ENGOO AND STUPID Ft. Cat Cohen | Episode 197

We’re back in NYC this week, so of course we had to have New York legend Cat Cohen on the show!! Drew and Cat talk church camp, being cool in college acapella, their mutual engagements, mommy vloggers, freshman year roommates, and so much more. Cat IG: https://www.instagram.com/cat_cohen/?hl=en Cat Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cat_cohen?lang=en Follow The Comment Section on IG! https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/ Watch Sidelined 2: Intercepted free on Tubi, Thanksgiving Day. 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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• 0:32Speaker 01

  If we're trying to get a TikTok to do well, we'll be like, yes, I love this. Do you do that?

• 0:37Drew Afualo?

  Like, in the algorithm?

• 0:39Speaker 01

  Yeah. Like, your phone's watching you, so it'll be like, ha, ha, this is so good.

• 0:51Drew Afualo?

  Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Comment Section Show, starring me, your favorite, everybody knows me, who cares about me. Onto the guest. Today, we have the iconic, the legendary, the unbelievably hilarious Kat Cohen.

• 1:03Speaker 01

  Oh, my god, oh, my god, I'm crying, I'm crying, I'm screaming, I'm crying. Finally, let's get into it.

• 1:10Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my god, let's.

• 1:11Speaker 01

  What's going on?

• 1:12Drew Afualo?

  First of all, huge fucking fan.

• 1:13Speaker 01

  Likewise.

• 1:14Drew Afualo?

  We were kikiing hella before this.

• 1:16Speaker 01

  We said amazing things that could never go on air.

• 1:17Drew Afualo?

  We did, and you'll never, ever, ever see it. You'll never see it in a million years. I'm so happy to have you.

• 1:23Speaker 01

  I couldn't be happier to be here.

• 1:24Drew Afualo?

  We did a show together.

• 1:26Speaker 01

  Never forget.

• 1:26Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, never forget.

• 1:27Speaker 01

  The crowd was so unique.

• 1:31Drew Afualo?

  The crowd was strange.

• 1:32Speaker 01

  And if y'all were there, love and so much light to you and your family.

• 1:36Drew Afualo?

  If you were there, loved you, you were the best.

• 1:38Speaker 01

  There were some people fully just, like, walking around, which, respect, you know, have a, they're, it's their life.

• 1:43Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I was, it did feel kind of strange. It felt like some of them were seat fillers, even though I know they weren't. But it did feel like some of them were. They just had no idea what they signed up for.

• 1:52Speaker 01

  Seat fillers. You just unlocked a memory for me. I was a seat filler at the Tony Awards.

• 1:56Drew Afualo?

  Were you?

• 1:57Speaker 01

  The first year I moved to New York. And I was like, I've made it.

• 2:01Drew Afualo?

  What year was that?

• 2:02Speaker 01

  2013.

• 2:03Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my god, t.

• 2:05Speaker 01

  I know.

• 2:06Drew Afualo?

  Are you a Broadway girl? Do you like Broadway?

• 2:07Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 2:07Drew Afualo?

  I love Broadway.

• 2:08Speaker 01

  That's why I had to hear about your big event.

• 2:10Drew Afualo?

  Yes, I did go see Wicked.

• 2:12Speaker 01

  Share with the class, yeah.

• 2:13Drew Afualo?

  Oh, I did go see Wicked last night. Let's just say, I am changed for the better. I would say, yeah, I would say change for the better for good even.

• 2:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:22Drew Afualo?

  Um, it was unbelievable.

• 2:24Speaker 01

  Really?

• 2:24Drew Afualo?

  It was so fucking good. I did, but not at the parts that I thought like, I felt like I was holding steady through for good.

• 2:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:33Drew Afualo?

  I was like, holding steady, getting misty eyed, holding steady. But after the song, there is another part that had tears rolling down my face.

• 2:41Speaker 01

  Oh, my god.

• 2:42Drew Afualo?

  At all.

• 2:42Speaker 01

  I can't wait.

• 2:43Drew Afualo?

  Blew me away.

• 2:44Speaker 01

  I'm ready. And how was the party?

• 2:46Drew Afualo?

  The party was cool.

• 2:47Speaker 01

  Was it, was it wild? Was it wet and wild?

• 2:49Drew Afualo?

  It was wet and wild.

• 2:49Speaker 01

  Dry and wild.

• 2:50Drew Afualo?

  It was wicked.

• 2:51Speaker 01

  Go off.

• 2:54Drew Afualo?

  It was fine. It was just fucking freezing.

• 2:57Speaker 01

  Why?

• 2:58Drew Afualo?

  Um, they had it outside. Well, the whole carpet was outside.

• 3:01Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 3:01Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and it was thirty degrees last night.

• 3:03Speaker 01

  So it's New York in the winter, just so you know, for context.

• 3:06Drew Afualo?

  And it was outside. It was a big like circle. And so it was fucking freezing outside.

• 3:10Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 3:11Drew Afualo?

  But then I was like, oh, well, obviously, everything will be inside. And you go inside and then, uh, like, obviously, the theater's indoors, but then there was like a lot of, I think they had a lot of fan, fans there, like, just of the franchise itself and stuff. So I did like a low key meet and greet in one part. So I was like, okay, maybe I should go somewhere else for a bit to sit down. And so the only area that I could go where like all my friends were at was outside again. So I got to sit on the patio.

• 3:36Speaker 01

  You can't win.

• 3:37Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I can't win.

• 3:38Speaker 01

  This town.

• 3:38Drew Afualo?

  God, it's so hard.

• 3:40Speaker 01

  I know. So you're a California girl.

• 3:41Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I am, yeah.

• 3:42Speaker 01

  But and you're here for one second. But you come here a lot.

• 3:44Drew Afualo?

  I do come here a lot. I, I'm, I'm so not built for the like winter at all. I think that's a, a past me being a California girl is I'm also a brown girl. So I feel like I'm also a big, heavy sweater. I sweat pretty easily.

• 3:57Speaker 01

  Okay, love.

• 3:58Drew Afualo?

  But you would, so you would think I love cold weather.

• 4:01Speaker 01

  Right.

• 4:02Drew Afualo?

  But I do not.

• 4:03Speaker 01

  And here you're flipping the script.

• 4:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and here I am being different.

• 4:06Speaker 01

  You like to sweat where it's hot.

• 4:07Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I like, I'd prefer to sweat than be cold, I guess, is my point.

• 4:11Speaker 01

  I would also rather, you know, god.

• 4:13Drew Afualo?

  Where are you from originally?

• 4:14Speaker 01

  Well, I'm from Houston.

• 4:16Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 4:16Speaker 01

  Where it's the hottest city on earth. So I'm always in hell. So my whole life, my hair was like frizzy as fuck. Like, I was like, get me, the humidity's crazy. I was like, please get me out.

• 4:25Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 4:26Speaker 01

  To the big city where I can make my dreams come true. And now I'm here and.

• 4:31Drew Afualo?

  I know, I want to talk more about your journey through standup. Cause I really want to know. Did you start young? Like, did you start like?

• 4:36Speaker 01

  As a child.

• 4:37Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, as a child, child standup comedian.

• 4:39Speaker 01

  No, it's funny, in col- I was like a theater kid growing up, obviously, but in college, I remember I wanted to audition for the improv group. But it was, get this.

• 4:47Drew Afualo?

  A tale.

• 4:48Speaker 01

  All men.

• 4:49Drew Afualo?

  A tale as old as time.

• 4:50Speaker 01

  And I was too scared, because I didn't know myself. And how can you love yourself if you don't know yourself?

• 4:54Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 4:55Speaker 01

  So I didn't audition, but then when I moved to New York, I did like the UCB thing.

• 4:59Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 5:00Speaker 01

  Remember, remember those days?

• 5:01Drew Afualo?

  I think so.

• 5:02Speaker 01

  It was like, it was the golden era of improv. It was so fun to like go to Ask Cat, if you know, you know. And it was like this fun scene to be a part of. And yeah, basically, I would just see people do standup and eventually I was like, you see enough bad people and you're like, okay, I think I can do that.

• 5:17Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, yeah, especially men. You see enough terrible men do standup, you're like, I mean, it can't be that hard.

• 5:22Speaker 01

  They're doing crazy things.

• 5:23Drew Afualo?

  There's no way it can be that hard.

• 5:24Speaker 01

  The darkness of the open mic scene cannot be explained. Oh my god.

• 5:30Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that free will, they need that taken from them.

• 5:32Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 5:33Drew Afualo?

  Especially in the standup area.

• 5:34Speaker 01

  So that's sort of my journey.

• 5:36Drew Afualo?

  That's interesting. Wait, when did you move to New York? Right after?

• 5:39Speaker 01

  Right after call.

• 5:40Drew Afualo?

  Oh, big call.

• 5:42Speaker 01

  That's what, um, I call it, call. After I graduated call, I go, I like threw my hat in the air, I was like, yes, let's go. Hopped in a taxi and I was like, boop beep boop beep. And no problems ever since.

• 5:57Drew Afualo?

  And believe it or not, famous immediately.

• 5:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's, but the, the bus goes by and splashes me, I'm in Carrie's skirt. Instant success.

• 6:04Drew Afualo?

  Have to be.

• 6:05Speaker 01

  I know.

• 6:06Drew Afualo?

  She was, easy.

• 6:07Speaker 01

  I know, I still haven't watched the latest season of And Just Like That.

• 6:11Drew Afualo?

  I honestly have never seen Sex and the City, if you can believe it.

• 6:14Speaker 01

  That's, that's so amazing because now you have something to look forward to.

• 6:17Drew Afualo?

  I know. If I could re-experience it for the first time.

• 6:20Speaker 01

  That's how I feel, because I'd never seen Housewives.

• 6:22Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yeah.

• 6:23Speaker 01

  And then this past year, I dove into New York from the beginning, life-changing.

• 6:27Drew Afualo?

  Tea.

• 6:27Speaker 01

  Do you, are you a Bravo girl?

• 6:29Drew Afualo?

  I'm not really a Bravo girl, but my sister loves The Mormon Wives.

• 6:33Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 6:33Drew Afualo?

  She loves The Mormon Wives. And she was like, like, that's like the first reality show, like, Housewives adjacent that she's gotten. Into and she was like, honestly, I think I might start Housewives.

• 6:41Speaker 01

  You're in for such a treat and so are you when you watch S A T C. You're gonna lose your shit. It's just like cozy.

• 6:49Drew Afualo?

  That's what everyone tells me. I feel like I do feel like that about certain shows. There are shows where I'm like, God, what I wouldn't give to experience it for the first time.

• 6:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, what are your go tos?

• 6:57Drew Afualo?

  One of them's Vampire Diaries.

• 6:58Speaker 01

  Never seen.

• 6:59Drew Afualo?

  Oh, you have, oh, God, what I would give.

• 7:01Speaker 01

  Now, now look how happy I am. Look at the gift you gave me.

• 7:05Drew Afualo?

  Or Glee for the first time.

• 7:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, Glee raised.

• 7:09Drew Afualo?

  Had to. It's like, e- even when I watched The Wicked, did you watch The Wicked, like, one night only performance?

• 7:18Drew Afualo?

  There, there's like a thing on Peacock where they like performed a lot of the songs live and then like some of the new songs live.

• 7:25Drew Afualo?

  And in that they do a duet, like Cynthia and Ariana do a duet, like Happy Days or whatever. It's like a Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland duet. You know the one. They do that duet and my sister was like, honestly, I was shocked. I knew all the words, but then I remembered it's because they did it in Glee. Like Rachel and Kurt do that.

• 7:43Drew Afualo?

  What I would give. What about you? Any other shows besides Sex and the City?

• 7:48Drew Afualo?

  Are you big shows, girl? Like, do you like reality or do you like any kind of thing?

• 7:52Speaker 01

  You know, growing up, I would watch like real shows, no offense to reality, no offense. And then since my brain has atrophied over the past like five years, I would say, now I can only stomach reality. I did Vanderpump from the beginning.

• 8:05Drew Afualo?

  Oh, nice. How was that?

• 8:06Speaker 01

  Have you?

• 8:07Drew Afualo?

  No.

• 8:10Speaker 01

  It's crazy. I've never seen anything like it. I don't, how do they find those people? I want Sandoval to sing at my wedding. I'm sorry. Oh, guess what? Both of us engaged.

• 8:21Drew Afualo?

  Look at us.

• 8:22Speaker 01

  We start sobbing. When did you get in goo?

• 8:25Drew Afualo?

  Um, I got in goo last September. What about you?

• 8:28Speaker 01

  Last, so it's been like a year?

• 8:30Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 8:30Speaker 01

  Okay, so you're over it?

• 8:32Drew Afualo?

  No, honestly, I'm still in my fiance era.

• 8:35Speaker 01

  Isn't it so fun?

• 8:35Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, every, I just, everything I buy is white. I like, I'm buying things that are embroidered, wifey era. I'm doing all of the things.

• 8:42Speaker 01

  Dare I ask, when is the event?

• 8:45Drew Afualo?

  Uh, next summer.

• 8:47Speaker 01

  Me having no sense of what year it could possibly be. Oh, my God.

• 8:51Drew Afualo?

  Twenty twenty six. Me thinking it's twenty twenty.

• 8:53Speaker 01

  And today is.

• 8:54Drew Afualo?

  Hello?

• 8:55Speaker 01

  Hello?

• 8:55Drew Afualo?

  And goo, and goo, and stupid.

• 8:58Speaker 01

  Hello.

• 8:59Drew Afualo?

  Hello. Twenty twenty six of summer.

• 9:02Speaker 01

  Okay, perfect, summer wedding, because you love to sweat.

• 9:04Drew Afualo?

  Yes, obviously.

• 9:06Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 9:06Drew Afualo?

  What about you?

• 9:07Speaker 01

  Um, haven't picked a date yet, but you know, my dream is to do New Year's Eve next year.

• 9:12Drew Afualo?

  That's such a good idea. I know a girl who got married on New Year's Eve, honestly.

• 9:17Speaker 01

  And you're like, and now she's dead.

• 9:18Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and now that girl divorced. Good luck.

• 9:21Speaker 01

  Was it fun, though?

• 9:22Drew Afualo?

  No, it was, I didn't go to the wedding, I just saw the pics.

• 9:25Speaker 01

  Oh, she sounds amazing.

• 9:25Drew Afualo?

  Very cute. She didn't invite me, so, you know, there's that.

• 9:29Speaker 01

  Why are you mad at my friend?

• 9:32Speaker 01

  Why is that girl a huge bitch? I'm kidding, I love her, I love her, I would take a bullet for her.

• 9:36Drew Afualo?

  Love her, I would literally, ultimately, I would die for her, so there's that.

• 9:39Speaker 01

  Is that an aura?

• 9:40Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 9:41Speaker 01

  Do I need it?

• 9:42Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. This is one of those old people things where you're like, oh, I'd love to track my sleep.

• 9:46Speaker 01

  I know. But do, and how do you sleep?

• 9:50Drew Afualo?

  Honestly, I would say pretty good unless I'm working. So since I'm working twenty-four seven, not well.

• 9:55Speaker 01

  I was gonna say, don't you work non-stop?

• 9:57Drew Afualo?

  So not well.

• 9:58Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 9:58Drew Afualo?

