The One Where Gadiel Stops By

*Knock *knock. Who is that? Oh wow it's Gadiel del Orbe! Join Curly, Maya and Gadiel as they take a trip down memory lane! They talk about their time at BuzzFeed, the beginning of their friendship and how they changed the internet!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode of the Super Secret Besty Club Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Who's that next to us?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Hey? Who are you?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Gadio?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Wow? Wow?

Speaker 1 (00:19):
You want to hang out with us in our treehouse?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Let's go there house right there? Okay, Well, get in here.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
My name is.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Curly and I'm Maya and welcome to the Super Secret
bestI Club podcast. A super secret club where we talk
about super secret things.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, like secrets that are super That's what it is.
In each episode we'll talk about love, friendship, heartbreaks, men,
and of course our favorite secrets.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Get in here.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Welcome to another episode of the Super Secret Besty Club.
So yesterday, Gadia, we were kind of having a little
bit of a giggle. We were like, should we uh
like introduced him properly and have like an intro for
him and we create your bio like read your bio
and we were like, Aha, that's so funny. And then
I was like, let's ask chat GBT what they what
it thinks about you?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
So we ask chat GBT to write an intro interesting
for you to hear. I'm ready, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Gadi Bit is a popular social media personality, comedian, and
content creator known for his work with Better Like a
digital platform that focuses on LATINX culture and entertainment. With
quick wit and relatable humor, Gatiella has gained a large
following on social media for his hilarious videos and sketches
that often touch on topics such as relationships, family dynamics,

(01:39):
and everyday struggles. His infectious personality and comedic talent have
made him a fan favorite among bettle Like's audience, and
he continues to entertain and connect with viewers to his
engaging content. Gatien Is unique perspective and comedic style have
solidified his place as a prominent figure in the online
LATINX community.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I like that solidify though.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, I think he has a crush on you. I
calm down.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Mine was like it just read from my regular bio
and then I mentioned curly was all.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Right, that was better than what my agency has.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I liked what they wrote too,
and then mine was pretty close to yours as well.
I mean, I don't know if I still have it
on pulled up, but let me say I could pull
it up really fast.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
We're excited to have you. How do you feel you're
on the club.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I'm excited. I'm excited to be with you, guys. It's
been a long time and it was about time we.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Want you to come back to because we also want
to talk to you about my idea of how you
on today. I wanted a bas straight man and just
ask you a bunch of questions and be like.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Why are you guys the way that you are?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
What's happening? Why can't you guys emotionally regulate? And then
Maya was like, let's I wanted to.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
And nostalgia and we can talk whatever you guys want well,
because every time we go live on TikTok, a lot
of people ask us questions like what are we up to?
Or why did we leave? Or just kind of like
they they they're still not done with us. Don't you
feel like? I feel like the audience wants more from
us and wants us to go back to those days

(03:17):
or reminiscens on those days, just like we do. So
I want to I want this episode to be something
to where people are gonna be like, oh my god,
like let's give them a little bit of the tea
we've already said before you know why we all left,
but specifically like what you're up to and what you're
doing and you're like our bestie, so it.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Just you know, we're here for each other no matter what.
We still talk to mine every day, I know, all
the time.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
There was one time when we stopped talking for a month,
I think so, and I was like, I guess that's
the end of our friendship.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
And then we talked to each other. You mad at me,
and she was like, I thought you're mad. I thought
you were mad at me. That's what I know about me.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I love about y'all's friendship, though, is that you guys
are not afraid of each other like you guys have
it's so real with one another. There's not a lot
of like, uh, what is it like softning like soft, like.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
We don't beat around the butter's like this happens, well
I did that because of whatever. Like I think that's
a good Like.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Communication is dope, dope.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I feel like that you guys are always, like you know,
open with one another with feelings and everything and not
afraid to be like this is what I think.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, there's the space you create too, Like if you
have that space with somebody that Like one thing I
like about Maya may Youka have these tough conversations with
something happens, she tries to understand what's going on with you.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, I think because we had spent every single day
together for years working at BuzzFeed, and we had situations
where we had to kind of like come together through
like that because we were either on set or we
were like the side traveling together. We had to like
you know, say put a pin in it and save
it for later, or you know, in order we were

(05:11):
a team, we had to make we had to have
good communication in order for us to flow and everything.
So I think that's kind of like why I think
I feel comfortable and why I think we all feel
comfortable like communicating in that way.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
We were also just kind of like in this really
special time with one another, right for the first time.
We were experiencing kind of like this crazy notoriety all
of a sudden that was really big and kind of
like all over the country and all over the globe,
and we were experiencing it with each other and going
traveling to different places, you know, arguing with one another,

(05:45):
growing together, and this whirlwind of you know, kind of
being like internet prophesizing, and we know what.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
We were doing at the time really, and the way
the culture was at the time was still very fresh
and developing, and I think we just were like, you know,
in kind of like a science lab, just kind of
cooking up and creating whatever we could. Yeah, And like
I think what I loved about our time together was
like when we had when one person had a win,

(06:15):
we would be like, oh my god, your video.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Hit like a million views or yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
God, you know, and we would celebrate each other. Or
when a video wouldn't do well, like you know, we
would go in and be like, why didn't do well? Okay,
Like I love that incubation period where we just would
like throw out a bunch of different ideas for those.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Who don't know what we're talking about. We all became
really close on buzzfeeds that the next vertical, which is
called Beto, like that we kind of took to a
whole nother level and we came together. And to your
point about us getting along really was that we all
brought our own flavor to the table. We were not
ever dipping into each other's lane in any sort of way.
But then there was like a threat that united us
at the same time, Like I saw this line a

(06:56):
long time ago where they were talking about the Spice
girls and they were like you, they they were all
different Spices, but you knew that they were all apostles
of the same Church of Spice.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
And I think.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
About that as us, like we were all so different
in our own ways. We were all kind of like
apostles or disciples of this like like a pedal like
or this thing of spreading Latinidad and our identity, and
it was really cool that we all actually got along
with each other in real life. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I want to back up a little bit too, because
I remember first seeing you on Being Latino and I
was creating content on being Latino too, and I was like, oh,
he's funny. And then later you went on to Bettle, Like,
but how did you find Bettle Like?

