(laughter)
- I'm gonna pee my pants.
(funky music)
- So, we're gonna talk about our high school selves.
(chuckles)
- Ugh, such a weird time.
- Such a time.
- What were you like?
- I'd like to say that I was popular-adjacent
but also, kind of a nerd.
I was in a special league program in my high school
that, it was called the Humanities Program.
- Yes, we had that too!
- Did you have it?
- I was in it and then I dropped out 'cause I hated it.
(laughs)
- It was like 40 to 50 of us in there
and we had like, most of our classes together.
Just, like, that small group.
We focused on art, we focused on history
and we focused on english.
- Mhm.
- We would kind of get, like, made fun of a little bit
by our friends.
They'd be like, oh, humanities kids.
It was never like, serious.
- Yeah.
- I would say, in general, yeah, my best friend
was prom queen.
We were on the homecoming court a couple times.
- Mmm.
- So, we were like-
- A little flex.
- A little bit, I mean, you know.
I would really love to say, just, adjacent.
We weren't like, you know. - Yeah, like the,
isn't it so funny to think though,
that those humanity programs are like,
such a big thing and they're so cool
and then like, what does it (censored) matter?
They really don't matter.
- You don't get AP credits or anything.
- You don't get (censored).
Why does it matter?
- And then I was in the musical, my senior year,
called The Wiz.
- Yes!
- A little something called The Wiz.
- You should be!
What, what, who were you?
- Oh my god.
This is embarrassing.
This is the embarrassing part.
- Who were you?
- Okay, so.
(laughs)
- Should I not have asked this?
- So, me and my friends.
(chuckles)
- Let me also-
- Why is these so much build up Freddy?
Just tell me, what the (censored) were you?
- Let me also give a disclaimer.
That this was our first musical.
Like, we had never been in a theater program
or any other plays?
- So, you were just those people that, like,
joined your senior year?
- Just joined senior year, like, oh, why not?
Like YOLO, you know?
- And then, you have people who have been in there
since freshman year that are like,
this is their livelihood and here's Freddy
just coming in for senior year.
(laughs)
- And they got my ass too, because my role was
(laughs)
- I'm gonna pee my pants.
What?
- I was one of the bricks in the yellow brick road.
(laughs)
- Wait, what?
They gave you lines?
You came in your senior year, ready to stunt
and they made you a brick?
(laughs)
- Oh, my gosh.
They made you a (censored) brick.
- Yes.
(laughs)
- Shame on your school.
- And it was (inaudible), the transitional group.
So between each scene, we'd be like
(laughs)
- And then, we wore really cool outfits.
- What did you wear?
- We wore off the shoulder sweatshirts that had
spray painted yellow bricks on them with leggings
and sneak- like, Reeboks.
- Okay.
- Super 90's and (inaudible).
- Oh my gosh.
Can somebody, please, for Halloween be a brick?
(laughs)
So, there's me.
- I like to think, in high school,
I was popular-adjacent too.
I didn't drink or do anything in high school.
I was a very good girl, just because my parents
knew everybody in our town and if they find out
I'm doing anything, they're gonna hear.
- Yeah. - They're gonna hear it.
- My mom grew up in the town next to us,
but my dad is like a UPS driver, like,
announces our (censored) basketball games,
like everybody knows my dad.
- He's involved.
- He's so involved.
And then my mom makes homecoming flowers
and everybody knows her and-
- Were they on PTA?
- No, but, they were too cool for PTA, honestly.
- Excuse me.
They're like, we'll be unofficial helpers.
- Yeah, yeah. - Like, we don't need
to be on a list.
- That's them, that's them.
- Well, I was prom queen, so that was cool.
- Oh yeah, you were definitely popular.
- Yeah, I was popular, but I was like,
friends with everybody, not just the popular kids.
I was friends with literally everybody.
I would just talk to anybody.
Mostly though, it was just, like, volleyball.
- I was gonna say, weren't you an athlete?
- Mhm. - Okay.
- I played volleyball.
I was on varsity since I was a freshman.
- All four years. - Wow!
- I was an outside, um, and then my last year,
I did track because you could get a scholarship
if you did volleyball and track.
So, then I did track my senior year and I got
third in state.
I know.
Yeah.
I liked art.
I liked stuff like that.
- Yeah. - Art and english.
Math and science were not my things.
- Same, same, same, same, same.
- But I always enjoyed learning about them
because I know I sucked at them
but I always enjoyed learning about them.
- I used to fake sick for geometry tests.
Then, my teacher caught on.
- Dating for me in high school was, I like,
thought I liked boys.
I probably did, you know, so I dated a few guys
here and there.
And then I, like, at 17, fell in love with my best friend.
And, that was it.
- I had a way more active dating life in high school
than I do as an adult.
- Really?
- Yes.
- Also though, I wasn't allowed to date until I was 16.
- Oh, really?
- I didn't get my first kiss 'til I was 16.
- It's so funny 'cause I went to an all-girls
middle school, so there was just no boys around
or the few that were, I was just
super uninterested in.
As soon as I went to my public school in the eighth grade,
I had a boyfriend, probably, by October.
- Wow.
- Like, listen y'all, I wasn't playing games.
- Quick, quick.
- Yeah, so my first kiss was when I was 14.
- Oh my gosh. - Ninth grade.
- Wow.
Who was, like, the hot guy?
- There was the hot black guy and then the hot white guy.
Right?
- You're so lucky you had diversity.
- Oh yeah, my school was pretty diverse.
It was like, 60-40.
- Oh my gosh.
I was, maybe, one of five black people,
including my brother.
- I'm trying to think, I mean, at the time,
any boyfriend that I had at the time to me
was the hot person in the school
Because, you know. - Oh, true, true, yeah.
- When I first came in, freshman year,
looking at all the seniors, I was just like,
oh my gosh, everyone looks so adult.
- Yeah!
- Like, it was like, oh my gosh, I am a tiny fish
in this huge pond.
- You're still a tiny fish.
- I am.