Chat GPK: Stories, Comedy, & Pain: Episode 1 - When Paula Abdul Tickled Me

Episode 1

1.  Just start the darn thing 
 2.  Shout outs and Thank yous
 3.  Word of the Day:  Lit
 4.  Story of the Day:   When Paula Abdul tickled me
 5.  Stand up comedy bit of the day:  by Sierra Katow  (editing got messed up.  Sorry) 
 6.  Attitude determines Altitude: William Hung
 7.  Pain to Progress:  Learning from embarrassing moments 

Transcript

Chat GPK:  Stories, Comedy, & Pain

Season 1 – Episode 1  - When Paula Abdul Tickled Me 

 1.        Just start the darn thing.

What up, Anyoung ha sae yo.    Welcome to the first podcast episode of my new podcast, chat GPK Stories, Comedy and Pain. If you're like me, you know, you think about things too much. You're like, Man, I want to start this. I want to do this. And sometimes you don't do it at all. And that's why I want to give a shout out to my brother, Daniel Kim, CEO of Merch Labs. Google merch labs. He runs an amazing company, and I was there from when he first started it. And what I respect about Daniel is he just does things and figures things out along the way. And if you see a lot of people successful on social media, that's what they do. They don't think about it. They do it. They make mistakes, they learn, they grow, and they keep things moving. And I've been thinking about doing podcasts for a while, 1s making up excuse that I'm too busy. I am busy, though. Married, three kids, multiple jobs. My motto went from dream big to just survive. But for those of you who have kids, you understand. And it's annoying when people don't have kids, go, I understand. I have a dog. No, you don't. When you have a baby, too, you can just leave your baby at home. You can leave your dog at home. 1s But just realized I got to do it. And so I literally looked it up on Chat GPT, like, how to start a podcast. There's all these websites out there, but I was like, Let me see what Chat GPT said. And it gives you, like, step by step basic instructions. It's pretty straightforward. But first it said, Find a niche. Is it niche or niche? 1s Tomato, tomato. But is it Gala or Gala or Gala? I say gala. But for those of you wondering what is Chat GPT stands for, it's Chat generative pretrained Transformer. For the nerds out there, I have no idea what that means. Basically means AI, artificial intelligence and ask any question. And it's amazing. I put a rap about Mexican food, typed that into Chat GBD. It gave me a legit rap about Mexican food. Rap about Chinese food. It had, like, a rap and a poem about Chinese food. I don't know, man. Kind of amazing and scary, to be honest. 
 
 