  Um, but no, it's been honestly really great, and also I track my period on it too, which is helpful.

• 10:03Speaker 01

  Do you notice a big difference if you have a drink before you sleep versus when you don't?

• 10:07Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, not really, because I'm not a huge drinker, but like, mostly if I eat late. That's like my thing. And then my Oura ring will say things like, if you eat a heavy meal late, you won't sleep that well. I'm like, okay.

• 10:18Speaker 01

  Oh, guess what? The only thing I like in this life?

• 10:20Drew Afualo?

  Oh, sorry, the few joys that I have.

• 10:22Speaker 01

  The bowl of pasta I ate before bed last night would make my Oura ring explode off my finger. It was so good.

• 10:28Drew Afualo?

  It would punish me for something, for real.

• 10:30Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 10:31Drew Afualo?

  Wait, back to your obsession with Vanderpump really quick.

• 10:33Speaker 01

  Oh, right, right.

• 10:33Drew Afualo?

  So when I, I know nothing about, I know very little about that world, like, but I do know that there is a restaurant.

• 10:41Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 10:42Drew Afualo?

  Yes. Okay. And I literally, my sister was explaining something to me about Vanderpump, and I was like, and they work at the restaurant? Like, I thought, I thought they were a family-owned restaurant.

• 10:52Speaker 01

  Okay, it is kind of like that, though.

• 10:53Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I thought they were like, of one big family that owned the restaurant, and then that was like, the drama was watching them run the restaurant.

• 11:00Speaker 01

  Right, you're not too far off, except they're all fucking each other.

• 11:02Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 11:02Speaker 01

  Is the main difference.

• 11:03Drew Afualo?

  Well, then she told me that, and I go, well, aren't they all related? And she was like, no, and I go, I don't know anything about this.

• 11:09Speaker 01

  Everything I thought to be true is a lie.

• 11:11Drew Afualo?

  I need a minute. It's a process.

• 11:13Speaker 01

  I'm gonna step out for a sec, if that's okay. Um, god, it's such a special program. And I didn't get it, like, people would tell me, I'm like, I don't get it.

• 11:21Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 11:22Speaker 01

  And no, I love it, but I should dive back into scripted.

• 11:25Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I think the one consistent reality show I'm loving and living and laughing always is The Great British Baking Show.

• 11:32Speaker 01

  Oh, okay, okay.

• 11:33Drew Afualo?

  Love that one.

• 11:34Speaker 01

  Right.

• 11:34Drew Afualo?

  Every year I clock in, like, it's my fucking job.

• 11:36Speaker 01

  Do they do an American version?

• 11:38Drew Afualo?

  They do, but I don't really care for that one. Like, they do like a celebrity one too, which is like, that one's fine. Which I hate unless they invite me, obviously.

• 11:46Speaker 01

  Right.

• 11:46Drew Afualo?

  And I would love it, and it's my favorite show in the world. But the, the regular one, the normal one, like, I live and die by that show. Like, it's just the best. And they, the best thing about it is, like, they're competing for literally like a cake pan thing. That's it.

• 12:00Speaker 01

  Sweet.

• 12:01Drew Afualo?

  That and vibes, like, that's all they're competing for.

• 12:03Speaker 01

  I know, I haven't gotten into it, people love it.

• 12:04Drew Afualo?

  Americans could never, but like, they only compete for that one fucking thing, and it's like the joy of baking.

• 12:10Speaker 01

  That's so pure.

• 12:11Drew Afualo?

  I know, and that's why there's always like a twenty-year-old gay man and like a hundred-year-old woman. And they're competing against each other.

• 12:18Speaker 01

  My two besties.

• 12:19Drew Afualo?

  I, and you know what's funny is last season, they had one American on there, like, who, like, lived in the UK, cause his wife was British. But he was like born and raised New Yorker.

• 12:28Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 12:28Drew Afualo?

  And so he's living, he's been living in the UK, I think, for like a while now, so he like entered the contest. And I was like, no fucking way they have an American in there, me getting America rah when I'm watching it.

• 12:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 12:38Drew Afualo?

  Uh, for once, when I'm watching it.

• 12:39Speaker 01

  I know, like, all of a sudden I love America.

• 12:41Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and this old man, like, he was, he did fine the first week, and then like the second week, he got sick or something, so he couldn't come. So they can't eliminate anyone, cause it's not fair. So then the next week he came back.

• 12:53Speaker 01

  Was he, I'm sorry.

• 12:54Drew Afualo?

  I don't know, but he was old, so like, he's like in his, my apologies.

• 12:57Speaker 01

  Sorry, no disrespect.

• 12:59Drew Afualo?

  So like, I don't know how sick, but he like got sick, couldn't come, and then the next week he came back, but wasn't feeling the best. And so literally, like, the first challenge, it just started, probably twenty minutes in, he's like standing there drinking coffee, and then he goes, "Yeah, I can't do this."

• 13:14Speaker 01

  No.

• 13:14Drew Afualo?

  Walks outside, and then they do his interview, he goes, "I'm gonna go home."

• 13:17Speaker 01

  No, no.

• 13:19Drew Afualo?

  Then he went home, like, and honestly, real as fuck, loved him.

• 13:23Speaker 01

  The ultimate power move.

• 13:24Drew Afualo?

  He had a fan in me. I said, "The only American I've seen since I've been watching that show on there quits with two." He's like, "You know what? Ah, no, I'm over it."

• 13:32Speaker 01

  Get him in this chair.

• 13:33Drew Afualo?

  I respect a man who's like, "I'm out."

• 13:34Speaker 01

  I know, for sure.

• 13:36Drew Afualo?

  I'm not competing for that cake, ten, I'm out.

• 13:38Speaker 01

  That's right, sometimes on Love Island, they'll leave and I like that.

• 13:41Drew Afualo?

  Love Island, I've only ever watched a couple like of the UK seasons.

• 13:46Speaker 01

  Don't start.

• 13:47Drew Afualo?

  I've never really watched the American one, although I do know the last season made everyone insane.

• 13:51Speaker 01

  It was crazy and it wasn't even fun. I was like, y'all need to like.

• 13:54Drew Afualo?

  I know, I, I literally made a joke about it. I was like, you guys are watching that shit like how the rich people watch poor people kill each other on Squid Game?

• 14:01Speaker 01

  Fully.

• 14:02Drew Afualo?

  That's how you guys are watching from home.

• 14:03Speaker 01

  Oh my god.

• 14:03Drew Afualo?

  You guys are watching from home going, die, die, die.

• 14:06Speaker 01

  Everyone needs to do box breathing, everyone needs to like, hold for four, exhale for four. Like, it was scaring me. But no, I, I am watching, I am watching Task. Are you watching that?

• 14:17Drew Afualo?

  No, I ha- I've heard of it though.

• 14:18Speaker 01

  You like?

• 14:18Drew Afualo?

  I haven't watched.

• 14:19Speaker 01

  It's good. I'm, I'm in the middle.

• 14:20Drew Afualo?

  Is that scripted?

• 14:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, and it's like, I love like, I either like reality or like really dark murder thriller.

• 14:26Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 14:26Speaker 01

  What's your fave?

• 14:27Drew Afualo?

  A woman of range.

• 14:28Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 14:29Drew Afualo?

  I love, honestly, I'm on, I'm, and I, and they always diagnose me when I say this, but I watch the same things like over and over and over again. Until I get a wild hair on my ass and then I'll watch something new.

• 14:39Speaker 01

  Right.

• 14:40Drew Afualo?

  But a lot of times I like to watch new things when they're all fully out, like if.

• 14:43Speaker 01

  That makes sense.

• 14:44Drew Afualo?

  If they haven't been released, I'm like impatient, so I'm like, I'll just wait. Chris Fleming once described himself to me as like a culture scavenger. Like he's like, after years have gone by and, and there's, I just dig through the rubble like a dirty raccoon, I just, and then I go and watch it. That's kind of how I am too.

• 15:00Speaker 01

  Now, Chris Fleming's the funniest person on earth.

• 15:02Drew Afualo?

  I know.

• 15:03Speaker 01

  And that's just all I have to say about them.

• 15:04Drew Afualo?

  It's so upsetting that it's a man, but at least it's a ten.

• 15:07Speaker 01

  No one does it like him.

• 15:08Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, he's.

• 15:09Speaker 01

  I'll be watching it, his TikToks, I'm like, I never thought in a million years we could get from here to there. And it was so seamless. We're so lucky to have him.

• 15:16Drew Afualo?

  I know, I'm, I'm so lucky to be in the same timeline as him, I agree. I, I literally thought, I saw someone once say that his comedy feels like when you're driving and Google Maps is just rerouting every ten seconds, like that's how it feels watching him. And I was like, when you end up at the same destination, you just take a bunch of shortcuts.

• 15:33Speaker 01

  Of laughing? The destination of laughing and joy. At the corner of laughing and joy. I know, cause it sounds, per our earlier discussion, off-mic. Sometimes I'll see comics and I'll be like, so this is hell, why do I do this?

• 15:45Drew Afualo?

  You're right.

• 15:45Speaker 01

  And then you remember.

• 15:47Drew Afualo?

  I agree.

• 15:47Speaker 01

  It's so important to go back to the source.

• 15:49Drew Afualo?

  I agree. I watched him when he was making fun of SNL 50.

• 15:53Speaker 01

  Oh, what was he saying?

• 15:54Drew Afualo?

  And he said, he called Jimmy Fallon the sme to Lorne Michaels' Captain Hook. Brought tears to my eyes.

• 16:01Speaker 01

  Unbelievable stuff.

• 16:02Drew Afualo?

  That's the funniest joke I've ever heard, and he probably came up with it on the spot. I'm sick. I'm sick to my stomach.

• 16:06Speaker 01

  Oh my god.

• 16:06Drew Afualo?

  I need to study him. I literally, I messaged him once. I was like, I need to study you like Jane Goodall. I wanna live amongst the chimps for a while. And I wanna live amongst, in the jungle with you. Get a good feel.

• 16:17Speaker 01

  Totally.

• 16:17Drew Afualo?

  But you were talking about dark murderous shows, those are your vibes?

• 16:21Speaker 01

  I know, for better for worse. I'm like, I love it. I'm, everything everyone loves, I love that too. Like, true crime podcasts, I love that, like.

• 16:28Drew Afualo?

  I do love a true crime documentary.

• 16:30Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 16:31Drew Afualo?

  Loving those.

• 16:31Speaker 01

  Any good ones lately?

• 16:33Drew Afualo?

  Um, I watched that cruise one, the Amy Bradley one. Where she went missing on the cruise.

• 16:38Speaker 01

  Where is she?

• 16:39Drew Afualo?

  That one's crazy.

• 16:41Speaker 01

  I think she's still with us.

• 16:42Drew Afualo?

  You think? That's what Robbie Hoffman told me too. She, when we talked about it.

• 16:47Speaker 01

  I need to hear Robbie talk about Amy Bradley immediately.

• 16:50Drew Afualo?

  She asked me, what are your, what are your theories? And I said, honestly, I think she might be dead. Like, I was kinda telling, I told her my spiel, and then she goes, "Okay, well, you're wrong, so this is what I think happened." And she told me, oh, she thinks she's still alive too.

• 17:02Speaker 01

  Oh my god.

• 17:03Drew Afualo?

  And you think she's still with us as well?

• 17:05Speaker 01

  Um, I do because I think maybe she has a child. And that's why she's laying low, and that's why she's staying there, and also she has Stockholm syndrome and whatever.

• 17:13Drew Afualo?

  Tea.

• 17:13Speaker 01

  I mean, who knows?

• 17:14Drew Afualo?

  I know, it's, that one is so interesting. I also recently watched the Eileen Wuornos one.

• 17:20Speaker 01

  Oh, I've actually never seen that.

• 17:21Drew Afualo?

  That one's so tea, you should watch that one.

• 17:23Speaker 01

  What streamer provides that for us?

• 17:25Drew Afualo?

  Netflix. It's on Netflix. Yeah, love Netflix. Um, but that one, uh, Eileen Wuornos one is fucking crazy.

• 17:33Speaker 01

  I mean.

• 17:33Drew Afualo?

  That one's nuts.

• 17:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, I, okay, I'm gonna dive in there.

• 17:36Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 17:37Speaker 01

  I have to shout out, I think my favorite true crime podcast.

• 17:39Drew Afualo?

  Ooh, yeah.

• 17:40Speaker 01

  Is called Red Handed.

• 17:41Drew Afualo?

  Ooh.

• 17:41Speaker 01

  Have you ever gotten into that? Anyone?

• 17:42Drew Afualo?

  No.

• 17:43Speaker 01

  I have to shout them out because I just think they do amazing work.

• 17:45Drew Afualo?

  Oh, that's cool.

• 17:47Speaker 01

  They just, they have the perfect balance of like, they can be a little funny, but they stick to the story and they tell the story well. I hate when it veers off.

• 17:55Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you don't want to be too funny.

• 17:56Speaker 01

  No, because I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing. It's death.

• 18:00Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, let's all be serious.

• 18:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, so that's, that's one, that's one thing I, I do like. That's one thing I do like.

• 18:09Drew Afualo?

  You know what I, I watched recently, um, Frankenstein. Have you watched the new Frankenstein?

• 18:13Speaker 01

  Haven't seen.

• 18:15Speaker 01

  Gag?

• 18:16Drew Afualo?

  Uh, gagged, honestly. I, I do really enjoy Guillermo del Toro's whimsy. He has a lot of whimsy about him, but his ability to like make, uh, monsters just, uh, like, I, I guess attractive is the word I'm looking for is kind of shocking, honestly. Cause I love Shape of Water too. But there's like a scene, I was explaining this to my sister, but there's a scene where like Oscar Isaac, like he basic, Victor Frankenstein, if you will.

• 18:44Speaker 01

  Shout out.

• 18:44Drew Afualo?

  He basically is like, oh, fuck, it didn't work. Like damn, that sucks. And he like goes to lay down in the bed. And it's like, he's topless, which I'm like, I mean, work, whatever. I mean, when I'm working on the dead, I want to take my top off and go to bed. I want to be, I want to be titties out in the bed. So he's like laying and he like wakes up. And then when he wakes up, he's like a four poster bed, you know, real dramatic. Wakes up, monster at the end of the bed. That would have, I literally was like, oh my god.

• 19:13Drew Afualo?

  Yes, because I was like, we need to get a bell on you.

• 19:16Speaker 01

  I need to see.

• 19:17Drew Afualo?

  I need to give you a collar with some noise.

• 19:20Speaker 01

  Oh my god, okay, I need to see that. I will say like Crimson Peak is on the Pinterest board for my wedding.

• 19:28Drew Afualo?

  I love that.

• 19:28Speaker 01

  Staircases, it's drama, it's fabric.

• 19:31Drew Afualo?

  Like Gothic horror.

• 19:32Speaker 01

  Candelabra.

• 19:33Drew Afualo?

  I love that. Like Phantom of the Opera.

• 19:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, exactly. It's kind of the vibe. Haven't talked about this with my fiance and he doesn't need to know about it.

• 19:40Drew Afualo?

  No, it's okay. He doesn't need, what do you need his input for?

• 19:44Speaker 01

  Already got him, already got him. He's stuck. It's so fun.

