We’re NEVER going to Coachella again…. 2026 recap

Summary

Fool Coverage: “We’re NEVER going to Coachella again… 2026 Recap”

Podcast: Fool Coverage with Manny MUA & Laura Lee
Date: April 17, 2026
Episode Theme:
A brutally honest—and hilariously unfiltered—Coachella 2026 recap, plus hot influencer gossip and sobering discourse about brand deals, festival drama, and the realities of “influencer life.”

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Main Themes

• Coachella 2026 Recap: The harshest, most chaotic Coachella yet
• Influencer Tea: Viral feuds, cancelations, and “virtue signaling” dissected
• Behind the Scenes: Real talk about brand deals, logistical disasters, and influencer experiences nobody else shows
• Festival Survival: The physical and mental toll Coachella takes (feet, food, camping, weather, and more)
• Meme-worthy Moments & Quotes: A podcast episode packed with both comedy and genuine exhaustion

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Coachella & Influencer Drama

• Alex Cooper vs. Alex Earle Beef
  • Discussion of the Call Her Daddy (Alex Cooper) vs. Alex Earle drama that exploded online Monday post-Coachella [03:06]:
    • Speculation about whether it’s a publicity stunt or real, confusion due to their similar names, and the involvement of Briana “Chickenfry” and Barstool’s Dave Portnoy.
    • “Apparently Alex had dropped little comments, poking at Alex Cooper. First of all, most people can’t figure out these are two different people.” – Laura [02:45]
    • “A lot of people in comments want Alex Cooper to call people out hard, but if she does, celebs and their publicists won’t go on her show. That’s how it is.” – Manny [04:23]
• Discussion on Podcast Callouts:
  • Reflections on how influencer drama spills into all platforms and why it’s rarely as juicy as rumored.
  • The group agrees most guests don’t sign up for interviews that have “gotcha” energy.

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2. Danger of Energy Drinks & Alani Lawsuit

• Controversial News: The death of a 16-year-old who drank excessive Alani energy drinks and resulting $1M lawsuit [07:12].
  • Context: 6 Alani’s/day far exceeds safe caffeine. Both are sympathetic about the loss but question corporate liability.
  • “It’s like burning yourself with an iron—can you really blame the iron company?” – Manny [08:56]
  • 90% of online commenters blame parents or personal responsibility, not the brand.
  • Contextual info: Celsius owns Alani [09:14].

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3. Coachella 2026: “The Wildest Yet”

3.1. Unprecedented Crowds & “Beaver Chella”

• Record-breaking attendance (over 125,000). Everybody agrees—by far the most crowded ever.
• “Craziest, most crowded Coachella I’ve ever been to, and I’ve gone for nine years.” – Laura [11:34]
• Nearly impossible to see friends, socialize, or get good festival experience because of the gigantic crowds.
• “It was almost like body to body… Friday and Saturday especially. I was anxious and claustrophobic.” – Laura [51:08]

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3.2. Influencer ‘Uninvited’ Drama & TikTok Fakery

• Airbnb owners canceling last minute to resell for much higher prices, leaving brands in the lurch.
• Some influencers truly left stranded, others faked “uninvited” stories for TikTok views:
  • “There were a lot of influencers who lied about being uninvited. They wanted a viral moment.” – Manny [14:18]
  • Growing issue with influencers virtue signaling, exaggerating brand offers, or flat-out making up drama.
  • “That’s so corny. If your content is about how you’re the most honest, you’re probably not.” – Manny [22:44]

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3.3. Luxury Meets Chaos: Brand Logistics, Flights, and Mishaps

• Travel with JSX (“Kylie Jenner style”), but confusion at private terminals and almost missing their flight.
  • “We got so blessed when Jeanette let us ride with her—serendipitous.” – Laura [29:12]
  • Monet McMichael couldn’t board for lack of ID, had to drive the whole way. [29:46]
  • Partying on the private flight (Sabrina Carpenter on the intercom, dancing down the aisle) [32:09]
• First hiccup with brand logistics: forced to drive 2 hours round-trip to pick up physical wristbands because their brand (Elf) didn’t mail them in advance [25:32].

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4. Festival Survival: Physical Challenges, Logistics, and Real-Life Struggles

4.1. The Epic Friday Odyssey

• First Timer Uber Driver Disaster: Instead of a pro local, they get a talkative country music enthusiast from San Diego who can’t navigate, leading to a four-mile WALK to the festival (in heeled boots).
  • “This was the beginning of the end.” – Laura [43:55]
  • “Do you want a driver who’ll hop curbs and do illegal U-turns? Yes, you do.” – Manny [41:34]
• Physical Toll: Laura gets blisters and is in socks (“Manny’s ready with Band-Aids and moleskin!” [46:54]); the route is so rough they pass through a retirement home crowding the sidewalk, “cheering on the concert-goers” [44:53].
• Wind & Dust Storms:
  • The weather creates near-tornado conditions—-tents flying, everyone covered in dirt, and the night is so windy Coachella closes early.
  • “Never seen so much dust in my life. We could barely walk.” – Manny [61:39]

4.2. Food and Drink (or the lack thereof)

• Food prices were “insane”—$52 for two slices of pizza [59:06].
  • But: water was only $2 at last, and there were tons more refill stations [59:41].
• Back at the hotel, the hosts describe eating Panda Express with a single rogue plastic fork, passing it back and forth in exhaustion [82:03].

4.3. Camping Chaos

• Forced to walk through the car camping zone post-storm. “Absolute destruction—tents flying, everything gone.” [63:06]
• Pushback at the idea camping is for “poor people”—clarifies it’s not and discusses how expensive all accommodations are.
  • “Calling Coachella campers ‘poor’ is wild. You are not poor if you’re camping at Coachella.” – Manny [64:38]

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5. Concert Highs & Lows: Music, Logistics, and Socializing

• Artist Standouts:
  • Cat’s Eye: Unanimous highlight, “should’ve been on the Main Stage,” crowd so big fans couldn’t get near. [49:09]
  • Justin Bieber: “He broke all the records, highest paid ever—most crowded performance ever.” [73:40]
  • Diplo: Surprise set at the Nylon afterparty [71:20].
• Festival Arrests & Lowlights:
  • Impossible to find/meet friends: “You can’t even see people. Shoulder to shoulder. Nightmare.” – Manny [51:33]
  • Overwhelming stress for smaller creators promised deals that got pulled last minute—nobody to help them, out real money [21:12].
• Photo Mishaps:
  • “Nobody could take a photo! Nobody knew how. So much dust everyone’s cameras were dying.” [54:12]
  • Laura’s advice: Train your boyfriend/bestie before Coachella so you’ll get the photos you want [55:33].

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6. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• “Coachella makes you an animal. Feral.” – Manny [00:32] & again [82:21]
• “Craziest, most crowded Coachella I’ve ever been to… it literally felt oversold.” – Laura [11:34]
• “I was in my socks. I hadn’t even gotten anywhere and I had already walked four miles.” – Laura [47:11]
• “This bitch bust Alani everywhere.” – Manny [00:46], referring to energy drink mishaps and later as a running joke [36:40]
• “The wind is too strong—they CANCELLED Coachella.” – Manny [61:39]
• “$52 for two pieces of pizza. We gagged.” – Laura [59:13]
• “We’re running through camping after a dust tornado—never again.” – Manny [63:06]
• “If you think Coachella is ‘just a fashion show’ and not about the music, you’ve clearly never been—every act was blowed out for the music.” [92:11]
• “I hope next year’s main artist isn’t as popular as Justin Bieber.” – Manny [91:06]
• “I have one fork and we have to take turns taking bites. It was so sad.” – Laura [82:03]
• “What other scenario in your life would you eat someone’s half-eaten pizza you only met 24 hours ago? Coachella.” – Manny [83:17]

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7. Overall Mood & Final Thoughts

• Absolute exhaustion: Both admit to barely functioning physically or mentally while recording, but push through for the annual recap.
• Both repeatedly say they’re not sure it’s worth attending in this form again unless the crowds die down or logistics improve.
• “We’re being so brutally honest, because if it was a great experience, we’d say it. But it wasn’t as easy this year. It was hard.” – Laura [93:50]
• Hopeful for calmer festivals in the future; look forward to Lollapalooza and other, less chaotic, events.
• “We love doing Coachella recaps, but this one was rougher than most.” – Laura [93:32]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Segment | Timestamp (MM:SS) | |--------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------| | Coachella Influencer Drama (Alex Cooper/Alex Earle, lawsuits)| 02:22 – 06:11 | | Alani lawsuit/caffeine safety | 07:12 – 10:50 | | Overcrowding, brand/AirBnB cancellations | 11:39 – 16:13 | | Virtue signaling, fake drama, influencer fakery | 19:36 – 23:02 | | JSX Flight adventures | 27:00 – 32:09 | | Coachella logistics—wristbands, hotels, showers | 33:53 – 38:33 | | Epic Friday struggle: Getting to festival (Uber fail & walk) | 40:09 – 47:11 | | Cat’s Eye & Music acts | 49:09 – 50:39 | | The food/water situation | 59:06 – 60:32 | | Windstorm, camping disaster | 61:39 – 65:14 | | Justin Bieber’s record-breaking crowds | 73:39 – 75:57 | | Sharing a fork, Coachella makes you feral | 81:03 – 83:39 | | Final reflections—peak & pit | 89:56 – 93:50 |

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Summary Table: Coachella 2026 Pros & Cons (from Manny & Laura’s perspective)

| Highlights (Peaks) | Lowlights (Pits) | |--------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------| | Cat’s Eye’s performance | Massive, stressful crowds | | Diplo at Nylon afterparty | Endless walking, blisters, bruises | | Freezing but VIP-provided hoodies | Dust & windstorms, canceled acts | | Upgraded bathrooms & cheap water in VIP | Expensive food, logistical fails | | Meeting fans (with photo mishaps) | Uninvited influencer drama/fakery |

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Conclusion

If you wondered what it’s really like to be an influencer at Coachella, this is the episode. Between logistical nightmares, influencer egos, and literal bodily harm, Manny and Laura pull no punches—this was their “hardest” Coachella ever. Their advice: prep your feet, your friends, your tech, and your expectations. Oh, and don’t believe everything you see on TikTok.

Memorable wisdom:
“If you are camping at Coachella, you are not poor. You’re actually crazy.” – Manny [64:38]
“We love our listeners. Next time, let’s run into each other somewhere with less dust.” – Laura [93:48]

Transcript

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[Manny Mua]

Coachella makes you an animal feral.

[Laura]

The transition is crazy. Put the fuck on. We are not well mentally, emotionally, physically.

[Manny Mua]

This bitch bust. Alani everywhere. Welcome to your favorite podcast. It's full coverage with your host, Laura

[Laura]

Lee and Manny Mua.

[Manny Mua]

Hey, guys, how are y' all doing? List. Listen, listen.

[Laura]

No, let's just start it.

[Manny Mua]

We're really tired.

[Laura]

This is me. So for real right now, dude, really tired. We are not well mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, even.

[Manny Mua]

I'm hanging on by a thread right now. But we're gonna get this episode up and out to you guys because we must do our annual Coachella recap. It's literally part of the reason we go to Coachella.

[Laura]

It literally is. I love doing the recap. And this year was like, there are things.

[Manny Mua]

There are things we need to talk about this year.

[Laura]

It was an experience. It was a spooky experience at times, for sure.

[Manny Mua]

Yes. But first we thought we would jump in the episode because two things happened that technically belong in a rapid fire episode. But we thought we'd just throw them in because we know you guys are gonna want our takes on them. The first one is we woke up on Monday morning to leap Coachella and Alex came. Cooper, who is the host of Color your dad, call her daddy podcast, called out.

[Laura]

It was crazy.

[Manny Mua]

It was crazy.

[Laura]

Part of me is like, is this a stunt?

[Manny Mua]

Because, you know, that does get a lot of views on your podcast. So basically, I thought this was a lie, but there were shady posts about Alex Cooper. But the comments on the tick tocks and post said, oh, my God, Alex Earl reposted this.

[Laura]

Yes. And I thought that was fake.

[Manny Mua]

I thought it was fake because people make up lies and, like, say that all the times in the comment whenever it didn't happen, like, they'll say a celebrity reposted this. And they didn't. So I thought the whole thing was fake. Apparently it wasn't. Apparently Alex had dropped little comments and poke. Sorry, poking at Alex Cooper. First of all, most people can't figure out that these are two different people.

[Laura]

Oh, the first, the top comment of the video I saw, they're like, they're different and I screamed how they look

[Manny Mua]

the exact same and have the exact same name.

[Laura]

I licks and Lex. Like, I don't.

[Manny Mua]

That's the same name.

[Laura]

No, I, I don't know. But no, I saw. I. I watched the video and I screamed and then freaking Alex Earl commented on it being like, okay, bet basically on it.

[Manny Mua]

Said on it.

[Laura]

So okay, on it then.

[Manny Mua]

Did you see Briana Chicken Fry was saying that Alex Earl is going to destroy Alex Cooper?

[Laura]

No.

[Manny Mua]

In a DM to David Portnoy or whoever that dude is from Barstool. Yes.

[Laura]

I didn't see that.

[Manny Mua]

Yes. Said that Alex. Yes. Okay, we have some behind the scenes tea of like what the beef is.

[Laura]

And part of it, at least part

[Manny Mua]

of it, part of it, I think it's illustrious beef.

[Laura]

I think that is deeper than people think.

[Manny Mua]

But it wasn't that crazy. Like the beef that we were told wasn't. It wasn't like mind blowingly crazy. But there could be parts that we don't know about it. You know what I mean? But the parts that we've heard that reasons. Alex, the reasons, they were not like good catastrophic, but they weren't great. Like, I'd be upset but like for this to be perpetuated to go on and on and on for so many years, I was like, huh.

[Laura]

I'm thinking the same thing. I'm really curious to see what Alex Earl has to say. And she goes, you know, on it. And so I'm like, she's definitely gonna

[Manny Mua]

do it on her podcast.

[Laura]

Yeah. And like really go in because she what?

[Manny Mua]

She's gonna want to like promote that podcast.

[Laura]

Of course. This is the perfect time.

[Manny Mua]

Yes.

[Laura]

To promote my podcast.

[Manny Mua]

Yes. This is an episode. So she's definitely not going to get it. Give it.

[Laura]

I gag though, because I feel like Alex Cooper is not the type that like does that kind of stuff. So. Really shocked.

