I’M AFRAID OF FRUIT Ft. The Beaches | Episode 187

The Beaches band is here this week! They talk to Drew about forming their band in middle school, phobias, throwing a cockroach into Erewhon, getting trapped in a porta potty, getting catfished, the inspirations behind their latest album No Hard Feelings, and so much more! The Beaches IG: https://www.instagram.com/thebeachesband/?hl=en The Beaches Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebeachesband?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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• 1:04Speaker 02

  I'm afraid of fruit, like the food group. Like the food group? Have you heard of it? Really? Like, it's the peels. It's the peels. The peels mixed into the dirty Toronto snow. It's like a minefield for me. She doesn't go out.

• 1:18Drew Afualo?

  We're not alone.

• 1:19Speaker 02

  When it's Clem sees, she is inside.

• 1:21Drew Afualo?

  Did you see how many clementines were outside my house? I can't leave. It's a minefield out there.

• 1:33Speaker 00

  Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show. Sorry, me, your fave, who cares about me. Onto the guests. Today, we have the iconic, the legendary, the unbelievably talented, the Beaches.

• 1:46Speaker 04

  Thanks for having us.

• 1:47Speaker 00

  Welcome to the show, ladies. Should we go down the line so everyone can do their names, just in case someone doesn't know?

• 1:52Speaker 04

  I'm Kylie.

• 1:53Drew Afualo?

  I'm Jordan. I'm Leandra.

• 1:56Speaker 05

  I'm Eliza.

• 1:57Speaker 00

  And period. And I'm Drew.

• 2:00Speaker 02

  Are you joining the band?

• 2:01Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, sure. If you'll have me. Can't sing, can't play an instrument. What do you got for me?

• 2:06Speaker 05

  You bring the vibes.

• 2:07Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, vibes. I can do that.

• 2:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:09Drew Afualo?

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• 2:53Speaker 05

  Us too.

• 2:54Drew Afualo?

  Are you really?

• 2:55Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 2:55Drew Afualo?

  You're probably way further ahead than me in the process.

• 2:57Speaker 05

  It's hard.

• 2:58Drew Afualo?

  Because y'all are musicians.

• 2:59Speaker 05

  I don't know. It doesn't translate. It's hard.

• 3:02Speaker 02

  We had, we had a coach. We had like a DJ friend of ours teach us. And like, she made a PowerPoint presentation for us. It was very cute.

• 3:10Speaker 05

  Very cute. Shout out DJ Levi.

• 3:11Speaker 02

  DJ Levi. Professor DJ Levi.

• 3:14Drew Afualo?

  A PowerPoint? My kind of girl, honestly.

• 3:17Speaker 02

  And, well, to promote this new record, we wanted to like throw parties. And, and we each took a turn spinning and...

• 3:25Speaker 05

  I wouldn't call it spinning.

• 3:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 3:28Drew Afualo?

  Button pressing?

• 3:28Speaker 05

  Fading in, fading out.

• 3:30Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 3:31Drew Afualo?

  Fade in, fade out.

• 3:32Speaker 04

  Playing an iPod playlist, like that's what we do.

• 3:35Drew Afualo?

  Right. I've said that before. I'm like, I want to be the kind of DJ that's like on the aux. Like, what do I do when I'm just cueing bangers?

• 3:42Speaker 05

  She had, she had like Usher and Evanescence next to each other.

• 3:45Drew Afualo?

  Okay, see?

• 3:47Speaker 05

  It was crazy.

• 3:47Drew Afualo?

  Look at you.

• 3:48Speaker 04

  But you faded in at one point and it was, it actually sounded like a car crash.

• 3:52Speaker 02

  You also did a lot of like record scratching too.

• 3:55Speaker 05

  I am kind of really good.

• 3:57Drew Afualo?

  All right, I'll say it. I'm the best.

• 4:00Drew Afualo?

  Well, I'm excited to have y'all, honored to have y'all. Congratulations on the record.

• 4:05Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 4:05Drew Afualo?

  How are we feeling?

• 4:07Speaker 02

  Really good. I mean, I was really nervous to put this out because it sort of came after the record, the record that we had put out earlier was all about my breakup and it was like very personal and it also like went viral. So we were kind of feeling a lot of stress and pressure to follow up, play my ex. And I kind of got around it by like not writing about my experiences as much, but more like leaning on the chaotic lives of my bandmates.

• 4:36Drew Afualo?

  Oh, that's nice.

• 4:36Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 4:37Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 4:37Speaker 02

  They just had more cool stories and they were going through, they were going through like really bad breakups and some really traumatic shit, so.

• 4:48Drew Afualo?

  Straight at me. She's like, I traumatized the first time, so it's someone else's turn.

• 4:52Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 4:54Drew Afualo?

  Let's round robin. Well, before we get into that, into the new record, can y'all give me a little bit of some tea on how y'all came to be?

• 5:01Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 5:02Drew Afualo?

  I know you two are sisters, yes? That's right.

• 5:04Speaker 02

  You're sisters.

• 5:04Drew Afualo?

  You're just like me and my sister, same face, different hair.

• 5:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 5:07Drew Afualo?

  Same, same exact face, different hair. Absolutely.

• 5:09Speaker 02

  What's the age difference between you guys?

• 5:11Drew Afualo?

  Two years.

• 5:12Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 5:12Drew Afualo?

  She's two years older than me.

• 5:13Speaker 02

  Oh, damn. We're pretty close in age. We're like 14 months.

• 5:16Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, okay, Irish twins.

• 5:17Speaker 02

  Irish twins.

• 5:20Speaker 04

  And so we went to public school with Eliza and we were forming a band when we, we've been in a band since we were like 12 years old.

• 5:26Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 5:27Speaker 04

  So we were on like the Disney Channel equivalent in Canada.

• 5:30Drew Afualo?

  Did you feel represented by Freaky Friday? Okay, tea though.

• 5:35Drew Afualo?

  We have a song in Freaky or Friday. Okay. I know. Exciting. Two songs. Two songs, actually. Two, actually. Very full circle moment for us, but anyway, continue.

• 5:44Speaker 04

  And then we started playing together in our band, Dumb and Dolls, and Leandra actually was a super fan of our Disney band and that's how we met her.

• 5:52Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 5:53Speaker 04

  And we.

• 5:54Drew Afualo?

  I'm a little freak.

• 5:54Speaker 04

  Yep, absolutely.

• 5:56Drew Afualo?

  Snuck my way in, didn't I? She did, yeah, she did.

• 5:58Speaker 02

  No, she actually became friends with our old member.

• 6:01Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 6:01Drew Afualo?

  She did. We don't have to talk about that. Literally.

• 6:05Speaker 02

  Didn't you go to see Twilight with her?

• 6:07Speaker 06

  Let's not talk about her.

• 6:10Speaker 04

  But we uh, we became the Beaches and had Leandra join when we were in high school and we've been doing that ever since.

• 6:15Speaker 05

  That was like thirteen years ago.

• 6:17Drew Afualo?

  Do y'all remember your first like gig where you were like, oh my god, this feels like for real? Like as a quad?

• 6:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, I'd say actually the first show with you, probably the one at that in Toronto, there was this place called The Riverside that we played at and it was our first show with Leandra and it was like, it felt really good because it felt like very natural and like we could keep doing this for many years and, and we did.

• 6:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, only our dads were there pretty much because it was really late.

• 6:40Speaker 05

  And a couple drunk like locals, you know?

• 6:43Speaker 04

  Still felt good.

• 6:43Drew Afualo?

  That's all you need.

• 6:44Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 6:45Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 6:45Speaker 04

  Dads and.

• 6:46Speaker 02

  I remember we had just come back from a writing session in LA and we played Riot Fest, rest in peace, that's no longer there in Toronto. And to me, like, that was the first time where it wasn't like just middle aged people coming to see us, but like, you know, younger folks.

• 7:01Drew Afualo?

  Lesbians.

• 7:02Speaker 02

  Lesbians.

• 7:04Drew Afualo?

  That's when they found you.

• 7:05Speaker 02

  Well, kinda, yeah.

• 7:06Speaker 05

  I don't know if they were there.

• 7:06Speaker 02

  They were, they weren't quite there yet.

• 7:08Speaker 06

  I wasn't out, so I was like, stay away.

• 7:12Drew Afualo?

  I can't control what.

• 7:17Drew Afualo?

  That's so fucking cool.

• 7:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 7:18Drew Afualo?

  When, when did you guys have like, feel like you were like, okay, I think this is like real like happening for us? Because obviously you've been in the band for a long time.

• 7:26Speaker 06

  Yeah. Maybe when we got signed to Island out of high school, because then we were like, let's try doing this and not going to university.

• 7:33Speaker 04

  Yeah, definitely. And then we kind of, we actually were in LA a lot. We would, we lived at this place called the Oakwood Apartments, which is like now called Avalon or.

• 7:41Speaker 05

  Ava.

• 7:42Speaker 06

  We drove by us, right? It's in Burbank.

• 7:43Speaker 04

  It's, it's literally just child actors and porn stars and then us.

• 7:48Drew Afualo?

  And then it's just.

• 7:50Speaker 02

  It's a wild area.

• 7:51Speaker 06

  And the ghost of Rick James is there.

• 7:53Drew Afualo?

  Oh, that's right.

• 7:54Speaker 02

  Nice.

• 7:55Speaker 06

  He came to see me one night. It's terrifying.

• 7:57Drew Afualo?

  Were you scared?

• 7:58Speaker 06

  He shook my bed, just my bed and I woke up and I was like, are you looking, are you seeing this bed? And she's like, yeah, I see it shaking. And she went back to bed.

• 8:05Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, go ahead.

• 8:08Drew Afualo?

  Thank you.

• 8:08Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna ignore that. And then we started going on tour. We toured in the UK a lot. That's kind of where we got like a bit of our start.

• 8:16Drew Afualo?

  Oh, love.

• 8:18Speaker 04

  Um, and then things kind of took off like more recently with Blame Brett going viral.

• 8:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 8:24Speaker 04

  On TikTok. That's kind of where we got like the worldwide success.

• 8:30Drew Afualo?

  Whatever. And you guys did Coachella this year.

• 8:34Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 8:35Drew Afualo?

  Yes, that is where we met drunk in the artist section.

• 8:40Speaker 04

  Taffy introduced us.

• 8:41Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, with love. They are angel Taffy.

• 8:43Speaker 04

  I love Taffy.

• 8:44Drew Afualo?

  Oh, she knows everyone.

• 8:46Speaker 04

  She's very connected.

• 8:48Drew Afualo?

  How was your, uh, Coachella set? How exciting?

• 8:51Speaker 05

  It was very fun. It was very hot the first weekend.

• 8:53Drew Afualo?

  Oh, girl, I know.

• 8:56Speaker 05

  But no, it went super well. We were all so nervous because obviously Coachella is like a bucket list, always has been a bucket list item for us. Um, but it went super well. The second weekend, I felt like because the weather was better, it went a little bit better.

• 9:08Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 9:09Speaker 05

  But yeah, it was a dream for us and we partied the entire week in between.

• 9:14Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:14Speaker 02

  It was my birthday on the Lady Gaga night.

• 9:17Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my God, how exciting.

