Speaker 1: Are you leaving?
Speaker 2: I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 3: Either way, we want to be there.
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim and give us
Speaker 4: time and aid termino and gage aid.
Speaker 5: We want to send you off in style.
Speaker 1: We wanna welcome you back home.
Speaker 4: Tell us all about it.
Speaker 6: We scared her? Was it fine?
Speaker 4: Malborn?
Speaker 6: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 6: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 6: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do your need to ride?
Speaker 1: Ride with Karen and Chris, we're already ruling.
Speaker 2: You know, today's guests from clubs and colleges across the
Speaker 2: country as well as Canada. Put your ears together for Jenny.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Yeah, I'm so honored. Oh my goodness. Hello, Hi,
Speaker 3: good to see you, Good to see you. It's been
Speaker 3: a very long time, Karen. I saw you perform at
Speaker 3: a random UCB sunset show A long time.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, like a decade ago. Yes, Jesus, I
Speaker 4: feel like I can't remember one. U see the sunset
Speaker 4: specific set that actually went well?
Speaker 3: It was like a.
Speaker 7: Weird, cavernous show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then you commented to like works like straight up,
Speaker 3: you're just like this audience.
Speaker 6: That's what I always do. I'm the worst.
Speaker 2: No, it's that it was that venue and nothing against
Speaker 2: the Brigade and it's citizens, but it was there was
Speaker 2: a quiet gap between the stage and the front of
Speaker 2: the audience, and then there was like a balcony you
Speaker 2: could see up people's cargo shorts. Yeah, it was just weird,
Speaker 2: and it seemed like the audience had just gotten done
Speaker 2: with class and they were judging whether or not they
Speaker 2: would be doing better on stage entirely.
Speaker 6: And which I would be doing as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's why, right, I knew the vibe was
Speaker 6: often permanently off.
Speaker 3: I love that you're actually driving, like I think in
Speaker 3: my head, I imagine that this was all staged or
Speaker 3: like someone.
Speaker 7: Else was driving and you're just in the car.
Speaker 3: But this map took you the longest curvious way to
Speaker 3: get out of my neighborhood.
Speaker 4: You know what it is because we recorded a like
Speaker 4: a we called solo episodes before just to get more
Speaker 4: episodes done, and so in conversation, I forget to look
Speaker 4: where I'm going and then it's like, oh, I missed
Speaker 4: the turn. Oh so it's like the craziest way to
Speaker 4: find your house.
Speaker 3: But you know what, it's part of the charm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think it is.
Speaker 2: Right that we that we after all these years, kind
Speaker 2: of don't know what we're doing at all. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you are not in danger. Kearan is one of
Speaker 2: the best drivers I've ever known, Are you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: Oh I love that, Jenny.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I was going to ask you though, when when
Speaker 4: you saw me? It used to be had you started
Speaker 4: stand up?
Speaker 6: Have you?
Speaker 4: Were you in the audience as a jaded professional that
Speaker 4: was like, yeah, I've seen this shit before.
Speaker 2: No good question.
Speaker 3: I was relatively early on probably in my stand up,
Speaker 3: and I was a new murderino.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 3: So there was that sheen, you know, that sheen of
Speaker 3: like I might judge you for your stand up, but
Speaker 3: definitely excited that I get to see you. Oh nice,
Speaker 3: Oh you know what I mean, So that it compensates.
Speaker 6: Did it then burn off really quickly?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 6: Did I ruin it for you? I mean there's a
Speaker 6: lot going on there.
Speaker 3: You didn't ruin it?
Speaker 7: Okay, you didn't ruin it? Cool?
Speaker 2: Was Karen during music?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: No, but you might have commented about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel like it was probably the last legs of
Speaker 3: you just doing stand up. Yeah, right, because I think
Speaker 3: at some point you just kind of said I don't
Speaker 3: need to do this right, Yeah, I mean from what
Speaker 3: I understand from you know, my favorite murder or whatever,
Speaker 3: I used.
Speaker 4: To love to try to work it out on stage
Speaker 4: of like trying to share with the audience when I'm
Speaker 4: gonna quit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you're going to be in on this too.
Speaker 4: It's like if if I even got a laugh. When
Speaker 4: the laugh started to die down, it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 4: this doesn't even feel good absolutely being honest about my
Speaker 4: experience and how how I only care about my experience basically.
Speaker 3: But I also love how comedically minu I feel it
Speaker 3: if that is because you're really putting it on the
Speaker 3: audience to be like, listen, this could go either way,
Speaker 3: and how you laugh is going to determine my career exactly.
Speaker 4: And it still didn't work. They were like, Nope, we
Speaker 4: don't care, go ahead and quit.
Speaker 3: It's not enough pressure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a good way to get applause at
Speaker 2: the end. I've been closing with thanks, Thanks, I've been
Speaker 2: I used to be good at this, and then they clap.
Speaker 2: They clap even harder because they're like, oh no.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like that works in like La and
Speaker 3: New York and San Francisco because they have they feel bad. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: like the audience has like has a tendency to want
Speaker 3: you to survive and win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like, well, because I'm on the ten o'clock
Speaker 4: show and you might be in the audience for me,
Speaker 4: So please know I was being nice to you.
Speaker 7: I believe in your dreams because I might be a
Speaker 7: strongly actor.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: But oh, clubs, clubs elsewhere.
Speaker 6: Clubs all over the country.
Speaker 2: Does it work, Chris, Oh no, yeah, no, they just
Speaker 2: want you know, if you're out in the areas. It's
Speaker 2: like this, better be professional. I got free tickets off
Speaker 2: the radio show. I don't want to hear any insider business.
Speaker 7: No meta commentary about stand up.
Speaker 2: No, And at the end, I'm gonna tell him that's
Speaker 2: better than I could do.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry because I interrupted you when you were trying
Speaker 4: to actually say something.
Speaker 2: No, it's probably wasn't worth anything because I've forgotten.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Jenny, how are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jenny.
Speaker 3: Court, Now I know you know what I'm doing.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm doing well.
Speaker 3: I like to tell people right now that I'm in
Speaker 3: recovery from a summer burnout. Oh you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: every five to six years, I have a little readjustment. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: And was the burnout over like partying all summer or
Speaker 4: like going to the beach too much?
Speaker 7: No, wow, that would be so nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am a recovering overachiever. And so my my
Speaker 3: tendancy of burnout like is like just you know, being
Speaker 3: too anxious about being productive, right, right, which is like
Speaker 3: not the fun kind of burnout you describe the fun
Speaker 3: kind of right, I'm not my guy Corey that Chris
Speaker 3: actually knows. Yes, Craig, he's the burnout kind that probably
Speaker 3: is more of a party burnout guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've partied, I've partied. I've party party with him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I partied with that guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it's so so yeah, it was so I'm
Speaker 3: I'm you know, learning how to nap.
