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ONLY BOMBS! 37: Yaqiao Yang | Just Me, My Drive and My Spirit · Only Bombs! Comedy Podcast

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Until last year, 2025, still very poor, sleeping
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on people's couches and cars, trying to make
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$5 sometimes. You know, sometimes you have a
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period of time where you're just resting and
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thinking, and some period of time you're working.
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The vision I have for myself, that's the drive.
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You have a good support system that helps you
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out with your comedy. I don't have any support
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system, just me and my drive. Spirit. Well, uh,
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welcome to Only Bombs. Oh, thank you for having
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me. It's going to be amazing. It's great. Yeah.
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I took an hour to dress up, put on makeup and
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stuff. Yeah, me too. I can see that. Right, right.
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Yeah. No, I try to get all the dog hair off.
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Oh, yeah. I need a sticker. What is it called?
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Right, like one of those little rollers, like
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lint rollers. Oh, rollers, that's what they're
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called. Yeah. I'm still learning English. Oh,
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really? Sure. How long have you been in America?
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Since 2012. So that's 14 years, over 14 years
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now. Oh, nice. Yeah. Nice. And you came from
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China, huh? Yeah, all the way from China. 13
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hours of flight. Oh, wow. What part of China
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did you come from? From the south, it's called
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Hunan province. Okay. They're known for spicy
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food, mostly. Really? Peppers, we did a lot of
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peppers, marinated peppers. We put peppers in
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every dish, basically. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah.
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That's awesome. Spicy. When you got here, did
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you notice like a vast difference in our food?
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Our food here is more... the material itself.
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Gotcha. I actually liked it. When I first went
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to the campus, I eat campus food. I liked it
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because we put too much spices in our food. Okay,
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so you want something more mild. Yeah. A lot
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of the people who came with to the same school,
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they're complaining, I can't stand American food.
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I was like, I like this. Yeah. Actually, I've
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been to Hong Kong. before. I barely remember
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it, but I remember it was pretty, it was pretty
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interesting, like just kind of like actually
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having the food. And then we had a pizza for
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some reason, we went and got pizza, you know,
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but I remember thinking, I was like, man, this
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doesn't taste like our food. It was ridiculous.
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But what was that? What was like the biggest
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like culture shock coming over here? Biggest
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culture shock? Everybody's like, say hello. When
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they don't even know you, like small talk. We
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don't do small talks. You don't do small talks?
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Yeah, we don't do small talks. How do people
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normally converse over there? If they know you,
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they say hi. Like if we go to a supermarket and
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we check out, people just like, like, like, show
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me the car. Okay, this. They don't like barely,
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we just started to say thank you now. We're just
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adopting the... the politeness of the Western
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culture now, because we say thank you. Usually
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we don't greet. We don't say that. Is there any
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particular reason why? It's just not in our culture.
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It's just not in the culture? Yeah. Oh, wow.
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Have you ever been to any other countries aside
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from the US? I stopped by Korea transferring
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to here. I liked Korea a lot. I bought some makeup,
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so I'll definitely go back to there. Oh, yeah.
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Makeup and how they do skin treatment and how
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they, you know, all those Asian treatment good
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stuff. Skin treatments? Oh, their food. I like
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their barley tea, their barley soup one time.
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I had like a barley soup something. It was so
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good in Korean town in LA. Oh, wow. Yeah, I've
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never been on LA before. Oh. What did you think
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of it? It has great food. Yeah. Amazing food.
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A lot of people are there. They can, I don't
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know, just a mixture of immigration, immigrants
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and older people and rich and the poor. It's
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very diverse. And I think the wealth distribution
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is very off there too. The wealthy, the poor,
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the new people. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's like pretty
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heavily segregated. I've never really been like
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out there. Financially segregated. financially.
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Oh, sorry. Yeah, let's see what I did there.
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But they think they're not. They think they're
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the most liberal, most accepting city. Yeah.
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State ever. Oh, okay. They think Florida is shit.
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They think Florida is dumb, but when you go to
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Florida, it's actually so clean. They're like,
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I would never go to Florida. You guys all have
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guns and they're shooting you. You don't even
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know. You don't know how much worse it could
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be. So much cleaner than most states. Yeah. I've
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never, I've never been to LA. It just doesn't
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really like kind of appeal to me. And I don't
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know. I don't, I don't, I don't fancy that culture
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too much. Yeah. Well, what is it about it that
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you're like, no, it's very hard for beginners.
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It's very pricey to survive there. It's, it's
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hard to get around because it's hilly. You have
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to drive. The public transportation is not the
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best. Uh, things are still far away. traffic's
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still bad, people still drive, I think people
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drive worse in California than Florida, in my
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opinion. Oh yeah? Yeah. When you came from China,
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did you just go to LA? No, no. I only visited
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LA a few times for shows and tourist stuff. I
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went to Maryland for school first and then transferred
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to University of South Florida in Tampa. Oh,
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okay. Spent some time there. That's awesome.
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What did you study? Did you do something towards
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theater or performing arts or anything? I always
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want to perform. I studied some music in high
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school. In college, I didn't really care about
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pursuing what I want. I studied a bit of everything,
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just trying to finish the degree, but I ended
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up not finishing the degree because it's hard
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to work and study and pay for. your own stuff.
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But also I don't want to take loans, so I don't
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have student loans. So yeah, I just didn't really
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pursue anything academically. Yeah, I feel that.
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I didn't really either. I ended up going like,
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you know, I just became like a firefighter, just
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joined the military and, you know, things like
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that because academically it was kind of difficult
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for me. Like, I just, I don't know. Every time
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I tried to sit down, I was like, totally out
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there. all the time I never could focus on like
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subjects and stuff so but uh you came out here
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like you were uh like were you an adult right
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like 20 20 right so you just like did you have
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this idea that you can't you were going to come
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here and do stand -up or no I didn't think about
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doing stand -up until 2020 2024 like become actually
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do stand -up. Like I didn't open mics 2023, 2022,
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but I didn't think about doing stand -up as a
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profession at all. What prompted you to even
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do it in the first place? I did it because I
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was always a music performer. I like being on
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stage. I enjoy the attention on stage. I enjoy
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the energy on stage. I think I watched a few
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people doing mics. And I'd always like watching
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it, but I thought, oh, I went to a show. I actually
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watched improv. It's not stand up. It's not,
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um, we do the kind of stuff. It just like a theater
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improv. And I thought it's not funny at all.
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I was like, what are you doing? Like, why are
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people laughing? So I did open mic next day telling
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some stories, but it wasn't even a fully stand
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up form, but I just, yeah, I just did it just
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because having fun. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you
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mean by the improv thing. I didn't really understand
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it either. I don't. And people were laughing
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like crazy, like what? Yeah, what are you laughing
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at? They're being goofy. My brother actually
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ended up doing improv, and that's what he does
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now. Oh. He does like improv and improv comedy.