[Manny Mua]

You know what a lot of people said in the comments on Alex Cooper's TikTok whenever she called Alex Earl out was like, this is the energy we want on your podcast. But my thing is people want Alex Cooper to call people out on her podcast. She wants them to be like, but why did you do this? And like come at them like a Diane Sawyer interview. They want her, her to ask like hard questions that like celebrities. But I'm going to tell you, if Alex Cooper does that, she's not going to get the guests that she's getting on her podcast. That's just how that works. Like, why would anyone sign up to go on a podcast where it's a gotcha podcast?

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

You know, as far as a big celebrity, but she's pulling like Kim K. And like the most relevant people because she doesn't do that. But you still get the tea and the juice.

[Laura]

Yeah, you get, you get, you get a good. I think you get a good amount of it, but it's like the PG version of it. So like. But I, I don't think there's a world in which she's going to be able to do those kind of things and get. Do the gotcha game. Because that's kind of like what publicists and PR is for, like for celebs to be protected in some way against those kind of questions. And that's why they know they're not going to do the interviews. For example, if Kim K. Is ready to do an interview and they're saying, hey, do it with us and we will not ask you X, Y and Z, then they're going to do it with them because they're not going to ask those questions.

[Manny Mua]

Right.

[Laura]

You know what I mean? They'll get juicy questions, but it's not going to be the exact same. But I did feel like it was an energy thing too. Like the way she called her out, it felt so real.

[Manny Mua]

It did.

[Laura]

I was like, oh, so this feels very authentic. Like very, like, okay.

[Manny Mua]

Like she was like, there's no NDA. And then she also says this quote in, in it. And she basically says, we both know what the truth is. Unless your narrative that you want to perpetuate isn't the truth.

[Laura]

Right.

[Manny Mua]

So she's like, I'm not scared of you saying what the truth is. Unless you're basically going to tell a lie in a perpetuate narrative is what Alex Cooper was saying to Alex Earl.

[Laura]

Yeah. So I'm very. I mean, we're going to see like what actually transpires.

[Manny Mua]

Are battling.

[Laura]

Very curious as to when.

[Manny Mua]

Imagine waking up hungover on Monday after Coachella weekend.

[Laura]

And you know, Alex Earl is going in.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, going the in.

[Laura]

She's going in at Coachella. So you know, it's going to be fucking spooky.

[Manny Mua]

And then that is your what you wake up to, girl.

[Laura]

I wouldn't be able to do it. I was like, you know, I'm going back to bed.

[Manny Mua]

See, my problem is someone would get cussed out and like, like I would be in the bed and just respond immediately without a thought.

[Laura]

Yeah. But she's like, wait, let me utilize.

[Manny Mua]

I'm thinking of like 2016. Me though.

[Laura]

Yeah, yeah, you now you wouldn't do that.

[Manny Mua]

No, I wouldn't do that.

[Laura]

No, that would.

[Manny Mua]

It would be plotted.

[Laura]

Yeah, you would. Like. Okay, let me really think.

[Manny Mua]

I would think I would make a few phone calls. We all know.

[Laura]

Process. You would process too.

[Manny Mua]

Process back then. I didn't process. We didn't process cuz we had Snapchat and you went off on Snapchat. I would have went off on Snapchat. Every thought. Every thought. Every thought. Remember that time on Resi went off on Girl.

[Laura]

I sure do. I'll never forget that. That was history.

[Manny Mua]

That was history.

[Laura]

That was history.

[Manny Mua]

Okay, and then our next topic we just wanted to quickly touch is a young 16 year old girl dies because she drank too many Alanis a day. And so the family is suing Alani for $1 million. But she was drinking six Alanis a day. And they said the caffeine intake for a human is 400 milligrams a day. And then she was like what, quadrupling that or something with the six Alanis.

[Laura]

Six Alanis.

[Manny Mua]

How much caffeine does two.

[Laura]

So 1200 a day. She was doing 12200 milligrams a day.

[Manny Mua]

So yeah.

[Laura]

So 400, that's three times the amount. Three times the amount daily you should be like. Or could be ingesting and being at a normal level.

[Manny Mua]

Why do I even drink C6 drinks a day.

[Laura]

No lit. I could drink if I had it my way. If I had it my way, realistically, I could drink three a day.

[Manny Mua]

And you had no health.

[Laura]

Yeah, I could drink three a day.

[Manny Mua]

Okay.

[Laura]

Like I've had no health restrictions. But I keep it to right now like one and a half, maybe two. And they're Alanis and they are Alanis. And let me tell you something. And I live for an Alani. But the thing is I also was like looking into it because I saw the story and I was like wait, let me like read this thing. So because of the ingredients in it, because she's in like more forming years of her like actual like bio biology, like it can stunt people's like heart growth at that point. Like because of the ingredients in it, it could like or not even growth, it's more like dilation. It's like dilating because you have so much. Because you know caffeine makes your heart pump quickly. So it's. You're just Activating your heart too much at that point and making it, like, dilate like, too fast.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, my God.

[Laura]

So it's like, okay, if you're consuming 1200 milligrams of caffeine a day at 16 years old, then it's also like, okay, so question about this. When the par. The parents doing Alani, is it Alani's fault that she's drinking that, or is it the parent for not regulating?

[Manny Mua]

So that is the huge discourse online with this. I would say 90% of people are pissed that the parents are suing a Lonnie because they're like, this is like burning yourself with an iron when it's hot. Like, you can't exactly the iron company. Like, you abused the product or you use the product wrong and like, you got hurt. Like, they can't just, like, not make.

[Laura]

And on the thing, there's like, your daily allowance. Like, it tells you.

[Manny Mua]

It tells you. But the parents are saying that it wasn't big enough. But then they went and showed Red Bull and like all the others, and it's the exact same warning. And then on top of it, did you know Celsius owns Alani? They bought them for, like, $1.4 billion. Yes, Celsius and Alani are the same company. I did not know that, honey. Yes, they're the same.

[Laura]

Wow.

[Manny Mua]

All of this. I know at all, with all this rhetoric online with the situation that has come up and on Celsius, like, the warning labels, all of it's the same throughout the energy drink. So that must be a standard approved FDA size to put on there. So it's like, I don't think they'll probably win the court case of a million dollars, but it's trying to get like a million bucks off your daughter's death or.

[Laura]

I don't know, I'm trying to go

[Manny Mua]

for 50, 50 mil.

[Laura]

I know my child died.

[Manny Mua]

You guys shot really low with a million because especially you live in California, you're only gonna get 600,000 after taxes.

[Laura]

I just think in general, like, the whole thing is just, like, weird.

[Manny Mua]

Because it is weird.

[Laura]

It's like you were saying with the iron analogy. I think that's perfect. It's like, how are we going to sue Alani for overc consuming? And, like, you're overc consuming something. It's like suing. I don't know, like. Like you were saying, suing an iron company. It just doesn't make sense to me. Like, I think that the whole thing. And the thing is, like, it's not the company's fault that like someone over abused the product, you know, and it's a city situation.

[Manny Mua]

It is horrible. It's shitty.

[Laura]

It's like, it sucks. The fact that someone passed away is horrible. It's horrific. But it's like again, abusing something like that's you guys. Like, let's. It's just tough because she's also a child.

[Manny Mua]

I know. That's what makes it tough. That's what makes it.

[Laura]

You know, and like she could have been not thinking, but then it's like, okay, then do you look at the parents?

[Manny Mua]

You know, I would say, like, based off what I've seen, the comments, you guys can check yourself on all the people making tick tocks and content. I looked at the comments for the public's opinion, and I would say like 90 of the public's opinion say it's the parents fault for letting their child drink six Alanis a day. Maybe they didn't know she was drinking.

[Laura]

They probably didn't know. They probably didn't know.

[Manny Mua]

You know what I mean? Maybe they know. But at the end of the day, it's like you have to think big

[Laura]

and be like, well, you can't think. You can't blame the brim at that point.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

You know what I mean?

[Manny Mua]

Okay, let's jump into our Coachella.

[Laura]

Our Coachella.

[Manny Mua]

The official Coachella recap. So starts.

[Laura]

Meow meow. Okay, guys, so 2026 Coachella. I would say it was the craziest Coachella I've ever been to.

[Manny Mua]

I would say it's like crowded Coachella I've ever been to. In nine years.

[Laura]

I saw someone say that bas. It felt like it was oversold. And I could not agree more. Like, it felt like Coachella was over. The tickets were oversold. That's literally was like a genius way of putting it. So basically this year, because it was Beaver Chella, it ended up being the biggest Coachella I'm googling.

[Manny Mua]

How many people was at Coachella weekend? 1. So we can have a number.

[Laura]

Okay, great. I feel like it literally was insanity. And you know, we go all the time. We go to Coachella's multiple. Like, I've done eight, Laura's done nine. And so we are like Coachella frequenters. And. And I'm not kidding you, this is the craziest we've ever seen it. And it wasn't even close.

[Manny Mua]

Like 125,000 people.

[Laura]

They went that were. That were there. Well, they were all right in that spot.

[Manny Mua]

God, let me tell you that.

[Laura]

Oh, it was really crazy. And you guys, the reselling of everything, the cancellation, some of the cancellations of the influencers.

[Manny Mua]

Let's go ahead and start there. Okay. So before Coachella even starts, you start seeing all these tick tocks come out of influencers saying they got uninvited to Coachella. But as we've done investigative work, it

[Laura]

turns out that Airbnbs. There's been a lot of situations apparently with Airbnb that last minute. Like, Airbnbs were canceling on people. Like the. The seller. The seller of the Airbnb. Or like the house owner was canceling and then reselling their Airbnb for like, five times the price. Or instead, like, you paid the $10,000. Like, no, cancel that. Get it for 50,000.

[Manny Mua]

Because they were getting better offers on their spot as time got closer to Coachella and like, I guess in the policy and Airbnb, you can, like, cancel on some.

[Laura]

I don't know. The policy is the ibc, apparently. Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

So brands would rent a house, but it would get canceled. I actually talked to an influencer that was there with SeatGeek, and SeatGeek had. Just wasn't there themselves, but they were sending the influencer and they got her a little. Airbnb got canceled and they had to put her in some, like, crummy hotel.

[Laura]

We had a second one too. Remember the. The. The hair?

[Manny Mua]

Oh, that's another one that they were like, they canceled. So that really was happening. That was not a rumor. However, the discourse got so big online with the uninvited influencer that I saw the comments take a very quick turn and people were like, this isn't real. Y' all realize that, like, yes, some influencers had straight up messages they were willing to show and. And call out the brands. I no doubt that was real. They got uninvited. That was real. But there were a lot of influencers. And this is what happens with TikTok. Just because it's such a I want views, like, I'll do it for you type of app. I like reviews. Influencers were lying about being. They were never invited to begin with. They just wanted to make the video to get the CL click and have the attention on them. So there were a lot of influencers who lied about it, but I also think there are a ton of influencers that were telling the truth.

[Laura]

Yeah, that really did.

[Manny Mua]

They really did get uninvited. And then there were influencers who saw that and just took advantage of the moment. We're like, I'm just gonna make a video too, and just not say the brand name because it never happened.

[Laura]

Yeah. But then at that point, it's like, okay, so then they're just a lying ass. Like, I don't know. It's like, to me, it's, like, so corny. I'm like, to lie about a situation like that.

[Manny Mua]

Someone even commented on our things. You know, we were talking about it, and they were like, you do know. Like, a lot of that was fake. Like, they were saying that to us. Like, a lot of it wasn't even real because of all the lying influencers.

[Laura]

Well, I felt like in the beginning, when the conversation was first starting, those were real. Like, when it was like, people talking about the uninviting thing and then, you know, not. Not understanding why last minute, it was canceled. But then obviously, when you do timelines together, it's like, oh, my God, the Airbnb is canceling on the brand. The brand has nowhere for sure. And that was happening. So it's like, I think that that was, like, a real situation. But then as days got closer and then the Coachella started to happen. Video started to pop out. There was like, I was at invited Coachella, Really? Because it's Friday, girl. It's Friday happening right now. So it's like, there was so, so many weird situations where I feel like it did just take a turn after the first few, because of how viral it was going. Like, people were starting to go like, oh, my God. Like, this is like. This is such a great thing to say. Like, I. Yeah, I. And so I saw, like, there was some that I saw that literally were like, this didn't happen.

[Manny Mua]

Okay.

[Laura]

I literally saw my.

[Manny Mua]

You were like. You were like.

[Laura]

I was like, this is crazy. I was like, girl, that's not happening. The brand is not telling you that. The brand is not telling you the reason you can't. Like, some of the stories. Like, actually, I'm not kidding. You made no sense. They're too vague, and they were too vague, and it almost like they were trying to be specific about things, but the things didn't make sense.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

Where I was like, that's not happening. Like, that's not. Like, that's not just. It's not normal. And then I also saw this. Okay. I saw this one creator, too, and I was like, liar. I. I just knew she was lying. I saw TikTok, and she was talking about how last year, a brand invited her and they paid her. They were like, I'm offering you $200,000.

[Manny Mua]

No, that's. Well, it depends on the size of the influencer.

[Laura]

But I'm like, yeah, like 300,000 followers.

[Manny Mua]

No.

[Laura]

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[Manny Mua]

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[Laura]

See full terms@mint mobile.com don't piss me off right now. Like, when I watched that video and she was like talking about how like. But her morals are more important. So she didn't go. Like, it was almost like a wait.

[Manny Mua]

What's it called? What's it called whenever you do that virtue.

[Laura]

She was like, you guys. She's like, so look at me. Like, I can. I just want you to know that you can turn down brands that you don't online with. Like, I've turned down $200,000.

[Manny Mua]

You're like, you are never.

[Laura]

I was like, you never offer $200,000 to go to Coachella.

[Manny Mua]

Show us the offer.

[Laura]

I want to see. Because the thing is, the biggest creators in the fucking world are not getting even close to that to go to Coachella. I'm sorry, they're getting things compensated and they are getting paid to capacities, for sure. But you're not getting offered from one brand, $200,000 to attending weekend. It's just not happening. Yeah, and I don't believe any creator and influencer is getting that kind of offer for, for what it is. So I'm like, that's not happening. Especially since you have 3,000 followers. It's just not a thing. It's not happening. So, you know, I feel like that became like a huge conversation too. Or people have been like, so you're lying about getting uninvited and people are lying about these money offers. Because a big conversation started to happen too, about people going with brands that they didn't align with just to go.

