We have an awesome guest on this episode. We have Chris and Eileen from After Glow, which is a morning radio show based in the US. Featured live in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. They go over to seven hundred and forty thousand listeners each day. They're there to get the nation started on the right foot. You can listen to them weekdays from seven to ten AM face to face. Monday they throw down, Wednesday they feature new and rising artists.
Thursday they uh Thursday throw down, and then the top 30 countdown to everything on the charts, and finish the days off with uh Friday's big show. Welcome, Eileen and Chris, and thanks for coming on my podcast.
Hi, thank you for having us.
Pleasure. How's it all going over there?
It's going great. No, the weather's actually very beautiful today.
Oh, the weather is incredible today. Oh yeah.
Yeah, and you guys are heading into your summer as well, so that's amazing.
Oh yes.
We're so excited for that. It's going it's going to be an incredible time. Last week it was uh eighty-five degrees Fahrenheit. Um so it was lovely, lovely time.
How has um the pandemic affected both you just generally speaking since last year?
Um, personally speaking, I fortunately I was not impacted by the pandemic in a negative way. Um to me it I'm a very supportive um person for small businesses, and so it was really sad to see what um the pandemic did to those businesses. Um but personally speaking, I feel like it really helped me venture off into things that I am fit for and what's best for me. You know, I was in the nine to five life. Um, I was on my way up to basically just working corporate America.
And I I kind of regrouped back in the pandemic and I realized, you know, that's not the path for me. And I met Chris throughout that time and here I am on the radio show now. So it to me I had a really positive experience with it.
Yeah, for me it was it was pretty similar. It was overall positive, but um naturally um us being a m a morning show that's usually in studio together every day, it was really hard in the beginning to figure out how we're gonna be able to to turn our mics on and and not be in the same room. We had to, you know, come up with solutions like, you know, working with Zoom and other and Discord servers and a bunch of other satellite servers and our satellite 17-18 servers.
Um and so we weren't able to see each other face to face for almost the whole beginning of the pandemic. We didn't even have Zoom. Zoom we weren't able to use at the beginning. Um it wasn't working for us and and our systems were overloaded. And so for you know, for us, it was a lot of just overcoming how how we can get back on the air together.
And now, thankfully, as we're kind of coming out of it, um not not totally, but as we're getting there, um, you know, it's much more rapid testing, it's much more getting tested every week. Um, we we all sit in the studio that's maybe like 300 square feet, so we're all pretty close to each other. Um, and because of that, we have to really make sure that um we're we're being safe.
And so for me, I think that it's really mostly affected just making sure that our team can still operate our day-to-day operations without um any loss of of downtime or any technical difficulties.
I mean, one day, um, one of our radio shows, we had to actually do it all via phone because we all couldn't get our system to work, and so one of our episodes we're all sitting on the phone, live on the radio, doing the doing it through a phone system instead of uh our microphones that we paid too much money for in our studio.
Um, and generally speaking, how is it like the actual COVID there now? So for example, if you were to go out, is there a lot of social distancing? Is it intense still delay? I know you guys had a lot of cases, it's still the same way.
Yeah, so um LA was averaging about fourteen thousand per day new cases for a while, which was a lot. Um where I was in New York and New Jersey originally before this, it was only four thousand a day for all of New York, um, and just for LA to be a small area, it's been it's been a lot. Um restaurants here, their tables are required to be eight feet apart instead of the traditional six feet. Um it's very mask driven.
Like you have to have your mask on at all times unless you're eating or drinking. When your server comes back over, you have to put your mask back on. Um then when they leave, you can take it back off. Um you can't you can't go out to a bar, you can't go out, you can bear you just now, recently in the past week or so, can go back out to restaurants again.
Um everything else is closed still, it's still very um it's not as ghost town as it was, but now it's very uh it's very very socially distant, very getting tested a lot and very um still not businesses, yeah, cautious. Yeah.
Are you guys happy to both get the vaccine when it comes out?
I am personally not getting the vaccine. I I normally don't take uh medicine, any medications or anything like that. I try I try to go the holistic route. So I am personally not getting the vaccine. I know my mom works in the medical field and she has received it. Um she hasn't had any negative feedback on it, so for the most part, I'm not against it, just not my personal preference.
