments from the last one about bad gifts, but I wanna read them. So this one says, my ex bought me a Wii, a Wii for Christmas. I'm not even a casual gamer. And I had asked for a nice drill, drill and bit set. And the Wii gift was never for me, it was a gift for him. And it was all a ruse.

• 52:07Speaker 02

  First of all, a Wii.

• 52:10Drew Afualo?

  At your grown age.

• 52:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, also, was this in two thousand and seven? Like, this is, I hope it was a long time ago and you, you've since healed from that, from that horrible gift.

• 52:19Drew Afualo?

  I hope so.

• 52:21Speaker 02

  Oh my god, I was.

• 52:21Drew Afualo?

  If it was recent, that'd be crazy. He bought like a refurbished one.

• 52:24Speaker 02

  Yeah, like you went on eBay and you got a Wii? That's what you got on eBay, okay. Yeah, getting, yeah.

• 52:30Drew Afualo?

  Oh, we is crazy.

• 52:31Speaker 02

  A drill bit set. Honestly, when I say, I wish I was more handy. I need a drill bit set.

• 52:35Drew Afualo?

  Oh, me too.

• 52:36Speaker 02

  Are you handy?

• 52:37Drew Afualo?

  No.

• 52:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, me either.

• 52:38Drew Afualo?

  Not at all.

• 52:38Speaker 02

  Not at all.

• 52:39Drew Afualo?

  And I don't, that's one of those things that I equate to like the car. I'm like, I don't care.

• 52:43Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 52:44Drew Afualo?

  Like, I'll find someone. Like, I'll ask my man, and if he doesn't know, I'll call my dad.

• 52:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 52:50Drew Afualo?

  That's kind of my solution to everything.

• 52:52Speaker 02

  Even like hanging pictures up.

• 52:53Drew Afualo?

  Me too.

• 52:54Speaker 02

  I will put a nail, bang it into the wall and pray to God. I'm like, I think the picture will distance centered? I don't know, I'm just guessing.

• 53:02Drew Afualo?

  Dude, when I was, I was like trying to hang something once, and I called my dad to ask him because I was home alone, and my man was at work, so I couldn't call him. So I called my dad, and he was like, well, it depends. Is there, is there like, you know, whatever the fuck is, a stud?

• 53:15Speaker 02

  A stud.

• 53:16Drew Afualo?

  He's like, is there a stud? I go, you're saying a lot of words at me. I don't know what they mean. I asked you, can I nail this into the wall? Is something bad gonna happen? And my dad's like, it's not gonna go in. Why? There's a stud back there. What does that mean? And my dad's all, just leave it. I'll come and I'll do it. And I was like, alright.

• 53:32Speaker 02

  Why did you say that from the beginning, Dad?

• 53:33Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, shit. I know, I was like, I was telling my mom something the other day about something I installed, because my dad, like, my man can do most handy things, but like, electrical work he can't do. My dad, for some reason, can. He like taught himself how to do it. So he's hung up all my Ring cameras, like, my doorbell, my lights, like, every, my dad does all that shit for me. And like, some, my mom was telling me something, and I was like, she goes, I think you need to buy like these attachments for it. And I was like, okay. And she goes, yeah, if you buy and have it at the house, then you can like, uh, you know, have someone install it. And I go, and by that you mean, I'll tell my dad to be here tomorrow and he'll install it? And she goes, yeah. And I go, perfect, awesome. That's one of those things where I'm like, I don't care, you can do it.

• 54:13Speaker 02

  Oh, 100%.

• 54:14Drew Afualo?

  I don't know shit.

• 54:14Speaker 02

  Either that, or I will, I will command strip my way out of anything, okay? I will command strip.

• 54:19Drew Afualo?

  We will make it work.

• 54:21Speaker 02

  We will make it work with the command strip, girl.

• 54:22Drew Afualo?

  I love, I love a hook that goes with a command thing on the back.

• 54:26Speaker 02

  100.

• 54:26Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, yeah. I'll put 50 back there.

• 54:30Speaker 02

  My TV on the wall, yeah, well, there are $3.72 command strips holding that TV on the wall, girl.

• 54:36Drew Afualo?

  Holding that bitch up.

• 54:37Speaker 02

  If there's an earthquake, we're fucked.

• 54:40Drew Afualo?

  But right now, it's great.

• 54:41Speaker 02

  It's great.

• 54:44Drew Afualo?

