FILM BRO-ING MY WEDGIE STORY Ft. Nat & Alex Wolff | Episode 208

Nat and Alex Wolff are here this week!! They talk about the origin of the Naked Brothers Band and their new album, why Hereditary is the scariest movie of all time, getting pranked by Robert de Niro, their shared love of Prince, having an edible-induced psychosis, getting punched in the face, and so much more. Nat & Alex IG: https://www.instagram.com/natandalex/ Nat & Alex Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@natandalexwolff?lang=en Follow The Comment Section on IG! https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/ eBay is the place for pre-loved and vintage fashion. 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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• 0:31Speaker 01

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• 0:37Speaker 02

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• 0:42Speaker 02

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• 1:02Speaker 04

  I was sitting next to him at the premiere, and he brought me as his date to the premiere, and... I just kept being like...

• 1:14Drew Afualo?

  Me at my movie premiere? I'm like...

• 1:30Drew 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. Onto the guest today. We have a legendary pole, the iconic, the amazing Nat Alex Wolf.

• 1:45Drew Afualo?

  Welcome to the show, legends.

• 1:47Speaker 04

  Thank you so much for having us.

• 1:48Drew Afualo?

  How are you guys feeling?

• 1:49Speaker 04

  Already having fun. I'm in the, you know, as we discussed before the cameras started rolling, I was in, I'm in the middle of an allergy attack.

• 1:55Drew Afualo?

  You are currently?

• 1:56Speaker 04

  I'm in a reperible allergy attack, but someone gave me a Claritin, so...

• 1:59Speaker 06

  Hopefully that'll kick in in the next nine to 10 minutes.

• 2:01Drew Afualo?

  And that's just how they do it here.

• 2:03Speaker 06

  Get ready for some Sinesus. Drinking Celsius out of a mug. Cause I wanted to say this is the comments section. Sponsor us. By Drew, but I'll just say it looks like battery acid and I've never had it out of, outside the can. It looks like. Tastes like battery acid. I like the way it tastes, but it really looks like.

• 2:20Drew Afualo?

  It looks concerning when it's not in the can.

• 2:22Speaker 06

  Honestly, they asked us to do, cause I talk about, cause I've been drinking Celsius so many interviews. They asked us to do a, um, what is that called? Like a sponsor them or something, but now I think they're gonna take that offer away.

• 2:32Drew Afualo?

  They're for real gonna do it.

• 2:33Speaker 06

  Compared it to battery acid.

• 2:35Drew Afualo?

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• 3:19Drew Afualo?

  So you're sharing germs with Cynthia Revo, with, you know, who else? Chapel Rohn, like you're just sharing germs with all of them.

• 3:26Speaker 06

  Hell yeah.

• 3:27Drew Afualo?

  Hope you guys are cool with that.

• 3:27Speaker 06

  So you don't wash them?

• 3:29Drew Afualo?

  No, never. Of course not. Why would we?

• 3:30Speaker 06

  No wonder I'm having an allergy attack.

• 3:31Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, yeah. Well, maybe it's not allergies. Could be COVID or something else, but you know. But thank you so much for coming today, guys.

• 3:37Speaker 06

  We're so excited to be here.

• 3:39Drew Afualo?

  Excited to have y'all.

• 3:40Speaker 06

  We love you.

• 3:41Drew Afualo?

  I like how we're sitting in silence and staring at each other. I do have to say.

• 3:44Speaker 06

  So excited to be here. Thank you so much for having us.

• 3:46Drew Afualo?

  My God, of course. I do have to say I was a huge Naked Brothers fan.

• 3:50Speaker 06

  Hell yeah. Thank you.

• 3:51Drew Afualo?

  The show on Nickelodeon, obviously. I was a huge fan. And I think I just need to get that out the way, so we're not.

• 3:57Speaker 06

  We can start off with that and then kinda keep moving.

• 3:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, clean slate.

• 4:00Speaker 06

  Clean slate.

• 4:01Drew Afualo?

  Make it not weird.

• 4:02Speaker 06

  That's so awesome. We're probably all, I mean, you're probably a little bit younger, probably, I'm guessing.

• 4:07Drew Afualo?

  I feel like I'm probably older than you guys.

• 4:09Speaker 06

  No.

• 4:09Drew Afualo?

  You don't think so?

• 4:10Speaker 06

  No, we're getting old.

• 4:12Drew Afualo?

  How old are you?

• 4:12Speaker 06

  We're getting old. Deep forties. Deep forties. When that's forty-nine, forty-six.

• 4:17Drew Afualo?

  If you guys are in your forties, you look great.

• 4:18Speaker 06

  We look pretty good.

• 4:18Drew Afualo?

  You look incredible.

• 4:19Speaker 06

  Hitting like, early, early. Fifties? Early fifties. Yesterday or the day before was some kind of anniversary of. It was nineteen years since the Naked Brothers Band. And I was like.

• 4:30Drew Afualo?

  You are a hundred years old.

• 4:31Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 4:32Drew Afualo?

  You're right, I'm thirty.

• 4:33Speaker 06

  It's a little me, isn't it?

• 4:34Drew Afualo?

  So if you guys are like, in your thirties, we're around the same, I would say.

• 4:38Speaker 06

  Twenty-eight. Twenty-eight?

• 4:39Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, see, you're younger than me. Fuck outta here.

• 4:41Speaker 06

  I just look ten years older.

• 4:42Drew Afualo?

  All my, the youngest friends I have, though, are twenty-eight, so I think that's good. That's kinda like my cutoff, I think.

• 4:48Speaker 06

  Twenty-eight?

• 4:48Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 4:49Speaker 06

  What about the oldest friend you have?

• 4:51Drew Afualo?

  The oldest friend I have, I would probably say my dad. My dad's in his fifties.

• 4:55Speaker 06

  That's the oldest friend. You have a really small range for what you're allowed to be friends with.

• 4:59Drew Afualo?

  I mean, I'm not really hanging out with a lot of.

• 5:00Speaker 06

  We got our grandpa, it was ninety-four, ninety-five.

• 5:04Drew Afualo?

  I hate my grandpa. No, I do, my grandpa.

• 5:07Speaker 06

  I had a grandpa.

• 5:08Drew Afualo?

  I also have a grandpa. My grandpa's in his seventies, I mean, not knowing, late seventies. How old's your grandpa?

• 5:18Speaker 06

  Old. Ninety-seven. We love him, he's amazing. Old as in, he's lived an amazing illustrious life, but.

• 5:23Drew Afualo?

  And he's also old.

• 5:23Speaker 06

  He's like ninety, ninety-seven? No. You think he turned ninety-seven this year? Yeah. Ninety-eight, maybe? I think maybe ninety-eight.

• 5:30Drew Afualo?

  Damn!

• 5:31Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 5:31Drew Afualo?

  My grandpa leaves me on a ride all the time, though, like, and sometimes he'll call me, and I'll talk to him on the phone, and then he'll be like, "Alright, I gotta go." So, like, it's only been about two minutes, and I was like, well, you.

• 5:43Speaker 06

  Maybe he just wanted to hear your voice, or maybe he accidentally called you, or maybe he started to talk to you and he went, "Ah."

• 5:49Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 5:49Speaker 06

  Fuck it.

• 5:50Drew Afualo?

  I'm guessing the third one.

• 5:51Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 5:51Drew Afualo?

  He's kinda like, "Well, I'm over this, I don't wanna talk anymore." For a while, my sister would do this thing to me, that's my sister over there.

• 5:57Speaker 06

  Hey!

• 5:57Drew Afualo?

  I always mention her. Yeah, we all saw our Naked Brothers Band, low-key, her and I. How far apart are you guys in age?

• 6:04Speaker 06

  Three.

• 6:04Drew Afualo?

  Three years? Yeah, we're two years apart. So like, her, for a while. No, I'm the middle child.

• 6:09Speaker 06

  Are you the middle?

• 6:10Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, we have a younger brother. Do you have any other siblings besides the two of you?

• 6:13Speaker 06

  Not that we know of. Jinx.

• 6:16Speaker 04

  Same joke.

• 6:17Speaker 06

  Same joke, but he got it a little, he got it like a half a second.

• 6:20Speaker 04

  But there was a P A on a, on a movie once that I was like staring and I was like, are we related? And she was kinda like, had like a little bit like my voice and I was like, huh. I didn't ask.

• 6:31Speaker 06

  That's a really weird story.

• 6:32Drew Afualo?

  You don't wanna pull at that friend. Just in case you don't wanna pull.

• 6:35Speaker 04

  I waited for the comments section. Spill some.

• 6:37Drew Afualo?

  Tea. To spill some tea here.

• 6:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 6:39Drew Afualo?

  Well, my sister and I, what I was saying was, we went through a phase where we talked on the phone a lot. And whenever she didn't wanna talk anymore, but she didn't wanna say, I don't wanna talk anymore, she would go, well, I gotta poop. And then, and then I, I, probably like the eighth or 10th time she did it to me, I was like, no you don't. And then she started laughing. And then, yeah, she, then she was like, I just like, I'm just like.

• 7:01Speaker 04

  I love that she was more ashamed about getting off the phone than.

• 7:04Drew Afualo?

  Right. Than telling you she had to poop. Then loudly announcing to the room, I gotta poop. Yeah, and then when I said, no you don't, she goes, well, I'm just like, I'm done. I'm done talking. Well, then say that bitch, what the fuck, like, we don't have to sit here, we're not strangers.

• 7:17Speaker 04

  Who's the one who forces the other off the phone more?

• 7:19Drew Afualo?

  She forces me off the phone more, I would say.

• 7:21Speaker 04

  Love that.

• 7:21Drew Afualo?

  What do you think? Yeah, I mean, it depends. If she's going through something, then.

• 7:25Speaker 04

  But your youngest. Or your oldest.

• 7:28Speaker 06

  Oldest, yeah.

• 7:28Speaker 04

  Oldest forces you off the phone. Interesting.

• 7:30Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, which is interesting.

• 7:31Speaker 04

  And who, who talks more, like, on the phone call? Do you both equally share?

• 7:35Drew Afualo?

  I say we're equal, probably like 50/50 down the middle.

• 7:37Speaker 04

  No one's the chatty Cathy?

• 7:39Drew Afualo?

  Not really, like, we're both kinda chatty Cathys, I would say, in opposition to my brother.

• 7:44Speaker 04

  Nana are like that, Nana are like that. It's like very overlapping and then.

• 7:46Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 7:47Speaker 04

  I'm like, all right, later.

• 7:48Speaker 06

  What if I never spoke for the rest of the entire interview? I'm like, like, like, whatever he says.

• 7:55Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. Sometimes we, well, we have a podcast together too, and so sometimes we'll talk over each other, but we still hear what the other person said. Which is a sibling thing.

• 8:05Speaker 04

  Alex's girlfriend, Rozzy, says that it feels like she's, um, third-wheeling when she hangs out with us.

• 8:10Drew Afualo?

  My man says that all the time, about the two of us, like, he's literally like, you guys don't even need me. Yeah, one time I was telling my sister about a really embarrassing, uh, video I had found, or I had made of myself accidentally, and I deleted it. I made a, I made a video, like, I was recording myself and something horrifying happened that was horrifying in a way to me that felt very humiliating, but I just deleted.

• 8:31Speaker 04

  We need like a little bit more details.

• 8:32Drew Afualo?

  Okay, I'll just tell you the details. So basically, I was filming myself.

• 8:35Speaker 04

  Well, not all of them necessarily, just, just.

• 8:37Drew Afualo?

  Right. Well, you're gonna be sorry you asked, but.

• 8:38Speaker 04

  Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

• 8:41Drew Afualo?

  I was trying to film.

• 8:41Speaker 06

  We're live.

• 8:42Drew Afualo?

  I was trying to film myself do something and when I turned around I had a wedgie that could only be described as cataclysmic. So it was really humiliating to me because I'd been walking around in that dress all night and I have no idea how many wedgies I was holding that whole night. That's just my, that's just my truth. That's just my tea.

• 8:56Speaker 06

  I still don't understand the story at all.

• 8:58Drew Afualo?

  I just, I caught my own wedgie on camera, I guess is the, the story.

• 9:02Speaker 06

  Got it.

• 9:02Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 9:02Speaker 04

  Accidentally, I'm just trying to figure that out because it's like.

• 9:05Drew Afualo?

  Well, I don't know, do you put wedgies on intentionally or do they just kind of happen to you?

• 9:09Speaker 04

  They just kind of happened to me, but I'm not usually actually filming.

• 9:12Speaker 06

  I'm more of an intentional, intentional wedgie guy. When I press record, I know that I'm filming. I'm more of like an intentional wedgie guy just because I'm like.

