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Speaker 5: Hello, Welcome to another episode of Club Shah. I am

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Speaker 5: your host, Shannon Sharp, also the pro proud of Club

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Speaker 5: Sha Sha, stopping by for conversation on the drink today.

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Speaker 5: If a global and would star, He's one of the

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Speaker 5: biggest international stand up comedians today. He's a scene stealing

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Speaker 5: actor who can forget his incredible performance in Crazy Rich Asians.

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Speaker 5: It's celebrated in South after speaker, writer, author, producer, performer

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Speaker 5: and an entertainer. Please welcome to Club Shay Shay.

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Oh Yang, thank you, Thank you, Shannon. Appreciate that man.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for toping about how you doing?

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Speaker 2: I love the show and this is the best intro.

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Speaker 2: People should just come on the show for it. Has

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Speaker 2: anyone done an intro for you know?

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Speaker 3: They haven't?

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Speaker 1: Can I may? I? Okay? How do you start? How

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Speaker 5: Welcome to another episode of Club Sha Shay. I am

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Speaker 5: your host, Jimmy Oh Yay?

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Speaker 3: Can I?

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Speaker 1: Can I just have that?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of Club Shae Shae. This is

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Speaker 2: the proprietor of Also Shake Shae Shae Kognak Yes Yeah Yeah,

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Speaker 2: sponsored by Shaye Cognac.

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Speaker 1: Send it across from me. He's not just a football player.

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Speaker 2: One of the best podcasters in the world, the Black

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Speaker 2: Joe Rogan. He got more muscles than our Senningal Hall,

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Speaker 2: funnier than Jay Len, David Letomon all combined. Just one

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Speaker 2: episode with Kat Williams made him more money than you

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Speaker 1: His sex tape.

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Speaker 2: Don't need no video, It just sound and it goes viral.

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Speaker 2: Weigh in at two hundred and twenty eight pounds six two,

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Speaker 2: three times Super Bowl Champion, four time All Pro, eight

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Speaker 1: Let's give it up for Shannon Sharp.

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Speaker 3: Thank you man. I I don't believe, but I like that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, good, good good. I feel like you deserve that.

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Speaker 1: You know, you've done it. You've done it for so

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but so no, no, before before we go drink it, No, yeah,

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Speaker 5: before we go, we're gonna, we're gonna toast. But you say,

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Speaker 5: there's something that you do in your culture. Yeah, for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So when someone pours your tea or drink, you

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Speaker 2: So the story comes from it's a sign of respect,

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Speaker 2: Its cover, right because usually bow your head, So you

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Speaker 5: Uh, the fastest demographic for Kanyac Drinker is Asian.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, how many times did you audition because you said,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, from Asians that are directive and doing everything. How

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Speaker 1: Would you do it?

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Speaker 3: That's the type of you broke. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, but I'm like, I'm a funny I'm one of

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Speaker 5: What's your favorite what's your favorite moment of being on set?

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Speaker 5: Because now you're in a movie, an all Asian movie,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. I mean it was such a fun shoot,

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Speaker 1: So it was a pretty fun day for the boys

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Speaker 3: Do they let you add? Live?

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Speaker 5: Because I hear a lot of people, you know, and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's within Chinese culture. Every Chinese

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Speaker 2: This one got one hundred dollars for like your nephews

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Speaker 2: But yeah, for Chinese New Year, you go around up

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Speaker 5: So, so the Chinese New Year you get two weeks

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Speaker 2: Really, I think now, let's say this, I sound like

442
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Speaker 2: an asshole saying this. Now I'm trying better to like,

443
00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:42,359
Speaker 2: I'm trying to spend more money. Damn, I'm living way

444
00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:43,879
Speaker 2: too below my means.

445
00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,320
Speaker 3: You know, that's not a bad thing.

446
00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,840
Speaker 5: Considering the circumstances of what's going on right now. You

447
00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:50,639
Speaker 5: might want to stay that way for about another year

448
00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:50,919
Speaker 5: or so.

449
00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:52,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.

450
00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:57,240
Speaker 2: Because also actors' comedians you don't know, like especially in

451
00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,880
Speaker 2: the acting world comedy and kind of control your own desk, right,

452
00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:01,359
Speaker 2: you can do stead, you can go do you know,

453
00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,120
Speaker 2: gig Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, field a new hour,

454
00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:07,080
Speaker 2: sell a special. But in acting you just never know.

455
00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,080
Speaker 2: You got to speak very financial discipline. You don't know

456
00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,080
Speaker 2: when the next paycheck comes. But I think now I'm okay,

457
00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:17,040
Speaker 2: I'm trying to spend more money. And this joke never worked.

458
00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,239
Speaker 2: I shouldn't tell you this. Like I tried to do

459
00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:23,680
Speaker 2: this joke where I'm like, you know, all my athlete

460
00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,840
Speaker 2: friends whatever, they're like, Man, once I made it, you know,

461
00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,760
Speaker 2: everybody's ringing up my phone to like borrow money. And

462
00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:30,480
Speaker 2: I'm offended because nobody asked me.

463
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Speaker 1: To borrow money.

464
00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,000
Speaker 2: And I wish people would just ask me to borrow money,

465
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Speaker 2: like do you think I'm broke or something? But then

466
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,440
Speaker 2: it's not a relatable joke. I sounded like an asshole.

467
00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:39,879
Speaker 2: And now and now, I bet you a bunch of

468
00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,240
Speaker 2: people's gonna hit me up for money now.

469
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Speaker 5: Because you do realize, like there's this I don't know.

470
00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,359
Speaker 5: I don't want to be stereotypical, but they think you

471
00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,480
Speaker 5: Asians are good with money, they have money, are very

472
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Speaker 5: financial responsible. Yeah, and so nobody like, man, you on TV,

473
00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,600
Speaker 5: you got comedy, specially you've been in movies.

474
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Speaker 3: I think you bought a whole something, Jimmy.

475
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Speaker 2: You know, I think it's because a lot of my

476
00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,640
Speaker 2: friends are also Asian, so they're.

477
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Speaker 1: Doing okay, okah, yeah, man, this is gonna sound terrible.

478
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:12,040
Speaker 1: Cut it out if you guys don't like it.

479
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Speaker 2: The only two people to ask me for money were

480
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Speaker 2: my black friends.

481
00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:16,919
Speaker 1: Is that terrible?

482
00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:18,399
Speaker 3: Is that? Leave? Is that?

483
00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,120
Speaker 1: Is that terrible? Is that?

484
00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:23,560
Speaker 3: Well? Of my one of my best friends is your

485
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Speaker 3: best friend Rod Smith? Rod ask you for money? No?

486
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, But Rod Rod, he's my Opener's cousin. Yeah,

487
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,000
Speaker 2: and I see him in Denver every time. I tore

488
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,159
Speaker 2: an awesome guy. But he gave me the advice. He

489
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,679
Speaker 2: was like, don't let nobody borrow money. No, And then

490
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:39,000
Speaker 2: I was like, well, nobody's asked me.

491
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Speaker 3: To borrow money, would you just give?

492
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Speaker 5: I mean, at a certain point, you don't ask because

493
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,119
Speaker 5: you know you're not gonna get it back. You only

494
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Speaker 5: give what you can afford to stand to lose. So

495
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,159
Speaker 5: for somebody ask you for a thousand dollars, can you

496
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Speaker 5: afford to not get that money back because you're not

497
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Speaker 5: getting it back?

498
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I don't. I don't expect to back. But

499
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Speaker 2: then sometimes friends hit me.

500
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Speaker 1: Back, like like I got this.

501
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Speaker 2: Friend, so my old roommate he used to ask me

502
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Speaker 2: for some money or like you know, to front the rent,

503
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 2: which is weird, like because I think Asian people are

504
00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,879
Speaker 2: good with money, because you could be a janitor. You

505
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 2: can like not really have a job. But you got

506
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,439
Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars in savings. Yeah, you know, American's just

507
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 2: not very good at savings. Like my buddy, he was

508
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 2: on a TV show. He was making like fifty thousand

509
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,520
Speaker 2: like a season, you know, which is not a lot

510
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,240
Speaker 2: of money. But like to me back in the day

511
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,360
Speaker 2: when I was broken, I was like, oh, I can

512
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,440
Speaker 2: that that would last a lifetime in rent. My rent

513
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 2: was only five hundred dollars. But then two months later

514
00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,159
Speaker 2: he wouldn't have no money, and then he asked me

515
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Speaker 2: for money. You know, it was it was very he might.

516
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Speaker 5: Be westernized, yeah, because you know, we get the Western

517
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 5: the Western culture. We get a little money, we go like, man,

518
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 5: I always wanted this bag, I always wanted his shoes,

519
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 5: I always wanted this car. And the next day, you know,

520
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Speaker 5: I ain't got no money.

521
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Speaker 1: Zero, saying it's very scary.

522
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Speaker 3: Man.

523
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know, but you know what to say.

524
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 5: You're not promised tomorrow, so die tomorrow. And it got

525
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 5: a pocket full of money. What good?

526
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Speaker 2: Well, see see, I gotta live a little bit more

527
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,200
Speaker 2: like this, you know, Like I agree, that's what I'm saying.

528
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 2: I don't know how to spend money. I gotta live like,

529
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,160
Speaker 2: today's my last name?

530
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 5: What's the like when you started making it? What's what's

531
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 5: the most expensive thing that you bought? Did you buy

532
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,160
Speaker 5: something really nice? It seems you got a nice watch

533
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 5: on you got an APO.

534
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's a special Singaporean edition that I bought

535
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 2: in Singapore, only fifty ever made.

536
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,160
Speaker 1: Maybe I do know how to spend money. Yeah, huh.

537
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 2: I did buy watch when I first made it. I

538
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,320
Speaker 2: got a Rolex Pepsi like a nineteen sixty nine vintage watch.

