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The Comment Section with Drew Afualo

SLINGING CANDLES Ft. Juju Green | Episode 191

15 Oct 2025

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Chapter 1: What experiences shaped Juju Green's career in film reviewing?

0.031 - 12.741 Drew Afualo

I used to be a sales associate at Bath and Body Works. How do you know this? What? I feel like you would sling a candle like nobody's business. I feel like you would kill sales.

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18.357 - 40.534 Drew Afualo

hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show sorry me your fave everybody knows me who cares about me on to the guests today we have for our next installment of the spooky season the one the only the hilarious the iconically talented juju green aka straw hat goofy hi guys how's it going hello i care about you oh like very much thank you because nobody here does

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41.763 - 43.986 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

As she said, she got family, sisters, mom.

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44.086 - 46.529 Drew Afualo

None of the people behind this camera care about me.

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46.549 - 48.512 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

Nobody here. It's just us all.

Chapter 2: How did a famous director react to a critical review?

48.572 - 50.795 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

You know what? All we need is each other right here. Exactly.

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50.815 - 68.859 Drew Afualo

We're good. This episode is presented to you by eBay. Tell me if I'm alone here. But shopping used to feel more fun before all of the algorithm fed blah and the endless sea of dupes. But I have a confession. I've found that fun feeling again. On eBay, it's not mindless scrolling.

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Chapter 3: What unique encounters did Juju have at Disneyland?

69.08 - 83.541 Drew Afualo

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83.822 - 90.171 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

A fish and a burger. Who would have thought? Two best friends. Hey, you just like called yourself like the fish from SpongeBob.

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90.191 - 90.492 Drew Afualo

Yes.

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Chapter 4: How did Juju handle being put on the spot at a Comic-Con panel?

91.052 - 92.054 Drew Afualo

I'm giving narrator.

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92.214 - 93.256 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

Am I a Krabby Patty?

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94.177 - 119.222 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

wow yes crabby patty yes we did not plan this at all listen nobody's spongebob because that's basic yeah we went exactly who wants to go with spongebob we went with like niche concept costumes exactly it's the my leg guy yeah exactly you go with mrs puff right you know you go oh the chocolate the chocolate like this yeah my favorite side character would be the guy who's like

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119.202 - 141.396 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

my diet dr kelp that guy that he stole me because i can't eat without a drink yeah so i too would berate the pizza worker if you forgot my big drink honestly fair this is like before doordash was a thing right it's like bro i called you you said you could order it there's a storm outside it took them legit like two days to get to him like i would be pissed off too exactly all that you forget my drink

141.376 - 165.544 Drew Afualo

exactly exactly all that hoopla for nothing come on anyways i am happy to have you on the show i'm happy thank you so much for coming here you and i we go way back we go like like it feels like the beginning of like tiktok as we know it i know like we were in the same wave i feel like and i like that same like draft class yeah exactly you and i both went round one i think so yeah round one i think i think like you went like one i feel like i'm like

165.524 - 182.335 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

12 like you know i feel like i feel like i'm like you know listen 12 is good 12 is good i think kobe was like 13. i know now we now we we're seeing you like i guess have seniority i think so we're seeing your citizens honestly i was thinking a little bit i've been called unc many a time

182.635 - 184.898 Drew Afualo

You and me both. I'm sick of it.

185.579 - 186.681 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

Honestly, I don't mind.

Chapter 5: What lessons did Juju learn from working at Bath & Body Works?

187.081 - 203.264 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

My hairline's starting to recede. I don't think so. I mean, I'm just so conscious about it. Well, my daughter basically calls it out. She's terrified of me being bald. Every time I get a haircut, she's like, Dad, no, don't do it. And I'm like, why do you think that? She says, because you're already kind of bald. She's like, I can see it.

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203.364 - 208.131 Drew Afualo

Obviously, I have eyes. Because you're looking from my chest up. You can't see the rest. You don't know what's going on back there.

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208.151 - 212.457 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

You're too small. So I'm just embracing it preemptively before it gets real bad.

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212.437 - 221.758 Drew Afualo

Honestly, I call it power bald. Like my man obviously has really long hair, but he told me like the second it starts to wean even a little.

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221.778 - 222.339 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

The whole thing.

222.479 - 226.989 Drew Afualo

Bicking the whole head. And then he's going to grow the beard longer. That's what I was going to do.

227.611 - 229.816 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

I was like, if I shave this, this is about to go crazy. Yeah.

229.836 - 230.918 Drew Afualo

And my dad's bald.

230.898 - 251.57 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

oh yeah oh you're good i've got permission from all okay you guys are setting like family precedents yeah my dad my dad's bald he was like over it don't need it anymore yeah my dad's bald too bald as hell exactly and bald dads are great dads my dad was in prison for my whole life so well it's fine You're still, I'm sure you would have been a great dad.

