Speaker 1: Welcome to Behind the Influence, a production of I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio and t DC Media. So for the longest time,
Speaker 1: I didn't tell my friends either that it was crazy.
Speaker 1: For almost a year, I think I just want to say,
Speaker 1: don't care about what other people think, and just do
Speaker 1: you like seriously, just do whatever you love. The people
Speaker 1: who love you will stay, and the people who don't whatever.
Speaker 1: I didn't think so many people would love me and
Speaker 1: support me, and it's just crazy knowing that they're they're
Speaker 1: always here for me. So I'm still grateful. Yanni eats
Speaker 1: is in the house. How did I do? You did perfect?
Speaker 1: Was it perfect? It was like an an It was
Speaker 1: actually perfect. We were extensively discussing how to say her name, Yanni,
Speaker 1: and the way that you described it was it's yeah
Speaker 1: or the age of the beginning, Yanni. Yes. And the
Speaker 1: reason we're here is because you eat. I eat like
Speaker 1: a pig. You eat, and you make a living eating.
Speaker 1: And I'm so enthralled with this entire world of Here's
Speaker 1: another thing I don't properly know how to pronounce. Is
Speaker 1: it muck bog muck bang? You said it perfectly the
Speaker 1: first I muck bang. I mean so many complications already,
Speaker 1: it's he on whatever you're here. We're excited. You have
Speaker 1: a huge fan base and you've built this all based
Speaker 1: off of a world of eating food on camera. And
Speaker 1: it's not just eating. You're actually also discussing and you're
Speaker 1: talking to your viewers. You're breaking the fourth wall. I
Speaker 1: want to break down for people who are not familiar
Speaker 1: with this world what it is so explained to us
Speaker 1: in layman's terms, what muck bong is so literally it
Speaker 1: comes from the words wong Nan pong zong, and mang
Speaker 1: Nan is eating and pong zong is broadcast, so it's
Speaker 1: eating broadcast. Got it. So in Korea, mukbong started as
Speaker 1: like a live streaming thing, so it was basically eating broadcast.
Speaker 1: But here in America we pre record our videos and
Speaker 1: edit them and upload it. But that's where the word
Speaker 1: mukbang came from. Okay, Okay, that makes sense. So my
Speaker 1: husband like, seven years ago, I used to work at ustream.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was eight years ago, so eight years ago.
Speaker 1: My husband's like, okay, these two channels are doing well.
Speaker 1: One is just like a puppy cam where puppies are
Speaker 1: playing in a in a cage and it's that makes
Speaker 1: total sense, right. I could watch puppies for hours. But
Speaker 1: then people were so obsessed with watching people eat, and
Speaker 1: I was so confused. What do you think it is
Speaker 1: about watching people eat that people are obsessed with? So
Speaker 1: I was one of the weird people that used to
Speaker 1: watch Mukbong eight years ago, which I'm pretty like shocked
Speaker 1: that your husband came across eating videos back then because
Speaker 1: it wasn't as popular. But I started eating because I
Speaker 1: was on this Cayam pepper diet or I started watching
Speaker 1: mukbang's because men helped me curb my cravings. Interesting, but
Speaker 1: nowadays a lot of people say it helps them with
Speaker 1: like going through chemotherapy, So they gained their appetite watching
Speaker 1: mukbung videos and also because they feel lonely because they
Speaker 1: don't have like a partner to eat with, so they'll
Speaker 1: eat with us muck. It's interesting. That's interesting. So I
Speaker 1: have my own Muckbong story. So I just had a
Speaker 1: baby like three and a half months ago, and I
Speaker 1: remember there was a moment there was a little scare
Speaker 1: where they thought maybe she has gestational diabetes, which I didn't.
Speaker 1: It turned out fine, But they basically were like, you
Speaker 1: can't have sugar until we do this next test, and
Speaker 1: I am a sugar fiend, like I need carbs, I
Speaker 1: need cookies, I need all these delicious things. So my
Speaker 1: husband's like, if there's ever a time for you to
Speaker 1: cut it off, it's right now. And I was like, fine,
Speaker 1: I won't eat my cookies at night, like it's my
Speaker 1: favorite thing to eat cookies and night in bed. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So I come across who was the video that I
Speaker 1: first came across. It was Tricia Patis, So she's like,
Speaker 1: it came up on my YouTube feed because I think
Speaker 1: we were looking up influencers in general for this show.
Speaker 1: And I see it like it says letting the person
Speaker 1: in front of me decide what I eat, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is this? So I click on it and it's
Speaker 1: watching someone I don't know eating a burger that I
Speaker 1: can't eat, and then eating like churo waffles after that
Speaker 1: I also can't eat. And I just sat there and
Speaker 1: for some reason I felt satisfied watching someone else eat,
Speaker 1: and it was I was kind of embarrassed about it,
Speaker 1: so I didn't tell anyone, and then all my recommendations
Speaker 1: you and then it was like Nick cock, so he
Speaker 1: came up. Stephanie Sue came up, and I'm like, all
Speaker 1: my recommendations are food videos, so creepy, but there is
Speaker 1: something really satisfying about watching someone else eat right right right.
Speaker 1: I always watch mukbum videos before I fall asleep because
Speaker 1: I only eat once a day, and that's how I eat,
Speaker 1: like such a large amount. It's basically intermittent fasting, and
Speaker 1: it helps me like satisfy my cravings watching mukmong videos.