[Manny Mua]

It's sad because I would say, I would say, like, in my experience, like bigger, more established creators who have a very, very serious, long running influential career, I would say you could probably trust them more. And I know you guys probably argue that a little bit, but it's sometimes the smaller creators, and I don't even want to say you can't trust smaller creators. But it seems like whenever you get in the weeds in there, there's a lot of like, just random people will say where as like a bigger creator, you would never want to make a piece of content like that and blow your shit up and ruin your career, like making up some tumultuous lie like that. And also as a bigger creator, you don't need to do that, like, you don't need to do that to get the click, you know what I mean? So I think there's this honesty, bigger creators and smaller creators. But I mean, honestly, it was a lot of smaller creators that were.

[Laura]

Well, what I was saying, the thing is, I think that there's this thing where like, they're trying to like, like just like go through the muck of the algorithm and they're trying to grow, seen and grow. So they're almost like doing anything and everything that they can to do that. And it's coming up with lies and it's all these different things. And it's like, okay, but at what cost? And are you, are you just selling your soul for clicks? Like, I just don't understand, like, what the point of it is other than the idea of growth. And I think that because TikTok is the app that it is, people are so obsessed with growing in views and getting, you know, the things that people get on there that they are willing to Say and do anything for it.

[Manny Mua]

And you see it happen all the time.

[Laura]

All the time. Like, this is just, like, another one of the situations. I was like, okay, well, you guys are all liars.

[Manny Mua]

Which also says, creators, that this really did happen to. You. Know what I mean? And then you have all the. Lack of better words, dumbasses out there who want to make up a perpetuated story to latch on to people who did. And you know what? At the end of the day, when we take a step back. Yes. It's like, not the end of the world. Like, yeah, you were uninvited to go. Chill out. Understand?

[Laura]

Okay. There's much worse things going on.

[Manny Mua]

But, you know, but I understand, like, the devastation, though, because I will be honest. I'll be honest. If me and Manny had bought all of our outfits and we didn't prepare ourselves for Coachella, because the thing is, if we didn't get by our brand, we would still go. We would just pay for it.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

Like, that's fine. But I think the thing is, a brand would really fudge you over if they told you they were taking you. So you don't buy the Airbnb and you don't. But rent the hotel room and you don't buy the wristband. And so. So.

[Laura]

So then you're fucked with your thoughts. You're out, like, tens of thousands of

[Manny Mua]

dollars potentially, because instead of, like, paying for the $600 wristband that you would have bought in the beginning if the brand had never told they were taking. So why. I feel really, really bad. And I know me and Manny joke a lot because we were like, baby, put them in a tent.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

And, like, we make jokes, but honestly, we both feel really freaking bad for the influencers who that actually happened to. Like, we were like, damn, that sucks so bad. Like, I felt really bad, and I hope that y' all called the brands out, and I hope that you. Because they can, baby, they got money. They could figure it out. They just didn't want to. You know what I mean? They just didn't want to pay the extra money that wasn't in their plan, so.

[Laura]

And it could be, like, probably something insane money, too. Like, I'm thinking, like, with the reselling situation, I'm like, oh, my God. Either they're not gonna find something, or they're paying six times the amount.

[Manny Mua]

For the Airbnb.

[Laura]

For the Airbnb.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

So I'm like, this is just obscene. Like, I don't even know. But, yeah, I'm over that. Over the virtue Signaling. The virtual signaling is really starting to piss me off. And it's like, not even just with Coachella, just in general. The virtue signaling I'm seeing from these creators are, like, far beyond anything I've ever seen. I'm so tired of being like, these people are lying to you so you can trust me. I'm like, this is literally psychotic. You guys are so obsessed with, like, trying to be like, the. The end all. Be all of your opinion, but it's like, but you're lying about things too. Like, I just don't understand. Like, it's so weird to see a lot of creators try to bring other creators down to. For them to be a trustworthy one.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah, like. Like, over here, we don't lie about this. Yeah. Over here, we only take these brand deals.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

It's like, no girl. Also, I always feel like if you have to, like, make that your content, then there's something dishonest about you.

[Laura]

Yeah, for sure. That's your main thing, your gig.

[Manny Mua]

You have to put down other influencers or try to prove in ways that you're. That you're better than the chances are you're not.

[Laura]

No. And chances are, I think it's like, you're almost insecure about it. Like, I feel like you're actually, like, you're guilty. You're guilty of something in some capacity. Because I'm like, okay, well, if that's your whole shtick and you're so obsessed with the idea of, like, other people are lying to you. I'm not. Then I'm like, then you're lying about something because you're so obsessed with that.

[Manny Mua]

Me and manica literally make 10 tech talks on crazy shit. Brands have done brand things we've turned down because it was the right thing to do. Like, all these things, and we don't. Because it's like, what's like, well, it's our gig. Yeah.

[Laura]

Like, it's our main gig. Like, we've. I'm sure we've talked about things throughout the years and stuff like that, but I'm not. Like, every single video, I'm not being like, this is why everyone's lying to you, and I'm not.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

That is so fudgeing corny. Like, I just think it's, like, a really corny thing. Thing. Anyway. But anyway, going back to Coachella. So that was already, like, how Coachella was starting. So it was already spooky.

[Manny Mua]

That was, like, days before we got.

[Laura]

Two days before.

[Manny Mua]

Yes. So we went to Coachella. We flew there with jsx, which is amazing. We flew there last year.

[Laura]

Oh, they're amazing.

[Manny Mua]

Someone said you live in SoCal. Why are you flying to Coachella? Well, we pulled a Kylie Jenner.

[Laura]

We did, we did. The thing is, if I brand with a K, would you like to fly there or drive four hours? It's kind of tough to turn down. So real.

[Manny Mua]

The jet is going either way.

[Laura]

Maybe it's. It's going to happen.

[Manny Mua]

Is going. Whether you get on it or not. The jet is just. A jet is going.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

Okay.

[Laura]

So either you fly 30 minutes or you drive four hours.

[Manny Mua]

Yep. That's it.

[Laura]

We chose to fly for 30 minutes every single day. Yes. And so I, I. Oh, I love flying with him. So we get there on Thursday. Thursday, like, day zero, which is like, a huge thing for Coachella. People are always like, day zero, Day zero. I don't celebrate day zero. I'm not.

[Manny Mua]

Let me tell you something. Even elf putting on a dinner, I was like, day zero,

[Laura]

literally.

[Manny Mua]

So what screwed us up a little bit. Okay, let me tell you something, because me and Manny, we don't. We're not into reading every crevice of a piece of paper.

[Laura]

No, we're not.

[Manny Mua]

We're not into that.

[Laura]

We're not really into skimmers. You know, reading every section of a contract.

[Manny Mua]

No, we like to see. We like to skim.

[Laura]

Sounds good. That's very me. It's very, like, sounds good.

[Manny Mua]

Yep, yep, yep. Got it, got it, got it, got it, got it. I'll be there.

[Laura]

What time and it.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Laura]

Right.

[Manny Mua]

I need times and address.

[Laura]

Skeleton for me.

[Manny Mua]

So when I first landed, I've never had a brand make me pick up my wristband before.

[Laura]

Oh, right.

[Manny Mua]

The first time that's ever happened. Like, the brands normally order the wristbands to the room, and then you have the wristband whenever you get there. But what we didn't realize is, like, Elf was like, no, you gotta go get your wristbands.

[Laura]

Then we were like, oh, we have to go get a wristband. Okay. So then. So then we're like, okay, we have to carve out time for that to go get our.

[Manny Mua]

So we went to the hotel.

[Laura]

It's the problem that was our issue. Okay, so here's the problem. Here's the thing.

[Manny Mua]

We.

[Laura]

We fly in, we find, like, Indio, Coachella Valley, Most. Not most. A lot of brands will stay in Palm Springs because that's actually where hotels are and, like, resorts are. So you can actually, like, rent rooms instead of it being the houses. There's no, like hotels really, in India Valley.

[Manny Mua]

And not a hotel, fortunately. Palm Springs is an hour outside of the festival.

[Laura]

Yes.

[Manny Mua]

Hard hour.

[Laura]

So we drove. This is started off, we drove from where we were going to the hotel. We're here, it's been an hour. We go to look up where our ticket pickup is. It's where we flew into, which was

[Manny Mua]

an hour out and. But then ELF was texting us and they're like, get on the bus. We're going to have a dinner. We were like, a dinner?

[Laura]

Fuck no. We had to go get our ticket. We had to literally go get our wristband.

[Manny Mua]

So then we had to drive an hour back into Coachella Valley to go get a wristband.

[Laura]

How about beforehand? Us almost not even getting on the flight. Us going into the wrong place.

[Manny Mua]

Let's talk about that.

[Laura]

What about that, Laura?

[Manny Mua]

Let's talk about that.

[Laura]

Let's talk about that.

[Manny Mua]

So JSX has a private hangar, and then there's like the private jet airport where all of our cars were dropping us off at the private jet airport. And we were literally like.

[Laura]

And not the hangar.

[Manny Mua]

We were also supposed to be there at like 11. And I think we got there at like 11:45. So it was like 15 minutes before the flight took off.

[Laura]

We were kind of like.

[Manny Mua]

But you don't have to do security or anything.

[Laura]

Yeah, no, it's very easy to get through. So basically we get dropped off the wrong spot and we get over. By the way, I have two suitcases. Laura has two suitcases. Like, we have a lot of. And we're going out and we're kind of looking around. We're like. We don't see like the place. It seems odd. So the woman just randomly comes out and she's like, are you guys going for jsx? And we're like, yes, we are. She's like, baby, you're in the wrong section. Like, this is not where you need to be.

[Manny Mua]

We're like, okay, can we walk to where we need to go? And she's like, no, it's like a five minute car ride.

[Laura]

She's like, no, it's like about a mile and a half away. Just left.

[Manny Mua]

But our Uber is literally like this.

[Laura]

Okay. So he's literally like, go, like turning around, going. And I go like this, man.

[Manny Mua]

He's waving him back him down.

[Laura]

I'm like, please, please.

[Manny Mua]

And he goes like this. He's like, I picked up a new person.

[Laura]

Yes. So she basically, they picked up a new person. So I was like, bro. Like. So he literally swings around Gets a girl. And, like, they're driving away, and I'm like, I really wish. Tell me this is not psychic.

[Manny Mua]

He did Manny. Manny did this.

[Laura]

I literally go. I really wish they would stop and, like, just take us with her because she looked like a creator. Like, she was a creator.

[Manny Mua]

She was, like, in, like, Coachella essence clothes.

[Laura]

I was like, she looks like a creator. I really wish that she would just get us. I bet she's going on jsx, and

[Manny Mua]

we know, like, every creator.

[Laura]

Yes.

[Manny Mua]

Or like, they know of us, or like, we know them in some capacity.

[Laura]

So then the fucking car stops.

[Manny Mua]

It goes, brake, lights. And we were like, this computer.

[Laura]

So then, literally. So then she comes out. She's like, why don't you just come with me?

[Manny Mua]

And it was freaking. Jeanette saved our asses. She let us jump in the car with her, and we all went to the JSX hangar.

[Laura]

You guys, we got so blessed. We got so lucky. I mentally tethered with her. We connected, we aligned. I literally, out loud to Laura, I'm like, I really wish that she would just stop and, like, take us.

[Manny Mua]

And then they stopped. She heard you.

[Laura]

Serendipitous.

[Manny Mua]

She heard you.

[Laura]

I have a loud voice. People say people. Some people might say I could carry octavily. You know what I mean? So we were able to be saved. Thank you so much to Jeanette for, like, actually saving us and rescuing us.

[Manny Mua]

But not everyone was saved, because whenever

[Laura]

we got to this, the transition is crazy.

[Manny Mua]

Okay. So we're all happy. We walk in to the JSX airport. A lot of our influencer friends are there. We're so hyped up. And we see Monet McMichael, and that's our girl. We were like, what's up? And she was like, no, don't get excited.

[Laura]

Don't get excited.

[Manny Mua]

Don't get excited. Don't get excited. And we're like, what? What? What? What's going on? What's going on? She's like, I'm not getting on this flight. And we were like, why not? And she's like, my ID is in New Jersey. And we were like, gag. We're like, can we do famous birthdays?

[Laura]

Can we do anything on your phone?

[Manny Mua]

And they've told her no on everything. They're like, you have to have a real ID or passport.

[Laura]

That was your passport.

[Manny Mua]

So she had to call a car, leave the airport, call a car, and drive all the way to Coachella.

[Laura]

It was honestly really rough. The fact that she had to do that, like, just in General, like, the fact that you go all the way there, you get to the freaking hangar, and then they're like, you actually can't even board the flight, so you have to drive all the way to Coachella Valley.

[Manny Mua]

It's just like she said they meant. Because on the way, she got to fly back with us because she got her id, luckily, so she only had to drive one way. But she said whenever we were flying back, she said they made the most of it and, like, stopped it in and out and, like, listening music, and they made it a fun little trip down there. So I was happy for. But I was so sad she was on our flight.

[Laura]

I know same. The fight was actually bumping and going there. The flight was fully, like, fully like, dj.

[Manny Mua]

Dj.

[Laura]

Okay. Our also, our attendant was so cool. Our flight attendant was so sweet. She was so cool. And like, Tara, she was sitting in front of me. She was like, do you think I can get, like, an ox?

[Manny Mua]

I was like, yes.

[Laura]

And I'm like, tara, yes. Get the plain ox right now. She's so funny because she literally. I feel like she carries, like, the LA party seat on her back. Like, I think we were telling her

[Manny Mua]

that there was a New York influencer talking to us. She was like, I don't want to move to LA because all you guys do is, like, yoga and, like, wellness. And I'm like, that is true. They were trying to tell her, no, it's not like, like that. I was like, it is like that here. I was like, do not move here if you want to be a party girl. And Tara was like, no, I'm a party girl. Yeah, but you're the only. Like, you carry it on your back, literally.

[Laura]

She's like, I'm tired of carrying this on my.

[Manny Mua]

Because no one else parties. People don't party in la.

[Laura]

But she literally was like, I'm gonna, like, ask her if there's an ox. I'm like, I don't think planes have oxes, but, like, it. Ask her.

[Manny Mua]

I'm like, this. I was like, they definitely have an ox.