Yeah, I I will be just because of the amount I'm around people and that and I usually do get vaccinated every year from other things, so I I will probably go that route.
Sure, thanks for saying. Uh let's just jump straight into it for the listeners. Uh, who is Chris and Eileen for the listeners? Individually based.
Okay. Um, so I'm Chris. Um, I'm 25. I am the owner of Afterglow, also the um the program director here, so I program all of the music for our show. Um, I program all of our shows, our commercials, all of the timing with our other team. Um I'm also a lead host, so I I host with Eileen. Eileen is my other person. Um Eileen is my other person who is kind of like on a um on my on my level. Sorry about that. Someone had just one of our preachers just walked by.
Um Eileen, I guess, is is who I work with the most on my production side of of things. Um, but I am pretty much just, you know, someone that loves music. I love hanging out, um, and I love to make sure that our show can be a an escape for people every morning.
100%. Um I myself, I'm my I'm Eileen. I'm 23 years old. I've been born and raised in Los Angeles. I am a co-host on Afterglow. I also model, um I model for a makeup academy, and so I get my makeup done and whatnot, and that's really fun. Uh I definitely love to express myself through modeling and taking pictures and whatnot. Um I also create content for um social media and YouTube. Um and I'm a student and currently continuing my license as a esthetician in hopes to go down the skincare route.
Um I would say the most exciting thing in my life is being on the radio show and modeling. It definitely helps, like I said, just express myself and definitely um taps in with my creative side of my personality, and I really love to um just dive into that world of creativity.
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing. Tell me about individually both your lives growing up and how that was and how you got to where you are right now.
You wanna go for it? Yeah, um, so um I grew up outside of Boston. Um, I lived in the suburbs, so I wasn't really around the city too too much. Um I pretty much spent a lot of time, you know, being outdoorsy and going outdoors and exploring and and I started to find a passion for acting and for music at a really young age, and um I started getting kind of involved in it, but I didn't really know what what I wanted to go into as far as as a career-wise.
I knew for a while I wanted to end up moving to either New York or LA. Um, so then as I as I came uh you know, a little bit older and and um I turned nineteen, I decided to move to the New York City area alone. Um and I pretty much just kept finding my passion for music, kept finding my passion for what I'm doing, um, and and just kept pushing it and pushing it. But I lived a very basic life for the most beginning of my of my years, nothing really too crazy.
Like I said, suburban life, like white picket fence, like green grass, like a little just a house, like nothing crazy um there for my life.
Um as for myself, I like I said before, I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and I was raised in a Hispanic family. So I grew up very traditionally. Actually I would say non-traditional because uh my mother was Mexican, so I grew up with a single mom. But she definitely had on the positions of uh of a father and mother. Um she was very strict on me and so we did struggle a lot. We moved from place to place, and so like I said, my mom was a single mom.
So I grew up with the intention of wanting to help my mom and do better and hopefully um create something bigger and something for our family to create a legacy. And so ever since I was young, I always known I wanted to do something more than the nine to five. I've always known it wasn't in me.
Um, I didn't come from money, so I definitely had to work to where I'm at now, which I'm really grateful for, but I developed my love for um, I would say creating content and being behind the mic what going through college. So I moved from Los Angeles to New York and there I found myself being uh a host for everything.
Um class would start, and I was up at the front, I was speaking, I had no problem taking charge in group projects, and so I've always known I had that personality and that little niche to um be at front and center. I wouldn't call it being what what can you say? I I don't I don't call for the attention, um, but I definitely feel like it suits you best. I'm definitely a leader. And so I have a boyfriend, I've been in a relationship for almost a decade.
And uh through my boyfriend, I actually met Chris, and since I've met him and he asked me to audition for the show and be a co-host, that's when I really knew, like, okay, this this is my lifestyle, it's being behind the mic, and it's really inspiring others around me in my neighborhood. Cause I didn't grow up in in your typical like LA where everyone grows up knowing everyone and you just have connections.