• 9:18Speaker 02

  It was very, very great. It was awesome.

• 9:21Drew Afualo?

  That feels very like fate.

• 9:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:24Speaker 06

  I missed your birthday. I had strep.

• 9:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:26Speaker 05

  You were on a bit of a tear.

• 9:28Speaker 06

  I was kissing too many people. I was on one.

• 9:30Speaker 05

  She was on one at Coachella.

• 9:32Drew Afualo?

  Well, that's what happens when you're kissing a bunch.

• 9:34Speaker 02

  That's right. At least you didn't get mono. That would have been worse.

• 9:38Speaker 04

  There's still time, Leander.

• 9:40Drew Afualo?

  Don't worry, the year's not over yet.

• 9:42Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:42Drew Afualo?

  Well, you guys were, uh, touring. You said you were touring a lot in you, in the UK. How was that?

• 9:46Speaker 04

  It was really fun. I mean, the four of us and, uh, our tour manager at the time, we did stay in like a one bedroom flat for.

• 9:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, back in the day.

• 9:56Speaker 04

  And Jordan did get mono and pneumonia.

• 9:58Speaker 02

  I got mono and pneumonia. How the hell?

• 10:00Speaker 06

  Cat sprayed Kylie's open suitcase. So everything smelled like cappy.

• 10:05Speaker 04

  It was, it was pretty wild, but it also was like so bonding. We were like 16 and it was the first time like just running around London.

• 10:11Drew Afualo?

  The fact that you're living to tell the tale.

• 10:13Speaker 04

  No, I know.

• 10:13Drew Afualo?

  As friends still.

• 10:16Speaker 02

  We, we had to go to our high, we went to an arts high school in Toronto and we were like, can we go? We're going on tour. And they're like, you can't just leave school for a month. But they let us.

• 10:26Drew Afualo?

  Okay, well, I already bought the plane ticket. They did threaten to expel us.

• 10:30Speaker 06

  Which is kinda weird, cuz it was a music school. You'd think they'd be like excited, but they were like,

• 10:34Drew Afualo?

  Prepared for that.

• 10:35Speaker 06

  D, fail, you know what I mean?

• 10:38Speaker 06

  I still hold it against them, but it's fine.

• 10:40Drew Afualo?

  Do you guys still like touring over there? Do you like touring in general? Yeah.

• 10:43Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 10:43Drew Afualo?

  It's fun.

• 10:44Speaker 04

  We were just there for a bunch of festivals.

• 10:45Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 10:46Speaker 04

  We never went to the UG.

• 10:47Speaker 02

  We're really big in, we're really big in Belgium for some reason.

• 10:50Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's very strange.

• 10:51Drew Afualo?

  They love the beaches in Belgium.

• 10:53Speaker 06

  They do.

• 10:53Speaker 02

  They do. We've had like a couple number ones in that country.

• 10:57Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 10:58Speaker 02

  It's very shocking.

• 10:59Speaker 06

  Laura's like, no, we haven't.

• 11:00Speaker 02

  No, we haven't.

• 11:01Speaker 06

  My man's like, no, no. They actually hate you guys.

• 11:06Speaker 02

  Feel free to fact check me.

• 11:09Speaker 04

  We were like number one on a countdown for like a weekend playlist, not like a number one.

• 11:14Drew Afualo?

  Hey, you know what? That's the kinda delusion I'm on. I'm like, I was at the top of the charts.

• 11:19Speaker 02

  I'll confidently.

• 11:20Drew Afualo?

  Who's gonna correct me?

• 11:22Speaker 02

  I'll confidently like spew misinformation all the time. I feel so bad about it.

• 11:27Speaker 06

  I believe her.

• 11:28Speaker 02

  But I'll say it so confidently.

• 11:30Speaker 06

  I fact check all the time. You guys hate it. I'll always call you out.

• 11:34Drew Afualo?

  That's not true.

• 11:35Speaker 06

  On stage, everything. She'll always hit you with a fact check.

• 11:38Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 11:38Drew Afualo?

  You know what? You need one like you, though. You need delusion in the group, too. Just a little bit. You need a little bit.

• 11:42Speaker 06

  The lead singer is right. Like, is it Nelly Furtado's from here? And the crowd was silent. I was like, she's literally not from here.

• 11:48Drew Afualo?

  In the mic, yeah. No, the fuck she's not. And don't ever say that about Nelly Furtado.

• 11:53Speaker 06

  No, literally.

• 11:55Drew Afualo?

  What are your guys' signs?

• 11:56Speaker 04

  I'm a Cancer.

• 11:57Drew Afualo?

  Aries. Okay.

• 11:58Speaker 04

  Virgo?

• 11:59Drew Afualo?

  Aries. I clocked the Virgo from a mile away.

• 12:02Speaker 06

  Really?

• 12:02Drew Afualo?

  The fact checking, I was like, so Virgo.

• 12:04Speaker 06

  Wait, what's your sign?

• 12:05Drew Afualo?

  I'm a Virgo.

• 12:06Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 12:07Drew Afualo?

  So I'm also a know-it-all. T, you're in.

• 12:09Speaker 04

  What's your birthday?

• 12:10Drew Afualo?

  September 18th.

• 12:11Speaker 04

  Wait, September 20th.

• 12:12Drew Afualo?

  Shut the fuck up.

• 12:13Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 12:14Drew Afualo?

  T, look at us. And Nick Jonas's birthday is September 16th.

• 12:16Speaker 06

  I know, because, well, yeah, obviously.

• 12:19Drew Afualo?

  Hey, you have the biggest birthday.

• 12:21Speaker 06

  I know.

• 12:23Speaker 04

  Lesbians for Nick Jonas.

• 12:25Speaker 06

  I believe Kevin is never a fan.

• 12:28Drew Afualo?

  Were you Nick Jonas Brothers fan?

• 12:29Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 12:30Drew Afualo?

  Okay, see, so was I.

• 12:31Speaker 06

  Yeah, but now I'm BFFs with Joe. I can, I'm gonna say BFFs. That's my guy.

• 12:35Drew Afualo?

  BFFs? It's okay, we can lie on here. I lie all the time.

• 12:38Speaker 06

  Who's gonna fact check me? Not me?

• 12:39Drew Afualo?

  I know, exactly. Who's gonna correct me? Joe Jonas? I say that about The Rock. I'm like, that's literally my cousin. That's literally my cousin. I tell you, we're best friends. I'm like, me and him, we go way back. We met twice.

• 12:51Speaker 02

  He did tweet us one time.

• 12:53Speaker 06

  One time?

• 12:54Speaker 04

  Oh my god, I forgot about that.

• 12:57Drew Afualo?

  Oh, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, okay.

• 12:59Speaker 06

  It's when he was in Baywatch, and I photoshopped all of our heads onto the poster.

• 13:05Speaker 06

  And then he was like, he's like, I love this. And then he checked out our music. He's like, I love Give It Up. I would love your music for our movie. He tweeted it with like a pair. I was like, you can't, you're doing too much.

• 13:17Drew Afualo?

  What 20-year-old lesbian is running this account?

• 13:20Speaker 02

  I was photoshopping.

• 13:22Speaker 04

  I forgot about that.

• 13:24Speaker 02

  You used to do a lot of Photoshop work for us.

• 13:26Drew Afualo?

  I love that.

• 13:27Speaker 06

  I got my cousin to do it.

• 13:28Speaker 02

  You were working overtime on some stuff.

• 13:30Drew Afualo?

  That's the best. I love a crude Photoshop. It's not supposed to look good. It's supposed to look bad.

• 13:35Speaker 04

  I think I was probably the rock.

• 13:36Speaker 02

  You were Dwayne.

• 13:39Speaker 04

  Me with a big bald head.

• 13:41Speaker 06

  With the biggest head on the biggest bald.

• 13:43Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, there you go. I love that you, uh, loved the Jonas Brothers. So did I. I was balls deep in that shit when I was young.

• 13:49Speaker 04

  Kylie was in Camp Rock too.

• 13:51Speaker 02

  No way.

• 13:52Speaker 04

  I was. That's how I got my first guitar.

• 13:54Speaker 02

  She was a junior rocker.

• 13:55Drew Afualo?

  You were a junior rocker?

• 13:57Speaker 04

  I was best friends with Frankie Jonas in the movie. But then really, they skewered me. They gave me like a funky pink hat in different forms every scene I was in.

• 14:06Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 14:07Speaker 04

  So like, this, these images just haunt me. Like, follow me around. I'm always right behind, um, Kevin Jonas. Actually, the director did have to pull me aside at one point. At one point, it's like, can you try to look a little happier? Yeah, at summer camp.

• 14:23Drew Afualo?

  And you're in Kevin's shot, by the way.

• 14:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, and then with that, my acting career came to an end.

• 14:29Speaker 02

  Imagine, though, like, you're a pre-teen and you get to be in a movie with the guys you have, like, the biggest crush on, and the director gives you the ugliest hat.

• 14:38Drew Afualo?

  You know what? This is where my delusion comes in, because I'd be like, well, obviously I'm gonna stand out. They'll be able to see me from a mile away with this hat.

• 14:45Speaker 04

  I did.

• 14:47Speaker 06

  We recently watched it and played a drinking game, because every time we see Kylie, we were, like, wasted within 10 minutes.

• 14:51Speaker 02

  We did it.

• 14:52Speaker 06

  Take us out every time.

• 14:53Speaker 04

  I didn't make it out.

• 14:54Speaker 02

  So we, we dressed, we, we have a fun story about this.

• 14:57Drew Afualo?

  Please do.

• 14:58Speaker 02

  We were doing a writing session and, uh, we were in, uh, we were invited to a Halloween party. I think, like, Shannon invited us.

• 15:06Speaker 06

  Yep, Shannon, Shannon Bed.

• 15:08Speaker 02

  Shannon Bed and, uh, and, and we were like, let's dress up as the Camp Rockers, like,

• 15:13Drew Afualo?

  That's so funny.

• 15:14Speaker 02

  Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers. And I think, Eliza, you were like, I'm out.

• 15:18Speaker 05

  I said, I'm out. I said, I'm out. I'm gonna take one for the team.

• 15:21Speaker 06

  Because the night went awry.

• 15:23Drew Afualo?

  They're like, perfect, because we want to be the Jonas Brothers.

• 15:26Speaker 05

  Frankie's not making it out to us, so.

• 15:29Speaker 06

  Literally, I was Kevin and everyone kept asking me if I was taking in Sarah.

• 15:37Drew Afualo?

  They're like, no, the Veronica's? Okay, never mind.

• 15:40Speaker 05

  But what, by the end of the night, you guys got so hammered that Kevin was, like, on the side of, like, you were on the side of the road?

• 15:45Speaker 06

  I passed out in the middle of the road, and Jordan had to find a man to come carry me into a house.

• 15:49Drew Afualo?

  Had to carry Kevin Jonas into the house.

• 15:51Speaker 06

  Like, without the wig. But Kylie got so wasted that she didn't even make it out. And she was Nick, so it was Kevin and Joe.

• 15:57Drew Afualo?

  Who do in a hot Ellen.

• 16:00Speaker 05

  She didn't go.