[Laura]

They have the speaker. Like, they have the. The comms tension, ladies and gentlemen. Yes. So they have that. So literally, our flight time was so. So she was like, yes, we can do a song. So, like, Tara went to the back, gets her freaking phone, and she puts it up to Sabrina Carpenter. She's literally playing it over the intercom, and everyone's like, laura got up fully dancing, so it was sick.

[Manny Mua]

She was like, no one's gonna dance. I was like, okay, I'll do it.

[Laura]

Yeah, Laura. Laura's a trooper.

[Manny Mua]

Here's the thing about me. I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

I really don't. I really do not.

[Laura]

You're just gonna do it. You're just gonna. Baby, you're gonna get up and do it and you live life.

[Manny Mua]

I don't care. Don't care.

[Laura]

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[Laura]

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[Manny Mua]

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[Laura]

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[Laura]

So it was actually really funny and it was a really, really good flight going there because of just the funness and like everyone was hype as and is excited. Like you're an excited mode because of that. So like literally tar's on the fucking playing DJing through the intercom. It's like oh, I need quite an impression like this.

[Manny Mua]

It was really cute actually.

[Laura]

It really was. It was really, really fun.

[Manny Mua]

Okay, look at your notes and see what, see if we missed anything.

[Laura]

So let me tell you something what I like to do.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, okay.

[Laura]

I like to make notes.

[Manny Mua]

Yep. So with the elf dinner, we just texted elf and they were cool about it. We were like, hey, so about that dinner. We are 45 minutes into Indio, California, trying to pick up wristbands, and they're like, just, we'll meet you later.

[Laura]

Get there. Eventually. We will. We will get there. But it was funny because we, we got there, we got to see the whole team and it was honestly really, really fun. Everyone was so cool. Me and Laura, like, we need to go get snacks, though. Like, we need to go get the snacks. We go to the store as well and get like, just like things and fixings. You guys, we literally are walking through the aisle and Is that right? Is that wrong? Okay. So we're walking through the aisle and I literally was like, okay, I need Alani. Speaking of Alani, I was like, okay, let me get like six for the weekend. Six for the weekend.

[Manny Mua]

I need a canned Dr. Pepper. You know, maybe we should get six a day out there, honey. Pushing it.

[Laura]

I need it.

[Manny Mua]

I need it for four days. If Alani takes you out, I will sue them for a million dollars.

[Laura]

Okay, well, thank. No, I want more.

[Manny Mua]

I want more.

[Laura]

I want more for you.

[Manny Mua]

How much do you think I can get out of this? You have a lot of Instagram.

[Laura]

Thank you so much. I'm so glad that you have a suit for me.

[Manny Mua]

I am, I want the. My podcast host is go. Because of your Dr. Yeah.

[Laura]

For your.

[Manny Mua]

You want me to do.

[Laura]

Yeah. What are you going to do?

[Manny Mua]

They're going to have to compensate.

[Laura]

There was this woman. She was really just on a.

[Manny Mua]

She was on drugs.

[Laura]

She was on drugs. She was obviously on a sick one, but she was basically on drugs. She was. It was a journey and she was very like. She was on. I. I think she was on the phone and she was doing something and she was like kind of being.

[Manny Mua]

I'm going be real with you. She was talking to herself. Minnie. There was no. No, she was talking to.

[Laura]

I'm so glad Laura was more observant than me in that moment.

[Manny Mua]

I was like.

[Laura]

She was.

[Manny Mua]

Yes.

[Laura]

Talking to herself.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

So then I'm living in the fridge. I'm like in the fridge grabbing my Alanis. I don't have a bag with me or anything. I just am holding them. I drop every Alani. I bust. Busted open, busted all over the store. Like the whole thing clean up.

[Manny Mua]

Okay, so the lady is standing there talking, talking to herself, staring at the ship. So it's fridge chips. She is facing the chips, having a full blown conversation. It's an Aggressive conversation with the chips. I'm fine. I don't even care. I'm just trying to get my Dr. Pepper. He's trying to get Zelani. We're just not engaging. It's fine. It's fine. We live in Los Angeles.

[Laura]

Yeah, we know. We know what it's like.

[Manny Mua]

We know what's up. We know what's up. Really, it's fine. This bitch bust Alani everywhere.

[Laura]

She ran.

[Manny Mua]

She ran for her life.

[Laura]

She thought, as if, like, I literally

[Manny Mua]

was like, throwing them at her. She thought you were throwing them at her. But the thing is, he put six in his arm and they were falling. And I'm literally like this.

[Laura]

She was. She was like this. Because at that point we're like, we just got to go.

[Manny Mua]

All I wanted was a pack of mini or regular canned Dr. Peppers. Sold out.

[Laura]

Gone.

[Manny Mua]

Sold out. So I found bottles of flat ass Dr. Pepper for the entire weekend.

[Laura]

I got lucky with my cans. But she. Yeah, she did. So the fact that I scared her.

[Manny Mua]

He scared her off.

[Laura]

The fact that I scared her off is saying something because she could have spooked off a lot of people. And it wasn't. So that was. That was basically our Thursday. Like, that was our.

[Manny Mua]

Anything else that happened on Thursday?

[Laura]

I don't think on days. Not on Thursday.

[Manny Mua]

Check the notes.

[Laura]

We're going into Friday now. That was. That's literally the end up. You know what? I'll watch Add to this, because this is a recurring theme and I found that it's out on Thursday. My. Okay, so we get to the hotel. Okay, so we get to the hotel. Mirror wise, like, it looks exactly the same. Our rooms are the exact same. Like, they look the same everything. The amenities, though, were not the same. Like, it was not. My room wasn't working the way Laura's room was working. I'm talking like, the shower didn't get hot for me. Okay. It didn't warm up. The AC wasn't cooling as low as Laura could set it to 73 and it's freezing. I was setting it to 67 and

[Manny Mua]

it was warmer than you needed some Freon. Like, you know what Freon.

[Laura]

I don't know what that is.

[Manny Mua]

I had to put Our AC didn't work. Growing up, my daddy would go find Freon somewhere.

[Laura]

But what is Freon? Is it like a liquid?

[Manny Mua]

What the. It is. It's like a liquid. But he's a coolant.

[Laura]

It's a coolant.

[Manny Mua]

I. It must be. And he was like, there. We get a little puff. Puff, of course, coming Out.

[Laura]

Yeah. Got it. I was puffing a little Freon. So basically I had to use Laura's shower every single day. Across the way, I had a. I left my room to go shower at her thing also different buildings.

[Manny Mua]

My first shower there, I slipped and fell out of the shower and busted my foot, you guys. Laura up my foot. The whole top of my foot was black, was it not?

[Laura]

Yes, I can confirm. I can confirm. It was bruised black. It was up, you guys. The thing is the. There's like a lip in the shower. If it goes up like this high

[Manny Mua]

to step way over it to get out. So when I stepped down, my front foot foot went flying and my back foot slammed into that lip and it was so swollen. And the thing is, whatever accidents happen, but I need my feet to be in good condition because it's the start.

[Laura]

It's the start. Literally.

[Manny Mua]

It's hell week.

[Laura]

It's actually a weekend.

[Manny Mua]

It's hell weekend. Like, literally, I need my feet to be in mint condition. And I busted my foot on night one.

[Laura]

Fucked up. So then, so that's basically all Thursday. Let's go into Friday. Friday, I feel like, was our most. It was a journey. Friday was our biggest journey.

[Manny Mua]

It was a big journey.

[Laura]

It was low key is what it was. It was really dark, you guys. Friday was really, really dark.

[Manny Mua]

Look at your notes and tell me.

[Laura]

Just start.

[Manny Mua]

Let's just go and make sure we

[Laura]

don't miss from Friday. So it starts off with our Uber driver. It starts off.

[Manny Mua]

So we got ready, we had breakfast, we got ready. We filmed all of our content, edit our content. We were like, let's take our two hour ride into the festival, into the Valley.

[Laura]

Also, like Elf had provided us like a, a bus to go in and out. We were like taking Ubers because it was the timing, like headed there like

[Manny Mua]

at 1pm and like me and Minnie don't go to Coachella till night time because it's too like hot and too

[Laura]

hot and it's too hot. So we want to film and like get our content done during the day and then kind of do what we want to do during the day. And like, whether we're going to parties or just whatever, it might be like really more so like filming, getting our ducks in a row with what we want to do. And we always go to coachella around like 6 past, like 6pm down, that's when we'll go. We just don't go in there today.

[Manny Mua]

So we were like, we'll just call a car. That's fine. We do that every year, though, like, every year, the shuttles just leave earlier

[Laura]

to go because a lot of they want to go.

[Manny Mua]

The rookies.

[Laura]

The rookies.

[Manny Mua]

Girl is the rookies.

[Laura]

The rookies want to go. It's just not possible.

[Manny Mua]

Also, the biggest artists go on at night. That's like when all the main artists go.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

So we call this car, and we get into it, and this guy goes straight up, up. Straight up. This is my first time ever driving someone to Coachella, so. What? What? Okay, let me tell you something. When you get in an Uber to go to Coachella, you gotta find the swaggiest pimp dude ever to take you there, because he's gonna have to do some dirty to get you into that festival. If he's gonna follow the rules and he's gonna wait in line, you're never gonna get there. You gotta find the guy in the black SUV that's gonna hop curb.

[Laura]

Yes.

[Manny Mua]

He's going to make illegal U turns. He's going to cut people off. He's going to flick them off. That is your guy. You want. You want that guy. Every time you want him, you want to just go, where are you going? Into the festival. VIP entrance. There's no VIP interest. Great, let's roll. And he will get you in there under an hour. This guy. We get in the car. This is my first time ever taking someone to Coachella.

[Laura]

Oh, first time. Because he wasn't from there, you guys. He was actually from San Diego, and he was driving up to do the rides for the whole weekend.

[Manny Mua]

We were like, we're.

[Laura]

I was like, we're like, it already had started off very dark and so. And also, like, he's a talker. I will say he's also a talker. Sweet guy.

[Manny Mua]

Really sweet guys. Really, really sweet guy.

[Laura]

A man. He did not take a breath. And we were driving an hour. And I'm not the type. I guess I'm just not the person to talk to my Ubers, really, A ton.

[Manny Mua]

I'm the tell him all kinds of shit. Manny, you told him?

[Laura]

I'm saying I usually am the type

[Manny Mua]

of person that, like, I don't.

[Laura]

I don't want to talk to people at all. But he was, like, going just in and in and in. And I was like, okay, cool. I guess, like, this is what we're doing. He was telling us about his. One of his last rides, like, taking her to rehab.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, yeah. He took a woman to rehab.

[Laura]

Honey, it's.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, it was. Stories were wild.

[Laura]

Crazy.

[Manny Mua]

They were wild. Every thought that came in his head, he said it. Said it out loud. And we were like. Like, tea

[Laura]

work. So it was. It was a journey. It was a journey to get there.

[Manny Mua]

He loved country music.

[Laura]

He did not stop playing country the whole time. It was country the entire way. I'm like, sir, do you want to play, like, a little? Maybe a little Justin?

[Manny Mua]

I was like, no, it's fine where we have it.

[Laura]

Laura's like, no, I think I'm good. I like, we are good. And I'm like, so that it started off there.

[Manny Mua]

We're, like, headed into Coachella where it's like. And we're going there. It's like, I like my whiskey when I drink, I'm like this. Oh, it was like them long country songs, honey. Torture, torture.

[Laura]

We are going to Coachella, though, sir. This is a stagecoach. Okay? So we. We're getting there, and we. He's not maneuvering.

[Manny Mua]

He can't maneuver. He can't. He just doesn't.

[Laura]

The way. He doesn't know. He doesn't know.

[Manny Mua]

Now he's rookie. He doesn't know the legalities that you have to take to get into this festival.

[Laura]

And it's a lot.

[Manny Mua]

So me and Manny look at each other, and we go, let's just walk it. Let's just.

[Laura]

This is the beginning. This was the beginning of the end.

[Manny Mua]

This was it right here.

[Laura]

It started right there.

[Manny Mua]

Right here, right here. So I think we walked almost four miles.

[Laura]

We walked so far just to even get to the festival.

[Manny Mua]

We had to get out of this man's car because the thing is, like,

[Laura]

you guys, it's bumper and bumper. You can't. Like, you can't. Either they're maneuvering or you're waiting or

[Manny Mua]

you're waiting the entire time. You're gonna be in the car for four more hours.

[Laura]

Literally, at this point, us walking was actually way fast.

[Manny Mua]

We were like. We were passing all the cars, going and walking.

[Laura]

We had a mission because we were gonna go see cat's eye. That's the thing. We actually had a mission to get there at a certain time because we wanted to see cat's eye.

[Manny Mua]

And we knew we had a sign.

[Laura]

We had a book.

[Manny Mua]

I think we walked for four hours. I mean, I'm sorry. For four miles.

[Laura]

I'm not kidding. I could not agree more. Down the sidewalk, we actually walked past. It was so funny because I saw videos of them. I like, out and about. So there's, like, this, like, retirement home that's, like, sitting outside of Coachella, I think. So. I think they're like maybe it's like retirement. It's a community. It's a community.

[Manny Mua]

They're all older. Community. Like, like 50 plus.

[Laura]

Yes. So they're all sitting on the site and they're just literally like, they're people watching the. They're just sitting out, put all the chairs. It's like 50.

[Manny Mua]

And they have signs, they're holding up. They're like, honk if you're going to Coachella.

[Laura]

Yes. It's actually really, really cute.

[Manny Mua]

And they like go when you walk by and they cheer you on. It's like the cutest. They do it every year, by the way. They're there.

[Laura]

I didn't even realize that they do it every year.

[Manny Mua]

Year. You don't remember?

[Laura]

Honestly, I just cannot remember.

[Manny Mua]

Too much.

[Laura]

It's too much.

[Manny Mua]

It's too much.

[Laura]

But it was cute because we were passing by him and they were like, yeah.

[Manny Mua]

Woo.

[Laura]

And they're like, you guys are such a cute couple.

[Manny Mua]

I was like, oh, thank you.

[Laura]

I literally was like, thank you so much.

[Manny Mua]

Yes. My heart is like a flaming.

[Laura]

I literally was like, thank you.

[Manny Mua]

So we just started dating.

[Laura]

Yeah. It's really new.

[Manny Mua]

Don't know if it's going to work.

[Laura]

It's really new. It's really fresh. But I thought it was really cute that they were like, like, what a hot couple.