Speaker 3 (07:36):
It was actually through Danny. Danny was doing but at
that time she I thought she worked for Bettal Like
she told me she worked for BuzzFeed already, and I
was like, Okay, that's what's so yo? Can you lick
me up. I want to meet up with them. I
want to do I want to work with them. First
of all, I wanted to learn. Yeah, I was doing
content for being Latino contact at home. I just want
to do funny videos. But the quality I went back

(07:57):
and the quality was shitty. Yeah, And and I heard
about busfeed. I seen busfeed videos. I was like, okay,
I want to do it. And then she nicked me
up with Jenny and then that's when we Lorenzo and
then that's when we did was it Caribbeans try each
other's dessert?

Speaker 2 (08:14):
That was DeLong Prey, right, you can pray.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
I feel like you guys didn't go to Siren. You
guys were No, it was Siren Siren. I think the
busfeed already moved from the pay was.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Really I thought that video was in at the Long
Prayer like on vine.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
There's like those three generations of different Buzzfee. I never
I went to DeLong Prex one time, but my experience
was Siren and Highland.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Mine was all of them, all of them except there
was a building before DeLong Prey that we were at
that I didn't So there's I think there's actually like
four six wow, because they were in a house at
one point, so like Ella days with like say they
worked at the house, yeah, and then after that they
got like another place here off of Santa Monica, and

(09:03):
I think they have crazy stories about ho people would
try to break in and they would come out with
like a bat and be like, get the fuck out
of here, like very like. And then by the time
we moved to then they went to Beverly and then
they took video out of Beverly and they moved to
the Long Prey and that's when I came.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
What I think is interesting is like your journey to
video content creation, Like what was that?

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Like?

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Like what? Because you your background was completely different then.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, I was in the Navy, and the Navy I
didn't do any content in the Navy, right, but I
was that guy thereverybody was like, Yo, get the Lord Bay,
get the lore Bay. Let's hang out with the lore Bay.
That was the funny guy of the crew, right. And
when I left, I saw Kevin Hart's stand up special
Laugh on my plane and I was like, Yo, I

(09:47):
could relate to this guy. I'm gonna try stand up
like but I was afraid of doing public speaking and
I was like, Okay, let's do stand up And I
tried it. I liked it. I was scarce shitless, right,
But then my girlfriend time, she was like listen, she
showed me a video LaJuan James James and then she
was like, you should do online comedy like and I

(10:09):
was like, you know what, maybe that's marketing. That's good marketing,
Like yeah, okay, I could do stand up, but like
if I could do like online videos, that could be
marketing for comedian that's a comedian.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Is this.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
I don't even know. That's a good question.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Like I feel like it might have been like twenty
thirteen or something.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Fourteen run and I was like messaging Being Latino like yo, geez,
give me a spot.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
So that was the time that I was making videos
with them. Being Latino was another Latino vertical that was
like making had It was like me Ja Mendoza Oscar
Oh yeah, Miranda, yes you yes. And then I think
laque also, but I think at that time LaQuan was bigger.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah, that one was way big at the time. It
was like the biggest Latino content creator. Yeah there's still is,
isn't he.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
I was in commercial with him one time.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, I remember seeing your commercial. Yeah, AT and t
AT and T I mean no, I was was.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
It ad and tu verse doesn't exist anymore?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
So you remember seeing the commercial?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
I remember seeing it isn't that crazy that like we
were still kind of in the same like area and
I was still in Phoenix at the time.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
I was not in La yet at all. But so,
like you started doing content creation and stuff, and so
when you got to BuzzFeed, like what was your first day, like.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Uh, well, first day working or fristday showing up just
like you got the job. Oh when I got the
job because you were.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
A resident when you started, right, you were like maya,
Like you guys were like, yeah, we used to have
this program where we would test people and they would
call them residents, so you could be there for like
what a few months or three months?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
There is months just skip the internship. Basically internship you
were kind of like a PA the entire time. You
get to make like one video and then after that
year a fellow and for three months. So basically we
were kind of like we skipped the internship. We were fellows,
but we were residents, and residents were like people who
were already making content. We already had a voice, we

(12:14):
already knew how to set up cameras and wanted to collab.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
It was like kind of like we're like, we're like
what you're doing out there, come and do that for us,
and come do that with us.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah. And I remember like walking in, I see that
everybody had these crazy ass lights and camera Like I
got to learn how to do all this year so real. Yeah,
and I saw. Matter of fact, I think we went
to eat right and uh, and I sat down with
I was with Jenny. I don't know if you were there,
and we went to eat, you know, sweet greens because

(12:43):
everybody eat.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Oh my god, we eat sweeping.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
I came, I came and look at sweet greens no more,
you know what I know. I know I was.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Or the Harvest Bowl.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, and I was like, and I look at the phone.
I'm sitting down with them, and I was like, and
I saw like video I had five million views on Facebook.
I was like, yo, you got five milliviews. And they
were like yeah, like it was nothing. I'm like, yo,
that's five million. I like, yo, I'm gonna do whatever.

(13:21):
Can I get a job here, whatever you guys need
me to do, I'll do it. Ship I clean toilets,
I don't care. I remember I was a friend of
mine that told me people don't get what they want
because they don't ask he was before you leave the navy.
He's like, remember one thing, people don't get what they
want because they don't ask. I saw Jenny. I was
like Jenny, like, if you need me for anything, I'll

(13:41):
come up here. I don't care because you lived in
San Diego at the time. You would drive down up,
I'll drive up and I was broken ship. Yeah, and
I ain't get paid for like a lot of the
other videos. I ain't get paid though that.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I want to know what were your guys first impressions
of each other.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
I feel like I remember meeting you in front of
the elevator.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Was the elevator?

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Where do you remember meeting I remember meeting you.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
I think you were looking for the Selena outfit.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Classic.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
It was by the where they had the what is
it the wardrobe? The wardrobe walking in Siren and you
were like looking for Selena video.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
This was before I was born, by the way, because
were you Were you there for the Selena video?

