Speaker 1: What's up. It's episode seventeen. Haha, I'm still say the
Speaker 1: number is Andrew Cool. I know you hate it. Diamond
Speaker 1: told me to stop doing it too, but I continue.
Speaker 1: Episode seventeen saw us on the side. What's up. I'm
Speaker 1: Gandhi and I'm here with my two favorite people, Diamond
Speaker 1: and Andrew.
Speaker 2: Hi. Y'all.
Speaker 3: Hi, I'm so happy that she said my name first.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 4: I'm here too.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people said that their favorite
Speaker 1: episode of the show was when it was just three
Speaker 1: of us talking.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm saucy episode.
Speaker 3: Okay, can you not do that in my own microphone?
Speaker 1: You don't on purpose. We'll get to a microphone soon, buddy,
Speaker 1: don't worry.
Speaker 4: Wow, I'm just your jester in this show.
Speaker 1: You're not funny. Jesters are funny. I just try to
Speaker 1: try again. Good Anyway, we're all laughing and having a
Speaker 1: good time. But I am kind of excited about this
Speaker 1: interview today because it's Drake Bell, who we know from
Speaker 1: Drake and Josh but has recently made headlines with all
Speaker 1: kinds of other stuff. If you didn't see the documentary
Speaker 1: of Quiet on Set, he was definitely featured prominently in
Speaker 1: that He's got some new music on the way. I
Speaker 1: have a ton of things to talk to him about.
Speaker 1: I say, we just get right to it. I'm here
Speaker 1: with Drake Bell and so much to talk about. Where
Speaker 1: do we even begin? Would you like to start with
Speaker 1: new music, new ventures?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Sure. I just released a new single called I
Speaker 2: kind of Relate.
Speaker 1: I listened to it. I like it, but I really
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the music video. We just hit three
Speaker 2: million on the music video. It's doing really well, I guess,
Speaker 2: one of the most introspective, kind of autobiographical tunes that
Speaker 2: ever in a long time. And then I just released
Speaker 2: a new song on the tenth called Hollywoodn't and we're
Speaker 2: having fun with that one. It's doing pretty good.
Speaker 1: So these songs are very different because I'd listened to
Speaker 1: both of them. Yes, So with I kind of Relate,
Speaker 1: it's almost whimsical. The sound of it is whimsical, and
Speaker 1: then you listen to the words and it's so heavy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then Hollywoodn't well heavy as well. Obviously you're drawing
Speaker 1: from things going on in your own life at the
Speaker 1: moment or in the past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these these two songs, there's been a lot that
Speaker 2: has come out recently about my history and my past
Speaker 2: and what I've been through in life, and these songs
Speaker 2: definitely relate to those those events. It's cool that you
Speaker 2: mentioned that, because I love writing songs that sound, you know, happy,
Speaker 2: but then the lyrical content takes you somewhere else, into
Speaker 2: a dark place, fun juxtaposition. It kind of is a
Speaker 2: throwback to the days that I was going through. What
Speaker 2: I was going through at this time working on Drake
Speaker 2: and Josh, and that era of music was sort of
Speaker 2: what was happening at the time, and a lot of
Speaker 2: different styles and sounds and I kind of took all
Speaker 2: of them and threw them all into the pot, and
Speaker 2: then the whole album takes you through this this sort
Speaker 2: of narrative journey. I kind of compared to it. It's
Speaker 2: like my wide album because there's so many, so many songs,
Speaker 2: and I mean, I guess if it was, you know,
Speaker 2: if this was the seventies, would be a double album.
Speaker 1: How do you feel listening back to it from where
Speaker 1: you drew because I'm sure that there are some people
Speaker 1: listening who don't know specifically what you're talking about. There
Speaker 1: was a documentary that came out. It talked about some
Speaker 1: things that you've been through in your past, which were
Speaker 1: dark and very upsetting, I'm sure for you to relive.
Speaker 1: And now you have this album where you're pulling from
Speaker 1: those things and you're performing and you're listening to it
Speaker 1: all the time. What is that like?
Speaker 2: It's it's interesting, you know. I often say I was
Speaker 2: thinking about this the other day. You know, a lot
Speaker 2: of people journal and get their thoughts out through journaling
Speaker 2: or writing in a diary, and for me, that's songwriting.
Speaker 2: I get it through my songs, and that's how I
Speaker 2: get you know, if I'm feeling upset, or I'm feeling
Speaker 2: happy about something, or there's something that's I've been dealing
Speaker 2: with emotionally, I get it out through song. But then
Speaker 2: I was sinking the other day how many people write
Speaker 2: in their journal and then go and perform it every night?
Speaker 1: Yes, Like I couldn't rut. I don't understand how people
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm using this as like it's like a cathartic
Speaker 2: therapeutic avenue to get all of this this junk out
Speaker 2: that's inside of me. And okay, cool, it's out. It's out.
Speaker 2: It's I don't have to sit there and you know,
Speaker 2: work through the turmoil in my mind. And then I'm
Speaker 2: like on my way on to stage and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm about to co read my diary for like fifty
Speaker 2: thousand people, and it's some concert I'm playing. I'm like what,
Speaker 2: And you like, really that smart?
Speaker 1: It is? Well, I'm sure that it's got to be
Speaker 1: a little bit therapeutic to you, but it's also got
Speaker 1: to be weird to look out in the crowd and
Speaker 1: see people just singing along. Journal that was about some dark,
Speaker 1: heavy sound, dark stuff, Like what a weird position to
Speaker 1: be in, But you're saying it's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it is. It's that's how I do it.
Speaker 2: It's been really interesting because that's how I've always written songs.
Speaker 2: And my first album I put out Telegraph, I wrote
Speaker 2: I started writing when I was fourteen, released it when
Speaker 2: I was about fifteen, and I was in the thick
Speaker 2: of all of that that junk, you know, all of
Speaker 2: that abuse and trauma and stuff that was going on,
Speaker 2: and it was all coming out through my lyrics. And
Speaker 2: so fans are now going back to that album and
Speaker 2: looking at the lyrics and going, oh my gosh, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's taking on a whole new life. We're seeing it
Speaker 2: through a completely different lens. And he's been screaming from
Speaker 2: the mountaintop since day one, you know, and we just
Speaker 2: didn't you know, we were unaware of what he was
Speaker 2: going through personally, and and so we didn't really you know,
Speaker 2: these these lyrics are a lot heavier and talking about
Speaker 2: things that are whoa you know. So that's that's. Uh,
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of that, which is which is
Speaker 2: pretty cool. That's that's how I write. And when I
Speaker 2: was starting to write this new album, but I didn't
Speaker 2: approach it with the thought of making an album. I
Speaker 2: was just you know, I was in the eye of
Speaker 2: the storm. This documentary was going to come out. I
Speaker 2: the world was going to know my story. And I
Speaker 2: just started sitting down at the piano and using it
Speaker 2: to get to get everything out, you know.