Speaker 6: Mmmm.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 3: Trying to get out of this hustle culture. It's tough because,
Speaker 3: you know, as a comedian, there's so many different ways
Speaker 3: you can make money or take your career and and
Speaker 3: just trying to balance that.
Speaker 2: Please tell me a handful of them.
Speaker 3: Do you want more ways of making money off of comedy?
Speaker 2: I believe that you are an overachiever because you had
Speaker 2: the most involved Zoom show that I did where you
Speaker 2: did stand up and was it and I don't.
Speaker 3: Know, Animal Crossing, Yeah, okay, I thought it was Switch.
Speaker 2: Okay, Nintendo Switch and it was so it was animated.
Speaker 2: Then there's an Animal Crossing character that's doing stand up
Speaker 2: and there was a little setting that just had to
Speaker 2: be for some reason. Right now, I thought it was animated,
Speaker 2: but I sort of I'm not exposing that I don't
Speaker 2: do much nintendoing these days.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's a It is sort of animated because
Speaker 3: it's like we created an Avatar character and someone would
Speaker 3: puppeteer you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't know if you know about this.
Speaker 6: Character, not at all.
Speaker 3: Listen, when in the depths of the pandemic in twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: my rest was producing this elaborate Zoom stand up comedy
Speaker 3: show because you know, I did all the other versions
Speaker 3: that people were trying and it was like death. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then I just somehow decided it was cute and
Speaker 3: delightful for me to like create a comedy club. It's
Speaker 3: like a cute SIMS. Yeah, right, Like I created like
Speaker 3: a cute comedy club in the basement of my island
Speaker 3: with like brick wall everything, like velvet curtains, like spotlight.
Speaker 7: It was great actually with a little green room.
Speaker 4: And then the people that are performing on it are
Speaker 4: also character are also like the characters in the game exactly.
Speaker 3: So imagine a zoom where I share my screen and
Speaker 3: you see the cute characters in my comedy club, and
Speaker 3: I get comedians who have like animal crossing to puppeteer
Speaker 3: whoever is performing live. So like Margaret Chow showed up
Speaker 3: and we have a little avatar of Margaret or Chris,
Speaker 3: you know, and then we just like in real time,
Speaker 3: would like try to like animate the little cute person
Speaker 3: to do what, you know, whatever the Chris is doing,
Speaker 3: so Chris could be like and then I fumbled it
Speaker 3: and then you would do like a little wanh wah
Speaker 3: wah wah, like yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was cool.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like that picture of this show where
Speaker 2: you're watching your you're in the in between doing your
Speaker 2: stand up and kind of watching what your character is doing,
Speaker 2: and you want to comment on that too, but everyone's
Speaker 2: watching it, so it's okay to do both those things.
Speaker 3: But it was beautiful because we had like like unmuted audience,
Speaker 3: like we would have anywhere between two hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: to like seven hundred and fifty people on a zoom room.
Speaker 3: And it was twice a month caaren like from June
Speaker 3: to like December.
Speaker 7: No incidents, just.
Speaker 3: So much trust. And it was like similar to a
Speaker 3: real life show because you have you write, like in
Speaker 3: a real life setting, you enter the social contract, you're
Speaker 3: an audience member, You're not gonna speak back, You're gonna
Speaker 3: laugh and behave and then and they did that many
Speaker 3: people did it, yes, and so you have to you
Speaker 3: had to wait for the laugh like just like in
Speaker 3: a real show. Wow, that's what made it slightly more
Speaker 3: gratifying than most of the other online shows that we did.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the that was the if you could hear
Speaker 2: an audible audience or some trusted laughers.
Speaker 3: Even yes we did that too, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: I did that our long thing to Silence, And it
Speaker 2: was a there was a flat screen of the camera
Speaker 2: just on me. So I'm watching myself through stand up.
Speaker 2: I might as well have had been holding a hair comb.
Speaker 2: And then in my bathroom it was but when I
Speaker 2: watched it, it was I was basically losing my mind,
Speaker 2: and and it was amazing what came out of my
Speaker 2: mouth that otherwise wouldn't if I could hear laughs. It
Speaker 2: was like a weird experiment to watch it. But most
Speaker 2: of my stories of Zoom shows were not fun at all.
Speaker 2: That one was fun because you could hear the audience
Speaker 2: that was, oh I love that, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: It's and also just building an audience that did that
Speaker 4: with you, Oh my god, very cool.
Speaker 7: It was so therapeutic.
Speaker 3: It was terrible for my stand up because you're not
Speaker 3: really working on stand up, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 3: even though I hosted and I kind of help people's
Speaker 3: attention in the in the beginning, it doesn't feel it
Speaker 3: didn't feel like you were doing work, oh right, and
Speaker 3: so you were, but it was like therapeutic because it
Speaker 3: felt like you were just hanging out and like it
Speaker 3: was so fun because randomly we had this one guy,
Speaker 3: Cedric from Dusseldorf, Germany, who would log in at like
Speaker 3: three am and we would encourage people to have their
Speaker 3: video cameras on and he would just lay there and
Speaker 3: then eventually we check in and Cedric from Dusseldorf would
Speaker 3: be asleep. But our show that was considered like a
Speaker 3: compliment because it was like, oh, we're so cozy and soothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that you can fall.
Speaker 3: Asleep to us. And that's actually kind of the point.
Speaker 3: It was all just to take care of each other.
Speaker 6: Incredible. I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. It was also cool a lot of
Speaker 2: those zoom shows you'd see people like dress up, yeah,
Speaker 2: like they're wearing costumes or something just for the sake
Speaker 2: of being a moving avatar on a screen. Of Like,
Speaker 2: it was a weird culture that of course. I think
Speaker 2: people some people that got used to watching live comedy shows,
Speaker 2: yeah from their house in Duluth or wherever. Yeah, miss it, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, but no comedians do though.
Speaker 3: A lot of no, not at all, but a lot
Speaker 3: of comedy clubs in theaters if you know now they
Speaker 3: live stream, so in a weird way, that kind of
Speaker 3: adjusted the culture and kind of trained right potential comedy audiences.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's been you know, as a producer of
Speaker 3: live shows, that's been a little bit beneficial, I guess
Speaker 3: because you're like, oh, this is another way to like
Speaker 3: engage an audience and well and also.
Speaker 4: It's very it's like putting the audience first, where it's like, yes,
Speaker 4: we're all getting here. The comics are going to perform
Speaker 4: their material and whatever. But actually it's we're concerned with
Speaker 4: people in lockdown having experiences and not freaking out and
Speaker 4: not like it is like isn't it good that we're
Speaker 4: all here together? Like watching a German guy sleep or
Speaker 4: listening to jokes or whatever. It's more the meeting as
Speaker 4: much as it is like the material or who's doing it.
Speaker 4: It's the holding of space and the kids like to wait,
Speaker 4: you have an errand you would like to run.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, let's go to the UPS store.
Speaker 2: I wonder if he was the only Cedric in Germany.
