Episode #2 - When Ali Wong ATE and it slapped me in the face

Episode #2  - Chapters:

1.  You Want Beef?
2.  Shout out to my Baby Mama
3.  Are you Looking for me?
4.  My husband has Diarrhea
5.  Word of the Day:  ATE
6.  Can't Fake The Funk 
7.  Eddie Murphy and Johnny Carson
8.  BEEF

Transcript

Chat GPK  Episode 2:  When Ali Wong ATE and it slapped me in the face

1.       You want Beef? 

Yo, what is up? Anyoung Ha Sae Yo.   This is PK. You're  listening to Chat GPK stories, comedy and pain. Episode number two. You want beef, you got beef. This is my beef review. The show beef on Netflix. I'll be talking about that later. Absolutely. One of the best shows I've seen. 1s I know I'm late to the party on this, but I know some people who still haven't seen it, including my wife. So I'm telling you got to watch. This is amazing. And I know some of the main actors and I'm going to talk about that. I'm blown away about how good the show is, but if you remember that first song I just played, you got beef. Chucky Atkins Vietnamese rapper. If you don't know 1s YouTube it, it's a classic. People from my generation, Asian Americans know. When that came out, people were laughing at it, kind of made fun of it. It is pretty. 1s You got to laugh at some of the parts they're redlining in a Civic and one like 45 or something, I don't know. And their little brother or something is getting punked by these two black guys and they're a gang and they come out and save him. But the actual song, like the hook is very catchy and you got to give him prop. First of all, most people just talk. They go, I want to do this, I want to do this. And they don't end up doing it. He wrote the song. 1s Found a pretty dope beat, made a nice hook, and it's catchy. And then he got and then he had to get all of his friends together. Some of them do not look like gangsters at all, man. Some of them look like they have a 4.3 GPA, but whatever. Not that gangsters can't get a 4.3 GPA, but they don't look like but that's a classic. You got beef. And I going to be talking about the show beef later. 

2.       Shout out to my Baby Mama

But first I want to give a shout out to someone that makes it possible for me to continue pursuing all my dreams. My dream is to do stand up comedy for a living. When that happens, when I replace my day job income with stand up comedy, I'll probably cry. I've been at it for over 20 years. So while raising a family and working multiple jobs, exhausted. So 2s my wife's an attorney, extremely intelligent, very well read. She reads a lot of books. Her vocabulary is extensive. Sometimes she throws words out I don't even know what like in the middle of an argument. Wait, what does that mean? You know, you're losing. You don't even know what some of the words she's throwing out during an argument. But we've been together for 16 years, going on 17 data for four years. We've known each other for we've been together for 20 years, almost half of our lives. And she's been through thick and thin with me. She works her ass off. She's one of the hardest working people I know next to my parents and her mom, who are the hardest working people I know. And she works sometimes. I'm not exaggerating. You know, some people, they go, oh yeah, I work 12 hours a day. No, my wife has worked twelve hour days consistently for many years as an attorney. Like, she works hard and she has strong work ethic, does not like to lose. 1s And she hundred percent does it all for our family, for our kids. Great mom, great wife and thank you babe. She doesn't like to spotlight either, so I don't even say her name. But if you know her, you know her. I'm going to talk later about how I met her. But first I want to give a shout out to podcast Song Life, seong Life. 1s It's my friend Daniel Song. Used to be my insurance agent. Best insurance agent ever. Look up Daniel song. S-E-O-N-G. He's also a TikTok star. He films his family 1s with his lovely wife and his four daughters and son and they have like millions of followers and views and they just start podcast called Song Life. So check him out. I listened to their first episode and the way he met his wife was he just went up to her when she was working in the mall, like at a restaurant, like a fast food restaurant called A Great Steak. And he just asked for a number and. Which is how I met my wife, which is a lost art form these days because of dating apps and because, I don't know, younger people are just too scared. Now, 2s if you're scared, that's fine, but if you just 1s don't ever try, 2s it's okay to get rejected. It's one good thing I've learned about cold calling for eight years. Is it's okay. Just don't take it personally. On to the next. I know it's not easy, but it's like a muscle you build. 3s Back in my day, that was the way you go up to a girl and you 1s ask for her number. 1s Before that, we had pagers pager number. Before that, you had to just write a letter or something or promise you'll meet me at this place, and then they have to meet you there. Otherwise, they ghosted you or whatever. But now with the whole swipe right, swipe left thing and how. 1s Goes to each other and how easily people just 3s I don't know if kids know how to talk to each other anymore. Like, my son, I hear him play video games. He's super loud as soon as he comes out of his room. 1s And then he goes in his room. Oh, my God. What the heck is like, they only know to talk to each other through the computer, through apps, through you know, it's it's kind of sad, but just I hope there's guys out there that have the balls and girls equal opportunity to go up to someone, 11s strike up a conversation, and try and get their number. 

