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Mic Drop Comedy Chandler _ Comedian Bernice Ye · Mic Drop Comedy

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mic Drop
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  Speaker 1: Comedy's podcast, the Chandler edition. I am your host for
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  Speaker 1: this podcast. I'm Sari Beliak, and I'm very excited for
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  Speaker 1: our guest this week joining us. multi-talented. This girl has
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  Speaker 1: all of the hyphens in her name, all of her
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  Speaker 1: many talents. I'm very excited. We have Bernice Yeh here.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 1: We're so excited that you're here. Before we started recording,
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  Speaker 1: we were talking, we were just going to do like
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  Speaker 1: a beauty and style podcast, forget all of the comedy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And just, we were going to get some beauty tips
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  Speaker 1: and fashion tips from you.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. Well, no one actually asked me. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if this ever going to be a beauty podcast, this
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  Speaker 2: is it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, Nick, our sound engineer was like, your makeup
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  Speaker 1: looks great. Your hair looks great. I was like, let's
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  Speaker 1: just for the next half hour, we can just compliment
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  Speaker 1: each other and learn some beauty tips. I get one
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  Speaker 1: thing from following you on social media. I'm like, she
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  Speaker 1: has really good style.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: But more so than that, you are not just a comedian,
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  Speaker 1: you are a rapper and a dancer. And what else?
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  Speaker 1: You're a martial artist. Do you sleep ever, Bernice?
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  Speaker 2: My aura ring yelled at me last night. It's like
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  Speaker 2: my sleep score is a 62 and it's very low.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm getting my black belt test in Taekwondo
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I hope to get some sleep after that.
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  Speaker 1: So what is, what is that testing process like?
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  Speaker 2: You know, actually they don't tell us. So every belt
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  Speaker 2: level promotion test, they will test you, but they never
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  Speaker 2: test the technique and stuff until they first exhaust you first.
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  Speaker 2: So they will do very intense cardio. And I just,
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  Speaker 2: so what I was told is, the black belt has
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  Speaker 2: the first half is to men to break you physically
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  Speaker 2: and mentally. They will just test until you, most people
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  Speaker 2: throw up. That's, that's basically, I think what they told us,
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  Speaker 2: like they will push you until the point that you
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  Speaker 2: cannot go on. You want to give up, but you
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  Speaker 2: don't give up. Once you are done with that, then
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  Speaker 2: the tester technique. So now you've got to do your
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  Speaker 2: kicks and you have to do your forms. You have
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  Speaker 2: to break your board. Um, and that is apparently actually
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  Speaker 2: the easy part, but I get it now is more
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  Speaker 2: about your technique should be so you're so proficient at it. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: even though you're so exhausted, you can still execute. Yes. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So how, how long is it like several hours that
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  Speaker 1: this class, do you know any of those details?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, but I think, uh, there
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  Speaker 2: will be a few people to test with me. So
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  Speaker 2: the whole process might take, um, between one to two hours. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So you're, you're got this coming up. And then after that,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to just like hop on a plane and
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  Speaker 1: come do some comedy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm so excited. That's like literally new year, new me, right?
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  Speaker 2: Cause we just entered the year of the fire horse.
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  Speaker 2: I can feel the energy is already very, very different.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's just a lot of momentum. I have more
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  Speaker 2: energy and come in. I'm like, Hey, hey Chandler, hey
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  Speaker 2: San Diego, I.
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  Speaker 1: Am a black belt, okay? I saw on your Instagram
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  Speaker 1: that you were talking a lot about the Chinese New
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  Speaker 1: Year and you were like, these are very like auspicious dates, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, six and eight, the days you're performing, these
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  Speaker 1: are good numbers. It's like for joy and unexpected blessings.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yes, we need some of that good energy.
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  Speaker 2: And what's even better, I just learned, and this is
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  Speaker 2: something new to me as well. So apparently- The first
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  Speaker 2: 15 days following the Chinese New Year are very important.
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  Speaker 2: And between, I think, day eight to like 14. So
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  Speaker 2: this many days is like supposed to be community day.
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  Speaker 2: And you're supposed to come out, celebrate with the people and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with good vibes and be surrounded with a
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  Speaker 2: group of people. And that like 26 and 28 falls
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  Speaker 2: in within that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: I love this is this is perfect timing and a
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  Speaker 1: lot aligning with your it's Taekwondo, right? That you do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't making like all the superstitious or
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  Speaker 2: the woo woo stuff. It's like, I just like what
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  Speaker 2: if he serves me, I believe in it. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't I just forget about it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's the way to do it's like,
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  Speaker 1: take what you need and leave the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit about your start
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  Speaker 1: in comedy and how you came to be the multi
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  Speaker 1: hyphenate talent that you are today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. Because like, really, for me, comedy and stand
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  Speaker 2: up comedy, I never ever thought about it. Because growing
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  Speaker 2: up in China, it's just not even an art form
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  Speaker 2: that I am aware of. And I came to America,
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  Speaker 2: you know, finally worked my way. I went to school.