Speaker 2: I wonder Cedric.
Speaker 6: Was it Cedric the entertainer getting out of America?
Speaker 2: Or Yarborough from Reno nine to one one.
Speaker 3: That's right, another talented Cedric.
Speaker 6: What are all the Cedrics?
Speaker 3: And I haven't talked about comedy crossing in so long, Chris,
Speaker 3: that's so nice of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry that my memory of it it was
Speaker 2: like SIMS. But I don't have a memory of things
Speaker 2: that are two years solar or older. But I was animated.
Speaker 3: I do have to comment. I do have to comment.
Speaker 3: Karen is an incredibly safe driver because during the time
Speaker 3: of Karen talking, two cars try to cut right in
Speaker 3: front of her into oncoming traffic, and you very easily
Speaker 3: just avoided them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what the trick is, if you go
Speaker 4: twenty miles an hour, people cannot hit you simply by
Speaker 4: that you're not going that.
Speaker 6: Fast, so they can like avoid you.
Speaker 4: And if they're mad that you're going too slow, then
Speaker 4: they can just do something about it. But like that,
Speaker 4: I really keep it under normal speed limit and.
Speaker 2: Then I can like think, yeah, yeah, that was and riff.
Speaker 2: In the beginning years of this podcast, I would drive
Speaker 2: and record and I can't do more than one thing
Speaker 2: at once. That's something we figured out very quickly is
Speaker 2: that Karen can multitask and I cannot. Like, if I'm driving,
Speaker 2: i can't think. If you ask me a question, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I can't hear you. I'm signal and turning left. I
Speaker 2: got all this shit to do. I gotta turn the
Speaker 2: steering wheel.
Speaker 6: Well that's a man woman thing.
Speaker 2: I think so too.
Speaker 6: It truly is a gender brain thing.
Speaker 2: They say, yeah it is, and I agree with them,
Speaker 2: But who are they? Who are they? Really? We'll be back.
Speaker 6: Let's go to our animal farm or whatever.
Speaker 3: It's called what's it called animal crossing, comedy crossing.
Speaker 6: That's the thing too.
Speaker 4: I am so old and disinterested in current things that
Speaker 4: like when like something something like that where I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 4: I would have to even learn what the fuck this
Speaker 4: is in the first place to even understand what it
Speaker 4: is to be done. Like, right, I already feel about
Speaker 4: twenty years behind on almost everything.
Speaker 3: But you know what, life is short, spend time doing
Speaker 3: what you want. I mean, you're on TikTok, right, so
Speaker 3: you follow the kids on TikTok. So that's already going
Speaker 3: to teach you a lot.
Speaker 6: That's very true. Thank you. That's a very good point.
Speaker 3: Trying to give you some credit here because I've been
Speaker 3: finding that too. You know, as we get older, I
Speaker 3: do find myself becoming obsessed with and afraid of the
Speaker 3: younger generations and like.
Speaker 4: The worlds that are being created because of tex so
Speaker 4: like video games. If you don't know, that's an entire
Speaker 4: world you're just kind of out of, yeah, which I
Speaker 4: think is very you know, as the kind of person
Speaker 4: in comedy, the whole thing is, oh, I know what's
Speaker 4: going on and I can comment on it, right, So
Speaker 4: it's a weird transition to be like I don't know
Speaker 4: what's going on, and now I just have to kind
Speaker 4: of like let it go. Yes, truly let it go.
Speaker 4: And also what band are you talking about? I've never
Speaker 4: heard of them before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so many sob cultures.
Speaker 2: Truly have you either of you ever seen Brett Weinbach, know,
Speaker 2: Like he'll have the audience mention a video game and
Speaker 2: he will tell you who the music choreographer was. If
Speaker 2: there's five of them, he knows all five. Any video game.
Speaker 7: Wow, he's making it up.
Speaker 2: No wait, I thought so because I was like, well,
Speaker 2: I played these you know, I played Nintendo when it
Speaker 2: first came out, but I've been out of the game forever.
Speaker 2: And I looked up a couple because I saw him
Speaker 2: the other night at Good Heroin Yeah, and we started
Speaker 2: playing that game and he did want to play it
Speaker 2: like he I have a feeling he didn't sit around
Speaker 2: and memorize them of flashcards, so he's just that into
Speaker 2: the I wonder if.
Speaker 6: He's also one of those kind of people.
Speaker 4: I really really faked it, like he was going to
Speaker 4: be a pedestrian crossing and he just then took a turn.
Speaker 4: I also wonder if He's one of those people that like,
Speaker 4: if he loves video games so much, then he's like
Speaker 4: every it's like he's uh, like the photographic memory thing
Speaker 4: of like, I love this, I love every minute of it.
Speaker 6: Now I memorized the credits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would believe that about Brent.
Speaker 6: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2: I asked him how he was doing, and he said, great,
Speaker 2: I just beat this game. And he mentioned a Nintendo
Speaker 2: game that's thirty years old, and he's like, I've been
Speaker 2: trying my whole life classic. Yeah. Yeah, it's an interesting dude.
Speaker 3: So y'all, y'all have been a recording all day.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean in the way where I don't get
Speaker 2: anything else done on days that I have the podcast.
Speaker 2: I did work on my Halloween costume. Oh you did? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What are you going to be?
Speaker 7: Do you know?
Speaker 2: Oh? I am going to be and I've gotten pretty far.
Speaker 2: Today was a good day. I'm a guy in a
Speaker 2: box being held by a giant trench coated murderer man.
Speaker 2: So my legs are his legs, got it? And I
Speaker 2: have faked legs from last year's costume that are jammed
Speaker 2: in the box with me. So I have to cut
Speaker 2: in the corner of the bin closest to my body.
Speaker 2: It's like a tupperware bin, a place for me to
Speaker 2: slide the whole thing up like pants and then so
Speaker 2: my ass the box will kind of be resting. I've
Speaker 2: created a padded thing for the back, incredible, and the
Speaker 2: jaw with filament, I can make his jaw move and
Speaker 2: I haven't figured it out yet, but his head is
Speaker 2: on a swivel. So the monster with elaborate Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's And it's so funny because the party I got
Speaker 2: invited to is a it's a a friend of a
Speaker 2: friend's restaurant. Like everyone's going to be sitting and I
Speaker 2: will not be able to sit. I never think it
Speaker 2: through this year, I can use the bathroom. At least
Speaker 2: last year I was locked in. And yes, I did
Speaker 2: pee on my costume. No, I'm sorry, but that Hey,
Speaker 2: you want truths.
Speaker 3: To be blurted?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: Wait, was this the Elvis sitting on a toilet?
Speaker 2: Ironically? Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, Cory literally says say hi to Chris for me
Speaker 3: because they've all hung out before, and he also said
Speaker 3: he did a great costume where he was Elvis sitting
Speaker 3: on a toilet is yes.