[Manny Mua]

You guys are like, yeah.

[Laura]

I'm like, yeah, actually, yeah, bro. I love. That was literally me. So it was really, it was really, really funny going in. So anyway, we're on our trek. Okay. We're on a trek. We're noticing it's getting quite windy.

[Manny Mua]

We were like, this is a little

[Laura]

more windy than we're like, I'm feeling. It's getting very windy.

[Manny Mua]

Something's up.

[Laura]

Something. A foot.

[Manny Mua]

So they were like, something is afoot with this.

[Laura]

I know that if my hat is trying to blow off. I know, it's weird.

[Manny Mua]

Do you remember we were walking in and like the dust in the wind girl dying.

[Laura]

Yes. It was already starting. Because the thing is, you remember I

[Manny Mua]

had blisters all over my feet because of the four mile walk that had even started yet. Hadn't even started. Okay, this is the thing. Once we got into Coachella, I was in my socks. I was in my socks. So I hadn't even gotten like, like anywhere I. Because of the walk. Because we had to get out of our Uber. And like, the thing is, I probably walked four miles total, you know what I mean? For the whole night. I hadn't even started the night and I had already walked for Four miles. So I had blisters all over my feet. So I bring blister pads and band aids always, no matter what. Listen, I'm ready. I'm ready for this.

[Laura]

And she was in a boot. It's not like she was in, like, it was just like an intense walk.

[Manny Mua]

I just think it was the four mile walk that got me. Yes. So as soon as we get in, Manny looks back and I'm in my socks, holding my boots, walking outside. Because when we got in, we go, let's go straight to Cat's Eye so we don't miss it. Cuz we didn't anticipate a walk, which

[Laura]

we also didn't realize that Sahara. Okay, guys, so here, here's the thing. When you walk in through vip, you basically get pushed out to the main stage. Like, that's kind of like how it is. Like the entrance is right there. Mainstays, like, when you're going through, it's on the left. Like it's right there. The Sahara tent or stage where. Where they were performing. Cat's Eye in the next 30 minutes is across the map. It's across the whole United States of America. Literally. It's like literally one outlier to the next. It's just literally crazy. So we're like, do we actually have to like, really book it? Because I had never even. I don't think I'd ever been to the Sahara.

[Manny Mua]

If we haven't been so long, I don't even remember.

[Laura]

Yeah, same. I probably have to see someone else, but I just cannot remember. So it was very, very far, and it was a journey. And Laura was already going through the gigs.

[Manny Mua]

I was in my socks, but what was happening was I noticed my feet were getting wet on the grass. So I was like, this is gonna be a problem. This is gonna be a problem if I have wet feet all night in my boots. You know what I mean? I was like, I feel like this is gonna create an elongated problem. So, like, I literally have to pull over and bandage my feet up. And we haven't even started the night.

[Laura]

Yeah. So we do like, we literally pull off to the side. Laura's literally like, I'm literally flashing her purse doing this so that she can actually see her band aids, her mole skin, so she can cover up half her feet with moleskin just to get through, just even get to cats. You guys, we haven't got there yet. Hadn't even started yet at that point. And Laura's already bandaged.

[Manny Mua]

I'm rethinking all of my life.

[Laura]

Every. Every decision you've ever made.

[Manny Mua]

Luckily, I'm wearing Hocus. Honestly, at this point, what my outfit is getting hocus.

[Laura]

So we actually. We go in and you guys. Because it is the busiest Coachella ever. It's like a journey to get there. Like, it is so hard to get through people so much. The Sahara, like, stage is getting so packed because, honestly, they should have been on the main stage because of how many people showed up for them. Like, it just should have been that. But we finally get there, they start performing is everything.

[Manny Mua]

It was everything.

[Laura]

It was everything.

[Manny Mua]

Everything.

[Laura]

We were fucking. It was just literally me and Laura too. Like, at that point, we were like, maybe we should book it ourselves.

[Manny Mua]

Okay, I want to say this. So in a lot of our content, obviously, you have posts you have to make for Elf because you're there with the brand. That's every brand. That's every Coachella. That's just what it is, you know, exchange for post. We didn't realize that you couldn't say any of the brand, like, the band names. You can't say Cat's Eye, you can't say Justin Bieber, you can't say Sabrina Carpenter. So in all of my content, people are like, why are you calling them a girl group? Or why are you bleeping out this or festival? Like, it was weird. It was kind of weird that I was doing that. Or like, why is your vlog not have any of the music in it? It's because the brand has legalities and, like, unfortunately, they wouldn't let us say that. So I just want to clarify. It didn't. Some people were like, it's just road competing with Justin Bieber. That's why she can't say it. It was nothing like that. It was like, I think they didn't want to get sued by the artist.

[Laura]

It's most brands like this, though, by the way. Like, if you see, like, people's content,

[Manny Mua]

usually it's on and off. I've never had a brand tell me I couldn't say an artist name ever before Coachella, but I this. I think every legal team is different.

[Laura]

Absolutely. Because it's like, what they can do.

[Manny Mua]

Like, elf's legal team is just like, we don't. Yeah. Like, we have red tape here and like, you can't. But I just want to clarify that's. That's why the content was like that

[Laura]

and that's why there was bleeps. And so anyway, it was fantastic. That was really, really fun.

[Manny Mua]

And Cat's Eye was the best.

[Laura]

An amazing Amazing time.

[Manny Mua]

Like, what's the absolute best? That was honestly, like, the highlight of

[Laura]

my coach as well.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

And it was like, not even close.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

So then after. Then we hi to the back to VIP again. So far, we're across the map and we get to VIP and it is so blown out of people.

[Manny Mua]

I never in my life have seen it. Like, never.

[Laura]

And it was you guys. I'm not kidding you. It was almost like body to body.

[Manny Mua]

It was.

[Laura]

And this is on Friday, and Saturday is usually even the busier day. So the fact that Friday is already that point, I'm like, yeah, dude, this is gonna be so bad. And it's by this point too. It's like maybe like 9 o'.

[Manny Mua]

Clock.

[Laura]

So it's super late. You can't even see anyone. And like, honestly, one of the fun parts about Coachella for me too, is getting to, like, socialize with people I have not seen in so long or since literally the last Coachella, where I'm able to kiki and hang out with friends and just like, meet up with people that I have not seen in so, so long. Because that's just like the Coachella way.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

You know, and you just kind of reconnect. Do you know how hard it was to even see people? Impossible. It was in impossible. Like, you can't even find people. It was such a journey.

[Manny Mua]

It was just shoulder to shoulder everywhere out there. Like, it was just kind of like low key, a nightmare. Like, it wasn't even the amount of people out there, because I've never seen it this busy. And that's obviously because it was Justin Bieber and he like, canceled his tour for his album and this was his, like, like, big performance for that album. So people are gonna turn up because of the lack thereof performances.

[Laura]

It all makes. It made sense as to why it was what it was, but it was just so intense for what it was that we just not have been used to that. Like, I've never seen it like that. And I was honestly really overwhelmed. And I was really anxious actually, like, the first night because I was like. Like, this is almost like I'm getting claustrophobic.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

In a way. Like, there's too many people. I feel very overwhelmed. And it's not ever been like this. And I've been able so many years that I'm like, I'm never really feeling, like, too claustrophobic.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

Situations. And I did feel it then. So I was like, dude, what are we gonna do? And so then at this point, we actually were like, okay, actually the car, the bus is coming to get us for Nylon. So we had an after party. So there's a lot of after parties, and parties happen around Coachella.

[Manny Mua]

And I know the rookies were tired, and we were like, mama, Friday night. It's Friday night. That's why you don't come here at 1pm yes.

[Laura]

Because it's so hard. It's just hard to do the things.

[Manny Mua]

If you're gonna stay out till 4am you shouldn't go out at 1 1pm

[Laura]

Unless you're doing drugs, where a lot of people are doing drugs too.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

So there's that. So there's that. People are lasting through Agrichella a lot of times because they're going through the gigs, but they're like, okay, cool, the car's gonna come get us at 10:30. So we basically had, like, at that point, an hour left at the festival. So we went to vip, we went to go eat. We just, like, kind of hung out and, like, chilled. Like, it was very, like, chill at that point.

[Manny Mua]

I remember, girl, at this point, it's

[Laura]

like, I don't even remember.

[Manny Mua]

So then the elf was like, just meet us. Okay. By the way, the wind is picking up 10 times stronger the later it gets. So the wind is getting crazier and crazier. So Sabrina Carpenter goes on. Elf was like, after Sabrina Carpenter will, let's meet at the Elf house, and then we'll go walk to the shuttle and we'll go to Nylon. So we're like, okay, cool. That's awesome. Because we've had shuttle parking before, and it's the best because shuttles have a specific way they can get out of Coachella, and you don't have to sit in traffic and you don't have to order Uber. So we were really excited for that.

[Laura]

Fuck, yes. Shuttle to Nylon.

[Manny Mua]

Shuttle to Nylon.

[Laura]

So what about us walking back and no one could take a photo. The photos, like, people were like, can we stop to take a photo? And it was just a journey.

[Manny Mua]

I know what you're talking about. Speak on it. Speak on it.

[Laura]

Okay, guys, so it's actually really, really funny. So me, I wrote this down on my things because a lot. So when we're going through it, because we have to, like, kind of get back kind of quickly or just kind of, like, you know, maneuver to get back by a certain amount of time. Because we're also trying to hit all of our obligations to go to where we needed to go. So we get stopped a lot at Coachella because this is our demographic. It's our people. Like, this is our vibe.

[Manny Mua]

This is our people.

[Laura]

So we're getting stopped a lot. And it's so funny because, like, no one can take a photo.

[Manny Mua]

No one. No one. They'd be like, have a picture of you. We're like, yeah, let's do it.

[Laura]

There's never a flash.

[Manny Mua]

And then they'd be like, oh, it's not working. It's not working, huh?

[Laura]

It's never like, the cameras won't work.

[Manny Mua]

Like no G7X whenever the G7X come out. It's a 30 minute process.

[Laura]

We're literally waiting. Like, we're all holding like, like this, this. We can take the photo. Like, it literally, it. It happened to us. I'm not kidding you. Maybe like from that specifically with the cameras not working. It was like five times at least.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

Just with that, I was like, this is so funny. Like, the cameras aren't working out here. Like the flashes aren't going off. I think it may be the dust. Like the dust gets into the camera or something. Something's happening. Or maybe they have. No, they don't know.

[Manny Mua]

I think what's happening is you guys are not training your boyfriends and best friends how to work the camera. Rule number one, train you go. And you're gonna want pictures. Not with your favorite influencers or whatever. Not like that. Just in general. You have to train the bestie and you have to train the boyfriend. Hit the top right corner. Do not put the flash on auto. Put the flash on. On. And then what you're gonna do is hit that center button and you're gonna hold it still for a minute. Because the flash is gonna take a minute because it's nighttime. So it's not gonna flash quick like this. It's gonna take a minute.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

So you're gonna hold the whole phone until the flash stops.

[Laura]

Yes.

[Manny Mua]

And that is how you take a picture with an iPhone. But these girlies are not training their boyfriends and girlfriends. So what you should do, we're going

[Laura]

to start a course.

[Manny Mua]

We are going to tap the camera, hold it down, and what's going to happen is you're going to hit the bottom right corner. You can flip it to selfie mode. And then what you can do is you can pull it up and you can get 800 selfies in two seconds instead of asking yourself friends to do it for you. And they're.

[Laura]

No. And the thing is, it was so funny. I remember this one girl, she was like, I've been taking photos all night. They don't know what they're doing. And I'm like, I'm so sorry, girl. Like, you gotta train them.

[Manny Mua]

You gotta train them. You have to tell them, beat them. Beat them.

[Laura]

Like, I'm so bad.

[Manny Mua]

I felt so bad not getting any photos. And they were freaking out because they're like, oh, my God, can you take the picture to their friend? And they'd be like, oh, they're about to fight. They're about to battle.

[Laura]

We'll be like this. Like this.

[Manny Mua]

It would just be smiling. And they would be about to put

[Laura]

the fucking flash on, and I would.

[Manny Mua]

And they would be, like, about to cuss out their friend.

[Laura]

My friend's like, I don't know how to do it. What are you talking about?

[Manny Mua]

She's like, okay, we took it. And she's like, there was not a flash. Oh, my God, you guys.

[Laura]

It happened so many times.

[Manny Mua]

It happened so many times. The boyfriends were getting cussed out. Best friends. And I'm like, y' all gotta.

[Laura]

We're doing this beforehand.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah, y' all gotta train them beforehand.

[Laura]

Y' all gotta train before.

[Manny Mua]

The thing is, when people go to work and they're not taking content all day, they don't know how to work the phone, especially when it's nighttime. And, like, the lighting you have to get, girl, you gotta prep. This is why you're Coachella prep. You prep them, and you get that picture you want every single time. But by the way, if you ever want a picture of me and Manny, don't say, I'm sorry I'm bothering you. Because you're not bothering.

[Laura]

You're not bothering us. You're never bothering us.

[Manny Mua]

You're never bothering us. And we'll literally never tell you. No, the only thing we'll tell you is walk with us and take a selfie with us, because on Saturday, I'm jumping ahead a little bit. We elf was one of the requirements was for us to go to the activation, which it was really cute.

[Laura]

So cute.

[Manny Mua]

And they were, like, giving out, giving slushies away. Slush. Free slushies for everyone. They were giving out free the $9 lip glow revivers. Free for everyone. Like, it was sickening. You got a cute bag. Like, you got so much. So I. Their activation was really cute. They did. They also. They were doing people's makeup in there. Insane full touch up glam sessions. So they were doing a lot in their activation. It was really cute. I was glad we got to stop by. But the problem is, it was really far out by the Sahara tent in General mission. And it closed at 8pm and our obligation was that we had to be there to shoot content, obviously, before it closed. So therefore, we have to go to on mission and walk all the way through in daylight. And what happens is we get stopped like 200 times. And that's fine.

[Laura]

Yeah, I love it.

[Manny Mua]

We know what we're getting into. We know what we're doing. We know this is our demographics. We've been here nine, nine times. But the problem was we waited too late.

[Laura]

Yeah, we'd have enough. Like, we have enough time closing. Because I think the booth was all. A lot of the booths will close at a certain time. So they just. The rest of the night, it was

[Manny Mua]

like 7:45 and it was dusk. And we were like, we have 15 minutes or they're going to kill us.

