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Speaker 1: the people's strick into today's headlines. All right, folks, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you. With all the news that
Speaker 1: happened today, I just don't think we have enough space
Speaker 1: in today's show. Yeah. I know. I tried. I tried
Speaker 1: everything to fit it all in. I I even used
Speaker 1: that machine from Honey I shrunk the kids, But there
Speaker 1: was the whole thing I accidentally aimed at my crotch
Speaker 1: and the nights to like to get the another one
Speaker 1: that show. It was like anyway, The point is, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: but there's still not enough time for the news today.
Speaker 1: Luckily not enough time. It's just enough time for a
Speaker 1: segment week hall A, nobody got time for that. Alright,
Speaker 1: Let's kick things off with a big story about gas,
Speaker 1: the only character to appear in every Fast and Furious movie.
Speaker 1: Gas prices have been falling in America for months now,
Speaker 1: but it looks like that's about to end, and just
Speaker 1: in time to throw a big, greasy wrench into the
Speaker 1: mid terms. A win for Russia and potentially higher gas
Speaker 1: prices for American consumers. The Opeque plus alliance of oil
Speaker 1: producing countries announcing deep cuts in production to boost prices
Speaker 1: for their members, including Russia and Saudi Arabia, growing concerns
Speaker 1: about the future of gas prices in the US. We
Speaker 1: could see an increase in prices by the end of
Speaker 1: this month, just in time for mid term elections. The
Speaker 1: worst possible timing for president by this comes just three
Speaker 1: months after the President visited Saudi Arabia, the biggest player
Speaker 1: in OPEK. Biden fist bumped NBS and asked him to
Speaker 1: increase oil production. Instead, Saudi Arabia did the opposite. Yes,
Speaker 1: America's allies, Saudi Arabia has decided to take sides with
Speaker 1: Russia and raise oil prices. And at this point, I'm
Speaker 1: ready struggling to understand the relationship between America and Saudi
Speaker 1: Arabia because it seems like a very one sided friendship.
Speaker 1: America sells them weapons and ignores their many human rights abuses,
Speaker 1: and then Saudi Arabia is like, and in the return,
Speaker 1: we will kill your journalists and raise your gas prices
Speaker 1: and do ninety elevens. Thank you, my friend, thank you.
Speaker 1: We are such good friends, such good friends. But I
Speaker 1: guess that's the power you have when you're in control
Speaker 1: of all the energy, right. I mean, America can't even
Speaker 1: threaten the Saudias. What's Biden gonna say if you raise
Speaker 1: the prices, will fly over there and bump the ship
Speaker 1: out of you. If you could just lend us some
Speaker 1: gas and feel about jets, that would be great. We
Speaker 1: can't get there. And whether you were Democrats or a Republican,
Speaker 1: you have to admit that this is not a good
Speaker 1: look for Biden, because think about it, he had to
Speaker 1: fly all the way across the world to fist bump
Speaker 1: the crown prince and in exchange he gets a pie
Speaker 1: in his face. Honestly, sometimes I feel like the Saudias
Speaker 1: are just pranking American presidents, you know, like you remember
Speaker 1: how they were with Trump. They were like, here to
Speaker 1: do this short dance, dance with the storm dance. Now
Speaker 1: put your hands on the glowing or oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's doing it. Guys, he's doing it. He's doing it.
Speaker 1: Americans are so thirsty. Now, if we had time, we
Speaker 1: could talk more about how Saudi Arabia could be raising
Speaker 1: gas prices right before the mid terms to punish Biden
Speaker 1: for running his mouth. Oh, we could talk about how
Speaker 1: America has painted itself into this corner by pushing both
Speaker 1: Venezuela andy Ron so far out of the world economy
Speaker 1: that they caught help stabilize world oil prices. We could
Speaker 1: even talk about how gasoline comes from dinosaurs, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: But we don't have the time to talk about any
Speaker 1: of that, because while Saudi Arabia is coming for your wallets,
Speaker 1: drug dealers are coming for your kids. Urgent Halloween warning,
Speaker 1: rainbow fentanyl. This is every parent's worst nightmare. In New
Speaker 1: York City fifteen thousand rainbow fentanyl pills seized from a
Speaker 1: car just days ago, many of them found in this
Speaker 1: yellow lego box. The d E A calling rainbow fentanyl
Speaker 1: a deliberate effort by drug traffickers to drive addiction among
Speaker 1: kids and young adults, but medical specialists contacted by ABC
Speaker 1: say there has not been evidence presented that the pills
Speaker 1: are being given to or targeted towards children. No, the children,
Speaker 1: not children. They're being targeted, although there's no evidence of that.