Speaker 2: So I've taken the legs Elvis's legs, and I'm using
Speaker 2: them now to be the guy in the box. It's
Speaker 2: it's a costume I did see on TikTok. There's a
Speaker 2: version of it that you can do very easily. But
Speaker 2: I I've chosen the Yeah, and I can reuse this
Speaker 2: costumer that's cool. I liked or something.
Speaker 3: Very reuse, reduced, recycle.
Speaker 2: And it's very light. That's the one thing. My plaster
Speaker 2: Paris toilet was not that weighed so much at my
Speaker 2: back hurt. But this thing is it's lightweight. I'm very excited.
Speaker 2: How about you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, do you know what you're going to be?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Oh, I've already like, I've already managed to avoid a
Speaker 3: couple of Halloween opportunities because I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I tend to be a last minute you know what
Speaker 3: do I have around the house person. It's very rare
Speaker 3: for me to ramp up and really anticipate because usually
Speaker 3: it's like a busy time of year, or you know,
Speaker 3: my brain gets too occupied. But like last year, I
Speaker 3: was Gwyneth Paltrow at the ski trial, you know, and
Speaker 3: this is right before I got my blonde hair, so
Speaker 3: I actually had to wear a wing.
Speaker 2: What happened at the ski In real life, it.
Speaker 3: Was a whole thing where Grace this civil suit of
Speaker 3: this guy who was skiing behind Gwyneth Paltrow on a
Speaker 3: hill ran into her and was trying to sue for
Speaker 3: damages and like all of that, and when you when
Speaker 3: you found out that he was above the hill behind her,
Speaker 3: every person who's been snowboarding, yes, skiing, knows you're responsible
Speaker 3: for looking ahead of you to avoid people. Yeah, of course,
Speaker 3: And so the moment we all found that out, we
Speaker 3: were like, well, this is a sham.
Speaker 2: Oh that I hope that guy's life. I hope you
Speaker 2: got fired from his job.
Speaker 6: Didn't she?
Speaker 4: Do you remember what that final line when it was
Speaker 4: finally over and they found for her, and then she
Speaker 4: said something as she walked out of the court to him.
Speaker 2: I wish you well did you say that all night
Speaker 2: on him? I did?
Speaker 3: I did, And because she carried a folder with papers,
Speaker 3: so I wrote it on there, I wish you would
Speaker 3: like it's what's what's What's the thing about being iconic,
Speaker 3: like Gwyneth is that regardless of what you do, it
Speaker 3: will be iconic. And so in her brain, I'm sure
Speaker 3: that was just her genuinely trying to say something cordial,
Speaker 3: but everyone else would hear it and be like, oh,
Speaker 3: what a bitch.
Speaker 7: Look at her, she's so iconic. That's a great county line, and.
Speaker 6: That's what she means it.
Speaker 4: I also thought it was be blessed, which is like
Speaker 4: me basically trying to punch.
Speaker 6: It up of what she actually said something, what's more
Speaker 6: assholey than I wish you well?
Speaker 2: Totally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone's like, as, she's such a bad bitch, and
Speaker 3: I don't know, I feel like I believe I believe
Speaker 3: she meant it.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, yeah, because she seemed very calm during
Speaker 4: that actual thing.
Speaker 6: She wasn't like keyed up or anything.
Speaker 4: She seemed like, yeah, we kind of got this, and
Speaker 4: this guy's seems a little crazy.
Speaker 6: Maybe.
Speaker 3: I know it was so it was. I'm sure it
Speaker 3: was stressful, but on the outside people were fascinated by
Speaker 3: it because it was so low stressed seeming. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: low stakes at least anyway.
Speaker 4: That idea that you have an opportunity to sue Gwyneth Paltrow,
Speaker 4: it's like, of course going to take it. We don't
Speaker 4: blame that guy, but at the same time, don't think you're.
Speaker 6: Gonna win if if you're behind.
Speaker 3: Her, that's on the slope.
Speaker 6: Yeah, don't be crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the best thing you can do for last
Speaker 2: minute costume is just current event. Uh reference love that.
Speaker 3: I just watched The Substance and that was an inspiring
Speaker 3: visual feast. So I'm like, maybe I can pull something
Speaker 3: together like a Moore. If you haven't seen The Substance, No, I.
Speaker 2: Wanted to see it, but I got I shouldn't even
Speaker 2: read reviews because they're wrong all the time these days.
Speaker 3: It's entertaining, and it's body horror, which I'm not a
Speaker 3: horror person, but I can handle body stuff weirdly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what if you did Demi moore last plastic surgery
Speaker 4: when she got the buckle fat removal?
Speaker 6: Remember that?
Speaker 3: Oh oh I follow like I track full.
Speaker 4: It looked like she had parentheses I dug into and
Speaker 4: now looks amazing like they fixed everything.
Speaker 2: Yes, she does, which is cool. And and if you
Speaker 2: watch that Hulu thing where Andrew McCarthy is whining about
Speaker 2: being a brat pack member, I thought that it was
Speaker 2: the best. She was the most level headed, gralious. Yeah,
Speaker 2: riddled with therapy, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was giving him like what are you doing
Speaker 3: fortune cookie aphorisms?
Speaker 4: Ye wise, yeah, teach everybody to teach what we've all
Speaker 4: learned exactly.
Speaker 2: And he kept like, wow, that was wow. Yeah, she
Speaker 2: was really impressive. I really like her from that.
Speaker 3: From that documentary. Yeah, the brat Pack documentary. Honestly, I mean,
Speaker 3: good on you Andrew McCarthy for making a documentary about
Speaker 3: your trauma. But also go see a therapist.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It was like to me after I watched it, I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, this was interesting enough, but like it
Speaker 3: was one of those examples of like men will do
Speaker 3: anything except go to therapy. Do you know that whole thing?
Speaker 3: I was like, yes, this is you will make a
Speaker 3: whole ass documentary before you go to therapy.
Speaker 4: But also what it's his like, is it just that
Speaker 4: they were like teenage actors and it sucked in all
Speaker 4: those kinds of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And to this day, I don't think that he
Speaker 2: knows it was just a word play based on the
Speaker 2: rat Pack. I don't think he's ever heard of the
Speaker 2: rat Pack. And it's like, we weren't brats and we
Speaker 2: did other We weren't a pack. We were in another movie.
Speaker 2: It's like, have you not heard of Dean Martin like
Speaker 2: it was. It was just so funny.
Speaker 3: The very affected him because he was like, I'm a
Speaker 3: serious actor, but they called us brats.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: Have you pull in here? You could just kind of
Speaker 3: pull up to this little empty space and I can
Speaker 3: or I can get out here because this is too narrow.
Speaker 4: That might be too narrow, and I will definitely scrape
Speaker 4: someone over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and almost. Is it a return, No, it's just
Speaker 3: to pick up three. This is this is public mailbox.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so when.
Speaker 4: You get back, we're going to go through your mail
Speaker 4: with you. Oh yeah, see what happened.