539
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 3: Wow.

540
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like to buy watches.

541
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 3: Okay, you watch Guy out?

542
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, like like a little story a little bit,

543
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 2: yes there, And I still I warred that for my

544
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 2: first special. I warred that for my new special that's

545
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,959
Speaker 2: coming out too. That's one of my favorite watches.

546
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 5: You said the Chinese terror made Chinese product of luxury

547
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:47,919
Speaker 5: Tea moved the new Gucci.

548
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, people can't afford Chinese products anymore. Everything got

549
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 1: a tariff, man.

550
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 5: And the thing is that, because it's so spent, so

551
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 5: so inexpensive, you're like, oh man, I'm just gonna load

552
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 5: up on this. But now when they put the tariffs on,

553
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 5: they're like, nah, bro, I got to hold up on.

554
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 3: The Chinese products.

555
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, and maybe you brag about it.

556
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 3: You know.

557
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 2: Back in the day when you see made in China,

558
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 2: you're like, but now it's like made in China, Like

559
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 2: this guy paid double the price for this.

560
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: This might be some good ship.

561
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 5: Which is better elon musk cybertruck or Chinese electric car?

562
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: Oh, Chinese electric car cyber truck looks like a joke.

563
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 3: You know. Do you guys have electric cars for a

564
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:25,880
Speaker 3: long long time? Man?

565
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Speaker 2: When I want to China, man, they have so many

566
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,680
Speaker 2: companies you never heard of. You might have heard of,

567
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 2: like by D, but they have like so many other companies,

568
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 2: like even like their Apple store, like Huawei, you know

569
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 2: has cars inside of it. That's like their version of

570
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 2: the Apple Store. And it's beautiful.

571
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 3: Man.

572
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 2: And there's so many and I don't know, I don't

573
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 2: think we get them here in America. But in Europe

574
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Speaker 2: they started to get Chinese cars now and it's killing

575
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Speaker 2: the European car markets.

576
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 3: That's not that's not that's not letting that help come.

577
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, that would be a real brag if

578
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 2: you have a Chinese car here, because they look awesome.

579
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 5: I've never seen one, because it's like I went to Japan.

580
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 5: I remember I went to Japan many many years ago,

581
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 5: and you might see one American car for like fifteen

582
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 5: thousand Japanese cars.

583
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they probably have to pay the American yes,

584
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: and it's really expensive.

585
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 3: Well well you like.

586
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Speaker 5: You it's nothing to see a foreign car in America,

587
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 5: but it's a rarity to see an American car in

588
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Speaker 5: a foreign country.

589
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a I think in Japan

590
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 2: there's a word like like they're like American files. Yeah,

591
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 2: like they really enjoy American stuff. Yeah, some of them,

592
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 2: you know, whether it's an American car or even I

593
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 2: think Trader Joe bag, Trader Joe's like total Yes, I

594
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 2: saw that selling for a thousand dollars.

595
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, a bag that you can buy at Trader

596
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,439
Speaker 5: Joe's for five dollars is trading like a thousand dollars fifteen.

597
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Speaker 1: And I bet you they loved you in Japan, right,

598
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 1: they're like a man, American guy, This is awesome.

599
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Speaker 5: Well, back then, I don't know if it's true they

600
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 5: wanted American money. Now I don't know how you because

601
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 5: we go went to the Electronic District and they were

602
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,719
Speaker 5: like and we you know, buying cassette and DVD. They

603
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 5: had a lot of stuff that wasn't even out in

604
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 5: America yet. And they was like, you pay, you pay

605
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 5: American money, American money.

606
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: Really.

607
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, we give you, we give you know

608
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 5: there in the they're broken English. They give you deal,

609
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 5: they give you discount. I'm like, okay, you're gonna give

610
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 5: you a discount. Yeah, I wn'na play with American money.

611
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 5: They probably scammed you. They probably got you good, they do.

612
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.

613
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 2: Well, now now you can use obviously you use en

614
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 2: over there. But the exchange rate's really good for us

615
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 2: right now. I think, Yeah, the last time I wanted Japan,

616
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 2: exchange rate was awesome. And then in China everything is.

617
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Speaker 3: Still what's what's what's the Chinese.

618
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 2: Reman b Yeah RMB in Hong Kong you use Hong

619
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Speaker 2: Kong dollars, but it's like seven to one, eight to

620
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 2: one exchange rate really yeah, And mainland China you can

621
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 2: get a bowl of noodles for like fifty cents, like

622
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 2: it's yeah, the cost of living is still quite low.

623
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 2: And of course you got like big cities like Shanghai,

624
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 2: and then of course Hong Kong where things a little

625
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 2: a little more expensive and very international.

626
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: They have everywhere you go it's Gucci.

627
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 3: So Hong Kong is more westernized.

628
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 5: You're going to see the Starbucks and you go to

629
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 5: see all the things that you would find in America.

630
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 3: You'd find a lot of that in Hong Kong.

631
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Hong Kong was a British colony for like

632
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 2: one hundred years and now it's called the Special Administrative Region,

633
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 2: so it has its own government and stuff like that,

634
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 2: so it's a little different.

635
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: It has its own currency.

636
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 2: So when I grew up, I learned English, not not

637
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 2: very well, you know, like how American kids would learn

638
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 2: Spanish right on books. But yeah, yeah, it's very international.

639
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 2: They have all the international brands, and it's one of

640
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 2: the most dense. I think it's like the fourth most

641
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 2: dense city in the world. There's seven and a half

642
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 2: million people on a small island. It's beautiful. It's like

643
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 2: Manhattan but even better. Like people always say, oh my god,

644
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:56,959
Speaker 2: New York is like the best city or whatever. When

645
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 2: I went to New York, I wasn't eve impressed because

646
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 2: I grew up in Hong Kong. Whether tall buildings are amazing,

647
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 2: the subways are clean, and they're just there's just like

648
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 2: an energy of the people everywhere on the street. There's

649
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 2: a word for it, and Anthony's called yacht and hey

650
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 2: like literally.

651
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: The chi of the people.

652
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 2: Because you walk down a la there's nobody like you

653
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 2: feel weird walking.

654
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 3: You know.

655
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: I remember when I first immigrated to this country. I

656
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 1: was thirteen years old.

657
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 2: My grandpa was like, let me, I want to take

658
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 2: you to my favorite American restaurant. And we walked forty

659
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,719
Speaker 2: five minutes down Lo Sianaga. Nobody walks on lost c Hey,

660
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 2: I know. Yeah, we look like like two homeless people

661
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,719
Speaker 2: walking down, like hitching a ride or something. And then

662
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: we got to this restaurant and it was an elpoy

663
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 2: Loco that.

664
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: Was his favorite American or But I thought it was amazing.

665
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: I never had grilled chicken like that.

666
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 3: It was great.

667
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 5: If you said that you learned, if I'm not mistaken,

668
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 5: you learned how to speak English by watching a BT.

669
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, BT comic View, Rap City everything.

670
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,479
Speaker 5: I've heard that because I've heard people that learned, like

671
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 5: I love Lucy or I watched I watched sitcoms and

672
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,439
Speaker 5: I would just sit there and listen and mimic what

673
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 5: they say. And because I've heard a lot of people

674
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 5: say if it's not your native language, English is one

675
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 5: of the hardest language to learn. Now Mandarin Chinese, i've

676
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 5: heard is the hardest to learn, I.

677
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 2: Would think, so yeah, also the intonation is is very

678
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 2: you know, difficult. But yeah, I learned English by watching

679
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 2: BET because when I came here, first of all, I

680
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,239
Speaker 2: never heard a stand up comedy okay, you know, and

681
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 2: then when I came to America, I'm like, man, what

682
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 2: is this comic?

683
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 3: Beou?

684
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 2: This is so interesting and I get to see all

685
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 2: these different comics, and I wasn't just learning about the language.

686
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: First of all, I thought like, like whatever they were

687
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 2: saying on BT, I couldn't understand anything, right, you know.

688
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 2: So I was like, if I can understand this, I

689
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 2: can understand.

690
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 3: So when you when you first came, you didn't speak

691
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 3: any English.

692
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 2: I like, like, like I said, I learned it on

693
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 2: the books. But like, if you drop a thirteen year

694
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 2: old kid who learned Spanish in the books in Mexico,

695
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be able to communicate with everyone. So

696
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 2: when I first came, I know, like worst library, you know,

697
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 2: stuff like that.

698
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but to have a conversation.

699
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 2: And conversationally, I just was like, people are talking way

700
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 2: too fast.

701
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: I really can't understand anything.

702
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 2: So I was like really foreign when I first came here,

703
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 2: and I trouble communicating. I was in ESL classes and

704
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 2: stuff like that. But yeah, when I was watching BT,

705
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 2: I was like, if I can understand this, I can

706
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: understand not just the language, but also American culture because.

707
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: All the stereotypes and stuff like that. I didn't know.

708
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: White people like skydiving, you know, and and and there's

709
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 2: comic was like, uh, y'all know.

710
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: You know, black people all got bad transmissions. I was like,

711
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.

712
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 2: I was like, what black people have bad transmissions in

713
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 2: the cars. I don't even know if that's a true stereotype.

714
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: But I was like learning new things and learning about

715
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 2: the culture, you know, and then and the people.

716
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: That's why I thought it was like so interesting. It

717
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: was probably my first inspiration of stand up.

718
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 5: But I read that when you went to school, that

719
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 5: was really the first time that you had really saw

720
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 5: anybody outside of the Asian community get school. They were

721
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 5: all a so now you're with black, Hispanic, you know,

722
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 5: and different things like that, so what type of like like, damn,

723
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 5: you're looking around like these people don't look like me,

724
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 5: they don't talk like me.

725
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 3: I mean, damn, I'm yeah.

726
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 2: It was kind of innocent because there was no race

727
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 2: in my mind. I thought everybody was the same.

