- My rebelling was more than just rebelling.
It was like, uh, sorry,
I forgot halfway through that.
Sorry, you're just really pretty.
And then like, you know.
- Aw, that was really nice.
- Growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses
I feel like I'm a little weird around guys
because I was never allowed to have one.
But I'm probably one of the most spontaneous,
down for it type of people that you'll ever met.
- The age range I'm most comfortable with
is actually women who are older.
Hopefully a couple years my senior
who is willing to deal with my witty jokes,
who is smart, and hopefully down to earth.
- Your name is Angela and this is your story.
You are 24-years-old.
For work, you are a fashion consultant.
You grew up in New York and your cultural
background is Jamaican.
- My name is Sam.
I am 26-years-old.
For work I wish I was a fashion consultant
but I am a bartender and I did grow up in New York,
in Brooklyn and I am Jamaican.
- Your name is Michael and this is your story.
You are 27-years-old.
For work, you work in retail.
You grew up in Canada and your cultural
or ethnic background is German.
- My name is Seth.
I am 21-years-old.
For work I am an actor and a waiter.
And I actually grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.
My cultural background is mixed.
It's German and Irish.
- Got half of it.
- Yeah, yeah.
And why'd you think I was Canadian?
- Okay, so I was thinking middle America, I was.
But I was like maybe there's something
a little bit different about the way
his hair waves a little bit so maybe
a little, slightly foreign, but not too foreign.
So I chose Canada.
- Sure.
- How did you guess the Jamaican thing?
- I think it was the hair.
- Okay.
- You have really, really incredible hair.
- Well, thank you.
- You're very welcome. - You too.
- Oh well, thank you.
- Growing up there were about 13 people living in the house
and we were a very religious family.
No, you can't have a boyfriend.
No, you can't celebrate your birthday.
Having that type of upbringing,
I crave all the things I couldn't have.
Gotta go super big for birthdays.
I always wanna host Thanksgiving.
I always wanna host Christmas parties.
- Growing up it wasn't always
a good environment, to be very honest.
Both of my grandparents on my mother's side
were very die-hard Catholic.
Anything you did was wrong because it was against God,
it was against them.
I can see why people get uncomfortable
with the organized religion kind of scene.
Just because there is a lot of judgment
if you don't find the right one.
Your guilty musical pleasure is K-Pop.
The TV family that you're most like is The Simpsons.
And your favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird.
- My guilty musical pleasure is nowhere near K-Pop.
It's actually Country music.
- No way.
- Yeah, it feels like old school R&B,
like just you're in love and you wanna be happy.
The Kardashians, just because I have a huge family,
is a TV family I would say and then
we're all like really shallow, so.
- Oh, okay.
Revealing things here.
Yeah, there you go.
To Kill a Mockingbird is actually like up there on my list,
but I would still have to go with Harry Potter.
- Harry Potter?
- I just read all of the Harry Potter books
over, so it's in my head right now.
Your guilty pleasure is Christian Rock.
The TV family that is most like yours
would be The Tanners.
Your favorite book of all time, Harry Potter.
My guilty musical pleasure is not Christian Rock
'cause I love Christian Rock.
Mine is like anything super popular,
like Ellie Goulding, like Halsey.
- I don't know who either of those people are.
- Aw, you're missin' out.
So I said The Simpsons, 'cause my family's ridiculous.
- Okay.
- My favorite book is actually "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk.
- Okay.
- A weird one.
So why'd you think Christian Rock?
- 'Cause you look like a nice boy.
- I look like a nice boy?
- You look like, the haircut's very put together
and I like it and it looks very, you know.
- Like Youth Pastoresque.
- Yes .
You look like you inspire the children.
- I'll take it.
- And then also, To Kill a Mockingbird,
that's almost on the nose.
- I can definitely tell that you like to read.
- Yeah?
- I can definitely tell.
Hopefully I'm not wrong.
- No, I read, I try to do at least a book a week.
- Wow.
- And you said your family's like The Simpsons.
Do you have brothers and sisters or?
- Yes, I have a 24-year-old brother
and a younger sister who's 18.
- Oh, okay.
- I was the misconduct child,
for lack of better terms. - Ah.
- Oh yeah, as you can tell with this Youth Pastor
look goin' on. - That eyebrow?
- Yeah right, that does it, right?
It's the eyebrow?
How many brothers do you have?
- I have four brothers but I also grew up with
a bunch of cousins in the house,
which were all male, all very strict
on poor little 'ol Sammie.
Poor little Sammie was a little bit dangerous, like you.
I'm gonna try this and see what you guys say.
- Oh yeah.
- Yeah.
