Jimmy O. Yang w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand - We Might Be Drunk Podcast

We Might Be Drunk

Jimmy O. Yang joins Mark Normand and Sam Morril to reflect on his unconventional path to comedy stardom, detailing past gigs as a San Diego strip club DJ and used car salesman that sharpened his crowd-work

Key takeaways

• Yang worked as a strip club DJ in San Diego after college, managing dancer schedules and boosting sales by playing personalized song requests rather than chasing hookups.
• He credits Silicon Valley for his career breakthrough, choosing HBO over a Yahoo series regular offer despite only having two lines initially.

Main topics

• Stand-up comedy production & special editing
• Early odd jobs (strip club DJ, used car salesman)

Notable quotes

"I was the only strip club DJ that didn't get laid."

Conclusion

The episode delivers a grounded look at the intersection of grind, cultural navigation, and

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:05) We rocking? Yeah, let's do it. Let me put my phone on silent. Speaker 3 (0:08) Hey, what a pro. You know, I got to stay professional here, man. Hey, you got rid of the glasses. No, Speaker 2 (0:14) it's gone. I got this. It's better than LASIK. They put a permanent contact lens in your eye. Whoa. And now it's fully fixed. Holy shit. You got the hair thing. You got the eyes. No one's going to have ailments anymore. Speaker 3 (0:24) That's true. I know. Although, they can tell when a kid has Down syndrome, and now they're going to be extinct. That's happening. Speaker 2 (0:33) Oh, because they can check your DNA before the fetus. Yeah, Speaker 3 (0:36) when it's cooking, they're like, oh, this one's... Yeah, Speaker 2 (0:39) they won't be... Because Speaker 5 (0:39) there's still pro-life people out there. Speaker 3 (0:41) Oh, that's true. Well, there'll be less. Speaker 1 (0:47) Which Speaker 3 (0:48) is sad. You know, everybody likes seeing a... You know what? Just saying. In Speaker 5 (0:54) the first three minutes, Mark? God damn it. Speaker 3 (0:56) It's funny you can't say the word, but you can get rid of one. Speaker 2 (0:59) All right. Good Speaker 3 (1:01) to have you. Welcome to New York, Speaker 2 (1:02) baby. Dude, thanks for having me, man. This is very exciting. I'm a big fan of both of you and the podcast. Yeah, I guess we've never met. We've met. Yeah. I'm sure. Sure. Somewhere. When we heard Speaker 5 (1:12) you were coming, I was like, oh, cool. I really don't think we've met. Maybe we've... At the Improv or something? It Speaker 2 (1:17) feels like we've met. It feels like it. But I love how honest we are. We're like, no, I've actually never seen you in real life. I Speaker 3 (1:22) don't think Speaker 2 (1:22) so, dude. Speaker 3 (1:23) You called DeShang last year. Speaker 2 (1:27) Better than Bobby Lee, I guess. It is. I'll take either. Yeah, sure. I'll take either. Is that a Grand Seiko? No, this is, well, that's racist. This is, it's Speaker 5 (1:38) just a Rolex, Speaker 2 (1:39) you know? Oh, sorry. I'm trying to get into watches. It's Speaker 5 (1:42) an Speaker 2 (1:42) old Rolex. Oh, yeah. It's Speaker 3 (1:43) a Speaker 2 (1:43) good looking watch. Thanks, man. I Speaker 3 (1:45) just got an Speaker 2 (1:45) Omega. No, that's dope. Thanks, thanks. What are you doing in New York? This is my first time spending any real time in New York. I've been here, done shows, couple days here in New York City in a hotel. I'm actually shooting a TV show for Netflix here for six months. Whoa. So I'm here until December. Loving it, man. What show is it? It's called The Roman. It's, you know, Martin Scorsese's Casino? So he's a producer on this, although I've never seen him. Oh, cool. And it's about us running a casino in Vegas. And they're shooting in New York City? Speaker 5 (2:14) We built a Speaker 2 (2:15) whole casino in our studios here in Brooklyn. Whoa. I guess it's cheaper to shoot in New York now than in Vegas that doesn't have the tax break. Right. Who else is in the show? It's Oscar Isaac. Oh, nice. Yeah, he's dope. Super dope. Alec Baldwin. Dang. Speaker 3 (2:31) Yeah, Speaker 2 (2:32) he's dope. He's always Speaker 3 (2:33) shooting. Hey, Speaker 2 (2:34) hey, hey, yo. I