  I know, I wish I was more handy, but then I also think nah.

• 54:48Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 54:48Drew Afualo?

  I don't have room up here for it, you know?

• 54:51Speaker 02

  Just call a Task Rabbit or.

• 54:52Drew Afualo?

  For real.

• 54:52Speaker 02

  Or, yeah.

• 54:53Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, or some other person that can do it. I even like shit with the car, like I remember one time I had to drop my car up to get new tires. Like all four of them were bald as fuck and I needed to replace them.

• 55:04Speaker 02

  Oh damn.

• 55:04Drew Afualo?

  Whatever that means. So like they called me and they were like, oh, like we wanted to talk about the tires like. And he was like asking me all these fucking questions that I don't know.

• 55:15Speaker 02

  Gibberish.

• 55:16Drew Afualo?

  Girl, he could have been casting spells on me for all I fucking know.

• 55:20Speaker 02

  Is that a carburetor in the rear axle wheel of the cartilage?

• 55:25Drew Afualo?

  Exactly. So he's like, well, it depends. Did you turn the the V six over the V eight five? And I'm like, I don't know what you're saying. I don't know what that means. I don't speak whatever that is.

• 55:35Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 55:36Drew Afualo?

  So when he was telling me, I go, I I'm not sure. And he goes, well, you don't know if like, he was like, okay, well, do you know? And asked me again, another question I could not recite to you if my life depended on it. And then I said, you know, it might be easier if I just tell you this. The only thing I know about that car, other than it's mine, is that it's gray. That's it. I don't know shit past that. So, and that made him kind of laugh. And I go, so whatever you're gonna ask me? Can you just like send it to me in an email and I'll ask my dad?

• 56:04Speaker 02

  Ex- literally. Yeah, yeah.

• 56:06Drew Afualo?

  You sound like you're trying to take advantage of me.

• 56:07Speaker 02

  No, because I.

• 56:08Drew Afualo?

  I'm gonna call my dad.

• 56:09Speaker 02

  Mechanics, mechanics, I feel like they always are.

• 56:11Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 56:11Speaker 02

  They always come up for something, then they find something else, and then you thought they're gonna be paying three hundred dollars, and now you're paying eight hundred dollars. Like how? Like how? How did y'all hike this up so much?

• 56:20Drew Afualo?

  And you know what? I was like, and am I what misogynists believe a every woman to be a stupid bitch when I go to the mechanic? Yes. But you don't know that. So I'm like, am I that person when I go there? Yeah. I feel like the dumbest bitch alive when I have to go to the mechanic. And as, but that's probably why I hate it. That's why I don't want to learn anything.

• 56:41Speaker 02

  Same.

• 56:41Drew Afualo?

  Cause I was like, whatever.

• 56:42Speaker 02

  But also when I'm gonna go to the mechanic, this is what I do is because, because I think I'm gonna psych him out, right? I like find out what's what's wrong with my car and I Wikipedia the shit out of that one issue. So I'll walk in, I'll be like, yeah, I'm the V six nine seven. It's like, cause you need to like recalibrate the auto, the autographing, then they'll throw some shit out. I'm like.

• 56:59Drew Afualo?

  And then you take your chips and leave the casino.

• 57:01Speaker 02

  Yeah, girl, I just leave. And then they'll throw some, some other thing at me. I'm like, well, did this happen? I'm like, yes.

• 57:08Drew Afualo?

  That's a good point.

• 57:09Speaker 02

  Yeah. And I'm like, okay, yeah.

• 57:10Drew Afualo?

  Let me get a second opinion.

• 57:15Drew Afualo?

  Okay, this last one says, and this is also a bad gift. It's, once my ex bought me merch for my favorite, quote, favorite episode of a TV show we both liked. I had never seen that season and he spent half an hour trying to convince me I had, before realizing he meant his ex. So damn, he bought your ex for merch? Also, merch?

• 57:37Speaker 02

  Merch for Christmas gift as well. Also, gaslighting me about the Christmas gift as well.

• 57:43Drew Afualo?

  I like to think that he thought genuinely it was her and then he, mid-argument is like,

• 57:49Drew Afualo?

  that's not you.

• 57:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's not you, wrong one. Ooh, I've never, I've never confused lovers.

• 57:56Drew Afualo?

  Me either.

• 57:57Speaker 02

  I've never done that.

• 57:58Drew Afualo?

  Me either.

• 57:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 57:59Drew Afualo?