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  Speaker 2: I went to work in tech for like, I think
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  Speaker 2: a good 10 years before I even ever think about comedy.
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  Speaker 2: But at a time when I was working at a Hulu,
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  Speaker 2: I was promoted to be a manager and I, oftentimes
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  Speaker 2: I need to give my team some sort of speech.
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  Speaker 2: And I just found there is a weird feeling that
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  Speaker 2: I have this versatile feeling that it just feels gross
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  Speaker 2: when I'm trying to compliment other people. Isn't that crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Just saying good things is hard. That's part of being Chinese,
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  Speaker 2: I guess. And so I actually have to work with
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  Speaker 2: an executive coach trying to teach me And we actually
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  Speaker 2: dived deep into the reason why is when I was
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  Speaker 2: a kid, my mom always brought me to her work lunch.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like put on a spot to give a
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  Speaker 2: toast to all these uncles and aunties. I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: I hate being there. So I will intentionally say something
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  Speaker 2: not good to stop a lunch. And then my mom
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  Speaker 2: will shame me in front of everyone. Say, oh, she
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  Speaker 2: is good with school, but she's very terrible at public speaking.
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  Speaker 2: She's terrible at this. So every time I say something
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  Speaker 2: positive in front of a group of people, I just
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  Speaker 2: have like this association.
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  Speaker 1: That's so interesting. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But then like, that's when, when I work with the coach,
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  Speaker 2: we realized maybe I'm just being very honest and it's
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  Speaker 2: not that I'm bad at it. Just, I didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to be there. So she pointed me to do Toastmasters.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the public speaking thing. I went there, I said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? I'm going to challenge myself. So every
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  Speaker 2: time they have this, uh, spontaneous improv, three minutes, uh,
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  Speaker 2: humorous speech. And I just go and I'm like, I
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  Speaker 2: won every time. And I look at around like a
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  Speaker 2: room full of native speakers. I'm just like barely English.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm still struggling with some of the English,
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  Speaker 2: but I just, yeah. So it was okay. Maybe there
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  Speaker 2: is something. Um, so one year I made a new
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  Speaker 2: year's resolution, you know, this year, I just want to try,
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  Speaker 2: go to open mic, just try comedy. And because, I
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  Speaker 2: told people, and they said, oh, you should take this class.
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  Speaker 2: So one thing leads to another. I took the class.
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  Speaker 2: I had a great set. People said, you should keep
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  Speaker 2: on doing this. And they got me into festivals. And
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  Speaker 2: here we are. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's all from not... what was not wanting to give
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  Speaker 1: compliments or to do these jokes.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, I was just like, I was terrible at
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  Speaker 2: giving compliments. And then like Chinese people, we also are
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  Speaker 2: bad at receiving compliments. Every time people compliment something like
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  Speaker 2: the old me, The old me, if you say, Bernice,
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  Speaker 2: you have nice style.
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  Speaker 2: This is cheap stuff.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I will be like this. That's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: And then that's how we started our conversation. I was
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  Speaker 1: just like, I'm so excited to talk to you because
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  Speaker 1: your style is so great. And you love fun earrings
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  Speaker 1: like I do.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why I made a point to myself. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when people compliment you, just own it and say thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like that's also like a very female trait.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like you don't want to be seen
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  Speaker 1: as like conceited or anything. So just be like, oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Like this old thing. Like, no. And things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. So I think comedy does force me to
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  Speaker 2: work on my person. You know, I cannot dodge like
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  Speaker 2: working in tech. it's so easy to just avoid some
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  Speaker 2: of the personal growth, like deep down, but a comedy,
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  Speaker 2: you just have to face it naked.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. That's really interesting. One of the interviews that I read,
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  Speaker 1: like in researching for this podcast, you, you shared this
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  Speaker 1: interesting story. I think it was from like a showcase
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  Speaker 1: that you had done at a club. Like you'd had
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  Speaker 1: a really good set before, and then you had one
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  Speaker 1: that didn't go as well. And I love, like you
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  Speaker 1: talked about in this interview that it was like a
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  Speaker 1: time of like reflection and like self-improvement and like thinking
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  Speaker 1: about your perspective. I feel like not a lot of, comics,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they'd be like, let's blame the audience or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they don't get me, but I, do you
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  Speaker 1: know which interview I'm talking about or which showcase? I
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  Speaker 1: think it was like Nate Jackson. Does that sound right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that showcase is not only just self-improvement, personal
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  Speaker 2: growth it got me to believe in god.