Speaker 1: I watched some of these videos and I'm like, how
Speaker 1: are you guys healthy and surviving and not going to
Speaker 1: the doctor where they're like you have diabetes or you
Speaker 1: have a heart condition because the food you guys are
Speaker 1: eating is not healthy at all. I'm never seeing somebody
Speaker 1: muckbong a chopped salad. It's like fried chicken noodles. You
Speaker 1: do a lot of noodles, a lot of it's fast food.
Speaker 1: So how does your day look the rest of the
Speaker 1: day when you're not doing these I have two huskies,
Speaker 1: so they're basically my personal trainers. So I work out
Speaker 1: in the morning and at night, like five to ten
Speaker 1: miles every day. Yeah, and when I'm not filming muckbungs.
Speaker 1: I eat really healthy, like salad or you know, just
Speaker 1: like soy milk or anything healthy. So that's how I
Speaker 1: keep my health, I guess pretty good. So so we
Speaker 1: went We're gonna go back a little bit. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about the very first time you decided. So it
Speaker 1: was helping you through some things initially, and that's why
Speaker 1: you were interested in this whole world. But then you
Speaker 1: decided that you were going to start uploading videos. When
Speaker 1: was that for you? That was around three years ago.
Speaker 1: When I first used to watch muckbugs, A lot of
Speaker 1: people thought it was weird, so I never told anyone
Speaker 1: about it. But then I came across an English mbong
Speaker 1: three years ago and I was like, I love eating
Speaker 1: and I want to tell my life story to you know, strangers,
Speaker 1: I guess, And that's when I started filming my Spicy
Speaker 1: Noodle challenge video. Did you even know that that was
Speaker 1: the path to take? Like doing challenge videos? How did
Speaker 1: you know what? You know? What I'm saying. Some people
Speaker 1: do the drive through things, some people do the challenge thing.
Speaker 1: How did you know what you wanted to do? When
Speaker 1: I filmed my first video, the Spicy fire Noodle challenge
Speaker 1: was going viral, and I knew I could handle spice
Speaker 1: really well because I ate kimche since I was like
Speaker 1: one or two years old. I would like rip it
Speaker 1: up and like eat it by myself, like from the
Speaker 1: low tables, and so I knew I could handle this challenge.
Speaker 1: So when people came across my videos, they were like,
Speaker 1: how does this girl eat the whole thing like without
Speaker 1: being all like you know, like, so they were like
Speaker 1: very like surprised that I could do that and handle
Speaker 1: the spice. So now that you're you basically make a
Speaker 1: living doing this, but did you think when you first
Speaker 1: did that first video that this would be a possibility
Speaker 1: for you? I actually did because I knew there weren't
Speaker 1: a lot of other muck bangers. And when you're like
Speaker 1: one of the first ones to do something on YouTube
Speaker 1: or anywhere in general, then you're bound to become, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest. I guess yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: were absolutely a pioneer in the space for sure. And
Speaker 1: then even me mentioning Tricia Patis, that was not her thing, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's fine that she's doing it now, but I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people jumped on the bandwagon after
Speaker 1: it became really popular. But you were a trailblazer in
Speaker 1: that space that you knew that it would do well
Speaker 1: because in Asia it's doing really, really well. So did
Speaker 1: you kind of see that and say, hey, there's a
Speaker 1: market for this in the US. Right. I was one
Speaker 1: of the first ones who watched muck Bugs when I
Speaker 1: was getting popular in Koreos. I was like, I think
Speaker 1: this might be it might become a big thing here too,
Speaker 1: because I was like, you know what, let's try it.
Speaker 1: Even though people think it's weird. Weird things become, you know,
Speaker 1: normal is born, I think. So I always thought like,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be it. So so what made you
Speaker 1: decide too? Because there are live streaming platforms as well
Speaker 1: in the US that you could have utilized. Why did
Speaker 1: you decide to go to the YouTube route and pre
Speaker 1: record versus live streaming like the videos you're watching? Um?
Speaker 1: Because I think America is such a big country. Everyone's
Speaker 1: like either working when I'm trying to film during the day,
Speaker 1: or they're sleeping in another time zone. But in Korea,
Speaker 1: a lot of people take you know, the subway or
Speaker 1: you know, public transportation, so that's when they find the
Speaker 1: time to watch live streams, So I felt like I
Speaker 1: did try doing it, but not a lot of people
Speaker 1: were watching it because they're doing something else, like they're
Speaker 1: working or they're sleeping or so I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what this is. I can't go this route. So
Speaker 1: I tried just doing YouTube. So you're doing this thing,
Speaker 1: you still when was the first time you noticed that
Speaker 1: it was really catching on and you've got a surge
Speaker 1: of followers and you started to make money, like real
Speaker 1: money doing this. After about seven eight months, I started
Speaker 1: getting pretty good income um to fulfill like all my
Speaker 1: bills and everything. So yeah, after around a year. Okay,
Speaker 1: So for people who are watching these videos and they're thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, these people are getting paid so much
Speaker 1: money just to eat food. That's they're so lucky. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of work that goes into it. Tucked me
Speaker 1: through a regular pre production for a shoot. Let's say
Speaker 1: you're gonna do what what was the most recent video
Speaker 1: that you just shot? I did a nuclear fire, black
Speaker 1: bean rice gate, So it's most of your stuff spicy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people love watching spicy food, they really do. It's because
Speaker 1: people kind of want to see other people's demise, like yeah,
Speaker 1: go down. But then The thing is I can handle
Speaker 1: it pretty well. So people like watching it too because
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, how is she like handling that? You know,
Speaker 1: so what's the pre production like that for? You decide
Speaker 1: the topic? You picked the spicy bean. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what you just said, but you pick that, and
Speaker 1: then you just roll the camera and you start talking. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: I have like points written down on my phone like notes,
Speaker 1: and then I just start talking like my hendy bees
Speaker 1: who are my subscribers? Yeah, so you talk to them
Speaker 1: like they're your friends. Do you think that that is
Speaker 1: the distinguisher between what you guys are doing in the
Speaker 1: US versus overseas, because I feel like a lot of
Speaker 1: the videos I've watched of the live streams, there's no talking.