find it sad that he was such a movie star. I mean, he still is, right? But then any young people I tell, anybody like under the age of 30, all they know is that incident. It did happen recently. Yeah, which is sad. I'm like, the guy's a movie star. Have you seen Hunt for Speaker 3 (2:50) Red October? Yes, Beetlejuice. Glenn Ross. Come on. Oh, Speaker 2 (2:56) yeah. Here you go. Here's all of us. Kate Mara, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jason Schwartz. Jesus. Speaker 3 (3:02) It's a Speaker 2 (3:02) great cast, and everybody's an adult. Everyone's lovely, and it's just a dope shoot. Good Speaker 3 (3:07) mix and match of people. You don't really see Schwartzman and Baldwin together. Speaker 2 (3:12) Yeah, Koppelman and Levine wrote it. Oh, Speaker 3 (3:14) I've heard this is awesome. Speaker 2 (3:16) Grounders, Billions, real bros, man. Is he Speaker 3 (3:19) a gambling addict? He loves gambling shit. Speaker 2 (3:22) Yeah, yeah, yeah. He plays in a poker game. Okay. Speaker 3 (3:24) He's Speaker 5 (3:25) a Speaker 3 (3:25) big poker guy. Ryan DePictor is a poker game. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Is that Speaker 2 (3:30) even him? Yeah. I don't know. That's him, dude. He changed. I mean, he doesn't look like that no more. Is that Speaker 3 (3:39) a Grand Seiko? Speaker 2 (3:41) That's a Daytona. Oh, wow. He looked a lot different back then. But yeah, I'm having a great time on the show. That's sick. And you're Speaker 3 (3:49) a good New York boiler. Speaker 2 (3:50) And I know. And I think this is the best place to be on a show. Speaker 2 (3:54) Number like five to ten. I'm like number six on the show. I show up twice a week. You know, I can do stand-up. I can do this. I can focus on other stuff as well as like just having fun on this show. Speaker 3 (4:04) Are you doing sets around town? Speaker 2 (4:06) Not quite yet. I popped in at the New York Comedy Club. Last time I was here, I popped into the cellar. And then this time I went back to the cellar. The motherfucker didn't even let me in the door. It was hilarious. You guys know the vibes there. I know. Speaker 3 (4:19) We had that at the comedy store. LA's worse. Speaker 2 (4:21) Is that right? LA's worse. It's still, like, I've done comedy for 18 years now. It's still my worst fear to show up at a comedy club. Sure. And the guy does, it just takes one guy who not know who you are. Like, when I'm like, hey, man, I just want to go watch the show. And he's like, huh, you have to be invited down here. Speaker 3 (4:37) And I'm like, what? You just want to show up at Netflix, Silicon Valley. You just want to show up at the resume. Speaker 2 (4:43) It was a Speaker 3 (4:43) whole thing. Speaker 2 (4:43) Like, do I have to wear an IMDB resume? shirt he let me in he was like wait wait aren't you on crazy rich asian i'm like yeah yeah he's like yeah yeah just come hang out and i talked to him later he's like yeah so some other comics are telling me so you really you sell out like clubs huh i was like arena sometimes but you know fuck off you know sometimes it depends the city in his defense Speaker 3 (5:03) i feel like any asian guy go i'm in crazy rich asian no no Speaker 2 (5:06) his next question was like you're friends with ronnie chang i'm like Yes, I don't want to admit it. Yes. We love Ronnie. Speaker 3 (5:13) Yeah, Speaker 5 (5:13) I love Ronnie. Yeah, he's the man. Damn. Speaker 3 (5:15) I got checked. Speaker 5 (5:17) I got checked at the cell. That happens. I feel like every time, for years, the Comedy Store just... They gave us no love. Really? It's like immigration Speaker 3 (5:24) over there. You got to show them papers. You're right. Speaker 2 (5:27) You know? Speaker 3 (5:27) You come Speaker 2 (5:27) in a detention center. It's fucking hard. It's humbling. I have no ego anymore. I used to get like super butt hurt. Yeah. Let me go back and fucking show them, you know? Yeah. Now I'm Speaker 3 (5:35) like, Speaker 2 (5:35) who cares? Just one guy. Speaker 3 (5:37) Exactly. Yeah, Speaker 5 (5:38) it's weird when you can't take it personally. Who cares? Yeah, look at that. You're playing these venues. Who gives Speaker 3 (5:42) a shit? No, that was in Hawaii Speaker 