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  Speaker 1: A bad set helped you find god and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah oh my god i just i don't know
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  Speaker 2: what to do i have to pray and then i
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  Speaker 2: made a promise you know if i if i kill
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  Speaker 2: then i will go to church and because i'm chinese
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  Speaker 2: i'm superstitious and i killed And so I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I told my husband and like, find me a church.
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  Speaker 2: I have to go. I don't care which one, just
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  Speaker 2: find me one that's not crazy. Like I need to
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  Speaker 2: go to church.
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  Speaker 1: That's so interesting. I loved hearing that because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of comics, it's very easy to have a
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  Speaker 1: really bad set and just be like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they don't get me. They don't understand my artistic genius
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. And in reading that article, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's so interesting that you were just like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: had gone from like, probably I'm in air quotes, like
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  Speaker 1: beginner's luck, like, wow, this is my thing. And then like,
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  Speaker 1: Oh wait, this actually is harder than I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be, but taking it as an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to like, okay, what, how do I do this really well? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what is this? Like the result, like resilience. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think the more I do it, the
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  Speaker 2: more I feel like what a privilege because I Think
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  Speaker 2: about it right now. People's attention is so short. Like
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  Speaker 2: we're always on our cell phone. And then like, even,
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  Speaker 2: even you put a video on social media, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't grab people for the first three seconds,
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  Speaker 2: people just throw scroll away. And what a privilege to
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  Speaker 2: have people come out and see you. They see you
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  Speaker 2: for 20 minutes. I interrupted the attention an hour. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: That's like, I just cannot blame that to the audience.
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  Speaker 2: They come out. And it's up for me to bring
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  Speaker 2: joy for them. And time is hard, you know? And
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  Speaker 2: so like all these people come out and they deserve
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  Speaker 2: joy and deserve break. And here, I'm here customer service,
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  Speaker 2: you know?
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Was your family supportive? Like, what was
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  Speaker 1: it like? Cause I, in reading a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: about your background, I saw you have a master's degree
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  Speaker 1: in computer science.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Brag um when you were like hey family I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do uh some stand-up comedy what were they like girl
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  Speaker 1: you lost your damn mind like what was the response
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  Speaker 1: to that I.
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  Speaker 2: Know it's so crazy I think the okay is it
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  Speaker 2: it's actually good they are in China so like for
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  Speaker 2: example I think I broke their heart first when I
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  Speaker 2: left Microsoft to a startup because for people in China
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  Speaker 2: like Microsoft Like parents, like they were like, that's the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate brag. Everybody knows about Microsoft, right? It's all my,
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  Speaker 2: my daughter works here. You know, I also went to
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  Speaker 2: Peking University, which is a Harvard of China. So like
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  Speaker 2: they have been just being able to brag. And when
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  Speaker 2: I went to a startup, that's when I broke their heart.
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  Speaker 2: They were like, what? What is this company?
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  Speaker 1: What are you going to do?
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  Speaker 2: And so then I think it just, I started to
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  Speaker 2: go downhill from there. I went to another startup and then,
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  Speaker 2: but then I went to Hulu, but they don't know
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  Speaker 2: about Hulu, you know, even though it's a legit job.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, what is Hulu? Hulu.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure everybody was like, you got a job
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  Speaker 1: at Hulu?
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So they were not impressed with Hulu. And that's really
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  Speaker 2: who translate to Chinese is a Hulu is basically a gout.
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  Speaker 2: It's a squash squash company. So but then when I
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  Speaker 2: quit for stand up, I think there's two things. My
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  Speaker 2: parents are actually when I when I talking my jokes
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  Speaker 2: and that they are very progressive, they are actually very progressive.
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  Speaker 2: And through my life, they have supported me with many
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  Speaker 2: unconventional decisions. And so when I tell them with confidence
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  Speaker 2: and certainty, it's like, I'm going to do this and
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  Speaker 2: I know it's right. They have learned to trust me
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  Speaker 2: because it had always worked out no matter how controversial
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  Speaker 2: it is. For example, I quit high school right before
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  Speaker 2: my college entrance exam, but I got into the best university.
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  Speaker 2: So like they have gone through some crazy shit with me.
