Speaker 1: I made a decision.
Speaker 2: Pay sunny Sun, yet I had a vision.
Speaker 1: N Hey, everybody, happy holidays, and we have a special
guest in our studio. She's back. He lovely Taylor. Yay
it you were as Lbie, our resident podcaster college girl. Yes, yeah,
there you go, senior. Do you believe you're a senior? Nope?
I wake up and I don't feel like a senior.
But I remember when you were so little and you
were afraid of Molly, my dog. I know I was
so yellow lab. Oh I love now.
Speaker 2: I would love a lab, you would, dude. Labs are
the cutest and smart. I just talked to my dad
about this the other day because I was one a
Golden Retriever.
Speaker 1: My dad was like, no, you need to get a
lab over a Golden.
Speaker 2: Retriever because they act the same, except Golden Retrievers.
Speaker 1: Are way more stupid than labs. They're wild, they like,
they're so cute. They destroy shit too, and labs do too. Yeah,
you know, they eat everything in sight, but labs know
what they're doing. Golden's probably don't. Golden who knows? Yes,
do you want to get a dog? Another family dog?
You know? I would be so down for it.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I I love dogs. I mean, the only problem
is I'm not going to be here to see the
dog that often that often until I you know, in
like the next like six months when I moved back home.
Speaker 1: But you know, for the next six months, my roommates
really want a cat.
Speaker 3: But what do you think, Stephanie, Well, we're going to
have talked about. I have a whole story for you
for the show. That is that we have had about
wanting another dog, just like it's causing a it's causing
a divide family.
Speaker 1: Scheming in my mom's room were like, oh my god,
look at that dog.
Speaker 2: And then my brother comes in, Oh, put some respect
on people, dude.
Speaker 1: It's like, yes, we'll talk.
Speaker 3: That's a whole okay show. But yeah, it's interesting. You
know what I want to ask her to talk about is,
which I just think would be interesting to our listeners,
is how your relationship with your brother and sister has evolved,
like over the years, because I feel like you guys
are good friends.
Speaker 2: I'm so close with Sadie and Xander, Like I.
Speaker 3: Feel like, huh, I was making a gence. I feel
like you have a really special relationship with both of them.
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I think in like the last like even like
year two, especially now that we all kind of are older,
like obviously they just turned eighteen.
Speaker 1: I just turned twenty one.
Speaker 2: Like everybody used to say, the older you get, the
less like are apart in age, it starts to feel
and that is like so true.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 2: I think I wasn't as close with them when I
was like, you know, fifteen and they were like twelve,
because I feel like that's such a difference in age,
like you grow up so much in between being twelve
and fifteen, and I felt like I was like very different,
and you know, they used to bicker more. I think
they used to fight with each other a lot more
than I me. And I don't know how it is
at home sometimes, but I like with me, I never
fight with my sister and brother, and I think that
they are two of the funniest people ever. My brother
is just hysterical and like, I think we all have
very similar humor and like I think, especially with my
sister growing up, I want to say, and she would
probably say the same thing. Growing up with like an
older sister, I think my sister has always been, you
know a little more like mature and acts closer to
my age, which is fun now, especially because that she's
eighteen and you know, we're getting up to some of
the same stuff, and like it just feels like I'm
with one of my friends. And like I have friends
too that are not even that far apart in age,
like with Sadie, and they're like my actual friends. Like
my coworker just turned nineteen and she's like my work bestie,
and I'm like, she's less than a year older than
my sister, right right, So I don't know, they're like
my best friends. I love them to death. Every single
time I come home, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1: My gosh, that's so sweet hang out with the twins.
Did it? When did you notice smit more when you
were gone from the house, that you like missed them
a little more and appreciated them a little more? I
think so.