• 19:47Drew Afualo?

  As long as he has the date and time, that's all he needs.

• 19:49Speaker 01

  I do need to pick a date and time. I'm like, wait, good reminder.

• 19:54Drew Afualo?

  Do you know where you want to get married?

• 19:55Speaker 01

  I think I'm gonna do it hometown, Houston.

• 19:57Drew Afualo?

  Wow, that's amazing.

• 19:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's um.

• 20:01Drew Afualo?

  Do you have a big family?

• 20:02Speaker 01

  I love them. Yeah, massive.

• 20:04Drew Afualo?

  You do?

• 20:05Speaker 01

  Massive and I just would die for them.

• 20:06Drew Afualo?

  Oh, I'll say.

• 20:07Speaker 01

  I'm so lucky. Do you love your family?

• 20:08Drew Afualo?

  I do love my family. I I bring them everywhere with me, as you can tell.

• 20:12Speaker 01

  It's so special.

• 20:13Drew Afualo?

  But my small cavalry that I travel with.

• 20:15Speaker 01

  It's my dream. I walked in and they're like, where's your crew? And I was like, wait, what?

• 20:21Drew Afualo?

  Wow, let's go posse for posse.

• 20:22Speaker 01

  I need to bring my, I know, I need to bring my crew. I feel so lonely.

• 20:27Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's it's like a running joke with me everywhere I go now, like for a lot of my friends or like people I work with, they're like, well Drew needs like a plus four.

• 20:35Speaker 01

  I love that.

• 20:37Drew Afualo?

  If I can, I mean, you shoot for the stars. That's what I always do. Like when they say like, oh, you can bring someone. I'm like, can you plus five?

• 20:43Speaker 01

  Can't hurt to ask.

• 20:43Drew Afualo?

  Final ask, plus two. Give it to me, it's alright.

• 20:47Speaker 01

  And do you ever go to something and they're like, you can't even bring a plus one?

• 20:50Drew Afualo?

  Yes, and it's like, now I'm getting at that point in my career where my team's like, you gotta go. Like even if I go by myself, I'm like.

• 20:58Speaker 01

  I feel so crazy going anywhere by myself.

• 21:00Drew Afualo?

  Me too.

• 21:01Speaker 01

  Why? I've I've become like the most shy person in the world. It's like, where's my personality? I'm like, I left it at home. I'm shaking. People I've met a million times, I'm like, huh, like, what is that?

• 21:12Drew Afualo?

  I don't know. I think it's like, maybe it's because our line of work is like, always having attention and maybe something like that feels like I'm going and looking for it and that's different. I feel like to me than performing. So maybe that's why, or I'm just lazy. There's that too.

• 21:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, I think, yeah, it's like if you go to an event that you had nothing to do with and you're just like, why am I here?

• 21:34Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 21:35Speaker 01

  And everyone else is kind of like, why are you here too?

• 21:37Drew Afualo?

  Right, and I tend, I tend to get a little too silly sometimes when I'm alone.

• 21:41Speaker 01

  No such thing.

• 21:42Drew Afualo?

  Like just, you know, sometimes you're like, you know this because you're silly too.

• 21:46Speaker 01

  I'm goofy.

• 21:46Drew Afualo?

  Like when you, when you joke around a little too much at certain events, you're like, okay, I need to reel it in just a little bit.

• 21:51Speaker 01

  I know, you just, oh, oh.

• 21:53Drew Afualo?

  You need to bring it in.

• 21:54Speaker 01

  You just brought a memory to mind, but I. It's for the best that it doesn't come to me in full. We'll circle back if it, if the memory presents itself.

• 22:02Drew Afualo?

  Sometimes I, I get a little too silly, but I think it's just, I don't know if it's like a defense mechanism sometimes, like where I'm just like, I need to make conversation and if someone's not carrying it. Cause I can carry a conversation like with anybody really. But if they're not really giving me much, I'll just start saying things and that's never a good thing.

• 22:19Speaker 01

  That's a gift.

• 22:19Drew Afualo?

  It could be a, a win or a huge loss depending on the audience.

• 22:23Speaker 01

  You're here to play. Life is a game and you're here to play.

• 22:27Drew Afualo?

  I say that sometimes, and you know this because you know Caleb.

• 22:30Speaker 01

  Love.

• 22:30Drew Afualo?

  And we love, we both.

• 22:31Speaker 01

  Do you need a bottle?

• 22:32Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, we both know and love Caleb. And a lot of times I get people saying like, oh, I wish I was friends with Caleb, like, I wish, I'm like, do you?

• 22:43Drew Afualo?

  No, Caleb is, obviously he's the greatest friend and the sweetest person alive. But he is so funny and like witty, even when cameras are not on. To a point where I think it would overwhelm most people. I think a lot of people think they could keep up with him and they surely cannot.

• 22:58Speaker 01

  No, no, no.

• 22:59Drew Afualo?

  I don't think so.

• 22:59Speaker 01

  He's too quick.

• 23:00Drew Afualo?

  He's way too fucking quick.

• 23:01Speaker 01

  I'm, cameras off, I go goo goo. Even cameras on, I go, I'm like goo goo ga ga.

• 23:07Speaker 01

  Suddenly on stage, I'm just like, la la, okay, anyways, like, whatever.

• 23:12Drew Afualo?

  I do wanna know back, well, that's actually a good segue because I wanna get back to stand up for you.

• 23:16Speaker 01

  Let's dive in.

• 23:17Drew Afualo?

  So when you first started, how did it go for you? Like, how, how were you feeling when you first got started? Were you loving? Were you growing a love?

• 23:24Speaker 01

  I remember I went with one of my besties, Mitra Johari, who's an amazing comedian writer. She and I went to this open mic and we like ma- made each other do, it was like, okay, we're gonna do this, like, you know.

• 23:35Drew Afualo?

  Accountability partner.

• 23:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, or a murder-suicide pact, whatever. But we both did it, both of us completely blacked out, like, don't remember what I said. But then once you break the seal, I was kinda like, okay, I'm intrigued.

• 23:45Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 23:46Speaker 01

  And then, yeah, I mean, I was lucky just to meet a bunch of cool people here who were doing like tiny shows in basements of bars and just getting up as much as possible.

• 23:56Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 23:56Speaker 01

  And then I think, things didn't really take off until I started doing, adding music to my act and doing songs. And then I feel like it was like, okay, I'm kinda figuring out who I am.

• 24:05Drew Afualo?

  Interesting. That was a huge part of your act. I thought it was so funny, dude. One of your favorite jokes that you made a few times that night was, when you're crowd work, I would associate with crowd work, where you were talking about people with their arms crossed, you're, don't cross your arms, you're closing yourself off to the universe.

• 24:19Speaker 01

  Thank you, it's such a good one. I need to think of something else, like, like, those little bits are so nice to have in your back pocket when like, no one's vibing with you.

• 24:28Speaker 01

  So I gotta think of some good, yeah, there was something else, those are like those, I love having those like in my back pocket.

• 24:33Drew Afualo?

  They're so funny, it killed me every time.

• 24:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, I used to have like.

• 24:36Drew Afualo?

  And it's great for men too, like if men are being fucking sicklers in the audience, yeah, they're being like, you're like, you wanna laugh.

• 24:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, or sometimes I'll go to a man like that, I'm just like, why do you hate me? I'm kidding, he wants me so bad. They laugh because they're so confused.

• 24:48Drew Afualo?

  You're like, it's okay, you hate me, that's fine, it's okay.

• 24:50Speaker 01

  I'm like, you're dying around me, I'm gonna blow up your marriage.

• 24:56Speaker 01

  Like, that's fun.

• 24:57Drew Afualo?

  And then they have no choice but to laugh.

• 24:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, of course, because they're like, this woman needs hospital.

• 25:02Drew Afualo?

  Needs hospital?

• 25:03Speaker 01

  Needs an IV.

• 25:04Drew Afualo?

  Needs hospital.

• 25:05Speaker 01

  British style, that's how they say it.

• 25:09Drew Afualo?

  Well, you, you did say you were engaged, right?

• 25:11Speaker 01

  Everyone's talking about it.

• 25:13Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, eh, a bad word on the street is.

• 25:16Speaker 01

  It's over, boys, it's over.

• 25:20Drew Afualo?

  Don't even bother.

• 25:21Speaker 01

  I know.

• 25:21Drew Afualo?

  Uh, what does he do for a living? Is he also?

• 25:24Speaker 01

  Ready for this? Vroom, vroom, he has a podcast about Formula One.

• 25:27Drew Afualo?

  Oh.

• 25:28Speaker 01

  Do you care about that at all?

• 25:29Drew Afualo?

  About the podcast specifically or Formula One? Yes, F1.

• 25:34Speaker 01

  Oh, you actually do? Okay, cool.

• 25:35Drew Afualo?

  Cargo Fast.

• 25:36Speaker 01

  Cargo So.

• 25:36Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, Cargo So Fast, Cargo, Cargo Europe, Cargo Miami.

• 25:41Speaker 01

  That's the fun of it.

• 25:42Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 25:43Speaker 01

  It's like a pandemic side project he started, and now it's like his full-time job.

• 25:46Drew Afualo?

  That's so fucking cool though.

• 25:47Speaker 01

  And he's an actor, so that's why he was like, I need something else to do.

• 25:49Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 25:50Speaker 01

  He's great.

• 25:51Drew Afualo?

  I only know literally one singular person that loves F1.

• 25:55Speaker 01

  Who?

• 25:55Drew Afualo?

  And it's my agent, who's also one of my besties, her husband, Steven.

• 26:00Speaker 01

  Let's connect them.

• 26:00Drew Afualo?

  He loves F1.

• 26:02Speaker 01

  Okay, great.

• 26:02Drew Afualo?

  So like anytime there's anything about F1, I'm like, I bet Steve would love this, and I just send it to him.

• 26:07Speaker 01

  That's nice, yeah, it's becoming like massive.

• 26:10Drew Afualo?

  It is, it's becoming super popular now.

• 26:13Speaker 01

  In the States, no one had really heard of it, yeah, but now it's major, yeah, it's called the Red Flags Podcast, if y'all are into it.

• 26:18Drew Afualo?

  Love, do you like Cargo Fast?

• 26:21Speaker 01

  I would go to Monaco. I, I don't know what's going on, I've, I've, I've gleaned a lot of info from some of his conversations on the phone. Or I'll watch his TikToks and be like, hee hee ha.

• 26:34Drew Afualo?

  Oh, that's great.

• 26:35Speaker 01

  Do you believe in this? Sometimes he'll hold the phone and be like, if we're trying to get a TikTok to do well, we'll be like, yes, I love this. Do you do that?

• 26:42Drew Afualo?

  Like, in the algorithm?

• 26:44Speaker 01

  Like, your phone's watching you, so it'll be like, ha, ha, this is so good.

• 26:49Speaker 01

  You must be doing that.

• 26:50Drew Afualo?

  You're emoting towards your phone?

• 26:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, is that a secret?

• 26:53Drew Afualo?

  I, I haven't done that, I don't think.

• 26:56Speaker 01

  And look at what you're doing.

• 26:57Drew Afualo?

  I do be giggling at my phone, but.

• 26:59Speaker 01

  Maybe that's why, it's going viral.

• 27:01Drew Afualo?

  They know.

• 27:02Speaker 01

  Okay, that's what I've been trying to do, I don't know. Actually, I don't have TikTok on my phone right now, because it was.

• 27:11Speaker 00

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• 27:44Speaker 01

  Making me forget how to read and speak.

• 27:49Drew Afualo?

  Like, what?

• 27:50Speaker 01

  I love it, though.

• 27:51Drew Afualo?

  I do, too, and it's, it does have a very insane tapeworm that it put in my brain.

• 27:58Speaker 01

  That's exactly the issue.

• 27:59Drew Afualo?

  Eating it alive.

• 28:00Speaker 01

  What's your algorithm like?

• 28:02Drew Afualo?

  I have a lot of random stuff. You would think my algorithm is really, really awful, like, I have a lot of misogynistic shit on there, because that's the shit I, like, was stitching for so long.

• 28:11Speaker 01

  Right.

• 28:11Drew Afualo?

  But thankfully, my algorithm's never really been populated by that stuff. I have a lot of weird shit on mine. I've been putting a lot of people on, honestly, through this show. I've been talking about people I've been watching, like, Dr. Parkinson, I talked about him. And that clip blew up on TikTok. He's, um, someone, I think he's based in Texas, I can't remember, but he's basically someone who is obsessed with anything from the 1920s, so like.

• 28:34Speaker 01

  I know who that is.

• 28:35Drew Afualo?

  He does the Charleston and everything.

• 28:36Speaker 01

  His, his stuff's amazing.

• 28:38Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I love him.

• 28:39Speaker 01

  He's like, this is an old wood burning fire from.

• 28:41Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and he's like, he's like, I'm gonna make cornbread on my 1940s range, and then he just does it. And I, I love, like, he has very minimal cuts and edits in his stuff, and I love when he's like. Doing something and he's getting fucking annoyed because it's taking a little bit too long and then he just goes ah And just like tears stuff and he goes anyways and he just goes right back to it. Don't cut it out, leave it in. Raw, love it.

• 29:04Speaker 01

  Where does he live?

• 29:06Drew Afualo?

  I think Texas, I think he lives in Texas, I believe, or somewhere in the south, I know that.

• 29:11Speaker 01

  Wow, his stuff's so good.

• 29:12Drew Afualo?

  I'm obsessed with him. I put it, I literally talked about him on the show like a month ago and A clip of it, like one of my, my social girl put it on TikTok and it did really well and then he saw it and he was like, Did somebody call me? That's what he like commented on the video and I wrote back, I said, my king, huge fan.

• 29:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 29:29Drew Afualo?

  And he's like, mm, you're not following me though. Oh, called out by Dr. Parkinson.

• 29:34Speaker 01

  Okay, well, team Parkinson.

• 29:35Drew Afualo?

  Well, now we're in a diva off because he hasn't followed me either.

• 29:37Speaker 01

  Oh, God, well, what's he supposed to do?

• 29:39Drew Afualo?

  Me and Dr. Parkinson in a diva off.

• 29:41Speaker 01

  That's so funny. I was just talking about this. I was like, people will be like, I love your work and I'm like, you don't follow. But I get it because then I see people and I'm like, oh wait, but on TikTok I don't really follow anyone.

• 29:51Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I, well, me too. It's like, it's very like from my algorithm.

• 29:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, you're served them, you don't need to.

• 29:56Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and then after a while, like if I keep seeing you over and over and over again and I'm like really, really rocking with it, I'll follow you.

• 30:03Speaker 01

  You'll throw a dog a bone.

• 30:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, but I also, I also like have to be careful though because sometimes you follow people And I'm not saying this about Dr. Parkinson, but sometimes you follow people, you're like, oh, I love their content.

• 30:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 30:13Drew Afualo?

  And then like two years later, they turn out to be a huge prick and you're like, and then all of a sudden it's like, and you know who's following that person? So I gotta be careful with my followers.

• 30:22Speaker 01

  That's crazy.

• 30:22Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, girl.

• 30:23Speaker 01

  People watching who you follow.

• 30:24Drew Afualo?

  Yes, girl, all the fucking time.