2 (5:43) with my dad. Yeah, on the biggest shows. I bring my dad on stage. You Speaker 3 (5:47) got to show them you made it. Speaker 2 (5:49) Yeah, I know. But your dad's an actor now, right? Yeah, I put him in a couple things. He was in Space Force on an episode I wrote. Great actor. He was opposite John Malkovich, not nervous at all. Whoa, crazy. Why was he not nervous? I don't know. He's a narcissist probably. He just got the right amount of ego to be an actor. Speaker 3 (6:10) Right. And I think to older people, acting isn't work. They're like, this is not a job. Well, Speaker 5 (6:16) Nick Griffin used Speaker 3 (6:16) to Speaker 5 (6:16) have that great bit about it. It's like, it's not a real job because children do it. Speaker 3 (6:19) Yeah, yeah. You never meet a child mechanic. Great point. It's a great bit. Great point. Speaker 2 (6:23) Yeah, that was in Macau. It was in an arena in Macau. Wow, Speaker 3 (6:26) look Speaker 2 (6:27) at that. Wow, that is massive, dude. Look at you. It was my first time playing Asia last year on my tour. I'm like, why did I not do this five years Speaker 5 (6:35) ago? Speaker 2 (6:35) Are you bigger Speaker 5 (6:35) in Speaker 2 (6:36) Asia than here? I mean, I grew up in Hong Kong, right? So that was like my homecoming. It was the perfect storm because I still speak a little Cantonese. I ended up shooting my last special in Hong Kong. And the whole crowd speaks English, you know. But I mixed in some Cantonese and I just thought it was something interesting. Definitely. Something different, you know. Did Speaker 3 (6:53) they get the reference? You know, if you do an Uber joke, do they have Uber? Like, how does that work? Speaker 2 (6:56) Yeah, certain things I have to like change it up. And then certain things I'll say in Hong Kong, like the horse racing culture, certain days you don't go to restaurants because the chefs are betting on horses. Wow. That might not. translate here but i think it's like when enough people laugh right you get it you almost want to research it more like when i back in the day when i used to watch george lopez's stand-up and some of it his punch lines are in spanish i'm like i don't understand that but i get it Speaker 3 (7:20) yeah yeah remember you you opened for jim jeffries years ago and he would be extra australian and he was like i think that sets me apart oh really i remember he said that he's like i do australian references because then the audience is like wow this guy we're seeing something different Speaker 2 (7:34) Like a novelty in a way. Exactly. Jim is great. So prolific. Amazing comment. Always. No hour every six months or whatever. I don't know how he does it. Speaker 5 (7:42) Enough's enough. He can talk. He writes differently than us. He'll just talk in a bar, and I can see him taking note where people are laughing. And Speaker 2 (7:50) I'm Speaker 5 (7:50) like, oh, Speaker 2 (7:50) that's going to be in the Speaker 5 (7:51) air. Speaker 2 (7:51) Yeah, yeah, yeah. Morally, is that cool? To just tell a story to your friends, but you're actually testing material? Only Speaker 3 (7:58) if it's entertaining. Yeah, that's true. If Speaker 2 (8:00) it's Speaker 3 (8:00) not entertaining, then you're just an asshole. Speaker 2 (8:02) Yeah, no. Yeah, I realize that's much more effective than, you know, writing stuff down. I kind of can't sit and write for like hours anymore. Really? It's getting harder. Speaker 3 (8:11) You're prolific. You got multiple specials. What, three now? Speaker 2 (8:14) Yeah, three. I'm working on the fourth one. Look Speaker 3 (8:17) at that. So it's coming from Speaker 2 (8:18) somewhere. Do you already know where you're going to shoot the fourth? I think, yeah, yeah. I'm planning my tour for 2027. It's going to start in like end of January. And I saved a couple of cities that I really like towards the end of the tour. I think Seattle probably going to be it. It's a good one. We're getting quotes. I think the Paramount. Does that sound right? I know they got the Moore and the Neptune. The Speaker 3 (8:41) Moore Speaker 2 (8:41) is great. I did my first special at the Neptune. Amazing. I couldn't believe the reactions. Seattle's a great comedy city. Yeah, dude. And