3.       Are you looking for me?

I met my wife at a nightclub. I still don't know if all my family knows, but we told them we met through friends. That's what you do. You tell your parents you met through friends when you met on a nightclub, but especially if you're Asian. But it was a Korean nightclub. It was very popular back in the day called Velfrey. Before that OS saga. It was one of the spots. 1s I 2s think it was barely 21. With my friend Jae Shin. We knew it was a UCLA Korean party, so we knew there were going to be UCLA girls there. Jay went to UCLA. I went to Occidental college. We were out to party and meet. We were young, twenties, 1s and I had just got a relationship that was pretty intense, and I was just in party mode. And then 2s end of the night, I see her. She's in the second floor, the more VIP area. She's looking for her friends. I could tell she's looking around. And I went up to her and I said the corniest line, but I said it with a lot of confidence. 1s She's looking around. I went right up to her, and I was like, wait, are you looking for me? Me? I could see she was like, oh, my God. 1s But I was like, you're looking for me? And then struck up a conversation, asked if she had a boyfriend. 1s If they're not interested, they're gonna say they have a boyfriend, even if they don't and ask for her number. 2s You don't you know, also, if they're not interested, they might give you 1s fake number or something. You know, Casey Tatara has a really good joke, amazing comedian, he's like, but a lot of girls, they're so honest, when they give you a fake number, they'll only change the last number. So you just have to keep trying until you find her and you go, I found you. 3s Yeah, but what happened was after I got her number, 1s I was driving and I had a Maxima back in the day. And then I was talking to my friend Anita, who was married to my friend Doy Kwan. They live in OC. They have two twin girls, two twin boys, beautiful family. I was talking to Anita, and while I was talking to her, this semi truck sideswipes me. I thought I was going to die and just smashes me into the side of the road. And then I was like, 1s Are you okay? Oh, my God. Car was totaled. Luckily, I was okay somehow, 1s and I had to get the car fixed. And then during that time, I had a tiny little rental car. And I don't want to go on a first date with a tiny little rental car. I still have pride. So I didn't even contact my wife, even though I got her number. Normally you should wait like a few days. If you see the movie Swingers, the rule is how many days? Three days. That's right, gentlemen. So I didn't call her for a long time, like weeks. And normally when you call a girl, 1s it's a little awkward in the beginning, but when I call her, she said, finally. And I knew. Yes. I'm in, baby. And rest is history. Three beautiful kids home grinding for them. 1s Just still trying to make ends meet. But we're very grateful. So thank you, babe, for all you do and all your hard work. Hopefully I can one day make enough where you don't have to work. It's definitely part of the dream. The dream is 2s we can just travel, 1s have enough money where we both don't have to work. But what I want to do is do stand up comedy for a living. One day. Can't stop, won't stop. Dream big right now. Just survive. 