Speaker 1: It's just or at least from what I've seen, it's
Speaker 1: mostly just eating. And what I've seen in the US
Speaker 1: has been a lot of not only talking but also
Speaker 1: food drama. You know, they'll be like, oh, this person
Speaker 1: didn't collaborate me with me, but whatever, as I like
Speaker 1: eat a chicken wing and I'm just like, oh, so
Speaker 1: there's like muck bung drama, which is crazier. I think
Speaker 1: that's insane. I mean whatever to each their own. It's
Speaker 1: turned into this thing where your YouTuber that just happens
Speaker 1: to eat while you're being a YouTuber because the vlog
Speaker 1: style thing is kind of applying to you. But you're eating, right,
Speaker 1: So then how do you pick what topics you're gonna
Speaker 1: is it? Your fans are asking you questions throughout the
Speaker 1: week and you're like, okay, guys, we're gonna answer these questions,
Speaker 1: and you just tackle it with whatever food challenge. Well,
Speaker 1: in the beginning, I talked a lot about myself and
Speaker 1: my life story, but you know, I'm twenty nine, so
Speaker 1: there's not enough you know, stories to tell. But a
Speaker 1: lot of people ask questions under my videos and they'll
Speaker 1: ask like, oh, can you talk about this or what
Speaker 1: do you think about this? But a lot of my
Speaker 1: videos are more like positive based, so there's no drama
Speaker 1: on my channel. That's exactly why you're here. Seriously, I can't.
Speaker 1: I watched some of these videos and I'm like, just
Speaker 1: eat your pizza, Hut. I don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: who you hate and who you're shading like it doesn't matter. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love like sharing like the positive light, and I
Speaker 1: really believe in that positive energy. So I just love
Speaker 1: like radiating positive you know, stories and topic on my channel,
Speaker 1: And it seems like from some of your videos you
Speaker 1: also give advice to your honeybees. That I mean, in
Speaker 1: a sense, you could technically remove the food element, which
Speaker 1: I don't think you will, but you could, and you
Speaker 1: would still have a channel that has content that's relevant
Speaker 1: and has a fan base. Would you say that that's true.
Speaker 1: I think that's true. But I think it's more fun
Speaker 1: eating with them, so it helps with the views. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a weird question, but you know how everyone
Speaker 1: has weird fetishes, like this is a food fetish, Like
Speaker 1: have you ever had a weirdo? Be like, I really
Speaker 1: want you to eat seven twinkies. I just made that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but like, I feel you're pretty, You're beautiful.
Speaker 1: I feel like you might get some creeps. You have
Speaker 1: to have had. I surprisingly only had a few, but
Speaker 1: I had a guy that was like, oh, I'll pay
Speaker 1: you this much on PayPal to eat like a whole turkey.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait either turkeys. You're like, kindly no, I
Speaker 1: was like, no, thank you, sorry, that's so random. And
Speaker 1: one other one was like, oh, here, let's make a
Speaker 1: hybrid baby, and like he made like a video compilation
Speaker 1: of me eating noodles and him eating noodles, and I
Speaker 1: was like, that so weird. This is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: There's some weird stuff out there in the two worlds.
Speaker 1: Watching people eat weirdly is a fetish, actually is, and
Speaker 1: I think that's why. I also read that there were
Speaker 1: businessmen who would just sit there and watch these like
Speaker 1: beautiful girls with their chopsticks slurping up the noodles. Like
Speaker 1: there's a little it's a little sexual, right. I don't
Speaker 1: mean to take that. I don't mean to take a
Speaker 1: left turn here. Know some people do purposely eat it
Speaker 1: more like sexually young like making like because the yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. They'll take a bite and before the food's
Speaker 1: actually even hit their mouth, they're like and You're like,
Speaker 1: you didn't even eat that yet. But I get what
Speaker 1: you do and play it. But yeah, so I think
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. And then so who starts all these
Speaker 1: food trends? Because we see the one where it's like
Speaker 1: let the person in front of me order, or let's
Speaker 1: do the talkie challenge? Where does what comes first? Who's
Speaker 1: coming up with these trends? I honestly don't know who
Speaker 1: started that, letting the person in front of me. I
Speaker 1: don't think it was a buck bommer, but I think
Speaker 1: it's just trial and error. But there's always a trend, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. You know, big bites is a thing that
Speaker 1: so people love it when I take big bites, and
Speaker 1: I call it a honey bite because I can eat
Speaker 1: like basically a bowl of noodle and like one bite,
Speaker 1: but it's not actually like a one bite. I keep
Speaker 1: chewing it in, but it's one scoop. Yeah, exactly. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, this whole world is So do you guys
Speaker 1: have any questions? I feel like, do you have a question, Allison?
Speaker 1: I just feel this is so interesting? Oh yeah, good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you didn't need you passed on the turkey. Is
Speaker 1: there anything that a trend that you've seen maybe that
Speaker 1: you were like, I am not doing that one, not yet.
