[Ashley Reading] "Peniel Shin: 'Ah sorry. I meant to send before I slept last night.
[Ashley Reading] First Impressions!. Lol'."
[Peniel] Yep
[Ashley] First impressions, like when we first met, or-
[Peniel] Yeah, not the-
[Ashley] Didn't we talk about this? Like our first impressions ever of each other?
[Peniel] Did we talk about it? I don't remember.
[Ashley] We talked about the first time we all met each other.
Yeah, I don't think we talked about first impressions of each other.
[BM] I thought you were mean as hell!
[Ashley] Why?!
[BM] Nah, cause you just... look mean.
[BM] No, I mean cause, every time I meet a sunbae, or someone who debuted already,
[BM] I'm like, "They already in the game
[BM] I’m not in the game yet, and they’re in the game.
[Peniel] Ah.
[Ashley] Didn’t we meet before you debuted?
[Peniel] Yeah, cause I met him through you, and he didn’t debut then either.
[BM] Yeah.
[Ashley] You just looked super Americanized to me.
[Peniel] Super America.
[Ashley] You were wearing like those really oversized jerseys.
[BM] Yeah. [Peniel] Ohhh.
[Ashley] So I was like, "He's from America, from the States."
[Peniel] Like he’s 교포 for sure.
[Ashley] And I felt like you were very closed off.
[BM] Really?
[Ashley] When I first met you. But I think looking back now,
[Ashley] it’s because you were going through a really tough time back then.
[BM] Yeah, yeah.
[Ashley] That’s when you were going through, you had a depression during your training.
[BM] Do I have depression vibes? Yeah, I got like depressed.
[Ashley] Aha no, you were telling me though,
[BM] Oh yeah,
[Ashley] You were struggling, maybe that’s why I got those vibes, then-
[Peniel] Well I mean if he said it… then I’m sure you got the vibes.
[Ashley] Well even before he said it.
[Peniel] Okay okay.
[Ashley] Peniel, I saw you at Cube, like on the staircase.
[Peniel] I saw you at the restaurant.
[Ashley] That was when we first met?
[Peniel] I mean we didn’t like meet, like “Hi, how are you?”. It was like-
[Ashley] Oh I saw you.
[Ashley] Yes, you were wearing a Hanyang University bomber jacket, um…
You went to Hanyang?! (Hanyang University is a prestigious college in South Korea.)
[Peniel] Yeah I did.
[Ashley] And you had really long sideburns, side-swept orange hair.
[Peniel] Orange?
[Ashley] It was like dyed. It was like brown.
[Peniel] I had orange hair?
[Ashley] Yeah, you had brown hair.
[Peniel] Oh I did.
[BM] You had hair?!
[Peniel] What is that?
[Ashley] You had a lot, it was very long, um yeah...
[Ashley] I think I saw you in the corner of my eyes eating in the table next to us.
[Peniel] At the basement restaurant.
[Ashley] I dunno, I just- you kinda looked like I dunno, an average boy.
[Peniel] That’s cool. Thanks.
[Peniel] When I saw you, I was like “Oh damn, she’s definitely gonna debut."
[Peniel] She looked like a celebrity. That’s what I thought.
[Ashley] What?! No way.
[BM] That’s messed up bro.
[Peniel] Thats messed up man.
[Ashley] No, I didn’t mean average as in you didn’t look like a celebrity. I didn’t think that
[Peniel] I won’t say who, but one of the trainees was like,
[Peniel] “Ah, I heard like that she speaks English”, and they thought you were cute.
[BM] Oo
[Peniel] And I was like “Really? She looks mean.”
[Peniel] "She looks so cold. She looks mean."
[BM] Another big thing was, your members looked like they respected you,
[BM] plus there was a little bit of fear.
[Peniel] Little bit of fear.
[BM] I mean now, I don’t know,
[BM] Now that I know you now, you’re like a marshmallow.
[Peniel] Yeah and BM, my first impression of you was,
[Peniel] it was your birthday party at like the place or whatever in the basement.
[BM] Oh yeah. Damn, a while ago.
[Peniel] And I was like “Holy sh*t this guy is tall.”
[BM] Yeah.
[Peniel] And you were like yeah he’s from America, trainee, blah blah blah.
[Peniel] And I was like “Oh shoot. Alright alright”
[Peniel] I thought, in my head at the time “They’re making a 2PM kinda group or something.”
[BM] I come with KARD and you’re like “WT*” I was like oh- OH.
[Peniel] I just remember he was like um, it kinda felt like he was like awkward though?
[BM] Yeah I was.
[Peniel] I think that maybe that was because you knew I debuted already to maybe? I dunno.
[BM] No, it was cause that day, there were just so many people I didn’t know so, I was like,
[Peniel] It kinda felt like an introvert trying to be extravert.
[BM] Yeah that was around the time where I just like, the people I’m comfortable with, I’m cool.
[BM] But in those type of scenes, all I knew was you and 5 out of 30 people that were there.
[Peniel] Yeah I didn’t know anyone there either too.
[BM] I was just like cliqued up with my own squad.
[Peniel] And then you just kept doing the awkward laugh like [imitates].
[Peniel] That’s all I remember like, [imitates], yeah, yeah, yeah.
[BM] Oh sh*t. I must’ve been hella awkward that day.