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ONLY BOMBS! 29: Yehee | KillTony Comedian Talks Cerebral Palsy, Austin & Going Viral · Only Bombs! Comedy Podcast

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Only Bombs And how do you pronounce your name?
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Yehee. Yehee. Okay. I wanted to make sure that
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I said it correctly. I didn't want to be like,
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hey, yehee, if that's not how you say it. It
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happens. Yeah. You probably get that a lot, huh?
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Yeah. When I was younger, I was just, when I
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was like seven years old, I was like tired of
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it. And I was like, call me Nicole, you know?
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And I went by Nicole for a long time up until,
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up until I just became an adult and I went into
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the work field, you know? Yeah. Oh, you went
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by Nicole? Yeah. I just chose it from a list
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of American names, like number 22 or something
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like that. At the time, the number one was like
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Emily and Elizabeth. But then I didn't want to
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be like Holga or whatever. So I just chose something.
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It turns out it was everyone's middle names apparently.
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Nicole? Yeah. Yeah. It seems to be a very popular
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name for sure. Yehee, I think is so much cooler
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because it's your name. Yeah, it is. And it's
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short and it kind of fits with comedy because
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it kind of sounds like a laugh. And yeah, I just
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keep bringing my real name, my Korean name back,
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I think is very symbolic. Yeah. Yeah. And then
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you felt good about that then. So no more Nicole.
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No, I don't even know who that is. It's you from
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the past, I guess. Yeah, it's a bop. It's a bop.
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That's my thought phase. Yeah. No, I get it.
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So being named Trey, right? I've quite a bit
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wanted to like change my name or go by my middle
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name, which is Michael, you know? And so I remember
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when I was younger, I used to experiment and
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just pretend like I was somebody else. And I
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would just say, you know, oh yeah, now my name's
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Craig, or something, or like Trevor, you know,
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something that's kind of resembles Trey, but
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it's not, you know. Yeah, so it's kind of cool
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to meet somebody else who kind of sort of did
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that. Yeah, and we need more Asian names, you
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know, I think whenever a lot of people immigrate
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over, they tend to just go buy something else
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for convenience of other people's sake. And then
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we've kind of whitewashed ourselves. So where
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are you from originally? I was born in South
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Korea. South Korea? And then I came to Houston
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like six months after 9 -11. Oh, okay. Six months
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after 9 -11? Yeah. Wow. How old are you? If you
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don't mind me asking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was
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almost seven years old. Okay, cool. So you actually
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have like somewhat of a recollection of it. Yeah,
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I'm still fluent in Korean and I remember I have
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a lot of good memories or just memories of Korea.
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But it was just a really weird time to be an
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immigrant to here. Oh, back then, huh? Yeah,
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because I feel like everything was on high alert
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back then. Yeah. And I mean, it helps that I'm
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South Korean because we're the biggest. allies
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and dick suckers of America, it feels like. But,
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um, whoa. Holy shit. But still, like, you know,
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employers didn't want to sponsor immigrants anymore
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and their families and stuff like that. And it
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was just a whole thing. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Does
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your family have opinions on this whole ICE thing
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that's going on? Oh, absolutely. I mean, I'm
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a US citizen now. and my mom's a Green Cardinal
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there, but we're still nervous. Yeah. Our whole
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lives, it felt like we just were 10 steps ahead
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of a big boulder just chasing behind us. Wow.
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From just relocating to America. Yeah. Then just
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following immigration laws, stuff like that.
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For a while, we were undocumented because getting
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The work visa renewed for my dad was so hard
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right after 9 -11. Wow. Man, that's crazy. And
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did it ever feel like it got easier? No. No?
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I mean, it felt a little easier after DACA passed
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under the Obama administration, just because
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I was able to go to school without having to,
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or university without fear of being deported
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as long as I'm not doing anything crazy, you
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know, and I was, and I was a good university
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kid. So, but did it was, it was never fully like
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restful. And even now as a, a U S citizen, because
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of how things are at the moment, I'm, I'm just
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never completely sure. Yeah. You probably have
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like a, um, like a deeper, like, uh, I guess
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it means more to you cause you can kind of see
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that it's like, oh shit, like. I understand those
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people might be kicked out because you've had
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that same kind of feeling, huh? Yeah. It was
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funny. When I entered comedy about a year ago,
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there were a lot of ice jokes in relation to
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Mexicans and whatever. I'm just like, I'm right
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here. I'm like. Yeah. It's a fear for you too.
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Why wouldn't it be? Yeah, so but um, but I feel
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I mean, I don't know like in my head. I think
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that you should be all right I should be I got
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my america passport, but i'm not a natural born
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citizen. So who knows now? Yeah, who knows? Because
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I don't even think that there's a like those
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guys like I don't know Anything about really
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them. Um, but I literally think that they just
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go and apply to do that job Which can't be good,
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right? Part of me doing comedy, I physically
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am useless when it comes to, hey, if they want
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to smash my window and snatch me up, I'm 100
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pounds. But I think the most I can do with my
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body as a disabled woman is just be vocal because
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they hate the smoke. You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, sure. They don't want the bad press. Yeah.
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Even I was like, I have got to make sure that
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you have everything you need. Yeah. So the worst
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I can be is anonymous. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Wow.
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That's my thought process of it. Your thought
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process. So anonymity going into comedy. Yeah.
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Interesting, right? Yeah. So at the time that
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you did your Kill Tony, I think, you said you
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were only in comedy at the time, like seven months?
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I got on December and then, yeah. I started in
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May, yeah, it was seven months. Oh yeah, so I
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know you're from Houston. Yes. Right, did you
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start in Houston? Yeah, we have a great comedy
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scene, yeah. Really? See, I didn't get to know,
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I know we briefly spoke about it earlier, but
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I didn't really get to know a lot of the scene,
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at least not like in Austin. Yeah. You know,
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so you're kind of getting both perspectives.
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Yeah. Do you have one that you prefer? I like
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Houston comedy scene because I feel like the
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Austin comedy scene right now is very Kill Tony
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Pilled and Joe Rogan and all that. You can say
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anything that's whatever. In Houston, you have
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to punch up with racism or else it will start
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a fight. I remember watching one of my friends
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in Houston almost Get punched just for calling
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a big black guy a snorlax and that's not even
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oh my god, you know, yeah You can't just you
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can't just say stuff. Yeah. Yeah, you can't just
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say shit. Yeah, you know, um, you know, that's
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uh That's kind of a concept that I had to learn
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to was uh, you know, you have to make it a joke
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Yeah, it has to be a joke. There's a structure.
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You can't just go up and just say funny shit
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Yeah, you know, although it might work for some
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people but not me Is there anything that you
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learned that you took with you from right off
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the bat as far as jokes go? As far as Houston
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goes? Sure, as far as Houston. I'll tell you
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this. I got here mid -June 15th, and one big
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thing that we focus on in Houston is pops per
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minute. Like last per minute, it's like really
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big. And people will judge you by how good you
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are with like every 10, 15 seconds you have to,
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you should be getting a laugh. And so bringing
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that here, like I've won a couple things without
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even like, you know, necessarily. I didn't even,
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like for example, I got a spot at like a Creakin'
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Cave show. I'm coming up and during an open mic,
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I didn't even know it was happening. But I brought
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my best stuff and I had that 10 to 15 second
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mentality and they were tallying up laughs. And
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turns out I won and I didn't even know. The host
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was like, oh, you want to be on the show? And
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I thought it was just an invitation and then
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the next day I see a post where it's like, oh
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yeah, he crushed last night and got a spot on
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the. July 5th, what, um, what is it called? A
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comedy ladder show at the creaking cave, whatever.