Speaker 3: I got my nail and I have I got a check,
Speaker 3: which is nice.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 2: Is it a residual check. Let's see if it's for
Speaker 2: twelve cents or more?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get my No, this is a check from
Speaker 3: a gig I did sometimes I host things to do
Speaker 3: stand up for events and stuff.
Speaker 2: We were just saying, you have such a good voice,
Speaker 2: Oh I do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, your speaking voice is very fun to listen to.
Speaker 3: Really, Oh my god, that is such a huge.
Speaker 2: We're done. You're singing voice.
Speaker 3: However, because I mean, because the two of you have
Speaker 3: incredible voices.
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: You both got like kind of radio voices. You know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 6: Oh, from radio people.
Speaker 3: You are right.
Speaker 2: My father is a radio man.
Speaker 3: Oh I didn't know that, but.
Speaker 2: I sound more like a muppet type bad. My dad's
Speaker 2: is very broadcast quality minds. But I can do more
Speaker 2: with mine.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, you're I can hear it.
Speaker 3: It's in there.
Speaker 2: Well. Thanks, I just want to be on the fringe
Speaker 2: of potential?
Speaker 3: Should am I am? I trying to open it with you?
Speaker 7: Or no?
Speaker 3: I mean you could.
Speaker 6: Did you get stuff on TikTok or anything?
Speaker 3: No, I've only ordered one time on TikTok, and actually
Speaker 3: that was for Nate Craig, our mutual friends. Oh comedian.
Speaker 3: When someone addresses something to Jenny Lang, I always am suspicious,
Speaker 3: be very careful, like you got my last name? Oh no, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I get so sometimes I get like pr stuff which
Speaker 3: is fun. So like I don't know, you know, free shit?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I love we love free stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I got a book. Oh I think this book is
Speaker 3: a comedy related book which is appropriate for me to
Speaker 3: open here.
Speaker 2: Yes, let's let's hopefully it's a how to book.
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's not a common anyway. I thought it was.
Speaker 3: Mike Brandenstein's book you know, Mike, Yeah, a Chicago comedy.
Speaker 2: Do you have any link to Chicago comedy?
Speaker 7: No, I just am friends with a lot of people
Speaker 7: who came up.
Speaker 2: From right Yeah, me too. I would say a majority
Speaker 2: of them have some link to Chicago.
Speaker 3: And then my guy lived there for many years. The
Speaker 3: book that I did open, though, is the memoir of
Speaker 3: Connie Chung.
Speaker 2: Everyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I forgot about this because she has this
Speaker 3: iconic photo of her in the middle of like a
Speaker 3: group of.
Speaker 6: Men looking so depressed.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like a She's like, I can only
Speaker 4: do this for about thirty more minutes.
Speaker 3: It's like a great memeable.
Speaker 2: Oh that is amazing, such a good picture.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, that's I bet you there's some good shit
Speaker 4: in here.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: She's so iconic.
Speaker 6: She really is.
Speaker 3: Well were you talking about guys?
Speaker 2: Oh while you were gone? Yeah, that you have a
Speaker 2: master's degree.
Speaker 3: I do, sort of. I'm a master degree dropout. I
Speaker 3: did everything but finish my thesis, which.
Speaker 2: Is me too. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Did you hear it's furious?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: Really, No, they're fine.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 3: I mean whatever, They're like, shouldn't you finish it? And
Speaker 3: then I was like gainfully employed.
Speaker 6: So that's all they care about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you ever shown your diploma, which is probably
Speaker 2: in a frame, to anyone for a job?
Speaker 3: No, me either, even what I mean, the only time
Speaker 3: that I kind of needed it was my first job
Speaker 3: after grad school. I was like a research and policy
Speaker 3: person for a labor union, and so wow, I mean
Speaker 3: that was some somewhat of a requirement in the In
Speaker 3: the job, I was like a little lobbyist slash policy research.
Speaker 2: Wow that you had a full on you were going
Speaker 2: towards politics. I was.
Speaker 7: That was my first career. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I used to work for a labor union that represents
Speaker 3: public employees.
Speaker 6: That's very cool.
Speaker 3: And and I worked for a nonprofit that was I
Speaker 3: was just a true believer. And then I was like,
Speaker 3: these assholes that I'm working for, I don't I don't
Speaker 3: look up to them anymore. I'm so burnt out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's hard work.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 3: It is for the people that dedicate themselves to be
Speaker 3: professional activists. Yeah, it's a lot of hard work, you know.
Speaker 3: So I was like, you know, what, life is short,
Speaker 3: let's hee he ha ha yea.
Speaker 6: Why not he he ha ha a little bit more?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it made me happier. I'm way happier. I'm also
Speaker 3: just older, so you just kind of figure it out.
Speaker 2: But yeah, where you are You from Los Angeles, I'm
Speaker 2: from Torrance.
Speaker 3: That's where I grew up. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sure, the old the old South South Toyota. Won't get
Speaker 2: a lemon, that's right, I know.
Speaker 3: No, I was born in Taiwan, but I moved to
Speaker 3: LA when I was five, so this is home for me.
Speaker 4: And was Torrance. I used to go to a very
Speaker 4: weird diet pill doctor down in Torrance. No, And when
Speaker 4: I drove home, it would be like usually when kids
Speaker 4: are getting out of school, and I would always just
Speaker 4: be watching them.
Speaker 6: And just be like, what's this, Like like, what's.
Speaker 7: This suburban life?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: It was it suburban?
Speaker 4: Was it like just regular kind of getting on and
Speaker 4: off the bus, regular stuff?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was pretty regular. You know. It's it's weird
Speaker 7: as suburban in La.
Speaker 3: County is different from other counties or other suburbs, right
Speaker 3: from everything, because we we're it's like a dense suburb.
Speaker 3: So it's not like we had nothing to do, right,
Speaker 3: Like we're not like like knocking over mailboxes because you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like it wasn't bonfires and shit like,
Speaker 3: it was like, yeah, let's go to the Denny's, let's
Speaker 3: go to the mall. That's you know, so you.
Speaker 6: Know, and did you think did you know about cool
Speaker 6: music sooner?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 4: That's how we always saw because I'm from northern California, right,
Speaker 4: and our friends parents would get divorced, the dad would
Speaker 4: move to LA and marry a much younger woman, and
Speaker 4: then they would go to LA in the summertime and
Speaker 4: come back with like really cool outfits like beach cruisers
Speaker 4: and stuff like what is this shit? And we would
Speaker 4: learn about the trends that we're going to be up
Speaker 4: in Pedaloma like in eight months, but they went down
Speaker 4: and got them early.
Speaker 3: I believe that is.