Speaker 2: And I think also the year that I was home
before I went to college was definitely a hard year,
and I feel like I was very like, you know,
distant and isolated myself from kind of everyone because I
was just so like sad and going through it. And
I was at work hours and hours and hours and
hours every single week because I would just like if
I I knew that if I was going to be
in the house, I was just gonna be sitting alone
in my room.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So I think like after going to college and you know,
completely my mental health just getting way better and making
a lot of friends and like feeling happy to like
come home and not be sad. I think that also,
you know, helped a lot, because you know, I was
just back to like being right fun and hanging out
with my siblings. And every single time I come home,
I always hang out with them, especially like my sister
and I will just get bored and go get dinner
and go to get a little sweet treat and drive
around and gossip and I'll go do random stuff with
my brother, I know, like on their birthday when my
sister was getting tatted up, I sprinted into my brother's
room and I was like, what shenanigans are we getting
up to today? It's up to you, Like I'll drive,
we'll go do.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want.
Speaker 2: And it was super fun and we had like the
best time ever just going to Like I think we
went to Michael's. We were trying to find funny decorations,
like we were so determined to find funny party decorations,
and we ended up getting some hilarious just like stupid
dinosaur ones from Target. But we went on this whole adventure.
We got lunch, we went to Target and Michael's and
all these fun places and just like like we're cracking
up like the whole time.
Speaker 1: Just doing the stupidest stuff. We found the goofiest.
Speaker 2: Hats in Michaels ever, and we started taking like pictures
in them like in Michaels and just we Xander and
I especially, I feel like we have a lot of
bits that we do and it just is so funny,
like I'll come home and we'll just immediately start cracking up,
and like my brother is so chronically online as am I,
so there's always like a new reference from TikTok that
we just run stressed right into the ground every single
time I come home.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of the bus stop one? I don't
think so. I don't know if I'm and Natali has
been saying it all the time, but I stop. I
don't know if I'm into that one.
Speaker 2: But like I do sometimes feel like I'm regressing an age,
especially when I'm around my I have a seventeen year
old boy who I work with, and I just catch
myself giggling at the dumbest TikTok references ever, and I'm like, fuck,
like I should not be thinking that that is as
funny as it is. But it's the same thing with
my brother, who is like I'll come home and they
they are the funniest people ever. They have this bit
that they do on my birthday where without fail, they've
done this for the last like five or six years.
I will come home to my room covered in printed
photos of It's like a combination of just like meme
people and my like every single celebrity crush that I
have ever vocalized, like.
Speaker 1: In my whole life.
Speaker 2: They remember more than I do. Like I will go
in there and like Spencer from one of the random
seasons of Survivor is just like taped to my bed,
and I'm like, how do you even remember that? I
don't like this TikToker I was in love with in
like twenty nineteen, so since dropped off the face of
the earth the last three years. I will come to
like three different photos of him from the era that
I had in brush on him, and I'm like, you
are just do you all have like a master list
of just every.
Speaker 1: Single person I've ever talked about in my life.
Speaker 2: It's hilarious, but it's so it like makes my day
every single time I got home, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, oh Jesus, having the sense of humor and having
the same sense of humor as your siblings, it's the
best bet. Yeah, best night.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question that I don't know
if if I don't want to bring us down, but
maybe this will help other parents, because I feel like
a lot of parents have kids who struggle with their
mental health. And you told me recently and it made
me really sad that the year that you between the
year that you were going to Pierce was the loneliest
year of your life. Like you said, you were incredibly lonely. Yeah,
And I'm wondering if as a parent, and you know
you can be totally keep it a hundred. I'm just
wondering if there's anything I did what I could and
I think I mean I tried to. I tried to
push you to a tend therapy online. I tried to
push you to like be honest with your therapist. At
one point I made you. I didn't make you, but
I asked you, the therapist asked if we could all
have a meeting together. Yeah, but is there anything else?
Is there anything I could have done? And you know,
I mean, obviously I can't do it now, but for
anybody who might have a kid who's going through what
you went through, like, how is there is there something
more I could have done?