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Oh, you're doing a July 5th? Yeah. Oh, that'd
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be awesome. So, and I didn't even expect it.
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And then the next day, same thing, like I did
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a different open mic somewhere else. And then
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turns out they're tallying the laughs. And also
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like there was a bucket of like best, best jokes
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or whatever. And it was just like, okay. Wow.
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Yeah. Yeah, that's almost been a really cool
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feeling, like, you know, it's showing exactly
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how much, you know, everything that you've learned
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in Houston. You bring it here and you got a good
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result from that. Yeah. And to hear like, oh,
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you got 12 pops in three minutes. I'm like, I
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know math. You know? Yeah, you laid it down,
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huh? That's every 15 seconds on average. Easy,
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motherfucker. Fucking, that's how I work. I try,
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not always, you know. I was given a... good slice
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of humble pie. When was it? Tuesday night? Yeah.
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At shooters, I was at a mic and you had to pull
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prompts from a jar or whatever. Oh, wow. I'm
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not great at improv, so I'm realizing, oh, I
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need to get better at improv. But I'm paying
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for a room here and I didn't come here to bomb.
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Only bombs. Only bombs. Welcome to only bombs.
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Right. Which I forgot to say. But no, that's
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really awesome. That's something that I didn't
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actually know about the Houston scene when I
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did a little bit of comedy there. And so I went
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in with the whole. I guess, Austin way of writing.
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And yeah, it was a terrible failure. It was awesome.
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Yeah, it was absolutely horrible. Yeah. I remember
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someone who, a comic who was like, frequenting
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Austin comedy, but in Houston, came to a writer's
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room in Houston and they said, whatever, you
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know, riffing or workshopping these jokes. And
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then we were like, oh, gosh, welcome Austin Cowdy,
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you know? Yeah, yeah. So do you have like a favorite
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venue in Houston that you like to perform? Seca
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Group is my stomping grounds. That's our version
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of Creek in the Cave. That's the dark and seedy
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and, you know, it's where people start kind of
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thing, you know? Yeah, yeah. I did a few things
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there. A few times. One time it was an accident.
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Like somebody thought that I was a comedian that
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was on the show. But he just asked me, are you
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a comedian? And I was like, yeah. And he was
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like, OK, awesome, dude. Maybe like 10 or 15
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minutes. And then he called me up. I was like,
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what the fuck? But it was nice. It was nice.
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Everybody was really cool. I really liked it.
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And usually the crowd's like six people maybe.
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I don't know. I find that awesome. I love that
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gritty kind of. kind of way of doing things.
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Like Narbar, have you been on Narbar yet? Oh,
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absolutely, yeah. Yeah, freaking love. I love
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my Narbar's volume. Yeah, me too. When it's full,
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oh man, it is crazy. It is crazy. No, yeah. September,
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October is best. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Right now
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I'm sweating, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And so you're
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not used to like humidity and stuff like that
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anymore? No, I am. It's just that I'm usually
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doing comedy inside. Right. Yeah. That is a thing.
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Outside comedy feels weird. Yeah. I don't know
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why. That's when you feel like you're really
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in it. You're like, oh, I'm in the scene because
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I'm waiting, sweating for 45 minutes just to
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go up three in front of maybe three real people,
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but not real, you know? Right. To like an outsider,
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I feel like it doesn't really look. like an event,
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but to you it's like, dude, fucking working right
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now. Yeah. Yeah. And you know what? It's great.
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It's fine because like, I don't know, I don't
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know most Austin folks anyway. And so to me,
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they're crowd numbers regardless. Yeah. Yeah.
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Do you have a place that you like to perform
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here? The green room is amazing. The green room
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is awesome. I love it. And then I remember when
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I started comedy, I like, saw posts of my friends
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have like the little Polaroid that they have
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on the wall, right? Mm -hmm. Okay. Where it's
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like when you perform, you can take a Polaroid
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of yourself and tape it on the wall. Oh, that's
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cool. And I was like, oh, that's so cute. I want
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to do that. So I just recently did that, I think
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May 29th or something. Oh, that's awesome. It
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was just such a full circle moment to me. And
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they pay you. Oh, that's good. Yeah. I didn't
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know that. I never performed at the green room.
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Yeah. But I see a lot of people going out there
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and doing that. I've been to, I think, one or
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two shows out there. And it was always like really
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cool, just cool vibe, like everybody smoking
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fucking weed, so it's awesome. I will say outside
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of Houston, especially in Austin, people, especially
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conservative older white folks are more... hesitant
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to laugh at my jokes, even though I'm giving
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it to them, but I feel like they feel bad. And
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I'm like, I don't know. Why do you think they
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feel bad? Because it's like dark humor, but it's
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like, oh, they feel, you know, when like, you
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know, if you were to fall versus I were to fall,
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they might laugh at you. They're not going to
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laugh at me. Oh, OK. I see. I see. Yeah, because
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it is kind of like. You probably notice that
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a lot. Yeah a lot actually I was in San Antonio
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this past weekend Yeah in the middle of my it
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was like a whiter conservative older crowd too
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and this is what happened once out of many times
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I've been in San Antonio, but like Three minutes
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in this random crowd members like are you okay?
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Do you need help and I'm like this is Now a motivational
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speech. This is no longer comedy set. Yeah, I
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need to set you fuckers straight. Get ready.
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But that really was the only time that Heckel,
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I didn't mean, he didn't mean Heckel, but really
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steered me off course. Yeah. Because that fucked
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my entire set because I had a whole thing, you
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know, ready and then I missed certain entries,
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whatever, you know, and then oh god, okay, well.
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There it is. Yeah, so with the cerebral palsy
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and everything like that, you probably get a
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ton of pampering. Is that what you like or how
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would things go if you had it your way? Usually
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the comics don't pamper me in that kind of sense.
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They can tell by my set, by my jokes that I'm
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really no bullshit and I don't mind you riffing
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at me and making jokes about me, whatever. And
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then, you know, I let them know if I need help,
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I'll let you know, you know. It's really the
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audience. And that's the whole point. That's
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the whole point I'm doing comedy is just to kind
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of, yeah, to break down stigmas and barriers
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and all that kind of stuff. Sure. It's like,
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yeah, dude, I'm fine. I came here on my own free
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will. I drove here, you know? Right. You live
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a normal life. Yeah. But most people aren't exposed
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to that when you look like me or more disabled,
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I guess. Yeah. I do kind of get, I guess, their
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perspective because I was unsure, really, to
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be honest with you. Is there anything that I
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need to do differently? And now I know I'm like,
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no, not really. It's like, you know, but I've
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never really been around people with like, you
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know, physical disabilities and things like that
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before. All the people I'm around are fucking
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mental. Like all the way. Yeah. And then I also
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make it a point in my set to punch up at myself
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and be like, I'm actually faking this shit. My
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credit score is 790. I got my own place and I
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have my own car. Like, and then even after all
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of that. Oh, there have been multiple times where
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crowd numbers would come up to me and then literally
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be like, oh, that must suck. Like this must suck.
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And I'm like, did you not hear anything I said?