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Oh, okay. And it took a while for me to understand
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it. I still don't, but there's a whole culture
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of just people who just enjoy improv comedy.
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It's nuts. You're a performer and then you decide,
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okay, I'm just going to try this stand -up thing.
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Were you a fan of comedy and stand -up before?
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I've always watched roasting shows. I like roasting
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shows most in China. When I was in China, I watched
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roast shows. And when I, um, I guess more of
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a doll, I started watch standup clips on my phone.
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And then, yeah, I like, uh, I watched two and
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a half, like, no, I watched two and a half a
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man and the big band theory. For some reason,
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like I liked that kind of like demeanor of being
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funny. So I guess I picked up a lot of that.
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Uh, but no, yeah, I didn't think about, I think
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I just. doing mics and started to get invited
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to shows and people wanted me to do more and
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then said, okay, I started to make money. I said,
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okay, I just do more. Just get pushed to it almost.
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Yeah. Do you like that almost goofy slapstick
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humor in a way? People say it's dry humor I'm
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still trying to understand what it's dry humor
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like what is it's like is there a wet humor like
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you know I don't really understand when people
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call my humor dry humor I guess I just I kind
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of I don't know if I learned it by watching I
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just kind of know how to make people laugh almost
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so I guess okay This is kind of easy for me,
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so I'll do this instead of doing other jobs that
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doesn't make money Were you always like that?
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Like even growing up, were you always making
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people laugh? No, I never tried to make people
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laugh. No? But when I played Apples to Apples
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in America, I was so good at it. But just no
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reason. I know how to make people laugh, I guess.
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But I never practiced it. This might be a weird
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question, but what's Apples to Apples? It's a
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card games that you're supposed to like... Write
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down like they give you a topic and you supposed
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to write something like a answer. That's funny.
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Okay It's been so long since I've paid but I
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just know you make people laugh with it. Oh,
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okay Yeah, so just it was just kind of something
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that you're you've always been just good at huh?
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I guess yeah, I guess and know your impressions
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to apparently your your amazing Trump impression
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I do voice a lot. So I guess I do mimic other
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people I can learn to mimic People's mannerism.
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Oh, yeah. Do you have like an impression that
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like a go -to impression? If you always request
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Trump Trump gets old Yeah, and I feel like everybody
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everybody does Trump but would seen it come come
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from you I was like, that's really funny and
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very clever. Yeah, because when you surprise
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people is like, oh it's a shock I think I did
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Bernie Sanders, but people hated it because they're
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so liberal, they hate when people are like...
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What? They don't like Bernie Sanders? Mr. Tom.
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This country is ruined by billionaires. Like
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all the big workers, you know? This guy, this
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guy. Yeah, right? I like the ads too, like, Mr.
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Trump. Yeah. That's really awesome. What is something
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about, like, that you pick up in people that
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you're like, I could do that as an impression?
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I guess I can, like, sing in different tones,
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you know? I can mimic voice. To be funny, you
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gotta pick the right person, though. Like, it's
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gotta be very funny. a vaccine, talk about vaccine
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stuff because it's so bad for our kids. It's
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got to be like trendy, topicky to actually be
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funny. Yeah. Yeah. I used to do that a bunch
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when I was growing up too. Like just, you know,
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just making voices, just trying to like make
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people laugh and, you know, I, you know, that
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was kind of like. I was kind of a class clown.
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Oh, okay. And so I also like played music. I
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played guitar. I've been playing guitar for a
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while. Right, right. You know, when I did like
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my KilToni appearance, I played my guitar and
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everything. What about you? Like, what's your
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instrument? Yeah, I play a little bit guitar,
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but it's mostly just to accompany my singing.
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I know how to play loops. I had a looper like
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that a lot. But I'm not, I know a few chords,
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but I'm not like very good on guitar. I learned
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Guzheng is a Chinese instrument with 21 strings.
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But I don't even know that much anymore. But
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I think string instruments is the easiest for
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me. I can play it. I know how to read and write
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music. But I'm not too literate with everything.
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Was it something that interested you at all?
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No. I think I'm more, yeah, I prefer vocal. I
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like to listen to music. I like to hear people
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sing. I'm fan -sized by people's vocal capability.
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Yeah, usually I love watching those videos by
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people who just are great singers and stuff.
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People who are good dancers, you ever watch those?
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Oh, yeah. I have that all over my algorithms,
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just people just dancing all the time. People
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dancing, yeah. good energy. It's like, oh yeah,
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I watch, I watch ladies dance the most. Believe
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it or not, I watch mostly women. Yeah. But it's
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not in a sexual way. I just like how the aesthetic
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of it. Yeah. Even dancing moves or makeup. Yeah.
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They're different. They flow differently. You
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know, I know what you mean. Cause you'll see
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like, you'll see like just the way that women
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like kind of glide and like, and they're even
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men, like sometimes like when they dance, it's
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like they're because they're more rigid, but
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when they're like good dancers, it's like, it's
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insane. It's, you know, I never understand that,
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like how people just can dance good. I'm, you
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know, I'm not like that at all. Yeah, I don't
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know if I can dance. I think I understand how
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you will enjoy the movement of your body, but
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I don't know if I'll ever be good at any dance.
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Right, I know what you mean. I'm like, all right,
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cool, man. It'll take so much for me to get good
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at. Any dance. Too much. Yeah. Have you tried
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to actually do dances? I think I tried to copy
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one or two TikTok dance. I was like, oh, wow,
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this is actually super hard. I'm sweating and
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I didn't even do it right. Yeah. They had one
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time on my TikTok, they had this person who was
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doing a tutorial. He did the dance. It's like,
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all right, so you do your elbow like this. You
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do that. Yeah. stood up, tried it, and I just
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sat down, and I was like, just like, all right,
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cool. I'm like, yeah, no, I'm not, I am not dancing
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today, you know? Yeah, I'm saying, I'm like,
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super impressed by how they move their hips,
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like move like a wave, like how you, it looks
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easy, but it's actually very hard to do it right.
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Yeah, I can't, I don't move like that. I'm about
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as flexible as this table. But I'm jealous of
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people who can't do that. It looks so good. It
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just looks like, I don't like it. Right? Yeah,
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I'm jealous of that too. Sometimes I walk around
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with like a leotard just like us dance and I
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just. Maybe we can record something like we taking
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a modern dance class. We two dummies taking a
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modern dance class. Yeah, they'll probably kick
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me out day one and be like, you're a lost cause.
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Yeah, you just look funny. Yeah, that would be
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really funny. That would be funny. But, um, so
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just, you started stand -up in, uh, in Florida?