• 9:18Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, they're like.

• 9:18Speaker 06

  Today's a little boring.

• 9:19Drew Afualo?

  It's like a fun hat.

• 9:20Speaker 04

  I got a, I got a wedgie.

• 9:21Drew Afualo?

  When I'm spice on my outfit, I give myself a wedgie. That kind of deal.

• 9:24Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 9:24Drew Afualo?

  I get it.

• 9:25Speaker 06

  Like, ah, it's a long dinner, this is a boring dinner.

• 9:27Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, let's spice it up, let's do something weird.

• 9:29Speaker 04

  Alan, don't listen to this episode.

• 9:33Drew Afualo?

  Basically, that video was so humiliating to me, I deleted it and then I wished I hadn't so I could just show my sister so we could laugh about it. But then when we were talking about it after, she goes, would you have shown it to me? And I go, I would have only shown it to you. I wouldn't have shown it to anyone else. She's like, not even Billy, like my fiance. And I go, no, fuck no. I wouldn't show him, but I would show my sibling, for sure I would.

• 9:53Speaker 04

  Right.

• 9:53Drew Afualo?

  You guys have that kind of bond, I would say.

• 9:54Speaker 06

  Wait, can we take this whole story from the top? Tell it from the beginning?

• 9:57Speaker 04

  I, I wouldn't show that my wedgie, I don't think.

• 9:59Drew Afualo?

  You don't?

• 10:00Speaker 04

  I mean, unless, I guess it was an intentional wedgie, which I've, I've never done yet, but.

• 10:04Speaker 06

  You should try it.

• 10:05Speaker 04

  The night is young.

• 10:05Drew Afualo?

  I think that's also the context of it because the dress I, like I was wearing.

• 10:09Speaker 04

  See, the context is the thing we keep bumping up against. Like, the context is what we're not getting.

• 10:13Speaker 06

  What was the context?

• 10:14Speaker 04

  Because I feel like, I feel like.

• 10:16Drew Afualo?

  Film-browing my story about having a wedgie on camera. You guys are analyzing it as if it's a film, we need to dissect. It's notes on a scene, but it's my video of my wedgie.

• 10:26Speaker 04

  You guys have any of those little cards? Can we get some note cards and we'll put it up?

• 10:30Drew Afualo?

  You need a highlighter so you can write on it and be like, this right here.

• 10:33Speaker 06

  Every picture is a frame.

• 10:34Speaker 04

  Siblings. Siblings.

• 10:38Drew Afualo?

  I, if I gave you the context, I really do feel it would make it more confusing, if I'm being honest. But I was, I was hosting something for Pandora Jewelry and I was wearing a really fancy dress that a guest was giving me wedgies all night.

• 10:49Speaker 06

  And you wanted to film the dress?

• 10:50Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, well, I filmed the dress after I got home from set of.

• 10:52Speaker 04

  I get it, you were doing like a little spin around. No, no, the context changed everything. The context, it could have been a one-minute story.

• 11:00Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah. It's a forty-five minute.

• 11:02Drew Afualo?

  Well, one minute, I mean, including you guys interrupting it, it definitely wouldn't have been one minute. Either way, context no context. Film rowing. My story about my wedgie is like, it's pretty nuts to watch in live, live, watching it live happen.

• 11:17Speaker 06

  Watch it live.

• 11:18Drew Afualo?

  But I do want to talk to y'all about just your general lore, for those that aren't familiar.

• 11:23Speaker 04

  Let's do it.

• 11:24Drew Afualo?

  Since you guys have been, since you guys were like, a band as kids, like, did you guys come up with the idea? Or was it just kind of something that happened? I'm just curious.

• 11:33Speaker 06

  The name, or?

• 11:34Drew Afualo?

  Just all of it, just like generally.

• 11:36Speaker 06

  I, um, I mean, since we were little kids, my, my dad says that when I was like, in my mom's belly, he used to play Beatles music and Thelonious Monk and like, all these different. And then I started, um, I started a band with my friends in preschool. And I was like, I don't want my brother in it. And then at three or four years old, Alex was a better musician than anybody else in like, our entire school.

• 12:00Drew Afualo?

  God, I guess you're in.

• 12:01Speaker 06

  So I was like, ah, I guess I gotta get rid of these.

• 12:03Drew Afualo?

  Nepotism happening even then.

• 12:04Speaker 04

  That's right.

• 12:05Speaker 06

  Yeah, exactly, yep. And then.

• 12:07Speaker 04

  A literal nepo baby.

• 12:09Drew Afualo?

  A literal and figurative.

• 12:12Speaker 06

  And then, uh, and then, yeah, and then we started kind of, uh, making music and then, and, and it really just kind of became the two of us and we graduated out of the show, um, just started touring as Nat and Alex Wolf. And then we've, you know, it's been basically the, the highlight of, of my life, getting to make music with Alex and put out these albums and, yeah, it's been amazing.

• 12:36Speaker 04

  I think we were, we were really inspired, our dad's a jazz musician too. And, uh, it was kind of for me at least, wanting to be a drummer was watching all these amazing jazz drummers that I saw my dad play with and Mike Clark and Victor Jones and people, and then the Beatles. I would just would watch those Beatles movies and kind of imitate what Ringo did and that's kind of.

• 12:55Speaker 06

  But as kids, Alex in an interview said, uh, you know, Ringo taught me how to play the drums. Because he'd been watching videos of it and then on Wikipedia.

• 13:02Speaker 04

  I think it still says, Ringo taught me.

• 13:04Speaker 06

  Ringo taught Alex Wolf how to play the drums.

• 13:06Drew Afualo?

  Well, they really do think you're 100 years old.

• 13:07Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 13:08Drew Afualo?

  Can you imagine?

• 13:09Speaker 04

  They're like, look at my face, they're like, that's old enough.

• 13:11Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you just used a Ouija board to bring him down so he could teach you.

• 13:15Speaker 06

  Ringo's alive, so. Ringo's alive, yeah.

• 13:17Speaker 04

  Yeah, wouldn't need a, wouldn't need a Ouija board.

• 13:20Speaker 06

  That was tough.

• 13:21Drew Afualo?

  My bad.

• 13:21Speaker 06

  That was tough.

• 13:22Speaker 04

  That's tough.

• 13:22Drew Afualo?

  I don't know if you could tell by looking at me.

• 13:24Speaker 04

  No, check the news.

• 13:24Drew Afualo?

  No! I'm like, what? Or what if I predicted it, imagine?

• 13:28Speaker 04

  Well.

• 13:28Speaker 06

  Tomorrow.

• 13:29Drew Afualo?

  Well, also, I don't know if you guys could, Jesus. Could tell by looking at me, I'm not a big Beatles fan. I don't know if you could tell by just looking at me.

• 13:39Drew Afualo?

  I won't say fan, I'll say like, I'm not as well versed.

• 13:43Speaker 04

  There we go.

• 13:44Speaker 06

  See, that's a better way to say it.

• 13:45Speaker 04

  Uh, yeah.

• 13:46Drew Afualo?

  Me lying.

• 13:47Speaker 06

  You will be.

• 13:48Drew Afualo?

  No, you know what I have said? I haven't said I didn't like the Beatles. What I have said, and I've joked about this with Caleb.

• 13:51Speaker 06

  I'll make you a playlist of all these Beatles songs that you, that are kind of more the...

• 13:57Speaker 04

  We're film bro-ing the Beatles, too.

• 14:01Drew Afualo?

  No, that will make, it will make more sense to me. I would love that. I think that would be wonderful. I've talked about it with Caleb Heron. Are you guys familiar, familiar with Caleb Heron? He's a comedian, but he's really funny. I, I love that you're like the only people who have ever been on this show that probably don't know who he is. That actually brings me a lot of joy. I'm gonna tell him that later.

• 14:18Speaker 04

  Oh, Jesus.

• 14:19Drew Afualo?

  Um, but I joked about it with him because he's really funny and we did like a live show together and I just said like, um...

• 14:25Speaker 06

  About the Beatles?

• 14:26Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it was about the Beatles, but I didn't say they were bad. I just said I felt like there were other artists that I liked more, that are more iconic to me.

• 14:33Speaker 04

  That's, that's cool.

• 14:34Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 14:34Speaker 04

  That's different than saying...

• 14:35Speaker 06

  You said, "I don't like the Beatles." That's a...

• 14:37Drew Afualo?

  Look at them, getting pissed off. Oh, do you guys work for them?

• 14:39Speaker 06

  Who's the artist?

• 14:40Drew Afualo?

  Sorry, two Beatles right here.

• 14:42Speaker 06

  Who's the, who are the artists that are the most iconic for you?

• 14:46Drew Afualo?

  Um, Prince is one.

• 14:48Speaker 06

  I literally was gonna, I was thought, I thought you were gonna say Prince.

• 14:51Drew Afualo?

  I won you back. I lost them in the first half, I won them back.

• 14:53Speaker 04

  It's Beatles and then like Prince.

• 14:55Speaker 06

  Prince is probably, yeah, my second.

• 14:56Speaker 04

  Yeah, they're pretty close.

• 14:57Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I would say Prince was a big one for me. I'm trying to think of like, old artists.

• 15:00Speaker 06

  We got to see Prince live right before he died.

• 15:03Speaker 04

  The masses.

• 15:03Drew Afualo?

  That's crazy.

• 15:04Speaker 04

  And it was, like, he was...

• 15:05Speaker 06

  He played like thirty instruments.

• 15:06Speaker 04

  It was insane, yeah.

• 15:07Drew Afualo?

  My mom got to see him live right before he passed, too. I remember, that was the only time she got to see him live. That's my mom's favorite artist.

• 15:13Speaker 06

  Really?

• 15:13Speaker 04

  The greatest.

• 15:14Speaker 06

  And he's my favorite guitar player of all time by far.

• 15:17Drew Afualo?

  I've been on a big kick with Prince lately. It reminded me of...

• 15:20Speaker 06

  Which album?

• 15:21Drew Afualo?

  When I watched the Stranger Things finale. It reminded me, I was like, I gotta get back into listening to more Prince.

• 15:24Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah. There's Purple Rain, yeah.

• 15:26Speaker 04

  Why did they have it?

• 15:27Speaker 06

  Yeah, they have Prince.

• 15:28Drew Afualo?

  They like, use Purple Rain and When Doves Cry.

• 15:31Speaker 04

  Oh, my god.

• 15:31Drew Afualo?

  They used both.

• 15:32Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 15:32Speaker 06

  That album is so amazing.

• 15:34Drew Afualo?

  I know, the, the little synth in the beginning, that album, Purple Rain.

• 15:37Speaker 04

  Purple Rain.

• 15:38Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 15:38Speaker 04

  God damn, that album is amazing.

• 15:39Drew Afualo?

  I would say that's my favorite one.

• 15:40Speaker 04

  So amazing.

• 15:42Drew Afualo?

  Period.

• 15:42Speaker 06

  Period.

• 15:43Drew Afualo?

  I won you guys back, though.

• 15:44Speaker 06

  You did.

• 15:44Speaker 04

  You big did.

• 15:45Speaker 06

  Oh, wait, do you know this Prince thing? Oh, god, this is, this is stupid, but it's, it's, "I would die for you."

• 15:52Drew Afualo?

  No, I did not know that.

• 15:53Speaker 06

  Okay, never mind.

• 15:54Drew Afualo?

  Well, if real Prince fans know it, now I have to learn it.

• 15:57Speaker 04

  We just film-broed Prince.

• 16:00Drew Afualo?

  You guys are gonna do it to all of the topics we talked about, I'm sure.

• 16:01Speaker 04

  Why not? Why not? Um, yep, the, I work with, uh, I'm working with Lamorn Morris.

• 16:08Drew Afualo?

  Oh, cool.

• 16:08Speaker 04

  Who's in Jumanji and he was telling me great stories, because Prince was on New York.

• 16:11Speaker 06

  Did he know him?

• 16:12Drew Afualo?

  Yes, he was.

• 16:12Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah, I forgot.

• 16:13Speaker 04

  He was just telling me some amazing stories.

• 16:14Drew Afualo?

  That's one of my favorite New World episodes.

• 16:15Speaker 06

  He's in love with Cece, remember?

• 16:17Speaker 04

  Like, he just sounds everything you want him to be and, and also like not, uh, unapproachable. It seemed like he was very like a real person, but also just like the greatest artist to ever live. And the cool thing about those early Prince albums is he, it's not just that he wrote the songs, sang them, played all the instruments, he also mixed and I think, I think engineered, I think and mixed them and maybe even like mastered them.