[Laura]

You're coming with us to take a selfie.

[Manny Mua]

So whenever they'd be like, manny, Laura, have a picture. We'd be like, you have to walk with us. Come on, Come on.

[Laura]

If you saw us, it was so funny because we were like, kind of like booking it.

[Manny Mua]

Like, we were running.

[Laura]

We were booking it.

[Manny Mua]

And people be like, laura, Manny, wait. Stop. We have to do pictures. You gotta come with us. You gotta come with us.

[Laura]

We luckily had to make it happen. We got all of the things that we needed done, but it literally was like, we're running with you guys like this.

[Manny Mua]

It was so funny. Yeah, we were like, selfie. You better selfie that camera.

[Laura]

Yeah, pull it up.

[Manny Mua]

Do not pull that G7XL. Do not do it. It.

[Laura]

That's what we're doing also. What about the food pricing? Oh, girl. Even Friday. It started Friday.

[Manny Mua]

That was Friday.

[Laura]

The pizza, you guys. I bought pizza for me and Laura that day. Two pieces of pizza was 52.

[Manny Mua]

We gagged the price. We gagged.

[Laura]

It was crazy. I've never seen, like, Coachella food prices that high before either.

[Manny Mua]

How many people are coming?

[Laura]

They're like, we're gonna hike that up. And they did.

[Manny Mua]

Like, it was crazy out there because you're trapped out there. And that's the only food. And they know that they can charge whatever they want. But it was $20 per slice, $25 per. So I will say this, though. Coachella dropped the water prices.

[Laura]

Oh. And I.

[Manny Mua]

They made, I think, water $2. Water was $2 this year. And I was like, that was actually one good thing Coachella did. They made water, like, dirt cheap. Which I was like, thank you, Jesus. Like, you got a big ass bottle of water for $2.

[Laura]

And I think that's really good. Especially because it gets really hot out there. And, like, I think they're really trying to look out for, like, their attention

[Manny Mua]

instead of making a bunch of money off water.

[Laura]

They were like, yeah, exactly. Which I thought was really, really awesome.

[Manny Mua]

I thought that was really good. I feel like they had also a lot more water bill water refill stations.

[Laura]

Yes, they did.

[Manny Mua]

They had more of those this year. And this year, they redid the bathrooms for VIP completely. And they were like 20 million times. There were mirrors and sinks. We've never had hand washing and sinks and all that. They had all that this year. So the bathrooms were way cleaner and, like, 10 times better.

[Laura]

There was this guy. So I went to just random side note out. I went to the bathroom. I went to go pee, and I was washing my hands because there's actually, like, a mirror, right? And there's like a. And I'm standing there and I'm washing my hands. And this guy next to me, and he's washing his hand, and he's looking at himself so intently in the. In the.

[Manny Mua]

Oh.

[Laura]

In the mirror. And he keeps going in. He's going like this. He goes in, looking at the mirror, and then he pulls out, and he's washing his hands. He would go in and then pull out. And I obviously, as I'm washing my hands, I'm kind of doing one of these like. Like, I'm looking over at him because I think it's so weird that he does it. He did it maybe like six times. Times.

[Manny Mua]

You're like, what are you doing?

[Laura]

And I'm literally like, what the are you doing? Why do you keep going in and out? In and out, in and out. He turns to me, and I haven't spoke words, and he goes, I'm rolling. And I go. I literally, like, yeah. I start busting up. Amazing. No, but there was like. Yeah, I started laughing so hard and I just, like, left. But it was just so funny because that's very the Coachella way right now, bro.

[Manny Mua]

That was.

[Laura]

I'm like, hell, yeah, go you. But so this is so. Now, like, it's winding down. We already ate. We're doing it. We're gonna go to Nylon now at this point. So they're okay. We're all gonna meet at the activation, and then we're gonna walk tonight together or not walk to Nylon. We're gonna take our bus. Well, we're gonna take our bus to Nylon. And we're like, okay, great. Sounds good. We're gonna.

[Manny Mua]

The shuttle over.

[Laura]

The shuttle. Yeah, the Shuttle.

[Manny Mua]

So, by the way, the wind is picking up so strong at this point. They cancel Coachella. So they had another artist to go on after Sabrina Carpenter to close Coachella, and they literally canceled. Wind is too strong. I've never seen, like, this much dust in the air and this much wind. Like, I'm telling you, like, we could barely walk. It was knocking us to the ground. It was crazy.

[Laura]

It was literally insane. I was actually, like, shocked. I've never seen it be like this. So we're actually walking through, and actually we walked through to get to the bus. We walk through the camp, and I have never.

[Manny Mua]

My God, the camping situation in real life before. I've never. By the way, they want us to camp one year.

[Laura]

Who's they?

[Manny Mua]

Our audience. They want us to camp.

[Laura]

How would we camp? We have, like, the safari. Like, the, like, really nice camping tent.

[Manny Mua]

No, they want us.

[Laura]

Oh, they want to see in a car?

[Manny Mua]

Yeah, they want us in car camping.

[Laura]

After what I witnessed on Friday, I

[Manny Mua]

feel like that's not gonna happen.

[Laura]

I don't think it's gonna happen.

[Manny Mua]

When we're walking through out of Coachella, we go through the campsite. I guess that's just where they let us through to get out.

[Laura]

To get out.

[Manny Mua]

And we had never.

[Laura]

I've never seen anything like it.

[Manny Mua]

But unfortunately, that's when the winds picked up and in everybody's tent, guys yeeted. It was just looked like. It looked like a tornado. Tornado had gone through and just destroyed the whole thing. Everybody's shit was just everywhere, and tents were flying through the air. People tents were like. Because, you know, they had the metal pole, four leg tents, like, with the COVID They were smashed into people's car.

[Laura]

Yes. Like, they were like this, like, four on the ground.

[Manny Mua]

Like, that shit was everywhere, you guys. This was insane. And we were like, damn, this is gonna suck because these people are gonna come back from the concert and see all their shit's gone.

[Laura]

Blown away. Their little homes blown away.

[Manny Mua]

It was. I remember we watch every year, me and you watch Want Zamora. Like, we watch because he does car camping every year and, like, sets up this thing when we walked past his camp because we recognized it from Instagram. We saw the gray cow, the couch, whatever. His was wrecked.

[Laura]

Yes. His was also, like, lifted off the ground.

[Manny Mua]

I was like, hey, baby, you're gonna want to get back to your cab. It's gone.

[Laura]

No, it's. It was actually really, really crazy. Like, I have just never seen the. First of all, I never just seen the camps in general but then to see other. A lot of the campsites, the first

[Manny Mua]

time we saw it was destroyed.

[Laura]

This is hell. And then it's funny because we're walking by and we see, like, all the spots where you, like, you know where to shower. And then you see all the pots. Like, you're, like, washing your hands and, like, the water fill station. And I'm like, this, for me, is too overwhelming. By the way, the campsite is fucking massive. The camping at Coachella is so big.

[Manny Mua]

It's like a thing. The thing is, me and Manny were making a joke on TikTok. We were like, they should have put all the uninvited influencers intensely, because it was like the Airbnb promise. We're like, put them in a tent. And we were making a joke about, we're just being stupid. We're just being stupid. It was not that serious. But only one person commented, and they're like, I think it's really rude you guys said that. Those are poor people out there. So you just called all campers. That is so expensive. And by the way, you just called them poor.

[Laura]

No.

[Manny Mua]

So I think you're the fucking root one, because if you're camping at Coachella, you are not. Not poor, literally, by any means, that is.

[Laura]

So you just have to buy, like, the ticket to go get the whole thing together.

[Manny Mua]

And by the way, I know a lot of my influencer friends that are extremely far from being poor that camp every year, because that's the Coachella experience that they want to do. So I think it's more of a choice. And yeah, I'm sure some people do it because it's, like, cheaper to do it than Book Hotel, but a lot of people are out there are not poor. So for you to generalize those people and be like, these are all poor people, I think you're the problem.

[Laura]

No, Literally, even say, that is crazy.

[Manny Mua]

That's really rude.

[Laura]

It's also very expensive. So I was like, the whole Coachella in general is very expensive.

[Manny Mua]

If you're out there at Coachella, poor is a. It's not a word to use because this is all an elective event activity. This is not something we're forced to do. No, literally, fun music festival, maybe the tickets are expensive. It's actually very expensive to do so to call those people poor. I think you're now nasty.

[Laura]

What about the reselling for, like, five grand for a regular ga?

[Manny Mua]

Five. Okay.

[Laura]

People are buying four, I think four. Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

Ga for between three and four grand. That's not poor.

[Laura]

No.

[Manny Mua]

It's not poor, babe.

[Laura]

That's cr. That's actually insane.

[Manny Mua]

That's insane.

[Laura]

Actually insanity that they're reselling for that much. But anyway, you guys. So we're walking through the campsite, and we're getting destroyed. The destroyed campsite. We're walking and we're, like, getting towards, like, outside the festival.

[Manny Mua]

And we're like, like, why are we outside the festival? We were like, where's the shuttle pickup? Because last year we did the shuttle pickup, and it's in the festival. Like, in the gate. You don't leave the festival. But at this point, we're, like, starting to walk outside the festival. We, like, past the gate. We're, like, down the street. Everybody started to, like, ask questions, like, what's going on? Like, where's the shuttle?

[Laura]

Yeah, where's the shuttle at? Because we just walked through the whole campsite, and we're like, not at the shuttle, right? So we just keep walking and we're walking and walking. And we're now, like, in the street. Like, we're literally in, like, the street. The dirt on the side.

[Manny Mua]

Imagine everyone's getting blown. Sorry, I'm going to mean you're camping. And they think they're like, oh, they're poor. Poor, poor Laura, man.

[Laura]

Poor Laura. Manny, you're poor.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, my God. Honestly. Yes. Yes.

[Laura]

So we're walking and we're like, what is going on? You got. Guys, the bus couldn't get into the thing. We ended up finding out there's no shuttle pass.

[Manny Mua]

There's no shuttle pass.

[Laura]

Shuttle.

[Manny Mua]

There's no shuttle. There's no shuttle pass. There's no shuttle parking. There's no shuttle entrance exit. That's not what's happening. The shuttle was parked 37 minutes. That. That is what. I'm going to cry.

[Laura]

We're like, oh. So we're like. We're. We're. This is. This is all Friday still. So everyone's.

[Manny Mua]

By the way, we're just on Friday

[Laura]

and it's been announced, so everyone's fucked up.

[Manny Mua]

So we have a lot of rookies with us, too. We have a lot of.

[Laura]

Everyone's feet are fucked.

[Manny Mua]

Everyone.

[Laura]

Laura's feet are for sure. Fudge. Because this is still Friday night. And we're walking 34.

[Manny Mua]

And I did four miles to start. I did the full Coachella, and I think I'm about to hop my happy ass on a shuttle and get out of there.

[Laura]

Yeah. No, no, no. And it's so funny because this is so, like, this is the Coachella way. Like, this just happens. Shit just gets randomly all the time and you're just like.

[Manny Mua]

We're like, oh, I'm gonna be real. If I would have known the journey to get to the shuttle, I would have just went to the Uber thing and called a car.

[Laura]

Yeah, yeah.

[Manny Mua]

But we just didn't know the Uber

[Laura]

thing now is even farther than it used to be when we walked back.

[Manny Mua]

I would have just given a dude some money at that point. You could also give us the cash, some nice and cash and get out of there.

[Laura]

Get out of there there quick.

[Manny Mua]

But as it turns out, we got caught. Everybody's feet is basically bleeding because the walk is crazy. Like it is a 37 minute walk, which means you can do a mile in like 15, 16 minutes is normal. 17 minutes maybe walking. So 37, maybe two miles, maybe two and a half miles away. They parked it from Coachella and we didn't know that. So everybody is like, where the the are we going? And so I'm now convincing everyone to take their shoes off.

[Laura]

Laura is. You guys, this is what makes it really funny about this is that Laura decides to take it upon herself to be like, everyone take off their shoes. Everyone's. Everyone's feet are. Laura is like, I'm taking my shoes off. She gets Addie to take his shoes off.

[Manny Mua]

Addie was like, I am not taking my shoes off. Two minutes later, him walking in his socks. I was like, and what is this, huh?

[Laura]

It was so funny. It was so funny. We ended up making like, like just the funniest moment of it while we're just like, okay, everyone, we gotta be. And so it was, it was actually really funny, but shocking because that was the windiest night. So we're getting blown over.

[Manny Mua]

20 of us basically barefoot, walking down the street at one o' clock in the morning. Literally my hair. Oh, oh, you want to talk about that, you guys?

[Laura]

So Laura, cuz your outfit, you had like the. The Shaw, the hood, the hood shirt. Laura's hair when we got back to the shuttle was a rat's nest.

[Manny Mua]

It was one dreadlock.

[Laura]

It was a dread, you guys. She had one dread.

[Manny Mua]

It was just one. Going down.

[Laura]

No. And I touched it. I was like.

[Manny Mua]

Felt like a beaver tail. Like it.

[Laura]

Like it did. It literally was a platypus back then.

[Manny Mua]

It was back. I'm talking about my hair was like this short. It was because it was so like matted up in. It was one big ball. She's like, Manny, I try to rip it apart like this. It couldn't even break. Break apart. You Guys, it's because I think.

[Laura]

Okay, so wind, dust, sweat from the back of your neck.

[Manny Mua]

Like, just like it.

[Laura]

The hood. This friction.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, the friction.

[Laura]

It was actually the perfect.

[Manny Mua]

My hair like this.

[Laura]

It was the perfect story.

[Manny Mua]

It was true.

[Laura]

For a actual dread.

[Manny Mua]

It was a dread. Let me tell you. When I felt it, I started to panic because I knew I was about to lose a lot of hair to get that out. And then we hadn't even gotten to the after party.

[Laura]

Yeah. And we weren't even there at the after party yet.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, my God.

[Laura]

Luckily, the after party was like. Like relatively close.

[Manny Mua]

It was. It was relatively close. And they had a VIP section girl.

[Laura]

The.

[Manny Mua]

Because all of our feet were destroyed.

[Laura]

Everyone was destroyed.

[Manny Mua]

I don't care what kind of shoe you had on. It would have. It wouldn't have made.

[Laura]

Everyone was hurting at that point. You're just kind of hurting. Everything is kind of hurting at that point. Actually, like, your whole body is really hurting at that point.

