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Off The Record: Get to Know Comedian Joon Lee!

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0:00 Asians and Koreans in general good great hygiene especially Koreans I think they got the face care everything but I would say the only thing would be the garlic breath it just hits you man I mean I do it too but then other than that [Music] pristine and welcome back everybody to another amazing and special episode of the careful boys and today we are super honored to have Mr junle in the build let's go baby let's go I just realized that round with June B free marketing June don't even bring it and junri karate junri karate anything else what's another wrong but his is Jun Lee Jun Lee let's just talk about Jun Le what about pun C is that a rapper that's not a thing yeah

0:50 I know so hey June what's up man that was dude you asked that question we were we were riffing and we gave you space that's how it is here you know we to do the best you could we gave you an open mic he still hasn't said anything get that mic away from him so what's up June I'm going to sign this whole thing yeah I'm great thank you for having me okay we're going to get rid of the uh very basic Small Talk questions where are you from oh oh we're getting okay I'm from I was born in Guam what did you believe that I know that about we knew that food you want to try you didn't know that chamaro food see you said Guamanian food I knew it's chamaro food my ex-girlfriend uh she's is Korean with stinky ears and she told me that Guam is like the Hawaii of Korea like a lot of people like to go there is that how you were born there it's the it's the underrated Hawaii yeah yeah you're the

1:40 third person I know from Guam wow nice usually that's like the fun fact that I grew up with that you're the only person on the Guam yeah gu guy how did you how did your family end up there we had relatives there and my parents just moved there for a little bit um had me and then my Mom hated it so what she took us to America what's wrong with Guam yeah what is it like is it like Hawaii or it's just it's a it's a dot dot huh you can drive around the whole island in 7 hours which is sizable that's is it bigger than Wahu then I don't cuz it don't take 7 hours to go across hour walk yeah that's true huh but is it because of the speed limit the speed limit is like 25 milph oh yeah dang but then I grew I I went to Georgia when I was four and then I've been there like my whole life oh so you're more like a country Georgian boy yeah oh you're not like a Guamanian Surfer boy how come there's so many Koreans in Georgia

2:31 third largest K Town in the United States am I right how'd you know that dude just throwing stats out here number is that before or after he went there cuz he added in the per capita he changed before he went there don't fact check me but it's a very Siz is it Atlanta Georgia no no the well technically the K Town in Georgia is duut but dut whack duth is whack maretta till I die you heard it here first say Ito ████ it dud ████ buried it why is the LA though well duth kids are kind of like the ████ boys like kind of like well cuz like all the bars and karaoke like so it's just very easy to drink are they the toxic Koreans that girls talk about in Tik Tok interviews I guess so maretta is a bit

3:21 more wholesome nice I think it breeds better gentleman that's like Anthony Lee I'm not wholesome I'm ████ hard no that didn't work ████ can I ask can I ask why why does your ex have stinky ears yeah wait by the way how did yeah what is that about oh so I my girlfriend uh shout outs to Gina when I was in high school shout out shout you're out damn you're putting a name to the ear shout out Gina Kim if you're out there I remember like why every time she took a shower and then we would be like snuggling I'm like damn your ears so stink I didn't say that but in my mind I why you ear she didn't clean her ears how about the head she had nice head smell she was using Herbal Essence you know that was the thing that was the thing so did you go smell her hair and you're like oh and then you went down to your ear and you're like whoa what's

4:13 happening what about you you ever had any stinky girlfriends no thankfully no okay cool Asians and Koreans in general good great hygiene especially Koreans I think yeah they got the face care everything but I would say the only thing would be the garlic breath once in a while it just hits you breath it just hits you man I mean I do it too but then other than that pristine so good don't fact check me on this either but apparently Koreans are the least smelly people on the planet really I bet that's true body OD wise I put money on that body who's the most smelly people on the plan genetic out of Asians do you think Asian we all have a thought there's like a the the the there's a genetic reason for East Asian actually we lack yeah there's like a thing the thing yeah or we have onion

5:05 smell hyene I think that is no there was a yeah I read it it was the the same um Gene that gives us the what kind of ear wax you have dry it's the same thing that gives us the like no body odor like a wolf you know wolves don't have body odor so that other oh it's like a it's like a predator thing wow know wolves don't have BL don't they don't need deodorant but the reason why they don't have Bo is so that that just went over our heads what because said wolves don't need they don't need de so the pre never even know they walk by and they could be an elite Predator oh it's like you think all predators are don't smell or what I didn't smell l so wolves don't smell the way that dogs can smell no you could wet that ████ hey take that and then if you smell that won't be a smelly