it's the perfect, it's the right amount of Asian for me. I think it's a little much. Speaker 3 (8:54) But no, Speaker 5 (8:55) no, it's true. So Speaker 3 (8:56) you Speaker 5 (8:56) factor in, like, I don't want this to be like an Asian takeover. But I want a lot of Asians. It's both. So the Speaker 2 (9:02) last special I shot in Hong Kong. I didn't plan to shoot it in Hong Speaker 1 (9:05) Kong. Speaker 2 (9:06) But it was my love letter. It was called Finally Home. It's me going back home for the first time after 25 years. So I just told them to add cameras. And I went home, took the whole hard drive home, edited it with my guy for like six months. Shout out Marcus Rayboy. Oh, I know Marcus. Cool. Yeah, he's the best, right? And Michael, my editor. But this one, I want it to be more... I mean, that was universal to this last special, which is on Hulu now, because it's about going home. You don't have to be from Hong Kong to understand the feeling of coming home or losing touch with your hometown and the people and the language. But the next special I want to put on Netflix, and it's going to be more universal, I think. I'm still obviously going to talk about my family, but intentionally I'm going to make it broader. Nice. Speaker 3 (9:50) Okay, yeah. I went to China, did a whole run there, couldn't sell a ticket. Speaker 2 (9:54) Really? Speaker 3 (9:55) I did okay in Beijing, weirdly enough. I Speaker 5 (9:57) just did it all over Europe. It's great to just, places you never would have gone. Right? You learn so much everywhere you go. You're like, I didn't fucking know this. It's nice. Yeah, Speaker 3 (10:05) Grabreb, what is it? Zagreb. Zagreb, I never even heard of Speaker 5 (10:08) it. Speaker 3 (10:08) You didn't learn that, I guess. But yeah, Speaker 5 (10:10) no, Croatia, awesome. Yeah, even just strolling around a city, hitting a few museums, you're just like, holy shit. You know, it's good. It's good for your brain. It's a real vacation. I Speaker 3 (10:20) feel like you Speaker 5 (10:20) write a Speaker 3 (10:21) lot. Speaker 5 (10:21) You talk about sitting down and writing. Yes. Movement is like good for you. 100%. Speaker 3 (10:25) Bourdain always said that. Keep moving. Speaker 2 (10:26) Yeah, until the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the absorption of it. I feel like you need to absorb, absorb, and then it comes. Like if I'm sitting down at a park, like I'm sitting down in my office, I'm trying to write, it never comes. But when you absorb enough, I think then it starts to permeate a little bit. Yeah. Do you feel sometimes like... Speaker 5 (10:45) with stresses once you just like let go because I feel like Speaker 3 (10:47) we have to manage so much now as comedians like Speaker 5 (10:49) business social media all this shit that sometimes when I just forget I'm like I don't give a fuck sometimes the floodgates just open When I have to think about a flight or this or that, when I have to manage all these things, like, oh, fuck, did they add this thing in the special? Did they do this? Once I just let go, sometimes shit just comes out. I think we're just holding on to so much. Speaker 3 (11:08) Yeah, and it's almost like making a friend. You know when you try really hard? Like, I like this guy. I'm going to make a friend with this guy. He's like, all right, all right. But then if you just let it happen, it's natural. I Speaker 2 (11:16) think it's the same with jokes. I totally agree. Like, with this last special, I edited it myself with my guys. You know, the subtitles have to be done in English, Chinese. And then... And once we put it on Hulu, there was a technical issue because of the subtitles. I was so stressed every step of the way about the release of this. I released it in theaters in Hong Kong and a limited release here. Even getting that going, there's no money in it, by the way. Was Speaker 5 (11:41) it Speaker 2 (11:41) just like a prestige thing? Yeah, I just thought it would be cool. And I want to really put Hong Kong on the map. And it did really well in Hong Kong movie theaters. It did pretty good here. Movie theaters. But it's just such a... like pain in the ass. Like, is it going to show well at IMAX? Right. Is