Speaker 2: I don't even know, Like I feel like it's hard
in it because you know, it's like hard to see
like the end of it. And I mean, I don't know,
I don't even really know how to answer that, because
I feel like you did everything right and like you
could and I feel like it's kind of just up
to it was hard because like regardless of what I
like happened and where I was, like, I was just
kind of like this is how it is, and I
don't see how.
Speaker 1: Anything is going to like help and get better.
Speaker 2: I think if you have to, like forcing somebody out
of the house is the best because I found myself
being probably very happy when I was at work because
my best friends at the time, I mean every single
person was in college, so I didn't really have a
lot of friends in community college, and my main core
group was my coworkers, and it wasn't even that I
just saw them at work. I would hang out with
them outside of work twenty four to seven. But definitely
just like forcing myself to go out of the house
and do something and go to work and take your
mind off of it.
Speaker 3: Like, but then you also started having a hard time
at work at one point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well.
Speaker 2: That was like on weekends, and that was also when
I was still in contact with your ex.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think like anything was better.
Speaker 2: I think it's so like tempting to sit in your
bed and wallow and be sad and do nothing, which
it's obviously very refreshing sometimes or not refreshing as a
terrible word to describe it, but it's obviously necessary sometimes.
But I think if like getting out of the house
and just distractions, distractions, distractions, distractions was kind of the
best because it'll always get better andeviably always always always
gets better. And I think it was mostly just about
like keeping myself busy as best as possible, and.
Speaker 1: Hey, shit, I was making bank.
Speaker 2: I was working like thirty five forty hours a week
at my little laser tag job, so I was definitely
a plus side. But I mean even if it's like
not a job, even if it's like going out and
like finding something that you enjoy doing that you can
do not in your room.
Speaker 3: I just remember, you know, not to like call you out.
But I remember hearing from a mom that her daughter
told her that you had called her at like four
in the morning, and we're just like, I'm so sad
and depressed and I don't know what to do. And
then that put me in a spot where I was like, well,
I don't want you to not be able to trust
your friend. I mean, you know this. We talked about this, yeah,
but so like I felt really uncomfortable, Not that it's
about me, but I was like, what do I do
do I say, like, hey, I'm hearing that you feel
this way, but knowing that I'm doing everything I can do,
you know what I mean? Like, Yeah, would it be
better for a parent to say, like, hey, I found
found out that you're saying these things and I'm really
really concerned, even though you're already in therapy, Like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. It definitely was jarring
at the time because I didn't call her. I had
just like posted something on my private story with like
a bunch of my friends and she called me because
she was awake. Oh, I didn't call her. She called
me and she's like, hey, are you okay? And I
was like, uh, because realistically, I think I was awake
looking at old pictures and I was just like, damn,
what the fuck, Like this shit sucks, and I'm like
a very big private story poster I will post. Actually
it depends if I'm like in a shitty mood, I
will post everything on my private story. If I don't
post on my private story for a while, it means I'm.
Speaker 1: Doing great and I'm really busy.
Speaker 2: But I was obviously sitting in my bed like just
wallowing and being like, oh, I'm so sad and I
missed my ex boyfriend and this is the worst year
of my life if and all my friends are in college,
and I knowing myself, I was probably either looking at
pictures or watching people's stories of being out and having
a good time in college, which sucked. But no.
Speaker 1: I remember my friend called me and she was like, hey, I'm.
Speaker 2: Just like checking in and I was like, yeah, you know,
I'm actually like doing terrible.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: It sucks, and I remember like at the time, I
was like, damn.
Speaker 1: What the fuck? Like why is why is it like
getting back to my mom? Like I don't know.
Speaker 2: It kind of felt like a little invasive, not because
you knew, but because I was like, oh, like I
was just having a moment at like.
Speaker 3: Well that's the thing that that's the thing I really
want to ask you. But like as a parent, I
was going to say, oh, whether to be invasive, whether
to take that chance it's better to I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna say.