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Right, right. Did you not hear all the jokes
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I just told? Didn't you hear about all the dick
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that I've gotten in my head? Right, they love
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me. They will not leave me alone. I'm fine. That's
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awesome, though. That's awesome that you're just
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going with it and you're just like, yeah, fuck
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it, whatever, dude. I think that's pretty fucking
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awesome. Yeah, and I will be aware of myself
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in the sense that like... I'm doing really, I
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think I'm going really fast right now. I'm only
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a year in and I've been told I'm like, oh, it's
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going to take you this long to get here and do
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this. But I know for a fact that I look very
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marketable. And because I'm Asian, because I'm
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a woman, because I'm disabled, I'm all these
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demographics that are rare in combination. And
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therefore I feel like I'm projected faster. and
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I'm very blessed for it, and I don't take it
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for granted, and I try my best to be both funny
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and nice and kind, okay? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's
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hard sometimes, you know? Like, to be funny,
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nice, and kind, you know? I feel like you can
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have, like, one of those, but not all three,
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you know? It sucks. I mean, like, and if you
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own a call, they call this out as well. Like,
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you can't be disabled and also be a dick because
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you need help. Yeah. Yeah. So you can't, you
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just have to be nice. And with that said, it's
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like, it's hard navigating comedy as a woman
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because it's a male -dominated field, obviously.
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Mm -hmm. But it's like, there have been times
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where, you know, like, I need to be carried up
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to stage because all these stages either don't
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have steps or, I mean, sorry, don't have handles,
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which I can get upstairs if there's a handle.
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Um, yeah, you're right. Like the Vulcan, like
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I'm a name dropping this one, Vulcan. You know,
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where else? Sunset was the worst. Sunset was
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the worst? Oh my gosh. Oh, and then Creek in
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the Cave, they really try, they have a ramp,
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but like it's very obviously specifically only
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for wheelchairs, because I have to kind of spread
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out and it's like steep. So the steeper it is,
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the more stable I need to be. So I need to spread
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out more, but there's not enough ramp. Yeah.
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Whenever they they wheel somebody up in a wheelchair,
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it looks kind of like they're going up on a roller
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coaster Yeah, and then and then going down feels
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it looks like scary Yeah, but yeah and then so,
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you know I have to have like my trusted friends
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to carry me because every once in a while I'll
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be like, all right, like please carry me up and
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I get groped I like like, you know, you get groped.
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Yeah, sorry. I'm talking put my phone in silence.
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Like I've had a guy like I let a guy hold my
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back, but then get lower. My ass has been touched
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multiple times. Yeah. That's crazy. I was just
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about to ask you, how do you like to be picked
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up? Probably not by the ass. Right. I can tell
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whenever you're trying to fill me up, and then
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between that and - this is the easiest way for
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you to get me up depending on what your physical
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ability is. It's very obvious what your intentions
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are. Because even if my butt is right here, you're
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not trying to like, whatever, you know? Yeah,
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yeah. So you can tell when somebody's like...
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you know, being inappropriate. Being intentional.
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Intentional. Yeah. And so... That sucks. Yeah.
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And it's hard to even say anything because it's
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like, there's probable deniability of like, oh,
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I was just trying to help you. And I just like,
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don't want to deal with all that, you know? I
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just know to not ever ask you again, you know?
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Yeah. You know, that sucks. That sucks that you
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have to do that to begin with. Yeah. You know
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what I mean? Like... No, that sucks. I hate hearing
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about stuff like that, but it really is a terrible
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thing, but there's been plenty of female comics
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we've been on, and whether they said it on the
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show itself or just talking before, it seems
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like everyone has said that they have some trouble
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in some things. Do you find that to be true as
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a female comic? Oh, yeah. Especially because
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- There's not many of us and so like we spend
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so much time together and it's just like high
22:36
school in the sense that like we go to the same
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mics and Sometimes you have the same teachers
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with the same class. Oh, wow, right? Yeah, and
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so we see each other regularly and and then it's
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like I Don't know. It's a I feel like for any
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film on comic once they start they start out
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with like five to six dudes Just surrounding
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them at all times. Yeah. Yeah and then we quickly
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learn about boundaries and how to set them. No
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one comes to my house anymore. You're not invited.
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I used to have comic friends over all the time,
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but it feels like sometimes when you give, what
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is it? When you give them an inch, they take
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a mile or something like that, whatever. Yeah.
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Yeah, no, that sucks. I hate that you all have
23:28
to even worry about shit like that, like even
23:31
do that thing. I wish there would be some kind
23:35
of way to get around it, or just basically just
23:38
leaving them or something like that, or getting
23:41
them kicked out of just whatever. But I hear
23:45
that it's such a... an occurrence, that inappropriate
23:48
behavior, I hear that it happens so often. It's
23:51
like, how do you even deal with that? You just
23:53
have to have your small circle. Gotcha. Yeah.
23:58
I'm grateful to have the friends I do. I currently
24:01
have a boyfriend and he does comedy. Sometimes
24:04
he'll help me out or shout out to Matt Rivera.
24:07
He's been great. Oh, yeah. He carried me up.
24:11
multiple times, countless times, and he's never
24:14
made me feel any kind of way, and he's never
24:16
lowered his hand, whatever it is, you know what
24:18
I'm saying? It's always been very respectful.
24:20
Shout out to Leo Becello in Houston. You just
24:26
have to have your trust people. You know who
24:28
your friends are. Yeah. Matt Rivera seems like
24:30
a nice guy. I want to get him on here too. Did
24:34
you see that thing about him with his voice?
24:36
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, I was like, you sound
24:38
like a cartoon comedian now. You know? Right,
24:42
yeah. It's like, yeah, dude, I see that, totally.
24:46
Comedy's not like how it used to be. I remember
24:48
that, you know? Right? It used to be way different,
24:52
you know? But, you know, it sucks because it
24:56
constantly sounds like his voice is, like, lost,
24:58
and I don't know if it's lost, you know? Something
25:01
about a polyp, I don't know. Yeah, something
25:03
about that, you know? I don't know. Do you have
25:05
any, like, kind of, like, pre -show sort of,
25:07
like, before you go on, like, pre -show kind
25:09
of... uh routine that you do funny you should
25:13
mention that i i you know how i think everyone
25:17
should have like a psych ward activity yeah like
25:21
what like crafts going on a walk you know like
25:24
positive head space type of shit yeah i love
25:27
whittling turtles out of one piece of wood oh
25:31
that's cool look at that oh wow that's neat let
25:35
me make Yeah, there you go. Show it to the camera.
25:37
Hell yeah. That's awesome. Or like any kind of
25:40
thing I get from the wild, I'll save. Is that
25:45
your joke book? It can be, but it also just kind
25:49
of like, you know, every few days I'll be like,
25:53
oh, I did this and this and this. It's more like
25:55
a gratitude journal than anything else. It also
25:58
has jokes in there, you know, but it's just to
26:00
keep me in a positive head space and just to
26:02
keep like... be grounded and not take things
26:04
for granted. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What I love is that
26:08
it's just like a typical composition notebook
26:10
and then you open it up and it's just beautifully
26:13
colored with vibrant stickers. That's really
26:18
awesome. It's dark on the outside, but inside,
26:21
kind of cool. Yeah. I feel like when you're in
26:27
the hustle so much, you forget that. Oh, this
26:31
is just an art bar show. But it's like, this
26:35
is not normal stuff. You're doing it, you know?
26:38
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I totally get it. I had to
26:41
kind of observe that within myself kind of thing,
26:45
like realizing that, you know, comedy is different
26:48
than just kind of speaking, you know? And I had
26:53
to learn. a lot. And I don't think I'm ever going
26:56
to fully know. I'm still learning. But what's
26:58
your sort of joke -writing process? Do you observe
27:02
things and then kind of just write it down as
27:04
a thought and go back? What's your process? It's
27:07
more like life occurrences. And that's why also
27:10
it's important for me to take breaks, just because
27:13
things that happen to me or around me is just
27:16
funny. Like the whole thing I just said about
27:19
in San Antonio, someone just like, are you okay?
