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Which is Better: LA or NY?

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0:00 [Music] okay so this is a question mainly for Gucci but feel free to chime in and just uh ruin the whole thing uh now that you've been living in La for a while yeah your honest opinion don't hold back and just like give it to us straight okay my honest opinion of Los Angeles well I want you to tell us straight up how where did we go wrong and how can La be better oh my God yeah cuz my opinion where are we where are we totally missing the point with like was La messing up I love Los Angeles I am not one of those people who are like New York New York yeah I am that way too but say it again say it again New York New York everybody put some sauce on it when you say when they say New York New York New York um yeah I my first year

0:50 when I was here it was hard just cuz I didn't know anybody but like you really can't beat the weather honestly like I feel like everybody who's from here is dope as like every everybody who has a problem with LA is because they live in like the you know like transplant area the transplant areas exactly so you're dealing with a bunch of people who are coming here to pretend to be somebody else I'm like all now all of my great friends my best friends now are like from La south of the 10 they grew up in other parts you yeah so I love it it is just like wildly my only Coral is like it's really segregated like if I want to get good Asian food I got to drive like a hour in like prime time traffic um that makes me pissed but other than that yeah I just don't like to drive because I'm bad at it and it's not a race thing it's just if you ever try to like get good food genetic you're try to get good food and

1:41 then if you want to like replace the inner tube of your mountain bike and you want to like uh invest in like a cooler that's like 3 hours to complete those errands the whole day random errands but yes exactly you got to plan your ████ from the moment you wake up yeah and for people who were like oh I'm stuck in traffic you know there's traffic every ████ day bro you got be it's not an excuse anymore at all it's a part of your day like you got to expect okay I'm going to be in the car for this amount of time every time I fly into LAX I'm like yes I ████ miss this and I'm like oh the crisp air and I get into my Uber and I'm like ████ this place dude 1 and a half hours it should take 20 minutes to get the ████ JK what the ████ is this ████ yeah yeah yeah man wait how New York do you consider

2:31 yourself to be though like me well I grew up in the suburbs like right outside like I grew up around people who were mov from Queens because they got a little bit of money and then you know but like are you a fan of like like most things like New York are you like hardcore about like I mean I have no loyalty clearly I'm like I think New York is great I think it's really great uh especially in your like formative years where you're growing up and like you get to be be exposed to so many different types of people right like you you'll figure out people's ████ real quick that I I really appreciate cuz I I was actually born in Dallas and when I moved from Dallas to New York I feel like I was a really like insulated sweet innocent girl and then New York beat the ████ out of me it's said ████

3:21 ████ grow up ████ how old were you when you left Dallas I was um almost I was like 9 10 years old oh so that's pretty good I think that's okay to be an innocent girl yeah no no not in New York too quick yeah New York you better ████ toughen up toughen up kid it's a real world um what's better about New York what's better about Los Angeles in comparison um definitely food food oh n New York does have better food better food yeah yeah New York has better food I can't even hold you n that's kind of rude I can't hold y I can't hold y I can't hold Y is it a proximity thing or is it just quality that probably is what it is too to watch even better borrow that's about it I'm not going to lie if you go to flush in New York yeah I you're wrong you're for sure wrong we for sure have better Asian food oh Asian you got to put me on you got to put me on have you done the Monteray Park tour

4:11 I've done a couple spots in Monteray Park what's your favorite like Asian dish oh I know the dish if I like this question I love uh if I was to eat uh one single food for the rest of my life it would be dumplings because it comes in so many different varieties you got pan fried you have soup dumpling oh yeah you have man it's endless mhm and what's your favorite with you've been to Dun I mean there's that's everywhere too though yeah I've been to Dun that one's like whatever yeah it's cool Bouie dumplings they're still good but they're just they're just different I think yeah no I like some like I don't mind like a hole in the wall like grimy type ████ like I don't know where that is out M dumpling right here that's all we got ready yeah you got to put me on man super cheap too one you can't go wrong with WR that down