Speaker 2: I think what I was saying was in the moment,
it sucked, But I think in hindsight, I was much
happier that you were aware, because then you could fully
support me. I think it's harder if you know. And like,
I think you approached it well, like I think you know,
some parents like don't really understand like mental health and
think like oh whatever, like you still have a job
and you have a great life and you have a car,
Like I don't understand why you're this, you know, depressed
and upset. Like so I think you like approached it
well because you were like not coming from a place
of like you need to get your shit together and
like stop being sad. But it was more of like
a hey, I love you, I'm very concerned and I
want to I want to help you feel better. So
I think that was like definitely the best way to
approach it, and I think you just gotta take a chance.
But would have made it worse if you were like, girl,
get off your ass, you stay in bed all the time.
You didn't even date him for that long, like get
over it, solvy.
Speaker 1: So you you were happy that your mom was aware
about it, yes, but but you did it ever crosh
your mind to tell your mom how you're feeling or no.
Speaker 2: I think, for like, to a certain extent, I did.
I don't think I was very much like yeah, i'm
a secret, I'm like awesome, and.
Speaker 1: Then like crying, yeah every night.
Speaker 2: Like I think it was very obvious and I didn't
try to like say oh yeah, no, I'm fine like it.
It was very obvious that I was sad and going
through it, and like I think I did to a
certain extent vocalize it and talk about it. I just
think it was also hard because I was like, I
don't really know what to do to make me feel better.
But like times you just have to go through it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta go through it, and you gotta go
to a rave. That's right, And that's tell us about
rave life. Yeah, like your thing, it's the best.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's like one of the things that brought
me out of my freaking hellhole is when I went
to Countdown on New Year's Eve in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: That was like my first rave. And that was still
when all my friends were in college. I was still
in community.
Speaker 2: College obviously going because I didn't start UCLA until later
into twenty twenty four. And I went to that and
I went to start going to DM stuff in twenty
twenty three.
Speaker 3: Well, I remember the one which I thought was a
very early one where you facetimed me from the.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, tell me that was the greatest moment ever.
I went to Beyond Wonderland in twenty twenty four. That
was March twenty twenty four, and I was drinking with
my friend pregaming in OURNB wearing my tiny scimpy outfit
and I was like, my friend was doing my hair
and I was on my phone and I get a
notification that I got into STSU and I was so excited.
I like facetimed my mom in.
Speaker 3: The first college after the hell.
Speaker 1: Of Yeah, it was the first thing I got into.
Speaker 3: Just when she heard back front.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, and that definitely was like when it started
looking up a little bit, I was like, oh shit,
I got into a school that I didn't get into originally,
Like I must have been doing you know something, right
if I got into this school and I didn't before,
like at least I know something changed.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, honestly, I just love.
Speaker 2: Going to raves. They're just so much fun. And I
think it's partially because I love the music. If if
you are like in any way friends with me, you
know that I am upset cess with just e DM.
Speaker 1: In general, isn't any genres in a.
Speaker 2: House or base house or techno or dubstep or anything, like,
I love it all and I think, just like.
Speaker 1: I know, there's so many names for it same.
Speaker 3: I'm just finding this out right now.
Speaker 1: There's a lot. There's a lot of different. Is it
like country, like a classic.
Speaker 2: Rock kind of except there it's like, I don't know,
it's different.
Speaker 1: It's hard to explain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the difference. It all sounds the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dubstep, to put it to you straight, is what
you would absolutely hate and want to cry and rip
your ears out if you went to a rave that's
like the super intense, loud hardcore like em House, I
feel like you would enjoy House is more like chill, fun, groovy,
very like repetitive.
Speaker 1: Beats, and then they would mix like kind of our
songs that we know into the yes, but.
Speaker 2: Like they do that with all genres, Like you'll get
like a Taylor Swift dubstep flip.
Speaker 1: And it's hilarious. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just I think going to raves like I found
my thing that I love doing.