Speaker 1: I don't think i've seen anything crazy. Maybe like a
Speaker 1: whole live octopus. I've seen that, and it's so creepy
Speaker 1: because the octopus, like you know, Okay, so there's these
Speaker 1: videos where if you guys don't know what we're talking about,
Speaker 1: which you probably don't because you're not weird, like but
Speaker 1: look it up. There are videos where women and men
Speaker 1: I guess it's meant to I've seen it, both are
Speaker 1: eating octopus and the tentacles are just like bitch, slapping
Speaker 1: them in the face and actually get stuck and they're
Speaker 1: continuing to slurp exactly. And that gives me so much
Speaker 1: anxiety because imagine that going down your throat. What if
Speaker 1: the octopus was just like you, guys can't see what
Speaker 1: I'm doing, but my arms are touched out, and the
Speaker 1: octopus doesn't want to go down. They're chewing though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have to chew it before they swallow, because that
Speaker 1: would be just a disaster. They'll probably choke and that.
Speaker 1: But I also feel so bad for the octopus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, Oh man, Peter, don't come for us. This
Speaker 1: was not I don't do it. I don't condone it.
Speaker 1: So okay, so yeah, that's gross. I'm glad you would
Speaker 1: not do that. I'm not about that life. What has
Speaker 1: been your least favorite challenge that you've done that you
Speaker 1: kind of had to choke it down? My least favorite
Speaker 1: challenge had to be the cup noodle challenge? Okay, what's that? So?
Speaker 1: I tried eating like as many cup noodles in ten minutes.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys know Matt Stoney, he's
Speaker 1: a food competitor. Yes, yeah, he did. As I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what I think I can do? Like sixteen eighteen.
Speaker 1: It looks easy, but it's so hard. First of all
Speaker 1: noodles like expanding your stuff instantly. Okay, So how many
Speaker 1: did you do? I did like seven? Seven, one third fahil.
Speaker 1: I honestly thought I could do at least at least
Speaker 1: thirteen or fourteen, but seven and that was still hard.
Speaker 1: So I was like, how did Matt Stny do this?
Speaker 1: And it was like super hot. I let a cool
Speaker 1: down for at least like five ten minutes, but it
Speaker 1: was still hot inside the cup noodle, And so I
Speaker 1: don't know how he did it. But I don't know
Speaker 1: how you did as as you did. How did you
Speaker 1: feel afterwards? I felt like death, honestly, but I had
Speaker 1: to like walk around and let it like go down.
Speaker 1: Oh I just I I watched some of these videos
Speaker 1: and I don't know how you Where do you place
Speaker 1: the food in your stomach? It's is it your only
Speaker 1: meal of the day, right? Yeah? It is? It's your
Speaker 1: only meal the day. And then how often do you shoot?
Speaker 1: I shoot like two or three times a week, and
Speaker 1: the rest of the week you're clean, you're eating healthy,
Speaker 1: you're working out. Yeah, I just I can't wrap my
Speaker 1: head around it. Do you think that, just generally speaking,
Speaker 1: you've always had a bigger appetite than average. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I moved to Taiwan when I was little, and I
Speaker 1: hated the food there because I hated cilantro and a
Speaker 1: lot of Taiwanese food has cilantro in it. So that
Speaker 1: would come home and binge eat Korean food after school.
Speaker 1: And I used to eat like two three bulls a
Speaker 1: day when I was like in second third grade. So
Speaker 1: I think that's when my stomach started like stretching. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So what does your medicine cabinet look like? Are we
Speaker 1: talking pepto? Like how many of these supplements are we
Speaker 1: also pepto? Yes, Pepto's a plus. Yeah. It helps before
Speaker 1: you eat spicy food. Okay, so prior to doing a
Speaker 1: you're giving away your secret. Yeah, I'm like, should I shouldn't?
Speaker 1: So before you leat something spicy, you maybe take a
Speaker 1: little pepto. Yeah, it helps a lot. Like the aftermath too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, I want to ask some t
Speaker 1: m I questions, but I'm not going to um just
Speaker 1: because a lot of these these foods that you're consuming
Speaker 1: or don't promote the healthiest flow, right, But I actually okay,
Speaker 1: people think it's weird, but I actually kind of like
Speaker 1: enjoy got it? No, I hear you loud and clear?
Speaker 1: Y um. I could also tell some stories, but I
Speaker 1: want to continue doing this show. Okay, I don't enjoy it,
Speaker 1: but if no one does know, Yeah, everyone enjoys the
Speaker 1: satisfying moment. If you don't, you're sick bird. So talk
Speaker 1: me through. When you hit a million subscribers on YouTube,
Speaker 1: were what were your parents thinking at this point? Like,
Speaker 1: our daughter is making a lot of money eating food. Actually,
Speaker 1: my parents don't know. My dad passed away, okay a
Speaker 1: few years ago. Hopefully he knows. Oh he and my
Speaker 1: mom she's living in Korea and so like she doesn't
Speaker 1: really know about this whole long things. So let's talk.
