WEBVTT - TIM CHANTARANGSU - Slurp Worthy Ramen 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:04.840 As you can see, my dishes empty, so tim sounds 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:14.120 that wrong? Suit y'all tronx here and we are eating 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:18.440 while broke. Thank you so much for feeding me today. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.279 Of course, thanks for having me. I'm excited for you 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.960 to try my little, my little recipe here. Yeah, okay, 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:29.000 do you eat a lot of instant I think everyone 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.840 that has been broke before had lived and died. By 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.280 the matter of fact, if you're not a chef in 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.320 ramen or instant noodles, then you probably weren't broken up. 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:40.519 I think we've all kind of we've all had some 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.280 version of this, right and um, you know, I feel 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:44.519 like a lot of people they're so used to this 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.600 they don't even know about like the real ass ramen 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.240 that you get, like the Japanese spot, you know. Really, 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.199 I feel like now the real ramen has become so popular, 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.360 true cho, but I still run into people who are like, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.200 why would you play fifteen dollars for some something you 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.880 get for you know that they don't know, they don't 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.640 they definitely don't know. So what are the ingredients you 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.000 have for us today? Okay, so we got some Mama noodles, 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.080 which are a high version of like rama noodles, okay, 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:09.959 and then we got some corn, which I just like 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:14.320 to throw and everything. We got some some scallions, greene onions, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.440 myt dogs, eggs, and some peanut butter and some so 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.040 rota of course. All right, So this is how I 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.679 challenged to know if someone's really broke, because if they 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.840 just do a straight ramah, I'm like, you haven't eaten 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.600 ramen enough until you tweaked it. You gotta tweak and 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.720 finesse in your own way, I think, especially with the 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.640 peanut butter. That was my dad's thing. That was something 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.039 he got me doing when I was a little kids. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.319 So okay, all right, I'm excited. Let's do it. Let's 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.200 do it. When was the last time you ate this, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.120 dish man? Probably? Um? I mean I probably just made 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.480 this like like a month ago. Um. Just you know, 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.280 when I'm at the house just like and and and 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.080 we don't feel like just cooking or ordering food, and 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.360 you know, you can't you can't go wrong, you know, 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.160 but do you make it as fancy as this? Because 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.320 I feel like this is kind of fancy. I mean, 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.640 I'll throw some hot dogs or something. I mean, now 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.960 that I got a little you know, I always have 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:08.040 some white wife. He doesn't like using the hot dogs, 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.240 so I tried to throw a little ground chicken in 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:14.360 there for her or something a little little healthier. Um, 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.280 And just so you know, I've never actually heard of 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.920 the Mama Mama noodles. Yeah, I've always heard of just 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.480 one ram like type of noodle. And then all of 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.720 a sudden, you threw this name at me, and then 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.160 I was just like, oh, and now I realized there's 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.639 like a whole bunch of different types of noodles. Mama 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:37.760 noodles are the tie equivalent of Rama noodles. And you know, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.400 like I said, my mom always likes using the type 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.760 products because they're just better than everything else. That's what 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.799 she said. And um, I wasn't making a joke. That's 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.840 literally like this what my mom said. So these have 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.639 like a better flavor you think, Yeah, yeah, different flavor. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.040 I like the I like the texture of it. I 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.120 can handle. We can you know, we're gonna we're gonna 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.919 try and hang because abtually I've you'd be surprised on 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.880 that show what I've eaten. I actually had a jail 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:07.520 meal a couple last week, which was very interesting. So 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.000 so I don't. I'm this is gonna be my official 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.920 meal of the day. Oh really okay, okay, yeah, I'm 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.760 excited to make this for you. Okay, did you ever 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.200 do this? Just eat these raw? I actually did on 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:22.440 the last episode. Yeah, it was my first time. I 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.920 didn't even know that was a possibility. It's a great snap. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.120 And also when it mixes with the hot water in 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.280 your stomach, they expence, you get pulled. Oh you know, 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.360 I didn't even think of that. I didn't even think 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.720 about that. So tell me a little bit about yourself, 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.120 like your upbringing, because I feel like we see you, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.720 you know, as a comedian, as a rapper, and we 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.800 don't really get to see the other side of like 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.040 what life was like or you're growing up and how 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.080 you broke into the industry, because I'm sure you had 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.280 quite a bit of hurdles. Yeah, definitely. I mean, if 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.760 we're talking about eating all broke, um, you know, uh 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:04.280 my family was deaf the lead broke. We we were 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.240 just you know, I grew up on like the east 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:11.000 side of Long Beach. We had a little one bedroom 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:15.720 apartment and uh my mom was a cook at like 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.000 a casino just wherever she could get cooking jobs, you know, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.640 because that was she just loved cooking. That was her thing. Um, 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.440 And my dad was doing like welding jobs in l 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.000 A and U. And one of my main real like 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.240 motivators for trying to get on and and and become 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:35.080 like successful in the whatever business I was in is 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.640 because I wanted to, you know, take care of my 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.520 parents and pay back my parents who all the all 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.000 the times, like they had to work because my mom 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.000 was always working like super late nights, and you know, 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.360 she had like at one point she had like two jobs. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.640 She was working at two different restaurants. And one thing 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.360 that I will say is that even though we were 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.440 like broke, um and we didn't necessarily have a lot 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.640 of money for like fancy ingredients, my mom always made 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.440 sure that the food was was tasty, you know, like 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.520 because she was she was like a cook, you know, 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:09.120 like so usually ideally she wasn't using hot dogs. She 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.039 liked to use um, like some ground pork or something 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.120 like that. That was her thing. The hot dogs are 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.760 just I just really like hot dogs. So I think 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.320 I just kind of asked my parents to make it 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.840 with hot dogs a lot as a young in and 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:26.320 uh yeah, so my goal. I told them growing up that, like, 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.680 you know, with this entertainment stuff, I know it sounds 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:34.000 crazy and I know it seems like it's point with, right, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.400 But I told them I was like, watch one day, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.320 I'm gonna make it work and I'm gonna pay you 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.200 guys this house off. I'm gonna like take care of 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:47.960 you guys. And we moved to a house in Paramount 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:53.839 when I was ten, and and eventually we got to 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:58.080 a point where I was able to pay off the house. Right, 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.440 And this is after you made it, Yeah, this is 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.120 after a bunch of stuff. How long would you say 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.120 your brind was before you were able to buy them 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.680 the house? So I was originally just trying to be 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.640 an actor, like doing like TV movies and stuff like that, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.000 like auditioning. But but I felt like back when I 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:20.200 first started, there was really no opportunities for Asian dudes specifically, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.080 there wasn't a whole lot of um things I could 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.520 audition for again, especially being like trying to just portray 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.719 a regular as person and not like a nerd or 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.839 a kungku dude, you know. So, um I started auditioning 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.400 for stuff, but it wasn't working out. So then I 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.760 found YouTube. Back in like oh six, no one was 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.840 really creating any type of content on youtubee. It was 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.000 brand new. So then I thought, I'm sure you can 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.120 do that, right, So what we do with the ai? 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.600 So what we do with the egg? Give? All right, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.320 So we're just gonna put it in there, and then 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.800 what happens is you put it on that over the 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.240 what happens is the boiling water is gonna it's gonna 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.080 cook that egg up, right, and you don't need do 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.520 you break the Yeah, I'm gonna break it up in here? Okay. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:08.200 So I've never ever, ever, ever in my life. This 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.720 is something my mom um and a lot of like 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.040 Asian people do, like um, with like rice soup. They're 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.560 like just bust an egg in there and the heat 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.920 from the soup will cook the egg and then um, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:20.720 then you break it up and then it adds a 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.520 nice little like different texture to the flavor and like 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.720 consistency to the to the broad I think, you know, alright, Alright, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:39.200 So I started making YouTube videos because I thought, Okay, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.640 this might be a good way to to get into 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.760 the to just kind of put my face out there 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.440 to see if something could happen through just me trying 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:51.440 to you know, um just put myself out there, you know. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.080 So I started doing a little stupid videos like freestyling 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.160 and like just doing impressions just to just to make 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:02.480 my MySpace friends laugh, you know. And then um, yeah, 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.920 I know it is it is how far back he goes, right, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.400 And so um, once I really started to gain an 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.520 audience on YouTube, I thought, okay, this this might be 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.480 a thing, because because back then, you know, I feel 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.640 like there was no place for especially like Asian entertainers 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.360 to really do our thing, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.400 So there was there was such like an audience online 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.040 that was like, oh wow, I've never seen an Asian 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.360 dude like being funny or or or singing or rapping. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.720 I started to build like an audience, you know, like 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.160 there was a lot of kids that were like, Okay, 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.200 he looks like me, this is crazy. You've never seen 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.360 this before. And people who have never seen an Asian 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.520 dude like just being like funny before, We're like, oh 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.440 this is this is this is weird. I'm a watch right, 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.480 And after doing my thing on YouTube for some time, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.839 I built like a pretty strong audience and then uh. Um. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.640 I was presented with the opportunity to audition for a 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.079 while and out and I got on that show. And 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.200 I was on while out for like six years, eight 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:09.160 seasons maybe and um and uh and you know, just 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.200 it's just opened up a lot of opportunities and YouTube 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.040 stuff the while and now. Um. So yeah, I got 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.439 to a point where I was able to pay off 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.600 my my family's house, um, which was dope for me 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.959 because uh, like, once I gave my parents the check 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.960 for for the house, uh, my mom was like, finally 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.640 I can I can take a break, you know. And 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.800 I was like, oh, Mom, I know, I know where 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.679 you like crying or death. I wasn't. I was happy 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.360 because I feeled the whole thing and I was happy, 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.040 Like my mom cried. My dad was like, oh I 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.120 knew you could do it, blah blah blah. But I 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.160 didn't get emotional until she said that. You know. That's 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.360 when I was like, oh, mom, you know, because I mean, 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.079 that's that's why I did it at the end of 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:50.560 the day, you know, because I wanted them to feel 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.000 like they could take a break, you know. So that 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.800 must have been crazy. It was crazy, especially you know, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.160 after like years of like I'm throwing corner. They're just 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.840 because I really like, do I want to try your dish? 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.280 And I love corn, by the way, that's my favorite vegetable. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.720 Corn is my ship. You know. People always check me 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.720 like corn isn't healthy, it gives you no nutrients, and 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.880 I'm like, I don't care corn and I love like 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.400 all like versions of corn, like I love corn. I 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.959 love the little thing from man, is that what you 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.000 call it? Let me tell you. When I see them 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:30.120 on the street, I will bust the straight you term 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:35.360 because it's like it's almost like you're lucky if you Okay. So, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.520 so here's the thing with the peanut butter. Okay, so 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.920 Thai people you know on curry, right, A lot of 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.160 curry is like peanut based. So my dad, whenever he 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.720 was making these noodles for me, he would throw in 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.040 some peanut butter because he felt like the peanut butter 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.160 kind of like, um, you know, add a little something 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.240 to it, and also was similar to like a curry. Take. Okay, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.360 I'm just that too much peanut butter? Is that enough? Okay? 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.040 Go happened. So I don't know if I've ever added 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.040 this much peanut butter figure. You know that's making so 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.360 you can you can really get this peanut butter. You 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.840 know exactly it's gonna be. It looks great, all right, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.360 it looks delicious. And look you could see the egg 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.800 turn into egg. Yes, that's amazing. Yes, so this is 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.880 a whole watch this is you're gonna You're gonna start 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:21.800 throwing your eggings some soup after this and telling you 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.640 I can see that. So did your parents ever have 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.800 some doubt and say, like you should go to school 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.040 or something? Yeah, you know, I mean my whole life 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.280 when I was like pursuing the whole entertainment stuff, like 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.920 they always said. They always said like, Okay, yeah, we know, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.360 this is what you love, this is what you want 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.840 to do. But also, you know, make sure you get 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.560 your make sure you get your degree, you know, and 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:47.400 I'll go yeah, yeah, And that was always the goal 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.320 that I was going to go back and finish and 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.920 get my degree, right, But it got to a point 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.960 where I kind of had to balance both things, you know, 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.040 and I was having trouble balancing like college and like 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.280 the different shows that were popping up and the different 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.920 shoots I had to do. So I eventually like I 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.000 took a semester off, and then I took another semester off, 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.240 and then I took like a year off, and then 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.400 I eventually just never went back. You know, do they 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.120 ever mention it well, because well, now you you could 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:15.840 have checked for their house. They're like, we don't care 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.600 what you do, right. I was just gonna say, like, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.640 I mean, my mom one time. One time she was like, 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.240 you're gonna go back and get your degree? Right? And 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.600 I was like, I was like, Mom, you really want 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.040 me to finish my degree or you want to keep 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.719 paying for your ship? And she was like, okay, okay never. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.080 But the thing about it is I knew they kind 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.079 of I think at the at the end of the day, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.280 you know, Asian parents, even though like you know, traditionally 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.280 they want you to be like a doctor or or 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.480 or finished school, at least, I think they just really 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.800 want you to um have security, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.080 They want to make sure I'm taken care of. And 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.040 I think once they realized that it was it was 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.760 legit and it was really something I was like making 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.920 money off of and I could live off of, then 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.240 then they took it seriously. You know, all parents kind 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.000 of bragged to their friends about what their kids do, right, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.400 and then, um, I remember my dad used to be like, oh, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.199 you know my son he made using this and this 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.800 and that, and he also does these little like videos 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.000 of his friends. Right. But then I remember one day 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.560 he was like, yeah, you know my son's things on YouTube. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.360 I'm like, okay, okay, he gets it, he gets it down. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.400 He was like, I've got a little a little portionate 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.360 for you. I got some green onions on there, just 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.400 just just to have them. I feel like little peanuts 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.480 should be at the top of this. Yeah, that would 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.400 be nice. And how you like these? Look at that? 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.080 This is looking official. I feel like I should just 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.520 take a couple, take all you a little you know 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.240 what I'm saying. I feel like I should have a 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.960 phone on this set and just be able to take 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.839 pictures of the dish because some of these are played. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.200 And look how nice it's played. Yall can't see this, 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.880 but it's played it really good. It's played it really great. Guys. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.079 This looks delicious And it didn't take long to make, no, 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.160 not at all, you know, instant, and this this was 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.520 really affordable to I mean, like a couple of bucks. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.760 I mean, you know when you're broke, yea do what 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.960 you got? This is good broke eating, though, what did 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:17.320 you get the first bite? Everyone's doing that. You take 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:25.640 the first bite. It's hot, It's extremely hot. Was there 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.920 ever a point in your career where you felt like 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.920 you weren't gonna make it or like, was there like 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.160 a hurdle that you thought I may have may need 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.560 to do a U turn you know what? Um? Oh 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.200 you can, you can. Really. There's a lot of peanut 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:50.880 butter like that not bad, right. The flavoring on this 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.760 is like restaurant quality, Like I would I would totally 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.400 pay like twenty dollars for this dish. And that's that's 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:02.480 that's what that's what they do, gentrification of some instant noodles. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.320 And I was like, so what was that point? Mm hm, um, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.360 you know what he's his name right? Um. I've never 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.680 felt discouraged like that because for me, I always looked 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.160 at it as just something I really had to work towards. Um. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.960 And if I ever like I'm still not where I 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:23.720 want to be, you know, because I still feel like 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.680 I have a lot of work to do still. Um 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.440 and UM. I was never at a point where I 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:33.080 felt like, Man, I'm not, I'm not. I'm not, I'm 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.480 not like I'm failing at this right because I felt 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.800 like as long as I kept making baby steps towards 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.880 what I was doing, then I was I was going 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.520 in the right direction, you know. So I feel like 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.640 as long as I just keep working and keep running, 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.400 I was gonna be all right. You know, what would 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.640 you say, is the hardest milestone you've had to hit 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:54.600 in your career so far? Mm hmm. I feel like, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.560 you know, I think that, um, a lot of people 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.920 will get discouraged just when you get like rejected, right 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.080 when you're going on auditions and you don't get the 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.600 part that you wanted. Like I've I literally had like 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:14.680 five different movies that were supposed to be like built 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.760 around me, Like people like all right, we going to India, 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.280 we shoot this movie. Um, we got this movie. Oh 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.200 J Cole is gonna be in there. You we wouldn't 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.000 want to want you, like multiple different projects that have 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.040 just feel it away and fell flat. You know, I think, 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.520 you know, when you're younger, you know, I got a 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.520 lot of people of course like me, like especially with 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.760 me doing the wrap stuff as well, like you know, 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:38.520 people would start they would they would be be laughing 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.880 before I even started wrapping, you know, especially like when 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.920 I was younger, younger, what is this be trying to 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:48.160 wrap and then um? But I think it's like you 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.080 can't let stuff like that keep you from going after 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.280 what you want. You know, there's always gonna be somebody 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.880 like talking ship or or making you feel stupid or 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.600 make you um, we're telling you that, like you're you. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.160 You can't do it, you know what I'm saying. So 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:03.680 it's like, what what's the point? I feel like life 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.400 is too short to worry about what other people think 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.119 about you what you want. When I see people like 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:15.040 yourself or Cardi B or people that like transcend, like 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.000 you know, go against the norm or the tradition, there's 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.199 a certain level of value and appreciation because by you 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.359 doing that, you just opened a door cracked in a 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.679 window for someone else to come through. So I do 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.320 know what you're talking about. Like when they were like 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.480 at one point, remember like if you saw an Asian 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:38.200 character was just karate or and there were these very small, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.760 you know, roles similar to like you know what blacks 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.399 had to go through too. But when you're able to 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.840 break through that bearer. It's like, did you have anybody 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.840 ever approached you like dude if it wasn't for you, Yeah, 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.159 I mean I definitely, you know, especially since in the 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.840 beginning of my YouTube videos, I was giving a lot 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.800 of relationship advice to like teenagers, and I feel like 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.720 it was a lot of young Asian dudes who had 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.760 no type of role model, where didn't really have anybody 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.359 they could talk to that we're writing me letters and 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.480 asked me for advice just on how to be confident, 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.920 how to approach girls, whatever, whatever. So I get a 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:14.440 lot of kids that come up to me like, yo, man, 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.240 started watching you when I was in junior high I 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.840 just graduated college. You help me get through high school. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:24.359 So that's that's dope for me because the main reason 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:29.080 I got into it was because I didn't see anybody 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.040 that looked like me that I could look up to, 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.719 you know. And and my old stage named Timothy Day 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.200 I get it was actually from an old episode of 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.640 The Fresh Prince because I was a big like Fresh 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:44.040 Prince fan, and I remember watching The Fresh Prince and 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.919 and there was an episode where Carlton's tucks like shrank 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.720 at the cleaners or whatever, so he needed another tuck 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.120 to go to dance. We had to get a last 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.920 minute like they do little corny tucks, right, And there 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.280 was this group of nerds that walked up and one 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.119 nerd Asian dude, was like, hey, Carlton, nice tucks. And 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:01.960 I remember thinking, damn, this is the first time I've 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.040 ever seen an Asian dude on The Fresh Prince or 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.960 even on TV like ever. And I remember thinking like, 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.240 if this is how the rest of the world, like, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.280 if you don't know any Asian people and you just 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.000 love The Fresh Prince, this is the first time you 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.800 see Asian dude. This is your only perception Asian dudes, right, 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:18.760 And I just remember thinking like, man, that that's not 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.040 me and that's not like anybody I know, and I 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.600 need to get out there and just rep for my people, 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:31.280 you know. So yeah, pretty awesome. Why did you decide 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.280 to like switch your name back? You know it? It 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.000 was a combination of things, like the quarantine kind of 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.680 had me like thinking about life right and thinking about 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:43.160 like I was like, yo, if I if I got 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.000 Corona and died like right now, like I don't know 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:48.879 if I want people to remember me, but it's like 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.679 YouTube name. I can't you know, like and in the 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.560 in the grand scheme of things, if I see myself 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.320 like accepting awards and getting like Academy awards and stuff, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.480 I don't want to be like, oh, what's um. You know, 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.480 this is my my silly name, my internet name. Timilarly 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.360 they like get know. I was like, let me, let 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.080 me um. I was thinking about just like my legacy 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.480 as a person, and if my whole m O also 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.960 is to make Asian dudes proud, let me fully embrace 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.480 my long ass tie last name because you know, Originally, 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.960 like you kind of think I need a Hollywood name 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.840 because like Hollywood is not gonna be able to pronounce 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:26.639 my name right. But then I was like, man, if 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.360 Arnold Schwartzenegger can can be very good. Yeah. I'm like, 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:34.600