Speaker 1: But what if there was? The children? What is it
Speaker 1: about American news that every year they find a new
Speaker 1: story to scare parents about Halloween? Every single year in
Speaker 1: this country. Oh, they're gonna put razor blaze in the candy.
Speaker 1: They're gonna poison the candy. They're gonna switch out the
Speaker 1: real candy for weed. It's almost like every single October
Speaker 1: the news is like, well, this Halloween, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: as a gullible grandma who believes everything she reads un faced. Fark. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard that if your hand is bigger than your
Speaker 1: face you have cancer. What are you doing? People need
Speaker 1: to stop fearmongering, al right, The worst thing anyone gives
Speaker 1: to kids on Halloween's on Halloween is like like a
Speaker 1: mound's bar. That's it. Yeah, most things are so bad
Speaker 1: even the company that makes them is like, well, let's
Speaker 1: just name it after a big pile of dirt. Why not,
Speaker 1: because let's let's play along with this logic. Let's play along.
Speaker 1: What do you say. You're saying that drug dealers are
Speaker 1: trying to get little children addicted to drugs, So then
Speaker 1: what they can use the millions they've made from the
Speaker 1: tooth ferries to keep the drug business alive? Huh? Drug
Speaker 1: dealers one customers not dependents. These kids don't have the
Speaker 1: money for fencil. Well they're gonna be walking up to
Speaker 1: your drug dealer. I can pay you in stickers, but
Speaker 1: not the glitter ones doesn't my favorite, And don't cut
Speaker 1: that ship like the last time, Marty, I want to
Speaker 1: pure stuff. It's the fear mongering. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: saying the drugs onto an issue. I'm saying stuff fearmongering
Speaker 1: to the parents. Right, I see why this is happening
Speaker 1: right now. Rainbow fencynel is the heart new panic drug
Speaker 1: and people. I know rainbow fencyel is scary, but can
Speaker 1: we just take a minute to congratulate it for being
Speaker 1: an ally. Huh cocaine. Maybe your white ass could learn
Speaker 1: a thing or two about that white all the time. Now,
Speaker 1: if we had the time, we could talk more about
Speaker 1: how American news organizations are some of the worst offenders
Speaker 1: and sensationalizing and fueling the war on drugs because their
Speaker 1: stories ensure that public support for a program that has
Speaker 1: decimated communities and incocerated half of the United States carries on.
Speaker 1: But we don't have the time for that, because while
Speaker 1: local news is trying to pump up the drug will,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is trying to undo some of the damage
Speaker 1: it's caused. Or breaking news at this our President Biden
Speaker 1: just pardoned thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession under
Speaker 1: federal law, and the pardon will intact about hundred people
Speaker 1: with the simple marijuana possessions convictions between the years. He's
Speaker 1: also asking the Secretary of HHS to review how we
Speaker 1: classify cannabis marijuana in this country, pointing out if that
Speaker 1: marijuana is classified on the same level as heroin, he
Speaker 1: wants his administration to take another look at that. Too
Speaker 1: many lives have been upended because of our failed approach
Speaker 1: to marijuana. It's time that we right these wrongs. Yes, finally,
Speaker 1: this is something that should have been done a long
Speaker 1: time ago. You know, can you imagine how many people
Speaker 1: are incocerated even works? Can you imagine getting for this
Speaker 1: offen seeing how mainstream weed has become in America? I mean,
Speaker 1: which is probably feel the same way. You know. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: so these hampster change can walk around Brooklyn with their
Speaker 1: candles and crystals. But when I didn't sell them, I
Speaker 1: got burned. Bitches, I got burned. But yes, this is
Speaker 1: great for America. This is really good for America. And
Speaker 1: it's also huge. It is a huge week for the
Speaker 1: characters on Scooby Doo. Think about it. Yeah, first Bellma
Speaker 1: comes out as a lesbian, and now Shaggy's getting a
Speaker 1: federal pardon what? And now I know everyone is saying
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden is just doing this to boost his
Speaker 1: popularity before the mid terms, But in my opinion, I
Speaker 1: think maybe this thing hits closer to home. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if Joe Biden secretly a huge pothead. Yeah no,
Speaker 1: think about it, think about it, Think about it. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden can smoke a lot of weed. Yeah, he's he's
Speaker 1: always puttering around like he forgot where he was going.