2.        Shout outs and Thank yous: 

But shout out to my brother Jerry Won. 1s We have a hardcore clipper fan cacao chat room. And it wasn't even part of what I was looking for in terms of a name for a podcast, but he just threw it out Chat GPK. And I was like, Man, I love that name. That sounds cool because the G in GPK is gangster. If you guys don't know from South Central burbank, what's up, Burbank? AMC Theaters pick Quick Bowling and Ice Skating Rink NBC ABC Disney Studios universal Else. 1s Gangsta PK. And PK is Paul Kim. There's a million of us just in my church alone growing up, there were six Paul Kim's. There was like, diamond bar. Paul Kim Fullerton. Paul Kim. Seritos. Paul Kim. I was, you know, preacher kid, Paul Kim. They actually called me PK Squared growing up. And I was like, please, guys, can we drop the squared? It's the nerdiest nickname. No one wants to be called PK Squared. So it just kind of became PK over the years. I have friend who is also Paul Kim, and he's MK. He's a missionary kid. I was the preacher's kid, 1s but it's Paul Kim preacher's kid. And I'm really appreciate I'm very appreciative of you listening. I just hope at least three people are listening right now. You know, people who go like, I just hope at least one person's listening when they first start. No, you want more than one. One's a phone call. You could talk to that person directly. Two is a party line. Three is actually a small meeting. All right? So I hope at least three of you are listening. If you are, I really appreciate you. I'm just going to be talking about stories, comedy, and a lot of comedy comes from pain. Kat Williams one of the greatest stand up comedians ever, he said 2s interview and he said, all real comedy comes from pain. All other comedies bullshit. So I agree with that mostly. Not all. Not all. Because if you see Jerry Seinfeld, it's not all these pain. Like, what's with this toothbrush? What's with Chinese people with the chopsticks hanging in there with those chopsticks? They know about the fork. It's like those kind of jokes. And there's a lot of comics that do one liner jokes and everything. But it my favorite are the comedians like Dave Chappelle and Brian Regan. 1s Eddie Murphy. You know, they told stories. And a lot of those stories come from pain, like self deprecating pain, too. That's why Conan O'Brien is one of my all time favorite people on TV. And just people like, he's Harvard graduate, and he just made fun of himself all the time, who 1s killed his ego. And even though sometimes he's probably the smartest guy in the room, that always 1s made people comfortable because he was goofy. So we're going to tell a lot of goofy stories, too. Shout out to my brother from Cape Town, steven Sunte Lee. He's always encouraged me to do a podcast. Also, Steve, Steve and Minji from collaboration, my brother and my sister. That always encouraging me. And there's a bunch of other friends too, that encouraged me to do it. So I'm finally doing it. And we're going to probably do it for like 30 minutes. Each podcast is going to be about 30 minutes, sometimes less, sometimes more. It's just going to be me talking. This isn't going to be an interview. Podcast. Shout out to the Laugh Factory. Jamie Masada, owner of the Laugh Factory. He actually let me run the Laugh Factory podcast for a while. But at that time, I was exhausted. It was every Friday. I would come in my suit to the Laugh Factory straight from work 1s for my day job, where I was cold calling at a staffing agency. Before that, I was selling solar, which was the hardest job I've ever had. I was driving around all over La. Sometimes the Palmdale Lancaster hour away. Sometimes these people had pit bulls in their front yard. They're like, come on in. I'm like, can you lock up your dog? I'm like, freaking scared going in this. Sometimes they're hoarder houses. It was dirty. And I'm trying to sell them a $20,000 solar system. That job was hard. And then I went to recruiting, which was eight years of cold calling, just getting rejected all day, which I learned a lot, but it definitely kills your soul. 4s And then at that time, I was doing Laugh Factory too. So I would go to Laugh Factory in my suit and run the Laugh Factory podcast. And we had a lot of comedians come through, including Margaret Cho, Living Legend. She came into the podcast and a whole bunch of other big time comics like Matt Rife, who's blowing up right now. They came through. You could YouTube it, the Laugh Actor podcast, but this one's going to be a lot more personal. I'm going to tell a lot of personal stories. I'm going to have stand up comedy, bit of the day. 
 
 

3.        Word of the day:  Lit 

I'm gonna have the word of the day today's. Word of the day is lit. 1s You know why? Because my kids 14 year old son, eleven year old girl and an eight year old boy, they they already think I'm not cool. They think that they know they're cooler than me because they told I said lit once. You know, hey, my friend has a sweet crypto arena. Let's go. It's gonna be lit. And they're like, EW, nobody says lit anymore. And they were laughing at me. And I'm like, what do you mean, people say lit? And they're like, no. I go, what do they say? They go fire. 1s Well, I mean, in order for there to be fire, it has to be lit first. Kids, you want all the smoke? They're like, Eh, daddy cringe you're so extra. 1s But yeah, at some point, you got to turn in your cool card. 1s I'm 46, and yeah, I turned in my cool card a long time ago. You know when you turn in your cool card, when you look up things in the Urban Dictionary, 3s I remember it was like, what, 2014 or something like that first came out? 2s I was hanging out with Dumbfounded, and he was saying, like, 2s my boy, he's just thirsty. Obviously, I thought he meant thirsty for water. And then 1s through context, I realized, oh, he meant for girls, and 1s had to look it up in the Urban Dictionary. Said, 2s like, obsessive thirsty means that like a desire for attention, validation, but mostly sex, 1s which is different from the Webster's Dictionary of what thirsty is. And you know, the Webster's Dictionary, they give a sentence like, the horse was thirsty and led to the river. Not the Urban Dictionary. Urban Dictionary. The sentence was. 1s Bro, your ex was thirsty for that dick. 1s That was the Urban Dictionary example, which brings up a lot of follow up questions like, you know, how do bro, how do you know my ex was thirsty for that dick? Whose dick are we talking about here? That dick. Did you hook up with her? So that was an interesting sentence, but definitely provided more context. If you hear that dog, it's my 1s all right, so I have to cut out. And now I'm back. It's actually another day has passed since I'm recording again. That's how I have to do this. Now I'm in a parked car because the only way I can get privacy. But you know what? I'm going to just make this happen. 1s I was alone recording before, and then my wife and kids came home. And then if you're a parent, you understand. Then my whole life just turned upside down. And then now I had to take care of 100 other things to be the man of the house. By the way, if you get married, just know that you have to become the handyman, the trash man. You have to fix everything. And you have to sometimes look up YouTube videos because you don't even know. And there's everything YouTube. You can look up anything on YouTube and figure out anything. So every episode, podcast, episode, since it's called Chat GPK stories, comedy, and pain, I'm going to tell some stories. I'm going to share some of my favorite comedians stand up comedy bits. Because stand up comedy is the most raw, vulnerable art form in the world. And then I'm going to share stories of pain and how we can find peace from that and learn and grow.
 