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  Speaker 2: That's number one. But second is like, now my parents
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  Speaker 2: are actually very supportive with my comedy. Um, also because
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  Speaker 2: standup comedy is a hot in China now is crazy
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  Speaker 2: because it's new. There's like not much going on before
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  Speaker 2: we don't even know about this. And all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden they start to have like, um, Okay, this is interesting, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because if everybody start about the same time, it's new everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to have more than five years more experience
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  Speaker 2: than you. Everybody have maybe two years in, three years in,
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  Speaker 2: but there's TV opportunities. And so all these parents or
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  Speaker 2: grandparents see, oh, their kids have like valid, legit career
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  Speaker 2: path doing comedy. being on TV, getting brand sponsorship, making
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  Speaker 2: real money. So when I go to China, whenever I
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  Speaker 2: tell people I do stand-up comedy, people, oh, that is
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  Speaker 2: so cool. And people pay money to see comedy. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: that crazy? Like they pay money to see open mic.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, wow, I'm in the wrong country.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that funny that there are places, I know I
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  Speaker 1: briefly lived in Chicago and there was an open mic
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  Speaker 1: that I think people would pay to go to. And
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  Speaker 1: then it was regular people, not just comics that would
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  Speaker 1: show up. And I was like, wait, you guys enjoy this?
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  Speaker 1: This is like torture. Uncharted material, untested. And they're like, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is so fun. We just came to laugh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's when I started in Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: there are Plenty of open mics. All the open mics
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  Speaker 2: I went to, they have real audience, but there are
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  Speaker 2: also plenty of them that audience actually pay to see it.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes I get paid being on the open mic. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Put that word out. We need more of that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: That's a rare find. So you started in Seattle?
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  Speaker 2: I started in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: And then moved out to Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I moved here three years ago. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And what differences or what things did you notice maybe
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  Speaker 1: from crowds or from other comics? What were some big
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  Speaker 1: surprises to you in moving to LA?
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  Speaker 2: I would say, let me talk about the difference first.
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  Speaker 2: The difference, because I think in Seattle, the community is
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  Speaker 2: a lot smaller. And I feel like people probably hold
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  Speaker 2: a certain criteria or more judgmental. For example, if you
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  Speaker 2: bomb at a mic, then people say, oh, she's not funny.
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  Speaker 2: But in LA, when you bomb at a mic, people
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  Speaker 2: will say, oh, you're probably trying something new. Like you
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  Speaker 2: can do a lot of more crazy, experimental, creative stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And people will just say, they're less judgmental about it.
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  Speaker 2: They have more open mind because I think everyone here
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  Speaker 2: is always trying to push the boundary, take bigger risks.
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  Speaker 2: And so we understand what the grind is like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we understand if you always doing the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: you're playing too safe, right? So I feel like this
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  Speaker 2: is a place, the playground is bigger. You are constantly
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  Speaker 2: being inspired by the best of the world and you
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  Speaker 2: are constantly humbled by how far away you are from them.
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  Speaker 2: And so we just see this wild range and I
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  Speaker 2: challenge myself more. For example, before I moved to LA,
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  Speaker 2: I never thought about I would do any rap, like
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  Speaker 2: comedy rap. If I do that, people probably in Seattle
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  Speaker 2: will laugh at me. Oh my God, cringe. What is
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  Speaker 2: this thing? You know, but because now I say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: why not? And I'm able to meet talents that everybody
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  Speaker 2: are multi-talented. You know, I met... a friend in my
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  Speaker 2: acting class who is also a rapper. And then when
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  Speaker 2: I share my goal, then my friend Cole, Cole Connor,
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  Speaker 2: he said, maybe I can help you. That's when we
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: start to collaborate and open the floodgate of me start rapping.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: And that's the, they're a comic as well. Is that right?
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Cole? Oh, he's not even a comic. Yeah. Cole is
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: an actor. We met in acting class and he's a rapper.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And that's who you, you guys collaborated on the Asian
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: chicken salad. Is that right? Can you talk about that
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: a little bit? If for anybody who hasn't seen it,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: hopefully they'll check it out after this podcast, but can
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: you talk a little bit about that video? Cause it
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: is so much fun.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. Thank you. Yeah. The Asian chicken salad.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: It actually all started. It's true story. Cause during COVID
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I moved to rural Washington and then my neighbors, they're,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Very nice. But then they, you know, like literally on
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: this island, probably there's like 20 Asian people, you know?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And so they they invite me to a potluck, a
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: neighborhood potluck. And they assigned me an Asian chicken salad. Yeah.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: So so this is a pretty crazy story. I start
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: to tell stand up, stand up a bit. And wherever
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I go, people love this joke. So it become one
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: of the best hits and, um, it's universal. So I
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: tell it a lot to a point at some point,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I'm just tired. I'm tired of the jokes.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Um, yeah.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And I think also I'm like earlier in my comedy
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: career that, um, I haven't like, I'm just at a
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: point that when you tell a joke over and over again,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: you just get really tired. So one day when I
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: was just traveling on a road trip, um, Michael Moore's
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: downtown is a plane. There's a beat. I start dancing.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: And I just start to tell my jokes to the bit.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: And I was like, Asian chicken salad. And then I
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: was like, why can't I just rap to it? That
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: would be so fun. I record a video I sent
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: to my friends and they were like, Bernice, this does
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: not look good. So I kind of just shelved that idea,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: put it away. But when, like, I don't know, when
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: I moved to LA, when you're, again, New Year's resolution,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I was just sharing like New Year's goal with my
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: friends and Nicole was there, right? So we exchanged the
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: goals and I mentioned, I just want to kind of
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: dance and do music, add that to my comedy. And
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: that's how this whole idea come along. Yeah, so I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: turned a joke into the rap. And we also said, hey,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: we can shoot a music video. And we still didn't
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: have the resource, but I just start to tell people
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I love music. telling people my goal out loud because
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: sometimes universe sends you the right people to help you