• 16:42Speaker 06

  And he did, it came up with the, he designed every single costume for not just him, but like the whole band and all the background singers and all the dancers and he-

• 16:50Drew Afualo?

  A man of many hats.

• 16:51Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:52Drew Afualo?

  A jack of all trades.

• 16:53Speaker 04

  He's really the best.

• 16:54Drew Afualo?

  I know, I saw a lot of stories, I saw a TikTok of someone talking, it was like a DJ. And he was telling a story about how he used to spin in New York all the time and sometimes Prince would come in and ask to like-

• 17:03Speaker 04

  Really? To spin?

• 17:05Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, to spin.

• 17:06Speaker 06

  Imagine he was like, no, sorry.

• 17:07Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and he said I would get-

• 17:08Speaker 06

  Sorry, P.

• 17:09Drew Afualo?

  And he said that was when we would bring our own records to spin and like I brought a bootleg Prince one once. Even though he never let people spin his music and then he ended up coming to watch my set. And then he's like, and I thought he was gonna like kill me or something.

• 17:21Speaker 04

  Wait, he didn't let people spin, he like just didn't like that when people sampled his music?

• 17:23Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I think he just- Yeah, I think so. And that was like at the time they-

• 17:27Speaker 04

  I gotta get that, like what if it's mixed in?

• 17:29Speaker 06

  So did you get to meet him?

• 17:30Speaker 04

  What is love?

• 17:31Drew Afualo?

  No, I didn't, unfortunately I didn't. I'm not a hundred like you guys, so unfortunately I didn't get to meet him. I was like not even a baby yet, I wasn't even born yet. But, back to the Naked Brothers Band. Uh, or just generally music in general, like what's your favorite part of making music together?

• 17:47Speaker 04

  I mean, there's, there's two highlights, one of them is, is being in the studio. I mean, the writing is really fun separately and then kind of working together, but my favorite thing is when you get in the studio and have to actually make the song, you know, so you have to kind of make it stand up, you can't just have it as a

• 18:06Speaker 04

  thing in your head, an idea or whatever, you gotta, you gotta do something. And I also love the pressure of like, when you go in the studio, we always leave with something. You know, and, and the way Nat and I work usually, I think we're now like trying different ways of working, but the way we work usually is like, we're gonna do like a song a day, sometimes two songs. And it's the two of us, so it's not like a band.

• 18:28Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 18:28Speaker 04

  Um, and so we're like just going one instrument at a time, very quickly.

• 18:32Drew Afualo?

  And you prefer that method?

• 18:34Speaker 04

  I, yeah, and we did that for this record, we did it for the last record, I think. Yeah, I mean, I, I like changing it up, I like evolving, like now we've started to try something else, like using our band where we're doing it live, and that's cool too. Whatever we do for a while, then suddenly I get an itch to do the opposite thing of like, let's go with the band and then let's like overdub it for a month, do the opposite thing. But there's something very special about the process of me and Nat going in. Sometimes the songs, we know like there's stuff that we gotta change.

• 19:09Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 19:10Speaker 04

  And you go in and you just see what happens. And, uh, sometimes the producer will help, sometimes, you know, engineer will have ideas or stuff, but usually it's me and Nat just like putting our heads together and we gotta figure this out by, you know, lunch, cause we're gonna try another song. So that's for me really fun, and then also performing live.

• 19:30Speaker 06

  Yeah, for me probably the most exciting is the live. You know, we got, speaking of you having your whole family here, we got to play, when we were opening for Billy, we got to play, um, at Madison Square Garden, my whole life, I'd, we'd gone to Madison Square Garden a million times to see Knicks games, to see, and I saw Billy Joel there when I was a kid, I saw Paul McCartney, who I think you hate.

• 19:50Drew Afualo?

  I saw Prince.

• 19:51Speaker 06

  I saw Prince there, honestly, and I remember as a little kid saying to my dad like, this is like my dream, I dream one day I wanna be, and then we got to go on stage there, and on the third night of playing there, I brought my dad up and he played a jazz, he played like kind of a jazzy version, the piano solo on a song that I wrote about him and his, his, uh, cancer and his battle with cancer and stuff, so it was like kind of a full childhood dream come true.

• 20:18Drew Afualo?

  My gosh, how beautiful. Oh my god, was everyone so emotional?

• 20:21Speaker 06

  Everyone was emotional. There was a secure, there was a-

• 20:23Speaker 04

  The funniest part is, it's the most emotional thing in the world and everyone's like really teary. And so then someone runs on to get a picture. I think Nat was like I had my in ears, in ears and they, and the guy kept tapping Nat like, we're gonna take a picture of Alex and dad like crying.

• 20:38Speaker 06

  I thought he was telling me that we were running late and we had to go.

• 20:41Speaker 04

  And literally, so just misses it. So there's this picture of me and my dad.

• 20:43Speaker 06

  So there's this amazing picture and it's just Alex and my dad and I'm not in the picture because laughing like. Cause he goes, can I get a picture? And then I go, alright, we gotta get going. Thank you so much for in here.

• 20:51Drew Afualo?

  Alright, I'm moving, I'm moving.

• 20:52Speaker 04

  Also, the audience knew that it was a picture too. So like, they're all standing up like, like that and Nat.

• 20:57Drew Afualo?

  Even the audience is posing?

• 20:58Speaker 04

  Nat's like tuning a guitar, like getting ready for the next song.

• 21:01Drew Afualo?

  You're grinding it out. You're on the clock.

• 21:03Speaker 06

  So now, my dad has this really sweet picture and it's like, this big audience and it's, yeah, Alex and my dad singing and I'm in the background like.

• 21:12Drew Afualo?

  Working, you're in the background.

• 21:13Speaker 04

  He's working, working in the room.

• 21:14Drew Afualo?

  You're locked in. Yeah, you're clocked in.

• 21:16Speaker 06

  But there's this, um, there was like a bunch of security guards and they had been like so stone faced the whole time and like right by the stage and then they're just sobbing.

• 21:26Drew Afualo?

  Oh my god, that's fucking awesome.

• 21:28Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 21:29Drew Afualo?

  That's one of those moments when you're like, this is the coolest thing I think I've ever done.

• 21:33Speaker 06

  Or maybe will ever do.

• 21:35Drew Afualo?

  Or will ever do.

• 21:35Speaker 06

  So then right after you're like, uh oh. I literally walked up stage and I was like, what? Oh no, what else? What else is there?

• 21:44Drew Afualo?

  I know. I guess, I guess that kinda answers my next question, cause I was gonna ask, what's, what's been the coolest thing that you've done working together?

• 21:50Speaker 06

  Other than this podcast?

• 21:52Drew Afualo?

  Other than this.

• 21:52Speaker 04

  I would say comment section.

• 21:54Speaker 06

  Comment section.

• 21:54Drew Afualo?

  The comment section has to be.

• 21:56Speaker 06

  Yep.

• 21:56Drew Afualo?

  Obviously. Well, easy answer.

• 21:57Speaker 06

  I like the part where we talked about, no, I like the part where you said, we film bro.

• 22:02Drew Afualo?

  Footage of my wedgie?

• 22:03Speaker 06

  Film bro footage of my wedgie.

• 22:07Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that's what you guys are doing on the comment section. And that beats your dad at Madison Square Garden, so tell him I said to eat it. Tell him he can eat it. Yeah, exactly. I do have to mention a quick pivot. Uh, the movie Hereditary. That is, I would say, the scariest movie I've probably seen in my entire life.

• 22:24Speaker 06

  Pretty scary.

• 22:25Drew Afualo?

  So I guess I just wanna thank you and also let you know, that was fucked up.

• 22:29Speaker 06

  Yeah, I know, that's what, uh, that's what Jack Black said to me on the set of this movie. He said, the first thing he said was like, dude, you ruined about two or three weeks of my life.

• 22:38Drew Afualo?

  Literally.

• 22:39Speaker 06

  There's two or three weeks of my life where I felt really, really, really uneasy and anxious.

• 22:43Drew Afualo?

  Genuinely, I was like so.

• 22:45Speaker 06

  Remember, I'm still having an allergy attack, but I'm listening to you.

• 22:47Drew Afualo?

  I saw it as an adult, obviously, and I could not sleep for like a week straight. God bless you.

• 22:53Speaker 04

  I had to, I was sitting next to him at the premiere and he brought me as his date to the premiere and.

• 22:58Speaker 06

  I just kept being like.

• 23:00Drew Afualo?

  Me at my movie premiere?

• 23:13Drew Afualo?

  You know, that is, it felt like you were doing that shit to me after I watched that movie. That's why I felt like I had to look at you going like that and I was pissed off about it.

• 23:19Speaker 04

  I know, it was, it was, it's heavy stuff, but...

• 23:22Drew Afualo?

  You were fantastic in it though.

• 23:23Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 23:24Drew Afualo?

  Like genuinely, you were amazing.

• 23:25Speaker 04

  He's so amazing, Ari Aster. He's such a, such a, and he's a great guy too. Really great guy.

• 23:29Drew Afualo?

  And the movie itself was incredible.

• 23:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:32Drew Afualo?

  Snubbed at the Oscars. I will say that and I can't...

• 23:35Speaker 04

  I think he was too. He should, at least like best original screenplay or something. He did such a good job.

• 23:39Speaker 06

  Has he gotten nominated since then?

• 23:41Speaker 04

  No. I don't think, I don't think he's ever been nominated.

• 23:44Drew Afualo?

  You and Toni Collette? Unbelievable.

• 23:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, she would have, that was unfair too.

• 23:47Drew Afualo?

  Mm-hmm.

• 23:48Speaker 04

  But Joaquin got nominated, I think, for Bo's Afraid at the Golden Globes or something, so that was...

• 23:53Drew Afualo?

  Which one?

• 23:54Speaker 04

  Bo's Afraid. Bo's Afraid is his third movie.

• 23:56Drew Afualo?

  Oh, I see.

• 23:57Speaker 04

  I think he got nominated, but, I know, and I thought Florence should have been nominated for Midsommar and yeah, he's had some great...

• 24:03Drew Afualo?

  I just like had never, I tell, I still to this day, that was like, when it came out, 2018, yeah. When I saw it in theaters, my sister was like, "We should go watch this movie. I, I think it's gonna be awesome." And I was like, "Is it scary?" Because I don't love...

• 24:17Speaker 04

  She's like, "No, I heard it's not that scary."

• 24:18Drew Afualo?

  No, she really goes, "I really don't think so, no." After like the first thirty minutes, I was, I looked at her, I go, "How much longer is there?"

• 24:27Speaker 04

  She's like, "Two hours."

• 24:28Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, she's like, "No, there's a..."

• 24:29Speaker 04

  "What else could happen?"

• 24:31Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 24:31Speaker 04

  You're like, "A lot."

• 24:33Drew Afualo?

  I was explaining the plot of that to my hair and makeup artist this morning and he was like, "Huh." Every time I was explaining the plot of Hereditary to him, because he's too scared to watch it, so I was just explaining it to him.

• 24:42Speaker 04

  I thought it was even more evil.

• 24:43Speaker 06

  The moment where he smashes his head against the desk.

• 24:46Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, on the desk.

• 24:46Speaker 06

  The moment with the girl with her head.

• 24:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, but, um, yeah, I still don't, I, we still don't say it, just in case, there's some people who haven't seen it.

• 24:53Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 24:54Speaker 04

  And, um...

• 24:54Speaker 06

  Who hasn't seen it?

• 24:55Drew Afualo?

  No, for real.

• 24:56Speaker 04

  There's people, Jen has not seen it.

• 24:58Speaker 06

  Jen, she's too scared, but that, she's purposeful.

• 25:00Drew Afualo?

  Honestly, and I say this with love, Jen, don't watch it.

• 25:03Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 25:03Drew Afualo?

  Because it is the scariest... It's just the scariest movie I've ever seen in my entire life.

• 25:08Speaker 04

  You go in the comment section, she's like, "I hate the Beatles, don't watch their movies."

• 25:13Drew Afualo?

  Basically fuck the two of you and appreciate you coming on the show, I guess.

• 25:17Speaker 04

  Good luck with your wedgies. Don't watch it, it's scary, but come on.

• 25:20Drew Afualo?

  But when people do love scary movies, I tell them, "Watch that one." It's unbelievable. The movie itself is incredible, obviously, it's just so scary, I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was insane, I just had to tell you that before, you ruined a couple of weeks for me, too.

• 25:32Speaker 04

  And I'm sorry, can I ruin another?

• 25:33Drew Afualo?

  Please do.

• 25:34Speaker 04

  The moment when, at the premiere, when she was on the ceiling, you'd have to know. No, no, no, that's fine. When she was on the ceiling, I literally wanted to die. There was something about that where I wanted to die.