I grew up more towards the suburbs where you have to really work for what you want and need. And the people in my circle and the people I've grown up with don't really look outside of the box. They're more let's go to college and let's get a job and let's do the nine to five. And I I love just inspiring others and letting them know that you know we're more than working for someone else's dream.
We can you as long as you just put your feet on the ground and you just keep it pushing, you can get to where you want and where you where you see yourself, you know? And so I just I love inspiring. I love being out there. I love to let people know that the best thing in life is just be yourself. So I would say I'm a very positive and optimistic person.
Amazing, and you guys are inspiring me, and I'm sure the listeners. So yeah, you guys are doing great and wonderful. Thank you. Um tell me, have you guys done a lot of traveling uh within America or international?
I have. Since I was young, I was always traveling. Um my family is from Mexico and Colombia. So I was the age of three years old. I was traveling to Guadalajara, Mexico, Cancún, um, Tijuana, Ensanada. I've been all those places. And I've also actually went to school in Colombia um for a couple months. And uh I went to school there for I would say uh a a quarter of the school year, so I was there for about five to six months.
And um I left Colombia and I was I was in Popoyan, Cauca, and I have family out there, so I have some sisters and some grandmothers. Um up there. I say grandmothers because everybody over there is your grandma, your sister, your cousin. Um so I definitely have been traveling since I was really young. Uh, and then again I moved out from Los Angeles to New York. I was in Syracuse, New York, so I was upstate. And for the most part, that is all that I've been.
Uh, although I do want to do a lot more traveling. I was actually just speaking, and I have my own podcast that I do with my friends, and I was saying I would love to go to Australia. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there's pink sand or like pink waters over there. And I that would be a dream of mine to go see that because I live and breathe pink. Pink is like in my soul.
And so I try to incorporate pink in anything that I do or wear, and so um, I definitely would love to go to Australia.
Well, you're always welcome.
So I mean, yeah, for me, um, I do I love traveling a lot. Um, I don't really go too internationally just because I'm not a huge fan of flying and other methods are a little bit pricey. Um I love going down to Miami a lot. I mean I mean my I would last yeah, I was in Miami a lot. I would do weekend trips, day trips. Um last year, I want to say I went to Miami last year, the most I've ever gone, like in a singular year. It was it was a lot.
Um I always love coming out to LA before I even moved um to the West Coast. Um even when I was living outside of Boston, I would love to drive down. I'd drive down to New York for the weekend, I'd be there for two, three days, and so so on and so forth. Um I love, love, love traveling. I think it's fun, I love experiencing new things. And a big thing for me is I would always do it alone.
And um, I have friends in in different locations, but people, you know, I'd be traveling when people were working their nine to five. So I'd be I'd be, you know, traveling and trying to do things, and one big thing for me was what I think traveling taught me was being able to eat alone, which I know sounds like really random, but I couldn't go to like a I wouldn't be able to go to a restaurant and get food that I really wanted because I was like, oh I don't want to be I don't want to eat alone.
And I was thinking the other day, I was at Italy, which is a place here in um in LA, and I was there alone after I went shopping. I was like, you know, I would have never done this like four or five years ago because I didn't want to be that guy because it was always, oh, just go get fast food, but I didn't always want fast food.
I wanted like a nice gourmet steak or a gourmet burger, and I didn't want to be sitting there at this table alone, like, oh no, someone's coming, and I would get such crippling anxiety that I wouldn't be able to even just sit at a table alone. So yeah, that was a huge thing for me.
Wow.
Oh, yeah, traveling.
Well, then I'm not alone. Now you have a travel plan.
Well, you're doing amazing, Chris. You're coming leaps and downs and stuff. Yeah, real big ones.
He can host a whole radio show, but he cannot eat alone.
No, that's too funny. Um, tell me actually the story specifically. So you said that um I mean that your boyfriend and Chizu too. How did it all transpire, like in where you are now? The the show iHeartRadio, how has it all come together?