728
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 3: You know.

729
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 2: I saw some Mexican kids playing soccer. I grew up

730
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 2: playing soccer, and I started hanging out with.

731
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: Them, you know.

732
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: And then the only Asian kids at my school in

733
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 2: LA at the time were Korean kids, and even they

734
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 2: thought I was foreign because I don't speak Korean. They're like, oh,

735
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 2: China boy, Chinese boy.

736
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 3: You know.

737
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 2: So I didn't really have a like an Asian Chinese

738
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 2: group to fall back on, which is good because it

739
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 2: forced me to assimilate. So I had to hang out

740
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 2: with everyone. And then in high school, my friends was everyone,

741
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 2: you know, like I Persian friends, black friends, Latino friends, white,

742
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 2: Asian like everybody. And I think that's what I love

743
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 2: about America.

744
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, you said something very interesting. You said that.

745
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 5: Being if you're Asian, and I got had Gabriela galaesis

746
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 5: on here and Rafao Barbosa, and they said, being Hispanic

747
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 5: and born in America, you're treated differently by Hispanics born

748
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 5: outside of America. I'm interested, like, are Asian? Is that

749
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 5: the same way for Asians if you're born in America

750
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 5: and you're treated differently from Asians that were born outside

751
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 5: of America.

752
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know this was kind of sad. When I

753
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: first came to the country. I didn't I was like

754
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 2: what they call fresh off the boat five, yeah.

755
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: You know, FOB.

756
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 2: And then there's these American born Chinese ABC, that's what

757
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 2: they call them. And they weren't really trying to mess

758
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 2: with me because I made them look foreign.

759
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: Oh okay, and that's the last thing Asian people want

760
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: to look in this country is foreign.

761
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 3: They really want to simulate.

762
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they are like, no, we were born here,

763
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: we're Americans. You are not.

764
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: So we ain't really even trying to mess with you

765
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: like that, you know, So that that kind of hurt,

766
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 2: you know when I came here, Like, it's my people

767
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 2: that didn't accept me.

768
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, you had a lot of jobs before you became

769
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 5: what we see today.

770
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 3: You were an Uber driver, you were a DJ. Let's

771
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 3: let's let's let's let's get with the DJ first.

772
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 5: I don't know the only only Asian DJ is Steve Aoki.

773
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so was that your source of inspirations? You

774
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 3: were at a strip club.

775
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: I was a strip club DJ. It's a little different

776
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: than stevee.

777
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 3: Coming to stage. You won we got Beautiful Amber on

778
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 3: stage two.

779
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, it's we.

780
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 3: Got Dan Yale.

781
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 2: It was it was really uh like people management. It's

782
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 2: like stripper management really more than DJ because.

783
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: I used to make beats.

784
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 2: That was my first creative outlet when I didn't have

785
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 2: a lot of friends in America. I had to dive

786
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 2: into something right to let the energy out. And I

787
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 2: was just making beats on like fruity Loops, Reason or whatever,

788
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 2: and I was selling beats and then from that I

789
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 2: kind of know how to DJ. But when you DJ

790
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 2: at a shitty strip club, there's not even like a

791
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 2: DJ turntable like that. You know, it's literally you a

792
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 2: microphone and a computer ware clicking nixt song. So really

793
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 2: you're just trying to be cool with the strippers.

794
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: Like like you need to get tip. Yeah, And and

795
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: also it's like hey, Amber, like what song do you want? Yeah,

796
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: like let me let me play this way.

797
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 2: And they got to control the lighting, you know, different

798
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: lights look better or worse. On different skin tones, and

799
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 2: really you're trying to get the customers to go into

800
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 2: the VIP room to get lap dances.

801
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: Like we had a rule, I think.

802
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 2: Every three girls you have to do like a showcase

803
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 2: with all the girls.

804
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, they walk around you try to

805
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 3: get yeah you know.

806
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like every and then you have to play

807
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: like Motley Crewe Girls Girls girls, and then over the

808
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: microphone is like, all right, let me get all the

809
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: ladies back on the stage, Amber, Jade and Milan, and

810
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: Milan's name was like parents last week, you know, like

811
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: these girls.

812
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: Changing names on you, and then really your job. It's

813
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 2: like all right, guy in the front, like I'm doing

814
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 2: crowd work. Guy in the front with the hat. You know,

815
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 2: don't be shy. I see you looking at it. Take

816
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: her in the bag. It's two for one lap dance

817
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 2: that's going on. Or you can get two girls for

818
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 2: the price of one, you know, stuff like that, and

819
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: then you really just like heart selling them.

820
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: And that's to me. That was like also my open mic.

821
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 2: You know, like I was working a comedy club at

822
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 2: the same time, so I would do material at the

823
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 2: comedy club and then at night I'll try to do

824
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: some CrowdWork at the strip club.

825
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 3: Wow.

826
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 5: So you're like, yeah, I mean this is okay. It

827
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 5: pays a couple of bills, but this ain't for me.

828
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 5: And then you begin so were you? I don't know,

829
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 5: it was for me kind of. I love being a

830
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 5: strip clubjay, and I was so good at it. The

831
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 5: owner he was like a biker gang gangster.

832
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 3: Really it was.

833
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 2: Really cool inviting me over to this house like all

834
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 2: his boys home. It was like, pretty like, in hindsight,

835
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have done that. Probably, Yeah. His name, his

836
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 2: name is Gunner. And he was like, hey, I'm getting

837
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 2: up in age and I want.

838
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: You to take over this place.

839
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 2: Sales went up forty four percent ever since came in

840
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 2: because I was like, I wasn't trying to have sex

841
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 2: with the girls.

842
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: I mean I was, I just wasn't successful, but you know,

843
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 1: I was like very professional, right, you know, and and

844
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:10,720
Speaker 1: I ran a tight shift.

845
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 2: So he was like, I need a manager. I want

846
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 2: you to take over. You know, I'm gonna build a

847
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 2: new strip club blah blah. And then I literally had

848
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 2: a moment where I was like maybe I could be

849
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 2: like the San Diego strip club kingpin. You know, Yeah,

850
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 2: that would be kind of fun. But then I had

851
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 2: a really nice mentor shout out to my boy Sean Kelly,

852
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 2: who ran the Comedy Palace in San Diego, to give

853
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: me stage time. And I was working there and I'll

854
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 2: tell them all these stories. I'm like, man, we just

855
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 2: got this fight this dude monster.

856
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: He was a security. He took out the stick and

857
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: beat the shit out of this guy. Was awesome.

858
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 3: Man.

859
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 2: You know, I was bragging. I was like a twenty

860
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 2: two year old kid, and Sean was like, yo, I

861
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 2: know you think that's funny. That's not funny. You know, like,

862
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 2: when you're around these dark places, these dark people for

863
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 2: too long, you will start to normalize this. It will

864
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 2: start to become okay, and that's not all right, right,

865
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 2: So I want you to get out of here.

866
00:35:58,400 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: You're very funny. You have a future.

867
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 2: Go to LA, develop more of your comedy and get

868
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 2: on TV. And I took his advice and I didn't

869
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 2: take the DJ job, so the strip club management job.

870
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 5: So that's when you like came and you started doing

871
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 5: oprah mics and you started doing your own thing. But

872
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 5: in the meantime, you still you were an uber driver.

873
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was later. I didn't have money

874
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 2: to buy a car for Uber. Oh you know, so

875
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 2: I was just like living with my roommate Torell in

876
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 2: like a five hundred dollars apartment. I lived in a

877
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 2: living room, he had a bedroom, you know. And we're

878
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: just doing open mics. And my buddy Sean had this idea.

879
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 2: We opened up a comedy club on the second floor

880
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 2: Hooters on Hollywood Boulevard, and we'll be like New York Comics.

881
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 2: We'll bark and like try to get these tourists up there,

882
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 2: so at least every night we have like five ten customers.

883
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 2: Because in LA it's really hard to get stage time. Yes,

884
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 2: if you're not a famous person, TV credit a special,

885
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 2: So we have to build our own stage time. So

886
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 2: that's why we'll open up that Hooters comedy club and

887
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 2: we grind it there, pass out tickets every night, just

888
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: so women an audience, right, and then that's the only

889
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 2: way to get good is stage time.

890
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 5: Wow, you mentioned a Rap City and BT Comic View

891
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 5: and all those things. Did you understand I don't know

892
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,919
Speaker 5: if you really understood the importance. I mean, obviously being

893
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 5: from being coming to this country and not really understanding

894
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 5: the importance of BT Rap City and Comic View because

895
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 5: they was huge for the culture. Because Comic View and

896
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 5: Depth Comedy Jam that really launched the comics and put them.

897
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 5: If you got if you got on there, yeah, now

898
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 5: you can tour and you could like and everybody knew

899
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 5: who you were, and so you watching that is that

900
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 5: is that when you really started to say, you know what,

901
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 5: that's what I want to do.

902
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:43,439
Speaker 1: No, not at all.

903
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 3: Really.

904
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: I started stand up because I was just bored. I

905
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: was really kind of depressed.

906
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 2: That's why I liked all these different jobs because I

907
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 2: had an economics major. Yeah in college, I really didn't

908
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 2: want to do that at an internship. And then I

909
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 2: just took on odd jobs like the strip club DJ,

910
00:37:59,080 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 2: I sold You's car.

911
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 1: I uh, what else did I?

912
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 2: I worked at a comedy club, worked at a shoe store,

913
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 2: just to see what I like. And then stand up

914
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 2: was one of the things that I tried, and I

915
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 2: was like, oh, I'm pretty good at this, and this

916
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 2: gave me an outlet creatively, and also it was it

917
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 2: gave me somewhere to hang out. I wasn't really cool

918
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 2: enough to go to clubs, right, you know, I didn't

919
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 2: have like cool friends that would be like, you know,

920
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 2: popping bottles or whatever.