Speaker 1: You know, it's wearing sunglasses everywhere he goes. I mean,
Speaker 1: he definitely talks like he's highs American. You know the
Speaker 1: thing I'm I'm just like, I'm not junking. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: come on, wait, we're here now when the futures everywhere,
Speaker 1: it's everywhere? Is he? Now? If we just had a
Speaker 1: little more time, we can discuss why anyone anywhere in
Speaker 1: America splin jail for something that almost everyone agrees isn't
Speaker 1: a crime. Oh, we could talk about how convenience it
Speaker 1: is that weed is no longer bed, not that America
Speaker 1: has figured out how to make money from it. But
Speaker 1: we don't have the time for that, because while the
Speaker 1: US are showing signs of finally getting over its obsession
Speaker 1: with drugs, Elon Musk is unveiling his master plans to
Speaker 1: get everyone addicted to something else. After a few contentious months,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and Twitter seemed to have reached the deal,
Speaker 1: and Musk is now poised to buy the social media app,
Speaker 1: Musk tweeting last night his purchase and Twitter will be
Speaker 1: part of his plans for an app called X, a
Speaker 1: so called super app that acts as a condensed version
Speaker 1: of the Internet, letting you do everything within one app.
Speaker 1: The best example of this is wheat Chat. It's owned
Speaker 1: by Chinese internet giant ten Cent and has over one
Speaker 1: billion users, mostly throughout Asia. We Chat let's you send
Speaker 1: text messages, pay for things online and in stores, hail
Speaker 1: a car ride, play video games, and so much more.
Speaker 1: Must telling Twitter employees in a town hall over the summer.
Speaker 1: We Chat could be a model for future versions of Twitter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into a super app
Speaker 1: that does everything in one place. And I will tell
Speaker 1: you know, I hate that idea. I don't want Twitter
Speaker 1: to do more things. I like how it works now.
Speaker 1: Every day the entire world picks one person and destroys
Speaker 1: their life, and then the next thing we find somewhere else.
Speaker 1: It's perfect. It works pretty well. Come up for real, Like,
Speaker 1: Twitter is such a toxic sewer, why would you want
Speaker 1: to link it to all the other parts of your life.
Speaker 1: It's like a businessman saying, hey, you see this trash can.
Speaker 1: What if it was also your car? I don't to
Speaker 1: burst anyone's bubble but we already have this all right,
Speaker 1: it's called an iPhone. Seriously, are we so lazy now
Speaker 1: that we're like, oh, I want to order someone to
Speaker 1: bring me food, but the app is all the way
Speaker 1: on the other side of the phone, and my thumb
Speaker 1: is so tired. I'm look. If we had a little
Speaker 1: more time, we could talk, and we could have so
Speaker 1: much fun talking about how Elon Musk thought he was
Speaker 1: trolling all of us but instead just spend billion dollars
Speaker 1: trolling himself. And I know you might be saying, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: well he still owns Twitter. Driver yeah, and somebody owned
Speaker 1: my Space. I'll see you guys on the next app.