Speaker 1: So your mom lives in Korea and she doesn't even
Speaker 1: know what you do for a living. What would she
Speaker 1: say if you told her, Hey, mom, I'm eating spicy
Speaker 1: noodles and I'm paying those I mean, I think she
Speaker 1: would be happy, but at the same time, like really
Speaker 1: worried about my health, of course, because all my friends
Speaker 1: parents are like, oh Yeahney, you know, like you have
Speaker 1: to be careful, like your your stomach is gonna you know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have ulcer or something. But I do get
Speaker 1: a body check up every year and it's okay so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great. So you don't think your mom's ever seen
Speaker 1: any of your videos? I don't think so, because she
Speaker 1: hasn't mentioned anything, or she's like me the creep who
Speaker 1: watches and doesn't tell anything. Probably I told her and
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, yeah, I've watched them all. Do you
Speaker 1: do a lot of collaps? Yes, I do. Well, I've
Speaker 1: done some with like most Smug Bummers and Tasty BuzzFeed. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so a lot of people, like food related people I've
Speaker 1: collapped with. Who's been your favorite collaboration so far? My
Speaker 1: favorite us with Nicicado Avocado and Zach Toy Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: We did a wing race okay, chicken wing nuclear fire
Speaker 1: chicken wing ring race. Yeah yeah, and that was really fun.
Speaker 1: It's just I think it was Zac and me, like
Speaker 1: I was tied Honey and your boys that and today
Speaker 1: we're going to be doing a nuclear fire wing challenge.
Speaker 1: Nickicado Avocado. I think he's hilarious. Yeah, he's funny. He
Speaker 1: just seems like such a pure, nice, gentle soul. And
Speaker 1: when he puts the food down, he's so excited. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. I love watching his videos because the passion
Speaker 1: is really real. You know what else I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask you, I noticed a lot of the muck bogers
Speaker 1: whatever he said, I'm going with it. Everyone has the
Speaker 1: same thermos is. Are you guys all sponsored by the
Speaker 1: same like water company? Yeah? I was before, but I
Speaker 1: everyone is that why everyone has it in their videos?
Speaker 1: Because I was like, everyone has the same water thermois. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So how does it work with Obviously you're getting monetized
Speaker 1: through views. A lot of YouTubers are getting sponsorships through brands.
Speaker 1: How does it work for somebody who eats food for
Speaker 1: a living. For me, a lot of noodle brands contact
Speaker 1: me and water of course, because we're always drinking stuff
Speaker 1: and like pepto, they're interested in sponsoring videos and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So anything related to food they actually contact
Speaker 1: us and see like where we can go from there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really cool. Yeah, yeah, I was wondering how you
Speaker 1: guys monetize outside of just the traditional YouTube videos. And
Speaker 1: then what about merch March. So I have haney merch
Speaker 1: dot com. Yeah, you have cute March. Thank you. And
Speaker 1: actually for this month, October is Breast Cancer Awareness months,
Speaker 1: so I'm donating all the profit to National Breasts Their Foundation,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to like design different logos for maybe
Speaker 1: like one every month. You guys, if that's not a
Speaker 1: good enough reason to go out and get yourself some merch,
Speaker 1: now is the time you were going to buy it anyway,
Speaker 1: just buy it this month to support. That's incredible that
Speaker 1: you do. That you're doing this. You're obviously doing really
Speaker 1: really well. You have a solid fan base. Every video
Speaker 1: you put out gets tons of us. What's next for you?
Speaker 1: Next for me is cooking. I do want to start
Speaker 1: cooking in my videos, and I want to expand into
Speaker 1: maybe like the restaurant business name it honey honey Bees
Speaker 1: or something, and have like all the honey Bees come
Speaker 1: in and do like meat and greets there and like
Speaker 1: give out free food to some people, you know, like
Speaker 1: homeless and stuff too. That's incredible. So we actually just
Speaker 1: had Roy Choy in a couple of days ago, and
Speaker 1: he was telling us that he basically started the food
Speaker 1: truck thing, so you could you could have a little
Speaker 1: honey Bee food truck that's buzzing around town. Shape it
Speaker 1: like a b Yes, I'm just saying, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. Actually I haven't thought about that.
Speaker 1: See you guys, ideas are just being born here. So
Speaker 1: what kind of food do you like cooking? I love
Speaker 1: cooking Korean food, like kimchi fried rice, kimchi ste You
Speaker 1: know if she's a good cook. No, I mean I
Speaker 1: haven't been able to cook because of my mukbung videos,
Speaker 1: but before that I did cook a lot. But do
Speaker 1: you consider yourself a good cook? I think I'm okay.
Speaker 1: Where where do you learn? Just like Internet? That's cool,
Speaker 1: So you're gonna start cooking? You want to have a restaurant.
Speaker 1: How do you think the transition is going to be?
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people on YouTube, they transition into mainstream,
Speaker 1: whether it be a YouTuber, may go on into mainstream
Speaker 1: media and get on a TV show and you might
Speaker 1: become a chef right or open up a really successful restaurant.
Speaker 1: What happens to the channel. Do you continue to do
Speaker 1: the Mukbong. Yes, I'm going to do mukbang hopefully forever.
Speaker 1: Maybe not as often, but I just want to keep
Speaker 1: my honey bees entertained until I die, so hopefully I
Speaker 1: can keep it going forever. I mean, you're doing really,
Speaker 1: really well. What do you think the whole world of
Speaker 1: m What is the future for it? Because they're more
Speaker 1: and more people are jumping on the bandwagon for it.
Speaker 1: Where do you see this industry going? Are people just
Speaker 1: gonna because the challenges are happening? Is there anything else
Speaker 1: that you guys might do that's interesting, because maybe cooking
Speaker 1: will be something people start to do. I think if
Speaker 1: we integrate cooking and eating, I think a lot more
Speaker 1: people will watch because you know, like we're not professional
Speaker 1: chefs or anything, but knowing that they can relate to
Speaker 1: us like people who can't really cook that well, I
Speaker 1: think they'll relate to us and watch it more. And
Speaker 1: you said you work with Tasty and and Buzz, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I collapsed with them. That would be a really
Speaker 1: great collab because I get hypnotized watching those like the
Speaker 1: quick Little Tasty videos where they're making things. It makes
Speaker 1: you feel like you can cook. I can't cook for
Speaker 1: for but watching those are like, hey, I can make
Speaker 1: up whatever. So maybe that's a fun partnership for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Yeah, you never know. Um. So a lot
Speaker 1: of people get confused between a s MR and muck bong?