27:21
Do you need help? And I'm like, in the middle
27:24
of my set, you know, and I'm just like, now I'm
27:26
Tony Robbins. I don't know who you think I am,
27:28
you know, like, or, you know, my first joke ever
27:31
was like, most women get preyed on pure EY, but
27:36
I get preyed on pure AY. Yeah, that's good. It's
27:40
a good little play on words, you know, good little
27:42
wordsmithing you got going on there. And so,
27:45
like, and I'm blessed for those experiences in
27:47
a way, as weird as they are, and it shows how
27:51
differently people... can or do treat me. Um,
27:55
but it's all just stuff. It's not all true, right?
27:59
There are some little tweaks to it, but it's
28:01
all mostly just personal experience or like,
28:05
uh, I've been flown out. I have a joke where
28:06
I say it like, I'm a reformed hoe. I've been
28:09
flown out multiple times. So if I can do it,
28:12
you can do it too. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Dude,
28:16
I'm a hoe. I want to be reformed. No, that's
28:21
awesome. So when you're writing down these thoughts
28:26
in this notebook, how do you know something's
28:33
going to be a joke? You know what I mean? I don't.
28:36
I just try it. OK, gotcha. So it's just sort
28:38
of like a journaling kind of thing. This has
28:40
potential. I'm going to make it a joke. Yeah.
28:43
Or I just thought of one two days ago. Because
28:46
y 'all have a lot of waymos. Yeah. sons of bitches.
28:49
And I was like, I'm just waiting for a day when
28:51
Waymo hits me. So there could be a headline that
28:54
says a clanker hits a click clacker, you know?
29:00
A click clacking comedian or something like that,
29:03
you know, like I can't wait to try that out.
29:05
I haven't done it yet, but. I think it'll be
29:08
good, you know, because I think it sort of like
29:10
breaks the ice. You know what I mean? Like people
29:12
are like. Did she just say that? Yes, she did.
29:14
All right, cool, cool. I'm down. Let's go. Yeah.
29:17
A couple of times, some people would be like,
29:19
oh, this is handy, capable. And I'd go up and
29:21
I'd be like, hey, I'm crippled. You know? Hey,
29:27
I'm crippled. Oh my gosh. Hey, I need a miracle.
29:30
You guys got Jesus by any chance? Yeah. Man.
29:34
So when you have a set or something like that,
29:37
how long is the longest set that you've ever
29:39
done? I'm grateful to say this. I've done 25
29:42
minutes. Oh, nice. Yeah. Nice. What's kind of
29:46
like your approach to that? Like, do you like
29:49
kind of plan out how you're going to do like
29:51
a long set like that or? I have all my jokes
29:53
and then like I know what I want to start with,
29:55
which is a banger, one -liner. Yeah. And then
29:58
the closer I want to end with. Yeah. Okay. And
30:01
then in between, I just kind of pick and choose
30:04
between and I'm like, all right, I have these
30:07
three main categories. I've got to make sure
30:08
I weave through all of them. And it can't just
30:11
be like dig, dig, dig, dig, you know? It's a
30:15
lot of dick. That's a lot of dick. But then if
30:18
you talk about family trauma too much, it's sad,
30:21
you know, so like. Right. Yeah, yeah. They don't
30:24
like that. Me and Lindsay, Lindsay Campbell,
30:26
she was just on and I released a clip that was
30:29
us like joking around, you know, and it was like,
30:33
yeah, people were like, what the fuck? What the
30:36
fuck? Why would you even post this? And then
30:38
one person was like, dude, it's crazy. that you
30:39
guys are laughing at this. And I was like, dude,
30:43
I don't know who the fuck these people are, but
30:45
that's what we do. I forgot who had the special,
30:50
I think it might have been Kevin Hart, who had
30:52
a laugh at my pain. And I felt like that was
30:54
a really good name, because that's essentially
30:56
it. And so you're doing that, writing your personal
31:01
stuff, and it might become a joke and everything.
31:03
What are some things about the stage? that you
31:07
kind of notice in the audience. I mean, like,
31:11
do you feel like you read them well enough? Oh,
31:15
gosh, it's different every city. It's different
31:17
every city. But I've noticed here in Austin,
31:23
Sunset, I sat in front of basically all middle
31:27
-aged for younger white dudes, right? Right,
31:30
okay, yeah. But then, I've also done a set in
31:35
Austin where it's very couples. Okay. Yeah. The
31:41
woman tend to gauge the temperature. We'll look
31:44
you sideways and they'll be like, are you going
31:47
to laugh at that? Is that funny? It'll hinder
31:52
whether they actually laugh or not, whether they
31:56
actually find it funny or not. Yeah. What's hindering?
32:03
I have this one opener. It's like, it's so hard
32:05
to convince people that I'm having a good time.
32:08
But at the end of the day, I'm crippled with
32:10
titties. I'm doing great. I get around fine.
32:14
And there's a double entendre of like, get around
32:17
fine. There's like, physically getting around
32:19
and there's, sexually getting around. And so...
32:22
Just to let you know. But that did well in the
32:27
room full of dudes. Right. Did not do well with...
32:32
Room full of couples. Yeah. Gotcha. Do you kind
32:35
of like scope out the crowd before you go on
32:38
stage? I try to and I try to think I try to do
32:41
my best on trying to read the room and Guess
32:44
what? Their taste is and stuff. But at the same
32:48
time, I'm again only you're in I don't have enough
32:51
experience and I'm still learning so much. I
32:54
do better with like Gen Z crowd When things are
32:58
less serious, right? Yeah, but uh I don't know.
33:02
I also think that I kind of, people have this
33:06
idea of what disabled should look like, but at
33:09
the end of the day, I'm like a 4 '11 Asian girl
33:12
with tattoos, you know? And so it's uncomfortable
33:17
one way or another for people. Yeah. Really?
33:22
That's, you know, I'm kind of like, I'm trying
33:25
to like, how do I word this? It's like, you know.
33:30
Like, you could see that there are people that
33:33
are, for some reason, uncomfortable. Does that
33:36
ever, like, hurt your feelings? No, because that's
33:38
the whole point. That's the whole point. You
33:40
want them to be that way. Yeah. You want to put
33:42
them in. That's fucking cool. That's badass.
33:45
Before I started comedy, I used to be a gin rat.
33:48
And that was the same thing. Like, people stared
33:51
at me all the time. They're like, what does she
33:53
do here? And then, like, she'd do my shit. They're
33:54
like, oh, fuck, you know. Yeah. But then, like,
33:58
New Year's resolution season comes in January.
34:00
And all of a sudden these newcomers come in.
34:02
They're like, oh, you're so brave for being here.
34:05
And I'm like, you came into my house. You're
34:10
calling me brave. I just got here. You're brave.
34:12
Yeah, you're brave, motherfucker. Yeah, no, that's
34:15
good. That is good. it's just kind of like it's
34:19
like one of those things like I'd never really
34:21
like encountered you know that and so I'm enjoying
34:24
listening to your your perspective of it you
34:27
know because like I said mostly everybody I've
34:30
got is like it has like mental handicaps of some
34:34
sort. I'm um I'm fairly emotionally stable considering
34:40
the field I am in. It's just I'm physically fucked
34:44
up but Yeah, I don't know. I used to be really
34:52
engulfed in the idea of having to be physically
34:54
perfect like every other woman. Right. And then
34:57
I started comedy and I was like, I could just
34:59
be myself. And actually that's the best thing
35:01
I can do because there are young adults and children
35:06
just dying to be themselves, but they feel like
35:09
they shouldn't feel okay or comfortable in their
35:12
own bodies. And so that's kind of like what I'm
35:15
trying to do. I've actually recently had a little
35:20
girl, I hope she doesn't watch my car, I know
35:23
she does. Anyway, she saw my little leg braces
35:26
and she was like, I like your braces and she
35:28
wore them too. Little things like that really
35:32
does a lot. Yeah, connecting with people who
35:36
look like you vaguely at least even. Yeah, that's
35:40
awesome. Nobody really looks like me. I'm French,
35:46
you know, that's really all I've got really.
