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  • - What's your vibe?

  • - I play Magic, I play Cribbage.

  • - I feel like you are a magician.

  • This jacket is full of secrets.

  • (laughing)

  • Maybe, high school drop out vibe?

  • - Fuck me!

  • (mischievous music)

  • - Hi. - Hi.

  • - [Interviewer] What's your name?

  • - I'm Allen.

  • - I'm Curtis.

  • - I'm Blimes. - And I'm Gab.

  • - Together we're Blimes and Gab.

  • - We're in a hip hop duo.

  • - [Interviewer] What's your level of education?

  • - I have a Bachelor's Degree.

  • - GED

  • - I dropped out of college.

  • - I was a mechanical engineer as an undergraduate

  • then I got a Masters degree in Architecture.

  • - I've done like a two year program.

  • School's just like not my vibe.

  • - [Interviewer] You are going to be guessing

  • everyone's level of education.

  • (mischievous music)

  • - I'm a good person, I swear.

  • (laughing)

  • - Hey.

  • (footsteps)

  • - [Interviewer] Who looks the least educated

  • out of this group?

  • - Hmm.

  • - I'm go wit' you my man.

  • (laughing)

  • I think he's trying to throw us off with the suit.

  • - Lil' try hard?

  • - Yeah. - Lil' try hard.

  • - Damn.

  • Don't worry

  • I'll be up there in a minute (mumbling)

  • don't worry (laughing)

  • I got something for ya. (laughing)

  • - I'm Sorry man. (mumbling)

  • - Hello.

  • Wonderful.

  • Turquoise. - Hi

  • Andrea

  • Nice to meet you. - Andrea, fabulous.

  • - First impressions.

  • Rockstar. - Thank you!

  • - What kind of work do you do?

  • - I am self-employed.

  • - And, what kind of work do you do?

  • - Customer Service.

  • - (laughs) Self-employed, customer service.

  • - I work with people.

  • - (laugh) All right.

  • - I make them feel good about themselves.

  • - That's interesting

  • in the sex trade?

  • - (laughs) No.

  • - Okay.

  • (laughing)

  • - Let me see

  • looking at the ends of your hairs.

  • Let's see.

  • Okay, maybe you just got a trim.

  • - I think she went to beauty school.

  • - Are you an artist?

  • Like - Yeah.

  • - I think you do tattoos

  • and I don't think you need to go to school for that.

  • Maybe

  • (laughs) a high school drop out.

  • - You were like, "Fuck school (laughing)

  • "I'm gonna pursue my dreams of

  • "singing in my screamo emo band."

  • (laughing) Right?

  • - So, I dropped out of high school.

  • - Okay. - You were totally right.

  • Fuck education.

  • - Fuck education! - Like

  • the typical public school route

  • fuck that!

  • (laughing)

  • - Yes!

  • - And, so I went to cosmetology school.

  • - Nice!

  • - I am a hair stylist. - Okay.

  • - Yeah! (cheering)

  • Thank you!

  • - Only because we work with people like you

  • all the time. - All the time.

  • - That's what made

  • made it easy. - We should've worked

  • with you today.

  • - Yeah, what the hell?

  • - You're like giving me like a fratty-bro kind of vibe.

  • Like the ones that used to pick me up

  • and throw me out of the parties.

  • (laughing)

  • - What kind of work do you do?

  • - I work in a hospital.

  • - You work in a hospital.

  • - I sometimes clean up messes.

  • - (laughs) Do you contribute to making the messes?

  • - Yeah.

  • - You are starting to sound more and more like a doctor.

  • - How much money do you make?

  • - 35 thousand cool dollars a year.

  • - Oh okay. - Okay.

  • Dammit. (laughing)

  • - I would hope that you

  • that you didn't go to college and have that

  • I mean shit (laughing)

  • you're paying that much a year to go to school.

  • - Right, no way you're gonna get out of debt on that.

