- So Ashraf, what is it that you do?
- I'm a performing artist and an educator.
I kinda chased my dream and I ended up working with
an international traveling children's theater.
- Raechel, what do you do?
- So, I work in marketing.
Funny enough, I started out at a small company
as a graphic designer and I got poached
from the graphic design team by the marketing team.
- Monnie, if you don't mind me asking,
what do you do for a living?
- I don't mind you asking.
So, I do design work, illustration work.
I also drive for Uber and Lyft.
- Robert, what do you do?
- I'm a bartender. - That's cool.
How did you end up there?
- I like whisky.
- That's a great answer.
- Ashraf, do you have siblings?
What type of household did you grow up in?
- Yeah, so I am number two of five.
We're a very, very happy family.
I was gonna say fat and happy,
but I'm the only fat guy in the family.
- Were your parents strict?
Were they a little on the chill side?
- Definitely not chill.
I would say everything aired
on the side of loving to strict.
- Tell me a little about your family.
- My father is first generation.
Our family is very strange.
We're not super tight knit, but we kinda just stay
out of each other's way for the most part.
- Immediate family, small or big?
- We are around the nuclear family size.
I have two younger brothers.
My mom passed away nearly three years ago,
so it's just my brothers and my dad now.
- Are you currently in a relationship or not?
- Alright, so this is probably a little more complicated.
I am in a relationship, but I'm also polyamorous.
So, I usually am dating more than one person, as is she.
- Are there any special abilities that you might have
that would surprise me?
- You could show me a 30 second clip
of an episode of Friends
and I could tell you what episode it was, season,
and probably the name of the episode.
I don't know if that's an ability
or just logged too many hours, but yeah.
- What is your current status?
- It's currently complicated.
I'm dating a tray of lasagna
and I've eaten half of her at this point.
No, I'm currently not in a relationship.
For me, it's all about vibing with people
before falling in love with them.
- I'm gonna say you're of Arab descent.
I'm gonna guess that you're Pakistani.
I see you in just a nice button down,
khaki-colored shorts or something.
I think he's probably late-20s, early 30s.
- I'm gonna go with tshirt, jeans, sneakers.
You are 29.
I'm gonna guess you were born in Ventura County.
I'm gonna guess that you're white.
- Monnie, I feel like you're from the Midwest,
maybe like an Illinois or an Ohio or a Michigan.
I'm gonna go with Armenian.
I feel like you're wearing a polo tshirt.
I feel like you're wearing boat shoes.
I'm gonna go ahead and say you're in your late 20s.
- I feel like you're probably wearing
something that's kinda fun.
Slightly corporate, but not totally corporate
with probably a collar.
Flats with a little bit of a heel,
and I think you're wearing a dress.
She was born in San Francisco.
Pacific Islander
maybe is what you'd put down on a questionnaire.
- Hey.
Not at all. - At all.
- You know, I was a little close.
- I was way off.
- Yeah, see, I was not expecting the hair to be that long.
- Yeah. - Okay, cool,
but I got the khaki shorts, though,
and the gym shoes, but the wrong color though, man.
- Yep, yep. - Oh, damn.
You had the button down shirt, okay.
Where were you born?
- I was born in California, - Born in California, okay.
- My parents are Palestinian slash Syrian.
So... - Man.
- I mean, one geographically doesn't exist.
So, I mean, you're...
You kinda got a good loose on there.
What about you?
- So, I was born in Chicagoland.
- Ah, yes!
I knew that I heard 'ah.'
I heard it. - Yeah, yeah, you go it,
but I lived in Tehran for like six years.
- Iran? - Yeah.
- Okay, oh, your plight was kinda...
- Yeah, so my dad's Iranian, my mom's African American.
- Okay. - Yeah.
How old am I?
I'm 34. - 34.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay.
- 24 years of life.
- Oh, 24, cool. - Yeah.
- You seem older than your age.
- I feel like I'm 40, man.
Long, long life, dude.
Long life.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
I'm white, I'm a white boy.
Nailed it.
I'm not wearing jeans and a tshirt, but that's...
That wouldn't have been far off,
and are you wearing heels?
- No I'm wearing flats though. - Oh, some flats though.
- You got that right.
Yeah, yeah.
Where were you born?
- Kentucky.
- I was gonna go somewhere in that region,
but I was like, oh, not sure because...
Do you have a slight accent,
like a little one? - I do a little bit.
- Should have gone with my gut.
Should have gone with my gut.
- If we'd been drinking, it would've come out a lot more,
but...
Is it San Francisco?
- San Francisco, no.
I was born in Beverly Hills, actually.
So, not that far away.
- Okay. - Pacific Islander.
I am... - Do you call it that
on a questionnaire?
- Technically, technically I could check off that box.
Usually I just go with the Asian box.
- Got it.
- People tell me I look different when my hair isn't down,
but, I mean, I don't know.
You be the judge. - Yeah.
You totally do look different. - A little bit?
- Yeah, yeah.
You could almost pass as Native American, bro.
- I've gotten that a lot.
I feel like I'm pretty ethnically ambiguous.
I mean, it doesn't help that I walk around
wearing kukui nuts and I learned Tongan
from my football teammates - That's true.
- and Tagalog from my Filipino friends.
- You're just all kinds of mixed.
- Yeah.
- You could be Samoan, you could be anything.
- The Friends thing was a dead giveaway.
- Yeah, it was a dead giveaway.
- I can't get my mind off that.
Up until then I was like, 'oh, he could be Asian,
he could be Arabic with the strict upbringing,
could be Indian.' - Right.
- And then when you said Friends I was like,
'nope, there it is.' - He's a white boy.
Just a white boy.
- Cool, hey, man.
- It was nice meeting you. - Yeah, pleasure.
Giordano's or Lou Malnati's, man?
- Lou Malnati's.
- Oh, I can't work with this guy.
- What are you talkin' about?
No one likes Giordano's. - It's the best.
- No, it's not, it's Lou Malnati's.
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