Speaker 1: But we don't have the time to talk about any
Speaker 1: of that because someone somewhere in the world said something
Speaker 1: by mistake, and now all of us on Twitter, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try and destroy their lives. What's the maps. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back. Welcome back to The Daily Show. The
Speaker 1: mid terms are only a month away, and one of
Speaker 1: the most closely watched races is in Georgia, where Democratic
Speaker 1: Senator Raphael Warnock is being challenged by Herschel Walker, former
Speaker 1: football star and walking Mori Povic. Episode. So let's catch
Speaker 1: up on today's big twist in the race in another
Speaker 1: installment of Vote Demico. From the very start of this race,
Speaker 1: herschel Walker has been one of the loudest champions for
Speaker 1: a total ban on abortion, which made it a bit
Speaker 1: awkward this week when a woman accused him of paying
Speaker 1: her to get one. Now, when the story broke, herschel
Speaker 1: Walker said, this woman was lying. I don't even know
Speaker 1: who this lady is, but it turns out that he
Speaker 1: might be the liar. More fallout for Georgia's pro life
Speaker 1: senate candidate herschel Walker after he said he had no
Speaker 1: idea why a woman would accuse him of paying for
Speaker 1: her to have an abortion. Have you figured out who
Speaker 1: it is? Uh? Not at all. It's sort of like
Speaker 1: everyone is anonymous or everyone is leaking, and they want
Speaker 1: you to confess to something you have no clue about.
Speaker 1: But after Walker made that statement, the woman went public.
Speaker 1: She is the mother of one of his children. Oh ah, oh,
Speaker 1: that's awkward. Oh man, He says he doesn't know the woman,
Speaker 1: but it turns out she's reportedly the mother of one
Speaker 1: of his kids. So either herschel Walker is lying or
Speaker 1: his penis does some crazy ship while he's asleep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Penis just like he's finally out. Time for me to
Speaker 1: hit the streets and do what Izzy gotta do it now,
Speaker 1: off to this woman blew up Walker spot. He didn't
Speaker 1: exact we withdraw his denial, but he did say that
Speaker 1: if he paid for an abortion quote, it's nothing to
Speaker 1: be ashamed of. And here's the thing I agree with that.
Speaker 1: I agree with it. It's not unless you're known as
Speaker 1: the anti abortion guy. That's literally a thing. It's like
Speaker 1: if you've if you've caught smoky bed torching a forest. Remember,
Speaker 1: only I can dance among the beautiful light of the
Speaker 1: screeping flames. Kids and now flairly hershel Walker is willing
Speaker 1: to run on a platform that he himself doesn't actually believe.
Speaker 1: But what's been amazing to see is how the Republican
Speaker 1: Party feels the same way. There is no perfect person,
Speaker 1: no way. He'll do more to change the Senate just
Speaker 1: by the sheer presence, by his confidence, by his deep
Speaker 1: commitment to Christ. He's been through a long, tough period.
Speaker 1: He had a lot of concussions coming out of football.
Speaker 1: He suffered PTSD. You're telling me Walker used his money
Speaker 1: to reportedly hey some skanking for an abortion. I don't
Speaker 1: care if herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles.
Speaker 1: I want control of the Senate. You know, you gotta
Speaker 1: love it when they say the quiet part out loud.
Speaker 1: I love it. Abortion is totally unforgivable unless I need
Speaker 1: to do it. In fact, in fact, what you're saying
Speaker 1: is you'll fine with an abortion if you need to
Speaker 1: win a Senate race a Senate race, but you're not
Speaker 1: fine with a woman needing it to save her own life.
Speaker 1: That's what you're saying. You know, usually you only see
Speaker 1: this kind of hypocrisy from your landlord. Yeah, if your
Speaker 1: rent is late by one day, they kick your door
Speaker 1: and want to kick in to the curb. But they
Speaker 1: when it takes them two months to fix a leak
Speaker 1: in the ceiling something, you're like, Hey, life happens. Be patient,
Speaker 1: be patient, right, taking time. And by the way, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need to charge you actually for the rain coming
Speaker 1: from your living room. That's a special feature, that's what
Speaker 1: that is. And by the way, as for the rest
Speaker 1: of them, I'm constantly a maze at how quickly Republicans
Speaker 1: forgive certain people. They're like herschel Walker, deserves forgiveness for you,
Speaker 1: since I'm not even disagreeing. But it's interesting how quickly
Speaker 1: they move, all right, But when it comes to prison
Speaker 1: reform or college dead suddenly they're like people have got
Speaker 1: to pay the price for what they've done. There are
Speaker 1: consequences in life. You do something and then there's a consequence.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, people, I honestly don't understand how any
Speaker 1: of this makes sense, but I want to. I want to,
Speaker 1: which is why I've asked Dasilidic to foxplain it to us.