• 25:47Drew Afualo?

  Me too!

• 25:48Speaker 04

  Because I don't watch many horror movies either. I've watched like the old ones. I already am battered, you know, I already have the whatever, and then the next thing is like... You should tell them the Rosemary's Baby story.

• 25:58Drew Afualo?

  Oh yeah, I would love to know.

• 25:59Speaker 04

  Which one? The Ro- the story in the movie theater. Fine. Okay, so I basically, uh... Such a good story. Okay, so Rosemary's Baby is one of my favorite movies. It's a genius.

• 26:11Drew Afualo?

  That's weird, we'll unpack that later, but yeah.

• 26:13Speaker 04

  No, I really, really love it.

• 26:14Drew Afualo?

  No, I'm glad, it's an iconic film.

• 26:17Speaker 04

  It's like, it's not just a great horror movie, it's a great, great, great movie, but I just had thought about it film-browing. I'm gonna film-brow this.

• 26:24Drew Afualo?

  Please do.

• 26:24Speaker 04

  Hello, everyone, I'm having an allergy attack, she hates the Beatles, and I'm about to film-brow Rosemary's Baby. A movie from the 70s that everyone's seen. But, but I didn't really remember that it's super scary, and I, but I was just thinking like, it's just a great movie, whatever. I think we saw it when we were like teenagers. Yeah, and, and I, and, you know, Ari talked about it a lot, whatever. But recently it was playing in a theater, and I'm like, "Oh, let's go," and I was like, "Let's take an edible." "Let's take an edible and let's go," which is...

• 26:50Drew Afualo?

  Horrifying.

• 26:51Speaker 04

  Horrifying, and, and I remember my mom, and I told my mom, because like, I don't, I don't ta- I definitely don't take edibles. Like, I've smoked, but like, weed, but edibles are like, really out of my comfort zone. But I, I told my mom, I'm like, "I'm gonna take an edible," and she was like, "But, you're gonna go see that movie?" I was like, "Yeah," she's like... Alright, whatever, you know, do your thing, girl. Um, but then, basically-

• 27:10Speaker 06

  Mom said that?

• 27:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, she did.

• 27:11Speaker 06

  Mom said, "Do your thing, girl."

• 27:12Speaker 04

  Is my mom calling me right now? Hey, Mom. No, so I took, I took these edibles that, that, I didn't really look at the packaging, but it has something called CBG in it, which I thought was CBD.

• 27:24Speaker 06

  CBGBs?

• 27:25Speaker 04

  CBG.

• 27:26Drew Afualo?

  CBGBs.

• 27:26Speaker 04

  CBGBs.

• 27:27Speaker 06

  CBGBs.

• 27:28Speaker 04

  So here I am, at the Rock Club, 1984.

• 27:33Speaker 06

  The New York Dolls are playing.

• 27:34Speaker 04

  The New York Dolls are playing, it's the best night of my life!

• 27:40Speaker 06

  Punk is being founded.

• 27:42Drew Afualo?

  Like, on the ground.

• 27:44Speaker 04

  The first night of Punk.

• 27:45Drew Afualo?

  The first night of Punk.

• 27:46Speaker 04

  At IFC Theater.

• 27:47Speaker 06

  These weed dummies were crazy.

• 27:49Speaker 04

  No, so it's this thing that's like, basically like, um, it's like basically hallucinogen, which I didn't really know, that makes you just go absolutely bonkers. So I go into the theater, whatever, and we take these edibles, and right as the lights go down, I start to feel like, um, are we having a horse race or something?

• 28:06Drew Afualo?

  No, I was literally thinking the elephant herd.

• 28:08Speaker 04

  The Olympics happening upstairs?

• 28:09Drew Afualo?

  Sorry, they were moving the elephants upstairs, my bad.

• 28:19Drew Afualo?

  Sorry about fee fi fo fam up there, I don't know what the hell's going on.

• 28:22Speaker 04

  Um, so, basically, I take this and the, and the lights go down, and I start to feel-

• 28:27Drew Afualo?

  And you're both on the edibles.

• 28:27Speaker 04

  No, no, no, Nat isn't there.

• 28:29Speaker 06

  I know, I-

• 28:29Speaker 04

  If Nat was there, we would've been fine. No, I have a, I, I wake up to 14 missed calls from Alex, and I'm like, "What the hell is this then?"

• 28:36Speaker 06

  It's like 42 messages, I'm like, "I'm not gonna read these messages." I thought somebody died, or something.

• 28:40Speaker 04

  I thought that, I thought that, if he was there, it would've been fine. I went with my two friends who really aren't very verbal. They're not, they're very quiet.

• 28:48Speaker 06

  Oh, oh, sorry.

• 28:49Drew Afualo?

  Like, generally speaking, or, or on the-

• 28:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, they're not very verbal.

• 28:52Speaker 06

  I thought you meant, because it was weird, I thought you meant-

• 28:53Speaker 04

  No, no, no, they're not very verbal as people, period. So we go, and I kinda, the lights are going down, and I start to, I start to pat them, kinda going like, "Are you guys like..." You guys, and then-

• 29:05Drew Afualo?

  Like tripping the fuck out?

• 29:06Speaker 04

  Yeah, and they just give me a look like that, like, it's, it's all over. So then, we're five minutes in to the movie, and I'm like, and then I'm starting saying like, "Wow, this is amazing, like, look at the colors, whatever." And then I go, "Oh my god, this is a horror movie." I'm like, "Oh shit," I'm like, "Maybe it won't get scary this time." I was like, "Maybe this time, everything will go right."

• 29:23Drew Afualo?

  Maybe they change the ending.

• 29:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, maybe they change the ending. And then there's that scene, do you remember the scene in Rosemary's Baby where th- they go to this guy's house? I didn't remember the scene at all. They go to a guy's house, and he goes, "Hey, don't go to that building, because there are like satanic rituals that happen." And both of them get like mad at the guy, and they're like, "No, no, it's fine, we're fine." And I was like, "They're warned?" I was like, "They're warned?" "And people get warned?" "People get warned and they do it anyway, and this is what happens to people, and this is why..." And I stood up, and I was like, "I'm going home!" In the middle of the theater, and my friends go, "What?" I just walk out, and suddenly my legs are changing shapes. You must have just started calling me over and over again. And I just, "My legs are changing shapes," and whatever.

• 30:05Speaker 04

  And then the IFC Theater guys were there, and they were like waving at me, and I, and I remember waving out and going, "Ah!" Like that. And then, and then I go, and I get in a taxi, and then I say to the guy, I go, I go, "Oh!" I was like, "Now we're in my home." He's like, "What?" And I was like, "Oh my god, I have to give them an address and numbers." And I call my mom, and I was like, "Mom, you know, people are warned things, blah, blah, blah." And my mom goes like, "Oh, oh, you're on an edible, just enjoy it, sweetie," and hangs up, and I was like, "I enjoy it, what do you mean?"

• 30:36Drew Afualo?

  You're in a K-hole, and your mom's like, "Have fun."

• 30:39Speaker 04

  Have fun.

• 30:39Drew Afualo?

  See ya. Do you want a honey?

• 30:41Speaker 04

  And nothing worked, except that I basically turned on Jeff Buckley, Grace. I had one of the album and record, and I took out the record, and I somehow did it and played it, and then I...

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• 32:00Speaker 04

  Calm down.

• 32:01Drew Afualo?

  Sounds like you were shrooming, low-key.

• 32:03Speaker 04

  Well, then I found out that...

• 32:04Drew Afualo?

  Doesn't sound like any edible activity.

• 32:05Speaker 04

  No, I know. It was literally more intense than shrooms, acid, anything. It was really... Not that I've done those drugs.

• 32:13Drew Afualo?

  I got weed in New York once that did almost kill me like that, so I wouldn't be surprised if it had that same shit.

• 32:19Speaker 04

  Maybe it's New York, it's not like they don't have the science.

• 32:21Speaker 06

  That's an amazing story. There's so many elements to that story, too, because there's a lot. There's so many beats. It's like, there's so many beats.

• 32:27Speaker 04

  I'm going home, I'm going to the bathroom! That's what I said. I stood up and went, "I'm going to the bathroom!" Loudly in the theater. And then I left. I went and got in a taxi. My friends are like, "Dude, where are you? You okay?"

• 32:39Speaker 06

  And then I was getting texts from all my friends being like, "Did you talk to Alex? Did you talk to Alex?" He called every single one of our friends.

• 32:44Drew Afualo?

  He ran out of here, like waving his arms above.

• 32:46Speaker 04

  Grandpa!

• 32:48Drew Afualo?

  I had weed in New York once. That was like, my fiance and I took edibles, but we bought them from like a dispensary. I don't know if it was a real one now. And if I could, I would bomb that place now. But it was like-

• 32:59Speaker 04

  Why do you put dispensary in quotes? This is just some-

• 33:01Drew Afualo?

  Cause I don't know what the hell they're selling in there, but whatever it was they gave me, made me an insane person for like two days straight.

• 33:08Speaker 04

  Yeah, me too.

• 33:08Drew Afualo?

  So I remember taking it and then I was like, wow, I like, I feel it a little, but not that much. I only took one. And then I was like, let me take another half. So I took another half. That's the last thing I remember. I wake up the next morning, my flight is supposed to leave at like 5 a.m. So I was supposed to get up at like 3. And so I wake up and my fiance has hooded eyes. So his eyes are very small, like they're like almond and like, and I can barely see his pupils. I was like, oh my God, like I woke up fucked up. I felt so like insane and I felt like I was looking through a pinhole. And so I was like, babe, wake up, wake up. I think something's wrong. And he turned around and his eyes were open so wide. I could see all the white. And he looked at me, he's like, yeah, I'm fucked up.

• 33:52Drew Afualo?

  Mind you, like, I'm like a pan- I'm a worry person. I'm a panicker. So when he's panicking, oh bitch, we're never making it home.

• 33:59Speaker 04

  I love that him going, he's like, yeah, yeah.

• 34:01Drew Afualo?

  He's like, yeah, I'm fucked up, I'm fucked up. And I was like, why would you say that to me? And I like got up to go to the bathroom. And I remember the bathroom in the hotel we had, for some reason, the toilet was in another room, like a room on the opposite side of the room from the shower.

• 34:16Speaker 04

  Can't comprehend that.

• 34:16Drew Afualo?

  No, so I go in the room with the toilet, but all of the walls are black. So I like sat on the toilet. I wasn't even going to the bathroom. I was just sitting there and I felt like I was like spinning and like falling down a k-hole for real. And I was like-

• 34:30Speaker 04

  What's up with these edibles in New York? Cause my friend called me the next day and said, hey dude, I went blind for 20 minutes. I went, what do you mean? He goes, dude, I went blind. I couldn't see my hands. He goes, I just saw light. I just saw light. He goes, that movie's amazing. Half of it was just blue light.

• 34:48Speaker 04

  I was like, dude, you went blind? I'm like, do we have to sue these people?

• 34:50Drew Afualo?

  That's what I'm saying. I literally felt like that and then I came out and I was supposed to leave and I was panicking. I was like, if I go to the airport, they're gonna arrest me because I look and sound insane. And so I called my mom.

• 35:02Speaker 06

  I love you waking up to him.

• 35:04Drew Afualo?

  He's like, yeah, I'm fucked up.

• 35:05Speaker 04

  He's like, yeah, I'm fucked up.

• 35:06Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and he's like, I've been up for hour, an hour. My eyes, his eyes wide open.

• 35:10Speaker 04

  He's just staring at you like.

• 35:11Drew Afualo?

  He's just been staring into the darkness for the last hour and a half. And then I had to move my flight, but my sister and my hair and makeup artist were with me, so like, I sent them ahead of us. Like, they flew without us. I had to take a later flight. I don't even remember getting ready, packing, and I remember my man when we were leaving, he had the most insane outfit on. Like, he had these bright green, like, cargo pants. Didn't even know he had those. I don't know.

• 35:35Speaker 04

  Like, he couldn't really figure out how to put clothes together?

• 35:38Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like, he was just like, I need to put clothes on. That's it. So he like puts that on.

• 35:40Speaker 06

  Just the fact that he got them on was impressive.

• 35:43Drew Afualo?

  And then he had on a black sweater, but it was mine, so it was cropped in half. So his, like, stomach's hanging out. And then he had a bright, like, chocolate brown backpack on.

• 35:53Speaker 04

  That's wild. He's like this.

• 35:54Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and I was looking at him, eyes still wide open. I was looking at him, I was like, you gotta change. He goes, if I take these off, I'm not making it. So.