• 16:02Speaker 06

  Everyone was like, who, are you, well, have you seen Camp Rock? We were just too much, Kevin and Joe.

• 16:07Drew Afualo?

  Our Nick got drunk, okay? Nick's not here.

• 16:09Speaker 02

  Our Nick got drunk in order to talk about the wrong house.

• 16:13Speaker 06

  She had a microphone, I threw up all over it.

• 16:18Drew Afualo?

  And that's what the Jonas Brothers would do.

• 16:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 16:21Drew Afualo?

  Have you all met the Jonas Brothers?

• 16:22Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 16:22Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 16:23Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 16:23Drew Afualo?

  How was it?

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• 17:33Speaker 06

  It was

• 17:35Speaker 02

  They, they, we met them a couple of times. I think like the first time we properly met was they were doing a show in Vancouver and they had like a middle section of the set and they would bring special guests to perform. They're still doing that. I think they are. And we played our songs. And they liked, they liked Blaine Brett, so we got to play it for them, which was sick. Yeah. It was really, really cool.

• 17:57Drew Afualo?

  I have met them too. I wrote fanfic about them when I was like a child.

• 18:01Speaker 02

  Is it, is it online?

• 18:03Drew Afualo?

  No, I literally hand wrote it like a colonial woman. But yeah, I wrote, I wrote, I was going to town on that thing.

• 18:09Speaker 02

  That's amazing. I need to see it. Have you told them?

• 18:13Drew Afualo?

  No, I haven't. But I, it's funny because when they did their Broadway stint in New York and did like Five Nights, Five Albums, whatever. Yeah. I was like, I have to go to night one and two, obviously. So like I worked with SeatGeek to go and watch them.

• 18:26Speaker 02

  Cool.

• 18:27Drew Afualo?

  And my deliverable for them, like my TikTok for them, I put in a video that my sister and I made with my best friend at the time. And it was like a submission video to win concert tickets and mean greet for the Jonas Brothers. And like my sister and I were like, okay, we have a whole plan like this. And we filmed it like on a shitty little laptop. Like it's grainy and awful. And we filmed this whole thing for like an hour. And then I showed it to my mom and my mom was like, this is not going to help you win.

• 18:55Drew Afualo?

  And then she like rewrote the whole thing. We did like a skit and then put music in there and all that. Worked painstakingly on that thing.

• 19:02Speaker 06

  Blood, sweat and tears.

• 19:02Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, submitted it. Um, and then we found out that my sister doesn't know anything. So like it's a tri-state area only. And we live in California. So like we did all of that work for fucking nothing. Uh, we submitted it and I was like, you idiot.

• 19:18Speaker 06

  I wonder if they still saw it though.

• 19:20Drew Afualo?

  Well, the, the reason why is because when I did my SeatGeek video for them, I put that video in my SeatGeek video, like just basically showing what I did. And then what I'm doing now, watching them. And then their team saw that video and then asked me, do you want to come watch them in LA? Like and make content with them. And I was like, yeah. Yes, actually I would love to do that.

• 19:39Speaker 04

  So actually the video did help.

• 19:41Drew Afualo?

  It did in a, and yeah, in the long run, they was like, I knew the whole time.

• 19:47Speaker 04

  There you go.

• 19:48Drew Afualo?

  They're nice. They're teeny tiny, but they're nice.

• 19:50Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 19:51Drew Afualo?

  They're itty bitty, itty bitty small.

• 19:52Speaker 06

  I was with Joe last week, so. She was yapping with Joe.

• 19:57Drew Afualo?

  Y'all were yapping. He's funny. He's nice.

• 19:59Speaker 06

  He's funny.

• 19:59Drew Afualo?

  Kevin was very, he was like the most talkative. Nick didn't really talk at all when I met them, but like Kevin was like, it's very older brother. Like he's, you know, he greets everyone. He like directs all of it.

• 20:09Speaker 02

  Well, I was really excited. I'm afraid of fruit, like the food group.

• 20:15Speaker 06

  Like the food group.

• 20:16Speaker 02

  Really fruit.

• 20:17Drew Afualo?

  No fruit, yeah.

• 20:19Speaker 04

  Really crazy jump.

• 20:20Speaker 02

  No, well, I just found out Kevin. I found out Kevin Jonas has the same phobia.

• 20:25Drew Afualo?

  Of fruit?

• 20:25Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 20:26Drew Afualo?

  Is it just like the sight of it or?

• 20:28Speaker 02

  Kind of. Like the worst is like Clementine season in Toronto. I call it Clementine season.

• 20:33Speaker 06

  Have you heard of it Clementine season in Toronto specifically?

• 20:37Speaker 04

  It's also just known as the winter.

• 20:40Drew Afualo?

  Call it winter too.

• 20:43Drew Afualo?

  Is it just like seeing too many in one space?

• 20:46Speaker 02

  I just like, like.

• 20:47Speaker 04

  It's the peel.

• 20:48Speaker 02

  It's the peels, the peels mixed into the dirty Toronto snow. It's like a minefield for me.

• 20:53Speaker 06

  She doesn't go out.

• 20:54Speaker 02

  We're not alone.

• 20:55Speaker 06

  When it's Clem sees, she is inside.

• 20:57Drew Afualo?

  Did you see how many Clementines were outside my house? I can't leave. It's a minefield out there.

• 21:02Speaker 06

  I don't even know, you ever knew one time you pissed all of us off? So we took a peel and we rubbed it on your bass strings. Probably like a decade ago.

• 21:11Drew Afualo?

  This'll get her. She hates the peels. No, for real.

• 21:16Speaker 04

  She's not gonna be able to stop thinking about that now. That's gonna get her.

• 21:20Drew Afualo?

  Her getting a chill down her spine.

• 21:21Speaker 04

  I forgot about that.

• 21:22Speaker 02

  I literally can't talk to you ever again.

• 21:26Speaker 02

  Can you leave?

• 21:27Drew Afualo?

  A general feeling of sight of freak.

• 21:29Speaker 06

  We were sharing your bass and you reached in your hands.

• 21:34Drew Afualo?

  Oh. So there's something worse on there than clementines.

• 21:39Speaker 06

  And then touch your bass. He's like, can you not? I have to use that.

• 21:43Drew Afualo?

  This is such like sister fight.

• 21:45Speaker 02

  How could you share this right?

• 21:47Drew Afualo?

  You're, you it you, okay, when you itch your crotch and touch your bass strings, that's okay. But when I rub a clementine on there all of a sudden.

• 21:57Speaker 02

  That's insane.

• 21:59Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 22:00Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 22:00Speaker 04

  Oh my god.

• 22:01Drew Afualo?

  And that was to ward them from touching your bass?

• 22:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, um, maybe. I don't know. I don't know.

• 22:08Drew Afualo?

  You're like, I'm disgusted.

• 22:09Speaker 02

  I'm disgusted.

• 22:11Speaker 06

  Yeah, I was like, oh, if you're gonna touch the bass with the thing I hate the most, vagina. I wasn't gay yet. I hate those.

• 22:18Speaker 04

  You were personally, you felt personally attacked by that.

• 22:20Speaker 06

  Lesbian, you heard of it? I'm gonna touch it with your least favorite thing, clementine.

• 22:27Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, let's go crotch for clementine. How's that? I, I see your crotch. I match you a clementine.

• 22:34Drew Afualo?

  That's a very strange phobia.

• 22:36Speaker 06

  I've never heard of that. It's because her grandfather.

• 22:40Speaker 02

  My grandfather grew up during the depression and he didn't ever want to waste food.

• 22:45Speaker 04

  I love it. It's always my grandfather.

• 22:47Speaker 02

  Our grandfather, sorry.

• 22:48Speaker 04

  So Carly doesn't exist.

• 22:49Speaker 02

  Sorry. Our grandfather grew up during the depression, didn't want to waste food, so he would put like spoiled fruit in our porridge as children. To like, so that it got eaten. And I just remember eating a rotten grape and being like, I'm good.

• 23:05Drew Afualo?

  We grew up in the same house, so.

• 23:08Speaker 06

  Ate the same porridge.

• 23:09Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 23:09Speaker 04

  But yet I'm unfazed by it.

• 23:11Speaker 02

  I don't know. I, I thought I would get over it because I've gotten over like all, I was a picky eater as a kid and I got through, like, I got over everything else. But for some reason.

• 23:20Drew Afualo?

  Something about fruit.

• 23:22Speaker 02

  Something about fruit.

• 23:22Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I, I feel that. I've, I have like what I think is called megalophobia.

• 23:26Speaker 02

  What's that?

• 23:27Speaker 04

  Oh, yes.

• 23:27Drew Afualo?

  It's just a fear of like really large things, but like things that are not meant to be that big, I guess, naturally. But I, I say that, but whales. Yeah, essentially, like. It's really like, like whales.

• 23:40Speaker 05

  I was gonna say, like, it's usually ocean things.

• 23:41Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, for the most part, but even like those blue avatars, like, yeah, you need to get away from me. Like, I, I love those movies, but like, when I see them in, in like Walt Disney World or whatever the fuck, and they're in those little tubes. Makes my, my butt hurt, you know?

• 23:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like, I remember when they had first put Star Wars in Disneyland. I was like, we were walking around once, this was like my early twenties, and we were like just kind of casually walking around and Chewbacca was there. I had a full-blown panic attack.

• 24:14Speaker 02

  He's a big guy.

• 24:14Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and my mom was like, let's go take a pic, and I was like, you don't understand, like, I'm, I, if that thing looks at me, I'm gonna have to do something. And then I'm gonna get banned from Disneyland for the rest of my life. Something about that gives me fear.

• 24:26Speaker 02

  Chewbacca won't make it past today.

• 24:28Drew Afualo?

  Trust me when I say he's not gonna make it.

• 24:30Speaker 05

  He's not making it home.

• 24:33Drew Afualo?

  So I get it. Do any of you, the rest of you have any weird phobias?

• 24:36Speaker 04

  Um, I really don't like cotton balls, like, that's a big one for me.

• 24:39Speaker 05

  Like the texture?

• 24:40Speaker 04

  The way that they feel like if there's like an Advil bottle or a cotton ball inside, um, like, I can't get it out. So Halloween's also kind of a nightmare for me, cause all like the, it's not even like spider webs, it's just like the cotton, like the.

• 24:55Speaker 04

  It's hard for me, that's why, that's why Nick got too drunk and didn't make it to the Halloween party, really, that's what happened.

• 25:00Drew Afualo?

  There was just too many cotton spider webs everywhere.

• 25:02Speaker 06

  That's my main thing. You guys don't, you guys just really don't like bugs.

• 25:06Speaker 05

  Just, yeah, not, not anything like weird, you know what I mean?

• 25:11Drew Afualo?

  Not like those two, but like ours are more.

• 25:14Speaker 05

  But Halloween just like started befriending bugs, like she used to be terrified, now she's like.

• 25:18Speaker 06

  I'm terrified, but I don't wanna kill them.

• 25:19Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 25:19Drew Afualo?

  Oh, that's nice.

• 25:20Speaker 04

  That's kinda like therapy, dad.

• 25:22Speaker 05

  It's actually sweet.

• 25:23Speaker 06

  Yeah, but like, I picked up a cockroach the other night.