Speaker 1: Twenty six songs later, yeah.
Speaker 2: Twenty six songs later, I turned into an album. And
Speaker 2: and then I just started getting super creative and I
Speaker 2: was like, well, you know, this is some heavy material.
Speaker 2: There's got to be some more, you know, it can't
Speaker 2: just be like, Okay, here's my next album. And there's
Speaker 2: a there's such a linear story, there's there's a lot
Speaker 2: of flight references, you know, when you're feeling trapped or
Speaker 2: you're going through something and you're like, man, I just
Speaker 2: want to get away. I just want to escape. I
Speaker 2: just want to go somewhere. You know, you always say
Speaker 2: I just want to go to like an island and
Speaker 2: get away from everybody and get away from everything. And
Speaker 2: I started to construct this sort of narrative and the
Speaker 2: songs are very linear of starting with like I want
Speaker 2: to get away, I want to get out, I want
Speaker 2: to do this, and then tragedy happening in my life.
Speaker 2: It's it's really autobiographical, and then heartbreak and then that
Speaker 2: getting fixed and triumphant redemption and this and that. So
Speaker 2: it's like a whole. It's like I putting together a movie,
Speaker 2: you know, through sound. It's cool.
Speaker 1: So have you gotten a chance to escape and get away?
Speaker 1: Because it seems like the last year, or at least the
Speaker 1: last few months, all eyes are on you, and everybody's
Speaker 1: probably reaching out to you and saying, hey, talk about this,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this again and again and again. Did
Speaker 1: you get to get away? Do you have some peace
Speaker 1: at all or has it just been a whirlwind of crazy?
Speaker 2: Well, it has been quite the whirlwind. But my escape
Speaker 2: is in the studio. And that's how it was when
Speaker 2: I was working, for example, Drake and Josh, And even
Speaker 2: though I was in the thick of such heavy and
Speaker 2: emotional things going on in my life, it's you know,
Speaker 2: when I'm on stage and when the lights go up
Speaker 2: and I get to start, you know, I get to
Speaker 2: work that that that's an escape for me. And it's
Speaker 2: sort of a metaphorical escape. That's sort of the narrative
Speaker 2: of the record too, is you know, you want to
Speaker 2: just escape and get away, but there's a lot of
Speaker 2: work on the inside and that you have to do
Speaker 2: first before you know. You can relax when you get
Speaker 2: to your destination.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can run, but it will catch you.
Speaker 1: You can go on vacation, when you come home, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be there. You can take a nap, when you
Speaker 1: wake up, it's still going to be there. You really
Speaker 1: have to dive in and write your journal entries and
Speaker 1: then apparently turn it into a double.
Speaker 2: Discaltel exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: And go perform all over the place. When you are
Speaker 1: performing now, right, you have some shows coming up, is
Speaker 1: it in California?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a couple shows in California, I just
Speaker 2: played in Tabasco and in Mexico, which were amazing shows.
Speaker 2: This has been the most fun show I've put together,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Ever, when did you start working on this album three
Speaker 1: years ago? Three years ago?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a long time.
Speaker 1: Okay. That explains the amount of songs, yeah, that you
Speaker 1: have because a few months I.
Speaker 2: Keep I just keep writing, and it just keeps growing
Speaker 2: and growing and growing and growing, and I'm like, we
Speaker 2: gotta figure out, we got it. We gotta stop sometime.
Speaker 2: You know. It's funny because the name of the album
Speaker 2: is called NonStop Flight, but then as the album continued,
Speaker 2: I was adding songs, adding songs, adding songs. I'm laughing
Speaker 2: with my friends, like maybe it should just be called
Speaker 2: NonStop album. His album's like never gonna be finished.
Speaker 1: You know, do you find it easier to write when
Speaker 1: you're happy or when you're sad?
Speaker 2: Honestly, I think it's easier to write when you're sad.
Speaker 2: I think it's uh, I don't know, Uh, there's stronger emotion.
Speaker 2: I think when and I don't know if necessarily just sad, uh,
Speaker 2: but when when there's just something more impactful going on
Speaker 2: in your life. It's I think it's easier to find
Speaker 2: the words to say. And also, when you're happy and
Speaker 2: you're stoked, you're like, I want to know how out
Speaker 2: with my friends? Like I want to go, like I
Speaker 2: want to I'm feeling good, Like let's go out to lunch,
Speaker 2: you know, And when you're upset, you're like, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: in my house, I'm bummed. Okay, where's the piano, where's
Speaker 2: my guitar?
Speaker 1: You know. So it's almost like a Yelp review. People
Speaker 1: always when they're pissed off, they're gonna go leave those
Speaker 1: Yelp reviews. But when they're happy, very rarely do they
Speaker 1: go and talk about how happy they are, which is
Speaker 1: kind of sad but also makes total sense when it
Speaker 1: comes to the songwriting process.
Speaker 2: Comments on social media are the same way. You know,
Speaker 2: if you if you're reading through social media, you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: there's these bad comment who's gonna write, Who's gonna When
Speaker 2: they're happy, they're just scrolling right, you know, so they're
Speaker 2: not looking for something to attack or.
Speaker 1: But shout out to the people who do leave nice
Speaker 1: comments when they are happy. We love you. There are
Speaker 1: less of you than the others. But how do you
Speaker 1: please please leave more. Did you hear him? How do
Speaker 1: you navigate that because you can't contry. I mean, you
Speaker 1: could be the person that shots off all your comments.
Speaker 1: But it is nice to get some feedback every now
Speaker 1: and then from your fans and from the people who
Speaker 1: follow you. How has that been recently with you?
Speaker 2: It's been really great. I mean, the fan response to
Speaker 2: my story coming out has been incredible. It's been a
Speaker 2: good Uh, it's been uplifting good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good because I can only imagine how hard
Speaker 1: all of that has been before and knowing what was coming,
Speaker 1: because you obviously sat down and did this documentary ahead
Speaker 1: of time. How long did you know before it was
Speaker 1: coming out that it was like? How long was that
Speaker 1: in the works?
Speaker 2: About a year?
Speaker 1: A year? Yeah, we had Mark Summerson not too long ago.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and that click did you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it went viral because he said he was ambushed
Speaker 1: and he did not know what was going on. What
Speaker 1: did you think of the final product of Quiet on set?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this, okaylad, I'm content with the way
Speaker 2: that my story was able to be revealed to the world.
Speaker 2: As far as the rest of the documentary goes.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know, I've seen all this stuff about it.
Speaker 1: It seems like there are some gray area with other people.