  And I, I feel like only a man would do that, to be honest.

• 58:02Speaker 02

  Honestly.

• 58:02Drew Afualo?

  Or, I, I will say though, when me and my sister were recording, we, recently, we had people send in the worst gifts. And someone said that when they went to their in-laws' house for the first time for Christmas, they got her this big, beautiful basket of Harry Potter stuff, because they were like, oh, you, we know how much you love Harry Potter, and it was so sweet. And then she said, um, the thing is though, I've never seen those movies, and they were talking about his last girlfriend.

• 58:27Speaker 02

  Damn.

• 58:28Drew Afualo?

  She was like a really, and they just like confused it. I was like, if that happened to me, I would literally be like, thank you.

• 58:35Speaker 02

  I was gonna say, I would just go along with it. I would be like, it's not worth it. I'm like, oh, thank you.

• 58:40Drew Afualo?

  You know me. I do, I do love.

• 58:42Speaker 02

  I would so go along with it. I would just go along with it. And I think because some of the pressure, like, well, they're like my in-laws, I don't want to cause any drama.

• 58:49Drew Afualo?

  Exactly, me too.

• 58:52Speaker 02

  But year two, I'm coming with fire. When I get to know everyone, I'm like, so who got me them Harry Potter DVDs last year?

• 59:00Drew Afualo?

  Then it's a joke, we are all allowed to make fun of it.

• 59:02Speaker 02

  Exactly, you know what I mean? But the first day, I would just swallow it up. I would, I would, I would, I would take the L. I'll just, I'll, I'll eat it up.

• 59:10Drew Afualo?

  I, uh, I remember one of the first dates I went on with my now fiance. This was like a date, like, cause the first couple of times we hung out, I didn't think they were dates. After the second one, I was like, well, obviously these are dates. And then like the third one, he was like, can I take you on a date? Like he explicitly wanted me to know it was a date. And I was like, okay. And so he's like, I want to take you to a restaurant. He had been telling me about a sushi restaurant for a while he wanted to take me to. And we went and it, food's bomb. But when we sat there, um, there was a waitress there that recognized him. My, my man is a big, a large human, he's hard to forget. Like, if you've seen him, you've seen him, right? And she goes, oh my God, how are you? He's like, good. She goes, I haven't seen her in so long. He goes, yeah, me either.

• 59:53Drew Afualo?

  And she looks at me and she goes, new girlfriend?

• 59:57Speaker 02

  Whoa.

• 1:00:00Drew Afualo?

  He was like, um, and like, again, we're not official.

• 1:00:05Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:00:06Drew Afualo?

  And like.

• 1:00:07Speaker 02

  Early stages.

• 1:00:07Drew Afualo?

  But we are dating.

• 1:00:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're dating, yeah.

• 1:00:09Drew Afualo?

  This is literally the third date ever. And we haven't even kissed yet. So like, we're like, sitting there and I go, and then he goes, well, uh, he goes, well, not yet. But if you keep talking like that, you might ruin it for me. So, and I started laughing. And then she was like, oh, okay, sorry, sorry.

• 1:00:30Drew Afualo?

  And then later on in the day, like she, she really loved me. She was so sweet, such a sweet lady. She was, she was older, so that's why I think she was, no, no like filter.

• 1:00:38Speaker 02

  Got it.

• 1:00:38Drew Afualo?

  And then she, at the end, she was like, much better, much prettier.

• 1:00:42Speaker 02

  Word.

• 1:00:43Drew Afualo?

  And I was like, and you know what, Julia, you're fucking right.

• 1:00:47Drew Afualo?

  You know what, extra tip for you, bitch.

• 1:00:48Speaker 02

  Yeah, you just, you just doubled your tip, baby. Yes. We love that. I, when I get older, I wanna, I, cause I still have a little filterage on me. When I get to like a certain age, like I wanna, by like 50, I give myself, I wanna be just completely unfiltered. Just walk around, just. Saying anything to anybody.

• 1:01:06Drew Afualo?

  That's the dream, isn't it?

• 1:01:07Speaker 02

  That's what I want.

• 1:01:09Drew Afualo?

  I had Karamo on recently and Karamo was like telling me, you know what, I can't wait to be an ancestor. I think I'm gonna be awesome as well. I was like, me too.

• 1:01:20Speaker 02

  I can't wait to be an ancestor. I love that.

• 1:01:23Drew Afualo?