• 25:26Speaker 05

  Oh, you kissed it?

• 25:27Speaker 06

  But I was blackout, I was blackout.

• 25:29Drew Afualo?

  Okay, well, that makes more sense. I said, you lost me there.

• 25:32Speaker 02

  Didn't you throw it into the?

• 25:33Speaker 06

  Air one.

• 25:34Speaker 02

  Air one?

• 25:35Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. They could use a few roaches. They need it. Drive the price down a little bit. You gotta infest it so that it's cheaper.

• 25:43Speaker 04

  We went for the first time and it's just like, it's such a trip being like from Canada. We don't really have anything like that.

• 25:49Drew Afualo?

  Oh yeah, you guys don't spend thirty dollars on one press juice?

• 25:53Speaker 04

  Actually, it's forty-five Canadian.

• 25:57Speaker 05

  The conversion is crazy.

• 25:59Drew Afualo?

  That's so true.

• 26:00Speaker 05

  But it was a trip going in there for the first time. Loved it. Could've spent hours in there, actually.

• 26:05Drew Afualo?

  I honestly, when I go in the Arowan, I see at least two famous people and that's not a joke. Like, I see them all.

• 26:10Speaker 05

  Who could've seen an Arowan before?

• 26:11Drew Afualo?

  I saw, we saw Hannah Einbinder.

• 26:14Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 26:15Drew Afualo?

  In there once.

• 26:15Speaker 04

  Ooh.

• 26:16Drew Afualo?

  I forget. Yeah, we saw her walk around. She was looking at soups.

• 26:19Speaker 05

  Damn.

• 26:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 26:21Speaker 04

  I saw Max Greenfield buying a rotisserie chicken there.

• 26:23Drew Afualo?

  Oh, nice.

• 26:24Speaker 05

  He gives rotisserie, he gives a rotisserie chicken guy.

• 26:27Speaker 04

  It was pretty cool.

• 26:28Drew Afualo?

  Especially from Arowan, I bet.

• 26:30Speaker 05

  It's like sixty dollars.

• 26:32Drew Afualo?

  For real. So you guys are from Canada. I actually went to Canada for the first time this year, but I went to Vancouver.

• 26:38Speaker 04

  Oh damn.

• 26:38Speaker 05

  That's a good place to go.

• 26:39Drew Afualo?

  I did a show there. I was like, it was so nice.

• 26:42Speaker 04

  What'd you think? Yeah.

• 26:43Drew Afualo?

  I loved it. I think, I, I, I will say, say this with love, Canada, um, all of you are terrible fucking drivers. I don't know what's going on up there.

• 26:52Speaker 05

  No, not true.

• 26:54Drew Afualo?

  Stoplights and red lights and all of that light suggestion. Like, the way they drive feels like I'm in Mario Kart. Like, it's very like, you know what I'm saying? Like, every Uber I took, I was like, I'd rather walk. Like, this is terrible. But also, you're the fastest walkers in the history of time.

• 27:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 27:11Speaker 04

  I, that is true.

• 27:12Speaker 05

  We do like to walk. The Toronto walk is like, you can spot it from a mile away. Like, you're the fastest person.

• 27:17Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and like, with purpose and you look real casual, but you are running. Like, you're two steps from a sprint.

• 27:22Speaker 05

  Absolutely. Yep.

• 27:24Drew Afualo?

  And like, my agent Alex, who I introduced to you guys at Coachella, she's Canadian, so she's from, she's from Vancouver. But she is the fastest walker in the history of time and we've joked about it for years. Like even when we went to Paris together, at one point I was like, you know what? If God wants me to find you, I will find you. I was like, I can't keep up bitch. I am tired and it's hot. Like she was just, oh my God. I would turn around and I'd see her back forty yards away. I'm like, how did you get over there? Like she's so small. She walks so fucking fast.

• 27:54Speaker 06

  Yeah, I do want to say that I think the guy who wins gold in like speed walking or whatever in the Olympics every year is a Canadian.

• 28:01Drew Afualo?

  Like somebody should check that out. I think that's real.

• 28:05Drew Afualo?

  Probably from Toronto too. Like I think he's a Torontonian. And he's like wearing suits in the race with a bootcase.

• 28:12Drew Afualo?

  I believe it, honestly. But it's, it smells so beautiful up there. The streets are so clean. Everything was so wonderful.

• 28:18Speaker 02

  Did you hear a lot of stories and like?

• 28:20Drew Afualo?

  Like of Canadian invention?

• 28:22Speaker 02

  Sorry, we say sorry.

• 28:25Drew Afualo?

  We say sorry a lot. I'm not even kidding. I've Hold all the highest records. Yes.

• 28:32Drew Afualo?

  I'm so glad you looked that up. I'm gonna tell my friend Alex that. She always gets like, I don't walk that fast. I'm like, bitch, yes, you do. You leave me in the dust. She's like five three. Yeah, she's like five three. I'm like, I have way longer legs than you and I can't keep up.

• 28:46Speaker 06

  She should compete.

• 28:49Drew Afualo?

  Get her in the races. And your guys is weed up there on lock bitch.

• 28:55Drew Afualo?

  When we landed, I said, I need someone take me to a dispensary immediately. I'm trying to see what they're on.

• 29:00Speaker 06

  And they're like every, they're like a Starbucks.

• 29:01Drew Afualo?

  They're every two steps. It's like every seven, there's a seven eleven, a weed store.

• 29:05Speaker 06

  I know.

• 29:05Speaker 02

  I think like mushrooms are legal in Vancouver now too.

• 29:08Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yeah. Oh, that's right. Cause they told me that when I was up there and I remember I went, I went into one and they had like this tube system that went on the top. And they would like, you just order on an iPad and it would like shoot like the fucking Jetsons. I said, damn, this is how y'all living up here?

• 29:25Drew Afualo?

  If the weather was better, I'd entertain it. Yeah.

• 29:28Speaker 02

  It is crazy.

• 29:28Drew Afualo?

  If the weather was nicer.

• 29:29Speaker 02

  How many, like, per block, how many dispensaries are there in LA? Because in Toronto and in Vancouver, there's like, three a block.

• 29:37Speaker 05

  It's insane, yeah.

• 29:37Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I would say far less than that. I would say at least one, now that it's been legalized for a while now. But like, still, like, there, I'm like, stone's throw, I'd find one. Yeah. Which is fucking awesome.

• 29:47Speaker 05

  But y'all have some pretty good weed here, too, in California. It's pretty good.

• 29:50Drew Afualo?

  That's, that's very true.

• 29:51Speaker 05

  I'm a fan.

• 29:52Drew Afualo?

  I had like, a little, it's funny because I got a pen from a dispensary up there in Vancouver. I still have it, but it looks like a little, like, bluey phone. Like, they look like little kid things. Like, I don't know why they look so cartoony. No. And when I took two hits, I said, holy fuck. Like, I'm gonna hear straight gas in that thing. Yeah. Which I love. Huge fucking fan.

• 30:12Speaker 05

  Hell, yeah.

• 30:12Drew Afualo?

  So I want to loop back to your guys' very successful, awesome career. Tell me more, well, tell me more about the new record first.

• 30:19Speaker 04

  Um, we're super proud of this record. It's our gayest record, yeah.

• 30:23Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 30:23Speaker 04

  And I look at you.

• 30:24Speaker 05

  And I look at Ally.

• 30:26Drew Afualo?

  Okay. Or in-house gay. Yeah.

• 30:31Speaker 04

  And, yeah, we've been working on it for the past two years. It's kind of like inspired by Sex and the City.

• 30:36Speaker 02

  It was.

• 30:37Drew Afualo?

  E.T., okay.

• 30:37Speaker 02

  Yes. I really like how in that show, you get the perspectives of four different women. And there's always like a common theme that sort of threads all of their relationship stories together. Like, it's BDSM, or cheating, or something else.

• 30:52Speaker 05

  No, my favorite things, yeah.

• 30:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:54Drew Afualo?

  That's pretty much it, yeah.

• 30:56Speaker 02

  Yeah. Other stuff, too, or clothes, whatever. And, and I like-

• 31:01Drew Afualo?

  Cheating or clothes.

• 31:01Speaker 02

  Cheating or clothes.

• 31:04Speaker 02

  But I really like how, um, the, the show sort of uses like the perspectives of four different women to talk about like a specific theme. And I wanted to do that with, with us and sort of do it with a record, you know?

• 31:17Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 31:17Speaker 02

  Sort of have this record be like our- Brunch table where where we do our debriefs about all the crazy shit we do.

• 31:25Drew Afualo?

  I love that. How do you guys like to put records together? Do you guys like set aside time? Do you like wait for inspiration to strike? How do what's your guys' process look like?

• 31:34Speaker 02

  It's tough like after because um Blade My Ex was such a surprise hit, we kind of had to do a lot of catch up. So we we we got to tour all over the place. We went to Australia, Europe, really, really sick. But um it meant that our the time that we had to sort of follow it up was like a lot smaller. And at the end of that record cycle, I was like, all I've been doing is eating salads in different cities. Like, I have nothing to write about. But you guys had so many.

• 32:02Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 32:03Speaker 02

  You you guys were kind of going through your own.

• 32:05Speaker 05

  I was eating my own salads.

• 32:08Drew Afualo?

  My own version of that.

• 32:09Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 32:12Speaker 02

  And um like one day, one day, I think Leanne was going through a breakup and she's like, I haven't been able to masturbate since me and Blake broke up. And I was like, that is so true. Like after my bad breakup, like I couldn't use my vibrator for like three months. It was really, I was really devastated by it.

• 32:32Drew Afualo?

  Every time you get it, you're like, God, I just can't.

• 32:34Speaker 02

  Yeah. Because you can't because then because like you don't want to think about your ex in a sexual way. And like and sometimes when you're so heartbroken, it's like the only thing you can do. And I'm like, that's so relatable and so funny.

• 32:46Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 32:47Speaker 05

  And then we wrote Touch Myself.

• 32:48Speaker 02

  Then we wrote Touch Myself based on that.

• 32:50Speaker 05

  I had a dream. I woke up. I had had a spicy dream about Jeremy Allen White. And I said, Jordan, I'm ready.

• 32:58Speaker 05

  Bring her to me.

• 33:02Drew Afualo?

  Are you a big fan of the bear?

• 33:06Drew Afualo?

  I love that show.

• 33:07Speaker 04

  It's so good.

• 33:08Drew Afualo?

  Right, it's so good. It was. It was so good. I just recently watched it. What are you guys watching? I love asking people that.

• 33:15Speaker 02

  Um.

• 33:16Drew Afualo?

  Anything you're.

• 33:16Speaker 05

  I just started The Summer I Turned Pretty.

• 33:18Drew Afualo?

  You did?

• 33:19Speaker 05

  I did start it.

• 33:19Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 33:20Speaker 05

  I have to say.

• 33:21Drew Afualo?

  And here's my good luck to you.

• 33:23Speaker 05

  Listen, I'm struggling through it, girl. I'm I'm trying my best, but it is hard. It's a hard watch.

• 33:29Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it is. It's the cringy. It's so cringy and so corny and like.

• 33:33Speaker 05

  It's so cringy.