Speaker 1: When I watched it, my first thought when it came
Speaker 1: to you was I want to give him a hug.
Speaker 1: And it makes me actually want to tear up a
Speaker 1: little bit right now that you were going through all
Speaker 1: of that and putting on a happy face for everybody,
Speaker 1: and now you are using all of it to channel
Speaker 1: into this wonderful music. And I am impressed that you
Speaker 1: can do that. And I don't know how a lot
Speaker 1: of people can get through those things and not say
Speaker 1: fuck Hollywood in general. I'm out. I don't want to
Speaker 1: do entertainment anymore.
Speaker 2: You kept doing it because I love it.
Speaker 1: So no thought has ever entered your mind. I'm leaving
Speaker 1: this behind.
Speaker 2: I can't. It's everything inside of me. And ever since
Speaker 2: I was a little boy, all I wanted to do
Speaker 2: was entertained. When I was five years old, six years old,
Speaker 2: I you know, even though it's a very young age,
Speaker 2: I didn't know what it was. I just knew that
Speaker 2: I wanted to make people laugh, and that is my essence.
Speaker 2: That's my soul, like I I that's my oxygen. And also,
Speaker 2: I mean, fuck them, what am I gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'm gonna quit. I'm gonna quit doing what I love
Speaker 2: and what i've you know, I believe was born to do,
Speaker 2: and so so that these monsters can win.
Speaker 1: I love that attitude because it's so easy to get
Speaker 1: discouraged and to let somebody doing something bad or even
Speaker 1: saying things that are terrible get to you, get inside
Speaker 1: you and say, I don't want to do this anymore,
Speaker 1: like kind of kill your buzz, kill your spirit and
Speaker 1: your light. And you didn't, and you're back better than ever.
Speaker 2: Man, when I was on that stage and I you know,
Speaker 2: you hear, you hear the hammers hitting building, the sets,
Speaker 2: you smell that, you smell the wood being cut. You
Speaker 2: you're walking over the cables, you're seeing the cameras, the lights,
Speaker 2: and that's home. That's that's where I felt safe. That's
Speaker 2: where I felt happy, That's where I felt creative, that's
Speaker 2: where I felt alive. I'll be damned if I'm gonna
Speaker 2: allow anybody to take that away from me.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I want to hear. I don't want
Speaker 1: to feel. I don't want to hear from you that
Speaker 1: you feel like this is something you have to do,
Speaker 1: or that you're trapped in doing It's good to know
Speaker 1: that you want to do it and you're having a
Speaker 1: good time doing it and at the same time as
Speaker 1: therapeutic and helping you get through all the bullshit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've I've lost houses, but I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna I'm not gonna lose my metaphorical home.
Speaker 1: You know, you're gonna stick with it. Yeah, Would you
Speaker 1: let your kids get into it?
Speaker 2: That's a tough question because there's nothing else I wanted
Speaker 2: to do. Had somebody, you know, my parents or somebody
Speaker 2: had said no, you can't do that because there's some
Speaker 2: horror stories. Well, there's horror stories and everything. I mean yeah, radio, yeah, radio, television, film, school, sports,
Speaker 2: corporate life. I mean there's there's You're find you find
Speaker 2: bad actors everywhere, mostly in Hollywood, but but but you know,
Speaker 2: there's there's there's people, there's there's bad eggs in every basket.
Speaker 2: So to take that dream away from a child, I
Speaker 2: couldn't imagine doing that. But having my experience and knowing
Speaker 2: what I know, I wouldn't not let them.
Speaker 1: You'd also be coming from a place of experience where
Speaker 1: you're like a hawk, probably watching and able to see
Speaker 1: things that your parents might not have been able to
Speaker 1: see because they were new to it, whereas you've that's
Speaker 1: what I hear.
Speaker 2: About, you know, And that's a good that's a good
Speaker 2: segue into this is where a lot of people on
Speaker 2: social media, a lot of people in the media are well,
Speaker 2: where were the parents?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: Why? How could the parents? And it's the parent's fault
Speaker 2: and it's this fault. No, it's not. It's the person
Speaker 2: who who perpetrated what happened. It's their fault. You're talking
Speaker 2: about parents who have never been on a movie set.
Speaker 2: They don't know how to conduct themselves. They don't know what, how,
Speaker 2: how far they can go with what they and so
Speaker 2: they're learning too. It's just as easy to take advantage
Speaker 2: of them because they're just as vulnerable. So to say, oh,
Speaker 2: it was the parents, Well, it's like you're actively learning
Speaker 2: the boundaries and what I can where I can speak up,
Speaker 2: and what I can say, or is my son gonna
Speaker 2: get fired? Are they gonna get picked up for the
Speaker 2: next season? You're like, why is that important? You're like,
Speaker 2: it doesn't have to and it also doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be something as extreme as what I went through. It
Speaker 2: could be something like, you know what, my son's exhausted, Like,
Speaker 2: do we have to throw the pie in his face
Speaker 2: another six times? And that's something totally apparent has the
Speaker 2: right to go up and say. But as you're in
Speaker 2: the process of learning, you're like, can I go up
Speaker 2: and tell the director or the producer that my my
Speaker 2: son's had enough? Can we move on? So that's why
Speaker 2: I think it's important to have changes in the industry
Speaker 2: where you have something like somebody like a social worker
Speaker 2: or somebody who has experience with mental health and childcare,
Speaker 2: and you know, they're they're appointed by not the production
Speaker 2: or not the studio, so they have no ties, they
Speaker 2: have no concern whether or not they're going to get
Speaker 2: a job by this studio the next time. Having somebody
Speaker 2: that is experienced enough to recognize, hey, you know, this
Speaker 2: child's laughing and saying, oh no, it's okay. I'll slip
Speaker 2: and fall one more time. But they can recognize, hey,
Speaker 2: you know what, let me give us, give us ten minutes.
Speaker 2: I need to speak with this child and their parent
Speaker 2: and take them into another room. And I want to
Speaker 2: sit down with the child and make sure that he's okay.
Speaker 2: And this is what's going on. Because I see him
Speaker 2: feeling a little uncomfortable, but he's in a position where
Speaker 2: he doesn't feel that he can express that. So we're
Speaker 2: going to take the We're going to take a moment
Speaker 2: and stop everything. And they have the power to do that.
Speaker 2: So I think that, you know, small changes like that
Speaker 2: can have a profound effect on that.