Speaker 5 (11:57) the Speaker 2 (11:57) subtitle Speaker 3 (11:57) - Speaker 2 (11:57) You put it in IMAX? Yeah. Wow. I had a premiere in Hong Kong at the Empire Theater, shout out to them, in IMAX. But it was nerve wracking. I'm like, this wasn't shot in IMAX. It was shot in 4K, but is it going to look soft in some areas? But it looked great. But the whole time I was so stressed during that premiere. It was a theater full of my family, friends, you know, and just fans, right? But the subtitles was giving away the joke because it was going too long. And then the next day, I have to go to this dude who's the subtitle guy in Hong Kong, just his apartment, right? I spent like three hours with this guy. I'm like, cut here. Okay, this next subtitle has to be the next line. And then all of that. And then worry about the social media clips. Okay, now it's coming out on Hulu. How many social media clips should I put on? How many minutes should I put on YouTube without giving it away? Sure. And then what's the next step? It's a pain in the ass, man. And these Speaker 3 (12:47) networks, they put out a promo, and you're like, that's the bit you picked? That's got no context. It's got a callback, so they're not going to get that. Or Speaker 2 (12:54) they'll Speaker 3 (12:54) add in Speaker 5 (12:55) a you know. Why do you add a you know at the end? Yes, cut out the laugh, you idiots. End of the joke. Yeah, there's so much little things that drive you crazy. And Speaker 3 (13:03) the Speaker 5 (13:03) blurb Speaker 3 (13:03) is Speaker 5 (13:03) so Speaker 2 (13:04) cringy. Oh, I guess Sue Speaker 5 (13:05) Brain. Oh, sorry. Sorry, go Speaker 2 (13:06) ahead. Speaker 3 (13:07) Jimmy O. Yang tackles the noodle Speaker 2 (13:10) situation. You're like, what? Speaker 3 (13:11) Noodle? What are you talking about? Speaker 2 (13:13) Yeah. And then I get super anal about all of these little things. Even the trailer goes to approval. Usually people, their team just approves it. I look at every single thing and I have them go through. I'm sure I drive people crazy. But I think it's comics who work so hard on these jokes. Speaker 3 (13:28) Yes. And now Speaker 2 (13:29) it's finally out. Speaker 5 (13:30) You need it Speaker 2 (13:32) to be Speaker 5 (13:32) perfect. It's different stuff. Back in the day, Mark and I talk about this. Our first hour special was on Comedy Central. You'd have to do. a 55 minute version, a 48 minute version, a 40 minute version. Because we're editing for like limited commercial break. And you're just like, which tag of my joke do I kill? I know. It was so painful. You're like, I guess I cut this joke. I don't. And do you guys edit? Are you super hands on? I edit mine Speaker 3 (13:55) now with the guy, yeah. Yeah, Speaker 5 (13:57) you have to. I should have done it more. I kind of was like, this is a set. This is the one I want. And then just this joke, this joke. I didn't like in this one. For the most part, I let a guy do it. I hate watching myself. I hate it. It's the most Speaker 2 (14:08) painful thing, but I have to, like, even the angles, the cut, I'm involved in every single cut. Otherwise, I just know I'm going to regret it later. Speaker 3 (14:15) You should be involved. It's your vision. It's your set. You know the set better than anybody else. At Speaker 5 (14:19) least with stand-up, you at least already kind of hate most of these jokes at this point, if you're taping a special. Yes, bro. I'm editing a movie right now, and it's, like, becoming less and less funny to me. Because Speaker 2 (14:28) I'm Speaker 5 (14:28) just, like, I can't. I've seen it now a hundred times. I can't. I Speaker 2 (14:32) don't need to test it. You need to test it with friends and family, even five, ten people. I'm going to. I'm taking it to Hong Kong. IMAX. Yeah, test it in Hong Speaker 3 (14:39) Kong. There you go. Yeah, I'm going to test it for sure. You know what the all-time worst is? You ever do a Tonight Show? Uh-huh. You have to send a transcript, and you're writing out word for word your jokes, and you're like, this sucks. There's nothing funny about this. But, Speaker 2 (14:52) you know, you can get Speaker 3 (14:53) it in some time. In Singapore, Speaker 2 (14:54) you