• 33:33Drew Afualo?

  And when I watch it, I'm like.

• 33:35Speaker 05

  But I'm like, but I'm like, how? Yeah. I don't understand how it's so.

• 33:38Drew Afualo?

  You're grinning, you're like, oh, okay, perfect, next episode.

• 33:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly. I'm like, you know what? I can live with it. It's fine. It's just gonna happen.

• 33:45Drew Afualo?

  Perfect.

• 33:45Speaker 05

  But everyone seems to be talking about it, so I had to give it a try.

• 33:47Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you gotta jump on it.

• 33:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 33:49Speaker 02

  I love Hunting Wives.

• 33:50Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yeah.

• 33:51Speaker 02

  So good. Um, Mila Kunis, Canadian, too.

• 33:55Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yeah, that's right.

• 33:56Speaker 02

  And I also.

• 33:57Speaker 04

  Also at that John party.

• 33:58Speaker 02

  Oh, was she?

• 33:59Drew Afualo?

  Oh, she was. And that's what we gotta talk about next.

• 34:00Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 34:02Speaker 06

  Hacks. Me and Kylie always crush hacks.

• 34:03Speaker 05

  I love hacks.

• 34:04Speaker 06

  I haven't finished it yet.

• 34:05Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 34:06Speaker 04

  I really like that show Adults or Adults?

• 34:09Speaker 05

  Yeah, Adults.

• 34:09Speaker 04

  I said it the Canadian way. What's the American way?

• 34:12Speaker 06

  Adults?

• 34:12Speaker 05

  Adults?

• 34:13Drew Afualo?

  Adults.

• 34:14Speaker 02

  Adults.

• 34:15Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 34:17Drew Afualo?

  You're asking each other.

• 34:19Speaker 05

  Asking another Canadian, yeah.

• 34:22Speaker 04

  But I've been really liking that. It's, and I loved overcompensating.

• 34:25Drew Afualo?

  T. Love Benny.

• 34:27Speaker 04

  I love.

• 34:28Drew Afualo?

  Love Benny and Mary Beth. Huge fans of them.

• 34:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 34:31Drew Afualo?

  Uh, and Owen Teal, love him too.

• 34:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 34:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 34:33Drew Afualo?

  He's amazing and so funny and so fucking tall. I don't know if you've ever met him.

• 34:37Speaker 05

  He's like six three, six four.

• 34:38Speaker 04

  I think I saw him at Coachella, but I don't.

• 34:41Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yeah.

• 34:41Speaker 04

  I didn't, I did not say anything.

• 34:44Drew Afualo?

  Next time, if I'm with, if you're with me and we see him, I'll introduce you.

• 34:47Speaker 04

  Thank you so much.

• 34:48Speaker 02

  I gotta hear what celebrities are tall, cuz I feel like when, when we're not.

• 34:52Speaker 05

  Let a girl know.

• 34:52Speaker 02

  Cuz we, I always feel like I'm the giant in the room.

• 34:55Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yeah, girl, you're telling me.

• 34:57Speaker 02

  I know.

• 34:57Drew Afualo?

  Every room I'm in, I feel like that scene in Alice in Wonderland when she drinks that shit and then she gets enormous and her arms pop out the house, like, that's me in every fucking room.

• 35:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:06Speaker 04

  Well, musicians are like all really tiny.

• 35:09Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, they are.

• 35:10Speaker 06

  Actors, though, I think.

• 35:10Speaker 04

  They are.

• 35:11Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, actors are too.

• 35:12Speaker 02

  They have big heads, though. Big heads.

• 35:15Drew Afualo?

  And they have, they're big on perspective, like, for actors, like, which is why I feel like I can smell height like a drug dog, especially on men. So like, if I see a picture of a man, I can guess almost to the inch how tall he is.

• 35:26Speaker 02

  I do, too.

• 35:27Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's like a special skill of mine.

• 35:29Speaker 05

  That's a special talent, and that's your talent.

• 35:31Speaker 02

  It's an important talent.

• 35:32Drew Afualo?

  I was like, I'm trying to think of like, The Rock is tall, obviously.

• 35:36Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:36Drew Afualo?

  To me, though, like, standing next to him, he looks normal size when he's next to me.

• 35:40Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 35:41Drew Afualo?

  And it's because I think he's like six four and I'm six feet. So it's like, he's obviously significantly taller than me, but it's not as like crazy as when he's standing next to like a Kevin Hart, like, who's this big?

• 35:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:51Drew Afualo?

  Um, Chris Evans was shockingly tall. I, I thought he would be like maybe six feet, he's like six two, six three.

• 35:58Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 35:58Drew Afualo?

  Shocked.

• 35:59Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 36:00Drew Afualo?

  I was shocked. I'll admit, I love you, though, Chris. I know you're a huge fan of the show.

• 36:05Speaker 05

  Chris, if you're watching.

• 36:05Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, Chris, if you ever see this. I would say most, most people are like itty bitty, bitty. It's been very rare that I meet someone, I'm like, damn, you're fucking tall.

• 36:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 36:14Drew Afualo?

  And unless it's, of course, like, have you ever met Alonamar?

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• 37:24Drew Afualo?

  No. Her and her sisters, her sisters are tall as fuck. They're both, they both have like two, three inches on me. Oh, my God. Yeah, both of them. Yeah, all three of them, like. I thought rugby players were smaller, compact. Well, Alon is actually the shortest. Like, her other two sisters are way taller than her. Oh, damn. Which is crazy. I'm a big fan of hers. Yeah.

• 37:41Speaker 05

  Oh, I know who you're talking about. Love her.

• 37:43Drew Afualo?

  Love, she's the best.

• 37:44Speaker 05

  She seems amazing.

• 37:45Drew Afualo?

  I'm like, the list of tall people in general I've met in this industry is a lot shorter than the short people.

• 37:51Drew Afualo?

  I think the smallest person I've met in this industry was Maren Morris, I think.

• 37:55Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 37:55Drew Afualo?

  Like, she sat in this chair, and I, I say like, her feet were straight like this. Like, like an American Girl doll. Like, she was sitting, and she was like. Feet not touching the ground. You gotta scoot forward. You're making me look enormous. Looks like I'm talking to Annabelle. Better sit forward, girl.

• 38:13Drew Afualo?

  I love her. I love her. She said she would sing at my wedding and I'm holding her to that.

• 38:21Drew Afualo?

  But the Elton John party, let's talk about it. We both, all of us, all five of us. Oh no.

• 38:26Speaker 04

  Me and Lys were there.

• 38:28Speaker 06

  I got the invite. She got the plus one. They wanted cool queer people. Let me ring my straight best friend. Me and Jordan were like, alright, see ya, have fun.

• 38:36Drew Afualo?

  Okay, fine. Okay, we went to the Elton John party after the Oscars. How was y'all's experience?

• 38:42Speaker 06

  Yeah, did you see me and Chrishell on the Dancing on the Table? The people were not upset.

• 38:47Drew Afualo?

  Chrishell from Selling Sunset?

• 38:48Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 38:49Drew Afualo?

  Okay, yeah.

• 38:49Speaker 06

  Yeah. I don't know who like owned those tables. I feel like you had to pay extra to get a table. We were not stoked that we just climbed up.

• 38:56Speaker 04

  They got up on the table and started dancing to Pink Pony Club. And me, sorry, me and Chris Appleton had to get them down off the table. And I was like, what is happening right now? Like, this is not our lives. Like, I just, I can't understand it. But we just like, we got super drunk, obviously.

• 39:16Drew Afualo?

  So did we.

• 39:16Speaker 04

  The shots were just like flowing and like, they had like people like bringing around like little things of like wine and stuff and we didn't really know anybody there.

• 39:24Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 39:25Speaker 04

  So we just decided to like basically drink.

• 39:27Drew Afualo?

  What's crazy is they separated all the gays. Like, they sat them at all different tables. Like, Muna, they, they told me they were sitting next to MGK.

• 39:35Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 39:35Drew Afualo?

  And Lucy Dacus. So I was like, hey, why? Like, next to Lucy makes sense. Next to MGK, why's that?

• 39:41Speaker 04

  I did see MGK there and I was like, this is really interesting.

• 39:44Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, walking around with cord headphones in.

• 39:47Speaker 04

  I was kind of obsessed. I was like, this is the craziest thing that has happened. And there was also like that outdoor area.

• 39:53Drew Afualo?

  Yes, yeah, with the tent and everything.

• 39:55Speaker 04

  With the tent. We got lost a couple of times, like just couldn't like figure out where to go.

• 40:00Speaker 06

  Yeah, and like I was saying, people thought I worked there.

• 40:05Speaker 06

  They thought I installed the mirror in the bathroom, which is crazy.

• 40:08Drew Afualo?

  They thought I was clocked in. Thought your work?

• 40:10Speaker 06

  Never seen a lesbian in a suit.

• 40:12Drew Afualo?

  Clearly you have to work here.

• 40:14Speaker 06

  Drill this in? Good work.

• 40:17Drew Afualo?

  So she are doing?

• 40:20Speaker 04

  But we did have a really fun time.

• 40:22Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, we had a blast too. Also, it felt like the crowd was a little like, they were not hype enough for me during chapel.

• 40:28Speaker 04

  No, not at all.

• 40:29Drew Afualo?

  See, see what happens when you put too many straight people in there.

• 40:31Speaker 06

  I know.

• 40:32Speaker 04

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 40:34Drew Afualo?

  It's never good. No, no.

• 40:35Speaker 04

  That's why you had to get on the table.

• 40:37Speaker 02

  We're, we're like, where's everybody really drunk or were most people like kind of keeping it chill?

• 40:42Speaker 04

  I don't know.

• 40:43Speaker 02

  Is that like?

• 40:44Drew Afualo?

  Most of the people I saw were pretty drunk.

• 40:46Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 40:46Drew Afualo?

  To be honest, like, yeah, like, most of the people I saw were pretty drunk. And there were some really fucking famous people at that party. And I was, and, and watching them move in the wild is so shocking to me. Do they like hover, like float? Yeah, they just like, they're, it's just them like kind of kikiing. And it's one of those parties where like, because most of the other parties I've been to for work stuff, if I see super, super famous people like that, they're real like buttoned up, you know what I mean? Like they're like. They let loose though. Yeah, and they know people are watching them and photographing them and videoing them. Yeah. That party, it's like hairs down. Everybody's out there like. Yeah, I was like, I got fucked up at that party. And I was passing my weed pen around like free candy. I said, I'll, I'll wake up with herpes smile. Sure, you guys want some? Sure, let's, let's do it. Let's do it. I was like, I was laughing so hard too, because when I, I ran into Dylan Mulvaney there.

• 41:30Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 41:31Drew Afualo?

  Who I love.

• 41:31Speaker 02

  I took a photo for her.

• 41:32Drew Afualo?

  I love my sister. Love her. She's the best. But I was like, we were hanging out with her and then she was like, I wish I had weed. I said, I got weed. Girl, I got you. And she shared mine. And then, uh, the girl she had introduced me to, she was like, oh, I'll, like, I was like, do you want some too? She's like, yeah, I have, I have one too. And we were laughing. And then I found out that's, uh, Reese Witherspoon's daughter, Ava Philippe.