Speaker 1 (14:27):
I watched the Selena video like holy ship, he's super funny.
I want to do that, like, yeah, I wasn't there.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I feel like I remember you being there before that.
But I feel like I remember meeting you by an
elevator and being like, oh, this is Gadia and being
like oh cool.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
It was also for a very long time. I mean
I still have a weird adversion adversion, like a weird
like allergy to like street dudes. I'm like, who are
you you.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Cigarette? Probably how is it over here? It is cool
who you don't funk with?

Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, I feel like you know when you came up.
I do remember it being we were predominantly a girl team.
Like it was like me and four other Latina girls
who were like trying to figure the shit out. And
I always liked the idea that I remember, like we
would be sitting there at the end of work and
it was just off, all five of us just like
on the ladder, editing, and then you came Did you

(15:31):
come with Jazz had left?

Speaker 3 (15:33):
No, Jazz was in. Jazz was there too, Jazz Jazz left,
she did. I came in when she left?

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, because I feel like you weren't there for like.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
When Jessica Jessica because it was Jessica, Yes, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
And then you came in after. I do remember you
sat like in front of me to like my right,
and I remember that when you first came. You were
a little bit of like AO, like you were kind
of like learning everything and figuring things out. And I
think our first the story that we were talking about
was that we used to give each other notes before

(16:07):
we would we would create a video. We would send
it to each other to be like, what do you
think about this? How can you make this better? What
are some notes? Basically? And I remember that you replied
to Jenny and Jenny was like the mom and you
replied like, I don't like this, and I think that
was it and they and I think Jenny pulled me

(16:28):
aside and was like, yo, this guy, like what do
I tell him? Like he just wrote I don't like it,
like blah blah blah. Isn't that fucked up? And I
was like, yeah, talk to him. You gotta talk to
him like that's not how I like. And you know,
I think she ended up talking to you and being
like no she was.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
She was like health. They did a video and it
was like, man, the acting in the video was horrible. Right,
it was a good concept, but I'm like, yo, she
could have used us to do this video because we
got more experience of doing this.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Right, do you remember what video was.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
It was like I think it was like they switched
roles or whatever, like but the dad and the so.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
I remember, yes, horrible.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, the sun was like you could tell, like the
sun was just not like he was very green, it
had no flavor and it's just supposed to be.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
And the father okay, well, and I didn't know how
to tell him. And I was like and I was
like before I started working at bus Week because the
thing the way I did my videos back home, I
was like, yo, I sent to my boys and like, Yo,
this ship funny. If it's not funny, let me know.

(17:33):
It's just not funny. We're not putting the ship up right,
like be harsh, be straight up. And I was like this,
and I was, I'm very harsh with my content. I
was like, this is not funny. Yeah, I used to
even post stuff and then a week later I'll go
back and watch all my videos and if I didn't
I didn't think it was funny. The second week I'll delete,
I'll start the leating.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Which is crazy because I would remember hearing you laugh
the hardest when your.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Own video you think this is funny, Like did you
watch my video though?

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Did you know when you would hear him laugh, I
would look over or sometimes it would be like my
video it's funny, huh yeah, what did you laugh at?

Speaker 3 (18:22):
But going back to Jenny, that video came out and
I was like, I don't know how to tell this girl.
Like I was like, you know what, I'm just not
fitting this video, and you know, maybe it's the acting
in the video, right, I don't know how to tell her.
And like, because I had a conversation with Jenny, I said, Jenny,
and if my videos are trash, please let me know.

(18:42):
And she's like, yeah, do the same for me. I
was like, I bet I don't have a deal I
had to deal with Jenny. I'm like, okay, I'm coming
from the military, like the military that we're straight up.
But like, yo, that's we call each other about soda.
You are trash. You don't say like this is how
you could work on things. We'll say you're just trash, right, Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
And uh, that's what I called their mind in my life.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
When I send that email and the email goes to
everybody us not only old of you guys, it also
goes to the bosses. Yeah, and then that's a Claudia
sat down and talked to me. You sat down to
you said, Claudia talked to me. And then and I
saw Jenny. Jenny was like not talking to me, like
she was like feeling in the top of way. It

(19:33):
was like, yo, and I apologize and you're like, you
know what, just apologize to her or whatever. I was like,
I apologize to her. This is what I thought, and
I'm sorry. I will never do that again. And then
that's when you guys taught me about positive criticism.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, yeah, I knew.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
I think that. Well.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
I think what it was is that it wasn't necessarily
positive criticism. It was just more like.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
The first time I heard that word criticism.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well no, it was just like don't you just can't.
You can't be like, oh I don't like it, Like
what can you do to make it better? Like because
that's what happened with me, Like my Selena video, I
turned it in and Cat Mendoza another fucking genius, amazing girl.
She was like, you're missing this and this and this,
like you gotta And I always dealt with like crazy anxiety,

(20:40):
Like shooting for me always gave me. Shooting days made
me feel like I would just get crazy anxiety, so
I wanted to shoot my scenes and just get it out,
and I didn't want to like dive into it. And
I remember when Cap Mendoza was like, I think it's
missing stuff. I came, I had more anxiety, but she
was right. We added like all these other scenes that
made it so much. So I think that's what we

(21:01):
were looking for with you in that moment, is like
how do you make this funnier?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Not like yeah, but it's.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Like when you're on that team, like you learn so
quick and you want to stay there too, so you're like, yes,
I will be constructive in my criticism. And I think
you definitely were, like, you know, I feel like our
team was really great at giving notes and yeah that was.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Always our favorite with you for sure.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yes, yeah, for real. But also I wanted to mention
too that you slept on Curly's couch once.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh for a minute, yeah, yeah, we like I was
living in my car because you first you were living
in a cockroach infested apartment. I did, and then you
were sleeping in your car because you were so grossed out.
And then I heard that you were sleeping in your
car and I had a moment where I was like
I need to talk because my roommate at the time
was my other best of Jess, And I was like,

(21:52):
let me ask Jess if she's cool with him staying
with us. And you lived with us for a little
bit and you I always say this, You're the best
house guests to stay with us. Like he would be
up really early to use the bathroom and not getting
our way. He always madeo and he's the type of
person that folds his blankets and puts the pillows back.
People when they stay over, they just like leave their ship. Yeah,