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Orlando did a few open mics. Orlando. For the
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first two years. And then, yeah, 2024, I moved
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to Tampa. And that year, 2024, I did a lot of
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stand -ups, a lot of practice. I almost go to
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open mic every night. That's where I actually
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start. Then started to do showcases. 2025, I
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did my first headline off the hook at, um, Naples,
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Florida. Oh, okay. That's my first ever did an
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hour practice prepared for an hour. No way. Yeah.
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How did you prepare for that? Just like all the
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jokes I have are lining up. I kind of know how
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to connect it and practice at home too, because
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I don't have a place. But I've done like 20,
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30 minutes in other places that they let me.
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It wasn't a tight hour or anything. It's just
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like, okay. I know how it is to be on stage to
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keep people's attention for an hour. Yeah. When
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you first started stand -up, when you just started
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just doing open mics and everything like that,
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what was going on in your head about how and
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what stand -up was? I have no idea how and what
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stand -up is. I'm still not a scholar. Some people
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are a scholar for stand -up. Some people are.
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And when they're two years, uh, four or five
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years old, they're like, I need to be a stand
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-up comedian. I watched Cat 11's were like 10
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days straight. So I'm not like that. I just go
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there for fun and I just talk about things that
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I thought is funny. I didn't study the form.
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I'm still trying to like for the first, the first
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year, I don't even know how to write like word
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to word, but which I'm starting to like trying
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to make each sentence connect, trying to make
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each word matter. I'm still on the way to becoming
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a real writer for that. Also, when you transitioning
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from doing open mics to showcases and your own
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show, your material changes too and still working
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on that also. Because comedians like different
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materials than normal people. Yeah. What was
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one of the biggest lessons that you learned about
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like joke writing in general. Joke writing? I
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don't really listen to other comedians just because
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I don't want to absorb their style. I think you
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subconsciously absorb their style. I don't want
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to create my own premises. I want everything
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come from my own life experiences. So many people
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try to offer me jokes. I was like, I live a different
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life than you. I can't really tell your jokes.
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I guess they're just trying to talk to me. I
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don't know. But yeah, I don't think it's a lesson
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to learn. I don't know. You just do more of it.
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The more you do, but also you kind of have to
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prep right. I would say prep right. Some people
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just go up like, I don't know, I just wing it.
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But I think put down word by word actually helps.
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I have a friend, he wrote for two years before
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he even did go up. do it, but he's very meticulous
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with each word he delivers. He delivers so good,
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you don't even know he only have done it for
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a few months. Yeah. Wow. The writing was, I think,
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a huge lesson for me. It still is because I'm
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still not like that in the just kind of having
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a stage presence. and everything, like sometimes
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I'll watch the videos and I'm just like, oh God,
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I'm like, I really wish that I was better at
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this and everything. Did you, did you kind of
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like, were you always sort of like a force when
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you got up there? Like, or did you have like,
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were you kind of timid in the beginning? I'm
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never timid. I guess it just, I test wrong, right?
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I record my joke. I think social media really
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helped. I record my joke and I post it so I know
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what works or not. If it goes viral, I know it
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works for a bigger audience. So that gives me
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a little confidence. Yeah, I think you just do
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more. To be that mature on stage with your posture,
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that just takes more stage time. There's nothing
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you can do with it. I look at me, like the New
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Year's Eve episode, I look at me and look at
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Rubber Schneider, wow, he's just so much more
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like confident, like sure about each move he
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makes like, I'm just not there. And it just takes
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time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm seeing like the,
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I guess, like the difference, like when you watch
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somebody who's extremely like polished and everything
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like that. You want that? Yeah. Yeah. Cause that's
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a. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. We'll make
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a cut there. No, it's okay. Yeah. When you watch
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somebody who's so seasoned and polished and they
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are confident in all of your movements, I can
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see where it pulls inspiration. But I also see
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what you're talking about when you say that you
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don't really watch other comedians because They're
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getting your subconscious. And I have like favorite
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comedians that I'll watch. And you're very right
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about that. You kind of sort of imagine yourself
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as them and everything. Was there a comedian
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that you watched, that you kind of imagined yourself?
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You're like, yeah, this is, I want to be, if
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I was going to be like anybody, I was going to
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be like them. No, I don't think so. I like Joan
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Rivers a lot. Joan Rivers? Yeah. I like the boldness,
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the honesty. I like her approach to things. I'm
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not trying to be how she acts on stage, but I
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like the personality in it. Yeah, she's quick.
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She's quick. I think she did this thing with
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Johnny Carson, I think. I think she said one
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of my favorite jokes. She said that when she
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was younger, her bath toys were a hairdryer and
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a toaster. She's just so good. You like the sharp
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quick -witted people. Sharp, quick -witted. Yeah.
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That's how I feel that your comedy is. Especially
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seeing you won't kill Tony and everything like
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that, you're always like, It seemed like you
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got up there and you sort of ran shit. Did you
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think that that's how it was going to go at all?
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I did an hour before New Year's Eve on the 30s.
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I did an hour at Shakespeare's. Matt Revere let
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me do my own headline. Oh, nice. So I practiced
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in front of the 30 people and more. So you were
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ready to go. So I was really, like, it makes
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a difference. Even that week, how many times
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you went on stage, it shows. Yeah. So, but also
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I only did the jokes that's kind of viral, that
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actually went viral, so I know it works. So that's
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how you prepared for something like that. Yeah.
24:47
Yeah. Was it crazy when you actually got into,
24:51
like, the arena? I didn't think how big that
24:55
stage gonna be or like I didn't even look at
24:58
the people I saw the first 10 rows that's it
25:01
and then everything else was like a sea of people
25:04
yeah and it wasn't yeah what was going on in
25:07
your mind during that? not much I just delivered
25:11
my stuff and the panel was talking I can't even
25:15
hear them talking because the audio we don't
25:18
have feedback from the panel So just like let
25:20
them talk kind of. And then Redband was talking
25:24
and was like, okay, I come up with one line and
25:26
then said that. And then I heard, okay, where
25:29
are you from? It's like, oh, Regina. I didn't
25:33
do much. I didn't think about, all I thought
25:35
about is like, okay, this is, I have a good appearance.
25:39
That's it. You know, I have one good appearance.
25:41
That's it. To get in front of audience. So when
25:45
you said you didn't really like... think about
25:47
it or mom, you seem like you're just a go with
25:50
the flow kind of person. Do you just get on stage
25:56
and just treat it like, I'm just going to see
25:59
what happens or do you prepare for every time
26:02
you get up on stage? I should be more prepared.