[Manny Mua]

I think just the walk into Coachella on Friday night, the walk to the shuttle alone was probably between. Around seven miles. That doesn't even include what we walk in the festival. So you gotta think, like, you know, there's no shoe that's gonna, like, really help you there.

[Laura]

No, you're just gonna be. Regardless. Especially when. If you want to do a cute shoe. Oh, cute's out the window at this point. But anyway, we end up getting to the party. Party was honestly fantastic. It was like, one of my favorite things of the weekend.

[Manny Mua]

It was Diplo.

[Laura]

It was diplo. Diplo was DJing nylon. Like, yeah.

[Manny Mua]

It was sick.

[Laura]

It was.

[Manny Mua]

It was so sick.

[Laura]

And Elf was so, like. Like, they got us pizza, like, to sent to our section. It was great.

[Manny Mua]

It was great.

[Laura]

I'm gonna be wearing. Okay, by the way, it's also freezing and let's talk about that.

[Manny Mua]

And nylon hoodies were going around everywhere for free. They were just, like, handing out hoodies everywhere. So that literally saved me. It saved me. It saved me because my. I was basically naked. So literally, once I got this hoodie on, I was like, I can be out here all night. I'm good. I'm good now. Now.

[Laura]

And we were there for a long. You guys. We were there for a long time.

[Manny Mua]

I went to bed at 4am yeah,

[Laura]

that night I went to bed at 4am as well. I think we didn't leave there till, like, what, two, 2:30. But we still have to obviously go back all the way to Palm Springs, which is.

[Manny Mua]

So we got back around, like, 3:45. And then we went to bed.

[Laura]

Yeah. So that was, like, our longest night. That's our longest and most intense night.

[Manny Mua]

It was fierce, guys.

[Laura]

Actually just a day in general, when Friday is that fierce, it makes it hard to do. Saturday and Sunday,

[Manny Mua]

no water.

[Laura]

What do you mean?

[Manny Mua]

No water at Coachella?

[Laura]

Oh, girl. Just in general getting water.

[Manny Mua]

It was hard.

[Laura]

Getting water was a.

[Manny Mua]

Once you got out of Coachella, there was no water. Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. What's in your next.

[Laura]

What do we have? I just have things written down for Saturday.

[Manny Mua]

Saturday, we got. Got up, got ready, and then we popped over to Revolve Fest for a second. And then then, because it was just like, so tight with timing on everything, then we had. We went straight to Coachella after. That was like, a quick one, two. We're supposed to go to Paris Hilton's party. We're supposed to go to Camp Poosh, and we weren't able to make it to any of that because it's just. That's too hard, honestly. It's too much because of the amount of people this year. There was too much traffic getting in and out of the parties. Like, you would literally sit in the car in the line to be dropped off for, like, 30 minutes. So it was just, like, eating up your time. So we were like, let's just go straight to Coachella after a vault job.

[Laura]

So we end up getting Coachella around. I would say, like, 6:30, 6:30. And that's the day we end up going to. Doing our obligations, getting everything done at the booth. We come back, and this. So. So this is Bieber day.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, okay.

[Laura]

This is Bieber day. And if you guys want to talk. If we thought Friday was busy, it

[Manny Mua]

was not too much. It was nothing.

[Laura]

Saturday was actual hell.

[Manny Mua]

You saw he got paid 10 million.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

The highest paid Coachella artist ever.

[Laura]

He has, like, he's broken, like, all the Coachella records he did. Most viewed, like, Coachella, like, performance streams.

[Manny Mua]

Most, like, everything.

[Laura]

So that. So it's.

[Manny Mua]

And apparently they said he negotiated out his contract with them with no agency. So he took, like, all the money. No, of course he had legal fees, but, like, he had no agent. Like, he did it himself.

[Laura]

Yeah, I love that also. Do you see that, though? People were saying that, like, like, because he had just. He had not just. But he sold his, like, music library, so that's why he couldn't, like, technically sing the song. So he did karaoke with it.

[Manny Mua]

I wonder if that's. People make up a lot of rumors with them, so it's Hard to believe anything, but that's interesting.

[Laura]

It just felt like I was like, oh, that, like, made more sense. This idea of, like, let's say, playing

[Manny Mua]

a YouTube video whenever you sell your music category, whoever you sold it to gets to now make money off licensing out those songs to different things. I don't think it had anything. I didn't think. I didn't think it had anything to do with you performing it because I. Because it's still, like, your song. I thought it had to do with, like, who gets the money for all the licensing out for the songs.

[Laura]

I don't know. I actually don't know how all of that works. I don't know. Or, like, if you need approvals for even doing, like, live. I don't know how that works.

[Manny Mua]

I don't know.

[Laura]

I just had saw that that was going around and I was like, okay,

[Manny Mua]

well, because he was playing the official music video, so. And the music was playing there, so I don't know. I don't know.

[Laura]

I don't know how it works either, but I just thought that was a. Interesting rumor. So that day, you guys, was actually the craziest day. We try to, like, post up for Bieber. It's so hard. Like, it was just so hard.

[Manny Mua]

There were people there, like, when the doors of Coachella open that stood there all damn day to get a spot

[Laura]

just to see Justin. You guys, I'm not kidding you. The artist section, the VIP section, ga. Everything is so blown out that it's actually, like, I was saying, like, body to body. Like, unbelievable, fathomable, unbelievable. Like, even. Like, I had a friend, actually, that was there, and I was talking to him in vip, and he was like, I have an artist band. Like, I'm trying to get to artists, but I can't reach.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, I saw come out.

[Laura]

I can't reach it.

[Manny Mua]

She was an artist and she could barely even see the screen. So it was just, like, blown. A blowout. Like, an absolute blowout. Like, Justin Bieber pulls the biggest crowd ever.

[Laura]

Like, it's crazy.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

Like, he just does.

[Manny Mua]

He just does.

[Laura]

I literally was thinking, oh, my. Okay, so Justin can do this, but, like, no one can do this, this. So I'll be okay next year. Like, I was literally thinking, like, okay, next year will be calmer. Next year will be better. Like, it's gonna not be as insane, like, all that kind of. But this is also the day you got shoulder checked.

[Manny Mua]

I feel like this happened to me last year, by the way.

[Laura]

No, I swear.

[Manny Mua]

Maybe I can't remember it was a year ago, but I'm literally standing there talking to my friends. We're standing in a little group. We're in vip, but because Justin is about to go on, it's emptied out. Like, we're not shoulder to shoulder because everybody is out there at the main stage. So, like, we are behind vip, where all the food is just hanging out, talking to some friends, and this girl walks by and just shoulder checks me so hard. I'm standing beside Manny, kind of like we are now. So when she did it, it pushed me into him, and I. And I almost knock him, Almost, like,

[Laura]

almost go down, like, for real.

[Manny Mua]

And all my friends, like, they just see it happen and they just immediately. All of y' all started screaming at her. Like, everybody was like, what the.

[Laura]

What the are you doing?

[Manny Mua]

Yeah, it was this girl. She just, by the way, didn't turn

[Laura]

around when we started.

[Manny Mua]

Oh, no. She tried to run off. But I'm like, if you're going to be an on it, like, take. Take your medicine, take it. But that's not what they do. They like to shoulder check and run off.

[Laura]

Yeah. Literally. Like, what are you doing?

[Manny Mua]

I know. You weirdo. You're so weird.

[Laura]

It's just strange. Like, it's like you're so weird for her to even do it because it's not like you were like, in the way.

[Manny Mua]

No, not at all. I was just, like, standing with my friends, like, not in the walkway. Like, I was like, off to the side of it.

[Laura]

So that thought that was like, honestly kind of insane. Like, that was. We're like, what the is going on?

[Manny Mua]

I'm like, some people need to not be in society.

[Laura]

Some people need to get bullied.

[Manny Mua]

It's true.

[Laura]

I fear that when they. When they say that, I'm like, if

[Manny Mua]

you physically get off on pushing, shoving, hitting other people, being violent, it.

[Laura]

Jail bully.

[Manny Mua]

Exactly.

[Laura]

It's crazy. No, it was literally crazy. So that. That. That night, like, we ended up staying till for most of Justin's set, but then we thought, okay, let's think realistically here.

[Manny Mua]

Let's big brain this.

[Laura]

If we are here to the very

[Manny Mua]

end, what happens when all of these people need to leave? Cuz we ain't doing a shuttle again. No, I'm going say that shuttle is out. No shuttle.

[Laura]

Figure out a way to get back to Palm Springs, but not wait hours for an Uber. So we're like, we're gonna get like, we have. He probably has a couple songs left. Let's boogie.

[Manny Mua]

Yep.

[Laura]

So we decided to leave a little early Right before his set ends, because his actually started performing super late. His was actually one of the later sets. It wasn't like Sabrina the day before where it was like earlier. So we decided we're like, okay, you know what, we're gonna just leave now. So we luckily get out of there. And we get out of there in, like, a reasonable time. Yeah, we go out there because people are still watching the set we left. And it wasn't like that crazy of a weight, actually. It was actually pretty chill. But the walk back to get an uber brutal, man, dude, brutal. It's hell. Like, because you're not just going through, like, you're not going through a paved path or anything. You're going through rocks and rubble and dust and grimes.

[Manny Mua]

At night, the dust picks up so drastically that you. I mean, you're getting your ass beat out there by the wind and rubble and dust. It's crazy.

[Laura]

So literally all of us, like, it was like a bunch of us ended up getting into a car and, like, we just boogied off.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah, we just linked up with a bunch of people. We all just got a car and just like, headed out. And then that was Saturday.

[Laura]

That was Saturday. Yeah. So that was Saturday's, like, events.

[Manny Mua]

So on Sunday, me and Manny normally go home on Sunday. We do a two day festival, and we feel like as veterans that have been there for almost a decade, like, we earn that.

[Laura]

We just don't want to go.

[Manny Mua]

We don't want to go on Sunday. Just on Sunday.

[Laura]

It's exhausting.

[Manny Mua]

Also, I will tell you, every single Sunday at Coachella, it's half the people. Because most people don't do a lot. I don't want to say most. A lot. A lot. Lot of people do not do Sunday.

[Laura]

Not nearly as much.

[Manny Mua]

Not even close.

[Laura]

So, like, the busy days are definitely, like the Fridays and Saturdays. And then Sunday, it just like, clears out more. Like, there's more.

[Manny Mua]

A lot of people go home on Sunday.

[Laura]

Yeah, they do. It's a lot of people just end up going home on Sunday. So we end up getting ready. We glam. We got our together popped in for a second. And then literally when we're back, you guys, I'm sitting and I'm like, I'm hungry. Like, we need, like, at this point, I'm literally just like, like, eyes closing. Like, let's watch Drag Race.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah.

[Laura]

Can we relax? And like, at the hotel at this point, we're like, let's watch Drag Race. We end up ordering food.

[Manny Mua]

You guys, we got a little Panda Express by the Way. We ate pure the whole weekend. Like, we did not have one piece of green for four.

[Laura]

It literally was either pizza McDonald's.

[Manny Mua]

When I came home, I ordered bone broth and a Caesar salad.

[Laura]

I literally ordered mine.

[Manny Mua]

I was like, bone broth in a salad. I was like, my body's like.

[Laura]

Like, uhhuh. I literally ordered a chicken plate with salad. Like, I'm not even kidding. Like, I literally felt like I need. It was coming out my. I felt like it was coming out of my pores, bro. My pores were sick.

[Manny Mua]

All that fast food, babe.

[Laura]

It was sick. But so we ended up, like, ordering pan express. Didn't give us utensils, didn't give us anything with it.

[Manny Mua]

No utensils, no soy sauce, no napkin. I'm pissed.

[Laura]

Nothing. And we're sitting in Laura's bed.

[Manny Mua]

Give me a chopstick, spoon, and a butternut. Like, anything.

[Laura]

Panda express plates with nothing. Laura literally has a rogue plastic fork.

[Manny Mua]

Let me tell you something from a

[Laura]

meal the day before.

[Manny Mua]

Let me tell you something. I have been in some out there. So anytime someone gave me a plastic cup, a plastic straw, a plastic fork or spoon, I was keeping it all like a rat.

[Laura]

Like a animal hoarding rat.

[Manny Mua]

And I was hoarding it all, because this happens all the time where you need ice, you got nothing to put the ice in. Don't exist. You're gonna eat with your hands. Need a fork. So anytime I could find any type of use, a source, a used utensil or cup, I was hoarding it all. And I would keep it in a pile in my room. And guess what? Manny's like, there's no forks. I'm starving. How am I gonna eat rice with my hands? I was like, we're gonna have to make rice balls.

[Laura]

Balls.

[Manny Mua]

And I literally look at him, and I'm like, I have one fork, and we have to take turns taking bites.

[Laura]

You guys, it was so sad. It was Sunday, so we're depleted. We're dead, literally. Laura would take two bites, and then I would take her pass the fork. I'm eating my two bites of chow mein and rice, and I'm like, what is happening?

[Manny Mua]

Like, what?

[Laura]

I literally. At that point, I literally was like, I'm done. Like, I can't be here anymore. Like, I'm done. I'm sharing your fork.

[Manny Mua]

Coachella makes you an animal feral. And I say this all the time because. Okay, here's the thing. I love Addie, and we. We've been mutuals and, like, online, but I had never met him before, so I Met him on Friday night.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

Okay. I met him on Thursday night. I met. You're right. Okay. So I met him for the first time on Thursday night. And then on Friday night we were together, a nylon party, and they had brought out a couple slices of pizza and I grabbed one so fast I was like, give me that pizza. So I grabbed one and there are two tiny little squares on my plate.

[Laura]

Yes.

[Manny Mua]

And so I'm sitting there in the. It's like, like 2 o' clock in the morning. Everyone is completely depleted and I'm sitting there in the vip just eating the piece of pizza. I'm on my second slice, it's halfway down. And Addie sits down beside me. He just looks at the pizza like it was like a golden nugget. Like he was literally like. And I, I just look at him and I just go, here. He's like, I'm not taking your pizza. I was like, take the pizza.

[Laura]

Pizza.

[Manny Mua]

He's known me for 24 hours. He's like, this, this. It starts eating it and I'm like, what other scenario in your life would you be eating? A person you met 24 hours ago is half eaten pizza? Coachella At a party. Yeah, at Coachella. It turns you into. It survives. Survival. It is survival.