It's actually crazy how the universe worked and how our lifestyles just slide because um my boyfriend he makes music and he creates and so um the Afterglow producers were on a hunt for new artists and turning them on the on the show, and somehow they crossed paths with my boy and Chris gave my boyfriend a follow on Instagram, and from there they connected and they be they sort of friendship virtually, and Chris had let us know that he took him to Los Angeles, and um my boyfriend, he's really
kind he offered to pick Chris up from the air take me to his house, and so Yeah, which never really happened.
He's like, How are you getting home? I'm like, Oh, I'm gonna take an Uber. He's like, No, no, no, me and I mean I'm gonna pick you up. I was like, okay.
And I never met Chris before. I never even heard of him until the day my boyfriend walked in. He's like, he's like, Well, we're gonna go pick up Chris. I'm like, Who's Chris? And he's like, Oh, like this is him. He showed me his Instagram, he's like, Love him, like he's really good energy.
And so Cheryl now picked the air airport, and instantly my boyfriend did not get a word in because Chris and I were just talking and we just connected like and so from then our friendship began and just just passed. Again, we it was still COVID when he moved. It was about in November 2020, and so everyone so our our friendship just grew virtually, and and from there he he sent me an Instagram DM and he said randomly like, Hey, come audition for my show. And I and I said, Wait, what?
It's a radio show. Like, you don't understand I've never seen Rain Radio before I don't even know how I sound behind the mic. And he's like, No, trust me, you're perfect. I teach to you. He's like, Your energy is just amazing. He's like, We need to come try it. And sure enough, I got myself together. I came and I was so nervous, I could almost throw up walking in here. I don't think I can have this many people listening to me. Um, and so you have to just forget about it, honestly.
That's the big thing.
Yeah, that is very true. Now that I'm I've done a couple shows now, oh I do understand. The trick is to just no one's listening. Everything you're saying to me.
A couple of shows. You've been on the show for three months.
Oh, for three months. Oh my god, since we took you on.
Yeah.
It does not feel that long. But anyway, so I came auditioned and Chris was very being very, very nice. So I thought he was gonna be what he's excuse me, but he was he's he's knocked knocked knocked it out, you know, the wall feel, loves, loves, lovely, loves you. And then I came in say Monday, and then he's like, he's like, You got the job. He's like you're first presenting. I was like, look at my goddamn like again, I never it's not like a dominant like.
But sure enough, I was so um blessed and extra excited that our first show was a um, you know, you know, you know, you know, you got you got a little white clause in you, a little bit of alcohol helps ease the moments, ease our nerves. And we ended we end we ended up having a really awesome show. I ended up connecting with my co-works so so so so so so um and we had a really awesome show. And so from um here we are now.
Actually, just before this um interview, he was showing how to run the whole soundboard and all this mess that's over here because he wants me to host on Friday. Yes. So here we are now. Three months later, I'm hosting.
Yeah, so you're gonna be she's gonna be in charge of the show from our eight o'clock to nine o'clock hour. So if if you guys are listening to this in a few months and Eileen's on here and didn't do good.
No, I'm not gonna make my promise.
But ever since then, I mean our friendship has grown definitely um being on the show on a personal and professional level, and so on. Yeah, I'm really grateful to be in this position for sure.
Tell me, um, how did the whole unfortunate how the how this whole masterpiece, I guess, will be a lot, generally speaking. How has yeah, yeah.
Um I've been working on random radio for a few years. Um I started producing ri ri originally just music, and so I've produced some music. Um I actually have a tattoo on my arm, which is sound waves. Um, I love music because it's crazy. Um I have a love for sound in general. I like I really love cool, cool, cool sounds. And I loved how radio sounded. I love when you hear like Slim Slim as introwing something or just brand brand.
It was this like audioly cra crazy sweet sweet sweep for package, like crazy like indent or like in pro. And I was kind of kind of producing some of those and submitting them to places and and long story by then become becoming some friends with some people, um, and um actually July 2nd is going to be the um is basically going to be our anniversary though um for our this is our fourth season. Um, which is ironic Friday, so that'll be really exciting.
I think that's our our fourth we're essentially going into our third season because our first season was really caught into one year. Um so we've been doing this for about three snaps now, which doesn't feel real. Um this began in in 2019, which is um and so I just basically had I had an intern at the time that I was working with, and I said, Hey, why don't you uh like why don't we do something exciting? And and I we've got some nice ideas back and forth and and this and that.