26:08
Now that I do an hour in different city, People
26:13
are different in different cities. Some people
26:15
like to hear mostly material. Some people want
26:18
you to do more crowd work. Some people want to
26:23
do like come up with lines or roast people. Some
26:25
just want to hear very clever jokes. So I kind
26:28
of have to feel the vibe. I think Texas audience,
26:31
they really like crowd work. They like roasting.
26:36
But when I go to like more liberal cities like
26:38
Chicago, Detroit, they want to hear like... Actual
26:41
lines, they don't want to hear too much politics.
26:44
They want to hear something out of the box or
26:50
more thoughtful. You know, it's just, you kind
26:53
of have to, you kind of have to adjust yourself
26:58
on stage in a way. Yeah. Yeah. It's like each
27:01
stage has like a different kind of thing to it.
27:04
I've never been on the road, you know, so I can't
27:08
speak from experience on that. But, you know,
27:11
I do know that here in Austin, there are certain
27:14
stages that I like getting on, you know, and
27:17
that I love going to, and I just love the feel
27:20
of it, you know, and I know that it brings out,
27:22
like, the best in me, you know? But for me, like,
27:25
you, like, you've been on the road quite a bit,
27:27
right? So, like, how do you sort of, like, engage,
27:31
like, a city that you've never even been to before?
27:35
It's easy for me because they're my fans. So
27:39
I already won them over before the show begins.
27:43
If you just go on road with opening for someone,
27:46
they don't even match your style, it's going
27:49
to be hard because you have to prove yourself
27:52
the first few minutes before anything. Yeah.
27:59
Yeah. It's just, it really depends on the crowd.
28:02
Different crowds like different things. Yeah.
28:04
Do you have like a favorite city that you just
28:06
love going to? I think New York City is great.
28:10
The audience are great. Energy is good. Venues
28:14
are good. Everything's good in New York City,
28:19
you know. North California crowd is good too.
28:29
I don't really have bad crowds. If it's my fans,
28:33
they're not bad. Texas fans are good. Um, yeah,
28:38
it's just, but there's always like one to five
28:42
or 10, if it's a big crowd, people in the crowd
28:45
don't like what I have to deliver just because
28:49
they expect certain act from me. Um, some people
28:53
expect me to do just go on full hour of, uh,
28:57
material. Some people just expect, um, yeah,
29:01
they have different things in mind. I can't please,
29:03
even my crowd, I can't please everyone. Sure.
29:06
Yeah. When you get off of stage, what do you
29:10
do? Do you have a reflection moment where you
29:19
think back to it or is it just a resting moment
29:22
like, okay, I'm done, I've been preparing for
29:25
this for a while and it feels good to just relax?
29:28
What's your approach? I definitely have a recall.
29:33
Definitely, I should have said that. better,
29:36
I could have done this. And especially when I
29:38
re -watch my stuff, like, okay, I could have
29:41
add two more lines. And that's how you become
29:44
better, especially crowd work. You re -watch
29:46
your crowd work and then, okay, I can add this
29:48
to it. Or I could have said, if I said that would
29:52
be so much better. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. I love
29:56
crowd work. It is fun to just kind of like, just
30:01
like mess with people and just like pick things
30:03
apart, you know? I tend to just bring up something
30:08
about them in the moment instead of asking them,
30:11
like, hey, where are you from? What do you do?
30:13
And stuff like that. For some reason, I just
30:16
go, dude, I like your shirt. And then I'll just
30:18
make a whole thing off of a shirt and stuff.
30:21
I had a guy who had tie dye. with a tie -dye
30:25
shirt and I'm kind of colorblind. So I was like,
30:27
dude, I can't like read your fucking shirt right
30:29
now. You know, just fun, you know, that kind
30:31
of thing. But like when you do crowd work, how
30:33
do you put your approach? Like, do you just start
30:36
talking to them? I usually pick on people's appearances.
30:41
That's the easiest way. Hey, you got a dumb shirt.
30:46
Yeah, it's just the funniest things come out
30:51
of blue, right? Like, The last show I did in
30:53
Dallas, this guy said, Oh, so you guys, you guys
30:57
girlfriends? Or he's like, I'm married. And he's
31:00
like, I'm married. Like, dude, are you giving
31:03
me a finger? It's like, usually he will do this,
31:06
you know? I'm married. Like, are you saying fuck
31:10
this marriage already? You know, like, so it
31:12
just like funny things come, come out of blue.
31:15
Yeah. You never know. You just have to. But what
31:19
I need to do is, even my crowd work, I was kind
31:21
of, I'm kind of too singular. I'm kind of too
31:23
thin with my crowd work. I need to go more when
31:28
one thing come out. There are funny things coming
31:32
out all the time. Yeah. Yeah. But people also
31:35
like to come watch comebacks. Like when someone
31:39
interrupts you or they get upset and then you
31:41
have something clever to say that they like to
31:44
watch that. Yeah. I love watching those clips.
31:49
There's so many out there. So many out there
31:52
of just hecklers who took on comedians trying
31:56
to say different things. Have you ever encountered
31:59
a really bad heckler? I know because usually
32:03
if you're in a club, they usually tell people
32:05
not to heckle. I think I got one person upset
32:10
in San Diego. She's like, I'm Italian. I said,
32:14
okay, so are you a good cook? And he's like,
32:16
what? You think I work in a restaurant? I think
32:21
he started talking when I was talking. So I was
32:24
like, if you want to talk during a show, you
32:28
can't get offended. I was like, what, I'm Italian?
32:31
You think I work at Olive Garden? What's up?
32:34
And I was like, then I have to be nice. I was
32:36
like, I'm just saying, are you a good cook? You
32:39
know how to cook food. I was like, yeah. And
32:41
then you see his mood change, you know. I'm not
32:44
saying you work at Olive Garden, but do you?
32:48
It's so silly. But yeah, no, I get it though.
32:53
It's like you almost want the playful banter
32:55
to like work out. And you know, sometimes you'll
32:58
see people, they're just like, really don't like,
33:01
no, no, don't, don't. Yeah, don't ask me questions.
33:04
Like don't ask him, ask him, you know. Yeah,
33:06
there are people like that. Audience they sit
33:08
in front too. Yeah, they sit right in the front,
33:11
you know, just like no, please don't talk to
33:13
me. No, I don't like this, you know Have you
33:17
ever like encountered somebody that you're just
33:18
like they walked out before like they were just
33:21
like, oh fucked it I don't know. I've done especially
33:24
if it's not your crowd. Mm -hmm I did three shows
33:28
in North of San Francisco is called Fairfax The
33:34
last show is like a woman's night and half of
33:38
the crowd left. It's the owner gathered people
33:43
in the back. They don't know me. They don't know
33:45
my material. So when I get off, they got upset
33:48
and half of it left. Really? Oh my God, why?