(22:13):
like your blanket.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Like this is also being Dominican like molest like you
don't want to bother somebody, and you're bothering somebody's home, right,
I'm being intrusive, even though he was like, okay, you
can stay up, So I'm being intrusive at the end
of the day. So I was like, I'm gonna do
whatever I can. You know, if I gotta clean, if
I gotta make them coffee like early morning coffee, like

(22:36):
I'll fix my bed, couch, whatever, you know, So make
sure everything is clean and spotless. So make sure that, okay,
once they wake up, everything is fine. And I'm out
of their way.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
You were you were never in their way. And then
I remember a bunch of my gay friends were texting
me being like, oh my god, so he's like living
with you right now, and I was like, yeah, I know.
Does he walk around in his underwear? And like I think,
I think there's one point where you're here in the
show rocking your underwear and like what they wanted, like details,
And I'm like, he's literally like my coworker and my
new friend, like I don't know, and I'm not looking at.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Him, like that's where your guys' friendship blossom too.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
I think that's when we knew we were like down
for each other. And it was like, no matter what,
like he will always have a home with me, And
I feel like you would do that for me too.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
You know, not a lot of people open their homes
but you didn't know me, Like that's a bit, yeah,
you could sleep in mind, but that's very somebody that
is a big heart of you.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
I mean, it's it's not the easiest to open up
your home with somebody that you don't know. But I
was like, come, yeah, I come hang with us. And
I think from there it was like besties for life.
Family for life, brothers for life.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
That's the thing about like working in this industry too,
is that like when you want it so bad, like
you were literally sleeping in your car, like and then
you know that was so great of you to like
host him like that. What was like your most favorite?

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (23:52):
I when asked the question about like what was the
first what did you do you remember the first time
you met Maya?

Speaker 3 (23:58):
I didn't remember them first time and Maya, oh you
do it vaguely, vaguely you remember?

Speaker 1 (24:06):
I do?

Speaker 2 (24:07):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (24:08):
What do you remember?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
You?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
You like totally snubbed me. You're like, yeah, everyone on
the team, they were not super welcoming to me. I know,
because you guys knew that I didn't speak Spanish at
the time.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Oh yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
I was a Viner. I came from the vine world.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
I don't care about you coming from. But when you
told me you speak Spanish, I was.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Like, well no, because remember we were asking for another
producer to join us because Jenny had just been fired.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
We were all upset about and we stopped making videos.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
We stopped making videos like we were mad.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
We're mad about it because.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Jennie Lorenzo was let go. I mean people other media
outlets picked it up too, like political.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
When I thought the job, everyone was like how could
you well they.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Even hired you without telling us.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Like, yeah, they didn't tell you. They didn't say like, oh,
hey we're talking to like new people. We're bringing new people.
We brought in this girl. Do you want to watch
her content?

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Like?

Speaker 2 (25:05):
They were like, she's starting on Monday, and we were like, well,
we don't know anything about her. Does she speak Spanish?
What does she know? And they were like she doesn't
speak Spanish and we were like, what the hell, what
do you mean?

Speaker 3 (25:16):
I remember Maya's first video.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Hey, I love her first video.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, No, no it was and it
did good. They killed and it opened up. I feel
like something that y'all were doing.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
I do remember telling people that. For weeks after Jenny
was let go, all of our comments and every single
one of our videos was like y'all did Jenny dirty,
y'all did it's hair? But like, fuck you guys, Like
I'm subscribing like all these comments and I'm.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Like, I want to say all of that was out
of your guys' control completely.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
I'm totally like valid, Like we didn't want Jenny to go.
We loved her, like she was the heart of.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
That I wanted. I wanted like her to be my mentor,
Like I loved her videos so much, looked.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Up to her so favistating. When they let her go,
it was a catastrophic blow to like our spirits, our
work ethic, like all those things, Like.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
They messed up there, because that's fucked up because Jenny.
I remember we were in a meeting and they were like, oh,
these people, there's so many videos, and guess who did
eleven videos in one month? Jenny Lorenzo and I was like,
we did, Yes, this woman is like two producers one.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Well we had to do I mean, people who don't.
We have to do like six five to six long
form videos, fully edited, well lit cameras, audio, write the scripts,
get the location, edit the things, all these things. So
it would take us a long time. So our quota
was like five to six. Jenny always did double, and
then at one point when we saw that the average

(26:49):
person did twelve, Jenny had like thirty four. Like then
it got really crazy because it wasn't even it was
more than double. Yeah, and then it showed that she
was actually the number one producer in the entire company
and they had like just basically let her go.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Fired her and yeah, and I remember when that happened
and everybody on like on the outside was like, yeah,
really upset. And then when they.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
And it was something so stupid, it was.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
It was really done because then that show Hintified came
out later, it was like she was she was in
like not even like a long part of of like
INHENTI Fied the I think it was like a webisode
series at the time. And at the time BuzzFeed had
this really weird thing where contract it was, yeah, you
couldn't appear in anybody else's stuff and like and yeah,

(27:38):
it was just really it was weird. So when I
got the job, like or when I got like the residency,
people were coming to me like you're a sellout, like
how could you do that? Like how And I'm like
and this was like I found out that she got fired,
like as like I think they it was like during
it was like there, it wasn't like she got fired

(27:59):
and then I got higher. It was like while they
were making that decision. I think that's when they made
the decision for me, and then the news came out
like everything was kind of delayed.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
And Jenny, Jenny changed my life. That's one thing I
tell you about Jenny. She's the o G. She changed
my life. And the way they did it about it, Jenny,
that I may tell you. I'm gonna say it right
here because I don't go fuck. Let me say Jenny's
grandparents died. Yeah, at that time of the day.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, at the time that they fired.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
There was not one Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh and
you know what takes some time away. I know that
your parents. You know what Jenny was doing her when
her grandparents were in her deathbed. She was creating content.
She was editing videos her grandparents' death. That's how dedicated.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. And then they just they didn't know that,
like they didn't have any of that. I think they
actually they did know that, and they still went forward.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
And they're still fire. Yeah, and it was it was
a blow to us with like, you know what they
could get rid of any one of us.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, I think that's what we all felt like we
weren't important, important and so.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Cute me coming in my dream job. Everybody was like
except for curly like I mean, I but I could
understand like morale was with morales like non existent, Like I.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Feel like, you know, I don't want to also be
fake about it and be like and say that. I
wasn't like what do you mean? She didn't speak like.
I was also like on that, But when you came in,
I was like, well, fuck it, she's a human, she's
hoping being through.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
And yeah, we.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Brainstormed a bunch of ideas together, and.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
I think the one that we like.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
You know, I think that like when uh, we decided
that you were going to make that video about when
you stuck up being Latina. We I remember being there
with you being like, do that one, Let's do that one,
and I loved it. I thought it was so funny.
I thought it was like I saw it in you
and I saw something different that I was like, we
don't have that on the team. And then when it