Speaker 1: Because you get to wear it.
Speaker 2: First of all, you get to wear it super cute outfits,
Like my dad doesn't get to see any of them,
nor does he want to see.
Speaker 1: Any of them, but barely.
Speaker 2: I always show them to my mom. I'm like, hey,
look at these like tiny little sea through booty shorts
that I'm wearing.
Speaker 1: Aren't they cute?
Speaker 3: I'm like, I can see your whole ass.
Speaker 2: But yes, but yes, it slight girl, But they're just
like there's so much fun and I love the music
and just like the culture of it all.
Speaker 1: Every single person at raves.
Speaker 2: It's a completely different experience in my opinion than going
to like a concert, like going to a rave.
Speaker 1: People are just.
Speaker 2: The night I assist people in the universe you will go.
I remember when I went to Countdown, which I'd gone
to like a couple of like shows of like a
single artist before. But Countdown is like the New Year's
Eve festival where there's like six stages, and I just
remember being super excited because I.
Speaker 1: Found it and I sent it to my friends and
I was like, Fisher's on the lineup and Malpe is
on the lineup, and these were all DJs that I
loved and still love. Is it a once a year show?
Speaker 2: It's well, it's through this company called Insomniac, which does
like like many festivals a year, but like Countdown is
the like New Year's Festival. It's like alien themed. It's
super fun.
Speaker 1: And I remember I got a group of like fuck
six or seven of us together.
Speaker 2: And we went and I wore a c little outfit
and we got to see some of my favorite DJs
and people were so nice. At raves, you have something
called candy, which it's basically so fun. You make like
little bracelets with beads on them and you can make
them say whatever you want. Some people make them say
really vulgar, funny things. Other times people are just like,
I have funny stuff. I have one with my phone
number on it in case I meet my soulmate and
I found you need to contact me. Let me give
you my numbers so you never lose it.
Speaker 1: I found one of those in my cushions. The other
really it was like all these different beads and it
said something like kick rocks or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yep, they all say just like the most random stuff.
And I remember I had like no idea that was
like part of it because the group that I went
with to Countdown none of us knew the culture. All
of us were very cool and respectful, and I did
a lot of like sound so dumb. I did a
lot of research, you know, into it before I went
to my first rave. But people are just so nice,
like you would go up and I remember this girl
came up to me and she was like, where's your candy?
And I was like, I don't have edny and she's like,
is this your first like festival And I was like yes,
and she was like, let me give you one right now.
Speaker 1: And there's like a certain way to trade it.
Speaker 2: And with raving, there's you follow what's called PLUR, which
is stands for peace, Love, Unity and respect.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty much just what you go by when
you go.
Speaker 2: So like, if you want to get through a crowd,
all you have to do when you're getting past people
say excuse me, thank you so much. I always steal
my friend's fan, and I'll like lead the group and
I'll like fan people as we're walking past them, because
it gets hot as shit in those crowds, and I'll
fan people or like do whatever, and I'll just be like,
excuse me, thank you so much, like and people will
just be like, go ahead, thank you so much, have
a great night, stay safe.
Speaker 3: And I'm like you go, you got tell anet about
the group you just joined? Do your campus?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I just joined this organization called end Overdose,
which is pretty much it's obviously what it sounds. It
prevents like opioid overdose. And I get trained to, uh
what is k Yeah, but what is the what is
the term for not distribute but like use it on somebody?
What is the term that administer? I get trained on
how to administer or can and through end Overdose, I'm
part of the UCLA chapter. But that automatically puts me
into like the larger organization, which is not just colleges.
Like there's like a lot of people that are a
part of it. There's like a couple.
Speaker 1: Thousand, and you get to go to events for free,
like raves. It's a lot of rave stuff.
Speaker 2: You pretty much only go to rave related things because
that's obviously where a lot of drugs are in use.