33:52
They just don't like my material. Most crowds
33:56
are liberal, but my crowd is not very liberal.
34:00
So when I started to talk about jokes that's
34:04
not very politically Correct, they don't like
34:07
that. They don't like that. So why do you choose
34:09
to write jokes like that? Just by thinking differently,
34:16
by expressing the opposite opinions. Yeah. But
34:22
not obeying what authority or the social norm
34:27
come up. Yeah, people just like to hear, some
34:31
people just like to hear lighthearted, self -deprecating.
34:35
jokes, but like not opinionated jokes. Right.
34:39
Right. But you're throwing out like actual like
34:41
thought, thought jokes. Yeah. Do you normally
34:43
sit down and just write? Like, or how, what's
34:47
your approach to writing? Uh, I just, I think
34:49
of something that I think is good premises and
34:53
I put it on my phone. That's it. Or then I later,
34:57
later I work it on open mic and I develop it
35:01
and develop it or I think of something new to
35:04
add to it. Let's say I don't really sit down,
35:07
think of a topic and then write. I just whatever
35:10
comes to my mind. Just whatever comes to your
35:12
mind and you bring it to the stage. Yeah. So
35:14
you don't really worry about the whole like set
35:17
up premise punchline kind of thing. You just
35:19
sort of like come up with a funny thing and you're
35:21
like, okay, I know how this is going to work.
35:24
No, you set up a, you have a premise, right?
35:27
written down on your phone, and then you think
35:30
about how to close it, how to rephrase it, how
35:33
to make it, which lines funny, how to make it
35:36
shorter, how to make it tighter. Yeah, of course
35:38
you do the whole thing, but first you come up
35:40
with an idea. Yeah. Was there a valuable thing
35:45
that you started learning about writing where
35:47
you were like, oh, this is really going to help
35:49
me? Besides, I think being on road really helps
35:55
living a different life. Living a life on road
36:01
and going to different rooms, seeing different
36:03
people, that's gonna spark your creativity. And
36:07
then you actually put in the work, writing, and
36:09
then you practice. I think that's the three thing.
36:12
There really isn't other quick method or like
36:15
a special method to it. No, you just gotta grind
36:18
it out and you gotta learn. But I prefer just
36:22
learn it the natural way instead of, okay, this
36:25
book written by someone 20 years ago told me
36:28
to do this. I usually don't think that's especially
36:30
for creative things like art. I don't think opinions
36:36
or something written 20, 30 years ago is gonna
36:40
be the rule. Yeah. I know what you mean. I feel
36:46
like that goes along with a lot of the things
36:47
that I've heard on here before, which is essentially
36:51
authenticity and just being just real and being
36:54
yourself. Was there somebody who helped you out
36:59
along the way that was just very influential
37:02
in any way? No. No, I don't know. It's all myself.
37:08
Until last year, 2025. Still very poor. Sleeping
37:15
on people's couches and cars. Trying to make
37:20
$5 sometimes. Oh, wow. But yeah, just me. It's
37:27
me, myself, and I. Wow. So basically with this
37:31
whole like, was Chill Tony like a massive boost
37:34
for you or was like - Yeah, it helped me getting
37:36
on Netflix. It reaches a different audience like
37:42
internationally. I have people in Middle East
37:46
know me. I have people in Pakistan, Bangladesh
37:49
know me. YouTube, sometimes the algorithm doesn't
37:55
boost you like that. I can post stuff and get
37:57
two million views, but it's the same people they
38:00
push. So when they put you in a different platform,
38:03
it definitely boosts you a different way. Like
38:05
if I get on another show, a different show, it's
38:08
just get in front of a different crowd, which
38:10
is It helps you gain audience. Yeah. YouTube
38:18
is a hard one to fight with. It's a different
38:22
algorithm. Yeah, it really is. I know we talked
38:25
about it before. I was like, man, I do not understand
38:28
it, but it's still kind of crazy to kind of see
38:32
things. I seldom post anything on YouTube. You
38:36
said a moment ago you were poor, sleeping on
38:39
couches. I know that's sort of like a very common
38:42
story for a lot of comedians. It's almost like
38:45
I was never homeless before I did comedy. I was
38:49
like, okay, you kind of have to live that life.
38:54
You do. Comedy puts you in a homeless situation.
38:58
It kind of does. Even I was homeless for a while.
39:02
It seems like everybody's got that sort of journey.
39:05
Yeah, because I've always had a bed before I
39:08
did comedy. I've had quite nice... They were
39:11
nice beds. They were nice beds. Because you kind
39:13
of like, because before you do comedy, you're
39:16
just like, okay, you rent a room and you do a
39:19
work. And now you're just like jumping off different
39:22
places. So you kind of just, yeah, I can, I can
39:24
sleep in my car for a little bit, you know? Sure.
39:27
Because I'm going to different places for mics.
39:30
Yeah. But now you're not, you're not sleeping
39:33
on couches. Get your own place. Yeah. It's good
39:35
now, right? Yeah. Yeah. So like, what was something
39:39
that was like the hardest part about like, about
39:42
that grind? Like when you were just like, man,
39:45
like just sleeping on couches, just trying to
39:46
get out there and just do stuff. Like, was there
39:49
something that you were just like, I don't know,
39:52
like finding a place to shower? You're like,
39:54
okay, this really sucks. Was it like a difficult
39:55
thing during that time? You're talking about
39:59
just financially, yeah. Yeah, financially. I
40:03
mean, I've always had gym membership, so I never
40:06
had a problem. My car is big, so I never had
40:09
a problem keeping myself clean. I've always made
40:11
money. I was never out of a job. I always drive
40:15
Uber. It's just a matter of if I can afford this,
40:19
if I want to pay this much. But I was never out
40:22
of job, haven't showered for three days. I was
40:25
not that kind of homeless. I just didn't want
40:28
to pay a lot for an apartment. Yeah, financial
40:32
struggle is real. But I don't think I had it
40:36
that hard because I was seeing results with comedy
40:39
pretty quickly. I was getting booked pretty quickly.
40:42
I started to make money pretty quickly. And some
40:45
people don't have that. Some people, seven years
40:47
here, never make money on it. Like, I'm already
40:50
making money three years in, you know? That's
40:53
great. So I really can't complain. Yeah. But
40:57
you're good, though. Like, you're actually legitimately
41:00
funny, you know? I think that's, like, I think
41:03
that's a big difference. Like, realistically,
41:06
I'm not trying to, like, I'm not trying to, like,
41:08
necessarily put myself down. It's just that,
41:10
like, I'm just not. I know that I'm not where
41:13
I need to be to be at that point yet. I know
41:18
that there's concepts that I just don't fully
41:21
grasp or understand about comedy. And it seems
41:26
like you have a good grasp, at least on where
41:31
your trajectory is. Is you know, do you have
41:34
like an ultimate sort of like goal like that?