(30:12):
came out, I had friends who like, you know, his
vintage touch hit me up. His vintage touch is like
queer Latino icon has done every celebrities passages hair. Yeah,
he does like every big celebrities hairstyle, Like he is
like a big hairstylist he hit me up and he
goes that new video and he's a Mexican American queer kid.
He's like that new video where that girl doesn't seek Spanish.

(30:33):
I feel so seen finally, and I just got the chills.
And it validated an experience of of a lot of
Latino people at the table who have been living in
the shadows right like we were. This was before the
We were kind of coming out and.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Being like, yeah, they would just call me straight up.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
And then we were like, hey, you should own that.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Gunchest all over your desk already, yeah, because your mom
would make gun chest stuff and I'd be like.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
And I loved it genuinely, and then became commercialized and
played it everywhere.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
But I mean, it was the first time that anybody
was and that was the thing that made that was
so special is that we had a lot of those times.
It was the first time that somebody was, you know,
not being able to speak English, I mean Spanish and
was still Latino. There was the first time that we
had trans identity, queer identity in front of you, being
black and Latino, you know, like all these different things,

(31:29):
and it wasn't like we were I always said this
back in the day. It wasn't like we would just
invite people to come and talk. It's like we all
worked there. You know, this is where we create content.
And the other thing too, is that we weren't necessarily
the other in these videos. We weren't like the side character.
We were the main characters.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
You know. I think now looking back in hindsight, we
didn't know where were we at, like what we were
doing at that time. We were just like doing that.
We just needed to do it, but we didn't know
the impact created at that time. Even today, people come
up to me like, I remember you, thank you for
what you did, and we're looking back, like the quality

(32:10):
of our videos are crazy.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
There's so fun, Like what are you most proud of?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
What's the video that you feel the most proud of?

Speaker 3 (32:17):
The video I feel the most proud of is is
what's going on in Venezuela? Yeah, because they still kept
using that a lot when Mega Viral. I think I
was sitting there, I do a lot of comedy. I
was like, how can I do something that could make
people cry?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
One?

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Two There's a lot of things going on in Venezuela
that nobody's talking about, and we think we got to
be the ones talking about let's make people interested in this,
and we shot the video and that ship when boom,
they try to take it away from us. They actually
did take it away from us, and we fought back,
and we fought back.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
They tried to buy it.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
No, no, no, another part another we were trying to
build our channel and another channel at BuzzFeed.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
News out there try taking our.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Video and tried uploading it natively, which would have taken
away all of our views and all of our shares.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
They would do that like yeah, you know, we weren't
really And that's the thing too, is that people would
always be like, oh, that's so cool, you guys are
our Latino brand that's backed by busfeed, but like they
don't know that we had to really we were.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
On an island. We were on an island, and we
like had to fight for a Latina manager social media
person because I remember when we wanted to put like
abuela in the title and they're like, well, I don't
think that's gonna work, Like and like, why is this
white person telling us not to be not to put
a bilingual phrase in the title. That shit was just

(33:42):
and I think because we knew that we could do
whatever we want, Like we totally got away.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
With the.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Is that like you know when when we did hit
it really big? You know. I have this memory of
us arriving somewhere we were going to go on stage
for something, and I just remember like the five of
us like walking through Like.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Was it like did calm?

Speaker 2 (34:03):
It was something like that where we were like walking
through the door and there was all these people around
us and we were just minding. We were just trying
to get to the stage or whatever, trying to get
to and I remember somebody being like, oh, yeah, you
guys were like the threat of like kids like coming through.
Like I remember seeing you guys walk past us, and
I'm like, we weren't thinking that, Like we were thinking
like get on that stage. But I think about like bands,

(34:24):
like how they're together and how they go through a lot,
Like people didn't know that, Yes, we were doing amazing things,
but we were We also had like inner conflict with
some of us, like we were trying to figure out
management stuff. We were trying to figure out like what
our next move was, you know, but.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Also also we lived in the bubble. Yeah, our bubble
was we woke up, We went straight to work edited all.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Day, stay there all night, stay there till midnight, like.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, and yeah, we didn't We'll see millions of views
that were like.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
And then we'd hang out on the weekends because we
like just wanted to hang out, but.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
We didn't think like these millions of yous are people watching? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, So how did you feel about leaving? Like what
was your mindset? You're like, it's time to go at that.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Time, like most of the people were gone, and I
think I was just exhausted. It was just like burnt out.
We're the ones doing it, Like I can't come up
with any more ideas, and I feel like the channel
was like on its way down in a way, right, Yeah,
and I just wanted something different, something new, and yeah,
and I think I got tired.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
It just wasn't the same for because I feel like
I feel like we hit kind of a ceiling a
little bit, and BuzzFeed knew that we were like they
had something with us and didn't want to make us
any bigger, like we we you know, couldn't have a podcast.
They wouldn't let us have a podcastcast. Now there's a podcast, yeah,

(35:51):
which is fine, you know, and it's beautiful, but it's
like there's a lot of things that they would not
let us have, even though we were like, yeah, we're
bringing them millions of fucking dollars brand branded deals, ads,
and I think it's it kind.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Of companies wanted to make a TV show with us
that and talks.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
For a TV show and were so I mean, I
you know about the TV show stuff, Like I feel
like I wanted to walk away because it was I
didn't want BuzzFeed in the middle of any of that
stuff because I knew they were already fumbling us, and
you know, there was just differences on the team and
the energy was different, huh and and so yeah, and

(36:33):
when you left, it was like, oh man, that was
for you. Yeah, yes, I left twenty twenty one.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
I left. I was or Claudia was last? Was I last?
Or Claudia was last?

