Q&A With Pea! | (The Truth Is Revealed)

Pea reluctantly does her first Q&A, addressing the swirling rumors about her identity (people have guessed she's a divorced mom from California, a singer from Hong Kong, and a news reporter from Phoenix — all wrong). She answers viewer questions ranging from childhood hustles and dating preferences to her worst date ever and why she'd enact a worldwide nudity law. She also reveals her YouTube setup and introduces Jen, the single mom from her poverty video, as her new assistant.

What's Covered ​

• Clearing up the two most common questions she gets daily

  • "Are you American?" — No. She has never been to the US and was once denied when she tried to go
  • "How do you speak English so well and know so much about the West?" — Four reasons:
    • Education: grew up extremely poor (poorer than the people in her poverty video) but graduated top of her high school class, earned a full scholarship to college, and had professors who were doctors, attorneys, and MBAs
    • Call center work: worked at American-owned call centers for years, chatting with Americans while they waited on hold — she calculated this gave her the equivalent of roughly 340 college-level language courses in English
    • Dating: has exclusively dated and lived with Western guys for the past 10 years, lived briefly in the UK, and learned American football, baseball, golf, slang, idioms, TV shows, and music through immersion
    • Personality: has always felt like an outsider in the Philippines — interested in time travel, wormholes, string theory, politics, and philosophy, which bore her Filipino friends and family; describes feeling "like an alien" and says YouTube is her outlet to connect with people who understand her

• Q&A: Childhood story (Sam Spangler)

  • Was a natural entrepreneur as a kid — climbed trees to collect guava and cotton fruit, made yema candy (a Filipino candy made from egg yolk), and sold them to classmates during class
  • Collected seashells, turned them into jewelry, and sold them to female classmates for a few pesos

• Q&A: Is it acceptable to burp in public? (David Meyer)

  • Generally not acceptable in public, but fine among family members and partners
  • Pea personally burps a lot: "it's natural gases, so let it out"

• Q&A: What are you most proud of? (Hutchings)

  • Her communication skills — they've been her "bread and butter" for years and allowed her to improve her life situation

• Q&A: Where did your humor come from? (Gary Tucker)

  • Not from her parents — they were very serious people
  • Was not the class clown; describes herself as "the shy nerdy type"
  • Got her humor from watching Western movies

• Q&A: What age gap is acceptable in your relationships? (Ben Brown)

  • Comfortable dating someone up to twice her age
  • Requirements: chemistry, transparency, and intelligence — describes herself as sapiosexual
  • Also needs him to be in good physical shape and look healthy

• Q&A: What was your first job? (Bill Neary)

  • Besides selling stuff as a kid, her first real job was at McDonald's earning 40 cents an hour
  • Worked as a service crew and hosted kids' parties
  • Got fired for eating chicken crumbles (the batter bits from fried chicken) — their free meal was only one piece of chicken and three cups of rice, but she was hungry and the crumbles were just scraps, "so I think they were worth it at that time"

• Q&A: If you could enact a world law, what would it be? (Allen Patton)

  • Mandatory nudity for everyone — her reasoning is that it would make everyone equal, since people couldn't hide behind fancy clothing or material possessions, and would be judged as a person rather than by appearances: "we are born naked"

• Q&A: What superpower would you want? (Paul W)

  • Wants to fly despite having a fear of heights
  • Also wants mind-reading abilities, with the caveat that she'd only want it to work when she chooses, so she's not overwhelmed by constant thoughts

• Q&A: What is the perfect date? (M)

  • Nothing fancy — just pizza and Netflix at home
  • Fine with a nice restaurant or a walk on the beach, but mostly just wants good food and good company
  • One rule: the man must absolutely pay for the date — "I know it's old school but I'm never gonna go Dutch on a date, the man should be the man"

• Q&A: What kind of man makes the best partner for a Filipina? (George Jacobs)

  • One who is open-minded, able to communicate on her level, transparent, financially prepared, and listens to her words — because with a Filipina, "what we say is what we mean, you don't have to read between the lines like Western women, we're very very straightforward"

• Q&A: Have you ever been used? (Dennis Moran)

  • Yes — describes being "catfished" by a guy who pretended to be a good person, later found out he was a convicted sex offender living in the Philippines
  • Points out the dangers of dating foreigners in the Philippines: "there's always two sides of a coin" — foreigners worry about being scammed, but Filipinas also get deceived by foreign men hiding dark pasts

• Q&A: What do you do for fun?

  • Cooking, playing online games (specifically PUBG — "don't mess with me on the battlefield"), watching movies, and eating out

• Q&A: Is it common for Filipino families to all sleep in one room?

  • Yes, it's very common, especially in poor households
  • When she grew up, five family members shared one room — she slept on a mat on the floor with basically a towel as a blanket
  • Her room was also next to the pigsty, so some mornings she'd wake up with a pig next to her that had escaped its pen

• Q&A: Have you ever been robbed?

  • Yes — someone was stealing things from her house, and she reported it to the police, who did nothing about it

• Q&A: What's the worst date you've been on?

  • Her date was 30 minutes late, came running frantically toward the restaurant, and ran face-first into the glass door
  • He sat down bleeding, she told him he should see a doctor, but the bleeding stopped and they continued dinner with drinks
  • At the end of the night, he tried to kiss her — but still had a blood clot on his lip; she didn't have the heart to tell him to wipe it off

• Q&A: Have you been to the Why Not bar in Dumaguete?

  • Been once; too noisy to have a conversation — "not my thing"
  • Only went because a friend wanted to go dancing

• Q&A: What do you think of cockfights?

  • Has been to one; hated it — calls it "barbaric" and "bloody"
  • Notes the blade attached to the rooster's foot is actually poisoned
  • Found the experience traumatic

• Q&A: Were you ever shamed by girls with whiter skin?

  • Once in third year of high school, a girl told her she shouldn't wear bright-colored shirts because she was "too dark"
  • Didn't listen: "still wear what I want, like who cares"

• Q&A: Celebrity crush growing up? (Mark Andrews)

  • Not a real celebrity — she had a crush on Tamahome, an anime character from the manga series Fushigi Yugi
  • Notes that anime characters often look Western with blue eyes and blonde or blue hair, which she thinks explains it

• Q&A: Favorite movies and shows?

  • Game of Thrones, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Big Bang Theory, Fawlty Towers, Stranger Things, Survivor (her all-time favorite — she's watched up to season 33), Lost in Space
  • Emphasizes her deep love of Western entertainment

• Q&A: Quick-fire fun questions

  • If stranded on a deserted island, what luxury item? "Easy — George Clooney"
  • One week without rice or vibrator batteries? "Let's just say I might get hungry after a week"

• Q&A: What's your YouTube setup? (Professor Hank Jensen)

  • Gives a tour of her studio, which is also her bedroom
  • Equipment: a laptop, a phone, a tripod, backdrops (duct-taped to the wall), and two light boxes donated by patrons
  • Shows her messy bed, rubbish on the floor, and the barebones setup — emphasizing she makes everything work with almost nothing

• Hiring Jen as her assistant

  • Pea explains she's been overwhelmed handling all the correspondence, video production, cooking, cleaning, and laundry — not eating or sleeping properly
  • Introduces Jen, the single mom featured in her poverty video (the one working 19-hour days as a house helper/caregiver for ₱4,000/month)
  • Promises Jen on camera: a raise, her own bed (she'd been sleeping on the floor), plenty of time off to visit her son, transportation to see him, and English lessons
  • Says she'll teach Jen how to cook, how to succeed, and treat her like a sister: "I want you to be part of my family"
  • Reflects: "I know that I can't help everyone but I can help this one"

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