  • - I want to say high school diploma

  • just for your sake, but

  • - Let's say GED.

  • I don't think he went to school man.

  • - Okay, GED.

  • - You went to a four year university

  • so you just like party it up a little bit

  • and you were like, "Fuck it

  • "I'll like get a communications degree, or something."

  • And you were just like butt-chugging Coors Light all day.

  • (laughing)

  • So was I right?

  • - No.

  • - Okay, shoot, not at all.

  • - Not at all.

  • - Okay. - I am a PhD student.

  • - What are you studying?

  • Why are you

  • - I'm studying the molecular biology of aging.

  • (laughs) - How old do you think I am?

  • (laughing)

  • - 25.

  • - Oh my God!

  • (laughing)

  • - Are people surprised?

  • - Sometimes, yeah.

  • I think I am the second African-American

  • in the program's history.

  • - Why are you studying this?

  • - Oh, it's actually a really selfish reason.

  • - Nice.

  • - To see if I could live a long time.

  • - The PhD is to solidify that higher pay grade, yeah?

  • - Hopefully.

  • - I want you to make more money.

  • - Hello, what's your name?

  • - Eddy.

  • - I am so sorry.

  • - Eddy.

  • - Eduh.

  • - Eddy, E-D-D-Y.

  • - Eduh.

  • - Eddy. - [Interviewer] Eddy!

  • - Eddy!

  • - Yeah! (laughing)

  • - Where you from Eddy?

  • - My mom and dad are from Guatemala

  • but I was born here in Bellevue, Washington.

  • - Bellevue.

  • - So, your parents, what are their expectations like?

  • - Well, they were worried about me like

  • getting someone pregnant

  • but that's not gonna happen.

  • (laughing)

  • - I think Eddy's in college right now.

  • - He looks like he is sixteen, I'm very confused.

  • (laughing)

  • I would assume he is like still in high school.

  • Am I right?

  • - No, I have a bachelor's. (gasps)

  • - Are your parent's proud of you?

  • - I think so, like, my mom and dad

  • neither one of them went to school.

  • Like my dad does not know how to read or write.

  • - Is anybody in your family looking up to you?

  • - My little sisters are about to graduate from high school.

  • So, they're like applying to college.

  • So, it's like nice being able to like help them

  • cause, when I was applying to like college and stuff

  • like I didn't have any guidance.

  • - Nice. - Yeah!

  • - Well tell me about the work you do.

  • - I do a little graphic design.

  • I'm a sketch illustrator.

  • I help with adult entertainment.

  • - In order to do what you do

  • you kind of have to have a handle on art history.

  • I'm just guessing

  • that you have a bachelor's degree in fine arts?

  • - Will you take the glasses off for us?

  • (laughing) - Are those prescr--

  • Oh yeah, those are - They're very

  • - super prescription. - It's super

  • real big.

  • - Damn, that is a - Yeah.

  • - very thick lens.

  • - Yeah it is. - Okay.

  • - Mm-hmm, we're talking education.

  • - I can see you being a doctor.

  • - You give me gamer vibes. - Yes.

  • - And I feel like gamers

  • wouldn't go to college.

  • Am I right?

  • - I actually have a master's degree.

  • - Dammit. - It's okay.

  • - In what?

  • - College student personnel administration.

  • - I, to this day, am not really using my degree.

  • - How much debt are you in.

  • - I've still got

  • tens of thousands to go.

  • It's not great. - That is anxiety.

  • - Yeah, it's not good.

  • (mumbles) or life-wise. - And, for something that

  • you're like not using.

  • - Yeah, it sucks.

  • - Come on down Mr. Suit.

  • - I am Dante.

  • - What's good Dante?

  • - {Interviewer] Can you tell me again why he is

  • - The dumbest looking mother fucker here?

  • (laughing)

  • - Why I got to be the dumb mother fucker.

  • - It is the hair, man.