• 36:01Speaker 04

  He's like, don't worry, my clothes will melt off.

• 36:02Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 36:05Drew Afualo?

  I can't take them off. They're a part of me now. They're sewn to my body now. And then I, I don't remember getting to the airport. I don't remember walking through the airport. I remember coming online again in the lounge and a fan had come up to me and was in the middle of talking to me, so I don't.

• 36:19Speaker 06

  And I'm here.

• 36:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and I was like, now I'm opening my eyes, I'm here. She's actively talking to me and I'm like, huh, huh.

• 36:25Speaker 04

  Were you looking at, like, details of her face and stuff?

• 36:27Drew Afualo?

  I don't even remember.

• 36:28Speaker 04

  Voice?

• 36:29Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I was focusing on her voice and the noises around me. Yeah, it sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher to me.

• 36:39Speaker 04

  You're like, absolutely.

• 36:40Drew Afualo?

  And I remember thinking.

• 36:41Speaker 04

  So sorry that happened.

• 36:42Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I, I'm thinking to myself, I have to look like I'm engaged in this. So I was going.

• 36:47Speaker 04

  You're like.

• 36:49Drew Afualo?

  And then at one point, I felt like she went, she, at one point, she stopped talking, looked at me, and then she went, "Are you okay?" And then I went,

• 36:55Speaker 04

  Oh, nightmare.

• 36:56Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 36:56Speaker 04

  Never ask someone that. Yeah, that's the worst thing to ask them.

• 37:00Drew Afualo?

  Yes, yes, of course I am. And then she left, and I turned, and I was asking my fiance, I'm like, "Did I look insane?" Like, I was about to ask him, I look at him, his head's face down.

• 37:09Speaker 04

  Yeah, you're on fire.

• 37:09Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. You're killing it.

• 37:10Speaker 04

  Oh, no, your whole body's on fire. You look insane. You're a Jaguar.

• 37:14Drew Afualo?

  You look insane right now.

• 37:15Speaker 04

  You're a Jaguar.

• 37:16Drew Afualo?

  He literally laid face down, he was laying face down on the table. So I was like, when I looked at him, so then I went, "Hey, did you see that?" And then he goes, "See what?" And I'm like, "Forget it."

• 37:25Speaker 04

  He's like, "What, the molecules beneath this table?"

• 37:28Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, he was like, "I'm just realizing now, people do things. People are warned about things, and then they don't know about things."

• 37:35Speaker 04

  Exactly. That's like exactly what you said after. Wait, are you serious?

• 37:37Drew Afualo?

  He did kind of say that to me, yeah.

• 37:38Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, that's my, that was my big scary awakening. This edible really brings you into full paranoia.

• 37:43Drew Afualo?

  And I didn't experience the blindness, but thankfully.

• 37:46Speaker 04

  I just loved it. My friend was like, I think it was even more like, and they're, they're very quiet, so I was like, "Hey, man, how was it? Good, good. Dude, I went blind for like 20 minutes."

• 37:56Drew Afualo?

  So that kind of sucked. That was kind of confusing for a bit.

• 37:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, that was weird.

• 37:59Drew Afualo?

  But then after a while, it's fine. Well, you know what? I'll say, all that to say, I'm glad you're alive. You lived to tell the tale.

• 38:05Speaker 04

  Yeah, I definitely haven't revisited the movie, though. It really stuck with me. But I kind of feel like that was the purpose. I couldn't have had a more, you know, Rosemary's baby experience.

• 38:13Drew Afualo?

  You couldn't have had a closer film bro experience than that, probably. Than getting to be inside.

• 38:17Speaker 04

  That would be a hilarious Letterboxd review. Went blind for 20 minutes. Not sure, went blind for 20 minutes.

• 38:23Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, four out of five.

• 38:24Speaker 04

  Saw blue light for the last hour. Went blind for 20 minutes, couldn't tell. Still giving it four out of five.

• 38:29Drew Afualo?

  One time I watched Interstellar High, which was crazy. But when I, when I watched it, I know Matt Damon is also an Interstellar, and he's also in The Martian. And for some reason, I thought that I came up with The Martian. So when I was watching Interstellar, I was like, "He should be in a movie called The Martian." Like, as I'm watching it.

• 38:47Speaker 04

  Oh, I love that.

• 38:48Drew Afualo?

  And then I was like, "Wow, he would be amazing in that." I've never seen The Martian, mind you, so I don't know what happens in it, but I was like,

• 38:53Speaker 04

  But he is in it, and it is a movie.

• 38:55Drew Afualo?

  And he's on the movie poster.

• 38:56Speaker 04

  He's in space.

• 38:56Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and it's like an orange filter on the poster, that's all I remember.

• 38:59Speaker 04

  You just start like describing the poster.

• 39:01Drew Afualo?

  Right, so I was thinking all this in my head.

• 39:02Speaker 04

  Matt Damon should be on an orange-filtered Martian. I can get this greenlit tomorrow.

• 39:07Drew Afualo?

  Someone get Hollywood on the phone. I have a big idea for them. And then I was thinking about The Martian, and then I go, wow, I didn't, I forgot Matt Damon was in this movie. And then my man goes, yeah, like in The Martian. And then I went, how did you know that? Who told you about The Martian? And he goes, the movie? And I go, never mind.

• 39:25Speaker 04

  Slowly you're like, it already exists.

• 39:28Drew Afualo?

  Well, I was like, oh, they got to it before me. They got to The Martian before me. How did they do that?

• 39:32Speaker 04

  You can't even have thoughts privately anymore.

• 39:34Drew Afualo?

  Big Brother's always watching me. But anyways, back to your music. Please tell me about the new album.

• 39:39Speaker 04

  Anyway, you hate the Beatles.

• 39:41Drew Afualo?

  Yes, yes. Can y'all tell me, like, what this new, what you would like people to take away from this new album, if anything?

• 39:50Speaker 04

  Um, I think whatever, whatever they, they take away with it, because I think, um, from it, because I, you know, a lot of my friends have listened to it and had different, uh, interpretations. They've kind of felt the emotion that we were trying to put out, but they've, you know, taken their own, or they've kind of put their own personal experiences into a lot of the songs and stuff that we didn't even think about, but maybe we did kind of.

• 40:16Speaker 06

  I think it's our first time on an album, just based on the age that we are and the, the, you know, kind of transitionary period of life that we're in. And I think it's the first time that in our songs and in the lyrics and in the way that we approach it, it was kind of like looking back on our childhood and our past. And like even the way that we wrote a lot of these songs was similar to how I wrote them when I was a little kid, which is trying to really, um, get out of my head and like, you know, playing piano in a way where I'm only focusing on the way things sound and not, you know, because as you start to learn more about chords and music and stuff, you end up, a lot of times going more in a, in a, you know, they're just patterns that, that you find.

• 41:01Speaker 06

  Whereas when I was a kid, I was kind of like, basically just going off of shapes and sounds and feeling. And so trying to get back to that in the studio and then a lot of times reflecting on, in the songwriting, reflecting on our childhood and our bond with each other and how that affects our romantic relationships now and things, you know, amazing things that happened when we were, uh, kids that we're really grateful for. And then also really traumatic things that happened that, you know, stick with you and, and kind of connecting to that. Music that we made when we were kids and imbuing that into what we're making now kind of felt like coming home in this really amazing way.

• 41:43Drew Afualo?

  Very cool. I'm excited.

• 41:45Speaker 04

  It's interesting pouring our hearts out while there's this military coup upstairs. There literally, I watched two.

• 41:50Drew Afualo?

  Well, the crew of the ship is unloading up there.

• 41:53Speaker 04

  There literally was two different sides of angry people running towards. Are they doing, maybe they're doing like an event upstairs?

• 41:59Drew Afualo?

  They have, I think they're having a, like they're LARPing upstairs or something.

• 42:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, there's literally, there's literally like 20 people over there, 20 people over there and they're running towards.

• 42:07Drew Afualo?

  Red rovering up there.

• 42:08Speaker 04

  Literally, that's what it felt like and they're running and fighting and.

• 42:12Drew Afualo?

  Well, I'm really excited to hear that. I think that's really, what are you guys most proud of off this album? Is it like your collaboration? Is it lyrics? Is it melodies? Just the body of work as a whole?

• 42:23Speaker 06

  I think, I think honestly, the body of work as a whole, the way, you know, I love a lot of, you know, the music that we've made in the last couple of years, especially since COVID when we were living together and. But this definitely to me feels like the most complete body of work and it feels the closest to what's in our heads, you know, and like the way that, and the way that we wanted to make an album and we set out and did it. And it was, you know, definitely not easy and we, you know, we kept pushing the release so we could, because just something didn't feel right. And then at a certain point, it just clicked.

• 43:01Drew Afualo?

  Nice.

• 43:01Speaker 06

  And I'm, I'm really proud of it and the reaction to it has been, you know, and even if it wasn't, I would still be really proud of it, but the reaction to it has been so amazing that it's like.

• 43:16Drew Afualo?

  I'm so glad.

• 43:17Speaker 06

  And.

• 43:19Speaker 06

  See ya.

• 43:19Drew Afualo?

  They're gonna go.

• 43:20Speaker 06

  Is it something I said or?

• 43:21Speaker 04

  Yeah, the reaction to it, not today.

• 43:23Drew Afualo?

  She's gonna go yell at the people upstairs. Tell them to shut the fuck up.

• 43:26Speaker 06

  As she should. Honestly, which is funny, when we were making the last two songs of the album, Whole Other Life and Horse, there was a guy, I swear to God, we were in a studio in Brooklyn and there was a guy above learning to play the guitar. And once in a while, we would just hear the worst guitar playing you've ever heard and you're like.

• 43:45Drew Afualo?

  Like he was intentionally trying to be bad?

• 43:47Speaker 06

  It would be, no, it's like he didn't know how to play and he'd be like C to F like.

• 43:49Speaker 04

  And so loud, so loud.

• 43:53Speaker 06

  And then we started taking a broom and just hitting it against the top of the thing. Hey, we're recording.

• 43:58Speaker 04

  Do the vocal.

• 43:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, go ahead and workshop that. Smoke on the water.

• 44:02Speaker 06

  That's totally what it was.

• 44:04Drew Afualo?

  It was like first day at fucking Guitar Center.

• 44:06Speaker 06

  The White.

• 44:11Speaker 06

  Dude! Oh my god.

• 44:12Drew Afualo?

  You're like, you don't need the amp, it's okay. Go home! The fucking amp was so loud, too. Yeah, you don't need the amp, it's alright.

• 44:18Speaker 06

  With like so much distortion and shit and you're like, dude, you sound terrible. You could put all the pedals in the world. And it's like bleeding into the fucking thing.

• 44:25Drew Afualo?

  My little brother can play the guitar. And he, for the longest time, only knew like two songs. Uh, which was, when he was learning, which one of them was Imagine Dragons, it was Demons by Imagine Dragons.

• 44:37Speaker 06

  Just a young buck? Oh no, that's not Demons.

• 44:39Drew Afualo?

  It was Demon, it's, that's where my demons hide, that's the only- That's where my demons hide! Yeah, and my brother can't sing, so he would be singing that loud and like learning how to play just that one. And it, I think the other one was a Johnny Cash song. Do you remember what song it was? Which one? Was it Ring of Fire? Hotel- Eagles. No, that's the Eagles. No, it wasn't that one, it was a Johnny Cash song. She's like, Ringo is dead and uh- Ring of Fire, yeah.

• 45:00Speaker 06

  And Johnny Cash wrote Hotel California.

• 45:02Drew Afualo?

  It's honestly anyone's guess, at this point, but he- Was it Hotel California? That was one of them, yeah, but, and Demons, but he also used to play Ring of Fire, I think, by Johnny Cash. Wow. All the time, and it was just like, quite the-

• 45:15Speaker 06

  That's a big-

• 45:16Drew Afualo?

  Big jump, from Imagine Dragons to Johnny Cash. You know what they say, Hotel California, Ring of Fire and Demons.

• 45:23Speaker 06

  The three songs you take on a desert island.

• 45:26Drew Afualo?

  One of them has to be an Imagine Dragons thing. I like to ask this question to all my guests, it has nothing to do with anything we've been talking about.

• 45:32Speaker 06

  What's your favorite thing about Imagine Dragons?

• 45:34Drew Afualo?

  Right, and what's your favorite Imagine Dragons song? No, it's honestly-

• 45:38Speaker 06

  I ask all my guests this.

• 45:39Drew Afualo?

  Every single Imagine Dragon.

• 45:40Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 45:41Drew Afualo?

  Except Imagine Dragons, don't ask them that.