 

4.       Story of the day:  When Paula Abdul tickled me. 

 So today's story. 2s Is about when Paula Abdul, the singer dancer, tickled me. And I've shared the story to a few close people before. But, you know, whenever you play that game, two Truths and a Lie, 1s I always add this. And I did this for my work one time. We played two truths and a lie. And I used to work for a mortgage company, and I was on a recruiting team, and it was all white people, 1s one black girl and me. And I said 1s I gave three statements, and one of them was Paul Abdullah. Tickled me. And they're all out of Cali. You know, in La, you just kind of regularly see celebrities, like, just big celebrities. 2s Sometimes they're just sitting next to you in the car at the red light or something, 1s but 2s in the two shoes and a lie, I said, Paul Abdul tickle me. And everybody on the team, they thought that was a lie. They're like what? It's weird, and it's specific. 2s But it's it's true. And this is how it happened. 1s Before I was a recruiter for one year, I was a marketing director for I was also a recruiter for a nonprofit called Leap, and it's run by Dr. Bill Dorfman. You can look him up. He's a great guy. He's a dentist for celebrities and wealthy people. These the baller dentist, and he's worth a lot of tens of millions, if not over, I don't know, 100 million. He's definitely worth tens of millions of dollars. It's because he had a teeth whitening product that he sold to Phillips. But he also works really hard as a dentist, and I respect him because he's a dad, three daughters, and he also runs this annual leadership conference called Leap. It's at UCLA. And he gets all these amazing teachers and motivational speakers and coaches, mentors that speak to 400 students for a whole week about just how to level up as a human being and how to be a good citizen. And one of the things that they teach there is 1s to form a mastermind group. And he said that's one of the most important things you'll do after to graduate school. And and I did that. And I have to thank Dr. Bill Dorfman for that. You can look him up on IG. And there's a ton of followers. He's like, in his 50s or sixty s, and he's ripped, but he. 2s When I first started there, and it's in Century City, you know, that area, the baller area. He you know, I first started there, I was only I was only, like, my second week there. He's like, hey, Paul, you want to come with me? I'm gonna take out Paula. And I'm like Paula. Who? He's like, Paul Abdul. I was like, what? And, you know, I don't think it was a date, but I definitely felt like third wheel. So he picks me up, and then he picks up. He goes, Here, can you get in the back? It was Tesla. So I'm like, oh, sure, in the back. And then out comes Paul Abdul out of her multimillion dollar condo. And 1s she gets in the car, and I'm just tripping out. Surreal. I'm looking at her like, I had her cassette tape. I had her straight up now telling me, do you really want to love me forever? Paula Abdul, former Laker Girl. Paula Abdul, former judge on American Idol, Paul Abdul. 1s So I'm like, wow, nice to meet you. 1s I had your cassette CD and all your songs. I'm a fan. And she was like, oh, wow, thank you. She was nice. We go to this show. It's kind of like a Ted Talk combo stand up show by this guy named Yakov Smear Off. He was a Russian comedian. Russian American comedian, big in the it's in Beverly Hills. And we go to this theater, and he's doing his thing, and it. Dr. Bill, and then Paul Abdul sitting next to him. And then I'm sitting next to Paul Abdul. So she's in the middle. You know, when you walk in the in the aisle? Just kind of happened that way. And then Yakov smirnoff is like you know, it's all about giving. You know, there's some things you can't experience unless you give. Like and he gave an example something like, you know, like like when you a massage, like, you can try and massage your own shoulders. It's just not the same as, you know, someone else massaging shoulders. And he goes, it's, like, tickling, you know, it's just like, you can try tickle yourself. It's never you can't like, it's not the same. Someone else tickles you, right? So he's, like, tickle the person next to you. I mean, we're talking about, like, these are, like, millionaires in the audience, 1s and he's like, tickle the person next to you. And so Paula Abdul starts tickling Dr. Bill, and then she turns to me, and I'm awkwardly sitting there, like, where am I, dude, what's happening here? And she starts tickling me. Paula Abdul starts tickling me, and she's like, 3s I don't know. I guess I kind of, like, 2s awkward tickle arm, whatever. 2s Surreal looking at. 2s So that's the kind of stuff that happens in La. You know, if you're in La. You just, like, regularly see celebrities, you know, you just sometimes it's crazy. Like, you'll be at a red light, you know, and I've seen, like, Rand Brown. 
 