35:48
You kind of look like John Goodman, like a teeny
35:50
bit. Like fat John Goodman? Whenever you smile,
35:56
your top half looks like John Goodman. Interesting,
36:01
I'll take that. I'll take that. I mean, I like
36:03
John Goodman. He's pretty cool. You know, he's
36:05
Sully from Monsters Inc. That's awesome. You
36:07
know, 1 .21 gigawatts. Hey, he's very talented.
36:12
Yeah, he is. Yeah. You ever seen Oh Brother,
36:14
Where Are Thou? Yes. Yeah, I really liked his
36:17
character in that. Yeah. Even though he was super
36:19
dick. Yeah. But I like, you know, I love that
36:21
movie. Yeah, that was a great movie. That was
36:25
a great freaking movie. Have you seen any, like,
36:28
really good movies lately? No. No, I haven't
36:31
either. No, I think the last good movie I saw
36:34
was Frankenstein with Jacob Elordi. Oh, yeah,
36:43
I don't know. And then before that, it was like
36:46
Dune. But like, I feel like movies are, and this
36:51
has been talked about and there's been articles,
36:53
so don't at me, don't come at me, but like, you
36:56
know. Movies are made to be seen like kind of
36:59
as a background so that people can kind of tune
37:01
in and out and stuff like that You know, especially
37:03
because things are in streaming pretty much right
37:06
away now. So yeah. Yeah, I have my background
37:09
movies Like I just put on like and I just like
37:12
to hear it. Yeah Interstellar is like my background
37:15
movie. Yeah, it's great. Yeah TARS Come on TARS.
37:22
Yeah, see it actually kind of works. Wow. Yeah.
37:26
So I like Interstellar. It's like one of my favorite
37:28
movies. Yeah. It's a great mindfuck, but also
37:32
it just helps you appreciate life more. Yeah.
37:36
Yeah, exactly. Speaking of appreciating life,
37:40
what got you wanting to do Kill Tony? I don't
37:47
know. It's just the worst that can happen. Listen,
37:51
okay. When I entered comedy, Was like I used
37:55
to be so scared of like, oh people think what
37:57
if everyone finds out? Yeah, I never heard of
38:01
any of these fuckers, you know Yeah, and they
38:04
say some crazy shit and that was very liberating
38:05
to me It was liberating to you. How so like was
38:09
it just like to know that like, you know people
38:12
are saying Worst things that I could ever say.
38:15
Yeah, I never even knew who they were. Yeah before
38:18
I started comedy Yeah, and even my mom has never
38:22
seen Any of it or no basically of any. I don't
38:26
she doesn't even know I'm here. It's just me.
38:28
I'm in Austin. I've been in Austin Does she live
38:33
in Austin? No, she's in Houston. She's in Houston.
38:36
I just call her and she's like, are you okay?
38:38
You doing good? I'm like, yeah I'm great, you
38:41
know, yeah, but she watches her look Korean dramas
38:44
and stuff and that's her little world So she
38:48
watches it on satellite TV or something? It's
38:50
just on YouTube and little Korean streaming things.
38:55
Nice. I was asking because I don't know how,
38:57
but my smart TV, it's like a Samsung. I was changing
39:02
the channels on it and I ended up on Korean soap
39:06
operas. For some freaking reason, it's been on
39:08
that for weeks and I'll just sit just like, well,
39:10
I have no idea what they're saying, no idea what's
39:13
going on. But I'm like, this is... Why is this
39:16
cool? Right? I don't know. I'm not really into
39:19
Korean drama. It's better now, but it's so marriage
39:22
and love -centric, and I'm like, that's so outdated
39:26
now. It's better now. There's more powerful female
39:31
leads and stuff like that, but that was only
39:34
recently since K -pop popped off. But before
39:37
that, it was just really like, oh, I need to
39:41
be. wife material and like, oh, I have to be
39:46
like, it's about, I don't know. I don't care
39:49
for it. Or I didn't. But to answer your question
39:53
more, I started comedy after my third layoff.
39:58
After your third layoff. And then a breakup and
40:01
I was like, fuck it, you know. And when I entered
40:04
comedy, like Kill Tony was a, I found out is
40:08
a big thing. And I was like, I need this to work.
40:10
Yeah. faster, which is why I reached out to Soft
40:16
White Underbelly. And then Kill Tony, I just
40:22
wanted to make sure that my joke set a point.
40:27
And then the fact that not even my one minute,
40:30
but that wholesome jokebook catch was the one
40:34
that went viral. Yeah, I was really grateful
40:37
for it and even there there's like a funny bit
40:39
to it, you know a few bits and so And I'm grateful
40:43
for that moment. I'm so like Sometimes I just
40:47
lay down and stare at the ceiling and I'm just
40:50
like who am I? To deserve this and to experience
40:55
this I am a mere Small girl my god, so like,
41:00
you know all that and so yeah, it's very humbling
41:03
but uh I just didn't want, I felt like I was
41:09
walking into my purpose. This is so weird. I'm
41:12
so sorry. It's just so woo -woo, but I was -
41:14
No, no. It's perfect. Go on. I feel like it's
41:17
happening. It's awesome. I want to be part of
41:23
the change. I want to see. As a kid, I remember
41:27
seeing, I grew up in the early 2000s when Heroine
41:30
chic was a thing and it's coming back. It's in
41:32
full force now with those epic and stuff But
41:34
it's like I didn't look like any of these girls
41:36
I wasn't the skinniest person but also have a
41:39
wheelchair or a walker or crushes like I'm so
41:42
far off from what this looks like And it gave
41:46
me a lot of trauma. I gave me a lot of body dysmorphia
41:48
where it's like I'm unlovable no one's gonna
41:51
want to be with me and um and So I know I knew
41:56
that was killed Tony It'll just kind of open
41:59
things up more and it did yeah Yeah, it seems
42:03
like it did you know and and so you've seen like
42:05
a positive. Yeah, I would have like DMS from
42:09
disabled folks Wow, yeah, that's really cool.
42:14
That's really cool You know I never I never knew
42:17
that like cuz when I went up and I did my thing
42:20
Got off there was like a little bit of a pop
42:23
nothing. Nothing. I did was deserving to go viral.
42:26
You know Um, and so, but yeah, I've seen a few,
42:30
like a bunch of ear clips, you know, like they're
42:32
everywhere. And I'm like, that's, you know, that's
42:34
gotta feel great. Especially if you're sitting
42:36
there, like, you know, basically like, who am
42:39
I? And then, you know, like you kind of have
42:41
an imposter syndrome in a way and you think you
42:44
don't deserve it. And then this is a great response
42:46
happens. Like, did that make you feel good? Yeah,
42:49
absolutely. But it also makes me aware of like,
42:52
I need to not do some dumb shit. Like, Jackass
42:57
material is not for me, you know, because I have
42:59
teenagers looking at me right now, and they're
43:01
parents, and I just don't. Yeah. Yeah. You're
43:04
not going to be like, all right, yeah, you're
43:06
getting that fucking grocery cart now, you know,
43:09
we're going to go down a hill. Yeah, and whatever
43:12
it is, yeah. Yeah, that jackass kind of thing.
43:14
I think I went a different direction than what
43:16
you were talking about. And also, like, if I
43:19
was a disabled man, I think that'd be received
43:22
differently, and that would have more leeway
43:24
in that way. But especially as like a 30, almost
43:28
31 year old woman. We're going to be seen as
43:32
like, oh, you're responsible. And you know what?