921
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: And I was like twenty something, so I needed something.

922
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 2: So I was just hanging out the comedy clubs every

923
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: night and just grinding it out. Like in my twenties,

924
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 2: I really didn't go out outside of the comedy club.

925
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 2: That was my going out And luckily from that I

926
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 2: developed the skill.

927
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 5: You know, when your parents spend the kind of money

928
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 5: to get you an education. You're an economics major and

929
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 5: college isn't cheap, and your parents have spent invested this

930
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 5: kind of money, I'm sure they're thinking, you know what,

931
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 5: we didn't come to this country to have. But I

932
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 5: saw Bill sticked up comedia to have to have it

933
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 5: working at the shoe store, have him do with X,

934
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 5: Y and Z and do these odd jobs. When you

935
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 5: finally told your parents counted the direction that you wanted

936
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 5: to go in, how do they receive it?

937
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: They don't want to understand it.

938
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 2: Like, okay, they might understand playing football, playing basketball. That's

939
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 2: you see someone on TV? Right my dad, it's like

940
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 2: what is stand up?

941
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 3: Like? What is this?

942
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 2: You know he's never seen comic View, he's never seen Chappelle,

943
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 2: George Lopez, so he was just confused. He thought it

944
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 2: was like a phase, hoping out. Yeah, and then like

945
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 2: every week he will send me like Career builder dot

946
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 2: Com email, It's like, hey, man, Goman Sacks is hiring

947
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 2: you know, 'BS is hiring Morgan Stanley, Come on, Jimmy.

948
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: So he was just hoping I'll snap out of it.

949
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 2: And he finally understood it when I became a series

950
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 2: regular on Silicon Alley, right, because that's TV, that's act and.

951
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 3: You can actually see. That's something he can see.

952
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now there's a contract, So he understands there's

953
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 2: a contract with HBO Warner Brothers, you know.

954
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: So okay, okay, Now he's not worried when you.

955
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 5: Thought, look obviously like comedians, A lot of comedians, especially.

956
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 3: If you're black or white, you had Prior, you had Fox.

957
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 5: You have Chappelle, you have Martin, you have guys Bernie Mac,

958
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 5: you have guy Rudy Ray Moore. You can look to

959
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 5: if you why you got Lewis c K And you

960
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 5: got Carling and you got all these guys. That really

961
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 5: the only and I'm way older than you, Jimmy, the

962
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 5: only really Asian comedian that I really knew of back

963
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:14,879
Speaker 5: twenty years ago.

964
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 3: Was Margaret Troy. Yeah, Martin Troy.

965
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 5: Was the only one that obviously there are more now,

966
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,919
Speaker 5: but who was your inspiration because it's not a whole

967
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 5: it wasn't a whole lot of them.

968
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 2: It was it was very special to see any Asian

969
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 2: on TV when I was growing, you know, even Bobby

970
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 2: Lee on Matt TV.

971
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 1: That was like must watch TV. I never watched Saturday

972
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: Night Live. I watched Matt TV because Bobby you know,

973
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: when Yao Man came into the league Asian brother.

974
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so now you watch the NBA.

975
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ken Jong, you know, and Margaret Choll, many of

976
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 2: these people. Man, I remember I think I saw Ken

977
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 2: Jong and like show timing Apolo something, I'm like this,

978
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 2: this guy's so funny. Yes, or even last Comic Standing,

979
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 2: the first year winner was that fan and a lot

980
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 2: of people was like, oh, you know he's uh, he's

981
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 2: pretty green as a comic or whatever.

982
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I'm I'm so proud of this.

983
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 2: But yeah, so I think you were just grasping for

984
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 2: any any Asian thing.

985
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: But then for me, you know, stand up.

986
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 2: A lot of my inspiration came from a lot of

987
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,760
Speaker 2: different comics on Comic View, but also Dave Chappelle. Chappelle

988
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 2: Show when I was in high school was like must

989
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 2: watch TV, you know, like every Wednesday. If you don't

990
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 2: Watchappelle Show, you got nothing to talk about on Thursday.

991
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 2: And then George Lopez man, me and my buddy watches

992
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: special Todd Dark in Chicano. And then there was another one.

993
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 2: It was Incredible Specials on HBO and he was talking

994
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 2: about his immigrant family and included some Spanish in his act.

995
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 2: I don't know Spanish, but then I'll go to school

996
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 2: like and and start speaking like George, Hey, mita mitra,

997
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 2: you know, like repeating his jokes because it resonated. Although

998
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,240
Speaker 2: I didn't grow up in a Spanish family, I understood

999
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 2: he was his family's also immigrants, you know, and and

1000
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 2: and and and a little foreign, a little different.

1001
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: And when he described his aunt.

1002
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 2: When he described his his his grandfather, it brought you

1003
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 2: into his life, right, And I.

1004
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: Really love that.

1005
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 2: So I'll say, George Lopez is stand up. What's really

1006
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,919
Speaker 2: a great early source of information. And for me, that's

1007
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 2: why I talk about my family. I talk about my

1008
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 2: real life experience. You might not be Asian, but you

1009
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 2: get it. It's like the mom to guess how much stuff?

1010
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 2: And this new special I shot at in Hong Kong,

1011
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: and I included some Canthony's.

1012
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 1: There's subtitles on not ten percent Canthony's.

1013
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 2: But I want to be like George Lopez, like even

1014
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 2: if you don't understand Spanish, you'll find it funny, maybe

1015
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 2: learned something in the process.

1016
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 3: How were your friends were? They very receptive.

1017
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 5: They're like, Jimmy, give this up, bro, you need you need,

1018
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,399
Speaker 5: you need to find something else to do or where.

1019
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 5: They're supported because you mentioned your mom and dad. They

1020
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 5: brought you over here to get to be a businessman,

1021
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 5: to be a lawyer, to be a doctor, be you know,

1022
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 5: be a CEO.

1023
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 3: Ain'ybody bring you here to tell jokes?

1024
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean my friends are pretty supportive. They thought

1025
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 2: it was really cool because we'll like grow up, watch Chappelle,

1026
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 2: watch George Lopez together. And the first way to get

1027
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 2: stage time in a real comedy club is bringer shows.

1028
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 2: So you got to bring five friends in order to

1029
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: get five minutes on a real stage in La something oh,

1030
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 2: like a Haha comedy club or like wherever right, And

1031
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 2: I remember one time, like at some point you run

1032
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 2: out of friends.

1033
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 3: Bring you ready, the same five friend like you brought

1034
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 3: them last week.

1035
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's okay if they drink the two drinks

1036
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 2: went on, but your jokes are the same. They don't

1037
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 2: want to keep coming, you know. But when I had

1038
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 2: my first Bringer shows, all my friend showed up in

1039
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 2: a pretty special experience. But then you're like, man, I

1040
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 2: need to get stage time some other kind of way

1041
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 2: because you literally.

1042
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:25,720
Speaker 1: Run out of friends to invite.

1043
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 2: One time, I think I brought four friends instead of

1044
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,280
Speaker 2: five friends, and they wouldn't let me on stage.

1045
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: Really yeah, man, it's cutthroat like that.

1046
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 5: You're like, bro, look here for the last three weeks,

1047
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 5: I done brought five people every time. Just one time.

1048
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 5: I'm a guy short cut your boys some.

1049
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: Flat yeah, I know. And this comic he was running

1050
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 2: the show, wouldn't let me on stage. He's like, come on, man,

1051
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 2: I'm trying to run business. You know it's a Bringer show.

1052
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 2: I told you got to bring five. I'm like, I

1053
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 2: got four.

1054
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: Maybe one is coming. Can I just get give me

1055
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: four minutes of stage time?

1056
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 3: And later?

1057
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, and now this guy's trying to be all nice

1058
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: to me. That guy, I'm yeah, that did.

1059
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 3: I was talking who was I talking to.

1060
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 5: I was talking to Brad Williams Hadio mom and and

1061
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 5: he's talking about how Peter dinklice when he did sn

1062
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 5: l in the monologue no dwarf jokes. And I read

1063
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 5: some Asian Americans won't play characters that have an Asian accent.

1064
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 3: What about? Where are you on this?

1065
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 2: I'm okay with it because I kind of an accent.

1066
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 2: I didn't speak English when I first came. How can

1067
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 2: I say no to that?

1068
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 3: You know?

1069
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: That would be like saying no to my own foreign brothers.

1070
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 2: You know, But it depends. I think if it's sometimes

1071
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 2: really it's not to me. It's not as clear as

1072
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 2: like accent. It's a no no, Like can I do

1073
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 2: this accent authentically? Right, you know in Silicon Valley? Like

1074
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 2: I made sure do this character authentically and put a

1075
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 2: lot of myself in there. I did a movie called

1076
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 2: Patriots Day. It's based on the Boston Marathon bombing. Yes,

1077
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 2: and there's a character called Danny May. He turned out

1078
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 2: to be a hero and he had a very thick

1079
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 2: Chinese accent. When am I going to not play that

1080
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 2: guy's it just happened to be an immigrant, you know?

1081
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 2: So I'm very proud to be an immigrant. You know,

1082
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 2: I'm very proud to have not speak English to now

1083
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:16,359
Speaker 2: where I can.

1084
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 3: You know.

1085
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 2: So I think as long as you play it with

1086
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 2: new ones, you play it with dignity, you play it

1087
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 2: with authenticity.

1088
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 1: S all right?

1089
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 5: Is that why you feel that it's important to have

1090
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 5: that and not avoid it? Like, look, bro, I mean

1091
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 5: I'm an immigrant. Yeah, I'm an Asian descent, and just

1092
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 5: for me to avoid it, that doesn't make me not

1093
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 5: Asian or doesn't make me my story not authentic.

1094
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: There's so many different types of Asian.

