Hi.
OK, so Gaten.
Yes.
Caleb.
Yes.
Finn, Noah.
Yes.
All right.
I'm Finn.
Huh?
I'm Finn.
OK, Noah, Finn.
OK, sorry.
No, that's Finn, Noah.
He's messing with you.
This guy's a jokester.
Don't do that to me.
All right, so the show is fantastic.
And explain it-- for those people
who have not seen the show yet, explain what it is.
So Stranger Things is about a group of kids
who are all best friends.
And one of the friends, Will, goes missing.
And they all try to go find him, but they end up
finding a lot more awful and kind of great
stuff about the town.
It's not like a kidnapping story.
It's more of like he goes missing out of thin air.
Yeah.
Like on another realm?
Another realm.
Yes, I'm still trying to figure out exactly.
It seems like it's an alien thing.
That's the good thing about it.
It's so mysterious.
It's very mysterious.
All right, so it's a really cool show.
And all of a sudden-- because they all come out at once.
You don't know what you're doing.
And then it airs, and then it's a huge hit.
And like at what point did you know that it was a huge hit,
and then what was that like to go to school again?
Yeah, when I kind of realized it was a big hit, social media--
it really took off there.
It was a lot quicker to see that.
But I was getting a lot of prom proposals.
Ah.
And I would joke around.
At first, I would be like, yeah, sure, like a joke.
And then they'd be like, OK, address.
And they would put their add--
I'm like, I'm not going to prom with you.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're very serious about it.
Very serious.
The first time I got recognized was here in Los Angeles.
I think it was like during press time.
And a kid came up to me.
And he's like, are you Caleb Reginald McLaughlin?
I'm like, whoa.
How do you know my middle name?
My middle name's not out there.
He was like, are you?
I'm like, yeah.
He's like, oh, awesome.
So that was kind of creepy.
But it was awesome at the same time.
Well, they're looking up everything about you
if they're that big of a fan.
Where do you live, then, if you don't live in Los Angeles?
I live in New York.
And all of you live in New York?
Jersey.
No.
Oh.
Me and Noah are from New York.
And where do you shoot this?
Atlanta.
All over the place.
Oh, wow.
So are you there with your parents?
Or are you on your own?
And they just--
All on my own.
I have my own apartment.
We all live in a big two story house together.
That's wonderful.
I don't believe a word you say.
Because now I'm on to you.
Yeah.
We're doing a new reality TV show.
Yeah.
No, you're not.
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I heard it too, like, huh?
Oh, my god.
But you have a lot of fans.
I don't know how many people have seen the show,
but it's really good.
President Obama loves the show.
You met him, right?
Yes.
That was cool.
That's pretty cool to know that.
We were there at the White House.
We were there for the film festival we had to.
We were announcing some of the final films there,
the film finalists there.
Oh, look.
There's the picture.
Oh, look at that.
Wow.
We are small babies in that picture.
Wow.
Yeah, we're standing there in this line.
And then all of a sudden, we hear Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb
McLaughlin, like in this, like, booming voice.
And we look over.
This guy's in uniform.
Like, it was crazy.
And so then we walk in this room.
And there he is.
It was awesome.
Yeah.
He was there.
And it was so cool.
He's Obama.
It's Obama.
And he's like super tall.
He said, hey, how are you doing?
In control.
Yeah, he's very chill.
Yeah.
The very chillest.
He's the best.
So tell everybody, and tell me, especially,
because I want to know.
I've seen the pilot of this second season so far.
That's what I've seen.
So I know something.
But what is going to happen?
What can you tell us about this season?
You want to go?
You got it.
For Will, I mean, obviously, he's going through a lot.
He's coping with, like, what happened to him before.
Joyce and Hopper are kind of examining him in like a lab
and seeing what's happened.
Yeah, Wynona Ryder plays your mom.
And I'm upset right now, just seeing the pilot, that they're
taking you to--
that they don't believe you, what you're seeing.
Like, they went and got you.
Why don't they believe you?
It sucks.
All right.
We're the only people that believe.
Parents should believe when their kids--
My own mom.
Yeah, not even believing.
She's the only person that ever believed
that there's like a monster under the kid's bed.
No other parent would believe that.
And put the lights up and everything, and waited for--
it's a really good show.
It's really cool.
You ever seen it?
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That's a good amount of people, I'd say.
It's very popular.
I mean, what is it like to go back to school?
Like, what happens when you're in school?
I'm home schooled.
Ha.
I go to public school.
You go to public school.
People must freak out.
I couldn't eat lunch for a week, just
because there was like a line forming at the table.
Yeah.
It was funny.
Honestly, like a line.
Yeah.
I'm eating a burrito.
I'm looking-- what?
What about y'all?
For me, I mean, when I first came back, this girl was like--
put me in a headlock and tried to take a picture with me.
[LAUGHTER]
This first snapshot.
Because people were mobbing me.
She said, can I put you on Snapchat?
And I said, uh, maybe not.
I've already done a lot today.
And she went, oh, that's cool.
And I went--
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