• 30:26Speaker 01

  People need, stay with me hospital.

• 30:29Drew Afualo?

  And job.

• 30:30Speaker 01

  And job. Oh, people really need job, myself included. I'm like, I would love to be there. I mean, the fact that we're in an office right now, don't you feel like so good?

• 30:39Drew Afualo?

  I feel so corporate.

• 30:40Speaker 01

  I know.

• 30:41Drew Afualo?

  So nine to five.

• 30:41Speaker 01

  Back to our desk after this.

• 30:43Drew Afualo?

  Back to our Q-Bucks. This episode is brought to you by Tubi. From the world of Tay Marley's The QB Bad Boy and me, comes the next chapter, Sideline Two: Intercepted. When love meets ambition, distance isn't the only challenge for your favorite quarterback and dancer. With two hearts chasing dreams on separate paths, will their connection last? Watch Sideline Two: Intercepted, premiering free on Tubi Thanksgiving Day. Did you have any nine-to-five jobs before?

• 31:12Speaker 01

  Gosh, when I started, I worked, uh, not really. I worked like as an admin assistant at a theater. I was like in the basement. And then I did like, you know, waitress, tutor, babysitter, all the classics.

• 31:26Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 31:26Speaker 01

  What about you?

• 31:28Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I did, in college, I did like office, like I was like assistant too in certain stuff.

• 31:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:33Drew Afualo?

  In offices and then I was like, I was a server. I was a babysitter too when I would go home sometimes, like a low-key nanny. And then I worked at an office job right after college.

• 31:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:44Drew Afualo?

  And then got another job at the NFL right after that. That's where I was going.

• 31:48Speaker 01

  Oh, right, right.

• 31:48Drew Afualo?

  And then I got fired.

• 31:49Speaker 01

  Why?

• 31:50Drew Afualo?

  From the NFL. Yeah, they fired me, girl. They said, "Do not come back here." And I said, "Really?"

• 31:54Speaker 01

  And you go, "Hmm, let me go have, make an amazing life for myself."

• 31:57Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I was like, "Damn, that sucks."

• 31:59Speaker 01

  You said, "Bye."

• 32:00Drew Afualo?

  What's funny is too, I didn't know I was gonna get fired, so I did bring my laptop in to take notes. And then when they said, "We're letting you go," I said, "So no notes." "So no notes."

• 32:10Speaker 01

  You getting ready to type? It's so funny. Okay, so what do you want to talk about?

• 32:13Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I literally had my thing up to take notes and then they said, "We're letting you go." I said, "Right."

• 32:19Speaker 01

  And that's the opening scene of your pilot.

• 32:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 32:21Speaker 01

  Okay, you're literally like, "Today's notes." Uh, fired, cut to title. Drew.

• 32:27Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.

• 32:30Speaker 01

  That's good. That's good.

• 32:34Speaker 01

  I'll produce.

• 32:35Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, there you go, co-produce, co-write.

• 32:37Speaker 01

  Cheers.

• 32:37Drew Afualo?

  Love that for us.

• 32:38Speaker 01

  I love.

• 32:39Drew Afualo?

  I do have some fun facts about you, though, actually.

• 32:41Speaker 01

  Now, what's this gonna be?

• 32:42Drew Afualo?

  And we, we can get into that if you're ready.

• 32:44Speaker 01

  Dive in.

• 32:46Drew Afualo?

  I feel like you have a very whimsical life, so maybe we'll see.

• 32:48Speaker 01

  Oh, that's nice.

• 32:50Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 32:50Speaker 01

  Or not.

• 32:51Drew Afualo?

  This first one says, "She once sprained her foot just from walking."

• 32:55Speaker 01

  Of course. But how do you, how do you know that?

• 32:58Drew Afualo?

  And how did that happen?

• 33:00Speaker 01

  But that's happened a lot.

• 33:01Drew Afualo?

  Oh, a lot?

• 33:02Speaker 01

  Well, yeah, like, you know when you're walking, all of a sudden you're like, "Ow!", and like, you don't know why, something's hurting? Doesn't that happen to everyone in the room by the same amount of times a day?

• 33:10Drew Afualo?

  I don't know.

• 33:11Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 33:12Drew Afualo?

  I don't know about walking in sprained foot.

• 33:14Speaker 01

  I am a big hypochondriac.

• 33:15Drew Afualo?

  Oh, are you?

• 33:16Speaker 01

  Do you connect with that?

• 33:16Drew Afualo?

  Yes, absolutely.

• 33:17Speaker 01

  And so...

• 33:19Drew Afualo?

  A big, like, Dr. Google.

• 33:20Speaker 01

  Oh, God, it's awful, especially like, the past, I'm actually over it now, but two weeks ago, I went to the doctor because there's a bump on my neck. She was like, "Where?", for like, ten minutes, she was like, "I don't feel anything", and then she did admit there was something. She said it was just a lymph node, and I was like, "That doesn't sound good", she's like, "You have them all over your body", I was like, "Well, that doesn't, that sounds really bad", but she said they're normal.

• 33:43Drew Afualo?

  You can feel your lymph node, and she said, "God", and you had me pain, you had me fucking come in at 10 a.m. for this?

• 33:49Speaker 01

  I know, and then I was like-

• 33:50Drew Afualo?

  To feel your neck?

• 33:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, and then I was like, "The back of my ear hurts", and she goes, "Okay, I actually don't know what that could be", and then I was like, "And my back hurts", and she was like, "Okay".

• 33:57Drew Afualo?

  And my feelings are hurt, because you couldn't feel that bump. So, what are we gonna do about that, doc?

• 34:01Speaker 01

  First thing she said was like, "And so, why aren't you taking your Prozac anymore?", and I was like, "Respect", okay, so...

• 34:07Drew Afualo?

  And you said, "That's besides the point",

• 34:09Speaker 01

  I know.

• 34:10Drew Afualo?

  "That's nothing to do with why I came here today".

• 34:12Speaker 01

  I said, "'Cause I wanna, can I be disgusting on this? I wanna come so easy", is that allowed on this? Okay.

• 34:17Drew Afualo?

  Yes, of course it is.

• 34:18Speaker 01

  And she was like, she said, "And tell me what you think about this", she goes, "What if you took it every other day instead of every day", and I was like, "Is that allowed?" I know, stay tuned.

• 34:30Drew Afualo?

  You know what, you should go to, you should do this for a living, to your doctor, you tell your doctor.

• 34:35Speaker 01

  Be-

• 34:36Drew Afualo?

  You should be a doctor for a living, you have some really sound advice.

• 34:39Speaker 01

  She's a really promising up-and-comer in the doctor industry. This camera is making me realize, God, I don't wanna do it, but it's time.

• 34:49Speaker 01

  You guys, I know what I'm saying. No one wants to do it.

• 34:51Drew Afualo?

  To cut, to cut, like, two inches off?

• 34:54Speaker 01

  Because you, you know, when it gets small at the end, you're like,

• 34:58Speaker 01

  "Oh my God, I need extensions".

• 35:01Drew Afualo?

  Would you believe I have extensions?

• 35:03Speaker 01

  They look unbelievable.

• 35:04Drew Afualo?

  Thank you.

• 35:04Speaker 01

  I thought it was all natural.

• 35:05Drew Afualo?

  I know.

• 35:06Speaker 01

  Do you, are they in all the time?

• 35:07Drew Afualo?

  Um, yeah, for the most part, yeah.

• 35:09Speaker 01

  How often do you have to like have them redone?

• 35:11Drew Afualo?

  I get mine redone every three months. So like ninety days is honestly great for me.

• 35:15Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 35:16Drew Afualo?

  Like, when I, and it's funny because when I initially got extensions, I just did it, I was like, fuck it. I was feeling real like crazy. I was like, fuck it, I'm gonna get me in my long hair era, even though my hair is already long. Even, and my hair and makeup artist was like, well, fuck, you need more hair in your head. You do not need more hair in your head.

• 35:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 35:33Drew Afualo?

  I'm like, oh, let's just try it, let's be crazy. And I think the first time I did it, she put probably thirty-two packs of hair in my head. It was just way too much hair.

• 35:41Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 35:42Drew Afualo?

  I was like, let's wheel it back a little bit. And then she, I've like consistently been getting them lately, I would say for the last like year and a half.

• 35:49Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 35:50Drew Afualo?

  But I love them and I really do think she does a really fantastic job on the blend and stuff. But I also think because generally of how my hair looks, I feel like most people would never assume I have them.

• 36:00Speaker 01

  Never. I was like, you just have that thick, luscious, gorgeous hair.

• 36:03Drew Afualo?

  Cause my natural hair is very thick and long, so like, I think it's just, it's movie magic.

• 36:07Speaker 01

  It really is.

• 36:08Drew Afualo?

  Movie magic.

• 36:09Speaker 01

  But can I ask a stupid question?

• 36:10Drew Afualo?

  No, it's not stupid.

• 36:10Speaker 01

  My hair, so my hair is naturally really curly.

• 36:13Drew Afualo?

  Okay, so is mine. Mine's like wavy curly.

• 36:15Speaker 01

  Yeah, and so every day it looks completely different.

• 36:16Drew Afualo?

  Mm-hmm.

• 36:17Speaker 01

  So how do the extensions look the same as your hair?

• 36:19Drew Afualo?

  Well, it's funny you say that because this last install I just did, I did a different brand, but I also did line one, shout out line one, in case you wanna give me hair for free, line one.

• 36:28Speaker 01

  Give us hair for free, please.

• 36:29Drew Afualo?

  Um, they have textured hair, so like, they, that can match your texture.

• 36:32Speaker 01

  That matches what yours naturally is.

• 36:33Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, so my, this is like kind of my natural hair texture a little bit.

• 36:36Speaker 01

  Well, that's also very lucky.

• 36:37Drew Afualo?

  But like, I mean, it's.

• 36:39Speaker 01

  Cause mine's curly in a way that's not what anyone would pick. It goes.

• 36:43Drew Afualo?

  I disagree, but it's beautiful.

• 36:46Speaker 01

  Never forget, twenty sixteen, I had curly bangs, no one told me the truth.

• 36:50Drew Afualo?

  I also got bangs when I was young, um, and I had even curlier hair when I was young, before I like fried the fuck out of my hair.

• 36:57Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 36:57Drew Afualo?

  Killed my curl pattern.

• 36:58Speaker 01

  Our whole life is like.

• 36:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like just killed my curl pattern.

• 37:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 37:01Drew Afualo?

  Before I did that, my hair was a lot curlier and I got full bang, like, not even a.

• 37:07Speaker 01

  What age were you talking?

• 37:08Drew Afualo?

  I was like fifteen.

• 37:09Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 37:09Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, girl, and like my hair is so thick up here, that bang, it looked like a Lego piece, like I could just take it off, like, just pop it off.

• 37:17Speaker 01

  What were you like in high school?

• 37:19Drew Afualo?

  I was an athlete. I was like a student athlete.

• 37:22Speaker 01

  What was your sport of choice?

• 37:23Drew Afualo?

  I, well soccer was my main sport. Yeah, but then I did, I played sports all year, so I did volleyball, soccer, then track all year.

• 37:31Speaker 01

  Oh, so you're extremely fast.

• 37:33Drew Afualo?

  I wouldn't say extremely. I will say though, on my player profile, when I was getting recruited, like for college to play soccer, on my player profile, they wrote, uh, deceptively fast.

• 37:45Drew Afualo?

  I'm a big ass bitch.

• 37:45Speaker 01

  Crazy.

• 37:47Drew Afualo?

  They said deceptively fast. And no, I can't edit them. They're almost like yelps.

• 37:51Speaker 01

  Wow, that's unbelievable.

• 37:53Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, they wrote deceptively fast.

• 37:55Speaker 01

  Oh my god.

• 37:55Drew Afualo?

  I would say fast for my size. I wouldn't say I'm the fastest. But sometimes, you know, like when I first started dating my man, uh, cause my man was a college football player, like he played at sports his whole life too, so like, you know, when in the beginning, you're like doing cute little banter and shit, like, I was like, I used to talk mad shit about being able to beat him in a foot race.

• 38:15Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 38:15Drew Afualo?

  But my man is really competitive, just generally speaking, he's very competitive. So he was like, we should race one day. And I was like, you're taking it too serious. I'm trying to be cute and you're taking it too serious. We haven't raced yet, cause I don't.

• 38:28Speaker 01

  Down the aisle?

• 38:31Drew Afualo?

  Down the aisle, that's where we start. We kick it off.

• 38:34Speaker 01

  Wait, how did y'all meet?

• 38:35Drew Afualo?

  We actually met in high school. We're not high school sweethearts. But we did meet in high school.

• 38:40Speaker 01

  Did you ever think, like?

• 38:41Drew Afualo?

  No, fuck no.

• 38:42Speaker 01

  Really?

• 38:43Drew Afualo?

  No, in high, no, absolutely not in high school.

• 38:45Speaker 01

  How'd you reconnect then?

• 38:46Drew Afualo?

  Um, we reconnected after because I went, we both went away to college. We were friends in high school, like we were in the same kind of friend group. And my sister jokes all the time that we should have known that my sister was a lesbian and that I, like, just my sister was a lesbian, honestly, and maybe even me, cause in high school, I really hated men even more so than I do now. And like, my sister, the, oh, my sister had crushes every quarter, like every three months, she would have a new boy that she was like, this is the fucking one.

• 39:13Speaker 01

  Right.

• 39:14Drew Afualo?

  And they were always like gross and ugly, and that's besides the point, but like, she had a crush on literally everyone except my man in high school because she was like, ew, and he was arguably the only good looking man in our high school. And he got handsome and tall and athletic young. Dangerous combo. In high school. Shocking, he turned out to be a good person.

• 39:33Speaker 01

  That is shocking.

• 39:34Drew Afualo?

  It is.

• 39:34Speaker 01

  How did he?

• 39:35Drew Afualo?

  I don't know.

• 39:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, cause I.

• 39:37Drew Afualo?

  I have no idea.

• 39:38Speaker 01

  My fiance was really, really short growing up.

• 39:41Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 39:42Speaker 01

  And it gave him the most amazing personality. Like he rocks. Because everyone was like, aww, haha, we don't like you.

• 39:50Drew Afualo?

  So he gets it.

• 39:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 39:51Drew Afualo?

  He understands. That's good. I'm glad to hear a short king turned out nicely.

• 39:55Speaker 01

  Oh god, he's so nice. Oh god!

• 39:58Drew Afualo?

  That's nice to hear.

• 39:59Speaker 01

  I know.

• 39:59Drew Afualo?

  I know, I don't know how. I think maybe because he was raised by a single mom.

• 40:02Speaker 01

  Oh, um, very sweet. Respects women.

• 40:05Drew Afualo?

  Mm-hmm, loves women.

• 40:06Speaker 01

  That's a good answer, yeah.

• 40:07Drew Afualo?

  And I thought this was a good sign too, when I first started dating him, that he calls his mom mama. And always says I love you, like, in front of other people, like, doesn't care, like, he's very affectionate like that with his mom. And I was like, good sign.

• 40:18Speaker 01

  Yes, very important.

• 40:19Drew Afualo?

  Good sign, love that. What about you and your man, how'd you meet?

• 40:22Speaker 01

  We met through a friend, um, what was, uh, me laughing? I was in an open relationship because I was scared to break up with someone.