  • (laughing)

  • - The suit with the Jerry Curl.

  • - Oh you mother (laughing)

  • - You wanna buy a timeshare from him?

  • (laughing)

  • - You're so mean.

  • - What's your vibe?

  • - I play Magic, I play Cribbage.

  • - I feel like you are a magician.

  • This jacket is full of secrets.

  • (laughing)

  • - Maybe, high school drop out vibe.

  • You were like, "Fuck it.

  • "I wanna be a magician."

  • - (laughs) What the fuck?

  • - Looks like your hair is nice and moisturized.

  • - Yes ma'am.

  • - Okay, cool, cool, cool.

  • - Oh, there's a ring.

  • (gasps) Okay, okay, I am going with

  • and a watch.

  • You're a car salesman.

  • - Fuck! (laughing)

  • - You have a high school diploma and that's

  • you've stopped.

  • Maybe you started working there in high school.

  • You're like the detailer, I don't know.

  • - Fuck. - Oh!

  • This is getting so much worse!

  • - Yes, it is! - Why am I?

  • - What the fuck is wrong wit' you?

  • - Am I right?

  • - Fuck no.

  • - Oh.

  • - Jesus Christ. - Okay.

  • - About like all of it?

  • - All of it!

  • No, no! - Aah!

  • - Have you ever seen a black magician?

  • I've never even seen one. - That is the magic of it.

  • (laughing) - Oh my fuck!

  • - I went to Morehouse College on an academic scholarship.

  • - I've got a AA, a BA and a Master's degree.

  • - You're amazing.

  • - What did you get your Master's in?

  • - Athletic administration.

  • My bachelors and my AA are in IT.

  • I used to teach SQL.

  • I used to teach HTML, CSS and all that.

  • I make all my white students call me Master.

  • - Oh my God (laughs nervously)

  • - You're like a PhD bitch.

  • (laughing)

  • - Why do you say that?

  • - You're so intimidating

  • I feel like you can like read into my soul

  • and you were like taught in school how to do that for like

  • years.

  • - You have small hands.

  • - I, yes. (laughing)

  • - That means you type.

  • - [Interviewer] So you think?

  • - She is a type typer.

  • The people who do the coding thing.

  • Do you have to go to college for that?

  • - Yes.

  • - Yeah, that's right. (laughing)

  • You're the guy. (laughing)

  • Bachelor's in

  • coding?

  • - No.

  • - I do have a PhD. (applause)

  • - Wow, oh my God. - Yay.

  • - I could see it. - Good on you.

  • - I could see it.

  • - Okay. - Okay, in what?

  • - Anthropology.

  • - Okay, I took in that my freshman year

  • at WSU. - Oh, okay.

  • - Fuckin' hated it.

  • (laughing)

  • - What do you do with your degree?

  • - I am a post-doc.

  • - What is a post-doc?

  • - Basically, it is a continuation of your training.

  • If you wanna stay in academia

  • and go on to the professoriate.

  • - That sounds boring. (laughing)

  • - Are you a doctor?

  • - I am a doctor?

  • - What is your last name?

  • - Cruz.

  • - Dr. Cruz!

  • - Yes!

  • - Hi, I am Curtis, sorry, what was your name?

  • - Serene, nice to meet you. - Serene, nice to meet you.

  • You're very polite and put together.

  • I think do some school.

  • - Oh, you definitely went to college.

  • - (laughs) Yeah.

  • So, we got that out the way.

  • - Uh-huh.

  • - What level?

  • - (laughs) Right.

  • - Hmm. - Hmm.

  • Maybe a Master's.

  • - I don't know.

  • - Do you know what a cohort is?

  • - Mm-mm.

  • - No Master's.

  • (laughing)

  • - I definitely think you're a doctor.

  • - Okay.

  • - Yeah, like a gyno.

  • I trust you with my vagina. - Why?

  • (laughing)

  • - Tell me about your work.