5:02 type in Mand Deli too I guess as someone that that you actually like enjoy La you like La that I feel like your opinion does make it easier for you to be able to find the little things that you're like oh but that could be better you know what I mean because you actually do like it you're not hating on it I think people that are actually you also sound like a really just like a nice and happy you can you you're easy to love life person you're not like a cynical New Yorker I feel like you you might be the good candidate on finding the improvements you know what I mean M yeah yeah I'm good at telling people what they can fix oh third category so no second one so we had food second one Latin people Puerto Ricans better or Mexicans better question okay okay okay the diversity in New York of Latin people is like way different yeah you can't get no

5:53 good Mexican food in New York that's not you Mexicans I haven't met a single Mexican it's worth my time in New York what is it mostly like is it like Caribbean yeah it's it's mostly like Caribbean yeah yeah Dominicans Puerto Ricans they do have B Cuban food though yeah we do have like ecuadorians peruvians it's just like different foods like Mexican this is Mexico is Mexico I mean it's named Los Angeles no no no this was Mexico the Gulf of America be China sh sh West Coast history does start with Mexico like the ████ that we learned we

6:43 learn about Spaniard ████ and then Mexicans not really nobody tell me how much you know about the chum you know ████ about the chum we know about the pblos yeah the P why was that so dainty know about the sh T what's you masing about right now do they still teach American history the same way as when we were kids I don't even know right I like they don't it well and if you grow up in the sgv it starts with the sang because we have evidence that's the pride of California most things are still standing the pride of sgv that's a big deal though that's a big deal truth of the missions are actually very dark aren't they they don't tell the kids that all history is real ████ dark yeah but the fact that them things are still standing God The Gallows that's why we shot our video

7:34 what are these what are these what are you talking about so like you know like when they were doing like conversions to like get uh I guess like when they were trying to make people into Christians yeah I remember it was great times that's what those were right the Miss under the veil of spreading like Christianity like every uh every major city that starts with the sand like San Diego San Gabriel St Louis abiso they're all missions by this guy named father jip perosa um but there's a lot of dark ████ with ████ like that too crazy we learned different ████ bro that's cuz you guys have old like what do you call New England history we learned a lot of new English but our side started with the Spaniards yeah so they were actually like started with Quakers oh that's cool Quakers baby no that's cool those are the most ████ up people I he they're tight I they real cool yo they make bomb

8:25 oatmeal yeah they still do yeah the buildings that they would do those those missions are all still here in this area and they're like preserved as like monuments now and there's a lot of Indian burials tell us about the dark ████ Bart yeah tell us about the dark I think they'd be like um oh you don't know how to read you ████ Savage then ████ bend over and read this Bible I stick it in your butt oh that is the detail that's how it was who was your teacher I don't know I'm just going to show you probably spot on though I'm just going to show Nacho Libre to my kids and tell them that that's San Gabriel Mission history na Le is really really good did that take place here no they probably shot it here that was

9:17 based off of a real dude though yeah it was it was based off a true story well very Loosely based off a true story very Loosely okay what about Transportation whether it's public or get just getting around which one ation here is ass I need flying cars already bro yeah I hate driving I hate driving I hate driving if I don't have to ever drive again that's honestly where I want to be with my career I want to be so lit that I don't have I have a driver on ████ payroll I sick of driving what do you like why don't you take a uber what do I like about driving here nothing you could die do you feel like it's a different pace like overall it's so dangerous I've been in three car accidents in the span of a year yes definitely genetic [Laughter] it's Mom's side for sure that's Mom Mom side is going crazy right now it's a law

10:07 of attraction for sure what about okay like I this is a close this will be a close tie who's who's got the better parking situation K Town or or uh they're actually really equal they're town is like the toughest K Town's the probably one of the worst parking situations in La it's the worst it's the worst one I won't go there for that re say K Town in La ████ on K Town in New York true oh really yeah yeah no it's it's it's better K toown in New York is like a postcard it is it's like yeah it's like a block oh yeah yeah aren't there a lot of Kens over there they just don't have not as much as Chinese well K toown here is like Soul number two that's ████ crazy yeah like they have their own that's what threw me like they have their own world I can walk into an establishment and they don't speak any

10:58 English just Korean look at you like what are you doing here you know it's a ker right still English we speak English oh my God is like a Korea right you're in my hometown yeah they don't even have to put an English version of their sign it just says buy buy and bulog buy wow very similar three times it sucks cuz it's so good why does it be so inviting yeah but I have to be