And you get to go to events and table and
train people on how to use narcan and educate people
on it and give out like testing strips for things
like ventanyl, which is really cool. And I just think
it's like nice to even just like have that knowledge
because if you go to raves, like you're gonna be
around people that are on drugs, and it's not like
scary because a lot.
Speaker 1: Of people are like pretty normal.
Speaker 2: I'll say, well, like it's definitely nice and like comforting
to know that, like people I know are being safe,
and like every single person that I know that does.
Speaker 1: Dabble with drugs is very, very very adamant about testing
everything and like being super safe, and you know, not
you carry narcan with you to the I do carry
narcan I've gotten narcan from I stole some from my
sorority last year because we're actually required through and overdose
and through the school were required to have narcan in
all the uh like sororities and fraternities, they're required to
have narcan in case people are drugs at parties. But
I end overdose like came and did a tabling like
a training session for my sorority, and they were giving
out like free narcan and testing strips and you get them,
and I like the narcan worked, did they It's it's.
Speaker 2: Like a lot of times it's administered in the nose,
so it's like a little you know, like the nose
spray that you use when you're sick. It's almost like that,
and you put it up your nose and you press
it down and it kind of just it's meant, it's
hard to explain how narcan works. It doesn't like completely
stop in overdose. But when you're overdosing, you're obviously like
unconscious and your heart is like very slowed down, and
it kind of I don't it doesn't like bring like
adrenaline back, but it wakes you up and like makes
you functioning again until you can get to a hospital.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Thankfully I've never had to use it or even come
close to it because my group is very responsible and
everybody is very chill, like cool.
Speaker 1: But it's definitely like.
Speaker 2: Cool to be a part of it because I feel
like it's beneficial and educational and something I can be
a part of through my school. That also has to
do with raving and the thing that I love doing
the most and spend all my money on.
Speaker 1: So what are the some of the drugs they do
at rape?
Speaker 2: Mollie big one Uka ecstasy, which Mollie is just I
know too much about this.
Speaker 1: Mollie is just MDMA.
Speaker 2: Ecstasy is a little scarier because ecstasy is pretty much
an MDMA pill, but it can be mixed with like
cocaine or like caffeine or stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Wow, And just.
Speaker 3: My luck to get it tainted with caffeine.
Speaker 1: I don't understand.
Speaker 3: I can only have a couple of coffee.
Speaker 1: You're like, now, I'm just taking a pill with halfeine
in it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like I love everybody, but I'm
also so jittery, and You're like, why are shaking?
Speaker 1: Why am I NonStop?
Speaker 2: My hands are well stop obviously, like cocaine, you know
yetamine poppers. Oh god, it stinks of paupers in crowds.
Half the time. You'll walk through and you'll just get
a whiff of just the most intense chemical smell you've
ever had to pop.
Speaker 3: When I was amle nitrate. When I was young, very
young high school, we used to go to gay bars.
It was huge in gay bars.
Speaker 1: Oh, it still is because it opens your butthole really
something every years.
Speaker 2: Why poppers are very popular with gay people because it
opens up your booty.
Speaker 1: It's the nitrous, but it also just gives you a
head rush.
Speaker 2: Like the reason why most people do it is because
it literally just makes you.
Speaker 1: It lasts for like a minute, not even right like
most people are like, it lasts for like thirty seconds. Yeah,
and then you're back to normal.
Speaker 2: So like, but they smell really strong, Like you can
smell them from several feet away. Like I'll turn around
and I just see they come in this little like
tiny sometimes it's like it looks like the most miniature
glass little jar, and oh my god, I will just
turn around and I'll squint and I'll see somebody like
five feet away with like a little jar and you
can smell it like from there and it just wafts
through the whole crowd and you're like, oh.
Speaker 3: You don't remember those, Lynette, we used to call it rush.
Speaker 1: That's yeah. Have you ever heard Troy Sevonne song?
Speaker 2: I feel that rush? That's It's like about half of
it is about doing boppers.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I didn't know that.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So you want to work in the rave business?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: And you you tried to get a job at Insomniac.