1095
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, I think the problem was and still

1096
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 2: is that there's just not enough Asian people on TV.

1097
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 2: When there's only two Asian people on TV and one

1098
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: of them got a heavy accent, you know, that's tough

1099
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 2: because then people look at it like all Asian people

1100
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 2: are foreigned. So that's why we fight for the rock

1101
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 2: there's a critical mass of enough, you know, like on

1102
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 2: Crazy Rich Asians, it was also spiritually very freeing experience

1103
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 2: because now I can just be the funny, crazy billionaire

1104
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 2: because there's other Asians in that movie. Correct, you know,

1105
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 2: it's just people now, you know, instead of you have

1106
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 2: to carry the weight of this one character representing everyone.

1107
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 2: So I think what's most important is having more of

1108
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 2: us on TV, on film, so now we can just

1109
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 2: be whatever character will.

1110
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: Want to be.

1111
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 5: You said rid that, you said you want to make

1112
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 5: Chinese as sexy as the language as Italian in French.

1113
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, why is Chinese accent not sexy?

1114
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: Why is a girl.

1115
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 2: Listening like the Spanish lover? You know, God, he's an

1116
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 2: Italian accent, British.

1117
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: Accent the fringe. Yeah, why is the Chinese accent not

1118
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: that you know?

1119
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's what I mean.

1120
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 5: I guess it's because of Paris, and there's something about

1121
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 5: going to Parri and the Eiffel Tower and the backdrop

1122
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 5: and they got this bridge. I don't know if they

1123
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 5: still do it what they put the locks on.

1124
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's kind of cute.

1125
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:04,959
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so I guess.

1126
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 5: I mean, you're not going to anybody putting no locks

1127
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 5: on the Great Wall of Channel, are You're not going not.

1128
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 1: In the Great War.

1129
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 5: But I mean, so you gotta have you gotta have

1130
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 5: something that's iconic and scenic in the backdrop because you

1131
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 5: think about it. You go and you got your girl,

1132
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 5: your wife or whatever, and then the Eiffel Towers in

1133
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 5: the bank.

1134
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: Who cares about Paris?

1135
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to go to France, so everyone gives a ship. Okay,

1136
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 2: French food sucks, all right, Like have you when's the

1137
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 2: last time you crave French food?

1138
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 3: No? Come on, man, like, you know what about French fries?

1139
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 2: No French that's not even Who cares, dude, French fries America.

1140
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 2: We claim that ship already. Okay, we colonized French fries.

1141
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 2: But look, man, like, I think I think people really

1142
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 2: need to go to Asia, go to Hong Kong.

1143
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: Everybody speak English there, really, yeah, man.

1144
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 2: That's why I shot my special on Hong Kong because

1145
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 2: I'm like, I got to put a Hong Kong on

1146
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 2: the map.

1147
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: This is such a beautiful international city.

1148
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 2: And most of the special is in English, you know,

1149
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 2: And I talk about Hong Kong culture to people.

1150
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: And everything, and it's a beautiful city.

1151
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,879
Speaker 2: Some of the best food you ever have in the world,

1152
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 2: street food to like the best Michelin's.

1153
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 5: I don't know at all that, Jimmy, you come on

1154
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 5: the street food, Yeah, the street you'd have heard about

1155
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 5: some of the things that y'all y'all be eating over there.

1156
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: See this is bad stereotype, Bigham.

1157
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, just say this is this is this

1158
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 5: is like me saying like me saying black people borrow

1159
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 5: money from me, you know, like this is bad as.

1160
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 1: Look, China is huge.

1161
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 2: There's like eight pillars of different cuisines in China. So

1162
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 2: Cantonese cuisine is different than what you eat in Shanghai.

1163
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 2: And you have very modern, you know, fusion food, Western

1164
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 2: food and Chinese food.

1165
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 1: And the pasta in Hong Kong is posting. Yeah, man, man, everybody.

1166
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 3: Going nobody going, nobody going to China Hong Kong paa right.

1167
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: But craving pasta.

1168
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 2: I bet you find a bowl of pasta there that's

1169
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 2: better than the pasta here. I'm just saying, like it's

1170
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 2: a it's a great place, and people don't give enough credit.

1171
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 2: And then they're like, oh, you know, you eat weird

1172
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 2: stuff over there. Sure in deep China, can you find

1173
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 2: some weird shit? Probably yeah, you know, but we don't

1174
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 2: eat that every day, you know. And in Hong Kong

1175
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 2: you just have like the best roast duck, you know,

1176
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 2: chashu pa yea watching doodles.

1177
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's amazing.

1178
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 5: Y'all be cooking on TikTok. Y'all be having them leaves

1179
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 5: and all kinds of stuff. Y'all be cooking like that. Man,

1180
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 5: y'all really cook? Do they really cook like that?

1181
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: Not that? No, Like if you live in a village

1182
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,439
Speaker 1: in America, there's people that cook weird, people that eat

1183
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: road kill. Do we eat road kill every day?

1184
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:32,439
Speaker 3: Shit?

1185
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: And no we don't, you know. And then in Hong Kong,

1186
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: like people have modern kitchens.

1187
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 2: You know, it's the most Like, dude, when I came

1188
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 2: to when I came to La, I'm like, this is country.

1189
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: This place sucks.

1190
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 2: Really there's nothing here but cars and freeways all right.

1191
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 2: When you walk, it's not modern at all. When you

1192
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 2: go to China, man, like, dude, the high speed rails

1193
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 2: takes you everywhere, and the restaurant, the core inside of

1194
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 2: Shangha will blow your mind and it's just incredible services.

1195
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 2: That's why I'm saying, like, people gotta give Asia, give

1196
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 2: give China a chance, dude, Like you know, like like

1197
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:09,280
Speaker 2: like so many people, everyone's like, oh, my top destination

1198
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 2: is Paris all that, man, you know, the hotels expensive,

1199
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:17,439
Speaker 2: the food sucks, Go go to age Is China cheap dude, China. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1200
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 2: a lot of you can have the highest end of

1201
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 2: the highest end. The best hotel chains all come from

1202
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:25,879
Speaker 2: Hong Kong. Think about Peninsula, Mandarin, Orient Yo, Shan, Gray Law,

1203
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 2: the Rosewood. These are the top of the top hotels

1204
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 2: around the world, right, all Hong Kong companies. Wow yeah, man, yeah,

1205
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 2: people got to know that.

1206
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 5: Okay, help me out with this. I'm not the biggest

1207
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 5: Asian cuisine guy. Every once in a while, maybe once twice,

1208
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 5: maybe once a year, maybe once every other year, I'll

1209
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 5: leave some shrimp fried rice. But that's about it. I

1210
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 5: not shrimp fried rice, chicken fried rice. I'm gonna look

1211
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 5: at the shellfish. But I mean, when y'all, when you

1212
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 5: start getting like that move got paid in general Joe's Chicken.

1213
00:50:56,320 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 2: And that's not even Chinese food. That is no oh no,

1214
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 2: that's Chinese American food. I mean, I like, so, get

1215
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 2: me wrong. I love Panic Express, Okay, to me, that's

1216
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:09,399
Speaker 2: a different cuisine than Chinese food. I love it for

1217
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 2: what it is.

1218
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 5: Okay, give me, give me give me some some some

1219
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 5: solely Chinese cuisine.

1220
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 2: All right, So you go to Hong Kong, let's just

1221
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 2: talk about Cantonese. Will now give you some other quisines

1222
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 2: Cantonese food on like the basic level, what people eat

1223
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 2: every day. It's wanton noodle soup and it's some of

1224
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 2: the freshest noodles that they make my hand. Wanton's with

1225
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 2: shrimp and pork. And then for lunch you eat like

1226
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 2: taca i fon. It's like chashiu and chicken rice. Just

1227
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:37,359
Speaker 2: meat over rice.

1228
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, it's barbecue.

1229
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: It's it's they.

1230
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 3: Barbecue Korean barbecue.

1231
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 2: Well that's Korean, okay, but but yeah, the Chinese like

1232
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 2: Hong Kong barbecue.

1233
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 3: You have like.

1234
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 1: Basically our own.

1235
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 3: You got barbecue.

1236
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, chashu is barbecue. That's roast pork belly. And then

1237
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,399
Speaker 2: you have a barbecue duck.

1238
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: It's the best thing. Goose is better than duck. And

1239
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: they have that in home.

1240
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:09,359
Speaker 5: No compete, no duck.

1241
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 2: Okay, if you like duck, this I like them. So

1242
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 2: duck over rice. And they have this ginger scallion sauce.

1243
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 2: It is just chopped up ginger scallion that pour hot

1244
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 2: all over it, and you pour that over all your

1245
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 2: rice and everything.

1246
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: It's some of the best thing you ever have.

1247
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah.

1248
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,240
Speaker 2: And then the Shangha is different cuisine. You have braist

1249
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 2: pork slow cooked with soy sauce. You have crab. You

1250
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 2: know this very famous hairy crab. You don't really eat

1251
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 2: the meat. You eat the row that's.

1252
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 3: Inside the egg.

1253
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: It's not that it's eggs or it's gouts. I don't

1254
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: know what it is, but it's delicious. You mix it

1255
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: with noodles with rice, and then.

1256
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 3: Nobody that Jimmy, you're doing too much. I mean, you

1257
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 3: had me going.

1258
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 5: You're talking about you're talking about you're talking about the

1259
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 5: roasted pork, and you talking about the dunk, and you

1260
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 5: talking about the goose. Okay, I was doing in the barbecue,

1261
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 5: the beef and all that. I was good with you,

1262
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 5: and then you got to the row.

1263
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 1: The crab ro But hey man, it's choose your own adventure.

1264
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: You know. There's so many different cuisines.

1265
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 2: You can go to China and just have McDonald's, and

1266
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 2: the McDonald's over there is better than here.