11:49 like within a I have to be within like 15 to 20 minutes of an Asia Supermarket though that's like my yeah that's a what's your goto mitsa um Hmart is one I know you can't beat it it's undefeated right I so disloyal because the Korean markets have the same ████ that Japanese markets do but half the price yeah that bigger it's like you feel like you're going into like a miniature Costco or something yeah Sushi they Sashimi no it's good yeah at Hmart ████ y putting me on it's quite good it's quite good I know exactly where it is too Korean markets are like they got Chinese variety it's Big Y it's Chinese prices but Japanese quality and the too the little Korean side dishes to the banan too yeah yeah that makes that makes my dinner bro do you like oniri I love onigiri have you ever seen like a like a

12:41 a black Japanese onigiri Fusion no but actually let's cut this part out so I can start this business that's ████ amazing what would what would you put in it what is that just like fried chicken Oni oh come on that's lowy is what it would be they have that in and you know what it's actually Korean so is it Korean Fried Chicken it probably would be oh I had that in um garlic soy have you guys been to ABC Store in Hawaii yeah they have this muui it's like this ████ big and it's a flat chicken KATU with rice yeah XL damn how much is that like five bucks it's pretty good solid I love Oni gir man the best me too only three kinds that like if you see them if you get the OG stuff but everyone's evolving now I like the Australian it's Fusion now you ever seen those chick you seen Australian Sushi no it's like sacr

13:32 but it's so bomb what's all on it it's it's like it looks like this basically but then it'll be like the seaweed on the outside and then the rice and then they'll just put whatever in the inside it'll be like like a hot dog peer they could yeah but they'll just put like teriyaki chicken or they'll put like so it's just a straight up like hand hand roll but they'll just put whatever they want but then they just have them like always out on like these outdoor counters and they're just always available and there's hundreds all the time let's just make a business you just walk up and for like three bucks you just grab one I think technically that's a k poop actually oh yeah it's a Kpop K poop you know like the Korean things when when you hear people they say like uh how moms used to make it it would just be like whatever's left over in the fridge yeah roll it up here's a new thing so it could be hot yeah it could be hot dog could be whatever but it's kind of like it's kind of like a surfer

14:22 snack they have them out usually like a like by the beach so like if you're just walking by you just get one done but they're everywh we like in malls and shopping centers one person tried to open it in New York and it got destroyed but then it came back up oh that's but it got like yeah because they were have you have you been to Pie Face in Australia Pie Face yeah yeah yeah I like pie face I been Pie Face me pies are good yeah I discovered it when we went oh yeah that's all we ate Pie Face and nandos nandos though I love Nando that's one thing that makes me sick I'm going back to I'm actually going to be in DC at the end of February at the DC Improv they got nand there they got nandos in DC with that Perry Perry sauce yes what' you say do they have a nandos in New York no and it

15:13 makes me sick but they got one in Chicago what yeah shut up yeah isn't it crazy you know what I think they got in New York Vapiano what is that Vapiano it's like Italian chipotle style like make your pasta ████ I think they got a ich on over there too they do in Brooklyn I love ichir oh no you know what I'm talking abouto what is it Ramen ████ probably like the best R ever so Japan you could get it uh instant they sell the instant noodle one seen that actually I think I've gotten that before yeah but I heard the New York one's like pretty pricey it's like 25 bucks or some ████ or I don't know for ichon that just sounds like New York prices cuz I'm just like ichon should never be that much it should be like six bucks yeah Ramen is like a drunk food but anything you can get like tickets from a vending machine

16:05 like that should be cheap right yeah but it is New York New York's just I mean it's like $15 for cigarettes yeah that's true it's just New York everything's expensive premium where do you grade um the average interaction with a stranger um here between I here and New York ooh people actually like say good morning to you and ████ out here which is cool like if I say good morning yeah they they'll respond you say it first New York I it depends on how I feel that day feel was cold out here to me really yeah yeah I mean there is versus like let's say Texas they'll have a full conversation with you yeah yeah yeah and they don't even know you yeah yeah I mean I feel like I get that but you know I'm also a girl so people are more apt to talk to me yeah you look like a freaking ogre sometimes to people who going to talk to this ████ guy I get that from like my lift