• 41:55Drew Afualo?

  Why have I spoken weed with you? Don't tell your mom. Tell your mom that I gave that to you. I didn't know.

• 42:00Speaker 04

  That's amazing.

• 42:02Drew Afualo?

  She's older, but like.

• 42:03Speaker 04

  You still want Reese to know.

• 42:05Drew Afualo?

  I want her to like me.

• 42:06Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 42:07Drew Afualo?

  That party was so kooky that when I got back to my hotel, I was like fucked up, fell asleep. I don't drink like that anymore because I'm old. And so when I woke up the next morning, I was like, water. Right. I was like, I need water so bad. Yeah. Ran to the fridge, chugged water. I was like. Chugging it down. As soon as I pulled it away from my lips, almost shit my pants. If you can believe it. I was like, I literally, I had to run like cupping my butt like a little kid.

• 42:34Drew Afualo?

  I literally, I went, I was on that toilet. I said, what the fuck while I was sitting there? And then I, so bad I had to shower after. Then I go put on the hotel robe. I go to my sister's room because she had a room inside our room. And I was like knocking on the door. I was like, dude, are you fucking hungover? And she was like, yeah. And I go, I almost shit myself. And I'm like standing on her bed. I was like, can you believe I almost pooped my fucking pants? I'm like literally talking to her and she goes, get out.

• 43:01Drew Afualo?

  I was like, it's dark in here. Can you believe I almost pooped my pants just now? That's crazy. I'm like, to her, she's like, get out.

• 43:10Drew Afualo?

  Alright, my fucking bad.

• 43:11Speaker 02

  That was kind of the vibe that we had.

• 43:13Speaker 06

  Well, because we got back, you took your shoes off. We ordered like a hundred and fifty dollars worth of Taco Bell. Like, yeah, we were, we were on one.

• 43:21Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I had cold lobster pizza when I got back.

• 43:26Drew Afualo?

  Why did I almost shit myself?

• 43:30Speaker 02

  What is lobster pizza?

• 43:31Drew Afualo?

  What is that? It's like a, it's, I don't, it's from somewhere here famous. It's like a famous pizza.

• 43:36Speaker 02

  Isn't it like the Wolfgang Puck pizza?

• 43:40Drew Afualo?

  I actually don't know.

• 43:41Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 43:41Drew Afualo?

  It might, it might, because my cousin and my man were staying in the room too. And they, they ordered it like they were having like, girls night in. And they ordered that pizza because they really wanted to try it. And I was like, by the time we got back, it was fucking ice cold.

• 43:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 43:54Drew Afualo?

  And they didn't have a microwave. So I was like, fuck it. I'm just gonna eat it. And I was housed like three huge slices. And then I wondered why I almost pooped my pants.

• 44:02Speaker 06

  Right, right, right, right.

• 44:03Drew Afualo?

  It's a little shocking. I was like, why would that happen?

• 44:07Speaker 02

  Honestly, like my worst, another fear of mine to jump back is like, what happens if you get food poisoning while you're performing? Like, yeah.

• 44:15Speaker 06

  Just puke in the butt, bucket.

• 44:16Speaker 02

  Yeah. But I'm talking more about pooping.

• 44:19Drew Afualo?

  When it comes out the other end.

• 44:20Speaker 02

  Yeah, like.

• 44:21Speaker 06

  You shit yourself.

• 44:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, but I think that's my biggest fear, truly.

• 44:29Speaker 06

  I had, I didn't shit myself on stage though. I shit before I went on stage.

• 44:34Speaker 06

  We hadn't met the band we were opening for yet. Like we weren't close with them. And it was one communal bathroom. With the men stall by stall. He was taking a shower. He literally told my parents at dinner. He's like, I was taking a shower and your daughter had food poisoning in the stall.

• 44:48Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 44:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 44:51Drew Afualo?

  Okay, violate my HIPAA rights.

• 44:55Drew Afualo?

  One communal bathroom, that sucks.

• 44:57Speaker 02

  It's tough.

• 44:57Drew Afualo?

  And then when you come out, you're like, whoever was just in there. I don't know.

• 45:02Speaker 02

  You become very close, very fast.

• 45:05Drew Afualo?

  One time I hosted this thing for Moana two, which I loved, it was very fun. But when I was hosting it, like the day I hosted, it was at nighttime and I was like exhausted by the time because I worked all day and then I had to like get on stage and be funny. So obviously I bring my weed pen with me everywhere. So I was like, I'm gonna hit this blinker till my eyes cross, like fuck it. So I was smoking, I was cheefing on that hoe in the fucking dressing room. I'm like, huh. And then I had to go to the restroom, but there was like Polynesian dancers. So they were sharing a room right next to us. So obviously I'm only smoking in my own room. And then my mom was like, oh, let's go to the bathroom and then go upstairs. I'm like, okay, but it's like two singular stalls and they're like, everyone's sharing them. So we go in there, I'm hitting my pen, but when I hit it before I went in there, I walked past him. I didn't want to blow it in anyone's face.

• 45:49Drew Afualo?

  So then I swallowed it. And then I go in the bath, I'm like, yeah, no, I'm gonna go in this one. I go in the bathroom and I'm like.

• 45:57Drew Afualo?

  Lighten it up there, I'm coughing like my lungs depend on it. I was literally like.

• 46:03Drew Afualo?

  Like, and then I come out, my eyes bloodshot red and I'm like. I walk outside and my mom goes, are you okay? And then I go, what do you mean? And she goes, you were coughing so loud. And I go, you can hear me?

• 46:17Drew Afualo?

  Well, it was like, it's not soundproof. Because the wall looked like that wall, it was like wooden.

• 46:23Speaker 02

  That's why, that's why on, on tour, especially if there's like only two bathrooms, I'll go, I'll up for the porta potty. But.

• 46:32Drew Afualo?

  You gotta light it up.

• 46:33Speaker 02

  I. One time. One time, so we were, I think it was last year. Yes. Because last year we were on tour with Girl in Red, amazing.

• 46:40Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 46:42Speaker 02

  And there's like so many people on her crew and we had like two shared bathrooms and I really had to go. You know, um, so I was like, I walked a little bit outside of the venue and found like a random porta potty.

• 46:55Drew Afualo?

  You're smart, I would do the same thing.

• 46:56Speaker 02

  So she didn't ask, we had our own bathroom, she just assumed. I just assumed, I was like, I kinda gotta go and I don't want it to be known that like.

• 47:04Drew Afualo?

  I gotta go.

• 47:05Speaker 02

  That I gotta go. So I just like, do, do, do, do, do, go out there into like the wilderness and find this porta potty. And whatever, I'm doing my business on my phone as you are, you know, flipping through the reels and I kinda hear like a weird like

• 47:20Speaker 06

  A click.

• 47:21Speaker 02

  A click and I'm like, oh, someone's in here. Just like, someone's here, uh, and then nobody says anything. So whatever, I finish my business and I stand up and I have been locked inside the

• 47:34Speaker 06

  It was a padlocked. Someone closed a padlock.

• 47:37Drew Afualo?

  With your own stink.

• 47:38Speaker 02

  Somebody, somebody.

• 47:39Speaker 06

  She's on like a construction zone. She's stuck in this porta potty.

• 47:43Speaker 02

  Somebody padlocked me in.

• 47:46Drew Afualo?

  They said, you're the person who's been pooping in here, aren't you?

• 47:49Speaker 06

  Nobody's answering the phone.

• 47:51Speaker 02

  Nobody's answering my phone. I'm like, fuck, what happens if somebody loads this porta potty under the back of a truck?

• 47:57Speaker 06

  Black ass styled.

• 48:00Drew Afualo?

  Suffocate under your own shit.

• 48:02Speaker 02

  Just like somehow in the middle, like in the middle on the, they find me like

• 48:06Speaker 06

  Dead.

• 48:07Speaker 02

  Days later in another state.

• 48:09Speaker 06

  She called Meg, our photographer. But first Meg took a photo of her through the crack, through the padlock, sent it to all of us. Before letting her out. With her little eye, she's like crying, kinda like a little eye peeking through. Little eye in the slime.

• 48:23Speaker 02

  Just like starting to get claustrophobic.

• 48:27Drew Afualo?

  It's all fun and games until I'm actually locked in there.

• 48:30Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 48:31Speaker 06

  She had to go get the man with the key, right?

• 48:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, so somebody, somebody had to come. I'm like, sorry, I was trying to be discreet.

• 48:39Speaker 06

  It actually became

• 48:40Drew Afualo?

  I literally just peed in there. I don't know what happened.

• 48:43Speaker 06

  You actually just caused such a scene. Just tried to not cause a scene.

• 48:46Drew Afualo?

  It would have been less dramatic to just poop in the communal bathroom.

• 48:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 48:50Speaker 06

  Ron and Ryan has to go on stage and be like, the Beaches can't perform because the lead singer actually died.

• 48:54Drew Afualo?

  She actually got locked in a porta potty and drowned in her own shit. Can you believe it?

• 49:00Drew Afualo?

  That's fucking crazy. Well, these are all really fun facts, but I do have some fun facts.

• 49:04Speaker 06

  Okay, cool.

• 49:05Drew Afualo?

  Okay, I have a beach, first of all, beach is fun fact. It says, the Beaches band covered the song Ultimate on the Freaky Friday movie soundtrack.

• 49:13Speaker 02

  We did.

• 49:14Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, so tell me about Freaky Friday. How was that? Obviously you guys said a dream come true, very

• 49:18Speaker 02

  It was really sick. I mean, we were, we were little when the first movie came out and we've played the shit out of it. And Ultimate was like one of me and my sister's favorite songs growing up. We used to sing it with our Barbies. So it's one of the songs we learned to harmonize with. And we were in a Disney band, like our first project was a kinda Canadian Disney project. So it kind of felt Well, sorry, I have a lot of spit in my mother.

• 49:41Drew Afualo?

  You're fine.

• 49:42Speaker 06

  Empty now, girl.

• 49:43Speaker 02

  Yeah. Um, so it was, oh, I spilled.

• 49:47Speaker 06

  It's okay. Your voice is nervous. Take it again, take it again.

• 49:51Speaker 02

  Telling that porta potty story really.

• 49:52Drew Afualo?

  Really, girl, that got me shook up.

• 49:55Speaker 02

  No, it was a really cool full circle moment and it's an awesome franchise about female relationships.

• 50:02Speaker 06

  Pink Slip Rocks.

• 50:03Speaker 02

  Pink Slip Rocks. So it was really sick. Yeah.

• 50:06Drew Afualo?

  That's so fucking cool.

• 50:07Speaker 02

  And Jamie, Jamie Lee's been like posting about the song, which was so sick.

• 50:11Speaker 06

  Yep.

• 50:11Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 50:11Speaker 06

  She loves it.

• 50:12Speaker 02

  I love it.

• 50:13Drew Afualo?

  How fun. Is it cool seeing your song in a movie?

• 50:16Speaker 06

  They haven't seen it yet.

• 50:16Speaker 02

  I haven't seen the movie yet.

• 50:18Speaker 06

  I know.

• 50:19Drew Afualo?

  No, it's awesome. I haven't watched it yet.