 

 5.  Stand Up comedy Bit of the day:  Sierra Katow’s bit -  editing got messed up 
 
 

Why don't we say what we're all really thinking is white people don't age well. 3s Why? People don't age well. If you need to run, how about white guys need a moisturize? Or Caucasian do Raisin. Dead. Killed me. Sierra, that's such a great bit. Love it as a comic and comics know, like, you know it's a great bit when you hear it and you're like, Damn, that's good. I wish I thought of that. I wish that was my bit. That is a great bit. 2s And I love that bit. Especially because I'm 46, I'm old, AF, and people say I look like I'm in my 30s. So I'm like I love it. Of course you like hearing that. You look younger. But then if it's a compliment, they go, oh, yeah, Asian don't raise it. And I'm like, oh, thank you. But most of the people that aren't Asian, they always say and they're like, why did you guys say it in such a they go, Asian don't raise it. Yep. Like, there's a first that's the first time you've ever heard it. We've already heard it. A hundred times, a thousand times. You know, it's like when people come up to you, they think they're the first person to say to you, happy wife, happy life. I'm a wedding MC, bro. I see over 500 weddings. You don't think I've heard that? Like, but Asian don't raise it. Black don't cry. Actually, I've never heard brown don't frown. That's a pretty cool one. Brown don't frown. But why don't we say what we're really thinking? Why people about it? They really don't, though. Not everybody. But yeah, man. So my people yeah. So props to Sierra and can't wait to see her special. And props to all the comics that that are are doing it. 
 
 