Speaker 1: Herschell Walker is under attacked by the usual suspects, the
Speaker 1: lame stream media, the woke left his children. But what's
Speaker 1: the real story. Well, I've been watching Fox News for
Speaker 1: four straight and I'm ready to explain why herschel Walker
Speaker 1: is the biggest victim of cancel culture since the chap
Speaker 1: O Taco. I don't care if herschell Walker aborted baby eagles.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you aborted baby kangaroos. I don't
Speaker 1: care if you aborted baby otters. I've been banned from
Speaker 1: all the petting zoos and I don't give up. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but we're supposed to leave all these stories from herschel
Speaker 1: Walker's kids. They've never even met herschel Walker. Even if
Speaker 1: he did pay for that woman's abortion, that just proves
Speaker 1: that he's a gentleman. Sorry Ben the Nazis, but chivalry
Speaker 1: is not dead. And what is an abortion? It's not
Speaker 1: stopping a freeloader from coming across the southern border. What
Speaker 1: would Jesus do? Seriously, I'm asking herschel represents American values football,
Speaker 1: college football. We are so close to control the Senate.
Speaker 1: We cannot let our dreams be crushed by one unplanned pregnancy. Wait,
Speaker 1: I don't care what herschel Walker did. As long as
Speaker 1: he gets in the senence, we can stop other people
Speaker 1: from doing what he did, which he didn't do. He
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what herschel Walker's in the past. It matters
Speaker 1: what he does starting now. He got caught doing what
Speaker 1: Jesus starting now. Don't realize everybody, when we come back comes,
Speaker 1: we'll be joining us on a sul go work. Welcome
Speaker 1: back the Daily Show. My guest Tonight is one of
Speaker 1: the stars of the new film Lyle Lyle Crocodile. She's
Speaker 1: also written a deeply personal memoir called Making a Scene.
Speaker 1: Please Welcome Constance Wood cause this wrong. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Thank you good to be here. Um, let's
Speaker 1: start with the question that I've been trying to figure
Speaker 1: out the entire time reading the book. Just the title
Speaker 1: of the book, no making a scene. You know that
Speaker 1: there's so many different interpretations where it's like making a
Speaker 1: you know, you're saying good making a scene, bad, making
Speaker 1: scenes of fool making a scene you write a memoir
Speaker 1: about your life. That is the title. Why that Well,
Speaker 1: you kind of got it because it's supposed to, um
Speaker 1: have multiple meanings. There's two overarching themes in the book.
Speaker 1: One is how art is very healing, and for me,
Speaker 1: art was always doing theater, and in theater you make
Speaker 1: scenes in a play. And um. The other theme is
Speaker 1: sort of about what it means when somebody makes a scene,
Speaker 1: and how growing up I sort of felt that it
Speaker 1: was unladylike to make scenes, and how that repression was
Speaker 1: something that I've been struggling with my whole life as
Speaker 1: a naturally extroverted emotional person. And so now I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I'll just be emotional and just make a scene. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to expect when I picked up
Speaker 1: the book, you know, because when you read it somebody's memoir,
Speaker 1: you have an idea of who they are, and then
Speaker 1: you have an idea of what you think they more
Speaker 1: will be. You've written in a really interesting way in
Speaker 1: that I've seen a book that has essays, and I've
Speaker 1: seen a book that's written in a completely linear format,
Speaker 1: but you've told some of the stories or you've written
Speaker 1: them as screenplays, and it feels like we're in a
Speaker 1: movie that is your life. Why did you choose to
Speaker 1: do that? Is that how you saw it, or or
Speaker 1: do you want us to feel like we in the
Speaker 1: movie that is your life? Well, there are certain scenes,
Speaker 1: are parts of the book that were originally written as
Speaker 1: dialogue that happened to me as I recount my experiences,
Speaker 1: and then I put them in a sort of screenplay
Speaker 1: or playwriting format, because I feel like sometimes with actor
Speaker 1: memoirs there's a little bit of a kind of a slant,
Speaker 1: like they're trying to make themselves be the victim or
Speaker 1: the hero, or like cooler than and I felt like
Speaker 1: by putting it in a scene format, it sort of
Speaker 1: took you out of the book in a way that
Speaker 1: made the experience more objective. So if I'm talking about
Speaker 1: somebody putting, you know, his hand on my crotch. I
Speaker 1: could talk about how that felt to me, or I
Speaker 1: could just explain the action and everybody will have their
Speaker 1: own response to him. Let's let's talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about it, because, yeah, because that that was something interesting
Speaker 1: in the book. You know, you shared some really vulnerable
Speaker 1: moments in your life. You talked about going through sexual harassment.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the producers on the show, the
Speaker 1: hit show that you are on Fresh of the Boat.