Speaker 1 (36:46):
I think you were last.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
I think you were last.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah you stayed for a minute.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Ye took me out of here.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Nobody was it was good, but it was like it
was smart to stay. But they never offered any of
like they just were like so weird sometimes you know,
like I feel like I wanted to do more things
and I couldn't, and so we just kind of had
to leave. But you left in twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
That the twenty nineteen that think it was twenty nineteen,
probably the end of twenty nineteen. I talk about my house.
I was like, I'm home.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah. Yeah, I actually only left because I felt like
the they started to have conversations with me about TikTok,
and I was like, we should be talking to me
about TV. We should be talking to me about writing stuff.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
And creatinging a show.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, just doing bigger things, Like you should be talking
to all of us about where our career is growing,
not like how do we grow TikTok. I'm like, we've
paid our dues, we have cracked the formula for you
on multiple platforms like Facebook, YouTube, like a short form,
like we already did it. Why and now you want Instagram?

(37:57):
You know, like now you want us to do another platform?
Like I think that's why I left.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
I think what they should have done it Like, Okay,
these guys they bringing in numbers, they're doing good. They
affect their whole community. You know what, how can we
create like a type of film because we got.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Everything, everybody who was on the team making videos everyone
is a star, Like everyone could edit, everyone could direct,
could write, could act, could do all that stuff, Like
what in their brains? Just like I mean, I just
I don't know. It's like we we could have done
a show.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
We're just numbers, I think, And I think once the
numbers hit it was great.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
And then I yeah, when I left, it was because
there was and she's not there anymore, but there was
this new like lead of like I don't know if
she was like yeah video and it got out that like, oh,
Bettle like is so expensive, like everyone on the team
is so expensive and they're not even doing anything.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
I stopped doing stuff.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
To be honest, we all stopped kind of stopped doing
stuff because it just it just was like what's left.
But it was just kind of like wow to say that,
knowing that it was going to get back to us, Yeah,
I was like, you know what, fine, Like here, like
here's my fucking salary that it took me so long
to finally get the same as everybody else's, like fairly
and like there you go. And then I found out

(39:18):
later that she overspent like two million dollars, So it's
like was it worth it?

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Girl?

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Was it worth it?

Speaker 2 (39:23):
I feel like for me that was I remember. Actually
that was the thing too, that they were like, you're
not making anything and you're actually they were like, you
cost us this much money. Yeah, the one video that
you did make made like chines.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
And but you knows crazy is the branded side, like
they they would mess up sometimes and and show how
much the entire branded package would be, how much our
fee was compared to how much BuzzFeed was getting paid,
and that pissed some some of us off as well.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, and when I left BuzzFeed, I was getting paid
way more. I made more than my salary, like when

(40:18):
I left that first year, like and that's just something
that I was.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
I remember when you told me that, you were like,
I just made more than myself a commercial.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
I remember, I made more than my salary. That took
me fucking years to get to beg for because I
wasn't a hit maker like that. I feel like I
was like a I don't.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Know, I feel like a personality.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
H come on, just say it. I was the personality higher,
but I worked my ass off.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
I was making for me. I feel like I was
making content that even though wouldn't hit.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
It was still we were like curators, and you also
had a lot to do with the aesthetic of Bettle,
like a lot of creative directly. And I feel like
not a lot of people know that also.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Absolutely, but I think that like my mission was, like
I don't care if a video about non binary people
and trans folk isn't going viral.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
You're the first one to make that.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Yeah, it was like for our stuff. Yeah, I was
like it was really important for me to just have
it on our there about it specifically in Latin Latino culture.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
And yeah, and I also want to know, like how
did we How do you feel like we all stayed
close after we left, you know, like I don't know,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
I think after after I left, and we're the only
people that we knew.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Right, Yeah, say we're trauma bonded.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Trauma and I want to call it trauma bon because
either way, like I know each one of us, Like
I know people are listening to us and they're like, man,
these guys, man must be so messed up. No, it's
still a company, and it's and it offered us a
lot of opportunity.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Yeah, I'm really really appreciative. And it was my college basically,
like I dropped out of school. It was it was
something that like was so such a magical time that
doesn't does not exist anymore at all. We're so extremely lucky.
But yes, at the end of the day, it was
a company and you know it was.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
And we shot I shot two films with Henry and
and Stephen Canter. It was just them too and each
one of us and Claudia was part of it and
everybody and that said could do everything.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yes, wow, coming out of us.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
It was a school of heart.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
I mean has a elementary now like doing our thing.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
You know. And she was always like creating shows. She
created home shows and at bus feed and stuff. She
was a great writer from day one, you know what
I mean. So it was like we all went through
that school.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Can I ask you what is your uh what do
you remember about celebrity cheese man? Like, what do you
remember about working with that?

Speaker 1 (43:04):
But we worked with a lot of selves. You specifically.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
The whole day.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
I wanted to know did he smell good? Did he
breathe in your direction and you smell his breath?

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Did you make out a little bit?

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Did he was going on here I stick my nose
in the back of his throat. I know, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
It was that he's tall, I know he was.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Was he shy?

Speaker 3 (43:26):
No?

Speaker 2 (43:26):
He I feel like people once they find out your
Caribbean and you're like.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
I was nervous when I first met and I was like, yo,
they were the bad bunnies in the room, like.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Okay, was like yeah, yeah yeah, but you had met
him when he wasn't that big.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
No, he wasn't that big. I met him at h.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yeah, yeah, board because you had interviewed him before, so
now he was as a mega star. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Do you remember me?

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah, He's like yeah, I remember. I'm like yeah, yeah,
how was he? I thought, you know, I remember that
day when I saw him. I thought we were going
to lock eyes and blow up into pieces of confetti
because we were just gonnall in love with each other.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
He was shy when he was serving insisty.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
He's very shy. He didn't make any eye contact. Well
he doesn't have to. He's like six one. He just
looked over everybody. He's making contact nobody. But like, you
spent the whole day with him, and how was that?