43:34
I get it, you know? Yeah. And I am aware of like
43:38
the social impact if I were to. I also don't
43:40
want to do that, so. Yeah. But yeah, so. And
43:45
that's fine. Yeah, you're trying to make a name
43:48
for yourself, like your name. I want to be a
43:49
positive impact for the most part, a net positive.
43:53
There might be some, you know. Anything Dom I
43:55
say it's just like a nuance like like I have
43:58
this joke where it's like I'm not I'm when I
44:01
see if I see some wheels I'm swiping left because
44:03
we can't both be Disabled and most people agree
44:07
like you agree, huh? Like You can't pick off
44:12
something off the floor and I can't either what
44:13
are we gonna do? You know, I mean like Oh, yeah.
44:16
Oh Jesus. Have you ever seen the movies outside
44:18
or something about Mary? No, no, so they have
44:21
a guy in that in that movie who? Um, he's pretending
44:26
to try to get with this girl. And he walks with
44:29
crutches like those, although he's not like disabled
44:32
in any way. And he drops keys. And it's like
44:35
one of the funniest parts in the whole movie
44:37
with him trying to pick up the keys with like,
44:39
but being in those crutches, you know what I
44:41
mean? I'm just like, I was just sitting there
44:43
like, as I was watching, I was just like, dude,
44:46
how would you pick shit up? I do pick stuff up.
44:49
It's just carefully and slowly. Carefully and
44:52
slowly. You know, it's but the point is like
44:57
we have we're obviously gonna have shit to do
44:59
we can't have like half a thing to do a day and
45:02
you know, it's just I'm aware like if you're
45:05
disabled like I can't be Really that much of
45:09
a help for you. Like it right on either ends
45:12
It's just gonna be Hard. Yeah, and it's gonna
45:17
be like the older you get I feel like we've realized
45:20
that like love is great, but that's often not
45:24
enough, you know what I mean? Like we have to
45:26
be stable in some ways and also like if one person
45:30
gets hurt, the other person has to step up and
45:32
all these kinds of things. And that's possible
45:36
with money. But what percentage of us is super
45:40
rich? You know what I mean? Right, yeah, yeah.
45:42
I feel like you gotta be so lucky. Yeah. You
45:48
know. Because generally also disabled folks make
45:51
less money. Just from discrimination or limitations,
45:57
whatever it is, we can't have all jobs given
46:00
our physical abilities and stuff like that. So
46:04
just generally. It's a hard truth and that's
46:12
what I also want to bring to comedy. Yeah. Do
46:16
you have any inspirations that you just - you
46:18
know, a comic that you may have seen and was
46:20
like, man, this guy's great. I'm trying to...
46:23
Fuck. I want to talk to Fiona Collie so bad.
46:27
Because, like, I feel like she has a blueprint,
46:29
in a way. Okay. That, like, almost no one else
46:34
can provide. Because we're both in this Kill
46:37
Tony space. And, like, we're both disabled. We
46:41
have different disabilities. Yeah. But we understand
46:45
needing help all the time and, like... You know
46:48
navigating being like a woman and like, you know
46:50
all these things and it's like sure I just need
46:53
some kind of guidance because I I'm not famous
46:57
by any means, but I'm still getting recognized
46:59
the point where I It's still scary to me Being
47:04
recognized at all because it's like you're a
47:06
stranger sure. Yeah, yeah, and I At any point
47:13
I'm in danger, you know, sure. Yeah Yeah, I feel
47:19
you there. You have to worry about so much and
47:22
then a little more. I wonder how she does navigate
47:29
it. She is really funny. I see why her getting
47:35
up there and doing stuff, she's also sharp. I
47:39
wonder how she navigates it and how it differs.
47:45
I did meet her one time and she called me able
47:47
-bodied and I thought that was so funny. That's
47:50
awesome. But like the county club we met each
47:53
other at, their elevator was down and I was able
47:56
to get up the stairs. Oh, you were? Yeah. I was
48:00
able to get upstairs as long as there's handles
48:03
and railings. Yeah. Right. And so like with that
48:05
alone, she was like, you're able -bodied. I'm
48:07
like, oh my God. That's great. Crazy. That felt
48:12
good, huh? I don't know if it's good or bad.
48:14
You're the headliner right now. I'm almost like
48:18
four days in the comedy. Yeah. Oh, wow. I just
48:22
met her. It was just everything aligned when
48:25
I started comedy. That weekend, Fiona Collie
48:29
came to Houston to the riot. Oh, wow. Then I
48:32
met her there. Now, I'm just like, bro, I don't,
48:39
I need, I need your help. I don't know. I just
48:41
want to talk to you. Like, what is, what's going
48:44
on? You know? Sure, yeah. I hope you're able
48:46
to sit down with her and talk to her at some
48:48
point. One day. I know it's going to happen,
48:50
but yeah. Yeah, it'll well, yeah. I'm more than
48:53
sure it'll happen, especially here, you know,
48:55
because I feel like she's always just around
48:57
here, somewhere. Yeah, she is. You know? Not
48:59
in here, but yeah. What are your goals for comedy?
49:05
Like, where do you see yourself? Um, I would
49:07
like to, you know, even venture into like acting.
49:11
I want to, when I, uh, I wanted to register for
49:17
acting and improv classes so badly when I, while
49:19
I'm here and I'm so lost and new to that, that
49:25
world, even this space even that like, I didn't
49:27
realize those classes fill up. in advance really
49:32
quick and they only do 10 to 12 people cohorts
49:36
at a time and I'm like, duh. But I would love
49:41
to get into acting as well. That would be cool.
49:45
Just to provide that a little bit of representation
49:49
and I don't know. If you did get into acting,
49:55
would you do movies? or like TV or just really
50:00
anything. Yeah, I would love to be in like something
50:04
silly. Like a major motion picture. Like a comedy.
50:07
Like a comedy? Maybe a rom -com. Who knows? I
50:09
don't know. That would be cool. First thing is
50:12
getting my foot in and getting some acting chops,
50:16
improv chops, you know. Yeah, yeah. You know,
50:20
I think that the amount of people who do not
50:25
have disabilities playing somebody with disabilities,
50:29
I think that needs to be like brought down because
50:31
I'm sure there's a lot of people who have disabilities
50:32
who want to be, you know, actors. Right. You
50:36
know, and they want, you know, and it's like,
50:38
why the fuck is that role going to that person?
50:40
It's all about profits, baby. It's all about
50:43
profits. Because at the end of the day, like,
50:45
this just happened. Like, I forget that, you
50:50
know what, my body is disabled and it does get
50:52
tired faster. You know, I was out doing comedy
50:56
on Tuesday with like I don't know if you know
50:58
Princess Rubber Duckie. She's blind and like
51:03
a mutual friend, but she's 40. It was her birthday
51:07
Tuesday and she just turned 40 and she was basically
51:10
figuratively, but it was just running laps around
51:14
me. I'm tired. But you're a decade older than
51:17
me. So like I just have and then I had to take
51:24
yesterday night off just cuz I'm just like fuck
51:26
I just need a reset cuz I have a I have a podcast
51:28
tomorrow, and I'm trying to do all the mics afterwards
51:31
Yeah, yeah, and it's like I then that's why cocaine
51:35
still rampant in comedy, right? I'm trying to
51:38
do that. Yeah It's not worth it. I've done it
51:43
a few times. I don't think it's worth it I literally
51:45
like all it makes for me to is a wake up Yeah,
51:49
I mean, like, I don't have the physical means
51:51
to expend that energy. So I'm just going to be
51:53
tweaking out in my own head, spiraling like Mojo
51:56
Jojo or something, you know? Yeah, exactly. Sort
51:59
of a match. Yeah. It's like, I want to go somewhere.