• 45:43Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 45:44Drew Afualo?

  Um, no, I wanna know, do you guys think you would survive in a zombie apocalypse? Nope. By, by will, or just like you just don't want to, or just like skill set?

• 45:53Speaker 06

  By will, we wouldn't survive?

• 45:54Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like you just wouldn't-

• 45:55Speaker 06

  I would try to survive.

• 45:56Speaker 04

  No, we're not like saying we-

• 45:57Drew Afualo?

  Oh no, I-

• 45:57Speaker 06

  We're not like suicidal.

• 45:58Speaker 04

  Finally!

• 45:58Drew Afualo?

  Oh, well, I would.

• 45:59Speaker 04

  No, it would, it would just, they would just take us, we wouldn't- You know, cause I did the Quiet Place movie, and-

• 46:05Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 46:06Speaker 04

  I died pretty quickly.

• 46:08Speaker 06

  You did.

• 46:08Speaker 04

  And then it was funny because they would say, they were saying like, of course, in the Quiet movie, of course you die.

• 46:13Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you especially, yeah, of course. Your brother's like, well, yeah.

• 46:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, for sure.

• 46:17Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, no, if it was like that, I'm for sure dead in a minute, but like, I'm more so asking if you would have the will to survive. Cause I, every time I talk about that question, I always say like, um, as soon as my phone dies, I'm killing myself, like, I'm out. Don't need it anymore, it's alright.

• 46:32Speaker 04

  Wait, as soon as your phone dies, you're gonna kill yourself?

• 46:34Drew Afualo?

  In a zombie apocalypse.

• 46:35Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 46:35Speaker 06

  But not like runs out of battery?

• 46:36Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 46:37Speaker 06

  Runs out of battery?

• 46:38Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like essentially. Cause I'm assuming there's no more electricity or anything.

• 46:41Speaker 06

  No, you can't plug it in.

• 46:42Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and I just have no will to survive in the aftermath of that. Doesn't really bode well for women, most often times, so.

• 46:48Speaker 06

  Right.

• 46:48Drew Afualo?

  There's that too.

• 46:49Speaker 06

  That's true.

• 46:49Drew Afualo?

  So I'm just curious if you guys thought you had the chops.

• 46:51Speaker 06

  I did a, I did a military movie where we had like two weeks of training, and, and, uh, the guy said, after four days, I've trained a lot of actors, and you are by far the worst soldier I've ever seen.

• 47:05Drew Afualo?

  Damn.

• 47:06Speaker 06

  Because what would happen to me is we'd go on these fake patrols, and I'd be like this, and I'd be like, I'd, and I'd be, and I'd be like, okay, here we go, we're playing soldiers, and I'm really on, and then I'd be like, wow, this is beautiful trees. And I'm like, and the sunset's coming, and then they'd be like, soldier! I'm like, oh shit! Like, you're pointing your gun at the sky.

• 47:22Drew Afualo?

  Bro, I'm an artist, what can I say? I see the beauty in small things. I see the beauty in the sunlight.

• 47:28Speaker 04

  And then, you know-

• 47:29Speaker 06

  He's like, looking like, do you think Dolly would have liked me?

• 47:33Speaker 06

  Dolly, like, what?

• 47:34Drew Afualo?

  Do you think? What do you think?

• 47:36Speaker 04

  Yeah, but that was kind of a good insight into-

• 47:39Drew Afualo?

  Whether or not you would last.

• 47:40Speaker 04

  Yeah. And then similar to him, I think I did, wait, the stand is kind of zombie apocalypse-ish, and, and that one too, I got, no, head got chopped off.

• 47:49Drew Afualo?

  Damn.

• 47:50Speaker 06

  Episode six, maybe seven.

• 47:52Speaker 04

  Yep, I just think that it's not in our DNA to survive, uh, the zombie apocalypse.

• 47:58Drew Afualo?

  Hard things.

• 47:59Speaker 04

  Yeah. No, we can survive certain hard things, but I think that if, it's like, you know, zombies, but, you were saying that if your phone died, you would just off yourself, or you would go into the zombie thing?

• 48:12Drew Afualo?

  No, like in, in the case of the zombie apocalypse.

• 48:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, but I might have faith in you. Like, I think that you could do.

• 48:16Drew Afualo?

  Resourceful. Yeah.

• 48:18Speaker 04

  Yeah, I think you could do some real work.

• 48:19Drew Afualo?

  And your brother's just like, "Demon!" Yeah, well, he's a trap. Imagine, imagine it's like a Hunger Games situation with him, though. Like, they take him as like a songbird. They take him so he could just play demons. Like, what if the zombies actually like that song?

• 48:31Speaker 04

  Maybe they love it.

• 48:31Drew Afualo?

  We never know. Well, I guess we'll, we'll find out whenever it happens. But yeah, I don't have a very strong will to live in situations like that. I'm thinking about sharing food out of a can, and I'm kind of like, mm.

• 48:42Speaker 04

  Wow, that's where you draw the line.

• 48:44Drew Afualo?

  That's just kind of where I'm at. Like, that's just where I'm not meant to survive hard things like that, I think.

• 48:49Speaker 06

  There's some good canned foods.

• 48:50Speaker 04

  Also, sharing is caring.

• 48:52Speaker 06

  Canned tuna, canned pineapple, canned beans.

• 48:55Drew Afualo?

  Beans. You guys big beans fans?

• 48:57Speaker 06

  Big beans.

• 48:57Speaker 04

  Well, I like those canned sweet beans in England. I love those ones.

• 49:00Drew Afualo?

  Really?

• 49:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, I love that. Love it.

• 49:02Speaker 06

  Not bad. I'm not really.

• 49:03Drew Afualo?

  I hated those.

• 49:05Speaker 04

  Well, I love it, so.

• 49:08Speaker 04

  So.

• 49:09Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you and I got a real opposites thing going on here.

• 49:12Speaker 04

  Damn, doesn't matter. Opposites can be friends. They can attract.

• 49:14Drew Afualo?

  That's true. That's very true. We're not, but I guess we'll see.

• 49:21Speaker 00

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• 49:52Speaker 01

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• 49:58Speaker 02

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• 50:00Speaker 01

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• 50:03Speaker 02

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• 50:07Speaker 01

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• 50:11Speaker 02

  No FiOS?

• 50:12Speaker 01

  Yeah. No, thank you. Don't you want to see the rest? Okay. Bye-bye.

• 50:17Speaker 03

  Get Verizon FiOS, because when you're moving, it's 100% or nothing.

• 50:24Speaker 06

  Wait, who were you talking to? Me.

• 50:29Drew Afualo?

  It's you. But I do have, that's actually a good pivot. I have some fun facts about you guys. Are you guys ready to hear them?

• 50:34Speaker 06

  Yeah, let's do it.

• 50:36Drew Afualo?

  This one, um, well, I already knew this one, but it says that your group name came from when you were toddlers and used to call yourselves the naked brother band in the bathtub.

• 50:45Speaker 06

  Yeah, that's true. Are we saying true or false?

• 50:47Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you can, absolutely. And that is something I hold against my producer when they're wrong. So I do-

• 50:53Speaker 06

  Love it, true.

• 50:53Drew Afualo?

  She gets a mark on her, on her report card.

• 50:56Speaker 06

  True, true.

• 50:57Drew Afualo?

  At the end of the day.

• 50:58Speaker 06

  True.

• 50:58Drew Afualo?

  Uh, this one says during COVID, Nat accidentally broke a window with his elbow and sewed up the cut with Converse laces?

• 51:07Speaker 06

  False. False.

• 51:08Drew Afualo?

  False.

• 51:09Speaker 06

  The Converse laces is insane. Insane. That, that- Converse laces?

• 51:15Drew Afualo?

  Do you guys just say things and forget?

• 51:18Speaker 06

  No, I never said that. Not even close. Let's pull up the tape. I did, I did put my hand through, I did put my arm through a window, wait, and I do have a-

• 51:26Drew Afualo?

  So it's like partially true?

• 51:28Speaker 06

  Converse is pretty unsafe. I would've never said that. But I do have the scar right here from, I put my arm through a window and it-

• 51:35Drew Afualo?

  On purpose? Or was it like an accident?

• 51:36Speaker 06

  No, it was an accident. His phone died and he was like-

• 51:39Drew Afualo?

  There you go, had to. Zombie apocalypse had to get in.

• 51:42Speaker 06

  It was my, it was, um, yeah, but then I looked at my, I was, it didn't even hurt. I was just like, oh shit, I broke the window, fuck. And then, uh, and then I heard, and then I just was like, kind of, wa- I was walking into the kitchen like, oh my god, I'm gonna have to, I have to call somebody to fix the window. And then I was like, whoa, I'm bleeding. And there was glass stuck in there. Alex, give me your sneakers.

• 52:04Drew Afualo?

  I have an idea.

• 52:05Speaker 06

  You got this. You got Converse?

• 52:08Drew Afualo?

  Quick, someone get me a pair of Converse.

• 52:09Speaker 06

  He was like, this is Adidas, not gonna work. Ah, damn it. Nike, not gonna work.

• 52:14Drew Afualo?

  If only I had a pair of Converse.

• 52:15Speaker 06

  We gotta go to the store.

• 52:18Speaker 06

  So you sure don't want to go to the hospital?

• 52:19Drew Afualo?

  It's gonna treat itself.

• 52:22Speaker 06

  Let's go to the, let's go to the store.

• 52:24Drew Afualo?

  I know, like an old timey medic. If you sewed it up with Converse laces, that would be insane. Well-

• 52:29Speaker 06

  No, but they did put, then I did go to the, I did go to the emergency room and they did stitches, but, but, no, I don't know how that- Do you have any Chuck Taylors back there? Or just gauze?

• 52:41Drew Afualo?

  What were you doing that had you hit your window like that hard?

• 52:45Speaker 06

  Well, if we're gonna go into, I have Tourette's Syndrome, which is a thing that's now a thing. And, you know, you sometimes have tics that are really weird. And I usually, I used to have this tic of kind of throwing my arm back. And I just happened to wake up from a nap and throw my arm back. So the whole thing happened so quickly that I thought, oh no, I cracked the window. And then it didn't even feel like a big deal. It felt like, oh, I'm gonna have to fix, you know, like just a pain.

• 53:10Drew Afualo?

  Well, I'm glad you didn't freak out or anything, that's good.

• 53:11Speaker 06

  And I still didn't freak out. And then I was like, well, I guess my arm is like completely, you know, and then I could see all the way into it.

• 53:16Drew Afualo?

  What's, is that the most serious injury you've ever had?

• 53:19Speaker 06

  No. Oh, my god, no.

• 53:21Drew Afualo?

  What's the most serious injury you guys have ever had?

• 53:22Speaker 06

  I've broken, when I was playing, I used to play basketball in middle school and high school. And I broke like six or seven fingers. I had to stop playing basketball because I was like, ah, I play piano and this. So all my fingers are a little bit warped. Oh, my gosh, you being Troy Bolton looking. I currently have all the tendons in my rib ripped currently.

• 53:40Drew Afualo?

  What, currently?

• 53:40Speaker 06

  Yeah, under my right rib.

• 53:41Drew Afualo?

  Does it hurt to like breathe or sit?

• 53:43Speaker 06

  It hurts to sneeze a lot.

• 53:44Drew Afualo?

  Really?

• 53:45Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 53:45Drew Afualo?

  Did they say you just kind of gotta let it heal on its own?

• 53:48Speaker 06

  Yeah, they sent me Converse. No, I, I.

• 53:52Drew Afualo?

  Doctor Chuck Taylor told you that?

• 53:53Speaker 06

  Yeah. Hey Chuck, what do I do about this? I got brown or red?

• 54:00Speaker 06

  Yeah, I did it, I did it on set and it was pretty bad. And I thought I broke a rib, but then I did the x-ray. And the doctor felt it and he's like, oh, I think you may have broken it. But it was just ripped all the tendons. And we gaslit him so hard, everybody. We all said, because we were about to play this concert and we're like, dude, if it was broken, you would be screaming. You are good. He was like, yeah, you're right, you're right, you're totally right. And then we're like, we did the concert and it was like, dude, you could sing the whole show an hour and a half.

• 54:24Drew Afualo?

  You are fine.

• 54:25Speaker 06

  Totally fine. He's like, yeah, it really hurts though still. It really is hurting a lot. He's like, and I actually can't sleep that well. We're like, dude, you could never sleep that well.

• 54:34Drew Afualo?

  Oh, it's always something with this guy.

• 54:36Speaker 06

  It was literally, we all gaslit, my, my parents, me, like the whole band and yeah. And then he was like, by the way, guys, it's actually broken. I was like, oh shit.

