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