And it was to be on a short of someone else's live radio show. And then I was like, well, I don't know, like I don't I don't know if like this is something we want to do or this and that, and then it just kind of blew up and we started taking over different spots.
We got more and more time and then our show went from a fifteen minute segment, because our show, our show, our show was the 15 minute segment, to a now two-hour, five days a week uh I'm I'm sorry, I'm sorry, three hour, three hour show. Um from five five days a week in three major cities, and the journey it just exploded over COVID.
We just kept pushing and pushing and we showed that um um of course we're a small business, but we showed that we could pushing and keep going forward, and and that's how we were able to kind of um make sure that what what we what we do every day is is is for the right reasons, and and that's how we got here, and that's that's what happened.
Amazing, yeah. That's well wow well, that's just purely amazing. Um, what is you both individually each day?
What inspires me is to know that I am living the best life that I possibly can. By the time I reach eighty and I have my children and my grandkids, all I wanna know that I I lived my life to the fullest and I'm not driven by money, although it is what gets us throughout our life. That is not my number one that leads me.
I don't take opportunities based off um I I do I move very strategically in the way of if it's gonna make me happy if it's gonna um make me better and needs me teach me to a higher position for where I want to be in my life that I'm gonna get into. And so I would made not that I per per personally inspire myself, but I hope to I'm in hope hope hope and that I'm just living the best possible life that I can.
Yeah. I that's I think that's true. I think I think you're doing that pretty well. I think for me, um, I'm just inspired necessarily by um our listeners and our team because we everyone lists all these play stories and um some people can't get up every morning morning and talk to hundreds of people and help shape their day and shape their life and knowing that something I say could completely change their whole skend or their whole day or their outlook on an issue.
Um and reason for me, um, I think I think that's really what what inspires me.
Yeah, and I I would like to add nine nine um because like he just said something sure trigger this is this is that I when I'm sp like doing this interview or speaking to um my co-workers or people that I work with or who personally um DM me on social media and then they are inspired by me. That's what inspires me, is that I'm inspiring them or that you have your own podcast, you are starting something that you love to do, you take your own personal time to do that.
Um that's what really how helps me keep going because I see, you know, I'm not alone. Everyone wants to be a go-getter, everybody wants to follow their leads, and that to me is inspiring, just feeling that energy that going outing, outing, outing after what they would like to go after, you know?
Yeah. A hundred percent.
I think as I as a hundred percent like just spot on nailed it, I think it's thinking, yeah, yeah, you guys are inspiring me. So you can just feel a little bit of energy in those lives.
You know, I really appreciate that because our young and we are up a younger younger than you, and so to hear it from someone who is older than us and more wise, um, it it honestly the pattern because a lot of older people definitely like to look generation and they like to think that we we don't want to help our community out and that we're selfish. That at least those are the things that I hear from some. And so um we we we we are obviously still so much more life to live, you know?
And so growing.
Right, right. Look at the trajectory you're in. Look at where you're at. Look at look at look at look at it. Imagine what the future is.
Oh, you want you and you have an idea what's ahead for us. That's kind of crazy happening.
That's cool. Um, what's the best memories you've had in your life that you can record?
Oh, that's how you share with us.
That's such a good question.
Yeah, that's a hard one. Honestly, I think most of mine come from like being around on the show.
I think Oh my god.
I think, I mean, because we've been able to do some crazy things. I think one of my favorites was being able to um we were on like over top of the Empire State Building in a helicopter with this company called Fly Nion, and I was hosting this radio thing with the Empire State Building, and we're changing the colors of the building to the Empire State Building to music.
And that for me was such a full circle, crazy, unbelievable, because it was my love for the company Flying, it was my love for the Empire State Building, which I've always looked at as a huge thing, you know, not being from New York, and then um my love for radio and my love for music and my love for like events, and so all of it came together, and I would just remember sitting there, like, I'm literally over top of the Empire State Building, looking at what's happen- like, looking at what's
happening below us. I perfectly just timed all this music and all the lights to make sure the building is lit up correctly to the music we're playing on on, you know, of course, the radio and of course from the Instagram Live. And it was absolutely wild. I think that for me was my most crazy and exciting memory. But not even that, just um, you know, being able to share moments like announcing my um executive future's pregnancy on the air, or being able to announce my move to LA on the air.