Speaker 1: But what's interesting is it doesn't seem like you are
Speaker 1: trying to slam somebody. It seems like you're counting what happened.
Speaker 1: You even seem to have, honestly, a compassion that I
Speaker 1: don't think many people would where you go, I understand
Speaker 1: where this guy came from. I didn't appreciate what he did.
Speaker 1: He made my life a living hell, but I forgive him.
Speaker 1: And then you go on to talk about parts you know,
Speaker 1: lates on the book where you realize that there were
Speaker 1: moments where you felt like you were creating an environment
Speaker 1: that was harassing to people. Not on the same level
Speaker 1: in any way, but but I was intrigued by why
Speaker 1: you would do that and how you would even begin
Speaker 1: to think like that. Well, I mean, you are right,
Speaker 1: I even in a way have a compassion for the
Speaker 1: person who raped me, and that is something that is
Speaker 1: you know, you don't do. And the reason I do
Speaker 1: it is not to have compassion and not to take
Speaker 1: their side. But I do feel that if I am
Speaker 1: asking for people to look at my life and my
Speaker 1: mistakes with curious curiosity and empathy rather rather than judgment,
Speaker 1: I feel like I want to do the same for
Speaker 1: other people. And it was beautiful because as I was
Speaker 1: doing that, it made me stop blaming myself. So you know,
Speaker 1: I felt really bad with the sexual harassment on Fresh
Speaker 1: off the Boat because sometimes I I wanted to be
Speaker 1: part of the boys club, So like when he would
Speaker 1: do or say something that was inappropriate, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you're such a dick, you know, like
Speaker 1: laughing with him, and I felt like that was a
Speaker 1: type of permissiveness, and I felt guilty because of that.
Speaker 1: Um But then when I thought about how he's an
Speaker 1: Asian American man and how Asian American men have traditionally
Speaker 1: felt very masculated in this country and what that does
Speaker 1: to a person and why and how they might exercise
Speaker 1: their feelings of powerlessness and exercise it on the women
Speaker 1: in their own community. Because he was always respectful to
Speaker 1: white and black women all around me. It was just
Speaker 1: to Asian women who weren't in positions of power that
Speaker 1: he sort of exercised his power. And you know, I
Speaker 1: consider that, and I consider the pressure he was under,
Speaker 1: not to excuse him, but just to understand people better. Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow mhm. You know you you you bring up your
Speaker 1: life and everything that you've gone through. There are many
Speaker 1: people who are familiar with it, and they obviously those
Speaker 1: who learn about it from the book or maybe even
Speaker 1: from us speaking about it. But you went through a
Speaker 1: really interesting period where you were on this hit show.
Speaker 1: It came out of nowhere. It was a supern over,
Speaker 1: fresh off the boat. People were loving it. It represented,
Speaker 1: you know, the Asian community, and it was this exciting
Speaker 1: you idea, and it was funny, it was powerful. And
Speaker 1: then I think it was after about five seasons, people
Speaker 1: thought the show was done. You started booking a few projects,
Speaker 1: then the show got picked up and you had to
Speaker 1: go back to the show contractually. You spoke up about
Speaker 1: it on Twitter, you know, and I mean more than
Speaker 1: spoke up about it, I mean rather profane tweet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: i'll let you. I'm objectively giving it to you. But
Speaker 1: you said a few things and and what you talk
Speaker 1: about in the book, and I really enjoyed it is
Speaker 1: you talk about how you felt, You talked about the
Speaker 1: mistakes you made, but then you talk about the response
Speaker 1: and and and how people made you feel, leading to
Speaker 1: a point where you contemplated suicide. Um yeah, I actually
Speaker 1: really did pull myself over a balcony ledge. So it
Speaker 1: was very close, and I'm very lucky that I had
Speaker 1: a friend there to help me. But um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I do think the reaction to my not
Speaker 1: ladylike tweets was outsized in proportion to my mistake. And um,
Speaker 1: you got, I remember you got. You were getting slammed
Speaker 1: like people, people were coming after you, and people were like, oh,
Speaker 1: they were saying, like you should kill yourself, you're ungrateful you.