Speaker 1: Actually seems like a really huge change and something that
Speaker 1: is much more possible now that this documentary did come out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that there are all these people saying, hey, had
Speaker 1: we had X, Y and Z on the set, this
Speaker 1: stuff wouldn't have happened. And now as dark as what
Speaker 1: you went through was, there is something that you can
Speaker 1: do for other people in the future to shine a
Speaker 1: light and say this is how we make it not happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And maybe there's maybe an aspect of that is,
Speaker 2: you know, an hour set aside, maybe two hours set
Speaker 2: aside two days a week, one day a week, whatever,
Speaker 2: just for mental health and have that set aside for
Speaker 2: the kids so that when they do get in a situation,
Speaker 2: they feel comfortable enough to go to that person and say, hey,
Speaker 2: this doesn't feel do I really have to do this?
Speaker 2: I just don't feel comfortable. I don't feel comfortable wearing this,
Speaker 2: or I don't feel comfortable this joke makes me feel uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: or I just don't know if this is right, and
Speaker 2: then they can handle the situation.
Speaker 1: There's more checks and balances in general would be great,
Speaker 1: which if we're being real, not just for kids on sets,
Speaker 1: but it goes on. It's rampant, one hundred with adults
Speaker 1: on set. With entertainment in general. Entertainment is a beautiful, shiny,
Speaker 1: amazing thing. And it's also really really dark and has
Speaker 1: sharp edges. And if you don't want yourself, whichever branch
Speaker 1: of entertainment you're in, you can get got.
Speaker 2: Definitely, definitely. And you know, after reading Jeanette's book and
Speaker 2: I Janet mccurty, Janet mccurty's book, Yeah, there were so
Speaker 2: many parallels in our story. It was incredible. I mean
Speaker 2: not just in growing up in Hollywood, but I mean
Speaker 2: we grew up in the same city, Garden Grove. When
Speaker 2: she was going to Disneyland all the time, I was
Speaker 2: going to do that all the time. She's naming street
Speaker 2: names in her book, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I live like four streets away from there. That's where
Speaker 2: I grew up. It's just it was really interesting reading.
Speaker 2: But I think something that was illuminating in her book
Speaker 2: and really stuck out to me is, you know they
Speaker 2: put you through media training. For example, when you book
Speaker 2: a TV show, they're like, Okay, you've never done and
Speaker 2: now you're gonna be doing interviews. You mean to this,
Speaker 2: We're gonna do media training. But I think there should
Speaker 2: also be a session of listen, everyone's gonna be watching
Speaker 2: every movie you make. This is what it's gonna feel like.
Speaker 2: Here's examples of what other actors have gone through. Here's
Speaker 2: their bad press. Here's what people have said about this person.
Speaker 2: Here's what this person said about this person's kids, how
Speaker 2: they are as a mother, how they are in their relationships,
Speaker 2: talking about their boyfriends and girlfriends, talking about their marriages,
Speaker 2: talking about their divorces, all the dirt. Is this something
Speaker 2: that you feel like you can hand? And definitely that
Speaker 2: should be done with somebody that like a a therapist
Speaker 2: or somebody in the room with the kid. You know,
Speaker 2: prepare them. They're gonna talk about your weight, They're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about the outfit that you wore as you went
Speaker 2: to go get coffee that day. They're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: the relationship that you're in, be prepared for. You're gonna
Speaker 2: have to have a thick skin, and is that something
Speaker 2: that you're prepared for or that you want to do.
Speaker 1: And it's changed even since the time that you were
Speaker 1: a child star acting and all this stuff because social
Speaker 1: media has exploded and is monstrous also wonderful at the
Speaker 1: same time, everywhere you go, people are taking a picture
Speaker 1: of you, whether you're looking or not. Eating a piece
Speaker 1: of pizza.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's creepy. And you're still doing dealing with that, I
Speaker 1: assume right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's unbelievable. I mean, especially in Latin
Speaker 2: America where my last single just went number one. I'm
Speaker 2: playing huge concerts. I go and get tacos and it's
Speaker 2: all on the front page of Reform a newspaper the
Speaker 2: next morning.
Speaker 1: And do you ever wear to skies and just go
Speaker 1: out and get your tacos?
Speaker 2: You know, it's unbelievable. I mean even during COVID, I
Speaker 2: would have my COVID mask, I'd have a hoodie on,
Speaker 2: I'd have my sweatshurant and people would be like, Drake,
Speaker 2: can I get a.
Speaker 1: Picture with you, you ever act like it's not you,
Speaker 1: like I don't know what you're talking about. I would
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: No, you know, you know, I'm a huge fan. When
Speaker 2: I'm into something, I become an absolute expert obsess over
Speaker 2: this fan. Obsessed maybe that's the wrong word to use
Speaker 2: in this kind.
Speaker 1: Might be the right word.
Speaker 2: Well, in the in the age of Baby Reindeer, maybe obsessed.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll keep the obsessed a little. And with things
Speaker 2: that I've gone through, I'm fanatical. And I've met so
Speaker 2: many people in my life who shaped me musically. And
Speaker 2: I've had so many different situations that are wonderful and
Speaker 2: incredible and inspiring. And I've had other situations that have
Speaker 2: broken my my heart as a fan. You know, I've
Speaker 2: had you know, I go up and I ask someone
Speaker 2: for a picture, and you know, I get the rude no,
Speaker 2: like why you bother you know, get away from me, kid,
Speaker 2: you bother me, you know kind of thing. And then
Speaker 2: I get other people who are just so genuine and
Speaker 2: kind and my time is your time, like thank you,
Speaker 2: so thank you so much for being a fan. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much, No, thank you, you know, And this
Speaker 2: is something I've learned and I've taken away and why
Speaker 2: I'll never say no it's not me, or no you
Speaker 2: can't have a picture, or no I won't talk to
Speaker 2: you for and especially since the documentary has come out
Speaker 2: of there's been a lot of interactions that turn into
Speaker 2: thirty minute conversations on the street. But the biggest stars
Speaker 2: that I've ever worked with are always the most humble,
Speaker 2: most kind, most giving with their time, the sweetest, you know.
Speaker 2: And then it's these other actors that you're like, really, yep,
Speaker 2: really you're gonna That's how.
Speaker 1: We say that all the time. There's this like happy
Speaker 1: medium because when people are just starting out there super
Speaker 1: friendly and they're really nice and they're eager and they
Speaker 1: want to talk to everybody and meet everybody. Then there's
Speaker 1: this weird middle period yep, where a lot of people
Speaker 1: become assholes. And then they've passed that and now they're
Speaker 1: back up way on top and they're really nice and
Speaker 1: friendly again, and we can't figure out what happens and
Speaker 1: that little in between where everyone gets crazy. But it's like,
Speaker 1: I think, almost guaranteed, you know what, I.
Speaker 2: Think now that you mentioned that, I think they're in
Speaker 2: that middle ground you still in your mind, and even
Speaker 2: though the perception might not be that way to the public,
Speaker 2: but in your mind, you're still in the fight. You're
Speaker 2: still in that battle to get to that third section.