Speaker 4: That kind of the feeling where you felt like you
Speaker 4: were maybe at the center of things or at least
Speaker 4: knew about stuff first.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think at the time, which is somewhat pre
Speaker 3: social media, like we just thought we had our own
Speaker 3: world because it was like I went to a very
Speaker 3: Torrents is very big my high school, public high school
Speaker 3: was very big, like twenty two hundred students, wow. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And so it was its own ecosystem and we were
Speaker 3: like kind of majority minority in that like, like I
Speaker 3: grew up around a lot of Asians, brown folks, black folks,
Speaker 3: Pacific Islanders, so like I don't know, yeah, we just
Speaker 3: like whatever we thought was cool was fine.
Speaker 7: You know. There was never a sense of like.
Speaker 3: I want to be blonde and like why even though
Speaker 3: I am't blonde now, but you know it's done for others,
Speaker 3: not for racial reasons. But yeah, no, So like I
Speaker 3: grew up very like, like I went to school in
Speaker 3: the East Coast, a smaller arts college, very white, and
Speaker 3: so when I showed up, they're like, what are you?
Speaker 3: They thought I was a weird creature because a California Asian.
Speaker 3: Just we were just more confident, if that makes any sense. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: you know, we just because we didn't have certain hang
Speaker 3: ups for the most part, if you kind of grew
Speaker 3: up around like a majority your people kind of environment,
Speaker 3: so they're always like why are you wearing a sweatshirt
Speaker 3: and beat shorts and sandals? Like they're like, this makes
Speaker 3: no sense, it's raining, you know, Like also, why are
Speaker 3: you so loud? Why are you so confident? You know,
Speaker 3: which is so backhanded. Yeah, well I do feel like
Speaker 3: I haven't like people who are from California have just
Speaker 3: like a different exposure, even you know, even if you're
Speaker 3: like kind of not in the bigger cities, it's just
Speaker 3: California just has a different flavor.
Speaker 2: I vividly remember everything that I was interested in was
Speaker 2: someone visiting. The first kid I saw with a pair
Speaker 2: of Vans, earth like, the first kid I saw on
Speaker 2: a skateboard. They just came through town. I'm from California,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I think I want to live there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: even when I was a very young person. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: still like those things. I've grown up not at all.
Speaker 2: You have twenty pairs of Vans now, I absolutely do,
Speaker 2: and some that I've never even worn.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're living the tree.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Having a shoe problems.
Speaker 4: Of all the problems, to have a shoe problem is
Speaker 4: a pretty good one.
Speaker 2: Did you say you're born in Taiwan?
Speaker 3: I was yeah.
Speaker 2: And when did you move to Torrance?
Speaker 3: I moved to Rosemead first and Hawthorne then Torrance. Yeah, so,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I was five when I moved to America.
Speaker 6: Can you speak yes, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: Mandarin China Mandarin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's what I Taiwan, And boy, I'm really
Speaker 2: walking out on a mine might be dumb.
Speaker 3: Do it.
Speaker 2: Taiwan is a country.
Speaker 3: Well that is a controversial is a statement, but it's
Speaker 3: China would disagree with that really, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: It's part of the People's republic exactly.
Speaker 3: The China would say that about Taiwan. Well, a certain
Speaker 3: segment of taiwan people would say that they are independent
Speaker 3: and want more independence.
Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, well, then I'm being progressive. Taiwan's a country,
Speaker 2: is what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Listen, if you don't care about making money off of
Speaker 3: mainland China, feel free.
Speaker 6: Oh wow, allegedly Taiwan is Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I think I just never stopped to think
Speaker 2: about it, because China's also a country, and you can't
Speaker 2: be a country and another country all at once.
Speaker 3: I know, it's a it's a it's a little bit
Speaker 3: of a dicey issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really, kind of like the Ireland thing. See that's me.
Speaker 2: I'm so worldly, Yeah you are. I took all my
Speaker 2: Civics classes from gym teachers. I know nothing.
Speaker 7: Why is it always jim teachers?
Speaker 2: I don't know it. Don't even change into a Paris flag.
Speaker 7: Always the shorts right, yeah, shiny kneecaps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that perfect outline of you know what today's
Speaker 2: lesson planned?
Speaker 7: How fine are you looking at?
Speaker 2: Because the shorts, I don't know, it's just the that's
Speaker 2: where I'm seated. I'm at crotch level.
Speaker 6: It was his experience. So you can speak Mandarin, you speak.
Speaker 3: Wondering pretty fluently. Yeah, I forced myself to learn better.
Speaker 3: I got to audition and act in something speaking Mandarin.
Speaker 2: Which was great. Yeah, was it? The Son?
Speaker 3: The brother Son?
Speaker 2: The brother Son?
Speaker 3: Incredible? I was like, this is I was built for this.
Speaker 2: I want to see that. I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 2: And you're on the You're fully on the cover of
Speaker 2: the poster. Thumbnail the poster.
Speaker 7: It's me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very small, it's a thumbnail, I suppose if it's supposed,
Speaker 2: if it's big. But I'm I'll watch that tonight.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, the brother's Son.
Speaker 3: It came out earlier this year, already not renewed, but whatever,
Speaker 3: so great.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 3: I also wrote on season two, and we even wrote
Speaker 3: a whole season two before we heard the cancelation.
Speaker 6: But they love to do that.
Speaker 2: Whatever I got paid, I guess that's right.
Speaker 3: But yeah. So it's a one hour comedic drama action
Speaker 3: show starring Michelle Yeo oh yeah, And I got to
Speaker 3: do action.
Speaker 7: I'm an assassin. I got to do stunts.
Speaker 3: I like got paid to train in stunts with people
Speaker 3: who trained like creating Wick. It was incredible. It was
Speaker 3: like truly a dream come true, Like it was a
Speaker 3: dreaming had formulated in my brain. I was like, I
Speaker 3: want to do action comedy.
Speaker 4: Did you like I wanted to make up a new
Speaker 4: a new subset of movies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, jokes with fighting? Did you learn to fight choreograph? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I have really big, really big fight scenes to show.
Speaker 2: What's your go to weapon?
Speaker 3: My fists?
Speaker 2: So I really want to see it.
Speaker 6: And is Michelle Yoh as cool as we all believe
Speaker 6: her too?
Speaker 3: Oh my god. You know, when you get to a
Speaker 3: certain level of icon and experience, like nothing truly can
Speaker 3: phase you. So she's like she floats.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, you.
Speaker 7: Float like there's it's like.
Speaker 4: Everyone worships her and she's just kind of like watch
Speaker 4: this totally.
Speaker 3: I'm so I'm so newbie on set compared to her,
Speaker 3: and I'm just like I must have water every second,
Speaker 3: Like I'm like so demanding with my knees, and she's
Speaker 3: just like, let's go again. You know, like very calm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, how did we all first see her?
Speaker 6: What Crouching Tiger?
Speaker 3: A lot of people Crouching Tiger, Hit and Dragon. I
Speaker 3: knew her through Hong Kong movies.
Speaker 2: She was Oh, she was in a lot of Jackie
Speaker 2: Chance like. She was like full on yes, stun like
Speaker 2: stunt for stunt in competition with Yes, Jackie Ken. She
Speaker 2: was very competitive with him and probably has been injured.