4.       My Husband has Diarrhea

One thing my wife does do, though, that she won't hesitate because she loves our kids so much is she'll throw me under the bus if it's for the sake of our kids. And our first son, he was born premature, and he was born under four pounds, and he was tiny, and we were really worried and stressed. He was in the ICU for a month before we could see him. 1s It was really emotional. I cried, too. I remember that first Thanksgiving we were without him. He's in the hospital. And I was very emotional during that Thanksgiving prayer. Just wanted him to be okay. 2s And we went to see a specialist as he was growing, we went to see a doctor 1s that specializes helping babies eat better. And we're sitting in front of 1s and we're sitting in front of a doctor, and he asks, so do either of you have any medical conditions? 2s Do you have any medical condition? And my wife just blurts out, my husband has diarrhea. 1s And I'm looking at it like, what does that have to do with anything, babe? And doctor is just all serious, taking notes, diarrhea. And she's like, yeah, it's chronic diarrhea. I'm like, what? First of all wait, doctor, why are you writing this down? First of all, what does that have to do with anything about our son being born premature and not eating well? And then 3s it's not chronic? 1s What are you talking about? Like, yeah, I drink. I was drinking alcohol, and I'll go out, come back. When you drink, sometimes you have diarrhea. That's it. Just working it out the next day. That's it. 2s It all right now. I'm in my car. That's how we have to do this podcast. It's not going to be perfect. It's going to be authentic. I'm waiting to pick up my kids. I'm just going to keep things moving forward. I do want to thank all the people that already listen and downloaded. Way more people than I thought. I really appreciate you, like, more than you know. We know when you first try something, you're like, is anybody going to listen? And the feedback has been great. So I'm just going to keep it real, keep it moving. I appreciate it. And hopefully can help make you laugh at least a little bit, help you escape the craziness of your day and maybe even learn something. 

5.       Word of The Day:  ATE

Today's word of the day is eight at E. I know it's not a new word, but in the Urban Dictionary it is, because I've been starting to see it everywhere. From Gen z like, oh, blackpink ate that. Blackpink ate at Coachella. I'm like, ate what? 1s Once again, I'm old and turned in my cool card. I'm humble enough to look things up. Yo, your your girl ate that. Your girl ate that dress. Like, what? So definitely means they executed it well. They did a great job at it. Look it up in the Urban Dictionary yourself. You can actually submit your own sentence, too, for Urban Dictionary, as long as it's legit. So, yeah, if you care, the young ones today talk about they ate that, it doesn't mean food. It means they did well. They're cool. They executed it well. Just a little tip from this old man. 2s Learn from the young ones. They're the cool ones. And also, we can understand that that phrase, it said an urban dictionary came from the young black people in Queens, New York. So we have to understand that a lot of the cool lingo that is used is from black American culture, hip hop. From black American culture hip hop that I learned from my roommate Carlos Aguilar in college. Occidental, college. I thought it was just rap. No, the four pillars of hip hop are rap, beboying, DJing and street art. Those are the four pillars. And that hold up. That started the culture of hip hop from the streets of New York and then spread. And when it first started, I remember there were older people going, oh, this is such a fad. Like when Ella Cool J first started saying, I need love, and people were like, oh, this is funny. JJ fad supersonic. 2s It wasn't a fad. It's just that black people usually start what's cool and then other people monetize it, which is why I understand the frustration from the black community a lot of times. 1s It's kind of the frustration Asians feel when you when you see people being racist towards Asians. Like, they'll say something racist and then they hop in their Asian car using an Asian phone, 1s wearing clothes made in Asia. You know, I'm saying there's a lot of irony there, you know, kind of like the people who will watch Sport, it's a lot of times played by black people, but still will be racist towards black people. 1s That kind of thing. Yeah. So I think that allow black people to find what is cool and what is said. And there's a lot to learn from that because sometimes people will use the lingo and not even know why 2s where it comes from. And by the time it reaches old people, then they're already on to the next. Same thing with Facebook. Once Facebook was used by older people, the younger people are like, we're done, Snapchat or whatever. They're on to the next already. They don't want to be affiliated with older people. That's just how it is. Younger people define what is cool, especially younger people who are oppressed or may not be as financially successful. They're always going to be more creative. People who are oppressed or people who don't have money. They. Are always going to be more creative and on the whole and define what is cool more than people who have money. And not only that, they will always have better parties and celebrate life more. 