Speaker 1: You're competing with everybody.
Speaker 2: You're competing and when you're on that third tier, you've
Speaker 2: figured out, this is my family, this is my group,
Speaker 2: These are the people I keep close to me. These
Speaker 2: you can recognize the people you need to show away.
Speaker 2: You can recognize the people clinging on to you, taking
Speaker 2: from you, pulling from you. And I think when you're
Speaker 2: in that second tier, it's not only by your team
Speaker 2: who wants you to get to that next phase where
Speaker 2: you're you know, the artist might be saying, Wow, I'm
Speaker 2: really excited about this. This song went. Now it went
Speaker 2: really great. They're like, yeah, but it didn't even reach
Speaker 2: top ten. You got to do this, you gotta do this,
Speaker 2: you gotta do this. And so now they're like being
Speaker 2: pulled at in every direction, and they want to go
Speaker 2: a direction as an artist, and they feel that they've
Speaker 2: reached a point where they should have a say in that,
Speaker 2: but they have this whole team that's telling them not
Speaker 2: to and so they're that and then they have all
Speaker 2: of the people who are just hanging on for the ride,
Speaker 2: the clingers that don't have any of their best interests
Speaker 2: at heart, and then that just drains you. And so
Speaker 2: I was going to say, pulling from you. So it's
Speaker 2: soul sucking and you haven't had the experience to get
Speaker 2: to the point where you have the strength and the
Speaker 2: courage to be like, Okay, you're gone.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're at the point where you're
Speaker 1: comfortable enough to delete the contact and kick people out
Speaker 1: of your circle.
Speaker 2: If you need to, Yeah, I mean my circle. You
Speaker 2: start realizing the smaller the group around you gets, the
Speaker 2: more happy, the more successful, the more that content that
Speaker 2: you're going to be, the more opportunity you're going to
Speaker 2: have to thrive. Definitely, So my group continues to be
Speaker 2: smaller and small.
Speaker 1: Keep wing it out. So you were talking about going
Speaker 1: down some rabbit holes when you're into something, you're like,
Speaker 1: all in, what is this stuff recently that you've been into?
Speaker 1: Because when you talked about Baby Reindeer, I went down
Speaker 1: a rabbit hole on that one. I did all the stuff.
Speaker 2: So Baby Reindeer was Wow. I had a lot of
Speaker 2: friends and a lot of people on social media reach
Speaker 2: out to me and say do not watch Baby Reindeer. Wow,
Speaker 2: do not watch Baby.
Speaker 1: Rain, which probably only made you want to watch it.
Speaker 2: Because well, they were too late. Oh, I had already
Speaker 2: watched it, and they're like, it deals with some things
Speaker 2: that I don't it's going to be triggering for you
Speaker 2: that I don't. I don't want you to have to relive,
Speaker 2: you know, with what's you're going through right now and
Speaker 2: now knowing your story, they they say, dude, don't watch
Speaker 2: the show. Don't watch the show. And I'm like, too late, guys,
Speaker 2: And my jaw was on the floor.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and I uh yeah.
Speaker 2: There were some episodes that were you know, you go
Speaker 2: into this thinking it's about one thing, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, it takes such a dramatic turn.
Speaker 1: It's such a dramatic turn. The one episode that I
Speaker 1: know both of us are talking about, I when I
Speaker 1: was done watching that episode, thought, well, that case I
Speaker 1: was not prepared for that.
Speaker 2: Well that was that was my life with Brian Peck,
Speaker 2: except I wasn't a thirty two year old aspiring writer.
Speaker 2: I was a fourteen year old child.
Speaker 1: Jesus, I feel like you have a wild tell all
Speaker 1: book buried inside you somewhere and I hope that that
Speaker 1: is coming at some point.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean if you enjoyed or were moved
Speaker 2: by a baby reindeer, just wait for my book.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, are you writing it? Are you actively writing it?
Speaker 2: I'm working on it right now. Yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 2: a it's a it's it's definitely a process because as
Speaker 2: my life continues, there's more, you know, to be added,
Speaker 2: there's more to be put in, and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of really it's it's difficult because when you're when you're
Speaker 2: doing interviews. You know, the way that I described my
Speaker 2: abuse that I endured and experienced and what happened to me,
Speaker 2: I it's hard to do with a camera on you.
Speaker 2: Yeahs and and and and also there's a lot of
Speaker 2: things you can't say, I mean YouTube you you have
Speaker 2: to say essayed or s O or ab or or those.
Speaker 1: And those are sexually assaulted abuse.
Speaker 2: You can't say sex. You know, you can't say I
Speaker 2: can't say Brian is a registered sex offender of s oh.
Speaker 1: And you can't say facts, that's just a fact.
Speaker 2: No, you can't wow. Yeah, yeah, you definitely can't say facts,
Speaker 2: but you can tell lies. Totally seems to be I mean,
Speaker 2: I have reporters. Reporter is reaching out to me and saying,
Speaker 2: we put you put this new song out, and You've
Speaker 2: told this story on the documentary, and I've been doing
Speaker 2: my research and it seems to me that this song
Speaker 2: is about this and this is the person you were
Speaker 2: talking about in your documentary. And you're like, dude, I
Speaker 2: watch TikTok, I read Twitter. All of this information that
Speaker 2: is your research is from TikTok, Twitter and Reddit, Like
Speaker 2: that's your research and you're a journalist.
Speaker 1: That's all the time.
Speaker 2: Now you are literally regurgitating TikTok videos from somebody who
Speaker 2: could say anything that has like two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: followers twenty three hundred and thirty two followers, and then
Speaker 2: you go down their TikTok and it's just conspiracy theory
Speaker 2: after conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, and I'm going what
Speaker 2: it was. So it's just unbelievable the things that you
Speaker 2: can say. But no, it's it's difficult to tell my
Speaker 2: story the way that it needs to be told without
Speaker 2: it being in an autobiographical medium.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's sure, I mean a lot has
Speaker 1: to get lost in the time it takes for someone
Speaker 1: to come and fix your hair and makeup, and then
Speaker 1: lights come on and you have a director talking to
Speaker 1: you and now a lot of.
Speaker 2: People staring at you, and yeah, you're trying to and
Speaker 2: you're you're trying to put your words together and find
Speaker 2: words in real time, and you're you're going, wait, what
Speaker 2: am I saying? And then all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 2: reliving it in real time and you're on a public
Speaker 2: stage and you're telling every That's why I think that
Speaker 2: that scene in Baby Reindeer when he has his breakdown
Speaker 2: resonated with me so much, because I'm going, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's what I feel. I feel like when I'm being
Speaker 2: interviewed about these these events and these things, I almost
Speaker 2: just feel like doing that and breaking down and being like, Okay,
Speaker 2: you want to you you really want to get into this,
Speaker 2: You really want to pry, you really want to start?
