- Oh god.
Fried chicken, fried chicken.
(crunching)
Hi!
Hello, everyone.
I'm Marina, your high hostess.
Today, I'm doing my very own mailbag,
to give you guys an inside look
at what goes on at HiHo.
So tell me, what is it?
Wow.
(thumping of heavy objects)
What's in the box?
We've decided to make it a thing,
in every mail bag video, we will do one unboxing.
All right, well, we'll get to this
after I answer a few questions.
- What is the most exciting part of your job?
- Every week, every month,
there's always new stuff that shows up on our calendar.
So being able to plan these super fun,
exciting surprises for them is the best part.
I always email their moms and dads and tell them,
"Don't tell them what they're gonna be doing,
it's a surprise,"
so then when I finally let them into the studio,
when they realize what's going on,
that's the best part.
- Would you rather be able to fly or breathe under water?
- I would rather fly.
I think that'd be the coolest thing ever.
Traffic in Seattle, no good.
- What's it like to spend time with Ernie?
- It's kind of exhausting keeping up with his imagination,
trying come up with stories and he says,
"Well, what's that tiger?"
and then I have to come up with some story about it.
So it's exhausting, but it's so much fun
and he's so smart.
Whenever he's telling stories or talking,
there's always some new word
that comes out of his mouth
that I'm like, how do you know that word
as a four year old child?
He knows the word prologue.
What?
- How did you know that you wanted to be a producer?
- I've always been doing video stuff
since I was an elementary schooler.
I did the fifth grade news at my elementary school,
and then I did the TV news in middle school,
high school, and then in college,
and I've always wanted to be in front of the cameras,
as a news reporter, and then I interned at a news station
and I saw what the producers were doing,
and I decided that was more fun.
- What is the best thing about working with the kids?
- Well, one thing that I love about these HiHo kids
is I've seen them now, about,
at least once a week for the past year or so,
and I've gotten so close with them,
so how excited they get when they come here,
that's probably the best part.
- Of all the kids, who makes you laugh the most?
(sigh)
- They all make me laugh a lot,
but I think probably Maddox makes me laugh the most.
He's also the kid that I see the least, I think,
because he doesn't live in Seattle anymore,
so whenever he comes, I kind of have like one Maddox day,
where we just film a bunch of stuff with Maddox
and we go to lunch together and he's so funny, hilarious.
If you guys haven't seen his family blogs,
go check them out.
- Which of the HiHo kids
were you most like as a kid, and why?
- I feel like I was the most like Desmond,
because I was a huge mama's girl,
which I know Desmond is a mama's boy,
and I was a little bit more shy,
so I think Desmond.
And I loved Japan.
- What video or series are you most proud of?
- I think that the Kids Meet series
is one that I'm the most proud of.
Not only am I giving the HiHo kids a new life experience
and opening their eyes,
but from what they learn,
the audiences at home can learn something too,
and they can learn to empathize with people,
and learn about people that are different from them,
and I think that's what HiHo is all about.
(laughter)
- Are you married?
- I'm not married.
No rings.
Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha.
Probably.
They know me pretty well.
I think they would have the best intentions for me.
If you made it to this part of the video, I'm impressed.
So once again, this is from Hadas,
this came all the way from Tel Aviv, Israel.
All right.
I feel like Ernie.
(slicing and popping)
Ooh!
All right.
"Hey, HiHo kids, this package traveled a long way
to get to you.
I watch your channel and love seeing the kids
taste different cuisines.
In this package, you have the absolute best Israeli snacks.
Of course, we have snacks that you can also find in the US,
so I send you the ones that are 100% Israeli."
Oh my god, there are so many good things in here.
Ah this, Hadas, you are an angel.
Thank you so much, Hadas, for being so detailed
with the descriptions of the snacks,
now I know what I'm talking about
when I feed this to the kids,
they're gonna love it.
Peanut butter snack with strawberry topping?
This is so great.
Thank you so much to all the fans
that have sent us treats already,
and ones that are putting together your packages.
I'm seriously so astonished
by how kind and generous you all are.
Wow.
Israel's version of bugles!
All right, that was the unboxing.
Thank you so much for watching my mailbag.
I can't believe I finally got my own.
If you guys want to send stuff,
check in the description box for an address,
as always, don't forget to subscribe to HiHo.
I know I talk about this all the time,
but we made some really great HiHo merch,
actually, when I say we, I mean, Koji.
But we would love it if you could buy something
and take a picture, tag us in it.
Yeah, thank you.
Bye!
- See you soon!