It it's very um a lot of my moments are are with our listeners and being able to share our daily lives and and being honest and open with our listeners, it's being fun, but I like when you really get to to show them who we are, and that for me is is what I think my favorite part is.
How old were you when you did the Empire State building?
Um, I was twenty four.
Yeah, what 24-year-old do you hear doing that? Getting on a homicopter and controlling the lights on the Empire State building. That is so crazy.
Well, to clarify, to clarify, I was controlling the music to the lights. The lights are already pre-programmed.
Okay, the music to the lights. Um, you know, Chris is the big inspiration, definitely. The things that he has accomplished since so young, um, he definitely pushes me to try to be to that level. Um, but my most memorable memory that I have in my life, I have a couple. Um, I would definitely say number one is getting my dog with my boyfriend. Like I said, um I'm I'm about to be 10 years with my boyfriend, and so he had got me a dog three years ago.
And it's crazy what an animal well t like the animals that they they how they impact your life is what I'm trying to say. Um it's crazy that they they have these little personalities and they really like cater to you and your needs, and to have some little fur baby uncontrollably love you is just a different feeling. And so my dog definitely has to be number one and number two.
I'm not saying this because my boss is next to me, but but in all honesty, when he texted me, like you got the job, and then he called me, I felt so euphoric because I've always called myself the black sheep in my life. Um, everywhere I've gone, I've always been like an outcast, and I've always just been um just judge, and I I just always felt like the black sheep.
And so when it when he called me, he said that I got it, and he had like so many applicants and so many interviews, it kind of validated for me to stop doubting myself. And he that that feeling of him like letting me know I got it, I just felt euphoric. I just felt like I'm on top of the world, I can get this.
Like if if he wants me and he's worked with so many people and he's done so much many other things, then I need to start believing in myself and I need to start seeing what other people see in me. And so I I that's super memorable for me because I I got to see Yeah, I just got to see myself from someone else's POV and it was it was really nice.
Well, everyone on our show loves you, so you're good.
I hope so.
Well, that's amazing. Thank you for sharing that. That's great.
You're asking awesome questions, so thank you.
Well, thank you for answering them. It's amazing, it's amazing insights too. If you were both 18 again, individually will go again, and you could change or do things anything differently, what would you change and why?
Um, yeah, I don't think I would change anything. I think it's really sh my eighteen and nineteen year actually on honestly, everything from when I was like sixteen up until like legitimately twenty-four. And like I know it's a crazy range, um, was a lot. I learned a lot, and I don't think I would change a a singular thing. I even not even like eat like one less bagel. I wouldn't change a singular thing. I don't I don't think I would. I don't know. I think it taught me a lot.
I think it really built me up, um, and I I learnt a ton in my creative careers and a ton in my more corporate careers. So I I I don't think I would yeah, I don't think I'd change a thing. What about you?
I like that. I definitely don't think I would change it. Um, I would definitely love to give myself different advice. Like if I can go back to my 18-year-old self and be like, look, look at me and listen to me. I would definitely tell myself to stop um thinking I can do it all. Um, because I used to I my parents think I'm a rebel, although I was a good child. I did not get pregnant early.
I have no kids, I did not go the drug route, so I am a good child, but I definitely went against my parents um as to going and partying and going out. I would sneak out, and so I would tell my 18-year-old self to not think that I know it all. Um, because I left my house really young. Um I was 17 years old and I moved out of my mom's house and I went to New York and I kind of just fought off my parents.
And so it's not a a regret, it's just something that I wish I would have listened because I had to learn it the hard way, you know. I had to go through times in my life where I didn't want to listen, I was being stubborn, and so I completely got cut off from my parents, and I wish I could go back and just tell myself, like, take it one step at a time, listen to your mom. You know, your mom doesn't want the best, the bad, like bad for you, you know. And so I was really stubborn when I was young.