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: implement that. Yeah. And one of my fan from Instagram,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: we became friends, but he's also a very talented, very creative,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: like videographer, DP director. So he helped me directed and
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: then also shoot and also edited Asian chicken salad music video.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's awesome. It looks like a legit music video.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you. And I'm assuming all of the clothing in
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: it is yours, right? All of the styling?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: The clothing, the styling, we also, I worked with a stylist,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the Chinese thing I rented from a Chinese photo studio
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: because they do those traditional shots and they do clothes rental.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Another clothes is my friend's who her husband had worked
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: with Beyonce's music video team.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: No biggie, yeah.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: No biggie, but they have like some of the clothes
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: that just like on the rack for Beyonce's dancers to choose.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: And then they used it and they just left on
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the rack. And then so she said, are there anything
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: you want to borrow? So I yeah so one of
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the outfit is is it from Beyonce's team rec okay.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: How about yeah see there's the universe for you yeah
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I've been watching it there's like a great fringe outfit
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and like some high boots and I was like she
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: probably didn't even need to like borrow this or get
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: like a costume person I was like these seem like
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: looks that are just right from her closet.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: That one, I also got lucky because after all this,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: my stylist and also the director said, you are missing
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: one outfit. I just want to have one more cool outfit.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't know. But then I
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: would just, the last, I mean, I think one week
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: before the shoot date, I was stopping by Adidas store
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: and this outfit was just on the rack is again,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: it's Ivy park. So Beyonce, thank you. It just showed
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: up at the right time. And I grabbed it.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Friend of the pod. Beyonce, if you're listening, which I
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: know you are. Thank you. Putting that out to the universe. Come,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: come visit. Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: So you also show off your high kicks in the video,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: some impressive high kicks, which we know is your background
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: in martial arts. But I also have learned that you're
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: like a trained dancer. You do ballroom dance?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Argentine tango. Slightly different than the ballroom style tango because
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: it's more intimate and more social. Yeah, I think because
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: growing up, I was actually not allowed to dance because
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I was considered a fat baby. I was like fat,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: like by Chinese standard, you know, there's chubby. So even
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: though I like to dance, teachers and my parents were like, yeah,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: you're not dancing material. Just focus on your study. So
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I was always a pretty, yeah.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: So when I got a chance later in America, I
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: just like, you know, when I can dance, I want
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: to dance. I was introduced to hip hop, jazz, and
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: then eventually I fell in love with Argentine tango. So
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I stick with that for like seven years. Yeah.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Are there any dance styles that are, that you're interested
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to learn? Like any, anything to add in your free time,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you know, in between getting your black belt and. doing tango.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: No, I wish I wish I can have more time.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: That is one thing I want. I think at this point,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: probably for me is less about training, but more just
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: getting back to dancing, literally any kind, you know, just
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: to embrace. Like, I think dancing, I like any but
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: to be honest, like Argentine tango is a very snobbish dance.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Is that the one that goes up in the air?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Because it takes a long time. It takes a
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: long time to become good. And so people very peak
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: with a very picky about who they dance to. There's
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of dynamic and politics in Argentine tango. Um,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: so in a way I love it. I love it
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: so much. And the people in it are also nice,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: but sometimes it's hard for me to bring in my
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: husband who doesn't dance to enjoying it with me. So, um,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: salsa salsa is something that i probably want to learn
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: more because i need to jump in dance so meet
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: more friends and then you know i think it's a
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: little bit more friendly to beginners so then i can
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: also hang out with my friends um yeah i.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Love it and i feel like if it's anything like
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: all of your other talents you'll be a pro at it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Well yeah we'll see I think it just like I
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: got inspired by doing things that's not comedy that helped
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: me to step off the box a little bit to
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: yeah yeah.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I think that's important I feel like a lot of
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: people once they start doing comedy it's like that's the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: whole personality that's all of it and it's like you
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: gotta remember all of the things that you did you
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: know that's where your stories are and that's where like
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the weird interactions happen and you know, awkward encounters and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: all kinds of interesting things happen, you know, when you're
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: taking whatever, you know, ballroom classes or dance classes.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I also noticed that, you know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: lately I've been thinking about that period of my life
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: of dancing. I was traveling all over the world. Like
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I went to so many different cities in America and
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: different countries, dancing tango, interact with different people. I actually
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: want to write more about my experience from that period too.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I hope we'll get to read some of that writing
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: or hear about it on stage, or maybe it'll be
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: another music video.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I think we're ready to move to our trivia portion,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: our good to know. How are you feeling for trivia?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I am horrible with trivia. I'm usually the worst with
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: trivia because I didn't grow up here. So with some
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: of the common knowledge, I'm pretty bad. But let's go.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Let's see.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I like it. I like that you're like, I am
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: not sure. I think you got some tough questions anyway.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: And I just want to say I did not write
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: these questions. So we can talk shit about these questions
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: too if that works better for you. Some of these,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I read through these and I was like, I don't
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: know the answer to some of these. And I had
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: to check to make sure that it was the right answer.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: So the first one, how many Oscars has Martin Scorsese won?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: That was basically my answer.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I was like, um.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: We don't even have to choose. It would just come
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: up with a number.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I'll throw out, has he won... Um, five Oscars, two
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Oscars or one Oscar?