6.       Attitude determines Altitude:  William Hung 

And that is my ultimate dream is just to do stand up comedy for a living and support my family and have enough money to pay my kids college, which is crazy. Ending improvement. Constant and never ending improvement. And so just always try to keep improving whatever you can, even if it's 1% a day. And even if you fall in your face, even if you make mistakes, get back up and keep moving forward. Keep a positive attitude. Attitude determines altitude. I remember I said that once, attitude determines altitude. And one of my friends was like, oh, really? If that's the case, look at William Hung. He had a good attitude. Where? Get him. William Hung, by the way, if you guys know William Hung, he was on American Night a long time ago. And he's saying she bang. She bang. And he was really bad. And Simon made fun of him. Paulo Jewel was there, too, actually. And they're all laughing. They try not to laugh at him. And William was like, I never got professional training. And Simon's like, really? 3s People think Simon's a jerk. I actually love Simon Cow. He always keeps it real. But 1s William, a lot of Asians were really embarrassed and in pain. Like, come on, bro. You're going to represent Asians and come out like that? I was like, that too. And then I actually made fun of him as a comic on stage. Like, come on, man. But then years later, on the Laugh Factory podcast, 1s my friend Emily, thanks to her, she got me an interview with him. And William came to Laugh Factory, went upstairs, he did the podcast and met him. And 2s one of my questions was the self aware thing. Like, William, did you know people were laughing at you, not with you? And. 1s I still don't know. But yeah, I don't know people he knows, which is I don't know if you have that full self awareness, but what he said was he did have some, because he goes, yeah, you know, it's for me, it's just I just want a positive attitude. And, you know, after the American Idol, I got to perform, like, all over the country, all over the world, and got paid, and he got he made a living doing that. And, yeah, maybe people most people are laughing at him, probably most, but he was getting paid to do that all over the world, and so 1s we can laugh at him all he wants. He's actually a really nice guy, 1s and I actually apologize to him. If you hear the podcast, I said, hey, I'm sorry. Just to keep it real, I didn't make fun of you on stage because I just felt like Asians we have very few representation. 1s We don't have much representation in media. And when you came out and you did that, I just felt like, Asian guys look bad. Whatever. And sasari's like no, it's okay. And he's a cool dude, so attitude determines altitude. It's the truth. William Hung has a great attitude. Props to him. And all of us should just always just continue to have a good attitude. Attitude is a choice. Attitude is a choice. That expression you have on your face, if you have a constipated expression, that's a choice. It doesn't mean you can't be sad. Sometimes we all have to go through moments of sadness and hopefully not depression, although, yeah, we go through depression. I've been going through some personal pain recently. But in terms of just choosing every day, like, what attitude you want to have, it's a choice. We're not a pavlovian dogs responding to stimuli. We're humans, and we can choose to have a good attitude. 2s It all right there's the last segment of the first episode. I just listened to that last one. I don't know what the hell having the audio. I try to fix it, but 1s we're not going to go for perfection here. We're going to go for authenticity. The fact that this is my first podcast, doing it on my own, I don't know what the heck I'm doing, but I'm just going to make mistakes and learn as I go. And that last one I'm gonna talk about william Ha. I don't know. You could hear every like I'm breathe, like I'm gasping for air. I don't know what or I don't know. But I'm not going to try to be perfect. Just going to put it out there. So I was talking about we're not pavlovian dogs responding to stimuli. And we choose the expression we have on your face. You have a constipated expression. Some people just they go through a lot of pain, but they still have a smile. And some people always have a constipated look. Do you know how many attractive people there are in La? La is like the good looking Olympics. But you could be average looking person, have a nice smile. You're way more attracted than there's so many. 1s Attractive girls out here in La from all over the world pursuing their dream, but they just look like they're zoolander, you know, like blue steel or constipated face. And it's just not unattractive. It it is not attractive. It is unattractive. And, you know, I just really respect and admire that. People have been through a lot, but they still just choose to have a positive attitude. And it doesn't mean that you can't keep it real. 1s And there's peaks and valleys, but 1s we always have the choice, even through hardship. That's one of the differences of growing older is at that moment, 1s you have that moment like, okay, am I going to choose to be mature about this or am I just going to lash out? And we've all had those moments when we lash out and we feel dumb. 

