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Speaker 1: Yes, it is Way Up with Angela Yee. I'm here

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Speaker 1: and the Jasmine brand is here and it's like a

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Speaker 1: friend's party in here because Ida Rodriguez is here too. Ya.

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Speaker 1: I was so inspired when we did that whole Mastery

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Speaker 1: of Comedy series that I actually have this segment called

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Speaker 1: Mastery of Comedy and it is focused on comics. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: on Way Up with Angela Yee. So we're highlighting you today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Mastery of Comedy and your illustrious career thus far.

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Speaker 1: Illustrious is correct, yes, But what I love about you

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Speaker 1: Ida is that, And I discussed this with other people too,

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Speaker 1: is that the content of what you talk about because

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Speaker 1: it's very personal, right, you talk about your own life

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Speaker 1: and how um you know, culture and everything, but you

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Speaker 1: also can talk about politics, but you also can talk

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Speaker 1: about dating. And I feel like it's very well verse.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, well rounded too. Some people can only talk

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Speaker 1: about one thing and stay and some people are scared,

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Speaker 1: also in their comedy to go certain places, but you

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Speaker 1: go there. Can you talk about how you got to

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Speaker 1: that point where you were able to do that? You

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Speaker 1: know what's funny? I started on the edge, yeah, because

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Speaker 1: I started stand up a grown up right, And so

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Speaker 1: when I started doing stand up, I was like already

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Speaker 1: needed how I needed to learn how to shape it,

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Speaker 1: But I was already going there, and so I feel

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Speaker 1: most comfortable in that place. I think it's relatable. I think, um,

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Speaker 1: when I get the reaction of people who are like,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, I know that too, I feel that too.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like, as a woman, especially a woman

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Speaker 1: do you gauge if you're going too far or not?

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Speaker 1: You know what I gauge it by how I'm feeling.

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Speaker 1: If I'm starting to feel like yucky, I stopped. I'll

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Speaker 1: stop myself. I don't let the audience tell me though, Right.

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Speaker 1: It's really just like, because I've done some jokes that

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Speaker 1: because there's been times, and you know, doing comedy during

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Speaker 1: address certain audiences, you know, because I've seen you in

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Speaker 1: all different types of spaces. I've seen when you were

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Speaker 1: filming your special Fighting Words. I've been there for that,

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Speaker 1: and I've seen those people can't specifically to see you.

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Speaker 1: But then sometimes what's it like when there's an audience

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Speaker 1: even leave. I like those audiences. You've said that I'm

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Speaker 1: conflict driven. It happened in childhood. No. You know what

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Speaker 1: I will say is I have never and I don't

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Speaker 1: people do that. They go to comedy shows and then

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Speaker 1: I don't colt switch. I don't change my routine for

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Speaker 1: I don't believe in that. I just feel like that's

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Speaker 1: of confidence that comes to that because you've lived life.

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Speaker 1: You have some amazing things to talk about. But one

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Speaker 1: And I think that's there's power in that. I like, uh,

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