Speaker 1: I remember it at the time, and it was huge.
Speaker 1: It went far beyond like what had happened. You know.
Speaker 1: It felt like you were angry and you were lashing out,
Speaker 1: but the response was like it seemed like it was.
Speaker 1: It was pretty cruel. Um yeah, And so that's why
Speaker 1: I ended up in a hospital and why I inevitably
Speaker 1: had to take a break from Hollywood just sort of guy.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to cry. I'm sorry to like work
Speaker 1: on my mental health. Um and and it was lonely,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what, it remains a little bit
Speaker 1: lonely because one of the things I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about was how the Asian American community has largely remained
Speaker 1: silent because they're so hyper focused on this idea of
Speaker 1: positive representation. And I think that is such an illusion.
Speaker 1: It's like the model minority coin, but just the the
Speaker 1: other side of it. We need a whole human representation
Speaker 1: which includes mistakes, which includes insecurities and vulnerability, and it
Speaker 1: includes the intersections of race and gender. Because one of
Speaker 1: the few people that I've told back in season two
Speaker 1: that I was being sexually harassed was one of the
Speaker 1: most vocal and prominent advocates for Asian Americans, very um progressive,
Speaker 1: very outspoken, and I sort of told him I guess
Speaker 1: as a as a testing ground to see, you know,
Speaker 1: if he would believe me, and he just looked at
Speaker 1: me like my dog had died, and then never asked
Speaker 1: that anything again, and a week later, I saw him
Speaker 1: into reducing my abuser on an Asian American panel with
Speaker 1: the most profuse praise, and it felt like such a betrayal.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, if even he doesn't believe me, who's
Speaker 1: going to believe me? And this is prior to the
Speaker 1: Me too movement. And I just want to say to
Speaker 1: a lot of Asian American male activists, if you claim
Speaker 1: to stand for Asian Americans, you have to stand for
Speaker 1: women too, because that's fifty percent of that population. When you,
Speaker 1: when you experienced this, it was really it was really
Speaker 1: interesting to read through how you felt about it in
Speaker 1: the book, you know, because because you you share the
Speaker 1: complexities of of what you were going through, and one
Speaker 1: of those complexities was around the burden of carrying for
Speaker 1: an entire group. You know. I spoke to a friend
Speaker 1: of mine and she was telling me, you know, she's
Speaker 1: Chinese and she moved to the US, and she was
Speaker 1: saying how she's always been taught that the group is
Speaker 1: more important than the whole, regardless regardless of the cost.
Speaker 1: And you you talk about in the book about how
Speaker 1: many said to you it doesn't matter what happened to you.
Speaker 1: What's more important is how the Asian community is perceived. Yes,
Speaker 1: that positive representation of the whole and straight from that, right,
Speaker 1: and so how did you how did you find the
Speaker 1: balance and also the fortitude to say, look, I am
Speaker 1: here representing the Asian community as a whole, as a
Speaker 1: as a as a complex person, but I also wish
Speaker 1: to be protected as an individual. Like where where did
Speaker 1: you find that strength? Where did you because you, as
Speaker 1: you say, you were contemplating suicide. You you know you were,
Speaker 1: you were in a mental hospital. You you went through
Speaker 1: so many things. What what is it that changed in
Speaker 1: constance is life? Where you decided no, you know what,
Speaker 1: I've got to change how I deal with this? Well,
Speaker 1: to be honest, I think I'm still finding it. But
Speaker 1: I think one thing I learned is that repressing those
Speaker 1: stories of abuse that happened to me, it wasn't just
Speaker 1: going to go away because I wanted it to go away,
Speaker 1: because I wanted to maintain the reputation of the show.
Speaker 1: And I realized, if I'm going to live as my
Speaker 1: authentic self, then I just need to do it, even
Speaker 1: at the risk of some other people's discomfort. And so
Speaker 1: I do think my speaking out is going to make
Speaker 1: some people uncomfortable, but I think discomfort is often where
Speaker 1: you find growth, and it's sort of the only way
Speaker 1: I know how to be right now. I love that. Uh,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't be doing I could put that away.