16:55 drivers um in New York like people are quick like they don't have a lot of time for pleasantries but they will help you and like people are kind yeah in New York like they'll help you like I I remember when I was like starting out in comedy I'd be sitting at a bar and just like chopping it up with somebody and they' be like oh you're comic yeah like come to a show and then they'd pull up complete stranger that won't happen here that's true that won't happen that's true I heard that I heard that in in in New York it's like the opposite like they'll be on time and then when they say they'll show up they'll show up over here no one's ever on time and then they'll say they'll show up and they'll never show up show up yeah yeah there's always filler words here like oh yeah we should grab lunch and that just that just means you're not going to see them ever again yeah that was like that was an adjustment when I first got I was like damn nobody no nobody fuls their

17:45 promises but it's a it's a traffic thing you know it's like it's like oh yeah like I need to be fake and nice and be like yeah I should go and then you get home after like an hour traffic and you're like dang I'll get there tomorrow if I start now facts you know whereas like when New York you're already out and then you already got to be on that Subway and then you could just be like do I take this Subway or if I just go on that one but low key you don't want to go home cuz your house is a closet this is true you want to stay outside you be outside I didn't think about that that's different yeah and over here you just want to stay home all day yeah sure that's true damn cuz it takes 30 minutes to go so that's how we make La culture nicer we make all the houses smaller Mak so people don't want to be home La person says I'll never see you again ah impossible what is that impossible that sounds like code for come to my

18:37 dungeon that's ████ crazy yeah that's how that sounds like Diddy party ████ I heard that I heard the difference is in New York nobody dreams in LA everyone dreams nobody dreams in New York nobody nobody not even JayZ Frank sinra said that I think not even little mama they don't dream they don't got dreams man what do what do they do what do they do they just walk hard I work hard you just hustle I don't sit around and dweam all day dud he's turning into Mike Tyson wa keep going uh s like Jojo SE this one interaction I had in New York I was I was going to shake shack and then uh you know the thing where like let's say that you get in line and then you have a

19:28 friend that's like coming to meet you and you guys are going to be on the same bill so whatever they're just going to jump in line they jump in line with you is that not a thing in New York what happened cuz they got pissed at me for doing that he no cut no just everyone in the back because like uh so like I was I got off the subway to like meet my friend who was standing in line at Shake Shack the line was like uh out the door but like we're going to be on the same tab so it's like we're one person anyway I got in the line with them and then everybody behind was like what the ████ like and I was like it's the it's it's like we're the same person we're going to be on the thing and then uh one more Burger yeah and I was like I was like damn sh I I said something to my friend I was like damn imagine if shig shag La was like this and then they all went oh it's La in here you should have said that yeah and I was just like what happened New York

20:18 doesn't have math I was like this is the same ████ oh we talking math they got want to talk about man what the difference if you just walk to the side and you just texted her your order that's what I mean the same amount of burgers anyways the difference is I just wanted to be able to talk now H one plus one ████ you I thought it was yeah and then this the girl right behind was like this ain't La okay and I was like what it's the same ████ yeah they're very they will vocalize how they feel that is the difference more banter yeah yeah very very expressive and at L that won't happen but I also for that reason whenever I go back to do shows and they're like she's out here from La I'm like don't f█████ that they will throw ████ at you not that I don't love LA but I'm like yeah they will treat you different they find LA and you say it

21:10 you know they will I don't know what it is I don't know why we still got beef all these years she the Tupac in biggy fall it's like a one-sided beef though people in La don't give a ████ I'm from New York they're like that's nice how's the Yankees doing well it's also it's also like sports too right like we also just had Dodgers and Yankees and stuff too it's like there's so many different spaces at which that competition is always going to beef in rivalry yeah but doesn't New York have internal Sports yeah not really but yeah nah who cares that week too when um it was Dodgers versus Yankees and I had like um I had something on that like looked like it was Yankee stuff and this dude was like I was um by what's that uh the soccer stadium that's um um the one theth the LA FC yeah I was over there for like some outdoor thing and this

22:00 dude was like oh nah she a Yankees fan I turned around I said no man I had a LA Dodger T I said no no look I was fake as ████ that week cuz I am a Yankees fan but I was like I don't want problems he said oh my bad sis thank you I was about to knock you out thank God you had the hat on

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