• 50:21Speaker 02

  We were, we were, we were in Europe doing tours and I, I was gonna maybe go in Naples, but then I couldn't find an English version. And so.

• 50:29Drew Afualo?

  Said, well, obviously I gotta watch my version.

• 50:31Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 50:31Speaker 06

  But I got off the flight, went to the movie with my family, fell asleep.

• 50:34Speaker 02

  Promptly fell asleep.

• 50:35Speaker 06

  And my sister just like punched me at the end to show me the song.

• 50:37Speaker 02

  So you haven't seen it either?

• 50:39Drew Afualo?

  You said perfect.

• 50:39Speaker 06

  I saw most of it.

• 50:41Drew Afualo?

  All I needed to see was your song.

• 50:43Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 50:43Drew Afualo?

  That's all you needed. Okay, so Jordan, this is a fun fact about you.

• 50:47Speaker 02

  Oh, no.

• 50:48Drew Afualo?

  It says you, you used to go LARPing in the park in her hometown when she was growing up.

• 50:53Speaker 02

  How did you find that?

• 50:56Speaker 06

  Where are you getting this?

• 50:57Speaker 02

  Oh, no.

• 50:58Drew Afualo?

  My sources.

• 50:59Speaker 02

  I'm impressed. Yeah.

• 51:00Drew Afualo?

  It's my lesbian producer.

• 51:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 51:05Drew Afualo?

  Well, I need to say that, obviously.

• 51:07Speaker 06

  Makes a lot of sense.

• 51:07Drew Afualo?

  Those are my hidden mickeys.

• 51:08Speaker 02

  I.

• 51:09Drew Afualo?

  My lesbian crew.

• 51:10Speaker 02

  I love D and D and I love LARPing. Uh, I haven't done it in a long time. Uh, but yeah, I used to like have a full like bow and arrow set. I was a mage like.

• 51:20Drew Afualo?

  Okay, too.

• 51:21Speaker 02

  Yeah. It's really sick.

• 51:23Drew Afualo?

  Nerd alert.

• 51:23Speaker 02

  Nerd alert.

• 51:26Drew Afualo?

  I love that. That's fucking cool.

• 51:27Speaker 02

  Yeah. You know what? I credit a lot of my songwriting abilities to being like able to be so creative as a kid, you know? Um, it was super fun. I definitely would love to do it again if anybody needs.

• 51:41Drew Afualo?

  An extra large.

• 51:42Speaker 02

  For their campaign. Uh. A mage is like a. Learning something. A mage is like a, like a wizardy half elf. Creature. Okay, sure.

• 51:52Drew Afualo?

  Sure. You like a lot of fantasy stuff?

• 51:55Speaker 02

  I did. Yeah. I liked Lord of the Rings too, growing up. Uh.

• 52:01Speaker 02

  I really liked Petra Collins' photography exhibition that she did where she had like strippers dressed as elves. That was really sick.

• 52:10Drew Afualo?

  Sure.

• 52:10Speaker 02

  Like I

• 52:11Drew Afualo?

  I learned a lot about you.

• 52:12Speaker 02

  I know. Scratched a lot of itches for me.

• 52:15Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you being in Aries is making more.

• 52:19Speaker 02

  That's crazy. Yeah.

• 52:20Drew Afualo?

  LARPing is great. That's another level of

• 52:22Speaker 02

  LARPing. Have you ever seen like the lightning bolt video? It's just a bunch of

• 52:27Speaker 06

  What are you talking about? And what are you talking about?

• 52:29Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 52:30Speaker 06

  I know bolts.

• 52:31Speaker 02

  No, it's

• 52:31Speaker 06

  Throwing John Travolta.

• 52:33Speaker 02

  No, it's a

• 52:34Drew Afualo?

  I also know bolts.

• 52:36Speaker 02

  It's a really, well, check it out after we finish. No, he's LARPing and he's throwing lightning bolts. Lightning bolt, but it's just these random dudes in the forest. And this one guy's like, lightning bolt, lightning bolt.

• 52:52Drew Afualo?

  And you said, I need to get there. Wherever they're at, I need to go.

• 52:55Speaker 02

  I was like, can I play with you?

• 52:58Drew Afualo?

  May I join?

• 52:59Speaker 02

  May I join in?

• 53:02Drew Afualo?

  I love that you love that. I love that about you. Okay, Eliza.

• 53:06Speaker 05

  Oh goodness.

• 53:07Drew Afualo?

  Uh, it says you used to be a big Pokemon card collector.

• 53:10Speaker 05

  Oh my god, you're, you've done your work.

• 53:12Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 53:14Speaker 05

  Oh my god, this is like deep lore. Um, no, I like, basically like halfway from the walk from home to school, there was this little like shop where I used to go spend my allowance money on Pokemon cards.

• 53:24Speaker 02

  Wow. I did know that.

• 53:26Speaker 05

  You didn't know that about me?

• 53:27Speaker 02

  No. Do you still have them?

• 53:28Speaker 05

  I don't know. That's an artifact.

• 53:29Speaker 02

  Probably really expensive.

• 53:30Drew Afualo?

  So two dorks confirmed, we'll go down the line.

• 53:33Speaker 05

  We came together.

• 53:34Speaker 02

  I think, I think three out of four of us, I think Kylie's safe.

• 53:39Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 53:42Speaker 05

  Kylie's the furthest thing from a nerd, actually.

• 53:43Speaker 02

  Kylie's not nerdy.

• 53:44Speaker 05

  No, Kylie doesn't like, Kylie doesn't really like games.

• 53:47Speaker 02

  Kylie hates games.

• 53:48Speaker 05

  She hates like a board game.

• 53:50Speaker 02

  I hate games.

• 53:50Speaker 05

  She hates video games.

• 53:51Speaker 02

  She's like, that's kid stuff.

• 53:53Speaker 05

  She's like

• 53:55Speaker 05

  The things Kylie loves, her vape. Yeah.

• 53:57Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 53:57Speaker 02

  Love.

• 53:58Drew Afualo?

  Right. And that's about it.

• 54:01Speaker 05

  It ends there. It ends there.

• 54:02Drew Afualo?

  Her vape and yeah, that's pretty much.

• 54:05Speaker 05

  And that's her.

• 54:06Speaker 06

  My passion is vape.

• 54:07Speaker 05

  Vape, Charlie X, yeah.

• 54:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 54:12Drew Afualo?

  Who's your favorite Pokemon?

• 54:14Speaker 05

  Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Um, back in the day, it was probably Charizard.

• 54:18Drew Afualo?

  Okay, tea.

• 54:19Speaker 05

  You know, he's a king.

• 54:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, love that.

• 54:21Speaker 05

  Um, but no, I probably have those still like buried away somewhere in like some like attic of like my old house or something. You guys don't know about me?

• 54:27Speaker 02

  No, I didn't. Did you? Did you get into like the mobile game when it was really big?

• 54:30Speaker 05

  No, no, no. I literally just collected the cards and I like wanted like, you know, the like most rarest one or whatever. Probably still have them. Spent like all my allowance on that growing up, you know?

• 54:39Speaker 02

  One of my first nostalgic toys are like a nice purchase. Like my, one of my most expensive purchases, actually you bought this for me. You bought me a Furby for my birthday one year.

• 54:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, I was really pissed off to do that.

• 54:52Drew Afualo?

  Those things freak me out.

• 54:53Speaker 02

  No, I wanted one.

• 54:55Speaker 04

  She had when we were kids and we shared a room and it would go off in the middle of the night and I like, I hated that thing.

• 55:00Speaker 02

  And it speaks Dutch, not English.

• 55:04Drew Afualo?

  And why is that?

• 55:05Speaker 04

  I couldn't find one that was English.

• 55:08Drew Afualo?

  So sorry, you're gonna have to learn Dutch.

• 55:11Drew Afualo?

  Only Swedish Furby's available to y'all.

• 55:14Drew Afualo?

  Okay, this one's for Kylie and Jordan. It says Kylie and Jordan once had to buy a ghost a drink at a bar called Captain Jack in their hometown.

• 55:22Speaker 05

  Oh, my God, this is so true.

• 55:26Speaker 04

  Oh, my God.

• 55:28Drew Afualo?

  Why is that?

• 55:29Speaker 02

  We just went there for your birthday again.

• 55:31Speaker 04

  We did go there for my birthday. It's like one of the scariest bars that you'll ever go to in your life.

• 55:36Speaker 02

  It's like, it's like, there's like patrons with zero teeth. Like that vibe.

• 55:41Speaker 04

  Pirate alcoholic, like just like really some crazy stuff happens there, but beers are three dollars.

• 55:47Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, right.

• 55:48Speaker 04

  And.

• 55:48Speaker 02

  Canadians, so like fifty, fifty cents.

• 55:51Speaker 04

  It's pretty fun.

• 55:51Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 55:52Speaker 04

  Um, but it was like rand. It was during some like special thing that was going on.

• 55:56Speaker 02

  No, it was Canada Day. So we, we were just, we were watching fireworks at the beach.

• 56:01Speaker 04

  And we decided to go for a beer.

• 56:02Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 56:02Speaker 04

  But all the tables were taken. And so there was one table that was open, but the person behind the bar, the pirate. Said, if you wanna have this drink, like you have anyone to sit there, you have to buy this guy who just passed away, this is his table, you need to buy him a shot.

• 56:18Speaker 02

  And I think he had, I got the vibe that he had died from liver failure.

• 56:23Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 56:24Speaker 04

  It was kind of giving that, they had like a photo of him, a candle on the table, it was his table. So we did buy a shot.

• 56:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, I don't think he had recently passed away too. I think like this establishment, like this had been a year ago.

• 56:35Drew Afualo?

  For a while.

• 56:36Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 56:36Speaker 06

  Maybe he didn't even exist and they're just trying to make more money.

• 56:38Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and they're like, let me go get him.

• 56:40Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 56:40Drew Afualo?

  He goes and puts glasses on, thank you.

• 56:42Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 56:44Speaker 04

  No, we did, we took the shot before we left.

• 56:46Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 56:46Speaker 04

  And I realized that was kind of like.

• 56:48Speaker 02

  We, we stole the ghost shot.

• 56:50Drew Afualo?

  They're like, he's not gonna drink it.

• 56:51Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 56:52Drew Afualo?

  It was in the spirit of buying it.

• 56:54Speaker 02

  Waste of alcohol, never. Not us.

• 56:57Drew Afualo?

  Okay, this one's just for Kylie. Kylie was once catfished on a dating app and while you were on the date, your phone glitched and it said you were in the middle of the ocean, so Leandra thought you were lost at sea.

• 57:10Drew Afualo?

  That's a very long, specific.

• 57:12Speaker 06

  Where did you find that? I thought we only posted that on our FinSta.

• 57:17Speaker 04

  Um, I, that, I went on an absolutely horrifying hinge date, yeah. He ended up not looking anything like his photo. Also, if he's watching this, I'm really sorry for exposing you in this way.

• 57:27Speaker 06

  He should be sorry for being a catfish.

• 57:29Drew Afualo?

  For being a catfish. That is the price you pay to be a catfish.

• 57:31Speaker 04

  It was very strange, like really uncomfortable, but he wanted to go on like a walk in like our neighborhood, which is not technically an ocean, it's a lake.