 7.       Pain to Progress:  learning from embarrassing moments

One of the most embarrassing moments I remember was when we had a bunch of friends over our place and we were drinking, we're playing board games, and I caught the other team cheating like we were playing cranium. And when people weren't looking, they were moving their piece forward and. And my wife was on the other team and my friend, and I was like, hey, I saw you. And they denied it to my face. Tonight I flipped out, you know, because they're gaslighting me. They told me they weren't they didn't move the piece, but I saw I knew what I saw. And I flipped out at a house party over a board game because I was drinking. 1s And just I got so angry, and I felt so dumb after 1s everybody told me later, they were like, all that you know, when someone flips down, the eyebrows are all raised, everybody's looking at each other like, what? Dude, PK needs to chill out. And so at that moment, you could just take a deep breath, take a step back, and no one's ever regretted taking a depressed taking a step back and just being mature about it. But you always do regret when you lash out at the moment and you feel bad. 1s All the parents know about rage cleaning. When you're cleaning your place and your kids are just you could clean your place, and if you have kids in two days, it's a jungle again. It's back to before you're like, Why am I doing that? 1s Ah, but there's no reason to take it out on them. You just gotta teach them discipline and set the rules and boundaries. You know, they, they're kids, so teaching them to be mature and every day make positive choices, that's what's about. And you know, you can go from pain to peace, pain to positive, pain to progress. And I hope, you know, as I do this podcast, 1s it'll help me in my journey too, as I 1s make progress and hopefully leave something behind when my kids are older because I don't know, I don't know how some of this content is not going to be good for my kids. But when they're older though, maybe they'll listen to it and when I leave this Earth, they at least have something to remember their dad talking about his crazy life and all the crazy people that he met 2s in a future episode. I'll talk about how Justin Bieber one time came to Laugh Factory. It was like on a Wednesday night and I was hosting and it was like it was half empty, but he was upstairs with his friend in the balcony and I tried to say, what's up to him? And it's like, hey, can I get a picture? And he looked at me like wide eyed. And he's like, Sorry, Matt. Basically you can't trust anybody, you know, when you're so famous. He's like, if I, if someone posted a picture that I'm here, the next thing you know is like 1000 people will show up there within minutes. 1s Would you want to be that famous? I want to do stand up comedy for a living, but I don't want to be so famous where if someone posts a picture of you, 1000 people will show up and you can't even enjoy what you're doing anymore. That's some next level, like prisoner fame. That michael Jackson. Whitney Houston. That level of can't even walk anywhere. But I'll talk about that and a whole bunch of other La stories and travel stories in upcoming episodes. Thank you for listening everyone, to the first episode. Chat GPK gangster k south central burbank stories comedy and pain 1s Much more to come. Peace out. Thanks. 1s Don't think. 807s Thank Thank you. you. You know, during the pandemic, a lot of people had different text groups. I hope they did. You know, some people didn't. I hope they weren't too lonely. But like, I just realized, wow, like, I think I'm involved in like seven different real text groups. You know, like old college friends, church friends, school friends, 2s what's good dad friends, you know, my family he year, my family in Korea, my wife's family, like Cape Town Party Friends Collaboration. This nonprofit I started 1s and then just tongue zing. Like just different groups of friends that I would when people were like, 1s I don't know, I'm sure they are involved with different text groups and stuff. I was like, just really I realized, like, wow, yeah, I'm not tied with all of them, but some of them I am. And I'm just naturally social with all these different people. I just feel like I can count on them and they can count on me. And a lot of that me being social and just outgoing is. 2s Just from my childhood in that one landmark part of my life where I ate lunch alone every day. And I just always am reaching out to people who might feel alone. As I get older, I don't have the luxury or the time my kids, it's all about my kids and my family. 2s But if I'm out in public, if I see someone alone and I'll always try strike up a conversation when I feel like most my friends and most other people, they won't always just try to if someone looks like they're alone, just try to make sure they feel, hey, man, I see you. How are you? 1s How's life? You good? 1s If they're in a joking mood, match their cracks and joke if they feel like I've had people just open up to me about something and maybe I helped them just be there for them line and 2s I'll talk about that next podcast, like how to start a mastermind group. It's one of the most important things you can do. And I did start one. And these brothers, man, they really helped me a lot. 1s Game changer, like life changer saved my life too, man, many ways. And so I love them and we meet once every two months. And 2s if I can help anybody listening, start one. It really is important. And that's something I learned from Dr. Bill Dorfman. He said, 1s most important thing you'll do after you graduate, start a mastermind group. So I'll talk about that at the next Pod. But I really appreciate all of you listening to my first podcast episode signing off. This is Chat GPK stories, comedy and pain. Much more to come. Thanks for listening. Peace. 70s Close.