41:37
You're trying to achieve or is it just you just
41:39
trying to get like successful and you're just
41:41
trying to make comedy the thing that sustains
41:44
you I don't have I like to be I like to live
41:50
affluently. I like to live and almost a luxury
41:54
life. So that's my goal. Like for comedy, do
41:57
I really have a goal? Like do I, like I'm saying
42:00
like I need five specials on FX in 20 years.
42:03
Like I didn't think about it then. I just like,
42:06
I kind of got into this and I like to do things
42:11
well. I'm a perfectionist. So if I'm doing it,
42:14
I prefer to do it very nicely. But like do I
42:18
have to be someone or like I have to perform
42:20
in front of 20 ,000 people. I have to perform
42:23
in this venue. Like I didn't think about that.
42:25
I like, I like a good setting though. I like,
42:28
I like a small theater setting where people are
42:30
focused and not just like drinks everywhere,
42:33
you know? I don't particularly like clubs too
42:36
much. Yeah. Honestly. So you just take it as
42:38
it comes. I like the art of it. I like the fun
42:43
of it. I like the energy. Yeah. The art of it.
42:48
I know we've touched base on that before. That's
42:51
always been something that I love about it as
42:53
well. It's literally the part of the whole show.
42:59
The whole meaning for this show is just basically
43:01
just seeing how each individual tackles their
43:06
own journey. It's really awesome to see because
43:10
you have some people out there who are just extremely,
43:14
They have something in mind and they're going
43:16
towards that, you know, and then they have I
43:18
guess like people You know sort of like you who
43:21
just like are sort of like, you know Just kind
43:23
of go with the flow kind of deal And so thus
43:26
far like you've accomplished, you know quite
43:28
a bit more than most people Right. So like what
43:32
is there like one accomplishment that you were
43:34
just like this is fucking cool Like, you know,
43:37
like is there something that you've done comedically
43:39
where you're like, this is the best When I think
43:43
of a really, when I finish a good punchline,
43:46
I'm like, oh, that's good. I was like, okay,
43:49
there's something in there. There's something
43:50
in it. You know, like when I said, uh, uh, I
43:54
think the joke about the race questionnaire was
43:57
like, we don't, in Asia, we don't ask that question
44:00
because we're better. Okay. Now you're saying
44:02
you're better at keeping our bloodline pure so
44:06
that you're better at doing something bad. You
44:08
know, so like, that's a quick turn. Because I
44:12
was thinking for days, better at what, but related.
44:17
But also, when I see something go viral, that's
44:20
very cool too. Like the not Drew, when I had
44:22
to come back with the not Drew. Like he said,
44:25
I'm Drew, what are you? I said, not Drew. That's
44:27
like a quick turn, like, okay, you only see us
44:30
as Drew or not Drew, and I'm not Drew. So people
44:35
like that. And every time I post that, when I
44:37
first come out, every time I post it, seven mil,
44:40
six mil. on Instagram. Just that video alone
44:45
made me four or five grand on social media. Wow.
44:49
Shoot. I wish I could get that right here. But
44:52
no, that's awesome. That is really awesome. put
44:57
out a clip and you put out things and you see
44:59
that you know this many people like seven million
45:02
people are responding to something that you think
45:04
about the number that's what i was gonna ask
45:06
you i was like yeah like just the sheer magnitude
45:08
of that you don't under like you actually don't
45:11
understand it because you don't actually understand
45:13
what seven million people watch like my challenger
45:17
joke had 15 million on facebook and 15 million
45:21
on instagram and other on youtube that is insane
45:25
the trump one had 20 million on YouTube. When
45:30
you see 15 ,000 people in the Moody Center, that's
45:33
like, oh, that's a lot of people, you think about
45:35
it. But then, globally, like, you kind of, it's
45:40
kind of, you don't feel the impact. You don't
45:43
feel the impact. Yeah, you're just kind of like...
45:46
Okay, it's a number now. It's just a number.
45:47
It's just a number. Yeah. That's, that is crazy.
45:51
Like I remember actually, oddly enough, I actually
45:54
just spoke about this. But um, but yeah, no,
45:57
it was crazy. Like when I got the million, when
46:00
one of my videos went to just a million, you
46:03
know, I was like just seeing how that works,
46:04
you know, and the constant like, you know, like
46:07
the notifications going off like over and over
46:09
and over again. It was shocking. It was crazy.
46:11
You know, and uh, but you know, I can't imagine
46:15
like that many. It gets, it gets normal. Like
46:18
that kind of validation, it gets normal. Now
46:20
you look at 15, 50, 100K, one mil. It's like,
46:25
okay, just another video, you know? But sometimes
46:30
you have to not think about the views, but who
46:34
did you reach? Sometimes you reach 20K people,
46:38
but it's like new people and people who are interested
46:41
in specific topics. So sometimes it's not all
46:44
that matters. Yeah, yeah, it's about the quality
46:47
not like necessarily the quantity right, but
46:49
of course being able to reach a massive crowd
46:53
Audiences definitely helps with marketing and
46:56
people knowing you Mm -hmm. Yeah. Yeah, that
46:59
was you know All that is kind of something about
47:02
this that I never even intended to ever even
47:05
want to learn You know when I started doing like
47:08
only bombs it was I was like, you know, I'm just
47:10
gonna do it You know, but it's, it is like a
47:13
job. It is like there's, there's separate things
47:15
that you have to do. So do you like, uh, do you
47:19
constantly watch your social media like all the
47:21
time or are you like always on that? Or is it
47:23
like, I'm just going to check it today. Oh, I
47:26
am checking on it too much because it is like,
47:30
it's almost like an energy source when people
47:33
are constantly commenting, constantly liking
47:36
your videos. Yeah. You kind of get addicted to
47:39
that. Like you get a high. You get a high when
47:42
you get a viral. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. There's
47:45
like this weird dopamine thing. Yeah. Very...
47:49
I'm not addicted to many things, but like that
47:52
dopamine hit is something I'm addicted to. That's
47:55
pretty good. Yeah. But yeah, I should check less.
48:02
I'm on my phone too much. Me too. But I haven't
48:05
really been putting out that much content lately.
48:09
Sometimes you have a period of time where you're
48:12
just resting and thinking, and some period of
48:15
time you're working. Yeah. Do you get a sense
48:18
of when you put out a clip, or before you put
48:21
out a clip, do you know it's going to be well?
48:23
Are you like, all right, this is going to be,
48:25
people are going to like this? Or is it just
48:27
like, you're just as surprised as everybody else?