  • - I am a project engineer for an electrical company.

  • - So I've worked with a lot of project engineers.

  • - Okay.

  • I'll say you have a bachelor's degree in some sort.

  • Am I right?

  • - Nope.

  • (laughing)

  • - I graduated high school, so I just have a diploma.

  • - I've worked with some really good project engineers

  • that never went to college.

  • Do you feel you're treated differently

  • because you don't have a degree?

  • - To a certain extent, yes.

  • - Do you regret not getting a degree?

  • - No.

  • - I did a little - Okay.

  • - like, less than a year of college

  • and I decided that I was doing it

  • for my family, not for myself.

  • - Good for you.

  • - Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

  • - Hi, I am Angie.

  • - Hi, Angie.

  • - What kind of work do you do?

  • - I work with kids that have a troubled past.

  • - Did you come from a troubled past?

  • - I did. - Uh-huh.

  • - I'm saying your education is

  • maybe high school.

  • - Do you have siblings?

  • - I do.

  • - Are you the oldest, youngest?

  • - Yes, I am the oldest of seven.

  • - You wanted to be a leader.

  • - Mm-hmm.

  • - She went to school.

  • I think like a four year.

  • - [Interviewer] In what?

  • - Something that like I might find like kind of boring.

  • You know what I mean? - (laughs) I like

  • that you just called me boring.

  • - No, no, no. - It's great.

  • - I think that you, like

  • Oh my God I am sweating.

  • (laughing)

  • - Education is important if you work with kids.

  • - Working with kids doesn't mean that you went to school.

  • I know too many people that

  • maybe shouldn't be working with kids

  • that probably should have went to school.

  • I don't think she went to school.

  • - Not to college? - Mm-mm.

  • High school?

  • GED?

  • - Yeah.

  • - So, you're right, but you're also wrong.

  • - Okay, like that.

  • - My mom kicked me out when I was 17.

  • - Okay.

  • - I help raise my siblings

  • but, with that I had to miss a lot of school.

  • I wasn't able to finish that last year of high school

  • but, I did end up going back to school.

  • Completed my Bachelor's in law and justice

  • with a Minor in Psychology

  • and I'm now continuing on to my Master's in Criminology.

  • - Wow (laughs)

  • - Nice, okay. - Damn.

  • - Nice, the underdog. - Totally not expecting that.

  • - How much of your upbringing

  • led to what you decided to pursue and study?

  • - Working with juvenile offenders.

  • It's funny, you can pull up my name and you can say

  • "Oh hey, I got in trouble."

  • But this is part of my past

  • and I wanna help kids work on their past.

  • I had certain teachers and individuals

  • I could go talk to.

  • I just want to help people

  • the way that other people helped me.

  • - So nice meeting you.

  • - It's so nice meeting you too.

  • (laughing)

  • - [Interviewer] How was this?

  • - I think we - Shut the fuck.

  • - We might have made a lot of enemies today.

  • (laughing)

  • - [Interviewer] Who's now the enemy of Blimes and Gab?

  • - I know he's probably like - They said I was dumb.

  • - "God damn." - They said I was dumb, yeah.

  • - We didn't say dumb.

  • We just said the least educated.

  • - [Interviewer] Now say something smart about education.

  • - Ah!

  • (laughing)

  • That's the rudest thing anyone's ever asked me to do.

  • - [Interviewer] Say something poignant about

  • - Boignant?

  • - [Interviewer] Poignant.

  • Poignant

  • - [Interviewer] Yeah.

  • - Do you guys know what the fuck poignant means?

  • - Yes. - Yeah.

  • (laughing)

  • - Yes we do, we have degrees.

  • - I don't know. - It's okay, I don't know.

  • - [Interviewer] All right, thank you.

  • - Yeah.

  • (applause)

  • Okay, nice to meet you.

  • (applause)

  • Woo!

- What's your vibe?

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