Speaker 2: And yes, she almost died a number of her God,
Speaker 2: that's the same person she bounced off balconies beyond Buster Keaton. Yes.
Speaker 6: And did she start as a stunt woman.
Speaker 3: No, she actually was a trained ballerina, so that choreography
Speaker 3: and the flexibility and the physicality benefited her alone.
Speaker 2: Oh wow. Yeah. I interviewed Jackie Chan once and I
Speaker 2: with his stunt guy and fight choreographer was also his
Speaker 2: translator and so I sort of was just talking to him.
Speaker 2: But he said, oh, I'm not a martial artist at all,
Speaker 2: he is. I just wanted to be Buster Keaton. Yes,
Speaker 2: that I did not know. He wanted to be physical
Speaker 2: comedy like what he was as a young person in
Speaker 2: Cannonball Run where he's driving a super that's just so
Speaker 2: cool that they just wanted to be physical actors.
Speaker 4: Those two actors well and we The reason I like
Speaker 4: she is truly in my heart is because me and
Speaker 4: my dad went to see Crushing Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and
Speaker 4: I will never forget it. After that rooftop scene where
Speaker 4: they fight along the rooftops, the entire audience like broke
Speaker 4: out into a cheer.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: And it was because it was packed and it was
Speaker 4: like everyone was really excited, but it had just come out,
Speaker 4: so it wasn't like everyone knew about it or whatever.
Speaker 4: It was like kind of new and people like each
Speaker 4: moment that went.
Speaker 6: By, people were like, holy shit, holy shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But then after that it was like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was the most exciting thing to be
Speaker 4: in that audience doing that because it was like how
Speaker 4: everybody felt. But there's times where you're in a movie
Speaker 4: and that's how people feel, but nobody is actually.
Speaker 6: Expressing it totally.
Speaker 4: And it was almost like everyone felt they had to
Speaker 4: do it, like they were just like they have.
Speaker 6: To give this movie it's due.
Speaker 4: And then to kind of watch her just continue continue
Speaker 4: you on that trajectory is so cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, it was such a spectacle to see those practical effects.
Speaker 3: Back then Crouching Tiger. No one in America had seen
Speaker 3: it in the West really, and if you got into
Speaker 3: Hong Kong movies you saw versions of those kinds of
Speaker 3: sort of like martial arts, you know, spectacles, but they
Speaker 3: were definitely not done as well as they did it,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, cinematography everything.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it was so special.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and those visuals were like, oh my god, when
Speaker 4: they're in that bamboo forest and you're like that colored
Speaker 4: green and you're just like, oh, this is all there,
Speaker 4: there's this is all so produced and planned in this
Speaker 4: way of how esthetically pleasing.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm telling everybody how it's a good movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 2: And when something's over, is it twenty years now? You
Speaker 2: can spoil it. I want to see it again just
Speaker 2: to recognize when she's doing the stunts.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so cool?
Speaker 2: Did she like help you? What stunt? Can you talk
Speaker 2: about us that you had to do that you were
Speaker 2: scared of? Or was it mostly just fighting?
Speaker 3: It was fighting? And I don't know, I want to
Speaker 3: spoil it because it's already been out, But if you're
Speaker 3: gonna watch it, I have a very important fight.
Speaker 2: Scene which is I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: You know, my important fight scenes towards the end, so
Speaker 3: you know it's gonna be. But I have two other
Speaker 3: fight scenes before that. I have like three total fights.
Speaker 2: Oh. I don't start a series without ending it. Oh,
Speaker 2: I will make it to the fight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're a completer.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I love that.
Speaker 4: No me, I go to sleep and forget I was
Speaker 4: watching it, just like I'm pretty sure Jenny tollis watch
Speaker 4: I can't remember, and.
Speaker 3: Then two years later you can get up again.
Speaker 7: You're like, wait a minute, I gotta start.
Speaker 2: From the beginning. Yeah, and then I'm snoozetown like a
Speaker 2: German Cedric. I can't wait.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty fun watch, I have to say.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just so irritating that things these days, there's
Speaker 4: so much out there that, like we are talking about
Speaker 4: TV show that I would love to watch and would
Speaker 4: have loved to have known about, and it just like
Speaker 4: it was not on my radar.
Speaker 7: It's you.
Speaker 6: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: I know it kind of trended worldwide, but apparently not
Speaker 3: enough giving our budget or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Well, I gotta just apologize because I
Speaker 2: totally knew about it, and I saw you on it,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, wow, that's amazing, and that all of
Speaker 2: a sudden fulfilled the actual watching it. It's ridiculous that
Speaker 2: I haven't. It's your fault, it is. This is on you.
Speaker 2: The season Two's my fault.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is like when Karen would make the audience
Speaker 3: feel guilty for it works, right, it works.
Speaker 6: That's how.
Speaker 7: It's all your fault.
Speaker 2: You didn't watch it tonight. I swear my eyes are glued.
Speaker 2: I will also be making a costume, but I'll be.
Speaker 7: Oh, it's good for that you're crafting. And then you
Speaker 7: do a little sir.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he likes to creep out, just like that,
Speaker 2: go tee.
Speaker 3: I like to do that too. I'll talk to cars.
Speaker 7: That helps me.
Speaker 4: It's like, please be reasonable, please, you're about to tea
Speaker 4: bon us, don't do it?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 6: What else?
Speaker 4: So that's not going on? Then you had kind of
Speaker 4: a stressy summer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just trying to regroup and be like what am
Speaker 3: I about?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What am I trying to do? So I like stopped
Speaker 3: a lot of things, but like I've been obsessed with
Speaker 3: self care and self help and who isn't. But I
Speaker 3: had done this monthly show at the Dynasty typewriter for
Speaker 3: two years called Self Help Me, a competitive self care
Speaker 3: comedy show, which you know, it's a satirical game show
Speaker 3: where we make fun of wellness and self care trends.
Speaker 3: So we did like every month, I wrote a new
Speaker 3: show and it was like super fun and but it
Speaker 3: was like burnout and generational trauma. Like I had like
Speaker 3: three of the four like women from the Joy Luck
Speaker 3: Club be guests on my Generational Trauma show.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was so gratifying, but I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm exhausted. I did twenty shows over two a format
Speaker 3: like so you show up, I host, I do the monologue.
Speaker 3: I play a little bit of a character, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of like a wellness guru character, uh huh, where
Speaker 3: I'm like, I like, I say, I'm enlightened, but I
Speaker 3: treat my assistant like shit, I that.
Speaker 7: Kind of a person.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then and then I introduced an expert. There's always
Speaker 3: an expert. We always you know, make people leave having
Speaker 3: learned something about whatever the topic is. And then we
Speaker 3: have like three to four comedians who compete and I
Speaker 3: give them points kind of like arbitrary points, like you
Speaker 3: know at midnight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what what what assignment do you give everyone
Speaker 2: that was booked on it? Like I'm imagining, Oh.