Speaker 1: Do you have the high tech audio equipment so that
Speaker 1: you're also giving them a little bit of that too?
Speaker 1: Actually have an a s m R channel? AMR Oh
Speaker 1: you do? Okay, okay, I'm so glad that you have
Speaker 1: that because I want to talk through that too. That's
Speaker 1: another thing I don't understand. My number one question with
Speaker 1: a sm R. Allison and I were talking about it
Speaker 1: before the show. We were like, should we eat the
Speaker 1: whole time with her? And then she was like, I
Speaker 1: can't listen then, because I can't listen to people too.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't like hearing other people Yeah. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you just did it. You just didn't. Yeah. So there
Speaker 1: are people who can't stand it, and then there's other
Speaker 1: people who are Why are people obsessed with hearing the
Speaker 1: sounds of someone smacking their food? I think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's disgusting. What is the appeal? So I think
Speaker 1: some people have like a sensitive I don't know nerve
Speaker 1: system to hearing, so they feel like this tingle when
Speaker 1: they hear like tapping or like is that? Why? Is
Speaker 1: that why they tap on everything before they Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: like open the box. But then they're like tapping with
Speaker 1: their acrylic males. I'm like, oh about it, because it's
Speaker 1: when they tap they feel it in their whole body.
Speaker 1: The people listening here, some people do. I don't feel
Speaker 1: the tingles, but some people actually feel it in their
Speaker 1: whole body, so they love that and it helps them
Speaker 1: fall asleep. Like white noise. Okay, yeah, I know all
Speaker 1: about white noise. My baby has to listen to white
Speaker 1: noise to fall asleep. You know what I'm talking about, Brian,
Speaker 1: that white noise machine. So okay, I go home and
Speaker 1: Atlas is listening to her, being like oh okay. That's
Speaker 1: my other question. What's with the whispering that also like
Speaker 1: tingles your ears or some people it's like hey, they're
Speaker 1: like give it, give us a little SMR intro annipes.
Speaker 1: Welcome to any SMR eating noodles? Do you feel so
Speaker 1: weird doing that? And there's no no judging. I'm just
Speaker 1: like I would feel so awkward being like because you're
Speaker 1: also shooting by yourself. So so what you're at home
Speaker 1: and you're like, I think it's actually funny, like laughing inside.
Speaker 1: Do you watch other a SMR videos? I used to
Speaker 1: fall asleep listening to people eat eating what eating, like
Speaker 1: noodles or anything? Because yeah, well a SMR slurping is
Speaker 1: a little more gentle because you don't is there a
Speaker 1: technique to the slurp? Well, yeah, you don't really slurp it.
Speaker 1: You kind of go oh, is there an actual noodle
Speaker 1: in your mouth? Because that sounded like there was a
Speaker 1: noodle in your mouth. There's no noodle in her mouth. Guy,
Speaker 1: might be, I swear to unless you're a pack of noodles.
Speaker 1: I think I turned into one. I'm dying right out. Okay,
Speaker 1: so another thing and they're slicing like bars of soap.
Speaker 1: I noticed that I watch, But it's not because I
Speaker 1: like the sound. I like watching. It's very satisfying. There
Speaker 1: are so many weird trends, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: use the word weird because it's that's not cool. It's
Speaker 1: not that it's weird. There's so many trends that I
Speaker 1: don't quite understand, like the slicing things and people being
Speaker 1: like satisfying. There's so many. You go on Snapchat and
Speaker 1: there's like it's so satisfying and I click through and
Speaker 1: I'm watching and all the like slime slime and oh
Speaker 1: and there's a whole world of mixing slime and like
Speaker 1: the weird sounds that that makes. Yeah, I actually like
Speaker 1: the slime sounds. You guys don't like that. I like
Speaker 1: the slime sounds. Oh there's one with a fire like
Speaker 1: really hot knife and like cutting into stuff that's really
Speaker 1: satisfying to. Okay, besides your own SMR channel, who would
Speaker 1: your favorite SMR channel? My favorite? I actually haven't watched
Speaker 1: one in a while, but I would say, actually, I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's mother. I saw there was like a
Speaker 1: she was very young, maybe a thirteen year old girl,
Speaker 1: and she's like hi, guys, and she has braces and
Speaker 1: I'm like, your parents know that you're doing because oh,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about, mac or something super cute.