• 40:33Drew Afualo?

  Okay, too.

• 40:33Speaker 01

  Tale as old as time, anyone else, anyone else? And my friend from college was like, he goes, I have one straight friend from theater camp. Do you wanna meet him? And I was like, he's not my type, but whatever. And then I met him and I was like, like, almost fucked in a closet. I was like, at this house party, I was like, okay, I gotta break up with my boyfriend. Broke up with my boyfriend. Get with Brian, guess what, Brian dumps me. Guess what? Then, months pass, and we did get back together, and now we're actually getting, now, now we've been together like seven years.

• 41:01Drew Afualo?

  Oh yeah, too. We've been together eight, so.

• 41:03Speaker 01

  God, yeah, it's so, isn't it fun to have like this new thing you're excited about together?

• 41:07Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's really exciting.

• 41:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 41:09Drew Afualo?

  It feels, it feels different.

• 41:10Speaker 01

  I know.

• 41:11Drew Afualo?

  It feels different, but not, like, it feels like the same, but more like serious, I guess. Also too, I don't know if you felt this way, but my man and I joke all the time that like, because obviously we weren't in a rush to get married, like, on, like, Gen Z TikTok viewers, like, consumers and men who hate me, um, they like to be like, wow, together for fucking eight years and not married yet, like, well, that's because in your head, marriage is like a concept, because you're never gonna get married, at least not for love. But my thing is, I was like, I'm not twenty one, so like, I wasn't like rushing to get married. I I really could not have wanted that less if I tried. So I was very like, if it happens, it happens. Like, I knew I wanted to get married. But I wanted to like, live together. I wanted to live life together.

• 41:55Drew Afualo?

  And I've said before, I wanted to like, experience things together, like, good and bad, like, and see how you live through it as a couple. Cause I was like, I wanna go through the test of time together before I commit my life to one person, cause I don't plan on getting married a million times. So like, that's kinda like, not ideal for me.

• 42:12Speaker 01

  A million weddings.

• 42:13Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I don't need, I don't need all that. Like, I'm trying to be a one and done kinda girl with marriage, so that's why I took my time.

• 42:19Speaker 01

  That's so funny. I posted what, the one video I posted that went crazy viral, which was of Brian, and I said, my boyfriend of five years in it. And of course, all the comments are, you fucking hag loser. He will never, ever. Pop the question. Dump him. Yeah, and by the way, while you're at it, slit your throat, love you, X O X O X O, dash, me. It's like some fifteen year old boy in Arkansas. I'm like, okay, but I thought it was so weird, too, cause I similarly was like, okay, I wanna get my career in order, get everything.

• 42:50Drew Afualo?

  Same.

• 42:50Speaker 01

  How, how long after dating did you all move in together?

• 42:54Drew Afualo?

  Um, I think we started living together around three years?

• 42:58Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, around three. Cause we were living in our own, well, in our parents' houses for a while, right after college. Hard to get a job.

• 43:06Speaker 01

  I know.

• 43:07Drew Afualo?

  So we were both living in our, in separate houses for a while, and then um, his, his family was kind enough to let me move into their house. When my uh, grandmother had to move into my house, so like, just so there's not too many people. So I moved into their house and we lived there. That was the first time we like, lived, lived together. That was around three years, I would say.

• 43:25Speaker 01

  That's so nice.

• 43:26Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and then we lived there with other people, like, essentially roommates, right?

• 43:30Speaker 01

  Oh my gosh.

• 43:31Drew Afualo?

  Two years, and then we moved into our own home together.

• 43:34Speaker 01

  That must've been so nice.

• 43:35Drew Afualo?

  It was the best. It was the fucking best. But like, it, like, all of those different phases of our life, I think, helped develop and grow us as a couple. But I was the same way. I was like, I have a lot of things I wanna accomplish, like, and he, he's even told me, like, he knew he wanted to marry me, like, well, like, I would say, well into dating, so like, three months in, like, he knew. So I, but I, and I knew too.

• 43:57Speaker 01

  Bless you.

• 43:58Drew Afualo?

  God bless you.

• 43:59Speaker 01

  And can we cut to her, cut to her? So you know what we're talking about.

• 44:03Drew Afualo?

  My lesbian sister just sneezed.

• 44:05Speaker 01

  And that's okay.

• 44:08Drew Afualo?

  And they can do that.

• 44:09Speaker 01

  Yes, beautiful.

• 44:10Drew Afualo?

  Thank you, SCOTUS, appreciate you.

• 44:15Drew Afualo?

  So, uh, I get the same shit. I made a video recently, cause our anniversary's in August, and then I made a video, cause my fiancee got me a bunch of like beautiful gifts for our anniversary, like he's a really good gift giver. And they were like sentimental gifts and really thoughtful gifts and like shit like that.

• 44:33Speaker 01

  That rocks.

• 44:34Drew Afualo?

  Doesn't cost a lot and doesn't take a lot other than effort and love, you know? Two things those men don't have, and so when I made that video, I said to my fiancee, "It's our eight year anniversary, bitch." The amount of men that were like, "Eight years, no wonder she fucking hates men." "Eight years, been a fiancee for eight years." I was like, "I haven't been a fiancee for eight years."

• 44:55Speaker 01

  It's crazy.

• 44:55Drew Afualo?

  And then I'm like, "I've been a fiancee for one year." "How long have you been a fiancee?" "Never."

• 45:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 45:01Drew Afualo?

  But also, I was like, I didn't wanna get married at twenty-one, like you would just wanna get married at twenty-one?

• 45:06Speaker 01

  No.

• 45:07Drew Afualo?

  And I don't want kids, so like, I'm not worried about that either.

• 45:09Speaker 01

  That's so powerful. Have you always not wanted?

• 45:12Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 45:13Speaker 01

  God.

• 45:13Drew Afualo?

  Honestly, I, I realized it though, I think, when I turned like twenty-three, twenty-four. Like, it was just, i- in my head, I, I won't say I was always like, I know I don't want kids. What I always knew was like, it never spoke to me the way it spoke to a lot of other girls.

• 45:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 45:29Drew Afualo?

  So when girls would be like, "I can't wait to be a mom, I can't wait to, I'm gonna name my daughters this," like I'm not even kidding, sometimes dude, I would make shit up. Like, I would be like, "Same."

• 45:39Speaker 01

  Samantha.

• 45:41Drew Afualo?

  Oh, I know a name, and it would be like a name I saw in a movie and I thought was cool. And I'd be like, "I think maybe that," and then everyone would be like, "Oh, that's great." But I was like, I was so performative about it, like, because I just thought, I kept thinking when I was younger, I was like, as I get older, like, maybe it'll kick in, like, when I get older.

• 45:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 45:58Drew Afualo?

  And then like, the more motivated I became in like my career and stuff, the less and further away from me it felt. So then I was like... Uh, I wrote about this in my book, but like I had like a pregnancy scare and then that's where I really was like, oh yeah, I don't want.

• 46:12Speaker 01

  Right.

• 46:12Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, oh yeah, no, that's not the path for me.

• 46:15Speaker 01

  Damn.

• 46:16Drew Afualo?

  I wanna be a rich aunt.

• 46:18Speaker 01

  Love that.

• 46:18Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, so my, my sister's gay, my brother's straight, but my brother's young. And my sister's on the fence, so like, here's hoping for my brother. I told my mom.

• 46:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, he's gotta find, yeah.

• 46:28Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and like, I know Caleb really wants kids, so excited about him. I can't wait to be an aunt. I'm gonna be the best godmother in the world.

• 46:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, you really will be.

• 46:36Drew Afualo?

  I'm gonna be the best godmother.

• 46:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm on the fence.

• 46:38Drew Afualo?

  Are you?

• 46:40Speaker 01

  We'll find out together.

• 46:42Drew Afualo?

  We'll discover it together.

• 46:43Speaker 01

  I, I guess I like, I'm like always like in theory, yes, but I'm like, but life rocks right now, why would I want it to change?

• 46:47Drew Afualo?

  And that's really like how I was too for a long time. And that's why I think when I talked about it in my book, I was like, I think my fiance and I were kind of dancing around that for a minute. More, not because we were, I think it was we were afraid that maybe our answers wouldn't match. But then after that incident that we had, we both were like, see.

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• 47:40Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I get real wind.

• 47:42Speaker 01

  That's so nice.

• 47:43Drew Afualo?

  I know, so that was really nice too. And he's always, he was always so supportive about anything I wanted. Which is very nice and kind. I know.

• 47:51Speaker 01

  What are both your signs?

• 47:52Drew Afualo?

  I'm a Virgo, he's a Libra. What about you?

• 47:55Speaker 01

  Well, you know I have a Virgo stellium.

• 47:56Drew Afualo?

  Ooh, I do know that about you.

• 47:59Speaker 01

  If that means anything to you.

• 47:59Drew Afualo?

  I smelled it on you when you came in.

• 48:02Speaker 01

  No, I'm a Leo, but I have a Virgo moon.

• 48:04Drew Afualo?

  Ooh.

• 48:04Speaker 01

  What's your moon in rising?

• 48:05Drew Afualo?

  My moon's cancer moon, Sagittarius rising.

• 48:08Speaker 01

  Oh, so stunning gorgeous.

• 48:09Drew Afualo?

  What about you?

• 48:10Speaker 01

  Virgo moon.

• 48:11Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 48:12Speaker 01

  Uh, Pisces rising.

• 48:13Drew Afualo?

  Ooh, okay, feelsies.

• 48:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, cry.

• 48:17Drew Afualo?

  Lots of feelsies. What's he?

• 48:19Speaker 01

  What's, he is in Aries.

• 48:21Drew Afualo?

  Okay, I like Aries men.

• 48:23Speaker 01

  He rocks.

• 48:24Drew Afualo?

  I shockingly get along with Aries moon really well, yeah.

• 48:27Speaker 01

  Let's bring him in.

• 48:28Drew Afualo?

  Aries men?

• 48:29Speaker 01

  Hey, bring in the, the lineup. Of Aries men. And you said he's what? A Libra. I love a Libra.

• 48:36Drew Afualo?

  Me too. I love, I, and he's very, uh, what do you call it? Like, I feel like for him, it's very logical. Everything is very like black and white kinda thing. How I've described it to my therapist is like, I am very like, but what if? Like about everything? And he's like, eh, everything's gonna be fine, cuz it's always fine.

• 48:55Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 48:56Drew Afualo?

  And I'm like.

• 48:57Speaker 01

  I start sobbing.

• 48:58Drew Afualo?

  You think you're smarter than me. And you're fucking not.

• 49:02Speaker 01

  My whole TikTok is like, what if everything did work out? And I'm like.

• 49:08Speaker 01

  It's that plus girls like reorganizing their rooms.

• 49:10Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my god, you know, I was just talking about this. Cuz mommy vloggers are like real, real popping right now, I feel like, on TikTok.

• 49:17Speaker 01

  I haven't, I haven't seen much of that.

• 49:18Drew Afualo?

  You know, like when they say things like, spend the day with me nine, nine to eleven thirty AM? Or whatever, like, they get real specific with the times. Twelve fifteen to, to, three twenty-five PM, right? Like, they're real specific with the times. Which is fine, I'm loving, I'm seeing nothing but mommy vloggers.

• 49:35Speaker 01

  Really?

• 49:35Drew Afualo?

  Uh, spend the morning with me, mom of four. Uh, realistic ru- morning routine, like shit like that. Like, they're really like, giving me the answer, like, before I even watched the clip. Totally fine, I'm locked in. I was like joking about this with my man, cuz I, I really do love watching those little vlogs. Like, I don't know what it is, and I think it's because, like, sometimes women like that who are fans of me, I like to compare it to like, they watch me like a monkey in the zoo, like, they're like, and they're like, dude, do the thing, like, oh, my god, he's itching his nuts, like, that's so funny. Like, that's how I feel like they watch me, like, tell jokes and make fun of men. And that's fine. But I think the inverse of that for me is like watching mommy vloggers, cuz like, I couldn't relate to a life less.

• 50:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 50:14Drew Afualo?

  And that's not the life I would like for myself, personally. So I feel like fascinated by it, I love to watch it, cuz it's so like, oh, wow. That's what you be doing all day, that's cool.

• 50:24Speaker 01

  It's crazy, the only thing I think is like, wow, you're really having a full day.

• 50:28Drew Afualo?

  Oh, really? Like, your day's way harder than mine, I can promise you that.

• 50:31Speaker 01

  I'm in bed as much as possible. Especially now that it's cold, I'm like, oh, my god.

• 50:37Drew Afualo?

  Just sit up and get out of this.

• 50:38Speaker 01

  That's why it is nice at least to be in LA. It's like it feels like.

• 50:41Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, not frigid outside.

• 50:43Speaker 01

  I'm just like stirring my soup, like cancelling every plan I've made.

• 50:49Drew Afualo?

  I know, I was like, and I was telling him, a lot of the mommy vloggers I'm seeing are almost like mirroring each other at this point. I think they're like kind of copying the same like formula, which is fine. There are a bunch of like.

• 50:59Speaker 01

  Which is fine.

• 51:00Drew Afualo?

  Which is totally fine. If that's what works for you, you know what I mean? Um, but I was telling him, they do a lot of the same things. So they'll say like, um, I have to take, they'll like talk like this and they'll be like, so let's go.

• 51:11Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 51:12Drew Afualo?

  Des knows this, Des. When they do, when mommy vloggers do this, they go, let's go. They, when they hit me with one of these.

• 51:19Speaker 01

  You know you're home.

• 51:20Drew Afualo?

  I'm watching something.

• 51:20Speaker 01

  You're locked in.

• 51:21Drew Afualo?

  I'm watching, listen, I'm locked in, girl. I'm locked, you're gonna crack that Alani and start mopping. I know it. I know it. I feel it. I sense it about you. And I, literally, they do, let's go. And then they always end like this.

• 51:32Speaker 01

  Oh my God, okay. I need to get, I need, I need to see one of these.

• 51:35Drew Afualo?

  Girl, I'm obsessed with them. They're like, and bye.

• 51:39Speaker 01

  Every now and then.

• 51:39Drew Afualo?

  Every single one. I love it. I'm eating it up. I'm eating it up.

• 51:43Speaker 01

  Every now and then I'll get like Mama Four in Tribeca.

• 51:46Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 51:46Speaker 01

  And it's just like seven million dollar homes. And I'm like, and it's spotless. I'm like, okay, so I do feel bad about my life.

• 51:53Drew Afualo?

  And they're, they're doing this and wiping counters and I'm in, I'm locked the fuck in. I love it.

• 51:58Speaker 01

  Are you a morning person?

• 52:00Drew Afualo?

  Hmm, I'd say, yeah, lately I have. In my old age, I just turned thirty. In my old age, yes.

• 52:06Speaker 01

  Welcome.

• 52:07Drew Afualo?

  Thank you. I'm happy to be here. Twenty-nine was awful, like the age. Not, not necessarily the year I had a great year, but like the, the age itself.

• 52:14Speaker 01

  So close.

• 52:15Drew Afualo?

  I felt like, I felt like a guy who like goes back to watch high school games like too soon after he graduated. That's how I felt being twenty-nine. I was like.