48:30
You have an idea. Especially when you post, when
48:33
you, like I start, I've been posting since, um,
48:37
for two years now on my standup, just like regular
48:39
clips. I delete a lot of old ones. Uh, but after
48:43
two years, you definitely have, after a year,
48:45
you have a good idea, especially when you have
48:47
things go viral, um, a few things. And yeah,
48:52
especially when you edit and post yourself, you
48:55
know what works, but you know, you don't know
48:57
exactly what number it's going to be. Yeah. But
49:00
you have a good gauge. Yeah. I know what you
49:03
mean too. Sometimes I'm like, okay, this is going
49:05
to do well. But it's that quality thing. You
49:09
just try to put out good stuff. But do you have
49:12
anything outside of comedy that you're really
49:15
passionate about? I used to make music. I still
49:20
want to make music. It costs a lot. It takes
49:23
a lot of time. It's not very profitable unless
49:26
you go really big with one song. I definitely
49:31
do that later on. I also like being on the screen.
49:35
I think I just like being in front of, being
49:38
on the TV in general. I like that. I think I
49:44
enjoy the energy of being on stage, comedy or
49:47
not. Yeah, just performing. Yeah. I totally get
49:52
it. That was my thing too. I was a musician for
49:55
many, many years and it was like, Comedy was
50:00
sort of, you know, just like a natural progression.
50:04
You know, I was one of those kind of people that
50:06
everybody was like, oh, you're funny. You should
50:08
do standup. And then I get up on standup and
50:09
it's not anything like I imagined. You know,
50:13
and so, but I still like playing music. You know,
50:16
do you like, do you like movies, anything like
50:18
that? Like any kind of, do you have like a favorite
50:21
movie? I don't spend too much time watching TV's
50:25
or movies anymore. I'm very short attention spam
50:28
now. Right. Yeah, me too. This right here fulfills
50:34
an artistic kind of thing. I like, I enjoy creating
50:38
a lot. I enjoy making something a lot. Yeah.
50:43
I don't think, yeah, sitting there getting into
50:47
a show that's 40 episodes, I don't know if I
50:50
want to spend that much time on it. I'm getting
50:53
older now. I kind of want to do something more
50:55
productive than that. Yeah, you kind of want
50:57
to just build and create and stuff. Yeah, at
50:59
the end, like at the end of all these episodes,
51:01
when I'm done, I just sit back and look at it
51:03
and I always feel like it's a little drawing,
51:05
you know, that I've done and I love it. I always
51:07
have just a blast doing these things, you know.
51:10
But, um, but like how far like are you, I know
51:14
it kind of has something similar to some moment
51:16
ago, you know, like with your goals and stuff
51:18
like that. But like if somebody, uh, where do
51:20
you see yourself in like, you know, three to
51:23
like five years from now? I really don't set
51:26
a five -year goal like that. I just like, okay,
51:30
the next few months, I'm scheduling shows. I
51:32
have shows till November now, which by the way,
51:36
the audience can find me on punchlinelive .com.
51:42
I have three shows in Texas and other shows scheduled.
51:46
Then I worry about, okay, December, I'm going
51:48
to make this much money. Where should I schedule
51:50
my shows? I don't even think about next year.
51:55
I'm just thinking, okay, should I do more mics
51:58
this week so I can work on some things? Yeah,
52:02
I don't, I don't really have, like a lot of you
52:04
have goals in comedy, you know? I don't really
52:06
have a goal in comedy. I just like, okay, I have
52:09
more material now. I can say this, deliver it
52:12
better now. I can make this 10 more, more tight
52:16
now. And it's. I guess like, you know, that's,
52:20
that's what's really interesting. Cause it's
52:22
sort of like sometimes I'll, you know, when I
52:24
come up with questions or when I come up with
52:26
things, a lot of times it's goal -oriented because
52:28
that's what I feel a lot of the comedians seem
52:31
to, they have an idea in mind, whether it's a
52:35
Netflix special or an arena show or just something
52:39
where they see themselves. But it seems like,
52:43
and I know we covered this three times now, but
52:45
what does drive you? What does drive me? the
52:51
attention, the energy on stage that drives me.
52:55
The attention online, it's not a bad thing. Because
52:59
it's money. When you get attention online, you
53:01
get money. I get monetized on everything. Being
53:06
able to afford things, being able to live the
53:10
life I actually want, actually going into the
53:14
vision I have for myself, that's the drive. Do
53:19
you have an insecurity that you're still trying
53:22
to maneuver? Insecurity? I want to look better.
53:27
I want to have money to treat my skin, my hair,
53:32
my body. I want to be more in shape. Even though
53:37
I'm not fat, I just want to muscle. I want more
53:40
tone. I kind of want to fix my teeth a little
53:46
bit just because it's not level. It's like the
53:50
front teeth is down. So when I smile, this shows
53:53
a lot of gums. I need to pull it up. I don't
53:55
know if I'll do it still. I've had braces twice,
53:59
but just little things. Yeah. Oh, I got that
54:02
too. I've been, oh my gosh, for me it's like
54:04
weight. Oh yeah. Because I'm like a big guy.
54:08
But I mean, big guy, even when I'm skinnier,
54:11
I'm still big. You're small in American standards.
54:15
Yeah, right? But uh, but no, like, so I have,
54:18
I have those too, you know, like you mentioned
54:20
your teeth. Yeah. My teeth are like a bit, they've
54:23
always been like, oh yeah. Like I just, you know,
54:26
like I have plenty of insecurity. Sometimes I
54:28
try to harp on them, like on, um, on stage. Like
54:32
sometimes I'll try to, you know, just like poke
54:34
fun at myself, but then I'm like, I don't want
54:35
to talk about it too much because I don't want
54:37
to open up the, you know, the door and just be
54:40
like, all right, cool. You know, but like, I
54:43
don't want people to like. start making fun of
54:45
me too. You know what I mean? So do you have
54:47
a like a thing like where uh like you have a
54:51
good support system that like helps you out with
54:54
you know your comedy? I don't have any support
54:57
system. Just crazy. No it's just your fans kind
54:59
of thing? No just just me and my drive and my
55:03
spirit and sometimes uh yeah I don't I don't
55:08
have support system I don't I don't even like
55:11
I barely have Like, look at my phone. Like, I
55:14
don't even have notifications. Like, I don't
55:17
even have messages or phone calls because I don't
55:19
like to talk to people. Do you like that though?
55:23
Do you like being surrounded more? I like being
55:26
in peace. I like staying in peace because I think
55:28
how I grew up is just family, school. It's just
55:33
everything that's argument, you know, people
55:36
drama, relationship drama. It's like, I want
55:41
to be. Yeah. Quiet, peaceful. Yeah. What do you
55:45
do to like wind down and like just relax? Just
55:47
lay down. You just lay down. Yeah. Your ideal
55:51
like just chill time is literally just laying
55:53
down, playing on your phone. Yeah. Yeah, me too.