Speaker 1: She she does like role play and she's adorable. But
Speaker 1: I guess because i'm a parent now, I'm a new
Speaker 1: parent of four months, I think I'm an expert. I
Speaker 1: just feel like there's so many creeps out there on
Speaker 1: the internet who are probably like pretending to be young viewers,
Speaker 1: and they're like, whisper something. It's just weird, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's you have to have creepy people
Speaker 1: following you. I know. I don't confer it to a
Speaker 1: lot of other muck bungers, I think, because like when
Speaker 1: I eat, I don't go like I go like, you're
Speaker 1: like delacious, Yeah, oh yeah, noodle exactly? Was that good? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You want to collapse. I go in and I'm like twinkie,
Speaker 1: and I'm like twinky Oh man, that's so funny. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what do your friends think of what you do
Speaker 1: for a living? You know, I couldn't tell my friends
Speaker 1: when I had my channel because my best friend actually
Speaker 1: thinks the eating sounds is really weird and she gets
Speaker 1: hungry often. So she told me that I was about
Speaker 1: to tell her, but I couldn't because she told me
Speaker 1: it's she thinks it's weird, and you know, she doesn't
Speaker 1: understand it. So for the longest time I didn't tell
Speaker 1: my friends either that it was crazy for almost a year,
Speaker 1: I think, but they found out through YouTube recommendations and
Speaker 1: they were like, is this honey? And I get like
Speaker 1: all these texts like honey Bees type another noodle challenge
Speaker 1: and they're like, what the fun the noodle challenge? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like I do a lot of challenges, so like
Speaker 1: I don't look cute, you know, doing it. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what. I appreciate the authenticity. I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons you probably have such a solid
Speaker 1: fan base because you're not all up in there trying
Speaker 1: to have a noodle orgy. You're just eating the noodles
Speaker 1: right right, right. But my friends are really supportive now.
Speaker 1: They actually are very proud of me, So I'm really
Speaker 1: thankful because I was scared that they were going to
Speaker 1: judge me, and you know, because a lot of people
Speaker 1: think it's weird still, but they're like, honey, you should
Speaker 1: have told us, like I support whatever you do, and
Speaker 1: you know what they really like, I was like really touched,
Speaker 1: and I was like, tearing muck Bong is one of
Speaker 1: my little dirty secrets that I used to watch when
Speaker 1: I was pregnant. What is something that you watch on
Speaker 1: YouTube that you know it might be embarrassing? Is it, like,
Speaker 1: you know how they make those hamster dishes that are
Speaker 1: only small omelets I used to watch those. Well just
Speaker 1: blow my own cover here, But anything that you used
Speaker 1: to watch or that you think it's weird? Um, do
Speaker 1: you guys even know what I'm talking about? I actually
Speaker 1: used to watch though, make like the tiniest comelets and
Speaker 1: they're like, here you go, Peppe the Mouse. I watched those.
Speaker 1: I think that's the weird muck Bong was the weirdest
Speaker 1: thing for other people. But yeah, who's your favorite muck
Speaker 1: banger besides me? Hi? It was Bent, this Korean muck banger.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys know, I don't, but
Speaker 1: I love watching Nicicato. It has funny and zach toy.
Speaker 1: He's an a SMR channel, but he puts a lot
Speaker 1: of effort into his videos, like he'll show every ingredient
Speaker 1: and make sounds for each ingredient. So they are my
Speaker 1: favorite channels to watch. Yeah, I mean, and there's a
Speaker 1: technique to muck bong too. You are every bite? Are
Speaker 1: you like showing the because I know Nicoicato does that.
Speaker 1: He'll be like, look at this little chicken bite and
Speaker 1: he'll like, oh yeah, and he dips and he's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, girl, honey it and he's so happy. Do
Speaker 1: you have like a certain way that you do things
Speaker 1: or do you just dive in? Um? Sometimes I do,
Speaker 1: and I'll go, like go in front of the camera
Speaker 1: and be like handy bite because I start with that
Speaker 1: honey bite and then take the biggest bite and eat
Speaker 1: and share with them. I guess with my viewers, but
Speaker 1: that's how I start my videos. I love it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So when you're not doing U bang, you're eating really healthy.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite If you had a last meal
Speaker 1: on Earth, which is going to be very far in
Speaker 1: the future, you're like a hundred and fifty, what would
Speaker 1: that meal be? That meal would be fried chicken, curry
Speaker 1: and fried chicken. I think. Yeah. My husband just had
Speaker 1: some Korean fried chicken from Kaytown. It was like one
Speaker 1: place that's super famous. I don't maybe that sounds familiar,
Speaker 1: but everyone went crazy and said it was the best
Speaker 1: fried chicken they've ever had in their lives. Yeah, Crean
Speaker 1: fried chicken. If you haven't tried it, you have to
Speaker 1: try it. It's seriously one of the best. I think
Speaker 1: it's better than like regular it is. Yeah, like KFC
Speaker 1: or anything like that. You can't compare the two. That's
Speaker 1: a My husband was saying. He was like, it's next
Speaker 1: level is crispy? Like crispy? So that would be your
Speaker 1: your last And do you have a favorite restaurant in
Speaker 1: l A that you like to go to? My favorite
Speaker 1: Korean barbecue or like, I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: have ever tried large intestines. It sounds but it's really good.
Speaker 1: There is a place called Okay, yeah, that's like one
Speaker 1: of my Yeah it's in k Town. Okay, so large intestines? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what how is it served? Korean barbecue? So is it grilled? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's grilled, Okay. Yeah, it's really good with sod Okay. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: So give some advice to somebody because this is a
Speaker 1: I think it's a trend that's not going anywhere. It's
Speaker 1: been pretty relevant since you started three years ago. Somebody
Speaker 1: was watching your videos and they love food and they
Speaker 1: want to do their own take on muk bong. What
Speaker 1: what advice would you give them? I would say, look
Speaker 1: at the trends, watch other people's muck bongs, because I
Speaker 1: know muk bungers that don't watch muk bungs at all
Speaker 1: because they're so like busy with their own editing, their
Speaker 1: own they don't want to watch anyone else eat. But
Speaker 1: I think researching other mukbung videos it's really helpful and
Speaker 1: look at the trends. And also eat what you love,
Speaker 1: because you can tell when someone doesn't like what they're
Speaker 1: eating and they're just eating it just because it's popular,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, a lot of people
Speaker 1: tell me, like another noodle video. You know, I keep
Speaker 1: doing it because that's still getting reinvent the noodle though,
Speaker 1: Like how are you because you're you're clearly keeping the
Speaker 1: content fresh. Do you run out of noodle ideas? I
Speaker 1: am a little bit, but you know what, I have
Speaker 1: to keep thinking of new things, Like I invented, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't really invented kind of no, you invented everything.