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Five.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: It's actually one.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Poor guy.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: He's probably doing pretty well.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: He's doing really well. But then like, I was like,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: why is it only one, one? Because like, did you
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: watch the studio where they may have, um, the one
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: that they canceled his last, um, uh the the tv
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: show the studio okay and he was in it but
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: not to put any spoilers but it's the one of
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the funniest thing is the studio had bought his script
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: which is supposed to be his last script and just
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to cancel it and so he was crying so now
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: when when the moment i hear that he won one
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: oscar and i was like I just have that crying
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: face in my head.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I think Martin Scorsese is probably doing fine. I'm sure
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: he's having a good day.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: He is, he is, he is.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Despite not having five Oscars. Second question. Name one of
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the three lines of defense in our immune system. Wait, wait, wait.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, repeat the question.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: It's kind of worded in a strange way. One of
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the three lines of defense in the immune system.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Like something like skin? Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, that, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: And then saliva?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Saliva? No, I feel like that's a good guess, though.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: The other answers listed here are white blood cells and antibodies.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Yes. You didn't know you were going to be.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I didn't know I'm going to test on my biology.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: When I interviewed, when I did a podcast for this
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: show and did my trivia, I was so nervous because Carlos,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: one of the hosts, he was like talking me up
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and all this. And he's like, all right, let's get
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: down to it. And I was like, oh, no, I
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: haven't been in school in so long.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I feel like number three, you got this one. Where
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: is Machu Picchu located?
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, Peru.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: You know, when people say you should get this one,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: then there's a lot of pressure. And then also it's like,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: I know Machu Picchu, but like... Why this sounds like
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: a Pokemon, you know? It sounds like a Pokemon name.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: So my brain is like, oh, okay, okay, okay.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I feel like maybe I jinx people when I say like,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: you got this one, it's easy. And then they're like,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: oh no, panic.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Oh no.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Are you a fan of the Muppets? Do you know
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the Muppets?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I know them. I have not really watched them, but
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: every time I see them, Because sometimes I will see
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: people in comedy refer to it. Okay. Yeah. Or see
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: a snippet of it. Then I like it. They're super cute.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: I have a friend who does Linquid. You know the
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: one they can talk without they move their mouth? Oh, yeah.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Tranquist.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tranquist. They have one. I think my
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: friend's name is Zach Binder. And then so he has
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: a Muppet on stage with him.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I think Zach performed at Big Pine.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Big Pine Comedy Festival and Mic Drop Comedy. I'm pretty
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: sure I saw that comic. And they had like a
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: really cute little puppet with them.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: It was very sweet.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Am I talking about the rising? Yeah.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I bring up the Muppets with no... segue because
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: question number four in the muppets which character plays the
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: piano and i can come up with um a multiple
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: choice if that would be.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Helpful for you okay yes please is it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Animal ralph the dog or fozzie bear.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: The first one.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Which one did i say animal animal you said first
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: unfortunately is not animal it is ralph the dog.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Oh my god why do you have to play piano.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't write the questions um i think i am
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: part muppet so i apologize on on behalf of my
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: muppet people but um okay now we're getting into some
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: slight i was gonna say math not quite What temperature
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: does water freeze at?
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Okay. Are we talking about the Celsius or Fahrenheit?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Whichever conversion rate you like.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, Celsius is zero. That's right. Fahrenheit is 32, right?