Speaker 2: Oh you really want to open this door? Well, sit back,
Speaker 2: buckle up, I'll tell you what really happened. I'll shoot,
Speaker 2: I'll i will rip your heart out. I'll say it
Speaker 2: like it is. So you have those feelings and then
Speaker 2: you're feeling that while you're trying to be like yeah, yeah, thanks,
Speaker 2: ask me again, why don't you just google the answer,
Speaker 2: because I've talked about it thirty seven times in the
Speaker 2: past thirty eight hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like so it's it's difficult, but I'm excited to be
Speaker 2: able to sit down and this is one part of
Speaker 2: my story. I mean, I've been doing I've been in
Speaker 2: this industry for thirty plus years, and that's just one
Speaker 2: part of my story. There's beautiful things and amazing things
Speaker 2: that happened before and getting through that and continuing and
Speaker 2: keeping it inside for so long and still being able
Speaker 2: to move on and like you were saying before, you know,
Speaker 2: go to work and be happy and excited to work
Speaker 2: and not giving up. And and so there's there's a
Speaker 2: lot to my story that I think comes through the
Speaker 2: new album, but also that I'm looking forward to sitting
Speaker 2: down and finishing. I've written a lot of chapters so far,
Speaker 2: but there's a lot that I still need to sit
Speaker 2: down and write and get ready for.
Speaker 1: Obviously, you started acting when you were very young, five
Speaker 1: years old. I think you were in like I read Seinfeld,
Speaker 1: Home Improvement, like all of these giant, giant shows. You
Speaker 1: still get residuals when that stuff comes around.
Speaker 2: I do from those. Yeah, but I don't get from
Speaker 2: breaking Josh.
Speaker 1: Wait what you don't get residuals from dre Josh? How's
Speaker 1: that even possible? Right, you're Drake, Drake and Josh. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so who gives that check?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: If it's not you, it Viacom.
Speaker 2: Making billions of dollars off of all of us. They
Speaker 2: get nothing, nothing, zero, Thank god. I wrote the theme
Speaker 2: song to the TV Shoo to Drake and Josh because
Speaker 2: that's the only checks that I see, and those are
Speaker 2: you know, those are what, you know, not making any
Speaker 2: crazy amount of money off of that, but you know,
Speaker 2: I can at least maybe, you know, buy my friend
Speaker 2: some lunch.
Speaker 1: My mind is blown.
Speaker 2: That's about it.
Speaker 1: And that's like, that's non negotiable. There's no way that
Speaker 1: you can ever go back. And it's done.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The advantage that they take is unbelievable with kids television,
Speaker 2: and I think that that's something that should have been
Speaker 2: illuminated way more. And I talked to the producers about
Speaker 2: it and impressed it upon them a lot throughout the
Speaker 2: process of making the documentary, and I don't know why
Speaker 2: it was left out, because that's something that you know,
Speaker 2: people think that we are living off of our residual checks.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 2: Well, you're on TV all over the world. You're on
Speaker 2: TV every day. I watch you every day. You're stream
Speaker 2: I mean, they just sold Drake and Josh and Netflix
Speaker 2: and it was the number one, It was one of
Speaker 2: the number one stream it was top ten.
Speaker 1: This is insane. And I hope that Netflix hash.
Speaker 2: In the checks. I mean, I don't know, I mean
Speaker 2: I wanted. I would love to know how much they
Speaker 2: sold Drake and Josh.
Speaker 1: Nep Maybe you wouldn't love to know that.
Speaker 2: It's another it's another bullet for the chamber, and it's
Speaker 2: more ammunition to just go, Wow, what in the world.
Speaker 2: I mean they're I mean, they're selling advertisements, they're selling sponsorship,
Speaker 2: you know, they're selling commercials.
Speaker 1: And everything, all of this, and you're.
Speaker 2: Sitting there going it's for everyone who is involved in
Speaker 2: those networks, you know. I talked to friends of mine
Speaker 2: who are on hit TV shows, on Nickelodeon, huge TV shows.
Speaker 2: They have kids now, they can't pay their they're struggling
Speaker 2: to pay their rent. Whereas if you're on a network
Speaker 2: show or on a show you know, or working with
Speaker 2: a company that doesn't take advantage you can live off that.
Speaker 2: You know you can. You can decide at eighteen, you
Speaker 2: know what, I'm good. I'm gonna go to college. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be able to do that because of all of
Speaker 2: this work that I put in in my younger years.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be able to use that and put
Speaker 2: it towards something that I want to pursue. But when
Speaker 2: you're done at Nickelodeon, you are, You're just bye, thank
Speaker 2: you for thank you for everything, and.
Speaker 1: They use you forever, clearly. Yeah, And when that book
Speaker 1: comes out, I hope you come back. You should tell
Speaker 1: your story with your own words, without all the people
Speaker 1: around you editing it, cutting things out, telling you what
Speaker 1: you shouldn't say. I look forward to you being able to
Speaker 1: do that. I think that's gonna be great. Oh shit,
Speaker 1: you're that far.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: So I'm toying with the title. The theme song that
Speaker 2: I wrote for Drake and Josh is called I Found
Speaker 2: a Way. I wrote that song when we shot the
Speaker 2: pilot for the For the show, they were using a
Speaker 2: different song. They were using I think Lenny Kravitz. Once
Speaker 2: you dig In, Once you digive, We men have a
Speaker 2: self a good time. And I was watching the pilot,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, man, if I'm in the if I'm
Speaker 2: in another room, I'm doing my homework, Like, and I
Speaker 2: hear that, I don't know if it's the music video
Speaker 2: or a commercial for you know, potato chips, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't know all these songs, all these shows that I
Speaker 2: love that I grew up on, had an instant you know,
Speaker 2: theme song that instantly you hear it and you go, oh,
Speaker 2: say by the bells on I gotta go watch it,
Speaker 2: or you know, salute you shit, whatever it is. So
Speaker 2: I put together a theme song, went and recorded a
Speaker 2: little demo version of it, and went in with the
Speaker 2: producers during a meeting and I was like, guys, I
Speaker 2: have a theme song. Can I write? Can I play
Speaker 2: it for you? The executive producers like, a just leave
Speaker 2: it with me. I'll I'll call you and let you know.
Speaker 1: I don't call me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like, you know, there's this like fourteen
Speaker 2: year old kid or fifteen I think I was fifteen
Speaker 2: at the time, and I'm like, I got a theme
Speaker 2: song for your show that's like a real show and
Speaker 2: being produced by a big company and all this and
Speaker 2: and check it out. It's gonna be great. And this
Speaker 2: guy's like, you've never written a thieves. We have people
Speaker 2: for that. This is this is this is not high school.