  Right. And he was like, I just think I'm gonna be awesome. I'm gonna be so good at it. That's how I feel getting older too. As an old person, I was like, I'm gonna be so awesome as an old person.

• 1:01:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm gonna be a great old person.

• 1:01:32Drew Afualo?

  I think so too.

• 1:01:33Speaker 02

  I'm gonna be a great, an old person with no kids, girl. I'm just gonna be living my life.

• 1:01:36Drew Afualo?

  You're so me. Yeah, you're so me. Same. Period. Love that for us. Well, we talked about all kinds of things today on this very special holiday episode.

• 1:01:45Speaker 02

  Oh my God, it's over already?

• 1:01:47Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:47Speaker 02

  I just got here.

• 1:01:48Drew Afualo?

  Girl, I know. Time flies when we're having fun.

• 1:01:50Speaker 02

  Three more hours.

• 1:01:52Drew Afualo?

  At least.

• 1:01:54Speaker 02

  Girl, before, I just have to say this. I'm a huge Drew Hollow fan. I follow you on all the things. Every time I see you come across, my phone, my TV, honey. I'm always in awe. I just, you just, you better fucking work. You're just such a legend. You're so everything and you're just iconic. I just love, love, love, love, love you.

• 1:02:12Drew Afualo?

  Thank you. And you know how much I love you. I told you the first time, but like, you're one of the first queens I've ever like fallen in love with that made me wanna watch Drag Race. Like, I'm just obsessed with you. And I think you're fantastic and so talented and I'm so happy you came back to hang out with us.

• 1:02:26Speaker 02

  Thank you for having me.

• 1:02:27Drew Afualo?

  And now we're gonna have game nights.

• 1:02:28Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:02:28Drew Afualo?

  Which I'm so excited about.

• 1:02:29Speaker 02

  Yes, yes, yes.

• 1:02:30Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, we have to.

• 1:02:31Speaker 02

  It's gonna be great.

• 1:02:32Drew Afualo?

  It's gonna be so fun. And we're gonna host, hostess with the mostest.

• 1:02:35Speaker 02

  Hostess with the mostest.

• 1:02:36Drew Afualo?

  I get to see the hostess in action.

• 1:02:38Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's gonna be fabulous. Oh my God, now the pressure's on. I have to make sure it's sickening when you come.

• 1:02:43Drew Afualo?

  I think your version of like, of good enough is everyone's version of like absolute perfection. I had the best time of my life, literally.

• 1:02:51Speaker 02

  I do go up. I go up. I be killing, I be killing there.

• 1:02:53Drew Afualo?

  Exactly. I'm like, you're only competing with yourself in that category.

• 1:02:58Drew Afualo?

  But I adore you. I think you're so amazing and I'm so happy you came back to hang out with us. And everybody already knows you, but where can everybody find you?

• 1:03:05Speaker 02

  Yes, I am Monet Exchange on all social media, except for TikTok, because some shady person will not really release my name. So on TikTok, I'm the Monet Exchange, but everyone else is just M-O-N-E-T, the letter X, the word change.

• 1:03:17Drew Afualo?

  Period. And your pod?

• 1:03:20Speaker 02

  Yes, Monet Talks. It comes out every Thursday on YouTube and also available anywhere you get your podcasts.

• 1:03:26Drew Afualo?

  Period. And-

• 1:03:27Speaker 02

  My tour. Come see me at the Life be Life and Tour, doing 19 cities across the US and Canada. You know, go to monetexchange.com to get tickets and I will send you invites for you and the boo to come to the LA taping.

• 1:03:39Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited. I would love to be there. And thank you all so much for joining us on this amazing holiday all-star episode with the wonderful, amazing Monet Exchange. Make sure y'all follow her on everything. If you don't already, I'm sure you do. There's no way you don't, but make sure you listen to her podcast. I might be on there pretty soon, so y'all gotta go check that out, too. And make sure you go see Monet on tour. She's fabulous and amazing and so talented. And I'm jealous she can sing. Whatever. Who cares? Thank you so much, my amazing guest. Thank you all for joining us on this episode. Don't forget, new episodes drop every Wednesday. You can stream all the audio on all streaming platforms, but the video lives for free and exclusively on our favorite platform, Spotify.

• 1:04:18Drew Afualo?

  But thank you so much. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Thank you for joining us. Thank you to Monet Exchange, and I'll see you next week. Bye.

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