6.       Can’t Fake The Funk 

This comes from 20 years of m seeing weddings too. Just because you have the nicest venue just because you have this really expensive venue doesn't mean that your party is going to be lit or fire. As my kids say, 1s how many times I've MC weddings at the most amazing places. Like, they spend tens of thousands, sometimes up to $100,000. And then guests are lame. They don't dance at all. Sometimes they leave raft dinner. Koreans. The older Koreans. Korean weddings are two phases. It's when the older people there and the right after dinner, they leave. And then there's phase two, the younger people. That's the real party. But we've done weddings where it was just. 2s Really at a restaurant and, like, in the part of a restaurant. And it was one of the most exciting weddings ever because everybody loved a couple. It's really not about how much you can buy for your guests. 2s Were you a good friend to them all these years? And did you have a genuine relationship? Just like that scene in Jerry Maguire 1s and Tom Cruise was hugging Cubican Jr. And they had a real genuine hug. And then Bob Sugar, J. Moore, 1s his client, was like, how come we don't have that relationship? 2s Because 2s you can't fake it. One time we did this wedding, my DJ, and I shout out to Jacob Alvarez, my old DJ. Man, we did so many weddings together. We did this wedding at a Chinese restaurant, chinese seafood restaurant in the six two six area code in La. And this is how crazy this restaurant was. All right? 1s I don't know if it's greedy or maybe they're barely trying to survive. This restaurant had a wedding. We're doing the wedding. And then there was a divider, and there was another reception next to us, but the divider didn't go all the way up. So the other reception was looking over at us like little prairie dogs. Like, their heads kept looking over. They didn't have a DJ, they just had a mic. We had a DJ, so we were overpowering them. And then in the side room, there was a baby birthday going on. And in the back of the restaurant, there were guests, like, normal customers of the restaurant. They didn't even shut the restaurant down for two weddings and birthday party. 1s And then towards the end of the night, there were all these girls in mini skirts going upstairs. And I asked the waiter, like, hey, what what is that? And they're like, oh, their hostess girls going up to a karaoke room. And I'm like, what? He's not closing things down for the wedding. Trying to get every last dollar. I don't want to judge. Maybe he's just trying to survive. But our wedding there we was the most it was the most ridiculous wedding setup. It was lit. Everybody had so much fun. They were dancing like crazy, and they're showing so much love to the groom and bride because, yeah, maybe the groom and bride didn't have enough money to get the nicest place, but you could tell, like, their friends and family loved them. They were, like, real, genuine people that everybody was really happy for them. Not, like, outwardly happy, hey, I'm so happy for but inside, they're like, 1s Nice place? Okay, bye. So 1s can't fake the funk, all right? Picked up my kids, drop them off back in my car. 

7.        Eddie Murphy and Johnny Carson

As a stand up comedian, people can sense if you're even 1% not confident, you know, if you're if you're. 1s You know, just showing a little bit of nervousness. You already lost. You got to go up there. Just full confidence. That only comes from time and experience. For me, what started it all was when, in 6th grade, 1s my older young that lived near me, job Jun, rest in peace, he left us in his 30s. Cancer. F cancer. 1s He had a cassette tape of Eddie Murphy and he let me listen to it. And I'm a preacher's kid. I wasn't allowed to listen to vulgar, anything vulgar. I remember listening to it in private, my room, a little cassette player, and I was just like my eyes were huge. I was like he was he was so vulgar, saying things I should not have been listening to at 6th grade. But it transformed my life. 1s And if you've never heard Eddie Murphy delirious, it was a game changer. He was in his young 20s. He sold out at 10,000 Seat Arena in his young twenty s. And he was on Saturday Night Live. 1s He he was a game changer. And I just was like, Wait, he does that for a living. He tells stories and he's I just remember I just planted a seated young age like, I want to do that. You know, he has this one bit about how, you know, in their neighborhood, they don't have it anymore. Rarely. But ice cream. Chuck used to come around, and then someone would yell, Ice cream. And then we start running toward asking their parents for money, their parents throwing money down from the window and go, give me a chocolate bar. Give me a toasty almond bar. And they run down to the ice cream shop. And then the kids that did get ice cream would always rub it in the face of the kids that didn't have ice cream. There'll be a girl going, you don't have no ice cream? You didn't get. You didn't get. And then just be brutal about it because your daddy's on the welfare. He's on the welfare. 1s Just classic crushed. And for me, that cassette tape of Eddie Murphy, and then later on seeing it, the video of it on VHS years later, and then. 1s Staying up at night when my parents went to sleep, I would sneak out, and at 11:30 p.m., I would watch Johnny Carson The Beginning monologue. He would do like a ten minute monologue. And he was a master. If you don't know Johnny Carson and you're younger, YouTube johnny Carson, the master of monologues. The Godfather. I mean, there were people before him, but I think he was the greatest talk show host of them all. And he was a master at recovering. He had writers, and sometimes the joke wouldn't work well, and then he would just have this look like, that's not my fault. That's your fault that you're not laughing. Or like, how dare you not laugh? Like, he just had this swag. 3s He was a G man. Eddie Murphy and Johnny Carson, they started it all for me. They were my first inspirations. 2s And then off to the races I went. I'll tell the story next time about when I first started doing stand up, I used to wait like four to 6 hours every Tuesday in front of the Laugh Factory in Hollywood, my favorite comedy club. 1s 