[Laura]

It's really one of those situations. So Sunday is done. And we are just. We're done.

[Manny Mua]

Actually, we're done.

[Laura]

Sunday's done, but we're also done. So now we're on Monday and we have our flight back with JS SpaceX. So we, you guys, and we had to be there. Okay. So we're again, we're in Palm Springs, we fly into Indio. So it's a 45 minute, 50 minute drive at that point. And in the day.

[Manny Mua]

And they're like, you guys, you have

[Laura]

to be at 9:30am they're like, try

[Manny Mua]

to be here no later than 9:30 because the plane is taking off at 10:30. And so we're like, okay, so we need to get up and leave here

[Laura]

at 8:30, like hella early. We're like, okay, we have to get up early. Luckily, our Sunday night was much more chill. So we were able to like actually like sleep and, and rest. Rest and get my life together, you know. And Sunday with pack. So it's Monday morning. We get there, get dropped off the wrong spot.

[Manny Mua]

Get dropped. By the way, I put the address in that was in the brief. That's how tired I am at this point. This is how tired I am. I put the address that was in the brief and it's not the right spot. And guess what? All the other influencers got dropped off in the wrong spot too.

[Laura]

No. Okay, so get this. So we. We pull up and I was like, I'm gonna go off and. And see. You stay.

[Manny Mua]

You stay in the car, right?

[Laura]

You stay in the car. No, literally, you go, poor Monet is in there too, with her friend. And I'm like, what's happening? So, of course I was like, you guys, come with us. Like, come with us. But we had no space. You guys, our luggage at this point, it was taking up the entire thing. We had no space for them. So we're like, okay, we'll just figure out, like, oh, maybe the car will come back and grab you. Like, we'll just figure it out, right? So we end up going back and try Uber. We get there, we're actually the first ones there, which is shocking because it's like 9:40.

[Manny Mua]

No, no one's there.

[Laura]

Where the. Is everyone? Like, where all the.

[Manny Mua]

We are the only two.

[Laura]

Only ones there. And obviously they had shown up before. So then we're like, waiting. And, you know, luckily she gets picked up and she gets brought over and we're there. And you guys, by this point, it's like 10:30 and influences are trickling in. Like, there's.

[Manny Mua]

So now there's like seven or eight of us that are in there. And they're like, okay. And so they're like, we're missing. So the JSX people are like, we're missing a couple influence influencers. Like, this is their names. And all of us were like, we don't know who the they are. And so they're like, okay.

[Laura]

We're like, can you contact them to see where they are so we can. So we can board the plane?

[Manny Mua]

And we were like, well, I just don't know the influence. I don't know who that is. And. And guess what? None of the seven of us knew any of them really. So we couldn't contact them. So they're like, we're gonna hold the plane till they show up. And we. We were like, no, no, you're not.

[Laura]

Not on the fourth day.

[Manny Mua]

The brief said not on the fourth day of Christ, honey. The plane takes off. Blessed be the plane.

[Laura]

Be like, hey, get there at 9:30. It's 11 o' clock now.

[Manny Mua]

It's 11 o'.

[Laura]

Clock. Expect us to wait and expect us to wait. Okay, with waiting. No, you guys, everyone is responsible for themselves. You need to be responsible for your time. Responsible for.

[Manny Mua]

And I understand being like like, let's say they asked us to be there at 9:30 and the plane takes off at 10:30 and it's 9:45. Great, great.

[Laura]

Or great even.

[Manny Mua]

I'm like, okay, cool, let's wait.

[Laura]

Let's roll in.

[Manny Mua]

It is 11 o'. Clock. The plane should have already left. Not boarded, landed. Left, landed, landed. It should have actually landed because it takes 30 minutes. So it should have landed in LA. And we were sitting here waiting on these influencers that were not there.

[Laura]

Like, they were not there. So we start to be like, okay,

[Manny Mua]

so all seven of us are like, no, we're take.

[Laura]

Let's board out at when's our heart out? When do what? How much time do we get? Give these people that are not respecting anyone else's time and we need to be on this plane. And also the thing is, there's people on our little flight that have connecting flights to go back home. So like they have connecting flights in

[Manny Mua]

Los Angeles, so we gotta go.

[Laura]

So we have to leave. And they're just like, okay, well we'll see like how long we can wait till.

[Manny Mua]

And I'm like, we don't need to wait.

[Laura]

We don't need anymore.

[Manny Mua]

We don't need to wait. We just need to go home.

[Laura]

So by like what, 11:15, we start boarding. Well, thank God. But see, the thing is we've. We've waited so long now that now

[Manny Mua]

we're back to 100. Like, or not the jet bridge on the Runway, like, we're backed up on our takeoff time.

[Laura]

A lot of flights before us now. Even though we should have taken off so because we were on the plane for another like 45 minutes at least, just sitting there.

[Manny Mua]

But like this influencers didn't show up.

[Laura]

Oh, so we were getting like, honestly, I was at my wits end. Like, I really was like, I was at my wits.

[Manny Mua]

So pissed.

[Laura]

Oh, but you took your java mean though.

[Manny Mua]

I did. Because the first one, it was a prop plane and I didn't know what that means. And so like on the way there, I almost threw up all over the plane.

[Laura]

She almost like, honestly, like we were landing strength for her to get it because she literally was like holding on to the. You were holding to the window like this.

[Manny Mua]

I was literally across Manny like this, holding on to both parts. And then I got covered in sweat. And that's whenever. Whenever I'm covered in sweat, like, because I'm always cold and I was fine and then all of a sudden I was soaking wet. I was like, I'm about to throw up. Right now, the plane. I was like, please land. Please land. Please land. It was because prop planes is just, like, they, like.

[Laura]

Like, up and down.

[Manny Mua]

A lot of motion on your stomach. Like, the up and down. The drops. Like, the stomach drops. So y'.

[Laura]

All.

[Manny Mua]

That was a time. So I took Dramamine and it worked like a charm, but the ride was 10 times rougher on the way home.

[Laura]

Oh, my God.

[Manny Mua]

So I was like, thank you, Lord.

[Laura]

I was even. Even. I. I get, like, nervous a little bit with. What's it called? Turbulence. Like, I have a little nerves here and there, but I'm like, okay, I'll get through it. But this one was, like, kind of fierce. Like, it was, like, almost, like, dropping. Like, it would almost do, like. Like, sudden, like, literal drops out of the air. I felt. And I was like, oh, my God. Like, this is. But you're in a smaller plane, so you feel it so much on a smaller plane. So we're like, so. And we ended up landing, and Tyler rescued us from the airport, even though

[Manny Mua]

he sat there for an hour. Pick us up, because we left an hour late. And I. I want more names.

[Laura]

We even. We're even passing.

[Manny Mua]

I want identities of these influencers who didn't show up. I want names and address. Rest is.

[Laura]

And at the end of the day, like, they didn't show up, so they weren't on the flight. Like, it is what it is.

[Manny Mua]

Like, but you should, like, you gotta figure that out team and say, I'm not coming.

[Laura]

Oh, for sure. Like, let the team, like, let the people know.

[Manny Mua]

It's rude not to just show up, because it's not. It's not like a commercial. JSX is not commercial airline flight. It's like private airline where they can, like, hold a plane or do whatever they need to do. So I think, like, if you contracted to fly there and back with them, you should just emailed them and said, hey, I'm not gonna make it on the way back.

[Laura]

Exactly.

[Manny Mua]

Just a courtesy.

[Laura]

Yeah, it's a courtesy thing. Couldn't agree more.

[Manny Mua]

And that's it. Yeah.

[Laura]

I would say. Yeah, that's Sunday we. Or Monday we got in.

[Manny Mua]

So what's your peeking? Pit of Coachella.

[Laura]

Oh, my God. What is my peak? And Pit of Coachella. Okay. My peak.

[Manny Mua]

Mine's Cat's eye for sure was Cat's

[Laura]

eye, and that's like 100%. And the close peak was Nylon as well, because that was really fun.

[Manny Mua]

Nylon was really fun this year. Nylon was more fun this year than last year. I mean, they're fun both years, but I just had good. A really, really good time there.

[Laura]

This I also like seeing Diplo there.

[Manny Mua]

That was so sick.

[Laura]

Was, like, cool.

[Manny Mua]

I love Diplo, by the way. You know Diplo, it's made every song

[Laura]

you've ever heard before.

[Manny Mua]

So he's like, so sick me. It was really cool to get to see that.

[Laura]

So that was really fun. And then Cat, of course, my pit probably, like, just the more walking than we've ever done.

[Manny Mua]

My pit was probably just like the crowds were so big. It was, like, hard to find any of your friends or, like, really get to do the service things. Yeah, no. S like, you weren't able to get to do. We get to do so much at Coachell every year, and it's so much fun, and that's why we put so much into it. But this year, we really, like, even trying to get to parties stuff, you just, like, couldn't do anything because it was just too many people, like, even trying to.

[Laura]

Yeah. Like you're saying even getting to the parties, like, the lines to even get into the day parties is like, blown the out driving into them. It was just too many things, too many people.

[Manny Mua]

So it just made it hard to, like, do anything at Coachella. You know what I mean? So I would say that's probably my pit.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

I'm dead ass when I'm not. I'm saying this. I hope next year the main artist isn't as popular. Justin Bieber.

[Laura]

Same.

[Manny Mua]

Just dead ass.

[Laura]

Please. Like, I beg. Because it was. It was so hard to get Zara

[Manny Mua]

Larson next year, I pray. But we want to go to Lala Palooz and Cesar Larson really bad.

[Laura]

That'd be sick. Sick. A lot of people. Last year was so great.

[Manny Mua]

So, like, so great. And that was one of. By the way, that was one of essence first trips they ever did. And they executed it flawlessly. It was like it was their 50th trip. Like, they had it down, baby.

[Laura]

Boom, boom, boom.

[Manny Mua]

Here's your wristband bands. Here you go. He get in. Here you go. Here you walk here. Here's food. Here's money. Here's a person to do your hair like they were on it. Yeah, they put Dr. Peppers in my room.

[Laura]

Yeah. Crazy.

[Manny Mua]

So this year we want to do Lollapalooza again because it's Charlie xcx, Lord Smashing Pumpkins, and Zora Larson. It is.

[Laura]

It's my.

[Manny Mua]

It's literally like Lalapalooza is not about the fashion. Even though I will be turning.

[Laura]

Of course. Of course.

[Manny Mua]

It's about the music in this event.

[Laura]

Festival of it.

[Manny Mua]

However, I'm actually so sick of people who I know have never been to Coachella.

[Laura]

Go.

[Manny Mua]

It's only a fashion show now. It's not even about the music. You don't know that because that. That's a clear, clear sign that you don't go. Because if it's not about the music, then why was every single concert at Coachella blowed out so much? Because even. No. Even cat's eyes and, like, pink panthers, like, you couldn't even get to the stage. Because people wanted to be there for the music. People were there for the music. I promise you, just because someone has a good outfit on and wants to get.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

And has fun out there doesn't mean they're not there for the music too. Two things can be true.

[Laura]

Absolutely.

[Manny Mua]

You know, they can have a fashion moment, and they can be there for their favorite artist.

[Laura]

Both can and enjoy it.

[Manny Mua]

That is a possibility.

[Laura]

That's also, like. That's, like, the cool thing about there being, like, such a plethora of artists there.

[Manny Mua]

You go.

[Laura]

Pick and choose who you want to go see. That's what makes it fun. But then you can also do a lot of things around Coachella because there's so many things happening. So know it's become more.

[Manny Mua]

More just than the music. That doesn't mean it's not about the music, because, like, I would beg to differ. Because the Justin Bieber crowd was insane. Because of the music. Because of the music. So I disagree strongly. It's about the music still.

[Laura]

Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

It's just about other things.

[Laura]

A lot. Agreed.

[Manny Mua]

Is that it for us?

[Laura]

I think that's it. This is a long episode. I know it's long. I just feel it. And. Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah. Y' all got the real tea today.

[Laura]

The real fudgeing tea of what's happening. I love doing hotel recaps, though.

[Manny Mua]

Yeah, it's so. It's like one of the best episodes of the year.

[Laura]

I just love doing it. It's so fun to me because I love to just be. So be like, this is what fucking happened. And it was rough because if. And if the experience was super, super easy, we would be like, oh, my God, it was so easy. Like, it was so fucking great. But it was not as easy this year.

[Manny Mua]

It wasn't. This year was a hard year.

[Laura]

Very hard. So we're being so brutally honest.

[Manny Mua]

What do you think Alex Earl is going to say to me? Alex Cooper.

[Laura]

I think she's gonna like her. The up. Oh, like Loki. I Think she's literally going to, like, shred her to filth. Shut the up 100. Because the thing is also when you kind of, like, poke a bear in a way where you kind of like, she was posting do it.

[Manny Mua]

She post out Cooper first, though, technically, with the repost and the comments and the likes, like, she was. Technically, yeah, it was kind of like first. And then Alice Cooper called her out for the poking.

[Laura]

True. Yeah.

[Manny Mua]

But then she said okay on it. And then there's speculation she's gonna destroy her. So, like, I don't up. I don't know.

[Laura]

I just feel like she's going to, like, really try to make a moment out of it in, like, a way where she's, like, really going in. And I'm curious of, like, what they're going to talk about. I really am. I want to know. We'll have to, like, kind of debrief on that soon, girl, and see what's. What happens.

[Manny Mua]

She's got to cure that hangover. And then she's like on it.

[Laura]

I need to cure my hangover. I don't even drink.

[Manny Mua]

I know, babe. I got to go to bed.

[Laura]

I need to sleep for like four.

[Manny Mua]

Sorry if I had low energy in this episode. Babe, I got a whisper left to give.

[Laura]

Baby, we.

[Manny Mua]

A whisper.

[Laura]

Let our.

[Manny Mua]

He thinks I like Bret Michaels.

[Laura]

Who's Brett Michaels?

[Manny Mua]

Don't worry about it.

[Laura]

I'm going to Google that.

[Manny Mua]

Don't.

[Laura]

I'm going to Google that and I will confirm or deny it's. I know it's fucked. I just know it's fucked.

[Manny Mua]

It's fucked.

[Laura]

I know it's bad. If he's saying that, I know it's fucked.

[Manny Mua]

We love you guys.

[Laura]

We love you guys. And we'll see you guys in our next episode.

[Manny Mua]

Bye, guys.

[Laura]

Bye.

[Manny Mua]

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[Laura]

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