52:02
I can't fucking go. I'm like calling everyone
52:05
in my contacts, you know? All right, dude. OK,
52:08
hey, I'm just calling you. You're like 20 minutes.
52:10
All right, look, when I was four, you'd go every
52:13
year. Yeah. And now I'm seven and this happens.
52:17
But yeah, I always wanted to be an actor before
52:24
years ago. I did extras in a few movies and in
52:29
some TV shows and stuff like that, and I got
52:30
to see how it is. It's actually a big reason
52:34
why I even did everything the way I did in here.
52:37
Just watching that stuff and everything. So you
52:40
would do comedies. I don't know. I could also
52:42
just do extra. I want, and I've said this on
52:45
Soft White as well, I want to be an extra in
52:48
the back where I obviously have extra legs and
52:51
they're like, well, who's that? Extra legs, like
52:54
four legs? I have four legs, yeah. Yeah, four
52:56
legs. That's really cool. And it's like, what?
52:59
You know? Even just having that kind of response,
53:02
I've done my job. Yeah. I've always wanted to
53:05
do skits, like comedy skits. like Saturday Night
53:09
Live or something, because I was a huge Saturday
53:11
Night Live fan. Yeah. Growing up, you know. And
53:14
is that what you used to watch? Like, did you
53:16
ever watch? Matt TV. I was a Matt TV girl, yeah.
53:19
Oh, that is awesome. Do you remember a cast member?
53:24
I don't think he had much time on there though.
53:25
His name is Pablo Francisco. Are you familiar
53:27
with him? I don't know names at this point because
53:29
it's been so long, but I probably know all their
53:31
faces. I watched from beginning to end, basically.
53:36
Yeah, he just came. So he was on Mad TV like
53:39
a while ago, and he's known for his like, his
53:43
sound effects. He's very goofy. He's hilarious,
53:46
you know. He's definitely one of my favorite
53:49
comedians. He has one of my favorite specials,
53:51
but it was released back in 2004. But anyways,
53:56
yeah, I forgot where I was going with this. Mad
53:59
TV acting. Yeah, Mad TV acting. Skits, SNL. Yeah,
54:03
yeah. So Pablo Francisco was just in San Antonio,
54:06
and I wrote his people to try to get him on.
54:12
I'll write so many people to try to get him on.
54:15
Hey, that's half the hurdle, you know? You never
54:18
know. You never know. It's like that Wayne Gretzky
54:22
quote, you miss 100 % of the shots that you don't
54:24
take. It's so funny. I had two people be like,
54:27
I would love to open for you. I'm like, I don't
54:29
even know what you're talking about. Open for
54:32
what? Yeah, you know, I'm not you know, but one
54:35
day but uh, oh, yeah, it's funny As soon as I
54:39
entered America like one of the first Korean
54:42
people I saw on screen and on TV is Bobby Lee
54:46
You know, he's a huge influence for me. He's
54:49
like, I know he's not a great. It's not a great
54:52
role model blah blah blah I don't care whatever
54:54
but like, you know, it's just to see someone
54:57
who especially because Koreans are very like
55:00
in themselves and they're very like conformist.
55:03
That's kind of the culture. And so to be daring
55:06
enough to be silly and stand out and do funny
55:11
shit, weird shit, whatever. It was very inspiring
55:14
to me. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. You seem like you're
55:17
just a very unique person. I feel like your personality
55:20
is just very unique. I don't know, you seem just
55:25
real. You know what I mean? And I think that's
55:29
really cool, but I don't really meet a lot of
55:32
people like that. And I'm just saying that because
55:37
you mentioned sort of like the, I called it the
55:40
imposter syndrome. Do you feel like that's accurate,
55:43
what I said? Yeah, I mean like, well before comedy,
55:48
the first stage I've been on was like for, I
55:52
wanted to be a motivational speaker. Oh wow.
55:55
But then, As years went on, I'm like, it's also
55:59
male -dominated and also, who am I to tell you
56:02
what to do with your life? And it just felt pretentious
56:05
in a way. And I've done like, you know, university
56:09
TED Talks, you know what I mean? Like, at U of
56:13
H, there was like Coup Talks, whatever, you know,
56:16
where like students could apply to have a speech
56:19
do about whatever they wanted, right? But, so,
56:24
instead of like... Instead of me talking at you,
56:28
trying to convince you to change a perspective,
56:30
it's easier to do that when you're making people
56:32
laugh. But that comes from realness. Yeah. That
56:36
comes from realness. That seems to be a theme
56:40
lately is people are talking a lot about just
56:43
being authentic, just being yourself. It's hard,
56:47
especially now. With people like Clivicular and
56:52
the Manosphere I can only like it's just and
56:56
The hero is she coming back it just feels like
57:03
Slop it feels like just people pleasing and trying
57:06
to be perfect and yeah when you're already look
57:09
like this There's no way to even be close to
57:12
that even further from anybody else. It seems
57:14
like that than any able -bodied person mmm, so
57:18
yeah, yeah You know, it's so funny. It's so funny
57:24
because it's like I have like a thought that
57:27
I want to like say based on what you're talking
57:30
about. And then like it just immediately goes
57:32
away because I have like so many different questions
57:34
about like, you know, just the challenges that
57:37
that you find like day in and day out. It seems
57:41
like you have to deal with something new every
57:43
day. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, And me even taking the
57:47
chance to be out here in Austin by myself is
57:52
just like, what the fuck? What am I doing? Yeah.
57:56
Yeah. So is there like an ultimate dream that
57:59
you're trying to accomplish? Is it like a special
58:01
that you want, like a Netflix special or do you
58:03
just want to go on tour? That'd be cool. I would
58:08
like tour first and just kind of meet people
58:11
around just for people to be able to see. Yeah.
58:14
what's possible, you know. Netflix, that's cool
58:18
if it happens, but I try to like kind of remove
58:22
myself from like the end result too much and
58:25
just try to enjoy. Just one thing at a time and
58:29
usually it just keeps going, you know. My goal
58:34
is just to make people feel as comfortable as
58:38
possible within their own bodies, whatever that
58:40
means. To what scale, I don't know. Yeah, I mean,
58:44
through the power of humor, you know, you can
58:46
do anything. I feel like, you know, you mentioned
58:49
Fiona Coley a second ago and how you just wanted
58:51
to pick her brain and stuff like that. And it's
58:54
kind of, it's interesting because it really shows
58:57
that, you know, despite any kind of physical
59:02
disability that might be occurring, if you have
59:04
something to say, you can say it. Yeah. And I
59:07
think that's cool. You're going out, you want
59:09
to be a motivational speaker. That is so cool
59:13
too. I've always wanted to do that too, but then
59:15
I started thinking, I was like, I'm kind of fucking
59:17
dumb. I'm like, and I don't really have opinions
59:20
like many of them. I'm sort of like, I don't
59:23
know, I'm just like kind of creamy peanut butter.
59:26
I'm just like. This is it, you know? Yeah. I
59:30
mean, I wouldn't be talking about anything like
59:33
Grindset or whatever. It's just more like, hey,
59:36
you can enjoy life. You can enjoy life, yeah.
59:39
What kind of things do you do aside from comedy
59:42
that's like a hobby? I do my little psych work
59:47
stuff and then I go to the gym and honestly,
59:51
between content creation, this and trying to
59:54
keep myself relatively healthy, the day is over.