8.        BEEF

But what I want to talk about today is the show beef and how it's one of the best shows I've ever seen, definitely one of the best shows Netflix has put out, and just some of my connections with them and how Ali Wong personally smacked me in the face 1s with a billboard. And I'll explain, 2s but first, my connection with Allie Wong is when I first started, I was just like a few years in, allie and I, and there were a few other comedians. We were flown out to Singapore. It was my first time in Singapore. Amazing country, very clean, wealthy. Some people say without a soul. One of my friends, it doesn't have a soul. Maybe it's too money focused. I don't know what he meant by that, but he's performed there, too, as a beatboxer. But he was there. I remember 2s it was like a transform. They transformed a nightclub into a comedy club. Allie and I would perform. I didn't have that much timeline, like 20 minutes of comedy. We did our thing. 1s I remember ally and I, we ate lunch and super funny, super sweet, and we kind of, like, knew each other, stayed up, but she lived in the bay, and she was doing her thing. 2s And, you know, she just kept blowing up, rising, rising. I didn't know how big she was gonna get, but obviously she was working on her craft diligently, and and then when Baby Cobra came out on Netflix, crushed it. Hilarious, fearless, and just talking about things that most people, you know, wouldn't go into. And just her material is so good, and she's just hilarious, you know? And then she at her second Netflix special. But I remember one time, I was just, like, frustrated. One time 1s I have three kids, two jobs, and I'm not, like, getting to where I need to be doing stand up. I'm driving to the laugh actor on a Friday night. And when you're performing Laugh Act, they put your name up on the marquee, which is a big deal. Laugh Factory is one of the top comedy clubs in the world, and it feels good. They put PK up there, and then right next to my name, huge billboard on the side of the Laugh Factory is Ali Wong. It's her second Netflix special. Like, my name is there up there, and next to it is Ali Wong's billboard. Like. That's a thousand times bigger than my name. And it just literally felt like an invisible hand just smacked me in the face. Like, 2s just look where she is and look where you are. You guys started at similar times. I think she might have started a little earlier, but 1s it just hit me. The proof is in the pudding, right? Sometimes you can't deny it. And props to her. All respect to her. I think she did an amazing job. Job. I didn't know what a great actor she is. 1s She killed it in beef. She just captured so many 1s emotions. And what I loved about Beef was it just didn't show the good size. Show the good and bad, the complex size of everybody. It doesn't matter who you think you think is such a good person. Trust me, everybody has skeletons in the closet. Think about the worst thing you've ever done. 2s Think about the worst thing you've ever done. And let's say that was broadcast to the world. Like, they just showed a clip of it to the whole world. 1s How shamed you'd be. You know? 2s And there was no real protagonist. There kind of was, but no, every time there was a protagonist, no, they would do something bad. Steven Young, you kind of feel for him, but then he's stealing stuff. It's like the brother. And then David Cho, they did the reverse. Like, he started bad, and then you kind of roof for him a little bit, and then he's bad again. 