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