• 54:47Speaker 06

  The doctor thought it was broken, then I did an x-ray, turns out it wasn't broken. It was just all the tendons were ripped.

• 54:52Drew Afualo?

  But you know who had your back, didn't The Rock say it was broken?

• 54:54Speaker 06

  He said. He goes, is it hurting in the back? And I was like, no. And then he's like, I don't think it's broken. And then, and then like two weeks later, he's like, is it? Because I was like, oh, he's like, oh, it still hurts? I mean, yeah, he's like, you might have broken that shit.

• 55:06Drew Afualo?

  Alex.

• 55:09Drew Afualo?

  Just a quick reminder for you.

• 55:10Speaker 06

  Women don't owe you at hashtag exclamation point percent. Shit, they don't owe you shit, oh.

• 55:17Speaker 06

  That's sick.

• 55:18Speaker 04

  Good to know.

• 55:18Drew Afualo?

  Thank you. I appreciate that. It's been part of the set for a while, so I'm happy that she's still here and still living. I'm glad to hear that The Rock was able to diagnose you.

• 55:28Speaker 04

  Well, he was honestly very nice and very, uh...

• 55:31Drew Afualo?

  He is a very nice man.

• 55:32Speaker 04

  He's the best guy in the world. But he, uh, he, in the beginning, really didn't think it was, and then it was just that two weeks later, if you're still complaining, there's something, something going on. Or you're just a whiny...

• 55:42Speaker 06

  Are you friends with him?

• 55:43Drew Afualo?

  I don't know if I would say we're friends. I mean, I'll tell people we're friends, sure, but we have met many times, yeah. And he does know me, like, he remembers me and his, um, ex-wife that does his production company. She knows me really well, yeah, Dana. So she knows me really well, so like...

• 55:58Speaker 06

  His ex-wife runs his production company?

• 55:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, she's literally the coolest.

• 56:01Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, she's the coolest. And they work really, really well together, too. They're like a dream pairing in, in the production world. But they're both very nice, and The Rock is really nice. The first time I ever met him, I spoke someone to him a little bit, and he, like, didn't catch it till the end, and then we kinda talked about it, and then he left. And then the next time I saw him, he goes, "The last time I saw you, you spoke someone to me." And I go, "Yeah," he goes, "I was really fucked up when you did that. I'm sorry, I didn't respond." And I was like, "That's okay."

• 56:28Speaker 04

  I love that.

• 56:29Drew Afualo?

  So he, like, joked around with me about it.

• 56:31Speaker 04

  He's also an amazing, amazing actor.

• 56:33Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, he is. He's incredible.

• 56:35Speaker 06

  In the movie?

• 56:36Drew Afualo?

  The Smashing Machine?

• 56:37Speaker 06

  Where he puts the thing up to his face.

• 56:39Speaker 04

  When he loses the fight, I mean, that, that was my, like, favorite performance of the year.

• 56:43Drew Afualo?

  Same!

• 56:44Speaker 04

  And, and he's gonna be amazing in this coming duet.

• 56:47Speaker 06

  The way he was kind of, the way he was kinda just making light of being an alcoholic or whatever, and then he...

• 56:52Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 56:53Drew Afualo?

  Oh my god, it was unbelievable. I know, I told everyone, I, I loved him in that movie, and I was very happy for him, 'cause I really want him to get his flowers.

• 57:00Speaker 04

  I know, I want him to get nominated for an Oscar, though. I really thought he deserved it. I thought he was really amazing.

• 57:05Drew Afualo?

  I agree. Okay, we have more fun facts about you. Hopefully, they're true this time. Okay, this one says, Alex once made his friend punch him in the face before an audition.

• 57:14Speaker 04

  Yes. Seamus, Seamus Walsh. But how did I, uh, not to blow him up, but how did that story come out, and should I take it back and say it's false?

• 57:23Drew Afualo?

  I have no clue. It's really up to you. It's your fun fact.

• 57:26Speaker 04

  It's true, but I was like 14. God, I don't even remember. He's like the way, way back. Uh, no, I think it was for the Robert De Niro movie where they're, I think it's called The Family.

• 57:33Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 57:34Speaker 04

  Um, where they're like, he, the young kid. Did you want to have a bruise or something? He has a black eye in the scene. I was like, dude, you should give me a real black eye. And he punched me and it didn't give me a black eye, it just really hurt.

• 57:43Drew Afualo?

  Not worth it, low key.

• 57:44Speaker 04

  And then I went to a Seder that night and I was like, the whole night, I was like at a Seder, like, Jesus Christ.

• 57:51Drew Afualo?

  No, you just, you just had a weird squint instead of no black eye to show for it?

• 57:55Speaker 04

  You did have a guy on the subway punch me in the face.

• 57:57Speaker 06

  Punch you in the face for no reason. Alex?

• 57:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, randomly.

• 58:01Speaker 06

  You just walked up to him and punched him in the face.

• 58:02Speaker 04

  She's like, no way, there was no reason.

• 58:05Speaker 06

  True.

• 58:05Speaker 04

  I've been talking to you for 30 minutes.

• 58:07Speaker 06

  I said to him, it was like karma because there's so many people that should have punched him in the face and didn't.

• 58:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, this was.

• 58:12Speaker 06

  And this guy just came out of nowhere and just punched him in the face.

• 58:15Speaker 04

  Really crazy. Yeah, he was walking behind me in the, um, subway station and said like, get out of the way. And then I just looked at him, not like challenging at all.

• 58:22Drew Afualo?

  No, you just were like, are you talking to me? Kind of like.

• 58:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, like, I was literally like, I couldn't believe it. I was like, wait, what? And he was like, what? And then punched me in the face and I was like, huh, I couldn't, I literally couldn't even believe it. And I just, I was like, whoa, kind of saw stars and then just got the hell out of there.

• 58:38Drew Afualo?

  The average New York experience, unfortunately.

• 58:40Speaker 04

  I know.

• 58:41Drew Afualo?

  There was a guy running around punching people in the head for a while. Maybe you were one of them.

• 58:45Speaker 04

  Who was punching people in the head or getting punched?

• 58:47Drew Afualo?

  In New York, in the subway. I'm, and I'm not kidding, there, there was a guy that was running around punching people in the head, yeah.

• 58:51Speaker 04

  Sounds, it sounds like maybe that was the guy. Except this guy felt like, also, he felt very like, um, he was very. Where are you going with this? I felt, I felt that he thought he was in the right and I was in the wrong.

• 59:04Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 59:04Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, he was just a logical person.

• 59:05Speaker 06

  He rationalized it.

• 59:06Speaker 04

  Yeah. I felt like he didn't act like a crazy person. He acted like, of course I'm punching you in the face. Right, right. I love that. I know. I was also 15.

• 59:16Drew Afualo?

  That's even worse.

• 59:17Speaker 04

  Yeah. So you go around punching 15. He was like, I thought you had an audition!

• 59:21Drew Afualo?

  You said-

• 59:21Speaker 04

  I'm gonna get you that part!

• 59:23Drew Afualo?

  He said you ordered this punch off Etsy.

• 59:26Speaker 06

  Bro, I thought you-

• 59:26Speaker 04

  Your friend's not gonna give you the black eye you need, trust me.

• 59:29Speaker 06

  I got you, bro. I got you.

• 59:31Drew Afualo?

  Well, if that's the case, tell him to give me his number. I got a couple people I'd like him to go run up on. None of them are you, obviously. It'll be Nat this time.

• 59:39Speaker 06

  Thanks.

• 59:41Drew Afualo?

  You're welcome. Okay, this next, this next one says, "As a kid, Nat was such a big fan of Paul McCartney, he used to write letters and leave them at restaurants he heard he had been to."

• 59:51Speaker 06

  Yeah, I, I heard from- He's alive, by the way, Paul.

• 59:54Drew Afualo?

  Right, you have shared that with me. Him and Ringo, yes?

• 59:57Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 59:58Drew Afualo?

  Perfect. And that's not Barry Keoghan?

• 1:00:01Speaker 06

  Yeah, Ringo's playing Barry.

• 1:00:02Drew Afualo?

  I know, but that's not Ringo Starr, obviously?

• 1:00:04Speaker 06

  No. No, Barry Keoghan is Ringo Starr. They've just been Hannah Montana'd and kind of like-

• 1:00:08Drew Afualo?

  He's been Hannah Montana'd, imagine. That'd be crazy. I'm gonna start a rumor.

• 1:00:13Speaker 06

  "I used to write letters to Paul and leave him at restaurants, and then one day, I was in the, I was at a restaurant, like, you know, 20 years, 15 years later or something, and my friend David was like, 'Nat, sit down, I have to tell you something.' And I thought something horrible was happening, or there was like, some ex that I really didn't want to see there, or something. And he goes, 'Paul McCartney's at the table adjacent.' And I was like, 'Oh my god.' And I just burst into tears, like a little like a-

• 1:00:38Drew Afualo?

  He said, 'I used to pray for times like this.'

• 1:00:40Speaker 06

  Exactly. And I started just crying immediately, and then I kind of calmed down and then came, came up to him and talked to him, and he was so sweet and so kind and lovely, exactly what- And then I definitely overstayed my welcome. I was there for like eight minutes, like a straight, not exaggerate, like eight minutes of just asking him questions and then, and then finally his wife sweetly was like, "Okay, thank you so much. Thank you so much for coming."

• 1:01:05Drew Afualo?

  And I was like, "You're welcome."

• 1:01:06Speaker 06

  "You're welcome. I'll sit down." Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, "No, yeah, anytime." And then I was like, "Oh, she wants me to leave." And then, and then as he was leaving, he looked over and was like, "Hi," and did like a little guitar playing, and I called Alex, and Alex was like, "You, you met Paul? You met Paul?" And then- I was at first happy for you. At first happy, and then I said, I said, "Yeah," and he goes, "By yourself?" And I was like, "Uh, David was there too." And Alex goes, "That's not how it was supposed to happen!" And then I just hear screaming, and then he punches this wall.

• 1:01:37Drew Afualo?

  Oh, damn.

• 1:01:38Speaker 06

  That's not an Alex move either, and you know, this is like 16-year-old Alex, he'd just been punched in the face in the subway, too, so he had a little bit of-

• 1:01:44Drew Afualo?

  And guess what happened to me today? I got punched in the head.

• 1:01:46Speaker 06

  Right.

• 1:01:47Speaker 04

  "Oh, you met Paul?" Yeah.

• 1:01:49Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:01:50Drew Afualo?

  Nice, I'm happy for you.

• 1:01:51Speaker 04

  I got punched in the face.

• 1:01:54Speaker 04

  Good for you, dude.

• 1:01:54Drew Afualo?

  Congratulations.

• 1:01:56Speaker 06

  And then, cut to a couple of months ago, we were going to the Oasis concert and somehow, we were getting into an elevator and we heard, "We need to clear this area, Paul McCartney's coming." And Alex didn't hear it, and Alex goes, "Oh, let's clear." And I'm like, "No, Alex, don't move." We have to stay here. Just stay. And we saw Paul came into the elevator, and I knew this is Alex's moment, so we kind of like rush in, and Alex has a tattoo of "Here, There, and Everywhere," the Beatles' song. So, he goes, "Hey, Paul, like that, hey..." And his body goes, "What the fuck are you doing?"

• 1:02:29Speaker 04

  Get the fuck away!

• 1:02:30Speaker 06

  And I started screaming, because he thought he was pulling a gun or something.

• 1:02:32Speaker 04

  Yeah, I was just like, "I just wanted to show my tattoo." And then Paul said, "I'd like to see the tattoo." And I was like, "Okay." And then I raised it, and he's like, "Here, There, and Everywhere, that's a good name for a song." Because it reminded me about that later.

• 1:02:47Drew Afualo?

  Paul McCartney has fucking jokes.

• 1:02:48Speaker 06

  Yeah, Paul McCartney's got cool jokes.

• 1:02:50Drew Afualo?

  Oh, classic Paul.

• 1:02:51Speaker 06

  Also, both of our Paul McCartney impressions sounds like Wallace and Gromit.

• 1:02:55Drew Afualo?

  I love Wallace and Gromit.

• 1:02:56Speaker 06

  I really miss Wallace and Gromit.

• 1:02:58Drew Afualo?

  Oh, we need to get them on the pod.

• 1:03:00Speaker 04

  Love Wallace and Gromit.

• 1:03:01Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, love Wallace and Gromit. How you feel about Paul McCartney is how I feel about Beyonce?

• 1:03:04Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:03:05Drew Afualo?

  That's how I feel about her. So, when I met her-

• 1:03:07Speaker 06

  What's your favorite Beyonce album?

