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- they were like two little chihuahuas just barking at me (barking sounds) i'm like, yo (laughter). turns out people bring dogs to work. that's dope. i love dogs too, but notwhen they bark at me. (upbeat music) - when i first started at buzzfeed, i worked in the kitchen, iworked at the front desk,
but i always spent my time in the kitchen. i remember that they were shooting a video there starring quinta. who is like this little in real life. she was like reaching up on the shelf. like she was reachingup to get like a mug. and i was looking at her andi was watching her struggle and i was noticing that there was like a crowd of people right next to her
that like didn't help her and i was getting more and more upset cause i'm like look at her, she's clearly struggling. so i walk over like all happy and i'm like, ugh, like grab a mug. i'm like here you go quinta, i'm so sorry. like blah, blah, blah,just like so angry for her. and she's like no curly, like, um...
and she points and there's like a camera and it was a scene for the video. and i just remember being like oh i'm happy that you know that like, i've got your back. like it was kind of cool you know, like i'm one of the realones and now it's on film. now you know. (laughter)
- this is like embarrassingto even talk about. curly had shared a post about women like selling their used underwear online. i was like, oh, i'mjust interested in this, i'm gonna click thislink, so i clicked it, and then i kind of forgot about it. and i had it opened in a new thread. and then i immediatelywent to this meeting with like five of my other coworkers.
during the meeting we were talking about the olympics and soi pulled up this video, and i turned it around andlike played it for everyone and we're like oh that's so cool. the video kept repeating so i didn't want it to keep playing, so i exited out. and the next tab was this website. honestly you guys shouldlike show what it looks like because it's like this partof a woman with underwear on,
and like a big pictureand i was like oh my god, i swear i wasn't like, trying to do this, i just clicked thisthing that curly posted. i swear it was curly, like totally throwing him under the bus. and everyone was like sure maycie, like no big deal and i just got so red. and it was really embarrassing. - before working at buzzfeed,
i used to be in the united states navy. uss ronald reagan cvn 76. finest ship on the fleet. that's right. i'm a military guy you know, transferring over to the civilian world and especially coming to buzzfeed, god damn, it's completely different yo. ella was my boss, right?
she's right here behind the camera. and i remember she was like you have to be here at nine o'clock in the morning. and i'm like, yes ma'am. i almost saluted and everything, you know what i'm saying? i showed up, i'm actually early cause you know in the military, early's on time, on time you're late.
i'm ready, i'm sitting down ready to go. nobody's in the office. like everybody's late. you know, even ella. and i notice the next day, i'm here early in the morning. i'm here, ready to go, where's everybody? nobody's still in the office. i was like 9:30, i think that's when
people started tricklingin here and there. oh, man, the traffic is bad. i'm like, i couldn't saythat in the military. i get in trouble. and then i remember ella was like it's an hour lunch break,it's at 12 o'clock. i'm like okay cool. in the military, you alwaysgotta check out with somebody. and they always, they take time.
it was only 30 minutes. you gotta come back in 30 minutes. an hour? that's cool, that's cool. 12 o'clock came alongand i'm walking around, i'm like who, who doi check out with guys? and people are like, i don't know. and they left me. so i'm like walking aroundnot knowing what to (beep) do.
and i saw ella and then i panicked. i'm like oh my god, shethinks i'm not doing anything. i panicked, i ran outside, and i did not know what to do. i stood there like an idiot. i was not used to not being micromanaged. - we filmed a video acouple years ago at a farm. and we basically taste tested this stew. the farmer guy wouldn't tellus what was in the stew.
he just sat next to usand was like try it. we were on our way out and i was like, oh there's an egg there, there was just an egg that had been laying. and there was nothing, no animals around and he was like, oh yes, for you. and i was like, for me? he was like yes take it. i was like okay.
and i'm like, what egg is this? and he was like, it's a duck egg. and i was like, is it gonna hatch? and he was like if youkeep it warm it will hatch. next thing i knew i like kind of froze and i was just ridinghome with this duck egg and i was freaking out because i'm like what do i do? i asked like a couple ofpeople at work the next day.
i was like do i hatch this egg? or do i have an omelet? like i don't know. of course, at buzzfeed the overwhelming response was to keep the egg. i talked to the girl next to me, chantel, who said that she happenedto have an incubator. and i was like, oh, okay, perfect. after a couple of days had passed
i was like messaging the farmer and i'm like okay, so we putit in an incubator, now what? and he was like, oh you're too late now. and i was like what? and he was like, it's not gonna hatch, you had to get it in right away. and i was like, oh okay. he's like, but no worries, i'll fix that. and i was like what doyou mean you'll fix that?
two days later i geta package in the mail. and it was like from this weird address. i was like oh no. i open it and then therewas like seven eggs in it. and then the worst part is like where it says duck and then it has arrows pointing to like four of the eggs. and then there's anotherpart where it says turkey. and it has arrows pointingto two of the turkey eggs.
and i was like, oh my god,i'm gonna be a mother of seven and two of them are gonnabe different species. like i don't, i can't do this! i brought chantel in,i'm like what do we do? i don't know. and she's like, okay let'sjust have 'em all hatch and then we'll see whathappens 'cause as it turns out like it was very unlikely thateven like one would hatch. we only told a few peoplebecause we didn't want the office
knowing that there wereseven eggs in there. we had them thinking therewas one the whole time, but really it's like i'm stressing out, chantel is stressingout, the people that knew there were seven were stressing out cause we're like, there's seven in there, like oh my god what arewe gonna do if they hatch? basically only one ended up growing and i was out of town whenthe hatching was starting
and it was my brother's graduation. and like literally, like moments before my brother'sabout to walk on stage, i get a video call from justin and he called me being likeyour duck's about to hatch. and i was like oh my god it's hatching! what? and so then he like shows me the screen and it's like everyone's lined up
like around the little incubator and then yeah, i mean i wasn't there, but i watched the duck hatch on camera. and it was crazy. so then we had a duck in the office so that people could chill with him. he would wander around the office freely. like literally, he would like chase people on the way to their desk.
he (beep) everywhere. where is the poo coming from? you don't eat that much. where are you, what are you (beep)? i don't understand. teaching him how to run and swim and like play outside was really fun. but that's how pip came to be.