Speaker 2: This is not some high school play.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It was really cool. Immediately they were working on another
Speaker 2: show at the time, and immediately they took the boombox.
Speaker 2: They unplugged it, and they walked out onto the set
Speaker 2: and they said, hey, guys. Guy they were all rehearsing
Speaker 2: for the show. They said, guys, guys, stop for a second.
Speaker 2: Stop for a second. He plugged it in and he
Speaker 2: pressed play. He goes, listen to the theme song for
Speaker 2: my new show. And then he turned around. He's like,
Speaker 2: he's like, hey, Drake wrote that, isn't that great? And
Speaker 2: then and then he took me aside and we walked
Speaker 2: back to his office and he looked at me and
Speaker 2: he goes, oh, now I just have to convince the network,
Speaker 2: but that is the theme song to my new show.
Speaker 2: And so it became this this song about friends and
Speaker 2: about friendship, and I think that resonated with the producer saying, wow,
Speaker 2: this is like the story of my show. It's catchy,
Speaker 2: it's and then you go back and listen to it
Speaker 2: and you go, oh, huh, maybe that's what I was saying. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's what I. Oh, I thought I was trying to say,
Speaker 2: but I was actually saying this. And I think that
Speaker 2: a lot of because I wrote that song during the
Speaker 2: time I was going through a lot of this darkness.
Speaker 2: There's lyrics like you know, no one can break what's
Speaker 2: so unbreakable? But I found a way. I found a way.
Speaker 2: I sing the song every night. How am I?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 2: If you open up your mind and see what's inside?
Speaker 2: And so I started finding all of it. What's what's
Speaker 2: what's so unbreakable?
Speaker 1: What's the next one?
Speaker 2: I found a way? I found a way. What's that say? So,
Speaker 2: now if you take this like from away from being
Speaker 2: about buddies and being about yourself, like I never thought
Speaker 2: it'd be so simple, but I found a way. I
Speaker 2: found a way. I always thought that it'd be too crazy,
Speaker 2: but I found a way. I found a way. It
Speaker 2: starts and you start taking that as uh, you know,
Speaker 2: more introspective. You know, I'm going, wow, I was intending
Speaker 2: to write this about these two buddies, but maybe I'm
Speaker 2: singing to myself. Continue and here's your happy sound with
Speaker 2: But if you open up your mind and see what's inside.
Speaker 2: It's gonna take some time to realign. It's gonna take
Speaker 2: some time to get all this junk out to to
Speaker 2: get back to who you are. But if you look inside,
Speaker 2: I'm sure you'll find and this could be you that
Speaker 2: over your shoulder, you know that, I'll this could be
Speaker 2: this could be me talking to young Drake, you know,
Speaker 2: the little boy. So just turn around. I'll always be that,
Speaker 2: you know over your shoulder. You're told you I'll always
Speaker 2: be there to pick you up when you're down. So
Speaker 2: just turn around. So as you're growing in life and
Speaker 2: you're looking back at you know, that little boy who
Speaker 2: was in that moment, in that situation, going through this,
Speaker 2: going through this gruesome horror, you can go back and say.
Speaker 1: Fourteen year old, you wrote a theme song with the
Speaker 1: title of your soon to be tell all book. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the bestseller. I know it.
Speaker 2: So now the well, we got to talk to legal
Speaker 2: about that. But so I was thinking about titles of
Speaker 2: the book and this and that, and I don't know
Speaker 2: how it came to me. One day. I was, you know,
Speaker 2: walking around, maybe in the shower or something where you
Speaker 2: where you know, your thoughts are just kind of freely coming,
Speaker 2: and I was like, wow, I found a way through
Speaker 2: all of what I've experienced, everything I've been through in
Speaker 2: my life, I found a way to get through this.
Speaker 2: I found a way to get through this. I found
Speaker 2: a way to.
Speaker 1: Get through this.
Speaker 2: And people can relate to that with whatever you're going through.
Speaker 2: Find a way, because there's a way, there's traffic, there's
Speaker 2: a roadblock, there's a red light. Find a way. You know,
Speaker 2: there's always there's always going to be a way. And
Speaker 2: then when you get through it, there's power in I
Speaker 2: didn't let it destroy me. I didn't let it. I
Speaker 2: didn't allow it to take who I really am away
Speaker 2: from me or define or define me through the sickness,
Speaker 2: through the sadness, through this family issue, this this loss,
Speaker 2: this death, this trauma, this darkness. And then there's power
Speaker 2: in that. I didn't let it destroy me or define me.
Speaker 2: I found a way. And so that's the title of
Speaker 2: the new book.
Speaker 1: That's a great title. We'll play. We'll play the rest
Speaker 1: of your theme song as your exit.
Speaker 2: Let me get right, because now I'm interested.
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: We don't even know even if we don't have to
Speaker 2: use it, I know that anything's possible because I found
Speaker 2: a way no one can break what's so unbreakable. You know,
Speaker 2: I had meant that to be the friendship, but maybe
Speaker 2: that subconsciously was like, I'm getting through this darkness right now.
Speaker 2: I have all of this tragedy and stuff happening to
Speaker 2: me that maybe I haven't even told my mom about,
Speaker 2: and the order for it to be taken to court
Speaker 2: or whatever. But it didn't break me. And maybe that's
Speaker 2: because I'm unbreakable.
Speaker 1: Can I make a suggestion, from a place of not
Speaker 1: knowing about music or albums or the music industry in general,
Speaker 1: besides working here in radio station, if you did the
Speaker 1: soft acoustic version of that song and put it on
Speaker 1: your album, I think that would be amazing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, good idea.
Speaker 1: It's just like full circle of everything where you started,
Speaker 1: where you are now, and how the two of those
Speaker 1: mesh and they reflect one another to the words. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you know it's your song, but so pretty.
Speaker 4: Isn't it?
Speaker 2: Isn't it interesting when you look at it from another
Speaker 2: another perspective?
Speaker 1: Because I would never I mean, just listening to the
Speaker 1: opening theme of Drake and Josh, I wouldn't be like,
Speaker 1: oh my God, how beautiful. Right, but if you slow
Speaker 1: it down with like, it is beautiful.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for indulging me, and thank you.
Speaker 1: No, this is amazing. I feel like we got some
Speaker 1: of the best stuff right here. That's great. Thanks for
Speaker 1: breaking that down. And I'm excited to hear the acoustic
Speaker 1: version and read your book. I can't wait. Thank you
Speaker 1: getting to work on it. Whoa, So would you guys
Speaker 1: think of that insane incredible? Yeah? I feel like he
Speaker 1: really wanted to keep going down certain paths, but I
Speaker 1: almost felt like I didn't want to push him or
Speaker 1: pressure him to do that. But once he starts going,
Speaker 1: he was going, and he's coming back and he's coming
Speaker 1: back baby. Well so he said, and we have it,
Speaker 1: we have it recorded. So all right, Drake Bell, we're
Speaker 1: feeling wow crazy, let's get into the burn book because
Speaker 1: Andrew yesterday was having a day. When's the last time
Speaker 1: you saw Andrew like that? Uh, probably six months ago.