• 52:22Speaker 01

  Oh, man.

• 52:23Drew Afualo?

  It's too soon. Like, I'm like, I'm still in my twenties. I'm twenty-nine. I'd rather, I like was telling my sister, I'd rather skip from twenty-eight to thirty.

• 52:30Speaker 01

  Well, that's.

• 52:31Drew Afualo?

  I don't need that final year.

• 52:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, I guess I sort of did because I turned thirty during the pandemic. So I was gonna like, oops, here I am. There goes my life.

• 52:39Drew Afualo?

  That's nice, though.

• 52:40Speaker 01

  No, but life, I would, you couldn't pay me to go backwards one day.

• 52:44Drew Afualo?

  No way.

• 52:45Speaker 01

  Let's move forward.

• 52:47Drew Afualo?

  I was like, uh, I was joking about that with someone too, where I was saying like, your twenties are like, you're supposed to be twisting in the wind in your twenties. Like, you're supposed to be so confused and I don't know what I'm doing and everybody's moving on.

• 52:59Speaker 01

  You're gathering stories, you're gathering stories.

• 53:01Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you're like building lore, character lore.

• 53:03Speaker 01

  Truly.

• 53:03Drew Afualo?

  All throughout twenties. And then in your thirties, and I remember, this was like the last piece of like, advice I got from the NFL before they fired me during my note-taking session.

• 53:12Speaker 01

  I can't picture you, little glasses, you're like, pink pen with a feather.

• 53:18Drew Afualo?

  I'm Elle Woods. First day of law school, no laptop.

• 53:21Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 53:22Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, for real. Um, this woman had, she had just turned forty and I was, I think I was like twenty-four. And then when she was talking to me, she was like, if I could pick any decade to go back to, I'd pick my thirties. And she's like, cause in your twenties, like, no one knows anything and no one has any money. She's like, in your thirties, all your friends are like established, like, they know at least somewhat what they're doing, like on some track.

• 53:42Speaker 01

  Me thinking about everyone I know, I'm like, yeah.

• 53:45Drew Afualo?

  Like, if they're like centralized in some regard, and then you have like a more solid group of friends.

• 53:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:51Drew Afualo?

  And you guys all have money better now than you did in your twenties.

• 53:54Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 53:54Drew Afualo?

  So you can go to dinners, or you can go to lunch and shit like that.

• 53:57Speaker 01

  Oh, God, and I love going to dinner.

• 53:59Drew Afualo?

  Oh, me too.

• 53:59Speaker 01

  I'm getting a twenty-five dollar martini and going la la la la. Do you, do you have like a core group of friends that you're like, this is my crew, like, we're always together?

• 54:07Drew Afualo?

  Yes, for sure.

• 54:09Speaker 01

  That's really nice.

• 54:09Drew Afualo?

  Right now, yeah.

• 54:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, I feel like a kind of, I have like my like high school and college friends that I'm still super tight with.

• 54:15Drew Afualo?

  Same.

• 54:15Speaker 01

  But then I'm like have, I'm close with like individual people from like different like chapters of my life, I think.

• 54:20Drew Afualo?

  I think that's wonderful.

• 54:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 54:22Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, my core group right now is like, mostly, I would say, I say my team, but they're like, everyone's like my friends. Like, we're like best friends and we all talk every single day and do everything together.

• 54:32Speaker 01

  It's so fun.

• 54:33Drew Afualo?

  My family too, so like, they're also included. I include, I count my family as friends.

• 54:38Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 54:38Drew Afualo?

  Sorry, I don't know what that says about me.

• 54:40Speaker 01

  Me too. I, you know, I briefly lived in the same building as both, both my brothers.

• 54:44Drew Afualo?

  Oh, I love that.

• 54:45Speaker 01

  It was heaven. I know, they both left me.

• 54:50Drew Afualo?

  Is it just the three of you?

• 54:51Speaker 01

  It's just the three of us.

• 54:53Drew Afualo?

  Oh, me too, I'm in three too.

• 54:54Speaker 01

  Oh right, cause y'all too and little bro. And where's his he in LA too?

• 54:57Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, yeah. So my, it's funny you say that, cause my family, like the house I live in now, like my sister has her own house two minutes one way. My mom and dad and my brother live two minutes the other way. And it's funny, cause recently I moved my grandfather and my uncle, who's like our godfather, into the house right next door to my parents.

• 55:15Speaker 01

  So I'm crying.

• 55:16Drew Afualo?

  So my brother lives there now, and it's like he's living on his own, cause he's in the house next door. And my parents live right next door, and then we live two minutes either direction, we live like in a little triangle.

• 55:25Speaker 01

  You're really living the dream.

• 55:26Drew Afualo?

  But I, I'm gonna move eventually, and when I literally was like, breaking it to my sister, I was like, would you move with me, like we're going to Spain?

• 55:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, and?

• 55:34Drew Afualo?

  Even that fucking far, but I was like telling my man, I was like, I have to bring my family, like I, I need to bring them with me, so I'm gonna start the pilgrimage and then we'll, we'll move, we'll go from there.

• 55:44Speaker 01

  That'll be nice, cause you feel like there's a lot of stuff you need to be in person for?

• 55:47Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's more so I just like, the commute is getting to be a lot, I'm used to it, but it's just like, it would just be easier and I'm gonna buy a home soon, so I'm like, if I'm gonna buy one, I think I'm gonna buy one.

• 55:58Speaker 01

  This is so exciting.

• 55:59Drew Afualo?

  I know.

• 56:00Speaker 01

  Oh my god, that rocks.

• 56:01Drew Afualo?

  Another reason why I waited to get married.

• 56:03Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 56:03Drew Afualo?

  But like, in the meantime, I've said that too, like, in the, in the span of eight years, other than growing a very foundational love and affection for each other, uh, we've also gone through a lot together, but we've also like, I've retired my parents, I retired my like, my uncle, I like,

• 56:18Speaker 01

  That's amazing.

• 56:19Drew Afualo?

  You know what I mean, like, we've started a business, like, I'm gonna hopefully start another business soon, like, there's a lot of things I got done.

• 56:25Speaker 01

  So cool.

• 56:26Drew Afualo?

  So, and also like-

• 56:26Speaker 01

  You wrote a book, I mean, that's insane.

• 56:28Drew Afualo?

  Period.

• 56:29Speaker 01

  How long did you work on the book?

• 56:30Drew Afualo?

  I would say, probably like, year and a half, in total.

• 56:35Speaker 01

  Were you very much like everyday?

• 56:38Drew Afualo?

  For the most part, yeah, because I was doing this at the same time.

• 56:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 56:41Drew Afualo?

  We were kinda piecemealing it, so like, I had to write in chunks. So like, my, my literary agent and like my team that worked with me while I was writing, they would like, they wrote like an outline for me, they're like, okay, give me like, five thousand words on this, and like, four thousand words on this, and then, I'd send that in, in pieces.

• 56:58Speaker 01

  That's great.

• 56:59Drew Afualo?

  Almost killed me, but I did get it done. Almost killed me.

• 57:02Speaker 01

  It's so impressive.

• 57:03Drew Afualo?

  And now I'm writing another book, which is very exciting.

• 57:05Speaker 01

  Wow, and how, how does, like, how does it feel, having done it before, do you feel like, okay, now I got this, or do you feel like, oh fuck, what was that that I did?

• 57:12Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I honestly feel more excited this time, but it's, cause it's different, I'm doing fiction.

• 57:16Speaker 01

  Oh, that's so exciting.

• 57:17Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 57:17Speaker 01

  And it's gonna be a movie.

• 57:19Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and I'm, I'm planning on that too.

• 57:21Speaker 01

  It's gonna be a movie.

• 57:21Drew Afualo?

  And that's what I, and I've been calling it my Lin-Manuel Miranda plan.

• 57:26Speaker 01

  Perfect.

• 57:26Drew Afualo?

  Because I'm gonna cast myself.

• 57:27Speaker 01

  Of course, of course.

• 57:29Drew Afualo?

  He's a genius. He said, you can have it, I'm just gonna be a principal role, so.

• 57:33Speaker 01

  He is a genius. I'll never forget when I saw In the Heights in high school on Broadway, I was like,

• 57:41Speaker 01

  it's the best, so good.

• 57:43Drew Afualo?

  I did love, and I loved the movie too.

• 57:44Speaker 01

  Me too, me too.

• 57:46Drew Afualo?

  Period, love that. Oh, wait, let's get back to some fun facts about you.

• 57:49Speaker 01

  Okay, okay.

• 57:49Drew Afualo?

  Okay, and this, this next one says, you were in the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority in college?

• 57:55Speaker 01

  You know, this is interesting, I joined that sorority, and then I didn't go, I didn't go to anything. And so I kinda stopped going, and then I stopped paying my dues, and I actually still, I graduated over ten years ago, still get emails being like, where are your dues? I'm like, but I didn't go to-

• 58:12Drew Afualo?

  Damn, they're chasing you down.

• 58:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, but I didn't go to anything, and I didn't do anything. It was like, when I first got there, I was like, this'll be a fun way to meet people, and it was, but then I was like, I wanna do other stuff. But yes, I'm a proud Theta.

• 58:25Speaker 01

  This is what they do.

• 58:27Drew Afualo?

  That's what they do?

• 58:28Speaker 01

  They do that, cause it's like a Theta. So you get it.

• 58:31Drew Afualo?

  That's a really awful, awful hand signal, I feel like, for them to have.

• 58:35Speaker 01

  Everyone liked when I did that. You're the only one who felt weird. They were all cheering, everyone's cheering.

• 58:40Drew Afualo?

  They were like, no, she can leave, but just, we need the dues.

• 58:44Speaker 01

  The lineup of Aries men is like, yeah!

• 58:49Drew Afualo?

  Sorority life not for you?

• 58:51Speaker 01

  It wasn't a match.

• 58:52Drew Afualo?

  It honestly makes a lot of sense for you to just be like, never mind.

• 58:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, it also wasn't a big deal, it wasn't like a intense, like, some schools it's very intense, you know, it was kinda like, oh, whatever, no one cares. Yeah, but love to my sisters.

• 59:05Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I do love my sisters, though, ultimately, would die for them.

• 59:10Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 59:10Drew Afualo?

  I never, I, I didn't have really any Greek life at the college I went to. There was like, I think, two, there was like, one frat, one singular sorority, and then the frat got closed down for like, issues.

• 59:25Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 59:25Drew Afualo?

  And then the sorority, I, I don't even know- Where they were or what they did after that, like I I had no.

• 59:30Speaker 01

  Were you playing sports in college?

• 59:32Drew Afualo?

  No, that was like when I stopped playing, um I got offers to play in college, but I also, which I was like. Literally thinking like, damn, I gotta go take those because that's better for college, like money, obviously, free money. Um but then I got an academic scholarship and so I like. Basically was like, do you guys care if I don't play anymore, like to my parents, because. They had like spent so much time and money on me playing travel ball and everything like, yeah, so it felt like kind of like fucked up to be like. Bye, like, but I did ask and my parents were like, I don't care. My mom was like, yeah, that's fine. And I like, didn't really have. That much of a social life, like I did have one in high school, but it wasn't as like. Popping as I wanted it to be.

• 1:00:14Drew Afualo?

  Uh because I was always fucking playing sports and then also in school.

• 1:00:19Speaker 01

  Cause I love school.

• 1:00:20Drew Afualo?

  Uh also because I'm a Virgo, I really did love school, so I I enjoyed uh doing. Schoolwork and all of that, so I got an academic scholarship, which allowed me to not play sports anymore. So I got to be like. A normal student when I went to college.

• 1:00:32Speaker 01

  That must have been so nice.

• 1:00:33Drew Afualo?

  It was, it was really fun. I actually got kind of lucky too when I went because my freshman year. Dorm roommate was is still my friend to this day. Yeah, if you can believe it, she's still my friend.

• 1:00:43Speaker 01

  That never happens.

• 1:00:44Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, ever.

• 1:00:45Speaker 01

  I had the cra-.

• 1:00:46Drew Afualo?

  And it's, you're the craziest freshman.

• 1:00:47Speaker 01

  I can't even talk about it. I hope she's okay. Okay, continue.

• 1:00:55Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I did. She's two years older than me, um but she like took time off and then went to school at the same time I did. And I remember thinking when I looked her up on Facebook, cause I got her name in like an email.

• 1:01:06Speaker 01

  Oh my god, yes.

• 1:01:06Drew Afualo?

  And you're like, I need to look up my roommate. And I looked her up and it said that she was married. And that she was working at Chili's. And she had like a dog and like a house and I was like, this can't be the right girl. And then when I met her in person, it was her and she was married, she's not anymore, but like she was at the time, she got married young. And um. When I met her, she's the craziest person I've ever fucking met. I love her to death though, she's just the craziest person I've ever met. And I always say like, if I, like, in, in college, I never would have had any fun without her, like, the kinds of experiences she would put me in, cuz I'm so, I'm so Virgo down that I'm like,

• 1:01:46Speaker 01

  You're a good girl.

• 1:01:46Drew Afualo?

  I have, yes, I'm a rule follower in a lot of ways, and I'm also very planned and like, I need, to make sure everyone's okay and everyone's safe. So like, I never would have done anything crazy cool without her, and she would have died without me. So I think it was like, a real yin and yang situation. Like, we balanced each other really well. But we're still friends to this day, we still get dinner, every time I go back to Hawaii, like, I go see her and we get dinner and hang out with my other girlfriend too. Um, who I also met my freshman year, and she's still one of my really good friends to this day.

• 1:02:13Speaker 01

  But at what stage were you like, I'm a star though?

• 1:02:16Drew Afualo?

  Like, in terms of like, what I wanted to do?

• 1:02:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, I'm like, you're playing sports, when were you like, but get me on camera?

• 1:02:21Drew Afualo?

  I was, I think when I was in college, that's when I was like, I wanna be on camera, I think sports is just my way. I don't know why I didn't think acting was like, an option for me. I always did wanna do acting, or like, performance of some kind, but I was like, well, I don't know how to do that, and I didn't do theater a ton, so, I did take theater classes in college though, that I loved.

• 1:02:40Speaker 01

  So fun.

• 1:02:40Drew Afualo?

  Loved, had the most fun ever in them. But I figured, like, if I did journalism communications, I could still be on camera and do stuff.

• 1:02:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:02:47Drew Afualo?

  And I would literally think to myself, I'm like, I'm just gonna charm everyone with my wit, and then, maybe they'll let me do like, lifestyle stuff, I don't know, like, that's what I would tell myself.

• 1:02:54Speaker 01

  And now look at you.

• 1:02:55Drew Afualo?

  And now look, get fired, then do it yourself.

• 1:02:58Speaker 01

  Charmed ass.

• 1:02:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, then, put your hair in a bun and handle it, that's what I did.

• 1:03:02Speaker 01

  Coffee fee.

• 1:03:07Drew Afualo?

  What about you, did you always know you were gonna be a performer?

• 1:03:09Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 1:03:09Drew Afualo?

  I feel like you knew, especially as a Leo, now that I know you're a Leo, that makes a ton of sense.

• 1:03:13Speaker 01

  For better, for worse. But you know, yeah, it's one of these, I don't know how, but, and it's like, you never know what's, how you're gonna get to the place, but you're just like, that's the place I'll be at.