59:57
But the crazy thing is comedy was supposed to
1:00:01
be a side quest that I just tried. And then you
1:00:06
fell in love with it, huh? Yeah. And then it
1:00:07
just kept going and kept getting bigger. Wow.
1:00:11
Yeah. It felt like there was no stop to it. I
1:00:16
have a day job, and I ran into the cast. Do you
1:00:22
know Nets Declassified School Survival Guide?
1:00:25
No. It's a Nickelodeon show, but not Dan Schneider
1:00:29
directed. Oh, okay. But it was alive and active
1:00:34
in the early 2000s, but I had happened to just
1:00:37
run into that cast on a day of work. Whoa. That's
1:00:42
cool. And then their agent was like, I saw you
1:00:48
on Kill Tony. Do you need a manager? Or an agent,
1:00:52
whatever. And I was like, I mean, maybe. Are
1:00:54
you trying to scam me right now? What's up? But
1:00:57
it was real. But it's like, I wasn't even supposed...
1:01:00
I went to the... I work online, but then I have
1:01:06
to show up in person sometimes. I got my schedule
1:01:09
confused. I wasn't even supposed to be there
1:01:10
that day. It just worked out. Wow. And I'm just
1:01:13
like, good for you. This was, this is beyond
1:01:17
me at this point. Like it's supposed, there's
1:01:19
no stopping this. And, and you know, every time
1:01:22
I try to stop it. So there have been like three
1:01:24
or four times before whenever I would just be
1:01:27
consistent on social media and to just pop off.
1:01:29
And I got scared every single time. And, but,
1:01:33
but then I'm like, there's, you know what? I'm
1:01:35
just gonna. Let go of the inhibitions and trust
1:01:38
the process. Yeah, what was scaring you? Judgment
1:01:44
judgment and that's why I say like it was very
1:01:47
freeing to see kill Tony people and I just never
1:01:50
knew who they were before comedy because here
1:01:53
I'm thinking I'm just like in my head. I'm like,
1:01:55
oh everyone's gonna think I'm a fucking stupid
1:01:59
whatever and That's not the case and my my normal
1:02:04
life most of them like Either don't care or don't
1:02:07
know whatever. You know, I mean like it doesn't
1:02:09
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
1:02:11
And that's great. Yeah Yeah, I got recognized
1:02:16
one time after my kill Tony. Yeah, and it was
1:02:18
by a guy. I didn't even realize I worked with
1:02:21
yeah, like he did it was just like a guy had
1:02:23
never met but he He happened to show up on the
1:02:26
shift that I was working and and at the time
1:02:30
I was working EMT ambulance service And so, yeah,
1:02:36
so he came, he ran over to the ambulance that
1:02:39
I was like stocking and putting stuff up in.
1:02:42
And he's like, bro, were you on Kill Tony? Yeah,
1:02:44
that was you on Kill Tony last night. And I was
1:02:46
like, yeah, yeah, that was awesome. You know,
1:02:49
I felt really good. But you get recognized quite
1:02:52
a bit. Yeah, I do. And then when my episode came
1:02:56
out, some people did text me. Yeah. But it's
1:02:59
more of people who I randomly went to summer
1:03:02
school with at some point, stuff like that. Yeah.
1:03:05
I didn't really know them. Sure. But I ended
1:03:09
up being fine, and I was just scared for no reason.
1:03:12
Yeah. But there's no resistance, right? It just
1:03:15
seems like it's just opening up for you. Yeah.
1:03:18
Before this, I was popping off on LinkedIn. Before
1:03:23
that, I was popping off on TikTok. It was just
1:03:25
because All my identities and demographics together
1:03:30
are so rare, I feel like. Yeah. You just end
1:03:32
up becoming an advocate as long as you're consistent.
1:03:35
Yeah, sure. So, that was just always there. Yeah,
1:03:42
you always had a voice, you know? So that's,
1:03:45
man, that's really freaking awesome. Which mics
1:03:47
are you planning on doing tonight? Probably hitting
1:03:51
up, Creek is a great, like, mingling spot. I
1:03:55
feel like everyone's in that backyard, you know?
1:03:57
Yeah, yeah, they really are. They really are.
1:04:00
And then Narbar, and I'll find some. I'm actually
1:04:03
gonna go with a couple comic friends and honestly,
1:04:07
I don't like dealing with parking. And so usually
1:04:10
my car is a newer model than theirs and I have
1:04:14
AC. And like, you can drive my car, we can go
1:04:18
together. If you can just drop me off, you park.
1:04:24
Whatever and they're like, yeah, you know Sure.
1:04:27
Yeah. Yeah, I mean cuz that's we got a mutually
1:04:29
benefit symbiotic relationship if you will teamwork
1:04:32
makes the dream work Yeah, right. I think I've
1:04:35
read that somewhere As those little young and
1:04:39
say yeah, exactly Well, um, I guess we're good
1:04:44
pretty much I wrapped up good But I did did you
1:04:47
have anything that you wanted to put out there?
1:04:49
Whatever. This is your camera right here. Um,
1:04:51
I My Instagram is heymissyehyms .yehe on Instagram
1:05:01
and on TikTok. I post my shows on there, my stories,
1:05:07
but I don't even know what's going on. So your
1:05:10
guess is as good as mine. If you want to follow
1:05:11
my journeys to see what's going to happen, like,
1:05:14
go free. But otherwise, I'm just out here. We
1:05:18
outside. We outside. Not literally, but figuratively.
1:05:24
Imagine if you came and it was outside. I'll
1:05:27
deal with it just for you, you know? Yeah, we're
1:05:29
just both getting tans. You know, oh man, I'm
1:05:32
so pale. I work nights. They gave me vitamin
1:05:35
D3. No, I mean like, listen, before comedy, my
1:05:39
vitamin D levels were great, all this stuff.
1:05:42
No. Now you're like, fuck. Yeah, I need the D
1:05:47
supplements. Apparently, me too. Which is weird.
1:05:51
I'm like, doc, what are you talking about? It
1:05:54
doesn't go in a bottle. Anyway, I can go off.
1:05:59
I have to tell myself sometimes to stop joking.
1:06:01
Honestly, I feel like this conversation can go
1:06:03
hours. But I'm glad you feel that way because
1:06:07
there is a part of me that was like, fuck, man.
1:06:09
I wish I'd had like the... I need to get bigger
1:06:12
memory cards so I can do that. I've had times
1:06:15
when I had people who just wanted to talk for
1:06:18
longer and I was like, it's been like two hours.
1:06:24
But this is one of those conversations where
1:06:26
I feel like I could just talk to you for hours.
1:06:28
It's about just like whatever. But I really appreciate
1:06:34
you coming on. I really do. It's really awesome.
1:06:36
Thank you for taking the time out. Congratulations
1:06:38
on you know, getting representation. Oh, thank
1:06:41
you. That's really cool. I know that must be
1:06:43
exciting, huh? I don't even know what that means
1:06:45
right now, you know? Yeah. But I'll ride the
1:06:49
wave and make the best of it like I usually do,
1:06:52
so. Yeah, shoot. Whenever you're super rich and
1:06:55
famous, I'll be like, hell yeah, I'm just going
1:06:57
to... I don't know about rich. Because, you know,
1:06:59
I feel like once you get to a certain point of
1:07:02
wealth, you kind of have to do shitty things
1:07:04
to get further. Yeah. So we'll see. but famous.
1:07:10
That would be cool. That would be dope. I'd be
1:07:13
like, look at all you over here. Hell yeah. Hell
1:07:18
yeah. Well, thank you so much for coming on.
1:07:19
Thank you for having me. I really appreciate
1:07:21
it having you. And that right there is a wrap.
1:07:25
It is over. We'll talk to you later. Bye. Bye.