I did an internship very hard. I don't think years
running yep.
Speaker 2: I don't think they want people that they don't really
know which is totally fine.
Speaker 3: But then you decided to think out of the box
a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's this company that I they're they're like a
I don't know what the term would be. They're just
like an entertainment company that they just work with like
Raves and they kind of throw shows and like work
with a lot of and they support a lot of
artists that I love. And I was like, dude, that
that would be so cool to work for them. They're
like a smaller company and you know, they're not like
very corporate. It seems like it's it's just run by
like a couple guys and they're like mid late twenties,
which is super cool. So I wanted to work for them,
still trying to. I dms them on Instagram and I
was like, Hey, I'm LB.
Speaker 1: I go to UCLA.
Speaker 2: I love Raves and EDM and a lot of the
artists that you support. If you need any extra help
ever for like a show or anything, I would love to,
you know, like be there to do anything if whatever.
Speaker 1: Just like a nice DM.
Speaker 2: And they responded to me and they were like, oh cool,
like send us your resume and I was like to
this email, I was like oh, oh my god. Okay,
So I emailed them my resume and then they got
back to me and they were like, we'd love to
just set up a little introductory meeting just to get
to know you and get to know where you're at.
And so I met with a couple of the guys
that are like the creators and like the chief officers
that at the company, which was super cool. They were
all like very just chill, nice, exactly how I would
expect them to be guys.
Speaker 1: And it was so funny.
Speaker 2: Because I get on the call and they're like, we
don't really do this that often because their company is
like very small, like they don't have a lot of
people that work for them at all. But they were like,
we don't really, you know, do this very often, but
we all are UCLA alumni.
Speaker 1: Wow, So we had to.
Speaker 2: They were like we were a little biased because we
had to obviously fellow bruin. Which was awesome because I
had no idea that every single person that like works
for that company pretty much was like knew each other
because they all knew each other from Ucla.
Speaker 1: They all went to Ucla.
Speaker 2: So I was like, oh, that's already like a leg
up that's awesome. The only reason why they even like
really got back to me was because they saw that
I go to UCLA.
Speaker 1: But they were super cool and.
Speaker 2: They were like, yeah, you know, we usually like if
people join us, like we start them off a little small,
like they'll work a couple shows with us, you know,
working merch or working just to kind of walk.
Speaker 1: Around and shadow and whatever.
Speaker 2: But one of the guys was like, I moved up
in the company. He's now their like artist relations guy,
and he was like, I started working the door for free.
He was like, we don't do that anymore. Don't worry.
We would not make you work for free. But he
was like, I worked some shows, I got to know
people like work the door, and he's like, now I'm here,
and now he is like the one of the highest
stuff in the in the company. And they were like, yeah,
we would love to have you help out with small
stuff on shows, and we'll obviously reach out to you
and if there's ever anything coming up. And then like
I think the next day they emailed me and they
were like, hey, do you want to come work this show?
Speaker 1: And I was like fuck yeah. So I went and
I met all of them in person, and.
Speaker 2: It was It was really cool because so I just
like worked merch, but it was cool. I got to
meet the DJ, who's actually somebody that I listened to,
Like super awesome. I kind of felt like a little
VIP because I it was me and like four of
the guys. It was like the main creator of the company,
the two that like work with him, and then one
of the guys that kind of works on more of
like the stage set up, and it was them for
plus me. And then it was one of the guys
who is like the third party like works with the
merch team. It was the DJ and it was two
of the people on his team.
Speaker 1: Wow, And I went in.
Speaker 2: I went early, helped them count everything, help them set
up everything, got to chat with the DJ's team. I
got to chat with the guys who work the company.
And it was kind of cool because like it wasn't
just a company that I reached out to because I
know about them, Like I've been following this company for
so long, Like they host events a lot of them
in LA. They work with my absolute like favorite DJs
of all time, and so I was just like, oh
my god, like this is so cool that like the
creators are like, oh my god, hey, Albie, what's up.