have to do that. I'm sure China today. You have to send in the transcript. You have to write out your whole set. Your whole set word by word. How Speaker 5 (15:01) long Speaker 2 (15:01) does Speaker 5 (15:01) that Speaker 2 (15:01) take you? Speaker 5 (15:02) In Speaker 2 (15:02) Singapore too. And then I don't do it. I'm like, just here's my set I recorded 60 minutes in Milwaukee. Just translate it, send it to them. And I'm not going to say a word perfect. Like, sorry. Right. And they're okay with that. They're pretty. I mean, I don't say anything crazy controversial or anything. So I Speaker 3 (15:17) think Speaker 2 (15:18) it's fine. You got an Asian voice. It's Speaker 3 (15:19) a little hurtful. Speaker 2 (15:21) You in particular. I'm bothered by it. You and your family really take offense to that. Speaker 3 (15:26) But you got the coolest story, man. Your life is a movie. I mean, moved here from Hong Kong to L.A. At 13, right? At 13 years old. You know, you got L.A. What a culture shock. How did Speaker 2 (15:37) your folks set in L.A.? Man, it was because my grandparents was already here because my aunt married a Chinese-American guy. Oh, Speaker 3 (15:47) okay. So it's like Speaker 2 (15:48) that chain migration stuff, right? Little by little, the whole family started coming here. So my family was like the second wave. Speaker 4 (15:54) But Speaker 2 (15:55) when I was 13, I could. barely speak English. Wow. I learned English on the books, how kids here would learn Spanish. Right. But then when I got to school, people were talking way too fast. I'm like, what? I thought I knew English. I mean, that must have been so hard. Yeah, yeah. It was tough. Not just to learn, but to make friends, right? Oh, super hard. At my school, I went to John Burroughs Middle School. They were Asian kids, but they were Korean. Like American born Koreans. And they didn't even really want to be associated with me because I was like so foreign. We forget Speaker 3 (16:25) about the Asian racism. Yeah, Speaker 2 (16:27) we don't speak the same language. And by hanging out with me, they look more foreign. So why would they want that? So I get it. Oh, interesting. And I made friends with a lot of Mexican kids because I grew up playing soccer. And, you know, just sports was a big thing. You know, I was like really small, but I could like shoot a basketball. So and then they threw me in ESL classes. Oh, sure. So Speaker 3 (16:48) those Speaker 2 (16:48) ESL classes, all foreign kids. I made friends with this Nigerian dude, this Mexican guy, this Sri Lankan guy. So that was like my first friend group. This is a Speaker 3 (16:55) movie. This Speaker 2 (16:56) is Speaker 3 (16:56) gold. How do you have Speaker 2 (16:57) zero accents? I Speaker 5 (16:58) have Speaker 2 (16:58) friends who were born here, Korean, Speaker 5 (17:00) and they have an accent. Speaker 2 (17:01) I tried really hard. I never had like a full-on Chinese accent because I grew up speaking three different Chinese dialects. So it's like Shanghainese for my parents, Cantonese, which is a different accent than Mandarin. So I think between that, I got a pretty good ear. Speaker 3 (17:16) And Speaker 2 (17:16) then when I got to America, like I was American maxing, right? Like I was trying to listen to as much hip hop as I could. So by the time I was like a sophomore, junior. I kind of had like a hip hop, like black scent almost. Sure, sure. And I didn't know that was like not okay. I was just trying to not be foreign. Don't say that word, dude. Stop. Speaker 1 (17:35) And Speaker 2 (17:35) then by the time I got to college, I started watching a lot of Sopranos. So I almost had like an East Coast accent, like a Jersey accent, but I never lived in Jersey, obviously. So it was just like trying to mask, you know, a foreign accent. Are Speaker 5 (17:50) there any Speaker 2 (17:50) verses you have memorized to this day? No, no, no. Don't make him fucking rap. Speaker 5 (17:56) But Speaker 2 (17:56) I was a big fan of like Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, like all of that stuff. Yeah, the West Coast stuff. Yeah, man. Well, I Speaker 4 (18:01) guess Speaker 2 (18:01) Jay-Z's not. Yeah, Jay-Z's not. But Speaker 5 (18:03) yeah, so you, American culture just like, that's amazing when you take like a little bit of everything, you just lose an accent. Speaker 2 (18:09) Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then this time when I went back to Hong Kong, I forgot how to speak Cantonese. Speaker 3 (18:14) Oh, jeez. And I forgot how Speaker 2 (18:15) to read and write Chinese. There's one of the jokes in my special is, I found my diary that I wrote when I was nine years old, all written perfectly in Chinese, and I couldn't read a single word of it. Damn, that's crazy. My own handwriting. I had to give it to my dad to translate it, which is a nightmare. Speaker 3 (18:33) Oh, God. I got my first Speaker 2 (18:35) boner. Your Speaker 3 (18:35) dad's reading that. Jeez. Speaker 2 (18:37) Yeah. Speaker 3 (18:38) Wow, that's crazy. What about Ronnie Chang? He sounds like a cartoon character. He Speaker 2 (18:41) has an accent in any language that he speaks. I Speaker 3 (18:44) would Speaker 2 (18:45) speak Chinese to him, and he still has a Ronnie Chang accent. Okay. So he stays consistent. All Speaker 5 (18:49) right. No. Well, you watch old movies and people are from different places. You watch an old French movie and you're like, that's like a German French accent. Right. Yeah. People have different accents, you know? Speaker 3 (18:58) Even in the 40s, we had that, what are they called? Mid-Atlantic. Mid-Atlantic. Yeah, they're like, ah, see, I told the broad to come back at midnight. Nobody sounds like that now. Speaker 5 (19:07) Dude, there's an old clip. of young children talking about Babe Ruth. I don't know if you've ever seen this. Speaker 2 (19:12) Pull it up. The way they're talking, you're like, that voice doesn't fucking exist anymore. I Speaker 3 (19:16) know, and it's adorable. They're like, ah, Babe Ruth, he was a real man. Yes. And you're like, oh, that voice is gone. You don't even hear the New York as much anymore. Like, yo, hey, I'm walking here. That's kind of over. Now it feels like you're trying to do this. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Boston might be going away, too. Yeah, Speaker 5 (19:32) it's Speaker 3 (19:32) all pretty homogenous. Now Boston's not going away. Speaker 5 (19:34) All right. Now Boston's here to stay, I think. I Speaker 3 (19:36) hope so. Speaker 5 (19:38) British people. Speaker 3 (19:38) Oh, listen Speaker 5 (19:38) to this. This is crazy. How Speaker 3 (19:40) crazy Speaker 5 (19:40) are Speaker 3 (19:40) these kids? And Speaker 4 (19:41) I wish they'd come back to the Yankees. Speaker 4 (19:54) It's Speaker 2 (19:54) like very New York, but old-timey. You Speaker 4 (19:57) also Speaker 2 (20:01) don't see a kid looking like this anymore. She's going to have a rough time. Oh, they had a hard fucking life. Speaker 3 (20:06) Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. She's getting beaten by her husband. She's 11. Speaker 2 (20:10) Was that a girl? I Speaker 3 (20:11) don't even know. The Speaker 5 (20:12) fact that we don't know ain't a great sign. Speaker 3 (20:14) Yeah, look at the hats. They're hilarious. They're like Speaker 5 (20:16) a Peaky Blinders. I Speaker 3 (20:17) know, right? They're all pushing Speaker 5 (20:19) dope. And Speaker 3 (20:19) they're dressed like to the nines on a Tuesday. Speaker 5 (20:22) They're 12 years old, but you know they're handing someone this fat stack of cash. Speaker 3 (20:25) Yeah, yeah. They smoke cigars. Damn, that's hilarious. Where does it all go? It just shifts. Speaker 5 (20:33) People change. I mean, you know, maybe old people are going to talk like, I was talking and I went to this store. Like, maybe that's going to be Speaker 3 (20:38) a Speaker 5 (20:38) voice when I'm like 80 Speaker 2 (20:39) and you're going to be like, ugh. Speaker 3 (20:41) That's true, yeah. Speaker 2 (20:42) I mean, Speaker 3 (20:43) Valley Girls. You don't hear it. Valley Girls were big in L.A. in like the 90s. Yeah. Speaker 2 (20:47) Where did they go? Speaker 3 (20:48) What Speaker 2 (20:48) happened to the Valley Girls? Speaker 3 (20:50) They shifted. I think it became that voice fry. Vocal fry. Speaker 2 (20:53) That you were Speaker 3 (20:53) doing. Like Speaker 5 (20:54) the Speaker 2