Speaker 1: I use that for my second evidence of my dada.
Speaker 1: I would be doing the book in your life at
Speaker 1: disservice if we just stayed on the saddest parts, in
Speaker 1: the saddest moments anybody wants to talk about, well, not
Speaker 1: not me, Not because because because it is a life.
Speaker 1: You know, there are many funny moments. You tell amazingly
Speaker 1: funny stories. Um, I feel bad for almost every guy
Speaker 1: who's dated you, especially lots of I know what I mean,
Speaker 1: what it means because you tell the story is in
Speaker 1: a really funny way. And if I was like the
Speaker 1: maitre d for instance, there's so many great stories yourself
Speaker 1: about dating and life going well, life not going well.
Speaker 1: It's silly things, that's funny. Moments. You know you talk
Speaker 1: about moving in your twenties. You you you you you.
Speaker 1: You share really fun stories about your journey growing up,
Speaker 1: moving around, for instance, just the way you speak about
Speaker 1: your sisters. You want a four all right, one of
Speaker 1: four girls, one of four girls. And I love how
Speaker 1: in the book you talk about how Helen is just
Speaker 1: like your favorite sister. And I was, like, you do
Speaker 1: realize your sisters are going to read this book? You're
Speaker 1: not worried about that them knowing that you have a favorite.
Speaker 1: Now did I say favorite? No? No, no, no. I said,
Speaker 1: she's the one I become closest to an adulthood. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's even worse. Oh she's the one I'm closest to.
Speaker 1: That's not much better. But what I love is that
Speaker 1: you you you you share a lot and it's and
Speaker 1: it's and it's funny and it's complex when you look
Speaker 1: at your life, when you when you look at the
Speaker 1: laughter that you you bring to yourself, Like, what are
Speaker 1: some of the funniest moments that you loved reading about
Speaker 1: in your own book? Because I feel like thinking book
Speaker 1: means you have to relive some of what you've been through.
Speaker 1: You have to read it so many times when you're editing.
Speaker 1: It's like a whole thing. I wrote it all myself. Um,
Speaker 1: that's why it took me so long. Um. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's one essay I really enjoyed writing about my first
Speaker 1: ever job, which was at a bread bakery where I
Speaker 1: learned about what it means, what it really means the
Speaker 1: bake bread. When you think about it, for centuries, the
Speaker 1: recipe has stayed the same, and it's funny. I was
Speaker 1: almost embarrassed. I'm almost embarrassed of my job now because
Speaker 1: an acting career feels so flimsy next to something as
Speaker 1: substantial as a loaf of bread when you really think
Speaker 1: about what that has means meant for cultures. And also
Speaker 1: like writing that one brought back all the smells of
Speaker 1: the bakery and the taste. No, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: like a missed opportunity, just like now and again, I
Speaker 1: mean I do explain in the book, you know I was.
Speaker 1: I was at the needing table, so I needed the
Speaker 1: bread and I shaped it. But I was never the mixer.
Speaker 1: That's like a very important role where they mixed the
Speaker 1: doll and Um, that was never my job because I
Speaker 1: was like a fifteen year old. It's too important of
Speaker 1: a job for a fifteen year old. When you walk
Speaker 1: past the place that's baking something, do you get memories immediately?
Speaker 1: I even tried to audition um to be a baker
Speaker 1: when I first moved to l A and I was like,
Speaker 1: let me try a different side job other than waitressing.
Speaker 1: I have, um, I have these banking skills, let me try.
Speaker 1: So they auditioned me for this banking role. And I
Speaker 1: remember the mixer. He and I were working together, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make small talk the way you might
Speaker 1: do with you know, your waitressing staff, and and saying like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm an actress. What do you do? And
Speaker 1: he looked at me and he said, I'm a baker.
Speaker 1: But I remember thinking like, that's that's right, yeah you are.
Speaker 1: That's an honorable job, you know. And You're like, I'm
Speaker 1: just he has my side hustle. And I didn't get
Speaker 1: the job. You didn't, and you know what, you ended
Speaker 1: up in the ripe one conscience. And thank you so
Speaker 1: much for taking the time, Thank you for joining me
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