1s That was so well written. Lisang Jin you did an amazing job, brother. I saw you on Dove, found his podcast. It was great getting to know your background. Just so proud of our Asian brothers and sisters doing it. That was top notch. And you look at all the reviews of people from all different backgrounds. It's such a well reviewed show. So if you haven't seen yet, check it out. Do not watch it with kids around. One of the reasons why it took me a long time to watch it is every time I try to put it on, my eight year old would come out, hey, what are you watching? And I got a chat. I can't watch with him around. It's definitely a rated R show. All right, so 1s it was amazing. And Steven Young, a long time ago at a show on Mnet for a year. Mnet is like a Korean MTV kind of show. We had a talk show with my friend Yvonne Liu. You can check her out. Vonnie Liu on instagram. She she. 1s And I, we would interview people. One time we had Stephen Young come in. This is before he blew up. Nicest guy, down to earth. He told us one story. He was from Detroit. Told us one story. When the Pistons beat the Lakers, 2004, him and his friends threw their couch. They wanted to celebrate, but they didn't know what to do. They were like, It was such a huge victory. They threw an old couch out from inside their place, and they lit it on fire in their front lawn. 3s They're like, we didn't know. We had to do something drastic. It was crazy. We don't even think we're going to win. It was a huge championship. The whole city was going crazy. I guess that was Steven's way of celebrating. But he's such a great actor, man. I think he's one of the best, and he produced it, and props to him. I love all the skits with Conan. And I wasn't really a big walking down not a really big walking zombie movie guy, but he killed it. 2s David Cho, the way I know David by the way, I'm not going to talk about anything that's going on off screen or. 1s What you know. You guys know what's going on. If you do know, you do know. If you don't, you don't. But I'm not gonna talk about what's going on. David cho off. I don't know what truth is. Only God knows. He said, as a made up story. I can only take him for his word. I don't know. 2s Hopefully he didn't do horrible things. But I can only talk about how I do know. David is our very first Collab year 2000 actor. John Cho was a judge. This is at the USC Bovard theater. I spent thousands of my own money. I borrowed money from my brother in law, Eric Young. Thank you. Lost it all, rented out a 1200 C theater and only 200 people came. Thanks to my friends, the TWC. They helped me out. And we had a staff of six, seven people. Ben Chung from the Jabawaukee's Kinjas was on there. He helped name the show. Actually, I want to call it collaboration. He said, how about with a Krina? Lee. Shout out to that whole first staff. Torin, Sandy, Peter, Karen. Like seven of us. Put the whole first collaboration together and. 1s And 1200 people and 200 people came. 2s And sometimes you fail. You got to keep moving forward, you know? And the years after that, it was 400, 800, 1200. And then by the 9th year, we had 6300 people come to the shrine. So it was amazing. I'll talk about collaboration on another podcast. 2s The David Cho was performed. The first one, he was a drummer. He's mad talented. He was a drummer. And then he brought, like, Korean cultural artists to perform while he was drumming. It was a really cool performance, just true artists from back in the day. 2s And then he made his 100 million plus off of Facebook stock. And then years ago, before the pandemic, someone asked me if I could MC 3s mom's 70th birthday party. 3s Forgot. Who? I think it was his cousin. I'm not sure. I just got an email, and the next thing I know, I realized is David chose Mom's 70th birthday party. And they were like. 1s These ajimas, like Korean older lady that I had my knees, basically. And it was actually a beautiful event, the Oxford Palace Hotel. So it's up to David. He was cool. 2s That's how I know David. That's my relationship with him. And I see him on different shows and podcasts and whatever, but I think he did great. He definitely played a great villain that you just did not like. Some people say that's how he is in real life, I don't know, but I think he did a great job with that. And just overall, five stars for the whole show. That was a great I'm willing to watch it again with my wife if she's down. So check that out and you want beef. It's all about Vietnam. Nice. Check it out. And I hope you enjoyed this podcast of chat, GPK stories, comedy and pain. A lot more to come soon. And be blessed. PK. Bye.