Speaker 1: This kimchi wrapped spicy fire noodles, so big bites are
Speaker 1: in like it's trending. And then I love noodles spicy noodles,
Speaker 1: so I combined the two and I wrapped it in
Speaker 1: kimchi like a whole kimchi, and I took big bites
Speaker 1: and that became like fire role. Yeah, so like kind
Speaker 1: of like combining whatever. You're definitely invented that, by the way,
Speaker 1: right now, I'm just saying it, so it's official, and
Speaker 1: it's on air, so it's even more official. We're just
Speaker 1: spreading rumors here, and so you're just constantly trying to
Speaker 1: think of ways to reinvent. Basically, what's been your least
Speaker 1: favorite video? Do you have one? We all have something
Speaker 1: and we look back on and we're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: wish I didn't do that. Um, I think trying Okay,
Speaker 1: sorry burger king, but trying the whopperrito. It was so
Speaker 1: it's like it was like a whopper in a tortilla.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that just sounds like, why do that
Speaker 1: to yourself? Yeah, So I think I was like one
Speaker 1: of my worst worst videos because it was so disgusted
Speaker 1: and I actually eat it. I did you ate the
Speaker 1: whole thing? I tried? Oh, that just sounds painful doing
Speaker 1: it for the people doing it for your honeybees. Are
Speaker 1: there some people who don't actually eat everything? Because sometimes
Speaker 1: I watched these videos and I'm there is no way
Speaker 1: and I know the power of editing. Do you think
Speaker 1: there's a conspiracy with some people not eating everything on
Speaker 1: the plate? Yeah? I think some people do hide it
Speaker 1: like under and kind of like take a bite and
Speaker 1: then put it down and then bring another. Do you
Speaker 1: do slice of people? No, I don't know. You eat
Speaker 1: those noodles? I would say, like, if I couldn't finish it,
Speaker 1: I'll just say like, well I don't feel Yeah, like
Speaker 1: I tell the truth. You know, have you ever thrown
Speaker 1: up after? Yeah? Like challenges challenges. Okay, so you're you've
Speaker 1: given some really good advice to your fans. Is there
Speaker 1: anything you'd like to say to your fans because they're
Speaker 1: the reason you're here, and they're really you have a
Speaker 1: very unique fan base. They're very supportive of you, they're
Speaker 1: really really engaged. Anything you want to say to them.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of honey babies that watch with
Speaker 1: their parents, so I just want to say, don't care
Speaker 1: about what other people think, and just do you, like, seriously,
Speaker 1: just do whatever you love because the people who love
Speaker 1: you will say and the people who don't whatever, like
Speaker 1: brush them off your shoulders. They don't have to be
Speaker 1: in your life, but the people who love you will
Speaker 1: always support you. So just dear thing. I love that
Speaker 1: you said that, because one of the things that really
Speaker 1: stuck out to me with you our videos, because there's
Speaker 1: obviously many muck buggers out there. We chose you specifically
Speaker 1: because not only are you doing this really well and
Speaker 1: you have a really engaged fan base, but you seem
Speaker 1: to really inspire and keep it super positive with your viewers,
Speaker 1: which I really appreciate. I think it's really authentic, and
Speaker 1: just meeting you today, it's not it's not a show,
Speaker 1: it's genuinely who you are. So to know that you
Speaker 1: make such an impact on such a wide variety of
Speaker 1: you said from five to fifty. How does that feel
Speaker 1: now looking back three years down the road, It's really insane.
Speaker 1: I never thought I would have like all these people
Speaker 1: supporting me. And when I first started my videos, a
Speaker 1: lot of people are like, oh my gosh, she's so cringe, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't watch her, she's so weird. But
Speaker 1: I just kept doing that and it's I didn't think
Speaker 1: so many people would love me and support me, And
Speaker 1: it's just crazy knowing that they're they're always here for me.
Speaker 1: So I'm so grateful. And that's a testament to your
Speaker 1: message saying be yourself because people called you cringe and
Speaker 1: you kept being yourself, and then you you through that,
Speaker 1: you curated the exact right people to be your honey.
Speaker 1: Bees and honey Bees. We have a little surprise for you.
Speaker 1: We have signed well I haven't. I had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with this. I brought the noodles your queen Bee.
Speaker 1: Can I call you that? A lot of people. Your
Speaker 1: Queen Bee has signed two packs of noodles, and we're
Speaker 1: going to give these noodles away to two very special
Speaker 1: honey Bees. So we will let you guys know on
Speaker 1: our Instagram what the instructions are to win this. These noodles.
Speaker 1: But they're great. You can even eat them if you
Speaker 1: want their their package, they're closed. You didn't take any bites,
Speaker 1: did you. They probably wanted more you did, they'd want
Speaker 1: it even more. It goes viral and stilling. Well, we're
Speaker 1: really excited for all the things you have going on.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to go to your restaurant or visit
Speaker 1: your buzzing around bee honey truck. But keep us happy,
Speaker 1: keep us posted, congratulations, and keep doing your thing, keep
Speaker 1: killing it. Thank you so much. All right, we'll talk
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