Chapter 6: How do social media and fame affect reviewers like Juju?

275.819 - 277.562 Drew Afualo

Girl, hang on just a little bit longer.

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277.582 - 282.429 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

Just a little bit longer. My niceness goes away with the hairline.

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282.449 - 288.899 Drew Afualo

Well, speaking of our senior class, when we were drafted many a year ago, you've been very busy.

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288.919 - 291.282 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

I've been very busy. I feel like I've been the movie guy.

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291.342 - 292.444 Drew Afualo

Everyone's favorite movie guy.

292.424 - 307.026 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

Well, I don't know about everyone's favorite, but hopefully I'm enough people's movie guy. Absolutely. Doing a lot and working really hard to cement this. Because you know social media is fleeting. It always feels like it's going to go away. The TikTok we had, how many scares now?

307.366 - 309.45 Drew Afualo

I know, for real. I lost count at this point.

309.47 - 309.99 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

I lost count.

310.01 - 314.918 Drew Afualo

To be honest. Every day it's like, it's going to be deleted tomorrow. And at this point, I'm like, all right.

Chapter 7: What challenges do influencers face in the entertainment industry?

423.644 - 442.552 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

the levels, if that makes sense. I agree. I feel like there's categories of like these type of things. Like you may not watch sports, but that still doesn't mean someone like a Kevin Durant is not like the highest performing guy there. Right. Exactly. So I feel like in our kind of like stratosphere, you can consider us the top dogs.

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442.572 - 453.369 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

And there are people who really just only consume content from that stratosphere. And that's really cool. But when it comes to like intermingling, like you said, like being the help in certain situations. Yeah. There's levels to this.

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453.449 - 470.948 Drew Afualo

It's true. And it's also like, it's driven by ego more than anything in my opinion. We've been in enough rooms now to know like that's more ego than anything. Cause obviously there's a reason why we're in the room, but I joke all the time. Cause I say like, honestly, like high, high, high level talent, like what you would consider your average celebrity. Right.

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470.928 - 494.556 Drew Afualo

They're actually more oftentimes than not a lot nicer, in my opinion, than like reality star people. We're in different buckets, right? Like we're social people, there's reality star people, there's like actual A-level talent. And then we're all kind of mixed in between in these rooms. And I was like, the only people that have ever been rude to me, like in my experience thus far,

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494.536 - 503.108 Drew Afualo

have been reality stars. Because they think they're more famous than us. And I think we're the same, if we're being real. I feel like we're on the same level.

503.129 - 509.818 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

Yeah, I feel like that too. Because I feel like we're all just living in a reality. We're all putting our lives online.

Chapter 8: What insights does Juju share about the importance of authenticity in reviews?

509.838 - 514.485 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

And none of these things are real. But I think there is a level of just kind of like...

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514.465 - 541.08 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

once you get that taste of fame it's like what are you gonna do with it right like who are you gonna become once you get that little taste right some people will hit like 10 000 followers on instagram and say like i'm an influencer can you comp me my meal it's like wait a minute who are you like i'm sorry like what like you know and they they somehow there's like a delusion of like oh because of these 10k i'm just as big as huda or just as big as duane like you should know who i am

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541.06 - 563.558 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

like what i had that one viral video so of course you've seen it right right and for me i've i've always tried to stay grounded when i like i know where i come from right like i know i'm just a guy who just puts out like fun movie videos i'm just saying off the top of the dome it's really not that deep for me so like whenever i hear people be like oh you think you're so much bigger than what you are i'm like i really not my self-esteem is so

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563.538 - 576.956 Drew Afualo

I never do. Trust me. Well, and also too, like sometimes when, because we've worked carpets, like you and I, sometimes when I work carpets, like, you know, like stars are online like us, like they're on TikTok like us. So they do have brain rot.

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576.976 - 578.598 Juju Green (Straw Hat Goofy)

Every now and then you have that overlap. Yeah.

578.718 - 596.715 Drew Afualo

And they're like, oh my God, I love your stuff. I think you're so funny. I think you're so cool. And sometimes when I'm, you know, when you work in those little press pits, you sit in those little pig pens. And then you're like shoulder to shoulder with everybody. And so sometimes when A-level talent will recognize me and they're like, oh my God, I love your stuff. And they walk away.

596.996 - 600.625 Drew Afualo

Enough times it happens, people next to me will be like, what do you do? What do you do?

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Yeah.

602.671 - 608.502 Drew Afualo

I literally go, honestly, nothing interesting. Like I literally tell them, I tell wiener jokes on the internet. Like that's pretty much it.

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