Speaker 3 (44:22):
That was cool? I think I asked some one question.
I said that bunny there's a lot of people that
are successful. No, no, there's a lot of people that
want to be at the position.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
That you are.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
You are the number one Latino artist right now. There's
a lot of tons of singers get tornados that want
to make it to your position. Why do you think
you're in that position? And what advice you have somebody
for somebody to make it to that one position? What
makes you different from everybody else? And it was like
the difference between me and everybody else is that everybody
else has egos, especially have egos. I collabor with anyone.

(44:58):
I would work with anybody I don't hair because their
fans will become my fans. Yeah, and I set myself
apart with styles. Look at me. I'm here and we're
doing a tasty video. I'm doing a tasty He's like.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
All collab with anybody. It's like, you're.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
Like what He's like, I'm here doing a tasty video.
But guess what as you tell any other like, yo,
you want to do a tasty video, they'll be like, no,
you're crazy, that's not what I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know his outfit he changes his hair style every year.
He changes completely changes style.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
And he copies curly style a little bit.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Remember, we always had a theory that he would be
like every time I swear to God, I.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Was at some point I'm going to make a presentation
about it, because.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
I would wear something and then I would see it
on him. And we always joked at his stylist or
whoever was like was probably following follow you, Like I
would wear like a big bend a loope coat and
then back By would be in it.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
I felt that there was a time that that that
Bunny turned into CURTI.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Yeah. First I I know, it was so funny because
I completely stopped wearing crazy stuff and all I would
do is wear white T shirt. And I remember he
showed up to the Grammys or some award show in
white white. But he did say that he was late.
He almost missed the show, so that's why he wore that.
So he wasn't really copying me. But it's just a theory.
And now I'm like, O off, Diva, do your thing.
You're killing it, and you're there.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
People stopping like bad Bunny.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Oh yeah. People would always back in the day be like,
oh are you bad Bunny? Like bad Bunny, but they
would remember there was a balet driver who thought I
was him because people were wanting to take photos with
me because they knew who I was. But he was like,
it is bad, bunny, I can't really do it anymore.
But like remember like he called his other balet people

(46:42):
to do it. No, I can't do it. What was?
But I can't do it? I can do it? Really,
you put Nalla in danger? Or I can sometimes do Obama. Hello,
this is your President Obama. This is my wife Michelle,

(47:04):
and this is my daughter Malia.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Miss Piggy.

Speaker 5 (47:09):
Miss Piggy is like, oh oh kurmey, oh Piggy so
much the best, you know, just become Hello. This is
my friend Gadiel. This is President Obama, and I love
He's funny. He's very funny.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Anyway, I can't do it.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
I don't know who can I do. Wait?

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Did you like my Obama impression?

Speaker 3 (47:35):
That was good?

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Thank you frog?

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Oh yeah, I love everything you do.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
What about when you met out gotta like we when
we met out of g you went to go look
for a bandon for her?

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Oh yeah, that's just beautiful. So I was like, yeah,
look something, mommy. I gotta be respectful because I'm at work.
Karlje was dope as hell. We know what I love
about Carol Ge is like like it's not.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Fake, Yeah, it's not fake. She's dope.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
She's dope for real, like behind the cameras everything when
she's alone. So when we went to her concert, she
kiddy kept us in there that she was cool.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
I always tell people that she was really cool with
us and she was really dope. Always invited us for
he shows until she got dang.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
What about Caese.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
I don't have much of a vibe but her and
I don't really vibe.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Was cool with us, with us and with us.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
When I did a video with her, she said that
she really liked you guys. She felt like you guys
were her cousins. Every time I come here, I feel
like you guys are I'm coming back to my cousins.
I was going to say that we changes, she changes her.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
She's like a lot of people were like when they
first meet you, they're kind of like, oh, I don't
know you. And then once we vibed it with her.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
She was talking yeah, and she was laughing and then
like it's just funny because she us, Yeah, we love you, Kelly,
And like I remember we like made I forget what
we made. But she was like she would have this
voice off camera that was like, oh yeah, I really
love you know, making stuff with you guys and whatever,
and then she'd be like like you have to it's

(49:12):
like fears for Beyonce. You have to like have this
like new persona where she was like Cali you ches
was like, oh, okay, she's gone.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Okay. I couldn't read her to be honest, because you
know what it was.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
I think we went in to go talk to her
and introduce ourselves and she was like early she was
w She was like sitting on her chair for the mirror,
just eating a muffin, and she was just like.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
She had her eyes closed and she was like I
had We both had to go yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Yeah, it's like we have to like we have to
turn to.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Get position our heads like in front of her head.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Hi, I'll never forget to just hurt her little muffin.
I mean, look, I wish, I.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Wish And then that video ever came out and then.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Came out I have something. I have a lot of
love for her. But you know, some artists you could
tell them like are you high or just your person?
I think it's just a personality.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
I think she was high.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Well, I wish that was me, by the way. I
wish that I got bunked on the head so hard
sometimes that people think that I'm higher. I love when
I'm too self aware. I'm too self aware for ship.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
I feel like, yes, her person her personality feels a
little high.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
What is a core memory that you have about working
together that you feel like people that you would like
people to know, Like when they when they ask about
your time with us, what's something that you look back on.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
You're like, oh, I have the picture of us on
the wall.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
And we were like you keep that one.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Actually I took them off.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Oh yeah, because they wouldn't let us have certain things
of us, and you your last day, you took it.
They took it off the wall and they.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
Told by then I was like, yo, what's gonna happen?
So that's the picture? Can I have it? And they're like, oh,
when we were modeled, then you could have it, and
so I'm like, oh, I can have it.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Yeah, it's a picture of all five of us, like happy, loving, yeah,
and sweet and just like joyous and joyful.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
I went and then I took that ship and I
walked the fuck out.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Yeah, it was really good. Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
I don't know a core memory of all of us. Uh,
it's a good question, like shooting wise.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Just like a like I feel like my core memory
would be like just all the times when all of
us were together and we were just this unit and
we would just going to the world, and I think
that would be something I remember that. I just loved
that we were just a unit at some point.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
You know, it was a core memory. I would say
Vigcon vi Con was big. It was my first time
being big. We stayed together, you remember, you slept like
a vampire. It was new to me, but it was cool.
And even I look at vccntent now and I'm like,
I'm not inviting no more.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
But uh, it's not the same the same, No, But
it was cool.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
That we were part of that that we were when
we were taking pictures like a meet and greet, we
meet the mean and greet that lines of people. I
never excited to see us, and it felt good to
see people like support us and enjoy us. I think
that's that's a core memory. I will say, Yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
It was, Like I think it's it was my un
don't want to cry. I think it was my birthday,
my first birthday in La at your house.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
That was fun because it was like everybody was, you know,
loved each other and the vibes were right, and it
was just like kind of like we got to debrief
after everything and just kind of like hang out as
friends and stuff. I loved whenever we traveled together to
you know, that was a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
You know, the cool one, the Haunted House one.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Oh yeah, so we did a Haunted script scripted We
did an unscripted Haunted series.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
To Arizona. We're scared of everything. I'd be like, let's
go in this room and investigating. Yeah, and then you
would be yelling at the ghost and I'm like, how.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
The hell are yelling at him?