1267
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 3: How close is Asian cuisine in America to that what

1268
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 3: you see over there in the original country.

1269
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 2: In places like La New York, you can find very

1270
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 2: authentic Asian cuisine. Really in the Chinese part of town

1271
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 2: like here, you have to go to the six to

1272
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 2: six like Monterey Park, San Gabriel Valley, and you have

1273
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 2: some of the most authentic stuff. You can find Anthony's cuisine,

1274
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 2: Shanghinese cuisine, in Beijing cuisine whatever, right, but in most

1275
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 2: like Middle America.

1276
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 1: I was just in Detroit.

1277
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,359
Speaker 2: You know, my old roommate and my opener, Terrell, he's

1278
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 2: from Detroit, so he's used to Chinese food that's like

1279
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 2: gravy over rice. The American like egg fool Young. I

1280
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,399
Speaker 2: never heard of egg fool Young. Yeah, you know when

1281
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 2: I was in Hong Kong, so it's very different. Oh

1282
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 2: and then my other opened a Derek uh Ross Smith's cousin.

1283
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1284
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 2: Uh he's a black dude from the South from Texas, Canada. Yeah, and.

1285
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: I love taking him to Asian restaurants.

1286
00:53:59,120 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 3: Here.

1287
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 2: We want to a Japanese restaurant. He looked at the

1288
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 2: miso soup. He saw the little little white cubes and that's.

1289
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: Never had it. He was like, what is this cheese.

1290
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,839
Speaker 1: I was like, no, it's tofu man like he's never

1291
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: had like FuG He's never had sushi and he loves it.

1292
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 3: You know.

1293
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,359
Speaker 2: It's like a nice culture exchange and then he takes

1294
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 2: me to Sow food restaurants and that year Yeah.

1295
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, that what I'm talking about.

1296
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 1: That tail, Yeah, delicious, Yes. And then I had kool

1297
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:27,240
Speaker 1: aid and I've never had something so sweet.

1298
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 3: In my life.

1299
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: There's more sugar than liquid inside of that thing.

1300
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 2: I felt like my fud was gonna fall off chesus man,

1301
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 2: you know, but it was delicious.

1302
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 5: You said you were treated bad about Asian in American school.

1303
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 5: Why would you treat it bad because, like normally I

1304
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 5: would think, is that they got someone that looks like them,

1305
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 5: that's from their culture. It's like, damn got It's like

1306
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 5: if you went to another school and you got people

1307
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,760
Speaker 5: that look like you, Now you don't feel like an outsider,

1308
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 5: you don't feel like an outcast.

1309
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:57,280
Speaker 3: Why do you think they treated you differently?

1310
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,720
Speaker 2: Well, because I like, like I was saying, the American

1311
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 2: born in Chinese people or the Koreans, you know, they

1312
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 2: they were fighting their own battle right right, because there's

1313
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 2: lack of representation. Although they were born in America, they

1314
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 2: still people thought they were foreign. Some people still go

1315
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 2: up to the met ching chong or like you know,

1316
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 2: on a basketball court, they call us Jackie Chan. You know,

1317
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:21,359
Speaker 2: so they're fighting their own battle of assimilating and which

1318
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 2: is which sucks because they were born in America. They're American.

1319
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 2: Why did they even have to fit in?

1320
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 3: Right?

1321
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: So I get the battle.

1322
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 2: And then this foreign kid me comes in who can

1323
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 2: barely speak English. If they hang out with me, it

1324
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 2: will only make them look more foreign. So I kind

1325
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 2: of get it, yeah, you know, but it sucked at

1326
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 2: the time.

1327
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 5: Like can you tell, like if something like if we

1328
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 5: like like twenty people in here and they're Asian and

1329
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 5: obviously some you're like you said, they're different than Cantonese

1330
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 5: and they're manner and so forth. So do you know

1331
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 5: because a lot of times and like I don't really ask,

1332
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 5: but I'm let people look like like he is he?

1333
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 3: Korean?

1334
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 4: Is he?

1335
00:55:56,160 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 3: Chinese? Japanese? Is the South Koreans, the Taiwani? Do you

1336
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 3: get do people? Do people ever confuse you and ask you,

1337
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 3: like what's your ethnicity?

1338
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:06,399
Speaker 1: It depends where I am.

1339
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,280
Speaker 2: If I'm in Korea town and the cashier starts speaking

1340
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:10,919
Speaker 2: Korean to me, I feel like that's that's fair.

1341
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 3: You know, I'm there, you know, would you like to

1342
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:14,360
Speaker 3: say I'm not Korea?

1343
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not what did you say, I can't speak Korean?

1344
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 2: And then they're disappointed. They think I'm Korean, but I

1345
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 2: don't speak Korean, you know, but obviously I'm Chinese.

1346
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:25,479
Speaker 1: I can kind of tell.

1347
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 2: I think if someone's Korean, Chinese, Jennemese, whatever. But you know,

1348
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 2: also I guess just saying someone's Asian, that's a big group,

1349
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,879
Speaker 2: you know. I think Chinese people is very different than

1350
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 2: Korean people, than Japanese people. And then if you go

1351
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 2: to Asia, then you really learn about the beefs, you know,

1352
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 2: like the.

1353
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 3: Different everybody everybody ain't cool.

1354
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, the different countries got different beefs, you know. And

1355
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 2: then if you really go deep, like in China, like

1356
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 2: Shanghanese people got beef with the neighboring city.

1357
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: You know, like people just find beef and you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1358
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. These people are country people or like whatever.

1359
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 5: You was born in Hong Kong, what was it like

1360
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 5: born in Hong Kong, Because you know, you hear these

1361
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 5: stories like it's so Americanized, it's so like it's not

1362
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 5: anything that you would think an Asian country will be.

1363
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 5: And when you see it, until they look they make

1364
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 5: everything look glamorous and I'm sure it is. But what

1365
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 5: was it like growing up for you there, as opposed

1366
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 5: to like when you go back now.

1367
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's a great question, Shannon. When I grew

1368
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 2: up there, you know, I loved it because after school

1369
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 2: you can just walk home.

1370
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: It's super safe.

1371
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 2: And then you know, there's food everywhere, there's people everywhere,

1372
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 2: there's shops everywhere. Like you're very stimulated as you walk

1373
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 2: down the street in Hong Kong, and it's very convenient,

1374
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 2: and it takes subway across the ocean to Kowloon.

1375
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:47,439
Speaker 3: Side or whatever.

1376
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: It's so much to do in a very.

1377
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 2: Small place, right, and it felt like there's a whole

1378
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 2: world outside of your apartment. But you grow up in apartments.

1379
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 2: Nobody's houses, and really it's all high rises. It's like

1380
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 2: New York, right, maybe some super rich we howeverunce Stoners, right, yeah, yeah,

1381
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 2: but we all grew up on a twenty fifth floor,

1382
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 2: so life was a little different. And then when I

1383
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 2: came to America, it was complete culture shop. Now you

1384
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 2: can't especially La, you can't walk around, you gotta drive.

1385
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 2: There's five lane freeways, there's no people, there's no shops.

1386
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 2: It just felt very not stimulating. And very boring to me.

1387
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 2: And then I lived in America. I moved here when

1388
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 2: I was thirteen. I lived in America for twenty five

1389
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 2: years without ever going back to Hong Kong.

1390
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 3: Really yeah, why you didn't go back to.

1391
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 2: I think once I got past like ten years, you know,

1392
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 2: there was a fear of like, man, if I go back,

1393
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 2: it's gonna be too emotional. If I go back, maybe

1394
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 2: it changed so much they wouldn't accept me. So I

1395
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 2: waited and waited, and then I finally went back for

1396
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 2: the first time last year and I sold out five

1397
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 2: arena shows.

1398
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 3: Really yeah.

1399
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: It was crazy.

1400
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 2: Tickets were going in like twenty seconds. It was awesome,

1401
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 2: Like I felt you guys.

1402
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 3: That's one thing about I can say about you guys.

1403
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 3: You gots support you you you support Yeah, we got

1404
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 3: one played basketball, he telled jokes.

1405
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 2: He's yeah, we're there, man, and and it was just

1406
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 2: really cool to go back now as a stand up,

1407
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 2: you know, and tell my jokes.

1408
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: Mostly my set was in English.

1409
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 2: It was the set that I was touring with, and

1410
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 2: I added maybe ten fifteen minutes of Anthony's and they

1411
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 2: loved it.

1412
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:18,920
Speaker 1: And everybody understood it.

1413
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 2: We're all laughing and I even get to meet some

1414
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 2: of my heroes, like I met Chelan Fat, I met

1415
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 2: Dale Wong, who was like the biggest comedic actor still

1416
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 2: in Hong Kong, and these are just like my heroes,

1417
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,439
Speaker 2: and now like they almost see me as a peer.

1418
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 3: You know.

1419
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: It was so cool because when I.

1420
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 2: Met Challian Fat, I was like fangirling, you know, and

1421
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 2: I grew up watching you, you like the like one of

1422
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 2: the best actors to ever come out of Hong Kong,

1423
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 2: you know. And then he was like, ah, you know,

1424
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 2: you're doing better than me. I spent a couple of

1425
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 2: years in Hollywood, you know, it was okay, but you

1426
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 2: you started in Hollywood and you're making it and I

1427
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, I can't.

1428
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 1: It's like unbelievable.

1429
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 2: And that's why I shot this special in Hong Kong

1430
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 2: because at first I was gonna shoot it, say for Netflix,

1431
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,040
Speaker 2: Amazon and like Seattle.

1432
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: That was that was the plan, right.

1433
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 2: But then when I shot this in Hong Kong, there

1434
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 2: was just so much I couldn't recreate. First of all,

1435
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 2: I came out like like Beyonce, like I popped up

1436
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 2: on stage.

1437
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: It was like a rock concert. It was like fireworks.