• 1:03:08Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I've met her, yeah.

• 1:03:09Speaker 04

  Oh, my god.

• 1:03:10Drew Afualo?

  I met her-

• 1:03:10Speaker 04

  I saw her live on like, in like, the second round of the Lemonade Tour, and it was pretty fucking amazing.

• 1:03:14Drew Afualo?

  Gee, I didn't have any money at that time, otherwise I would have for sure gone to that tour, but I did go to the Renaissance one and Cowboy Carter, but I met her last year.

• 1:03:22Speaker 06

  What's your favorite Beyonce album?

• 1:03:24Drew Afualo?

  My favorite album? I would say Lemonades, one of my favorite ones.

• 1:03:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's my favorite.

• 1:03:29Drew Afualo?

  And Four. Okay, see, we come back together in the end. At the end, you know what?

• 1:03:35Speaker 04

  That's how things happen.

• 1:03:36Drew Afualo?

  There's a thin line between love and hate you and I.

• 1:03:38Speaker 04

  Life and love is a zigzag.

• 1:03:41Drew Afualo?

  Okay, this next one says, "When Alex was younger, you wanted to be a professional skateboarder."

• 1:03:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, there was a long period of time that I still have feelings where I'm like, you know, and then in my 40s, I'll probably become the professional skateboarder. It's gonna happen one of these days, but I'm really not very good.

• 1:03:58Speaker 06

  The way that I like a lot of middle-aged dads are like, "You know what? I'm gonna start, like, I'm probably gonna start a band." And like, "I'm gonna like, play around the city and like..." That's like Alex with skateboarding.

• 1:04:06Drew Afualo?

  With skateboarding?

• 1:04:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm always waiting for like, a free month to just really get really good at skateboarding.

• 1:04:11Drew Afualo?

  Really commit to it.

• 1:04:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, commit to it.

• 1:04:12Drew Afualo?

  That's true. Well, I mean, it sounds like you've been doing it, right?

• 1:04:14Speaker 06

  Over Christmas, you did good. You did, you did two, you landed two kickflips.

• 1:04:19Speaker 04

  Two kickflips.

• 1:04:19Speaker 06

  After a lot of it.

• 1:04:20Drew Afualo?

  Ooh, nice.

• 1:04:20Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:04:21Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 1:04:22Speaker 04

  It's pretty, honestly, it's pretty exciting. Yeah.

• 1:04:24Drew Afualo?

  That's cool. Tony Hawk's the nice guy.

• 1:04:26Speaker 04

  I did meet, to say, I met, well, Tony Hawk is the nicest guy ever.

• 1:04:29Speaker 06

  Is this interview just YouTube bragging about all the famous people that you met?

• 1:04:32Drew Afualo?

  You and I have a thing, he's left out.

• 1:04:34Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:04:35Speaker 06

  I've also met Tony Hawk.

• 1:04:36Speaker 04

  Anyway.

• 1:04:38Speaker 04

  Have you ever met Barack?

• 1:04:40Drew Afualo?

  I, I wish.

• 1:04:41Speaker 04

  I wish, me too. You did?

• 1:04:43Speaker 06

  Yeah, I did.

• 1:04:45Drew Afualo?

  Interesting.

• 1:04:46Speaker 06

  I met Barack when he was on, before he was president, the first time. And I was like, this is the coolest guy.

• 1:04:52Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my mom goes, "Me too," because my mom has two.

• 1:04:54Speaker 04

  Really?

• 1:04:55Speaker 06

  Cool.

• 1:04:56Drew Afualo?

  You and my mom have a thing.

• 1:04:57Speaker 06

  I shook his hand. Yeah.

• 1:04:58Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:59Speaker 06

  We already had a thing, though. I could feel it from before the interview started.

• 1:05:04Drew Afualo?

  Well, I'm wishing you well in your professional skateboarder journey.

• 1:05:07Speaker 04

  Thank you so much. Yeah, maybe this will make, I don't know, it more real. Like, I'll have to follow up and actually get good, but...

• 1:05:14Drew Afualo?

  I think that's too. That is how I feel about DJing.

• 1:05:16Speaker 06

  You guys just start listing off famous people, it's like, "Do you know..."

• 1:05:19Speaker 04

  Okay, so, who else?

• 1:05:22Drew Afualo?

  Honestly, that's how you feel about skateboarding, that's how I feel about DJing. I feel like that will be something I, when I have the time.

• 1:05:28Speaker 04

  That you can really do at any time. Skateboarding is better to do.

• 1:05:32Speaker 06

  Yeah, but you were actually a DJ for Prince.

• 1:05:33Drew Afualo?

  I did, I didn't DJ for Prince.

• 1:05:35Speaker 06

  I misunderstood that story.

• 1:05:36Drew Afualo?

  I watched someone else DJ, or talk about DJing for Prince.

• 1:05:39Speaker 06

  But you brought the Prince vinyl, or no?

• 1:05:42Drew Afualo?

  No, that was him too.

• 1:05:44Speaker 06

  I must have been, I was on his edible during the beginning of that.

• 1:05:46Drew Afualo?

  I don't think you were in here, I think you were somewhere else during that conversation.

• 1:05:50Speaker 06

  Am I here right?

• 1:05:50Speaker 04

  I got the story.

• 1:05:52Speaker 06

  Can anybody hear me?

• 1:05:53Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 1:05:53Speaker 06

  It's like it's a wonderful life.

• 1:05:55Drew Afualo?

  Okay, this one says, Robert De Niro convinced not to stick his piece of chewed gum under a table

• 1:06:03Speaker 06

  That's true.

• 1:06:04Drew Afualo?

  as a prank.

• 1:06:04Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:06:05Drew Afualo?

  On who? A prank on the set?

• 1:06:08Speaker 06

  Kind of, well, I was told before working with him, and also like, you know, he's the greatest actor of all time, and they were like, you know, he doesn't really like to chit chat between the scenes, and I was like, awesome, great, I don't like, I don't want to have a moment where I'm say something stupid in front of Robert De Niro or something. So then, I was just really quiet and we did the scene once, and then in between the takes, I started chewing gum, just as like, a relaxation tool, because I'm working with Robert De Niro, and he's like, he's like, "Where are you gonna put the gum before the scene?" And I was like, oh, it's the thing I just, you know, spit it out, and he's like, "Put it under the table." I was like, "Okay." And then he goes, "Hey Nancy!", to the director, he's like, "Hey Nancy, the kid just put his gum under the table."

• 1:06:51Speaker 06

  I was like, "Whoa!", I just got completely razzed, and, "What the hell, Bob?"

• 1:06:54Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:06:55Drew Afualo?

  Then he gives you a wedgie, gives you a nookie on the head.

• 1:06:58Speaker 06

  He's like, "Did you film it?"

• 1:07:00Drew Afualo?

  Get it on camera, wicked witch, here we are. Okay, last one, says, "When the Naked Brothers Band show was coming out, Sasha and Malia Obama called to say they were fans."

• 1:07:12Speaker 06

  Yeah, that was true, right? They left a voicemail on our landline and said something really nice.

• 1:07:18Speaker 04

  Landline, that shows how long.

• 1:07:19Drew Afualo?

  How'd they get your fucking number?

• 1:07:21Speaker 06

  I don't know.

• 1:07:21Drew Afualo?

  Was their dad the president at the time?

• 1:07:23Speaker 06

  Uh, yeah.

• 1:07:24Speaker 04

  Wait, was it when he, when he became the president?

• 1:07:27Speaker 06

  I don't remember.

• 1:07:27Speaker 04

  I can't remember.

• 1:07:28Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:07:28Drew Afualo?

  That would be sweet.

• 1:07:29Speaker 06

  I vaguely remember that, though, yeah.

• 1:07:31Drew Afualo?

  That is insane.

• 1:07:32Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:07:32Drew Afualo?

  That would be crazy if he was, like, that's what I would do if my dad was the president.

• 1:07:36Speaker 06

  Be like, "I wanna call people."

• 1:07:37Drew Afualo?

  Get me the phone number of people I wanna talk to.

• 1:07:38Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:07:39Drew Afualo?

  Get me the phone number, I wanna call them, I have a lot to say. I think that's incredible, wow, you guys have, everybody give it up for them.

• 1:07:45Speaker 06

  Thank you.

• 1:07:46Drew Afualo?

  No, no applause whatsoever.

• 1:07:47Speaker 06

  Yeah, and zero applause.

• 1:07:48Drew Afualo?

  Just, just for Sasha and Malia Obama.

• 1:07:51Speaker 06

  I love it.

• 1:07:53Drew Afualo?

  Well, thank you guys for coming and hanging out on the show. Did you enjoy your fun facts?

• 1:07:56Speaker 06

  Yeah, it was really good and they were mostly true.

• 1:08:00Drew Afualo?

  Mostly true.

• 1:08:00Speaker 06

  Except for the Converse one, which was pretty egregiously not true. You know what? I think that could have been a joke. I think it could have been a joke.

• 1:08:10Speaker 06

  There's no way that I said that. No, I believe you. Do you have a video? I need to see the, I need to see the evidence.

• 1:08:20Speaker 06

  It sounds like something you'd say as a, as a joke. I remember somebody put, we, we did kind of have to like keep it tied up somehow. Wait, what did we put around it? Tim did. Tim put something around it.

• 1:08:34Drew Afualo?

  Imagine you look it up and she is right. Imagine.

• 1:08:38Speaker 06

  I think she is. I'm slowly. I think maybe I was.

• 1:08:39Drew Afualo?

  You're starting to believe her. She's gaslighting you into believing.

• 1:08:42Speaker 06

  I'm starting to Da Vinci Code the whole story. I'm like, oh no. Like, maybe I did use Converse. I'm like, maybe it's still Converse in there.

• 1:08:52Drew Afualo?

  Well, thank you guys so much for coming and hanging out. I appreciate you.

• 1:08:55Speaker 06

  We loved being here. It was very, very, very, very, very fun.

• 1:08:58Drew Afualo?

  It was very fun. I appreciate you guys coming. And I'm so excited that y'all are making even more music. I think it's fucking awesome. And I do think, and this is me being 100% serious. I know we've been silly the whole time. I think you both are so talented. Like, not just musically, but as actors. I think you guys are both incredible.

• 1:09:13Speaker 06

  Thank you so much.

• 1:09:14Drew Afualo?

  So I'm very happy and also a little jealous. You guys can do it all. What the fuck ever. I don't really care. I don't care.

• 1:09:18Speaker 06

  Keep DJing. Keep kicking ass.

• 1:09:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. See, I can't sing, so that's why I always say DJing, because I'm like, they're gonna let me in there one way or another.

• 1:09:25Speaker 06

  Love that.

• 1:09:26Drew Afualo?

  Get into.

• 1:09:27Speaker 06

  Let's hear you sing something though. Thunder. Can you just do thunder? Just a little bit of thunder?

• 1:09:31Drew Afualo?

  I can't. I lost my voice. Talking too goddamn much. I'm not at my best. I'm not at my best. You know, you gotta let me warm up.

• 1:09:37Speaker 06

  Well, you'll warm up and then next time do a full vocal. Or we'll wait.

• 1:09:41Drew Afualo?

  Then we'll do like, we'll do a little, yeah, a whole thing. Your, your manager literally is like, okay, that's enough.

• 1:09:47Speaker 06

  Thank you so much for having us. This is so fun.

• 1:09:49Drew Afualo?

  Thank you for coming. I'm so happy for y'all.

• 1:09:50Speaker 06

  We're huge fans of yours.

• 1:09:51Drew Afualo?

  Oh, same.

• 1:09:52Speaker 06

  So long, friends.

• 1:09:53Drew Afualo?

  Oh, wait, wait, really quick. Before you head out, where can everybody find you? For those that maybe don't know?

• 1:09:58Speaker 04

  Find, so the album's out on Apple, Spotify. Oh, like on social media?

• 1:10:05Drew Afualo?

  All of it, all of it.

• 1:10:06Speaker 04

  So the album is self-titled, Nat and Alex Wolf, and it's on Apple, it's on Spotify. It's everywhere and go listen to it there.

• 1:10:13Drew Afualo?

  Yes, and thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much, my amazing guests, Nat and Alex Wolf. Don't forget to go stream all of their music. They're incredible and amazing and obviously, I'm sure all of you know that. And thank you so much for tuning into this episode of the Comment Section Show. Don't forget, new episodes drop every Wednesday. You can stream the audio on all streaming platforms, but the video is for free and exclusively on our favorite platform, Spotify. Thank you so much to my amazing guests, Nat and Alex. Thank you so much to all of you and I'll see you next week. Bye.

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