Speaker 1: It's like a semi annual yes type thing with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing crazy, but when it happens, it happened.
Speaker 1: It happened. And somebody who wasn't who walked into the
Speaker 1: studio yesterday and was like, oh, I've never seen him
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I do go through annual rages.
Speaker 1: And he had a rage day yesterday. So let's let's
Speaker 1: make a submission into the burn book. Who would you
Speaker 1: like to burn? Who was pissing you off so bad yesterday?
Speaker 1: Every time you can take that mic, every time you
Speaker 1: went to text this is what I heard, you slammed
Speaker 1: your phone down.
Speaker 5: I just I'm my burn book includes the world, Okay,
Speaker 5: I mean I am using the world because everything was
Speaker 5: awful today.
Speaker 4: The salad that I had was awful.
Speaker 5: It's just like you know when you have a day
Speaker 5: and it's like everyone just annoys you and gets under
Speaker 5: your skin.
Speaker 4: It's not just one thing in particular.
Speaker 5: It was just everything from the salad I ate, to
Speaker 5: the conversations I had to have for work, to the
Speaker 5: just idiots that ugh.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about it behind the scenes, because I feel
Speaker 1: like I was kind of contributing to it, and I
Speaker 1: was trying to be nice as nice as I could
Speaker 1: because I knew you were having a bad day. But
Speaker 1: I get real pissed off when people are not on time,
Speaker 1: especially if it's an interview like a show up. Come on,
Speaker 1: you have one job yeah, love Drake Bell. He was
Speaker 1: great today. He was an hour late. Yeah, an hour.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I waited around for an hour, which, by the way, Andrew,
Speaker 1: I would never do for anybody. But you seem so
Speaker 1: stressed when I said I'm gonna walk out. Yeah that
Speaker 1: I stayed.
Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate you for staying. Thank you so much. Again,
Speaker 5: Like I said, it was just one of those days.
Speaker 5: Play that Limp Biscuit song because that's truly how shit. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so just happened that one of those days one way
Speaker 5: up keep it was miserable. Yeah, it just like add
Speaker 5: that to on top of everything. I had three different recordings.
Speaker 5: One of them happened earlier than was scheduled, and I
Speaker 5: knew it wasn't gonna go well if I wasn't there
Speaker 5: for it, and they still went ahead and did it anyway,
Speaker 5: and so then I had to edit all that audio.
Speaker 5: I had a super late interview. I everybody was graduating yesterday,
Speaker 5: So I left at six o'clock from the garage. And
Speaker 5: let me tell you something, why do people decide, as
Speaker 5: they're leaving a parking garage, this is the perfect time
Speaker 5: to reorganize their trunk. The fuck are you doing that's
Speaker 5: all I have to say, because I'm sitting there waiting
Speaker 5: in my car for an extra five minutes while they're
Speaker 5: opening their trunk and talking to each other like moving
Speaker 5: things around. I have places to go, I have people
Speaker 5: to see. I had a dinner at seven. I could
Speaker 5: not get there on time because these idiots were rearranging.
Speaker 5: There's stupid drugs, and it was late and it just
Speaker 5: added to everything else. But then I did have a
Speaker 5: really nice time at my dinner.
Speaker 4: So that's good. It made up for it. It ended nicely.
Speaker 1: The Drake Bell interview was awesome and I stuck around.
Speaker 4: For Yes, the interview is great. I'm so happy it happened.
Speaker 5: Everything prior from six thirty am to six pm misery.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is for you, Andrew.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play the song because I feel like Diamond
Speaker 1: hasn't heard it. Have you heard this song? I don't. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go.
Speaker 4: It's just one of those days. Wait, you don't want
Speaker 4: to wake up everything and everybody sucks. They don't play,
Speaker 4: but you want to us the fuck off.
Speaker 2: Don't play. Contract and if you went to last you like,
Speaker 2: it's no contracts.
Speaker 4: Study your way, mother, it's.
Speaker 2: Just one of those days.
Speaker 1: That's the edited version.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's just how I felt. It wasn't great. You know,
Speaker 5: that's my culture. Don't laugh at my culture because Diamond, have.
Speaker 1: You heard that song before? I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 4: Know, you don't know Olympus.
Speaker 3: I'm just so uninterested in Andrew as a human being.
Speaker 1: That is such a lie. You know, by the way,
Speaker 1: they're like best friends, besties, we love that. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: can I tell you what happened this morning?
Speaker 3: Tell me and how Andrew made me look like an idiot?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. So I'm walking.
Speaker 3: Into the building and he's walking in from the other entrance,
Speaker 3: and I yelled my best day, and everyone in the
Speaker 3: lobby is looking at me, but Andrew is on his
Speaker 3: phone with the noise canceling headphones on, So everybody is
Speaker 3: looking like, who is this woman talking to because.
Speaker 1: He ignored you.
Speaker 5: He ignored me.
Speaker 1: You have a burnbug, Andrew burn. Well, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5: You know, I had my headphones in, I was jamming
Speaker 5: out to my musics, and I just I wasn't listening
Speaker 5: to you say. And then I looked at you and
Speaker 5: I just saw your arms like outstretched, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: I definitely left up. I don't know how, but she
Speaker 5: definitely was saying something in this lobby.
Speaker 1: Sorry that happened to you, guys. I think we should
Speaker 1: just end this because I don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: time left. Drake Bell went long, which was great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we'll just cut out the ask me anything. We'll
Speaker 1: do it next week.
Speaker 4: Okay, sounds good. And in the meantime, congratulations Gracie Winner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. I'm so excited. Here we go, baby
Speaker 1: number two. Number two just didn't start collecting awards collecting diamond.
Speaker 1: By the way, no one can see it, but she
Speaker 1: threw up peace signs at the microphone. How was going
Speaker 1: On't okay? Like follow subscribe? If people don't find you online,
Speaker 1: how do they do it? At diamond?
Speaker 5: Sincere at Andrew Pug on Instagram at Baby Hot Sauce,
Speaker 5: I need.
Speaker 4: Ten thousand followers.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh he does. We'll talk about that in
Speaker 1: the next episode. Yeah, yeah, all right, peace out, everybody,
Speaker 1: Peace out, everybody. Hi, I sole the end of our
Speaker 1: other show.
Speaker 2: Come on.