• 1:03:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that's like, I did the same thing.

• 1:03:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, but now I'm like, wait, I wanna be at a different place.

• 1:03:24Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's always, it's moving a little, but it's more laterally moving now, now that I do do this for a living. I'm like, okay, I think I also want to do this, or maybe I want to do this, and I don't want to do that, like, that kind of thing.

• 1:03:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:03:37Drew Afualo?

  That's how I've been kind of sampling right now, what about you?

• 1:03:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, I feel similarly, I'll kind of say yes to everything and then only a few things and I'm like, oh, I'm never doing that again.

• 1:03:44Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 1:03:45Speaker 01

  Usually I'm like, oh, that was fun, I'll do that again.

• 1:03:46Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:46Speaker 01

  You never know what's gonna come your way.

• 1:03:48Drew Afualo?

  Are you acting?

• 1:03:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:03:49Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I was gonna say.

• 1:03:51Speaker 01

  That's my favorite thing to do.

• 1:03:52Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I feel like you're made for it, honestly.

• 1:03:54Speaker 01

  Thank you, I love doing that and I love being on stage, but, I'm trying to think of, yeah, yeah, I love doing a little bit of everything.

• 1:04:00Drew Afualo?

  Is there anything you've been like?

• 1:04:02Speaker 01

  Well, I know something, something you're good at that I'm not good at, I don't like doing hosting on like the carpet type thing. I was like, this is not for me. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

• 1:04:14Drew Afualo?

  I think you'd be fun.

• 1:04:16Speaker 01

  I don't know. I think, you know what, it also depends on like, maybe it was the events, it's like, when people come up to you and they're really nice about it, it is fun, but then some people walk up to you and they're just like.

• 1:04:25Drew Afualo?

  And they're awful, yeah, they're just dead behind the eyes.

• 1:04:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, I think it's a really hard gig, so I'm always, I'm always like in awe of people who, like yourself, who do it very well.

• 1:04:33Drew Afualo?

  Thank you, yeah, it's, I feel like when I talk about hosting, cause sometimes, oh girl, after, I, I'd been hosting for a minute, obviously this, but also like carpet stuff, but once I talked to Timothy Chalamet, girl, you would have thought, I'm Ryan Seacrest all of a sudden, everybody was like, so tell me about hosting.

• 1:04:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:04:49Drew Afualo?

  Specifically talking to him, tell me about it.

• 1:04:52Speaker 01

  He seems like a great, a great interview.

• 1:04:53Drew Afualo?

  He was fun, honestly, he was, he was fun, I can tell he has a level of brain rot that he cannot show publicly while he's being a serious actor. I can tell he has that level of brain rot.

• 1:05:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:05:02Drew Afualo?

  Um, but he's fun, like, he was, he was a good time, and I feel like when I host, I like to talk to them like they're fucking normal, like, I've talked to Trixie Mattel about this too, cause she, she said the very first time she ever met Lisa Vanderpump.

• 1:05:17Speaker 01

  Oh my god.

• 1:05:17Drew Afualo?

  Cause they're good friends, like, which is strange to think about, but they are.

• 1:05:20Speaker 01

  Love that.

• 1:05:21Drew Afualo?

  And the first time she ever met her, she's like, she had like this like, black and white like sequined like tuxedo on or something, and she was like, what are you gonna do, magic tricks after this? And she said she laughed, and she's like, I think people are just like afraid of her, so they're too afraid to like joke with her and like razz with her. And I think that's what they love, like, they love when you like razz them a little bit, and like, kind of meet them as humans. I like popping that little bubble, I think that's fun.

• 1:05:45Speaker 01

  That's powerful.

• 1:05:46Drew Afualo?

  When I met Chris Evans and I talked to him for a bit. On a carpet like I could tell I can always sus- sus a vibe too like if they're like fucking over it like they're just so tired of talking

• 1:05:57Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 1:05:58Drew Afualo?

  They're just so tired of answering the same questions like I kinda try to keep it short and then just ask them fun stuff and then send them on their way. So he gave me this like really long eloquent answer to a question I asked. And it was a great answer like great, the great promo, great, everything was perfect. And then after he finished, I was like, he's like, yeah. And then I go, man, you fucking nailed that. And then he started laughing, he goes, I did, didn't I? And then we like laughed and high-fived.

• 1:06:23Speaker 01

  Heaven.

• 1:06:24Drew Afualo?

  And so I think shit like that is fun. Them being human for a sec.

• 1:06:27Speaker 01

  Totally.

• 1:06:28Drew Afualo?

  I think that's fun. That's why I think you would do really good at it.

• 1:06:31Speaker 01

  Maybe I'll try.

• 1:06:31Drew Afualo?

  But you are a big silly goose, so I get it.

• 1:06:33Speaker 01

  I love to laugh.

• 1:06:36Drew Afualo?

  I get what you mean though, when it's like, it's not hidden. I have had a few where I've had to be like, alright, girl, have a good night. Have a great night.

• 1:06:46Speaker 01

  Queen, you are everything.

• 1:06:47Drew Afualo?

  You're the best. Oh, you look fantastic, love ya. I have had a few where I've had to like kinda send them on their way. And sometimes when you, when I do carpets, like if I do them specifically for shows or whatever.

• 1:06:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:06:59Drew Afualo?

  It's typically people that are older that sometimes uh like brands will tell me like they don't really love

• 1:07:06Speaker 01

  I see.

• 1:07:07Drew Afualo?

  silliness, they don't really love this, like they're very like, just kinda keep it and sure. And so I always tell them like if they're not feeling it, I promise I'll send them on their way. Like I'll ask them one and then I'll be like, alright, queen will have the greatest night ever. And that kinda gets them. Honestly, every time when you do that, they they giggle and they're like, okay, perfect. And they walk away.

• 1:07:27Speaker 01

  It is, it's a contagious giggle.

• 1:07:28Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you just gotta like laugh and talk really loud and it kinda just like jars them and you're like, have a good night, alright.

• 1:07:37Speaker 01

  It's working on me.

• 1:07:38Drew Afualo?

  Works like a charm.

• 1:07:39Speaker 01

  It's working on me, girl.

• 1:07:43Drew Afualo?

  I will say though, in hosting, this, uh if you ever do get into hosting for real, I will say. The breath can be sometimes crazy.

• 1:07:53Drew Afualo?

  Stink town USA sometimes. And sometimes they're real close to me.

• 1:07:56Speaker 01

  You know what advice I read recently? I don't know where I saw this. They go, if someone ever offers you gum or a mint, always say yes. I'm like, damn.

• 1:08:03Drew Afualo?

  Just in case. My sister does, does offer gum like that. And sometimes people are like, oh, does my breath smell? And she always goes, no, no, I'm just helping myself. And sometimes it does smell.

• 1:08:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's a, it's a great way to be.

• 1:08:14Drew Afualo?

  She's pulling a, a fast one on them. Never saw it coming.

• 1:08:17Speaker 01

  She's quick.

• 1:08:18Drew Afualo?

  I know.

• 1:08:19Speaker 01

  Swear to God.

• 1:08:19Drew Afualo?

  I, I literally did like a what's in my bag thing with InStyle and like, one of the things I have is like those Listerine pocket things that you can like spray in your mouth. And I was like, I carry these like because I'm talking all the fucking time and meeting people. Obviously I always have something like this on hand. Especially on carpets. And I was like, and you would be surprised, like sometimes breath is stink town USA on there. And sometimes I want to spray it in their mouth while they're talking, like a cat, like when you're like, get out of, get off the counters. You're not supposed to be on the kitchen counters.

• 1:08:48Speaker 01

  My god.

• 1:08:49Drew Afualo?

  That's what I want to do sometimes.

• 1:08:50Speaker 01

  You must.

• 1:08:50Drew Afualo?

  Sometimes it's bad. And every, and they're too famous that no one will ever tell them. Don't want that to happen.

• 1:08:57Speaker 01

  That's a scary place to be. Thank god I'm not in that situation.

• 1:09:02Drew Afualo?

  Uh, in college, you were also in a coed a cappella group called Sher Khan?

• 1:09:07Speaker 01

  Oh, yes, I was. Oh, yes, I was. I loved it.

• 1:09:11Drew Afualo?

  You a big a cappella girl?

• 1:09:13Speaker 01

  I was. It was, mm, it was so fun. It was like a coed like frat. It was so fun. I think that's probably why I didn't get into my sorority. Cause I was like, I like this.

• 1:09:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I have, I have an a cappella group that needs my attending.

• 1:09:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, I did not love the singing as much, but the hanging out was really fun. And we got to like go on trips and like, it was the best.

• 1:09:30Drew Afualo?

  Didn't love the singing in the singing group?

• 1:09:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, I like, well, I like being the soloist. I didn't like being like beep boop beep boop. Like that sucks. But it was so fun.

• 1:09:41Drew Afualo?

  It was like Pitch Perfect the movie?

• 1:09:43Speaker 01

  We were not.

• 1:09:44Drew Afualo?

  College experience?

• 1:09:45Speaker 01

  We were not good, but we had a lot of fun.

• 1:09:48Drew Afualo?

  Did you guys go sing in other people's like events or anything?

• 1:09:51Speaker 01

  Not really. One time we were the entertainment on a cruise ship. Isn't that insane? A week on a ship?

• 1:09:57Drew Afualo?

  Where'd you go?

• 1:09:59Speaker 01

  Um, where did we go? We left from Florida. I think we went to like Jamaica.

• 1:10:04Drew Afualo?

  Interesting.

• 1:10:05Speaker 01

  Where else did we go? It's, it's such a blur. It's one of those memories. It's like, did that happen?

• 1:10:11Speaker 01

  It really was. It was so weird and like, all of us, it was like before Instagram too.

• 1:10:14Drew Afualo?

  Doing an a cappella group on a cruise line is crazy.

• 1:10:18Speaker 01

  No one wanted it. Imagine singing in the middle of a cruise ship and no one's listening.

• 1:10:26Speaker 01

  And also, I think we were like too young to drink, because I was like eighteen or something.

• 1:10:30Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 1:10:30Speaker 01

  We put Everclear in one of those flat camping water bottles.

• 1:10:34Drew Afualo?

  Ugh.

• 1:10:34Speaker 01

  And then would bring it to like the cruise dinner and like, oh god.

• 1:10:37Drew Afualo?

  Everclear?

• 1:10:38Speaker 01

  Horrible.

• 1:10:39Drew Afualo?

  When I was in college, we would go on Tuesdays to the movies, because it was like five dollar movie Tuesdays.

• 1:10:45Speaker 01

  Love.

• 1:10:46Drew Afualo?

  And because they didn't serve alcohol in movie theaters at the time. And like, my friends and I would buy a ba- a box wine, take out the bag, put it in a backpack. And then we would like just open the spigot in, in the theater like, and you could hear it hitting the cups like.

• 1:11:02Speaker 01

  Just someone pissing in the back of the theater?

• 1:11:03Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and filling up, and that, we would just pass them down the row.

• 1:11:06Speaker 01

  Genius.

• 1:11:06Drew Afualo?

  And we would do that. Women in STEM.

• 1:11:08Speaker 01

  Truly.

• 1:11:09Drew Afualo?

  Women, women in STEM.

• 1:11:10Speaker 01

  Ahead of your time.

• 1:11:10Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, women in engineering fields, women in male fields, you know.

• 1:11:14Speaker 01

  Oh gosh, it is so nice having a wine at the movies.

• 1:11:17Drew Afualo?

  Ah, it is so nice. The first time we ever did that was to go see Fifty Shades of Grey.

• 1:11:23Speaker 01

  Wow, I actually have seen that.

• 1:11:24Drew Afualo?

  And it was me and my three, it was me and my three girlfriends, and then there was, I think, four couples, and that was it. It was just us and four couples in the theater. And then we were absolutely trashed off red wine watching that movie.

• 1:11:39Speaker 01

  That movie is crazy.

• 1:11:40Drew Afualo?

  What a core memory for me, honestly.

• 1:11:42Speaker 01

  That's important.

• 1:11:43Drew Afualo?

  In the Inside Out, in my brain, that's a gold ball right there, just rolling down the little, the little lineup.

• 1:11:48Speaker 01

  Oh, I forgot about that, that facet of the film.

• 1:11:52Speaker 01

  I love that moment, that little motif.

• 1:11:57Speaker 01

  That's cute.

• 1:11:58Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I love getting wine drunk at the movies.

• 1:12:01Speaker 01

  It's just nice to kick back.

• 1:12:02Drew Afualo?

  It does.

• 1:12:03Speaker 01

  Life's hard.

• 1:12:04Drew Afualo?

  Girls need to put their hair up every now and then. I love that you were in a coed a cappella group for you. That, that makes a lot of sense, honestly.

• 1:12:11Speaker 01

  It was fun, it was, here's, here's what you're not gonna believe.

• 1:12:15Speaker 01

  It was actually cool.

• 1:12:18Speaker 01

  It was cool to be in it.

• 1:12:19Drew Afualo?

  You guys were pretty cool? Is that according to you and the a cappella group or a lot of other people?

• 1:12:23Speaker 01

  Yes, I can only think for myself, but I believe it was cool.

• 1:12:27Drew Afualo?

  I believe everybody had a good time and thought we were cool.

• 1:12:30Speaker 01

  Oh god.

• 1:12:31Drew Afualo?

  Okay, we have another one, uh, that you were a camp counselor at Camp Ozark in Arkansas in the summer of two thousand nine?

• 1:12:37Speaker 01

  Oh god, well, I wasn't ever, um, a full counselor, I was a good counselor in training, really, really.

• 1:12:44Drew Afualo?

  Wow, you never made it to counselor?

• 1:12:45Speaker 01

  Thank god, I mean, it's such a weird place, it's just really, really, I'm half Jewish, half Catholic, but being from Texas, like, everyone goes to Christian camp. It was like the thing, and so I went to this insane evangelical camp that like completely brainwashed me.

• 1:12:58Drew Afualo?

  Oh my god.

• 1:12:59Speaker 01

  Thank god I got out.

• 1:13:00Drew Afualo?

  I've been to church camp.

• 1:13:01Speaker 01

  So you get it.

• 1:13:02Drew Afualo?

  It's a lot.

• 1:13:03Speaker 01

  It's insane.

• 1:13:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and I remember when my sister and I went the first time, my sister kinda bought in, and I was like, I had one foot out the door. But I was like, damn, okay, she's really buying in.

• 1:13:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:13:15Drew Afualo?

  And then I remember they asked if like we wanted to say the sinner's prayer, to like, commit your life to Jesus or whatever. And so we sat in a circle and did it, like, and my sister and I were like, holding hands, and I remember during the prayer, I literally was going like this.

• 1:13:29Speaker 01

  Oh my god.

• 1:13:29Drew Afualo?

  Cause I was looking at her to see if she was like being for real, and she was, and then I said, damn, she's being for real, okay. So like, you know, yeah, don't ever say I wasn't there for my girls.

• 1:13:40Speaker 01

  So she's been saved and you haven't?

• 1:13:42Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, pretty much, she's going and I'm not, I'm getting left behind.

• 1:13:44Speaker 01

  It's so scary though, yeah, they're so, I'm so easily brainwashed as well.