1438
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 3: So you had a full production, full production.

1439
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: I sang a couple of songs. It was like a

1440
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:24,440
Speaker 1: whole thing.

1441
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 2: But then all my heroes were there in the audience,

1442
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 2: and I got emotional at this one part, literally like

1443
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 2: start tearing up, just all the emotions after not going

1444
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 2: home for twenty five YEARSS welcome that I'm receiving in

1445
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 2: my heart. It was just amazing. My parents were there.

1446
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 2: We cut to them when I'm telling jokes about them,

1447
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 2: and there's just so much I couldn't recreate and it's

1448
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 2: just a very special thing. That's why we shot it,

1449
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 2: you know, ourselves in Hong Kong. I came home to

1450
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 2: America edited for like six months.

1451
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: It was the hardest.

1452
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 2: It was like editing a movie because we shot five

1453
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 2: shows and it was like eleven camera angles and how

1454
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 2: do I tell the story where it works for the

1455
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 2: hunk call audience and it works for the global audience.

1456
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: So after that, I was like, this is like my baby.

1457
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: And then now we're gonna be out in movie theaters.

1458
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 3: Wow.

1459
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, when you were in Hong Kong, did you see

1460
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 5: any black people? Did you see any Hispanic people? Did

1461
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 5: you see anybody else other than Asian people?

1462
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 3: Not really.

1463
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 1: There's some white people.

1464
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 2: But like it was like, especially when I was growing up,

1465
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 2: this was in the late nineties or in the nineties.

1466
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 1: You see a white person.

1467
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, you know, not exactly like that, but

1468
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 2: it's like, oh my god, he's so like tall, he's like,

1469
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:43,439
Speaker 2: oh my god, or you know, it's it's almost like.

1470
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: Like a zoo animal. You see like a zoo animal.

1471
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 1: You know, you're like, oh.

1472
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 3: My god, what can you know what?

1473
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 5: I grew up in a very small rural community and

1474
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 5: I had a buddy of mine. We went went to

1475
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 5: kindergarten and he left and went to a private school.

1476
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 5: His name was Mark Samson, and so we knew if

1477
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 5: we saw somebody, okay, he's his dad's a doctor, because

1478
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 5: they were they were the only ones in the community,

1479
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 5: so we knew, like he ain't just he was somebody.

1480
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 5: And then you had I think later they had a

1481
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 5: doctor named doctor Oh and his family would, so we

1482
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 5: we kind of kind of knew is that when you

1483
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 5: looked at white like, I wonder what he does if

1484
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 5: you because like you said, I don't know if black people,

1485
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 5: I don't know if you have a military base over there,

1486
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 5: because like Okanawa, if you see black people, you are

1487
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 5: probably assuming in Japan they're different the military.

1488
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, okay, look like also that was

1489
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 2: in the nineties. Now in Hong Kong, it's all kinds

1490
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:37,920
Speaker 2: of different people. You see it on my special, like

1491
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 2: the audience camera. You see black people, white people. Yes,

1492
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 2: it's very international, haw Kong super international. It's a global

1493
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 2: financial rub like New York. So usually people you know

1494
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 2: are there because they're working for like Morgan Stanley, yes

1495
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 2: or something like that. Yeah, but you know, I just

1496
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:57,440
Speaker 2: I just wish more Americans would go there, like experience.

1497
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 3: It like you.

1498
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: You know, but it's a long flight, man.

1499
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 3: How long the flight is it from.

1500
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:05,720
Speaker 1: La I think fourteen hours? Yeah, but you just.

1501
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 5: Man, you go to sleep for five hours and you

1502
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,960
Speaker 5: still got nine hours, watch three movies and you still

1503
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 5: got three hours ago.

1504
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 1: Give me it's worth it, man, Or go to Japan

1505
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 1: first it's like ten hours, and then go to China

1506
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: that's like another you know, four hours.

1507
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:21,960
Speaker 3: Now here, Micau is kind.

1508
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 1: Of like Micaule's awesome.

1509
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 5: It's like Vegas, Yes, yes, because you hear a lot

1510
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 5: of the casinos are opening up in Macau.

1511
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's it's bigger, like the casino I played.

1512
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 2: I played that Galaxy, uh and it was like a

1513
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 2: ten thousand people arena over there and the casino itself.

1514
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 2: Within the Galaxy casino, there was eleven hotels, the best

1515
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 2: of the best.

1516
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 1: There was an infinity pool on my balcony.

1517
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 2: What yeah, man, it's that's what I'm saying, Like it's

1518
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 2: it's America is like Country Bumpkin, completly Hong Kong and Macau.

1519
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 2: Did you know when you go there, everything is so opulent.

1520
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 2: You know, you have the best of the best, and

1521
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 2: you have like five dollars straight food. You know, it's amazing.

1522
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 1: And within like the guys they have like Rich Carlton,

1523
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:07,480
Speaker 1: they have cappella, they have like all the big brands.

1524
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 2: But gambling is a little different over there. And really

1525
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 2: like I live in Vegas now and you know, I

1526
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 2: go gamble, you drinks. It's fun, right, like a couple

1527
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 2: hundred bucks here and the blackjack you go from game

1528
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 2: to game, but it's more like a party. And Macaw

1529
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 2: people are serious and it's really hard to find like

1530
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 2: roulette or even blackjack because it's they're all playing baccara.

1531
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:29,600
Speaker 2: They're all playing baccarat and they don't really do drinks.

1532
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:31,959
Speaker 1: They focused. Yes, it's like they're going to work.

1533
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 2: They're actually there to try to make money, you know,

1534
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 2: it's not so much a party.

1535
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:36,240
Speaker 3: Wow.

1536
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:39,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what I want to ask you this

1537
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 5: about Could you guys agiently have a very strong sense

1538
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 5: of community? Were your relative aunts, uncle, grandparents, and cousins.

1539
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 3: Were you guys in close proximity.

1540
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's very interesting because my parents are Shanghaani's.

1541
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:55,520
Speaker 2: They're from Shanghai, okay, so they moved to Hong Kong, okay,

1542
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 2: so even their family was in Shanghai. So in Hong

1543
01:04:57,800 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 2: Kong with a lot of family friends, but not a

1544
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 2: ton of relatives.

1545
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:02,600
Speaker 1: And then not until I.

1546
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 2: Was like ten years old, we went to Shanghai for

1547
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 2: the first time. My dad told me to Shanghai for

1548
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 2: the first time, I met my cousin.

1549
01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was really cool. I didn't even know

1550
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 1: I had cousins, right, you know.

1551
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 2: And then when I came to America, a lot of

1552
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 2: my family has immigrated before us, so some of my

1553
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 2: cousins were actually born here and I met those cousins

1554
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 2: that are in America, right, So I guess I got

1555
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 2: family like everyone, right, Yeah.

1556
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:25,920
Speaker 5: When you went to Shanghai to meet your cousin, did

1557
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 5: they speak English or you had to speak to them

1558
01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:28,640
Speaker 5: in Cantonese.

1559
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 2: So they don't speak Cantonese. They speak Shanghaanese and Mandarin.

1560
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 2: So I have to kind of change all my soul

1561
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 2: in my house, even within one sentence, it could be

1562
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 2: three four different languages. It could be English, Shanghanese, Cantonese,

1563
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 2: Mandarin and different regions. You can communicate differently. There's so

1564
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 2: many different Chinese dialects, but Mandarin will be the main.

1565
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 5: One because I hear a lot a lot of times

1566
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:55,440
Speaker 5: when it comes to communicating, is that you communicate with

1567
01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 5: your parents in a certain language, but outside you speak America.

1568
01:05:58,960 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 3: You speak American.

1569
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, but they want you to communicate, but they also

1570
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 5: want you to understand the language. And so like a

1571
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 5: lot of Hispanic you know people they'll talk Spanish when

1572
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 5: they talk to their parents, but outside they talk American

1573
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 5: or same thing with you guys. You speak Cantonese or

1574
01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 5: Shanga leeds or what Shanese?

1575
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 2: What Shanghai? Shanghai the language that people even younger generations

1576
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 2: in Shanghai don't speak Shanghanese. It's an old, dying language.

1577
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 2: They're really Mandarin now, oh okay, But then like people

1578
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:29,439
Speaker 2: are like your Shanghani sounds like you know an old

1579
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 2: person Shanghanese.

1580
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 1: From like the fifties or something.

1581
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 2: Because I learned Shanghinese from my parents and my grandparents, right,

1582
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 2: and I only speak to them in Shanghanese, really other

1583
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 2: words mixed in, right, yeah.

1584
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 3: Can they speak Can they speak English? Yeah?

1585
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, But we don't really speak English because

1586
01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 2: we didn't grow up speaking English each other. But sometimes

1587
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 2: there are words that I can't think of that can

1588
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 2: only be communicated in English. And it's very interesting because

1589
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 2: I was speaking Cantonese from zero to thirteen and then

1590
01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 2: from thirteen to now thirty eight mostly in English, right,

1591
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 2: But then my Shanghanie, my cantony's that I speak to

1592
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 2: my parents sometimes I can't think.

1593
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:06,960
Speaker 1: Of good vocabularies.

1594
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 2: If I if I'm like trying to tell my dad

1595
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 2: about some mental health stuff, I don't know how to

1596
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 2: say it in like in your native lake, in my

1597
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 2: native language. And then also how I communicate with my

1598
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 2: family that doesn't translate to how I communicate with my

1599
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:22,680
Speaker 2: friends sometimes correct, And there's your brain gets split in half,

1600
01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 2: and there's almost a disconnect of growth.

1601
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 3: You know.

1602
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, I'm growing so much as an American, right,

1603
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:33,360
Speaker 2: you know, and my linguistic skills is growing.

1604
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 3: And I'm leaving a little bit of what Yeah, but.