Speaker 2 (53:15):
All the white noise, all the audio of these ghosts
is you yelling and you being like, I don't want
my bitch? Who was who was going to see the ghost?

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Like, hey, that trip was fun though it was us
and Claudia.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
I'm just saying, if we're gonna look for ghosts, you
can't go with these two.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Okay, let's move on to our astrology portion of the Okay,
let's go as a sagittarius. Can you tell people why
do you terrorize people?

Speaker 3 (53:48):
We don't terrorize actuallyists, No, we don't. I don't know.
We're fun people, but you get on our byside. We're
so easy to cut you off.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Are you good at commitment?

Speaker 3 (54:00):
No?

Speaker 1 (54:00):
No, Why are you not going to commitment?

Speaker 3 (54:04):
I don't know. I don't think. I think I've been.
I was thinking about that too today when I was
taking the elevator, I was like, I think it's a
lot more has a lot more to do with me?
Is more in a sense, like, Okay, am I in
a position to even have a family now, you know,
or commit be committed to somebody as a man, you
do have that pressure. But like I got to take

(54:25):
care of everybody, right, So, like that's one thing I
think about, Like, am I in a position to be
like to be like the leader of this family? In
a sense, it is a lot of responsibility, right, So
I think I'm afraid of commitment because also don't want
to make the wrong decision. Nobody want to make the
wrong whatever you like, you committed, want to make a decision,

(54:45):
You got to make a decision. I don't even got tattoos, right,
because that's a commitment to.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
So do you resonate with your sign then yes. So. Sagittarius,
the ninth sign of the zodiac, is known for being
adventurous and energetic, optimistic and positive, yes, honest and direct, yes,
intellectual and philosophical, independent and freedom loving, generous and open minded,

(55:14):
spontaneous and impulsive. I love Sagittarius. Yeah, Sagittarius too, my mom,
my other friend, my other bestie, Ben, you like aries
and Sagittarius, We just like Gostarius is not.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
I don't see you guys as like the go Go go.
I think that's when fire signs get other fire signs.
I feel like sages are very deep like you guys
are always don for deep convos because you guys are
known for being thinkers. Like you, guys overthink a lot.
So I love talking to Sagittarius because you guys have
a lot of insight and a lot of things as well.
So I think that's what I think of when I

(55:51):
think of just like thees.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
As sad as we clash. So I don't know somehow
you're not get alone.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
But see, I don't know the rest of your chart too.
The rest of your charge.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
That's what it is.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
My favorite memory with you is when we went to
Universal Studios Orlando and we just like we were We
went to some like we were like going back on
the bus and we were just like had a bunch
of like video ideas and we're like talking throughout the
bus and everybody else was quiet. We were like like

(56:22):
laughing and giggling. We went to Harry Potter World. It
was like it was just fun because he had never
experienced You had never experienced it before. Neither. I think
maybe I had, but like it's just Sagittarius are just
so much fun to be like, do you want to
do this today? Yeah? For sure? And then we go

(56:42):
and do it, you know, and then it's like what
else can we do? And then we go and do it.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
Sometimes I'll just drive down to Sandu Yeah, without planning.
I'm just gonna just that was.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Like a hard thing where I'd be like were you
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
And that concludes the astrology portion.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Well, before you get out of here, I know that
peak season, Yes is in theaters August second, Yes, and
you're in it hell yeah for like five seconds. You
can go to a local theater, yes, and check out
in person.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Peak season, peak season, Henry Steven and Claudia.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Where else do you want to want to promote on
the pod? What else you have any shows coming up?

Speaker 3 (57:33):
I do have a show in Atlanta. I think it's
August first. Where Atlanta is going to be at Damn,
I gotta I got the comedy Corner. I think I
believe it is called the comedy Corner.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Do you have any last thoughts on this topic? Maybe
like how much you love me?

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Or I love you so much. I appreciate each and
every one of you, like each him, he said, and her,
I'll talk about about Joel, right then that's Richie. That's Richie.

(58:14):
We edited that out, keep it in. No So happy
to see what you guys doing and and the podcast,
And thank you for inviting me and having me on.
I never thought that after but I like that we
will be this close and we did it, and I
think we also need to remember where we came from

(58:36):
and what we did. What's phenomenal. It was beautiful and
we experienced that together, right and this is only the beginning.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
The beginning, so much to come.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
We we went, we went through a certain level. Now
is to hit the next one.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Yeah, sure. Where can people find you on social media?

Speaker 3 (58:56):
A little bit? Everywhere? Where's everywhere everywhere, Instagram and you
know TikTok and TikTok. You find me on tik talk.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
Yeah. Nicea Where can people find you?

Speaker 1 (59:06):
You can find me at Maya in the Moment, m
a y A in the moment anyways.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
And you can find me at the Curly v Show
on Instagram and TikTok.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
Thank you so much, thank you so much, Thank you
for being on here, gudiyall, thank you everyone for listening
to another episode of The Super Secret Bestie Club Podcast.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Gdio's buff now guys.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
I was like, well, we must.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Get veins on his arms.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Yeah, you always have veins on his arms.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
I wish I had veins on my arm.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
Okay, bye, hie.

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