Speaker 7: There's no.
Speaker 3: The only assignment that I do is we ask them
Speaker 3: questions about the topic beforehand and we discuss them. So say, so,
Speaker 3: say we do you know, it's like say sober living,
Speaker 3: you know, say we do sober living. I ask you
Speaker 3: questions about that, and then we like you know, put
Speaker 3: them in quotes on a slide, and we discuss themat Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's like really cool because you also learn things.
Speaker 2: About Yeah that actually sounds therapeutic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like you learn things about cool people and you're like,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, let's talk about let's talk to Reggie
Speaker 3: Watts about home and office organizing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, You're like, who knew that could be a thing
Speaker 3: you could learn about your favorite comedian.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: When you first started to talking about you said, it's
Speaker 4: like about you know, trauma or whatever. And then you go,
Speaker 4: I had three of the four and I thought you
Speaker 4: were gonna say, like problems that we were talking about.
Speaker 7: Three out of four traumas.
Speaker 6: That's that's why I laughed.
Speaker 4: And then you were like women from the joy Luve Club,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, whoops, that wasn't funny, but.
Speaker 3: All I think you were writing the joke for me,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, you just made the assumption
Speaker 3: and fuck you make it funnier than it really is.
Speaker 4: I mean, hey, we got to punch up our life, Yes,
Speaker 4: for sure, me always.
Speaker 3: So. Yeah, I'm trying to develop that into a little
Speaker 3: podcast and I'm gonna make more content again because I
Speaker 3: kind of fell off from doing that during the pandemic
Speaker 3: because the pandemic was depressing. Oh yeah, you know, I
Speaker 3: just kind of stopped doing stuff, right, you know, other
Speaker 3: than like you know, TV writing or acting, but but
Speaker 3: like in terms of stand up and making videos, I'm
Speaker 3: getting back on it.
Speaker 2: You good, Yeah, me too. I feel like that I
Speaker 2: enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm trying to get to a place where I'm
Speaker 3: one hundred percent enjoying it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, It's hard to feel that way about
Speaker 2: something like I'm so excited about stand up. I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm better at it, and yet right I don't
Speaker 2: know of any shows. I'm like, wait, where do I
Speaker 2: go up? What's happened?
Speaker 7: No, that's true.
Speaker 3: I've started to like follow and just like like posts
Speaker 3: from the like young kids who are starting indie shows. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's it's cool. I feel like I've gotten booked
Speaker 3: because of that. It's like my little, like passive aggressive
Speaker 3: way of being like, hey, you want to book me?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Part of the I had Jake from Comedy Bureaus send
Speaker 2: me a concise list of all the shows. What a sweetie,
Speaker 2: all the bookers, and I'm like, wow, this is valuable.
Speaker 2: There's like fifty shows on here. Have I done anything?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. There are a lot of emails are like, oh,
Speaker 2: I know that person and it's at a comedy There
Speaker 2: are comedy venues. Now, as I say all this out loud,
Speaker 2: it's it's maybe I it is happening. I'm just out
Speaker 2: of the loop because all I do is skateboard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you need to solve this problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 6: You have it all in your hands.
Speaker 2: I guess it's right in my fingertips.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 7: What competes with skateboarding?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 2: I as far as making me feel good? Right, just
Speaker 2: stand up?
Speaker 3: Does this is so bright?
Speaker 4: This is BULLSHITTI day the street and experience sucks.
Speaker 7: It's okay, you can keep driving.
Speaker 2: Well, it's also you got the frosted glass option on
Speaker 2: your windshields.
Speaker 6: I have not cleaned this windshield for you're clear straight ahead?
Speaker 2: I see what's Christmas glass. We have to go through.
Speaker 6: We have to get get to our destination as a team.
Speaker 3: But what I like is that you have a test list,
Speaker 3: so you actually have a little imagery mapping.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: It can help me.
Speaker 4: And if somebody walks in front of my car, it'll
Speaker 4: definitely show a picture of.
Speaker 6: That, yeah before I kill them.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Oh.
Speaker 3: My gosh, are we already toward the end of the podcast.
Speaker 6: And that's kind of crazy?
Speaker 2: Goes fast?
Speaker 6: That was a fastie.
Speaker 3: This is such an honor you guys.
Speaker 6: It was so fun to talk to you.
Speaker 2: You're an honor.
Speaker 3: You're an honor.
Speaker 2: You I object your honor.
Speaker 3: If I were you, I would make a U turn
Speaker 3: so you don't have to go through that windy road again. Okay,
Speaker 3: great to get out of here, and then you exactly,
Speaker 3: and then you can let me out once you make
Speaker 3: the U You're.
Speaker 6: Like, and then please let me.
Speaker 3: I love you both so much, longtime fans.
Speaker 2: And I love you as well.
Speaker 7: I'm not ready to say we just really met.
Speaker 4: You need to be on this podcast more and then
Speaker 4: I'll decide.
Speaker 2: I will speak for Karen. That's the kind of thing
Speaker 2: she says when she loves someone right away.
Speaker 7: That's really But yeah, you might hold back a little
Speaker 7: bit more.
Speaker 6: I know that I got to I'm from the nineties.
Speaker 2: Is there any anything else that you want to other
Speaker 2: than you're just making yourself better and happier. Is there
Speaker 2: anything you want to promote?
Speaker 3: No, just you know, follow me at my website, Jennyang
Speaker 3: dot tv and Jenny Yang tv on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get back onto TikTok even though they're
Speaker 3: going to cancel tiktoks out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but first let's do some crowd work videos.
Speaker 3: No other than that. I just I'm excited to be
Speaker 3: alive and laughing with funny people.
Speaker 6: Hell yeah, yeah, you're looking for that's a great closing.
Speaker 2: That's a bumper sticker. Tell Corey hello for me.
Speaker 3: Okay, how do I open this?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Wait, you press and push.
Speaker 6: Belon mask. He did it again.
Speaker 3: Okay, have a great night you guys.
Speaker 6: Thank you so it was so fun.
Speaker 2: Of course you were a delight.
Speaker 3: Okay, bye bye bye.
Speaker 2: She's great.
Speaker 6: I love her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's about well tell her.
Speaker 6: No, no, okay, Jenny, I love you.
Speaker 2: She said it, She said it when you got out.
Speaker 2: You've been listening to Do You Need a Ride?
Speaker 3: D y n a R.
Speaker 5: This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 4: Our senior producer is Analise Nelson.
Speaker 5: Mixed by Edson Choy.
Speaker 4: Our talent booker is Patrick Cottner.
Speaker 5: Theme song by Karen Kilgareth.
Speaker 6: Artwork by Chris Fairbanks.
Speaker 4: Follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at dinar
Speaker 4: podcast That's d y n ar Podcast.
Speaker 2: For more information, go to exactly rightmedia dot com.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Oh You're welcome