55:57
You know, it's the same thing. I'll just, you
55:59
know. I should go out in the nature more. I think
56:01
that'll help your body. Yeah. Are you a nature
56:05
person? I'm not a nature person. I think being
56:09
outside does help you more. Balanced mentally
56:13
and physically Yeah, Satan Not too much. It's
56:19
not good No, yeah, I know it man. I went to the
56:23
doctor and they they took her like Like a blood
56:27
test or whatever and and they were like, yeah,
56:29
you're pretty low in vitamin D and I was like
56:32
I'm like, oh, okay, because I work night. I didn't
56:36
even think that was a thing. They gave me like
56:39
pills, vitamin D pills, and all the time I'm
56:41
just like, I need to get out in the sun. I need
56:44
to just get out more. It's so easy with drive
56:49
-throughs and everything just inside. Living
56:52
in America makes it very easy to be just staying
56:55
in and being totally alone. Yeah. That's true.
56:59
It's not like that in Asia. In Asia, you have
57:01
to go downstairs and walk and talk to people
57:03
and get stuff. It makes you more active. It was
57:07
interesting. I do remember like I used to have
57:09
a bunch of pictures in like Hong Kong. And like,
57:14
you know, being I've been like, you know, Australia,
57:16
Dubai, like a bunch of different places, Europe,
57:18
stuff like that. And I can always like kind of
57:20
identify with like a lifestyle and look at it
57:23
and be like, oh, okay, I understand why they
57:24
do that. But Hong Kong, like when I went there,
57:26
I was like, Man, I'm like, that's like, that's
57:30
insane. Like, basically what I mean is like,
57:33
there would be like these cities, it seemed like,
57:35
but in buildings, you know? It's like each building
57:39
was like its own little city or something. It's
57:41
like Vegas. Yeah, right? You know? Yeah. And
57:45
I was like, man, I'm like, I can't identify like
57:47
with that, you know? Did you see like anything
57:50
here that you were just like, that doesn't make
57:52
any sense? Everything's drive through, you know,
57:59
is, you don't, I think they should make at least,
58:03
okay, now people start to build inner cities
58:07
where it is walkable, where there are shops,
58:09
you know, they're building even like DC, even
58:12
Austin, they have some streets you can walk to
58:15
places. I think that's nice. Um, and we probably
58:19
need more of that. But, but China is all that,
58:24
you know, there's not really. distance in between
58:28
how they set up the city. It's just all people,
58:31
people. Mm -hmm. Do you ever miss it? Not much.
58:36
I like the convenience of it. I like the service.
58:40
I like how easy to find good workers. That's
58:43
what I'm struggling right now is find people
58:45
to work for me to do things. They're like, can
58:48
you do this? Like, okay. And then a week later,
58:50
they're like, I'm sorry. I'm gonna do the next
58:53
one. Yeah, you know like I'm trying to find things
58:56
I'm trying to find people do this this is insane
59:01
this is Impossible almost in Asia. It's like
59:05
you want this boom down You want print this?
59:09
Yes next week factory down, you know, it's not
59:12
like that No, no that it was pretty much because
59:15
I guess we get everything from over there You
59:18
know, it's like just different lifestyle, you
59:20
know different ways of doing things Like when
59:23
I came back from Europe to here, I remember thinking
59:27
to myself, I'm like, man, I would love to just
59:29
go sit down at a cafe and just have some coffee.
59:31
Yeah. And then we have no places like that. Like
59:35
there's no place, there's no cafe. But even if
59:37
we did, it's over a hundred freaking degrees
59:38
here. Yeah. Then you got to drive 10 minutes.
59:41
You got to get ready. And it's like, it's like,
59:43
oh, it's downstairs. You want to meet up? You
59:45
know, I'm 10 minutes walk. And it's really, people
59:49
are really separate. separated from each other
59:54
here. Yeah. How they set it up. And then nobody
59:56
else is outside anyway. So it's because I think
59:59
one of my favorite things to do like over there
1:00:01
was people watch, you know, because you could
1:00:04
even if you're thinking of material, just people
1:00:07
watching, you can come up with a whole story
1:00:09
about what you think somebody's life is and,
1:00:11
you know, think of something to say, you know,
1:00:14
so. Especially in Europe, how they dress up,
1:00:16
they all have different styles. They probably
1:00:19
behave differently. So that's Yeah, very much
1:00:22
different there is more The same like, you know,
1:00:29
the shops are the same the Food chains are the
1:00:33
same. They're trying to make everything more
1:00:35
the same form as possible Yeah, it is. It's like
1:00:39
copy and paste. Yeah, but Europe has a little
1:00:41
bit more character and history history to it
1:00:44
and personality to it. Mm -hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I
1:00:48
went to a church, you know and there that was
1:00:52
like a tour of a church and the church itself
1:00:55
was like, I think 500 years. And I was like,
1:00:57
man, it's older than our country. You know, I
1:01:00
was like, this is crazy. You know, but it is
1:01:04
what it is, I guess. The world is a funny place.
1:01:08
But do you, let's see. So basically we're wrapping
1:01:11
it up. Do you have anything that you want to
1:01:12
put out? This is your camera right here. Oh yeah.
1:01:15
Definitely come watch me live. This is my Hat,
1:01:20
I have a hat. It comes in different colors. I
1:01:23
do another shirt. This is my pinyin. It's the
1:01:27
pronunciation of my Chinese. This is the Chinese
1:01:30
letters. It's not for people with big head. David
1:01:35
Lucas tried it and it just fit like the first
1:01:38
quarter of his head. I have shows, San Antonio,
1:01:45
Austin, Houston. in the other cities also scheduled.
1:01:53
But yeah, I'm willing to hop on good podcasts
1:01:58
too, work with different people, open to opportunities.
1:02:02
Just shoot me an email, yangcomedy .gmail .com,
1:02:05
Y -A -N -G, comedy .com? No, no, no, sorry, yngcomedy
1:02:11
.gmail .com. Yeah, that's correct. Awesome. Yeah.
1:02:15
Awesome. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate
1:02:17
it having you on. Oh, yeah. I enjoyed it. Awesome.
1:02:20
I'm glad you enjoyed it. You helped me out with
1:02:23
this technical stuff. I can't wait to see how
1:02:26
it looks. Oh, yeah. It'll be great. I'm very
1:02:28
excited. I'm very excited. Awesome. Thanks again.
1:02:31
I appreciate you so much. Yeah. And that's it.
1:02:34
That's a wrap. Tune in next week for another
1:02:35
episode and buy tickets to the December 11th
1:02:38
show. And that's it. That's a wrap. Only bombs.
1:02:40
Adios.