• 1:13:49Drew Afualo?

  I will say though, the energy is electric when you're there, and no electronics, you're getting swept up in it, you know what I mean?

• 1:13:56Speaker 01

  A hundred percent.

• 1:13:57Drew Afualo?

  I'm talking all that shit about not joining a cult, but put me in the woods with no phone, who knows?

• 1:14:01Speaker 01

  Oh, the first half of every cult doc, I'm like, I'm in. What was I just watching, um?

• 1:14:07Drew Afualo?

  You said, I'm in, honestly.

• 1:14:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:14:10Drew Afualo?

  I need no, no, no further convincing on my end.

• 1:14:12Speaker 01

  It took a long time, like, even in the beginning of Next Game, I was like, okay, I'm listening, I'm listening, I'm listening. Volleyball, love, you, love volleyball, you and Keith, boom, set spike, um, boom, set spike, peppering with Keith.

• 1:14:27Drew Afualo?

  I do love to pepper.

• 1:14:28Speaker 01

  Who doesn't?

• 1:14:29Drew Afualo?

  I love to pepper.

• 1:14:30Speaker 01

  Get those bruises on your arm, it's like, yes!

• 1:14:33Drew Afualo?

  Volleyball is a huge part of church camp. They love volleyball there.

• 1:14:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, but thank God I got out. Oh, God.

• 1:14:41Drew Afualo?

  No, same.

• 1:14:43Speaker 01

  It's crazy.

• 1:14:44Drew Afualo?

  I felt like, I felt honestly, I felt performative at things like when I was at church camp, I felt performative at things like worship.

• 1:14:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:14:51Drew Afualo?

  Because everybody's putting their hands up and like crying and I was like, I mean, I guess I could do it, but like it's just my heart's not in it. And that would be fucked up, you know what I mean? I feel like Jesus, if Jesus is real, they'll see that I'm performing.

• 1:15:04Speaker 01

  I love God, but I don't know if he was there. I'm like, what is this?

• 1:15:10Speaker 01

  But you're a real one. I was fake. I was like.

• 1:15:15Drew Afualo?

  I was like doing it, um, and honestly, I think that makes more sense than the way I was doing it, which was like almost half-hearted, like I was going like.

• 1:15:23Speaker 01

  Oh, but you were right.

• 1:15:24Drew Afualo?

  I was trying to participate.

• 1:15:26Speaker 01

  There was a woman there who at these services would play air guitar to the worship music. And complete ser- she's completely serious.

• 1:15:37Drew Afualo?

  Like in a God-fearing way or just like for fun?

• 1:15:39Speaker 01

  Praise him way. Like, uh, this is for you. Like, it was like, this is my gift.

• 1:15:45Drew Afualo?

  This one's for you.

• 1:15:46Speaker 01

  I bet she's still out there doing it. It's crazy. And like my, my parents like, don't laugh at her.

• 1:15:52Drew Afualo?

  One, one time my sister and I were at, when we were at the church camp during a worship service, like you know, sometimes people like walk up to each other and they'll be like, can I pray for you or whatever?

• 1:16:02Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 1:16:02Drew Afualo?

  This one guy, I remember like me and my sister were sitting in the back. And this guy came up and he was like, do you mind if I pray for you to me? And I was like, I guess not, right? And then he was, he was doing, and I'm saying this very literally, like the most bullshit ass prayer. But it's because, and I knew this because I could tell, like, I think he had a crush on me and just wanted to hold my hand. And so like he did that and then he was like halfway through this bullshit ass prayer, he goes, oh yeah, you too, to my sister. And I takes her hand and this was like, don't include me in your bullshit ass prayer. And then she's doing, he's doing that and you know, you know, after a while it starts to get redundant. If they have nowhere they're really going, they'll just start repeating the same things like,

• 1:16:42Drew Afualo?

  and Father God, over and over and over again. So then he finally finishes the prayer and then he gets, he's like, God bless you both. And he like walks away and my sister was like, his breath was so bad. When he left and I was like, you're not buying into this shit.

• 1:17:00Drew Afualo?

  Need one of those.

• 1:17:01Speaker 01

  Damn.

• 1:17:02Drew Afualo?

  Down the throne immediately.

• 1:17:02Speaker 01

  That world freaks me out.

• 1:17:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it is, it's, it is, yeah.

• 1:17:06Speaker 01

  I have a lot of anger towards them.

• 1:17:08Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I get it.

• 1:17:10Speaker 01

  I won't get into it today.

• 1:17:12Drew Afualo?

  I get it, though.

• 1:17:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:17:14Drew Afualo?

  Uh, okay, last one. It says, "Do you remember how old you were in this?"

• 1:17:18Speaker 01

  Do you remember how old you are?

• 1:17:20Drew Afualo?

  In this, in this photo.

• 1:17:22Speaker 01

  Oh, that's a really cute photo.

• 1:17:24Drew Afualo?

  It is a really cute photo.

• 1:17:25Speaker 01

  Oh, cuz you know, I was, maybe, I don't know if this happened to anyone else here, I was extremely cute, and then, God, it must have been about, maybe about fifth grade, something shifted, and then it was hideousity,

• 1:17:41Speaker 01

  abomination, until about like eighteen, nineteen. So that's the cute era. I don't know. I don't, I never know how old kids are. What is that, two, three, six?

• 1:17:51Drew Afualo?

  It's you. I never know how old kids are.

• 1:17:53Speaker 01

  But you know, as a kid, you're like, "What's your deal?" Like...

• 1:17:58Drew Afualo?

  Where are you from? You smoke?

• 1:18:00Speaker 01

  I'll go, "What do you, what do you care about?"

• 1:18:02Drew Afualo?

  I will say, "Your pupils are the size of your irises in this picture." Like, you, you, like, your pupils are enormous.

• 1:18:09Speaker 01

  I've seen something, yeah.

• 1:18:10Drew Afualo?

  In this picture. I don't know, it looks old. It, it looks like you're probably like, me not knowing either. Me, me making fun of you and me not knowing either. I would say maybe like six?

• 1:18:20Speaker 01

  No.

• 1:18:21Drew Afualo?

  No? You think younger? Me not knowing.

• 1:18:25Speaker 01

  Is there a doctor here?

• 1:18:26Drew Afualo?

  Me not knowing.

• 1:18:26Speaker 01

  Or pass it around. But, um...

• 1:18:28Drew Afualo?

  Let's see, Carrie wants to see.

• 1:18:31Drew Afualo?

  Four or five?

• 1:18:32Speaker 01

  Really?

• 1:18:32Drew Afualo?

  Oh, oh, I'm sorry, hop, skip, and a jump from six.

• 1:18:34Speaker 01

  I was wrong, I said two.

• 1:18:38Drew Afualo?

  No, I think Carrie's right.

• 1:18:38Speaker 01

  I think it's six months, eight months, yeah.

• 1:18:41Drew Afualo?

  Around, I think fourteen months.

• 1:18:42Speaker 01

  You know, my friends, some of my friends are trying to have kids now, and I don't know what to say to them. I'll be like, "What's your kid into?" And they're like, "Bluey?" I'm like, "That's awesome."

• 1:18:51Drew Afualo?

  I'm so happy for them.

• 1:18:53Speaker 01

  I don't know. I wanna want it. I want to want it.

• 1:18:58Drew Afualo?

  You do?

• 1:18:58Speaker 01

  Maybe.

• 1:18:59Drew Afualo?

  In theory.

• 1:19:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, I want a million billion.

• 1:19:01Drew Afualo?

  I think, I think in a...

• 1:19:04Speaker 01

  Don't you think?

• 1:19:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. I think then you'll know for sure.

• 1:19:07Speaker 01

  Once I get a million billion?

• 1:19:08Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:09Speaker 01

  In the bank.

• 1:19:10Drew Afualo?

  Then you'll know for sure. Have to.

• 1:19:12Speaker 01

  Just one.

• 1:19:13Drew Afualo?

  At that point.

• 1:19:13Speaker 01

  Girl.

• 1:19:14Drew Afualo?

  Obviously, girl. And by that point, you'll be able to choose.

• 1:19:17Speaker 01

  Totally.

• 1:19:18Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:20Drew Afualo?

  I know, sometimes I see like, I don't know, I see, I see people with kids and I'm like, God, I'm so happy for you. Could never be me, but I'm so happy for you. And I, and that's why I said, like, I like hanging out with kids in, in like, a very aunt-like sense, like, in a way that's like, I'm gonna send you home after this.

• 1:19:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, like twenty minutes of, oh my god. And then I'm like, yawn. Who has the gossip?

• 1:19:49Speaker 01

  Don't you think? Wait, so what are you doing the rest of the day? What are you doing tonight? You have another pod?

• 1:19:54Drew Afualo?

  I do have another pod. Um, tonight, nothing, I think, just dinner.

• 1:19:58Speaker 01

  What day is it?

• 1:20:01Drew Afualo?

  What about you? What are you doing today?

• 1:20:03Speaker 01

  I'm hosting the show tonight. Info if you wanna come, or actually, you're leaving tomorrow.

• 1:20:08Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I leave Wednesday.

• 1:20:08Speaker 01

  Sad. Tomorrow would be more fun.

• 1:20:11Drew Afualo?

  Well, thanks for telling me the day I leave. Didn't tell me before I booked my ticket, so, yeah, well.

• 1:20:16Speaker 01

  Noted, noted. Me noting, getting fired. That's the cutest image. I love it.

• 1:20:24Drew Afualo?

  It was so bad. I was so miserable at that job, girl.

• 1:20:26Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 1:20:27Drew Afualo?

  They wanted me dead at that job.

• 1:20:29Speaker 01

  But that's cuz the uni-verse had something bigger in store for you.

• 1:20:35Drew Afualo?

  I literally had, I was just telling, uh, my sister, like, in my first, like, three months working there, um, I worked in like this big, what I was like feeling like was almost a movie-like newsroom, like everyone was sitting in like,

• 1:20:53Drew Afualo?

  booths, like restaurant booths and like shit, and their desks were all askew and everyone was casual Friday every day. And they were like, we need ideas, we need ideas. Like, that was the kind of environment I was in. So I was working there for like three months. I was trying my absolute hardest to make friends, and it's not hard for me to make friends. But at that place, it was almost impossible. Like, nobody wanted to be my fucking friend. I felt like I had a stink about me. Like, I, I was, I felt like I was giving pigpen in some regard. Cuz I felt like nobody wanted to be my friend, and it was very strange. So I was like trying, like, to like, oh, so like, you know, like, where are you from? Like, I was just trying to make conversation and nobody, nobody was picking up what I was putting down. Like, they would just and, give me really deadpan answers and then it wasn't lending towards connection or conversation.

• 1:21:31Speaker 01

  What was your problem?

• 1:21:33Drew Afualo?

  I don't know. I think it's just the environment is extremely competitive there, in a way that I wasn't vibing with, and clearly I was trying to key and have a good time, and like, nobody wanted to join me on that journey. And so I had been working there for three months. And I was like trying really hard to, nobody wanted to eat lunch with me, and I'm being so serious, like I was trying really hard to eat lunch with people, nobody wanted to eat lunch with me. And so I was like, whatever, like I was just trying to like, okay, maybe this is just like a not have fun in the workplace kind of vibe. And there was like mostly men in this room that I was working in, obviously because I was working at the NFL. And so one day I was working and the guy who I had talked to a million times, it was always very curt and short with me, didn't give a fuck.

• 1:22:10Drew Afualo?

  He walks in and he goes, guys, we got a new hire. And it was a another woman, there was maybe like three or four women total in there at this point. And then everyone's cheering and he goes, tell people about yourself. And then she like tells people like, oh, I just graduated from Pepperdine, like I'm doing this, blah, blah, blah. And he goes, don't forget, guys, we're gonna have team lunch like we do with all new hires.

• 1:22:33Speaker 01

  No.

• 1:22:34Drew Afualo?

  Mind you, I've been a new hire. I've been new hired for three months. And then I literally was in there like, we're gonna go get lunch. She's like, guys, and they gave her like a bag with like shit in it. I didn't get any of that shit. And then I was sitting there and I was like, and then I remember I reached, I like leaned over and like tapped someone that was next to me. And I was like, where are you guys getting lunch? And then the guy goes, I don't know. And then just turns around.

• 1:22:57Speaker 01

  Fuck those people.

• 1:22:58Drew Afualo?

  Like, so no connection, no connection in this vibe.

• 1:23:02Speaker 01

  That's hell.

• 1:23:03Drew Afualo?

  It was so awful and it was mostly, yeah, it was so bad. So am I shocked that they fired me? No. Looking back, no. Not even a little.

• 1:23:13Speaker 01

  Good riddance.

• 1:23:13Drew Afualo?

  Good riddance, you know.

• 1:23:14Speaker 01

  Let's go.

• 1:23:15Drew Afualo?

  That's why I said, let's go. After I got fired.

• 1:23:18Speaker 01

  Follow me to my new life.

• 1:23:21Drew Afualo?

  Spend the morning with me after I got fired. And then after I get fired, I go.

• 1:23:29Drew Afualo?

  Well, thank you so much for coming on the show. I fucking love you.

• 1:23:31Speaker 01

  What about this? Thank you.

• 1:23:32Drew Afualo?

  You're the best.

• 1:23:33Speaker 01

  What about this? You're heaven on earth?

• 1:23:34Drew Afualo?

  I'm fucking obsessed with you.

• 1:23:35Speaker 01

  You gotta come back, we'll have a proper dinner, hang.

• 1:23:37Drew Afualo?

  Yes, I would love.

• 1:23:39Speaker 01

  Okay, thank you for having me.

• 1:23:40Drew Afualo?

  Of course.

• 1:23:41Speaker 01

  This rocked and rolled and save your strength, I know you have another one.

• 1:23:47Drew Afualo?

  Thank you Kat, I appreciate that.

• 1:23:48Speaker 01

  Thank you.

• 1:23:49Drew Afualo?

  But before we go, before we go really quick, where can everybody find you?

• 1:23:53Speaker 01

  Oh, please find me, I swear to God. Um, @kat__cohen on Instagram, TikTok. Watch my special on Netflix, it's called The Twist, She's Gorgeous. And listen to my podcast, Seek Treatment.

• 1:24:05Drew Afualo?

  Honestly Kat is so fucking funny. I know we've been so silly this whole time, but your stand-up is unbelievable.

• 1:24:10Speaker 01

  Thank you so much.

• 1:24:11Drew Afualo?

  I fucking love you, I think you're so funny.

• 1:24:12Speaker 01

  I'm so happy we met, thanks to bitches.

• 1:24:15Drew Afualo?

  Shouts out.

• 1:24:17Speaker 01

  And this is-

• 1:24:18Drew Afualo?

  Shout out.

• 1:24:18Speaker 01

  From two real bitches. Thanks for listening.

• 1:24:24Drew Afualo?

  Thank you so much for joining us. On this episode of the comment section, don't forget, new episodes drop every Wednesday. You can stream The Auto on all streaming platforms, but the video is for free and exclusively on our favorite platform, Spotify. Thank you so much for watching. Thank you so much to my amazing friend Kat Cohen. Please make sure you go follow her and go see her live. She's incredible. And I'll see you next week. Bye.

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