1605
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 2: Then you know, I'm my Shanhanese, my Cantonys. It's like

1606
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 2: kind of stuck in like a juvenile stage. And I

1607
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 2: sometimes have trouble communicate, you know, with my friends and

1608
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 2: then my parents.

1609
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 5: Did you ever think about, say, you know what, Okay, yes,

1610
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:50,720
Speaker 5: I spoke Cantonese from zero to thirteen, and when you

1611
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 5: came to America, did you think about, you know what,

1612
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 5: I probably need to keep speaking this in order for

1613
01:07:56,920 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 5: me to stay on top of this, because a lot

1614
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 5: of times you get that people like, well, you know what,

1615
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:02,959
Speaker 5: in order for me to conteque, because if you don't

1616
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:03,920
Speaker 5: use it, you will lose it.

1617
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that happened to me, you know. And

1618
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 2: my Cantonese when I first went back to Hong Kong,

1619
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:11,880
Speaker 2: it was bad. It was like I sounded like a

1620
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 2: foreign person speaking my first language. Right, And I talk

1621
01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 2: about this in my in this special I found my

1622
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 2: diary that I wrote when I was nine years old

1623
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,680
Speaker 2: in Hong Kong, all written in Chinese, right, and I

1624
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 2: can't read a single word of it, Isn't that like

1625
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:28,720
Speaker 2: the saddest thing? Like how can you not read your

1626
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,200
Speaker 2: own handwriting your first language?

1627
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:33,599
Speaker 5: You know, you might have a like you know what

1628
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:35,760
Speaker 5: you got to say with about million dollars in it,

1629
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 5: and you can't understand that.

1630
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:38,720
Speaker 3: You don't know what it's safe? Right, right? Right?

1631
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1632
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1633
01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:42,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, man, So that was really yeah, that kind of.

1634
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 5: Like, so you know, you can't understand, you can't understand

1635
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 5: anything that you wrote. At the age of nine, you

1636
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 5: got this diary and it's like here you are about

1637
01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:53,160
Speaker 5: to turn forty in a couple of years, and you

1638
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,439
Speaker 5: look at it like, damn, I have no idea what

1639
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 5: this gibberish?

1640
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 3: To me?

1641
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:59,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was crazy and now I've learned a little bit.

1642
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:00,920
Speaker 2: But I had to give it to my dad to

1643
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 2: like translate it for me. So my dad started reading

1644
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 2: my diary and just start making fun of me.

1645
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:12,320
Speaker 1: It's like so weak, You're always sick, always complaining, you know, man.

1646
01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 5: When you what was the biggest culture shop when you

1647
01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 5: left when you came from Hong Kong and you moved

1648
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 5: to the States, what do you think the biggest culture shop.

1649
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 3: What was the hardest thing for you to simulate?

1650
01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 2: Wow, I think just life because my nuclear family will

1651
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:34,840
Speaker 2: stay very close and we'll still have like Chinese food

1652
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 2: at home, and every weekend we'll go to San Gabriel

1653
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:40,800
Speaker 2: Valley and eat at a Chinese restaurant. But I think

1654
01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:43,120
Speaker 2: just day to day life because in Hong Kong, like

1655
01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:46,720
Speaker 2: I said, you walk home from school and there's just

1656
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:50,559
Speaker 2: things everywhere, and you don't even have to go to

1657
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:52,719
Speaker 2: a club to have fun, right, you can just walk

1658
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:55,719
Speaker 2: the streets and it's super fun. There's shops and everything.

1659
01:09:56,120 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 1: But here, like it's like what I do for fun,

1660
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 1: you know, like school. After school, I actually try to

1661
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:04,680
Speaker 1: play a little football, you know.

1662
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:09,880
Speaker 2: I mean, my dad would never sign a waiver. I

1663
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 2: thought I would play like kick returners. I was like

1664
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 2: quite fast, right, but I was like one hundred pounds right,

1665
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:16,960
Speaker 2: and he was like, no, you're gonna die out there.

1666
01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 2: So I was like trying to assimilate and like find

1667
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:23,800
Speaker 2: American stuff to do. It becomes increasingly hard to replicate

1668
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 2: life in Hong Kong.

1669
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: It's just impossible, especially now. R So, even now I'm

1670
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,200
Speaker 1: having trouble with that. Really, Yeah, because you've been here

1671
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:33,679
Speaker 1: twenty five years. Yeah, I know, and I still feel

1672
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 1: like I'm fighting.

1673
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,000
Speaker 3: You feel like you're outside of Steel Hunt.

1674
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes because I'm like, man, why am I so bored?

1675
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 2: Like like Saturday, I don't really want to go to

1676
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:45,519
Speaker 2: a club, but there's I can't really walk outside the street.

1677
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 2: I feel like I haven't talked to anyone, right, you know,

1678
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 2: and like the whole day. And then I went back

1679
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:52,320
Speaker 2: to Hong Kong and my life just kind of like

1680
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 2: made sense, right. I was like, oh, I was never

1681
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 2: like a you know, going out, you know, Saturday night

1682
01:10:57,720 --> 01:10:58,439
Speaker 2: till like four am.

1683
01:10:58,520 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 1: Person.

1684
01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 2: I was just enjoying like getting food meals and then

1685
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:05,200
Speaker 2: just walk around at different shops and I'm good.

1686
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:09,679
Speaker 3: You know. Do you ever see yourself going back full time?

1687
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:10,719
Speaker 1: Full time?

1688
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 2: I don't think full time, but I do think maybe

1689
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 2: i'll split my time there, and I've been doing that.

1690
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 2: I'm actually going to Hong Kong in a week.

1691
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:19,120
Speaker 3: And so when you go, when you go, how long

1692
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 3: do you stay two weeks, a month, a week or so?

1693
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:22,559
Speaker 1: It depends on its work.

1694
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 2: The first time when I went back, I stayed there

1695
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:27,960
Speaker 2: for like a month and it was it was a

1696
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 2: great experience. Like usually when you travel after a couple

1697
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 2: of weeks, you get homesick, Yeah, miss the food, you

1698
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:33,880
Speaker 2: want to go home in your bed. I didn't feel

1699
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:36,680
Speaker 2: homesick once, oh, because I was home. Yes, you know,

1700
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 2: so it was a really nice feeling. And I want

1701
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 2: to spend more time there.

1702
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 3: But do you have family there a little.

1703
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 1: Bit and friends?

1704
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 2: I found my elementary school friends and ever really yeah,

1705
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 2: it was really cool. I'm like, oh, maybe this is

1706
01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:52,120
Speaker 2: my life, how my life will be if I never

1707
01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 2: left Hong Kong.

1708
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:54,679
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, and.

1709
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 2: Like they had gone through, you know, this is like

1710
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:58,360
Speaker 2: one thing I kind of like, I'm like, maybe I

1711
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 2: missed out. I never really had a party phase in

1712
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:04,120
Speaker 2: my life because I was doing stand up and also

1713
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 2: I was just a foreign kid, you know, trying to

1714
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:09,679
Speaker 2: assimilate when like my high school seventeen year old friends

1715
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 2: are like going out right. I was just trying to

1716
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 2: learn English on BT, you know. But then all my

1717
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:17,479
Speaker 2: Hong Kong friends, they already had their party phase and

1718
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:19,800
Speaker 2: like you know, they went out in Hong Kong and

1719
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:20,800
Speaker 2: now they're settling.

1720
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:22,839
Speaker 3: Now, now they're getting married, they got kids.

1721
01:12:23,040 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 2: So it's pretty cool to see that I was like, oh, maybe,

1722
01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:26,680
Speaker 2: you know, there was a reason why I missed out

1723
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:28,559
Speaker 2: because I moved and I was fighting my own battle,

1724
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:30,720
Speaker 2: you know, and and my life maybe would have ended

1725
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:32,480
Speaker 2: up like them, which is great.

1726
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:34,000
Speaker 1: A lot of them.

1727
01:12:34,040 --> 01:12:36,320
Speaker 2: Like like I think, if I never move away from

1728
01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 2: Hong Kong, I don't think I have ever done stand

1729
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 2: up really, yeah, I think it was to really doing

1730
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:45,240
Speaker 2: stand up was really filling a creative void and also

1731
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 2: the void of being an immigrant and not fitting in.

1732
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:50,759
Speaker 2: I felt like I fit in in a comedy comedy

1733
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 2: space because in the comedy space, the weirder you are,

1734
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 2: the more different you are, the more you fit in

1735
01:12:57,120 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 2: more you're funny. That's not true anywhere else, right, If

1736
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 2: I were just staying in Hong Kong, I would have

1737
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:07,880
Speaker 2: never had that kind of foreigner kind of void at

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01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 2: my heart, you know, and I would have probably just

1739
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 2: been happy living my life in Hong Kong being finance

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01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:12,599
Speaker 2: or something.

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01:13:12,800 --> 01:13:15,640
Speaker 5: Could you could in Hong Kong and I hear that

1742
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:18,720
Speaker 5: it's very strict over there. Could like kids, could you

1743
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 5: like drink and smoke and do things like American teenagers do?

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01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 2: Oh totally yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean not a lot

1745
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 2: of drugs, I don't I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:30,759
Speaker 2: But yeah, people drink, you know, really, people go on party.

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01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 2: They're like awesome, But you don't do you?

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Speaker 3: Did you? You guys have like American Do you have

1750
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 3: American beer and stuff like that? You have like every beer? Really?

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01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:40,479
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm telling you, Hong Kong is like New York.

1752
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 2: It's just happened to be in Asia and even more

1753
01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:43,800
Speaker 2: opulent than New York.

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01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 1: So they have they have everything.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this concludes the first half of my conversation. Part

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Speaker 5: two is also posted, and you can access it to

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01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 5: whichever podcast platform you just listened to part one on.

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01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:58,160
Speaker 5: Just simply go back to club profile and I'll see

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Speaker 5: you there.