You Might Wanna Sit Down For This

We’ve never had so many people on set before, and it was overwhelming in the BEST WAY.

If you grew up in the golden YouTube music era, then You Might Wanna Sit Down For this. In this episode, we invited Jesse Barrera, Albert Posis, Jeremy Passion, Gabe Bondoc, and Michael Carreon on the pod to talk about their music careers, “TikTok music”, and the beauty of collaboration among artists. PS/ We may have also introduced some of the (arguably) worst Malaysian childhood snacks to add on to the nostalgia.

Don’t ask so much, sit down first.

00:00 Intro 

00:35 Getting to know the panel 

03:05 Modern Nostalgia Tour 

06:33 Introducing our Malaysian snacks 

09:10 TikTok vs YouTube

12:37 Connecting with fans 

18:37 What triggers our nostalgia 

22:09 Jesse Barrera - Scary as hell but I do love the thrill 

23:03 Michael Carreon- Simple Things & Yesterday 

24:36 Strawberry Soju

26:48 Albert Posis - Cheeky 

29:30 Collaboration between artists 

31:00 Parallels Tour 

32:22 Gabe Bondoc’s journey in music 

34:35 Jeremy Passion’s growth as an artist 

40:01 Advice for the next generation of artists 

44:28 Closing 

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