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I feel like that should be a bonus point because
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: she did it in Celsius and Fahrenheit. I don't, again,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I just read the questions. I don't handle the scoring.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: I never say no to more points.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that should be a bonus point.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: That's extra credit. All right, this next one. Have you
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: seen the movie Fight Club? Mm-hmm. Okay, what is Edward
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Norton's character's name in Fight Club?
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Shoot. If you do Money for Choice, I will be
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: able to do it.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Nick, do you have any... Oh, I can do this. Okay,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: so is it A, Mr. Norton, B, the commentator, C,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: the narrator?
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: What? What?
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: What?
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, what? Really?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Or D, Jack Sparrow.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's not D. That's good.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna say really?
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Did I.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Even? Okay, I'm just gonna put A but I feel
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: like I got it wrong.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, A is incorrect. It would be C, the narrator.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I was reading these over and I was like, is
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: that right? I thought it was Tyler Durden. That's the
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: other character. I thought he also, spoiler for anyone who
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: hasn't seen the movie Fight Club, from what year did that?
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: 1997? Yeah.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: When I was reading through these, I was like, oh,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: do I know any of these? And I was like, narrator?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe I should look into that. Well, We can all
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: watch Fight Club together and we can fact check this.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: All right. How about this one? What is the capital
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: of California?
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Is it A, Los Angeles, B, Sacramento, or C, Santa Cruz?
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: What? What? I saw there's none of this.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Or D, none of the above.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: No, too late, too late.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: What?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I know it's not LA. It's not LA.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people in LA might think it is the capital,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: but it is not. Okay, so we've eliminated Los Angeles. Good.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: So then are you thinking Sacramento or Santa Cruz?
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. I mean... I don't know the place. Is
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: it the capital? What?
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: What?
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to guess Sacramento.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Ding, ding, ding, ding.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: That was good.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I can't believe I've been to Sacramento.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: It does not look like a capital. You know what?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I would agree. I also
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: underwhelmed when I got there, but that's true. Santa Cruz
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: would be the place where I went to college at
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: UC Santa Cruz. So shout out to the banana slugs.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: All right. Are you a hip hop fan by any chance?
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I know you're a good rapper.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I love hip hop. Yeah.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Are you a fan of outcast by any chance?
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Outcast? Not as a familiar.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, so this next question, number eight, is about the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: group Outkast. What was the name of Outkast's first album?
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: And I can come up with multiple choice for you
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: if you like.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I will need that. I will need.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Is it A, Spadiati Dopolicious, B, Musical Fang Tang, or C,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Southern Playalistic Cadillac Music?
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, this name sounds so fun. I'm going to check
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: out OutKast. I mean, shoot. Obviously, I don't know. But
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I feel like the first one already got me. I
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: like that name. I'm just going to choose that one.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Adi Adi Dopealicious?
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, that is not the correct answer. It is some
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: stylistic Cadillac music.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: That was good, too. That one was good.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: But Spotty Adi Dopealicious is a song on one of
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: their albums. I don't know if it's that one, but
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: you can check it out.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I have to. check them out their names so all
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: this their song names or album name are all theirs
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: so Outkast is Big Boy and Andre 3000 I would
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: pretty much guarantee you have heard.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Some Outkast at some point they've got some good stuff
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: and they also are very stylish like yourself so I
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: feel like you would be Yeah. Oh, I have to.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay. Thank you so much for the recommendation.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Um, this next one is a sports question. Are you
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: a sports fan at all?
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't call myself a sports fan, but if you
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: ask me anything, UFC, I can probably answer pretty good.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I'll put in a request for some UFC questions. Unfortunately,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: this one is basketball. Okay. For Carlos to add some, uh,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: UFC questions. Um, How many championships does Michael Jordan have?
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Is it A, 5, B, 6, or C, 2?
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: I thought it was 5.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Final answer?
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: No pressure. I know it's not 2. It's just between
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: 5 and 6. But I'm going to put it for 5.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: The correct answer is six.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: So close.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is very close. I know they did a
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: three-peat when he was with the Bulls. And after that,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like I should know this
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: as a basketball fan from the 90s, but. Again, that'll
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: be homework for us.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: We have a lot of homework. I didn't watch the thing.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: What is the documentary? The one that came out, everybody,
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: The Last Dance. They didn't watch it now.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: That was so good.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: But I forgot the numbers.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Oh. Sorry, Michael Jordan. I think he's a fan of
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the podcast too. Sorry about that. We, uh, we're a
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: new podcast, but we have huge celebrity following like Beyonce
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: and Michael Jordan, not to brag, but, um, your final
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: question for trivia in the movie back to the future.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: What year did Marty McFly go to? You got some
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: tough questions. Carlos was not messing around.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: I needed multiple choices. All right.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Was it, it's funny because we were referencing Back to
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the Future before this. Was it 1953, 1955, or 1957?