• 57:39Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 57:40Speaker 04

  But my phone did glitch, we had each other's locations.

• 57:42Speaker 06

  Well, you said, I'm not sure about this, can you just like check my location? And I said, sure. And then when I checked, your dot was so far in the middle of the lake. I was like texting Jordan, I go freaking out.

• 57:53Drew Afualo?

  This is a documentary waiting to happen.

• 57:56Speaker 04

  I mean, it definitely, it was, I.

• 57:58Speaker 02

  Kylie's in the lake.

• 57:59Speaker 04

  It was so scary. I never went on another hinge date again after that.

• 58:03Drew Afualo?

  Was he just severely off-putting, other than face?

• 58:06Speaker 04

  I didn't, I just didn't like him at all. He was like, I, I, it sounds so bad. I mentioned something about an ex-boyfriend, she, and he was like, can we please not talk about our exes right now? We're just getting to know each other. I was like, I'm just mentioning something in passion.

• 58:19Speaker 06

  Shut the fuck up. Literally. The dot is her throwing him off a boat in the middle of the lake.

• 58:26Drew Afualo?

  No, deadass. He's like, oh, I was busy in the middle of there, I was doing something.

• 58:30Speaker 04

  He told me that he absolutely hated food.

• 58:32Speaker 06

  Oh bye.

• 58:33Speaker 04

  Which is just like, I was like, this is just like not gonna work for us. I'm like, I just, it was very.

• 58:39Drew Afualo?

  You hate food? How do you eat?

• 58:41Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 58:42Drew Afualo?

  What do you do? Photosynthesis? Just lay in the sun? And ask for the leaves to give you the nutrients?

• 58:49Speaker 04

  He's actually, he's a plant.

• 58:51Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, no, dead ass, like, literal. That's so.

• 58:54Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 58:54Drew Afualo?

  Off. It was like one of those off-putting dates.

• 58:57Speaker 04

  Very off-putting. And I've never actually texted someone. He asked me to hang out again and I, I didn't even just straight up go. So I might texted him and said, I don't think that we should ever.

• 59:06Drew Afualo?

  He said it was so bad that I said, I don't wanna ever see you.

• 59:09Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 59:10Drew Afualo?

  I need to, I needed to make it clear. I don't ever wanna see you again.

• 59:13Speaker 04

  Absolutely.

• 59:15Drew Afualo?

  Well, good friends. Good friends, check and make sure you're not in the middle of the lake.

• 59:18Speaker 06

  Yeah, thanks, Lee.

• 59:19Drew Afualo?

  This one's for Leandra. In 2013, Leandra performed in a show called Fab Prob at a fringe festival. And then it says improv show, question mark, question mark.

• 59:29Speaker 04

  And then you tell your improv stories?

• 59:32Speaker 06

  I got the worst mark because the only rule is yes and, and I was always saying no.

• 59:40Speaker 06

  If I didn't want some girl in my scene, I said, literally, what are you doing here? And then she would have to leave.

• 59:46Drew Afualo?

  No. The most Virgo thing to do in improv?

• 59:50Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 59:50Drew Afualo?

  Just refuse to go along with it?

• 59:53Speaker 04

  You almost failed the class because you kept saying no.

• 59:55Speaker 06

  Yeah. And like, I would go in with just an idea already in my head. So if someone changed it, I would be like, ah, no. And change it back to mine. Like, I get it, but.

• 1:00:06Drew Afualo?

  Do you guys know Eric Sedenyo from TikTok? Rico Taquito? If I showed you him, you probably know, but he's also over there. He's a good friend of mine. He posted a video about doing improv and he literally said, like, I was so excited. I was like, oh my God, I'm gonna learn about banter. I'm gonna learn how to riff. And he's like, and then they gave me a character I didn't like. And I like refused to do well. Like, I was like, I don't like my character. It's like the way you just refuse to participate because it's not going the right. No, yeah.

• 1:00:31Speaker 05

  It's not going the way I've planned in my head.

• 1:00:33Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, exactly. What I meticulously planned. Yeah.

• 1:00:36Speaker 05

  Wasn't there one girl that you like found annoying and you would always like find a way to kill her or something?

• 1:00:41Speaker 06

  That's just giving bullying. So you don't need to get into that.

• 1:00:44Drew Afualo?

  No, you know what that's giving? That's giving, um, have y'all watched The Office?

• 1:00:47Speaker 06

  Oh, it's.

• 1:00:48Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. Michael Scott, when he does improv, he always has a gun. Yeah. And then they're like, what did he say? Because he whispered and he goes, he told me that I have to put my hands up because he can't show me, but he has a gun.

• 1:01:00Drew Afualo?

  Andrew in improv. Exactly. And he performed at a fringe festival?

• 1:01:06Speaker 06

  Well, it was at our school.

• 1:01:07Drew Afualo?

  It was at a school.

• 1:01:08Speaker 06

  Because we went to an arts school.

• 1:01:10Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 1:01:10Speaker 06

  Uh, yeah, there were teachers in the audience. I just came in hot. Like, I remember one of my characters was like a talent agent in Hollywood who was like smoking through the hole in her neck. It was like, oh, you're a star. And then my history teacher was like, I actually can't look at you this way.

• 1:01:28Drew Afualo?

  You're actually a little too far in. Yeah.

• 1:01:30Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:01:31Drew Afualo?

  And I'm scared. It's giving Joker now.

• 1:01:35Drew Afualo?

  Well, that's all our fun facts. Everybody give it up for all our fun facts. I've learned a lot about y'all. Yeah. I have.

• 1:01:41Speaker 05

  Are you scared?

• 1:01:42Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. No, honestly, I'm even more intrigued than when we began. I could have never guessed what your lives looked like. Okay, I would have been wrong every guess.

• 1:01:51Speaker 05

  The burp and the throat smoking.

• 1:01:53Drew Afualo?

  Pokemon card collector. A hater of men on Hinge.

• 1:02:00Drew Afualo?

  Well, before we, before we wrap here, I'd love to know, since y'all are so homegrown, I love that about y'all. I love that y'all have been together, riding together for years. It's fucking awesome. And I'm, it's an honor to have y'all. I'm so excited for the rest of the world to keep loving on y'all. But before we go, do y'all have any advice for any aspiring artists who maybe want to be in a band, be musicians? Make it, if you will.

• 1:02:22Speaker 05

  I would say do it with your friends. We started this as friends and we're even closer now. And I think that's been like our, sort of our superpower. Especially being like women in the music industry, it can be.

• 1:02:34Drew Afualo?

  Totally.

• 1:02:34Speaker 05

  Like especially, you know, solo female artists can be so, it can be so isolating. So we're just like lucky to have each other. So yeah, I'd say do it with your friends and. I know everyone says it, but practice is very important and you have to be, you just have to like be a really, really, really good live unit, a live band.

• 1:02:52Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 1:02:53Speaker 05

  Make it, yeah.

• 1:02:53Speaker 04

  Hire, hire women for your team.

• 1:02:55Drew Afualo?

  Love that.

• 1:02:57Speaker 05

  Hire women and queer people.

• 1:02:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:02:58Drew Afualo?

  Right, period. I said that too. I said, everybody that works for me and with me is gay.

• 1:03:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:03:02Drew Afualo?

  For the most part.

• 1:03:03Speaker 05

  Absolutely.

• 1:03:04Drew Afualo?

  And then Chaperone said, I can tell. Clock my T-shirt.

• 1:03:10Speaker 04

  And I just like think that you should kind of keep posting, keep trying at it. Like even if it doesn't happen right away, it still might happen for you. We've been doing this for like

• 1:03:18Drew Afualo?

  10 years.

• 1:03:19Speaker 04

  10 years and it took us this long to kind of get.

• 1:03:21Drew Afualo?

  And for the love of the game, y'all have been doing it for the love of the game too, which is amazing.

• 1:03:25Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:03:26Drew Afualo?

  And that's why, I think that's why y'all have done so well, like and sustained, because it's, because it means something to you. It's not just to like, get rich and famous. It's because, because we like to have fun too, right?

• 1:03:36Speaker 05

  And it's the most fun job in the world. Like we get to go to different cities together, like with our best friends every single day and just like have fun, get, literally get paid to have fun on stage.

• 1:03:45Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:03:45Speaker 05

  I mean, it's the dream job.

• 1:03:47Drew Afualo?

  We're not, we're, we're not that serious.

• 1:03:49Speaker 05

  We're not that serious.

• 1:03:50Drew Afualo?

  I've gathered that.

• 1:03:53Drew Afualo?

  I love that about y'all. I hope that never changes about y'all.

• 1:03:55Drew Afualo?

  We just want to have fun, you know? Period. That's the key, honestly, especially because this industry is so fucking hard, especially for women.

• 1:04:02Speaker 04

  Exactly.

• 1:04:03Drew Afualo?

  Women and queer people in general.

• 1:04:04Speaker 05

  Totally.

• 1:04:05Drew Afualo?

  But thank y'all so much for coming on the show. I fucking love y'all.

• 1:04:07Speaker 04

  Thank you so much.

• 1:04:08Speaker 05

  We love you.

• 1:04:09Drew Afualo?

  I'm obsessed with y'all. You guys are amazing. For everyone who doesn't know or may not know, where, like, where can they find you?

• 1:04:17Speaker 05

  On TikTok and Instagram, we are The Beaches.

• 1:04:20Drew Afualo?

  At The Beaches Band.

• 1:04:21Speaker 05

  At The Beaches Band. Spotify, Apple Music, all the streaming services.

• 1:04:25Drew Afualo?

  We're everywhere. You can do your personal ones too, if you'd like. At Leandra Earl. At Jojo, at Jojo Colmiller.

• 1:04:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm getting Jonas over here.

• 1:04:34Speaker 04

  K Millie, with a Y, it's confusing.

• 1:04:36Speaker 05

  And I am Eliza Enman McDaniel, my whole name.

• 1:04:39Speaker 04

  Damn.

• 1:04:40Drew Afualo?

  Period. Love that. And I'm obsessed with y'all. I'm, I'm rooting for y'all. Oh, and what about your album? Do y'all want to plug that?

• 1:04:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, our album, No Hard Feelings, is out now. You can stream it, you can purchase it. Listen to it.

• 1:04:53Speaker 05

  We'll be playing it on tour.

• 1:04:54Speaker 04

  We hope you like it.

• 1:04:55Speaker 02

  We're coming to a city near you any day now.

• 1:04:57Speaker 05

  In the phone.

• 1:04:58Drew Afualo?

  Well, and if you follow them, you'll know exactly when they're going on tour. And it's perfect because our favorite platform, Spotify, also has The Beaches music on it. So you can watch this, you can stream their music, any and all of the things. But thank you so much for joining us. Thank you to my amazing guests, The Beaches, for joining me on this episode of the comment section. Don't forget, new episodes drop every Wednesday. You can stream the audio on all streaming platforms, but the video list for free and exclusively on our favorite platform, Spotify. Thank you so much for watching. Thank you to my amazing guests, The Beaches, and I'll see you next week. Bye.

• 1:05:25Speaker 05

  Bye.

• 1:05:26Speaker 04

  Thank you.

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