It's so nice to meet you, like talking to me
about events that I've gone to and just like me
and one of the guys found out he lives probably
a five minute drive away from me.
Speaker 1: We were like, oh shit.
Speaker 2: In Sino Gang, you know, and just like talking about
UCLA and we were kiking and joking around about how
he thought his apartment was haunted at UCLA. And they
let me go off and they were like, oh, we'll
take over this for now, like you can go jump
in like the crowd and like watch the show for
like cool and like I still had a great view
from the merchant table, but they totally let me, like
they were like go in there, like go hang for
a bit, and so that was really fun, and they were.
Speaker 1: Like we loved having you, like you were awesome.
Speaker 2: Will one hundred percent be in touch with you, especially
after the new year, because they were like it slows
down at the end of the year and they don't
really do that much in LA, but they were like,
as soon as the new year starts, we're gonna start
picking stuff up and we would love to have you
come back and just work stuff. And they weren't at Subtronic,
they were not Centronics, but you know, like Elbie that
this could be your stepping stone to i know, like
Live Nation someday.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: And it was so cool because I fully told them
on the intro call.
Speaker 1: I was like, I will do whatever you want me
to do.
Speaker 2: I was like, I will take any job because bottom
line is regardless of what I'm doing. Like I'm meeting
all of these people that are obviously very well connected
in the industry, and I'm still getting to, you know,
see a little behind the scenes of everything that goes on,
and you know, hopefully the more I work with them,
hopefully they reach out. We will because they said they will,
so I'm gonna go either word.
Speaker 1: But just like really cool to see them behind the
scenes because it's just like what I love and to
have that on your resume and experience, I know, it's awesome,
so amazing.
Speaker 2: I'm really excited. And people were so nice coming up
to me to like buy merch. They were like, oh
my god, Like there were people offering to buy me drinks,
like trading candy with me, and just like dance, like
because they saw me I was dancing behind the booth
because obviously during a lot of the openers they would
come try to buy the headliner's merch and then when
he was on they there was not a lot of
people trying to miss his set to come buy it.
So I was just dancing and having a great time.
But people next to the little table were dancing with
me and they were like, oh my god, you're so
You're so fun like whatever, and people were getting my
Instagram from the show and being like, oh my gosh,
you're so.
Speaker 1: Cool, blah blah blah. Are you going to be at
this show?
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, like, I don't know, but
it was overall so much fun.
Speaker 3: So so recommend reaching.
Speaker 1: Out DM DM. I'm on Instagram.
Speaker 2: Next stop, I'm gonna try to DM some DJs and
be like nice, let me do your social media.
Speaker 1: Elbie, thank you for being here for two full shows.
Speaker 3: You go back on our stay show and here Elb's
first appearance. So much good information.
Speaker 1: Yes, Ellie, thank you so much, of course.
Speaker 3: But before we go, let's say hi to our friends.
We got Christa get strapped, strapped and Stephanie's stinker wrinker
Sandra is not even being green. No, no, no, it's
not Jennifer, get up. Aaron's a dirty Sanchez, Leslie with
the coffee, Alicia, City of el Monte. Yeah, Kelly Bryant,
Mary Chris, Rebecca, New Brand, Jo, Missy and Gabby. Come on,
get your shit together for the new year. At least,
Katerina check your mol er Valerie, Bubba Fenwick gets it
out of the park, Polly, we live your pancakes. Rito,
keep rocking that bassiette with Elizabeth Williamson's million children in it. Nikki,
call your girl. Dick is frolicking. I hope you all
had a merry, merry Christmas, and we will be back
in the new year. Right after we will be off
next week, you'll hear some best ofs, but then after
the first of the year, we're back back at it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, we love you. Thank you your parent.
Speaker 3: Now, don't if it up
Speaker 1: That Angel