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: What?
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Back to the Future? I mean, Back to the Future?
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: That's the future? Oh, what?
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: What? Oh, I thought it will be 2000 or something.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: So it sounds like this is also going to be
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: part of your homework is to watch Back to the
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Future before you come and listen to Chandler. Is that right?
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Have you seen this movie? I, you know, it's weird
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: because I feel like I'm, so in China, sometimes on TV,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: they will have like American movies, like snippet of it,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: but because you never know when it starts and they all,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: very random. So you'll get a little bit of it.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: There's no context, you don't catch the beginning. And so
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: you can you I remember some imagery, but I don't
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: remember the plots. So like it just random stuff coming
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: at me.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I can Yeah.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. 57, 58, 1959. Is that the three options? 53,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: 55 or 57?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I think it's at least worth a rewatch. There's definitely
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: some of it that doesn't go so well as most
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: movies from the 80s, but overall, it's a classic.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: That one is a classic. Yeah. 55, that's my guess. 55.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: We got another one.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Good job. Lucky is a lady today.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: You got six out of did i do well i
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: gave her a bonus point because she okay good i
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: was like yeah no i think that's worth a bonus
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: point okay so you.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Got thank god you gave me that bonus point so
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: i feel like.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: You just earned a bonus point for that that was
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: pretty good um well that wrap that concludes good to
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: know you survived You made it through the trivia section.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Do you have any feedback for our trivia question writer
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: besides the more UFC related questions?
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I could have written a list of topics I'm really
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: good at ahead of time.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Do you want to drop some trivia? What would somebody
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: be surprised to know that you were well-versed in? I
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: know you're a big UFC fan.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. That's a surprise to people. I
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: am also, I know a lot of very random animal
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: facts and historical facts. Yeah, very random stuff, like how
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: oysters have sex and stuff.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Okay. Do you want to share that before we move
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: to our final section?
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, here's some biology for you guys, okay? The oyster,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: they just shoot the things in the water, and then
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: the next oyster, they catch it, and they get pregnant.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: And then.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: It's very momentous.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: But also, that's why I learned it the hard way.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: During the month of August and July, that's when oysters
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: are spawning. They spawn. And then so they taste horrible. Yeah,
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: because there's a lot of gooey stuff inside the oyster.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: And so that's why they say only eat oyster in
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: the month with an R. Spawning oysters are disgusting. Don't
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: eat them. Okay.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: That was more than I, than I bargained for. I
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: don't think I'd like put a lot of thought into
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: how oysters have sex, but I guess that's, I feel
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: like I've learned something and anyone who listened to this
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: podcast learned, learned a lot as well.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Well, we're in our.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Gotta go section and that means it's, it's almost time
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: to go. It's been so much fun talking with you.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: We're very excited that you're coming to see us at
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Mic Drop in Chandler on February 28th, which is Saturday
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: at 7 p.m. And for anybody that's listening to this
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: and is like sitting on the couch dragging ass and
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: they're like, I don't know if I want to leave
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: the house. Do you have any like words of encouragement
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: to get them off their butt and to the show?
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: What can they expect? Mm hmm.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: OK, so.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: All right, guys.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Um, I know you might have seen some of my
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: standup on social media. Okay. But I just want to
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: let you know, I save a lot of stuff that
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: I don't, I want to save it for the live audience.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: So there are surprises and, and I do stand up.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: I do comedy rap and, um, I am somebody you've
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: never seen before, but ultimately it's about good vibes. And
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: if you get anything from this podcast, it's like, it's
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: fun to hang out with me. So start your new year,
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Chinese year of the fire horse with this energy, then
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: you will be in good luck all year around.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Yes. I love that. We all need some good luck.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I think that's a great way to send us off.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Is there anything you want to plug besides the show?
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: I know you're also going to mic drop in San Diego.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, San Diego, February 26th. Well, this is my first
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: time headlining the mic drop. I'm so excited because I
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: met Hilary, the owner, back in 2018 when I first
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: started doing comedy at the San Diego Comedy Festival. And
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: they are so kind. And it's really cool for me
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: to see female-owned comedy clubs and just have a different
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: vibe and just so supportive. I'm so excited. But in
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: the meanwhile, I will say San Diego is a market
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: like I haven't played that much before. So guys, come
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: out if you can. Check it. Give me a chance.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: Just give this girl a chance. Let me convert you.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: You'll have a great night. You will laugh your butt off.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: You'll see some rapping. You'll be laughing. You'll forget all
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: of your troubles. Bernice, it's been so fun talking with you.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited for your show. We'll see you on
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: February 28th.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Yay.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: We'll see everybody next week. Thanks, guys.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: I'm scary.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Bye.