Oh, I was I was very stubborn.
But for the most part, that is that's there's not really much I would um change about my life. I feel like it's definitely molded me into the person I am today, and I I feel like I'm a lot more mature and wiser than any other 23-year-old because of the things I've been through, and so I definitely wouldn't regret it.
Yeah, definitely. 100% agree. I can see your professionalism, the way you guys talk, as you articulate everything. Yeah, it's amazing. Tell me about the TV show that you guys are working on.
Oh yes, um, behind the mic. Um so we were we were really out of the so we've been working on this um reality show for a while. Um we actually had you pause it because of COVID. So what the when's the last time we filmed? Was it February?
Yeah, last month.
February or January? We haven't filmed in a few in a few months. Um it's basically not actually about Afterglow. It's um a look into my life, Eileen's life, Sergio's life, um, our producer's Danley life. Um it's it's very uh it's very interesting because we we all live, I mean, my I feel like Eileen and I's lives alone are already crazy enough. So um we're taking people into a real true look um when the mics are off, like what really goes on. Um so we're calling it behind the mic.
Um, might change that. So if but um we're in the we're in our pilot stages right now.
Um it's gonna be so much fun because but when we're not filming, we're like, where are the cameras? Because the things that happen in here, people deserve to see because we are hilarious. And you know, I'm not tuning my own horn here. No, it isn't it. It's not because I say good jokes, it's because I'm probably a hot mess. But it's it's it's comical, you know, it's something where people can relate to. We are so young.
I feel like the reality shows that you see now are people who are established fully into their lives and careers. They have a crap ton of money where they can go and throw like million dollar parties, where here you're seeing us behind the scenes of trying to grow this radio show to next levels. And hopefully, this is gonna be a show where people can relate to us and they know that honor personalities and any other personality, any other content creator are just like that.
We go through the same emotions and the same um paths that everyone goes through when it comes to interacting with people and being in this type of industry.
And they have no idea what goes on when the mic, like during commercial breaks, oh, you have no no one has any idea what happens. It's me just screaming or me losing my mind or Eileen being like, I can't deal with this right now, or or like our whatever like or like Sarah being like, oh fuck this shit. I hate it all. And then that's and then say it's it's just the group. I mean, we're a team of 25 people.
So when you when you get that many people involved in the in a creation, you are it really goes down. And so we're hoping that that is gonna be a way that we can really see um the the the the drama that really really truly happens in our everyday life, fully unscripted and when the mics are off. Literally what happens.
Excellent. I can't wait to see when it comes out. Oh, it's gonna be crazy. Um looking forward to it. What um what does the future look like for After Day Wild? Oh, wow.
What the future has no idea what we're doing.
Yeah, um we're working on a few music festivals actually since the last time that we talked. Um, so we're hoping to get those up and running as obviously COVID restrictions um lift up. Um we're working on a giveaway to give away some flights and some airfare to Miami from anywhere in the US um to give them a nice real vacation. Uh we're working with a lot more on the rise artists, a lot more brands that don't that don't really get out there.
And and um it's our our goal for 2021, um, and I think we'll be doing so good as now we're in our third month, um, is going to be just to to really just sh keep getting people's days going off on the right foot, keep scaling our br brand. But um pretty much what's ahead is just a bunch of craziness, a bunch of our team growing more. Um we just signed a new office space, so we have another office space.
Um so we're just looking to grow and get more people involved and have ways that we can make their lives better. For I think uh a use of a better word.
That's amazing. Chris and Eileen, thank you for coming on my podcast, sorry. I do appreciate it. I wish you both all the successes everything you're doing with After Blow Live, and in your personal and professional lives aside from that. I can see as we discuss like the amazing things and everything you're doing. And yeah, I just wish you nothing but success in the future.
Oh well. Thank you so much. No, thank you for having us, it's been an honor. Um, you're really great with these questions. I am definitely inspired by all of your questions, and so I really appreciate it. Thank you.
And thank you for having us. Thank you very much. Please, we'll do we'll we'll keep in touch in the future. Yeah, awesome.
Please.
Sounds great.