- When I first moved to the city,
I lived in a shoebox apartment.
I think technically a walk-in closet.
Me and a friend that I knew from back in Ohio
split the rent for that one room
and it was so small that when I had to go to work
I had to push this foam pad that I slept on
on the floor up against the wall to walk in and out.
It was a really lonely time in my life.
I wasn't going out and doing things.
It was much harder than it is now that I have a group.
- My biggest challenge to date would be around last year.
I attempted to commit suicide and it was with the help
of my mom and the people that were in that room
when I woke up that I'm still smiling here today.
'Cause I don't even know who that sad person was.
If I were to be a friend of someone
who was thinking how I was thinking,
not every tomorrow will hurt.
Just give it a couple more tomorrows
and hopefully you'll figure it out.
- You do believe in God.
In your family growing up you practiced,
and I could be way wrong, Cat holism.
And you're main purpose of hope and support
when you face challenges is your mother
and I said your sister.
It just seems like you're a very strong woman
so you had some good
female role-models. - Aw.
I do believe in God.
I'm a little flip-floppy, to be honest.
I've been through a bunch of things
and it's, I think it just depends on my stage in life.
Where I'm like, there is a God, obviously
and then it's like, is there?
So, I'm a little flip-floppy.
- Fair enough.
- I grew up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses
so I absolutely get the boring and the very strict,
you're not supposed to do that type of lifestyle.
- Gotcha.
- And my main source of hope is my mom.
- Yeah.
- She still is my best friend.
- Cool.
- Ready for yours, sir.
- Yes, ma'am.
- You do believe in God or Creator.
In your family growing up you practiced the Mormon religion.
- Oh.
- And you're main source of hope and support
when you face challenges is your dad.
- I do believe in God.
You're definitely right there.
In my family growing up we practiced
Catholicism with my mom and Protestant,
non-denominational with my dad.
And my main source of hope and support
when I face challenges is my dad, you're right.
We're very, very close.
- So Mormon.
So why the Mormon?
- Ah, it's the haircut.
- It's the haircut?
- No! I'm joking.
- Do I look like, hi, how are you today?
Let me preach the good news.
- Mormon was the one, I'm not even sure what they practice
in the Mormon religion but that was
the first thing that popped up in my head.
- No, it's okay.
- Yeah, so do you believe like once you're saved, that's it?
Or can you be unsaved?
- I was raised religious but I had a really bad stint
when I was younger where like,
my rebellion was more than just rebellion,
it was, like, uh, sorry I forgot halfway through that.
Sorry, you're just really pretty
and then, like, you know. - Aw.
That was really nice.
- Yeah, sorry so I do believe that you can be unsaved
or kind of lose it 'cause I had it when I was younger
and then I didn't have it, now I have it again.
- Okay.
- But growing up Jehovah's Witness did you have to go
every Sunday and knock on doors?
- Saturdays and Sundays. - Saturday.
- Were for knocking on doors, specifically.
But you could do that any day of the week.
- Really, but you had to do it two days a week?
- No, you didn't have to do it at all.
But that's what my mom wanted me to do.
So I was doing it Saturday and Sunday.
- Gotcha.
- And then we had meetings, three days a week.
Two hours each meeting. - I'm so sorry for you.
- And then you had to study to participate in the meetings.
- I went to a Jehovah's Witness session one time.
They were like, does anybody wanna answer this question.
And they had this
long microphone. - Yes.
- Do you know what I'm talking about?
- Yep.
- And it like goes across all the other people
and they hold it like this.
- Every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday,
that's what we had to do. - Man.
- And then, if you don't answer questions,
my mom would just be like, you should have participated.
When I first saw you,
I said that I
I would definitely date you.
I really like your hair and you have amazing fashion sense.
And then after talking to you,
I still decided that I would go out on a date with you.
- Aw.
Really nice.
- You have an amazing personality.
I love the way your voice sounds.
And I really wanna hear more
about your stories with your family.
- Okay, so when I first met you,
I decided that
I would not.
- Okay.
- And I feel like a jerk a little bit.
I do have, I guess, a type that I go for.
And I feel like a jerk.
Now that I met you, I still said no.
Because you seem a little too sweet.
For me. - Okay.
- I like a little bit more,
- Of an edge?
- Edgy type, yeah. - Yeah, okay.
- But you are a really cool, dope guy still.
- Well, I'll take it.
- I wanna give you a hug.
- You wanna give me a hug?
- Sorry, yes.
- Oh, don't feel sorry.
It's totally fine.
Oh wow, you're really tall in those heels.
- Yeah and I'm really big, too.
- Wow, those are some high heels.
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