5:55 that's crazy dog be smelling I think East Asians generally don't smell but but when it's rainy I I smelled a stinky ass Japanese man on the train I was like ████ you ████ what kind of smell is that it's rain activated that's the cigarett probably that's the cigarettes and what smell would you say it is like Nat really like ████ fermented soybean and and sweat man that ████ smelled like toe stink toe you think you was just eating a bunch of not though yeah I almost ████ them up I was like what's up stinky Yoshi so mad at some you want to ████ them up that's a violent response it's like how could you step on a train like this I fell asleep at the library and when I woke up I woke up at a for this motherfucker's feet stink so bad he's Chinese stinky ass Chinese man guy now and his his feet was on the table

6:47 with oh that's Chinese yeah yeah with with a holy sock just ████ swiss cheese sock ████ reading a newspaper I'm like who the ████ reads a newspaper these days and I looked at him I was like what the ████ in library how dare he yeah yeah with the stank foot and it woke it was stank so bad it woke me up dude remember those East LA ████ chairs at the library they were like nice lazy boys oh my God sleep so good they haven't changed this term so you might know but you know athletes foot in Chinese it's Hong Kong feet waa no way that's derogatory so imagine like even in man like in mainland China yeah everyone just calls it Hong Kong Hong Kong Fe you know in this like woke generation you probably can't categorize

7:38 a disease with a certain people like oh you just got Filipino breath bro you don't have hosis you got Filipino so it's like they don't even call it athletes but they call it Hong Kong feet wow Hong like but that's you think a doctor be like oh you got a Hong Kong feet my friend yeah they put it on the you know you know they call dreadlocks dirty dirty braids who call it that Chinese in Chinese dirty braid it's like literally translated to dirty but it's not tied to ethnicity or like a skin tone at the same time an ethnicity ties themselves to it so they feel oh you know little derogatory what's worse then to call it dirty braids or like Africa hair yeah the second one sounds way worse cuz like when you put a region that sounds worse I think it's worse when it's regional yeah but some people have some some dudes have good smelling dreads but then some guys have

8:30 or if if it has like a ring to it I think that's when it's worse white dudes that they do this ████ their hair for sure smells when it has a ring like when it's when it sounds cool that's the absolute worst if they called it Congo cap worse yeah yeah that sounds bad no it's called a Kangle it's different Kangle hat so back to June now let's talk about June dude did you get into acting because of like the scene in Atlanta and stuff um has a big Hollywood scene there huh it's Atlanta scene it's a big production scene it's cuz it's cheap he like Hong Kong feet out there we got a we got a case of those yeah Filipino Beth's bad hey we call it Pinoy Breeze Pino Breeze that's diplomatic how Filipino to make everything cool sounding dude that was quick it sounds like a Glade flavor y

9:22 let me smell your beer real quick F so swag at but Atlanta has a good uh big production so it's everything's cheap to shoot there but then all the talent is still getting cast here the only things the only like roles that are getting cast in Georgia are still kind of the more minor roles but the main all La cuz they're not shooting Walking Dead anymore right in stranger things Walking Dead was in Marvel see so do they do they have like big studios you know we drive through Burbank and stuff do they have like big studios like that out there too oh cool but all the casting is just mainly done here and then everyone flies there for they all Outsource a boring question that maybe you know the answer to Is there like different like taxes in Georgia as well where production is like that much they get better tax breaks yeah Louisiana Georgia Vancouver a lot of people got B yeah anything's got to be better than here so

10:13 I'm wondering why like a bunch of like production doesn't like move over there what's number one New York Vegas shut the ████ up it's coming up dude shout outs to Mark Wahlberg you got his ear smell good no smelly ear he is trying to uh produce a Hollywood in Vegas Hollywood 2.0 I have a question for you do you see a difference at all between the Koreans in Georgia and in K toown like La yeah oh yeah how Southern Hospitality that's the big difference it's just it's ingrained disc to the Koreans out here huh I like that southern hos hospitality is pretty sick though it's tight yeah Southern Hospitality does transcend every race yeah you just like can't beat it even when we like get brought out by like the schools like doesn't if like Vietnamese and the bay or Texas or North Carolina when they bring you out it's

11:03 just a different type of like warmth yeah yeah they're sweet like sweet tea oh the sweet tea in Georgia you have to try it it's like you instant diabetes the McDonald's sweet teas is so guaranteed guaranteed but oh you got to try it oh that's true the sweet tea here in McDonald's wasn't the same it's not that sweet it's like more like unsweet I don't know is it are there like rules to Southern Hospitality like Unwritten rules yeah um like somebody's got shot on your front por you got to bring him in and ████ save them type ████ damn it dude get get the bandages godam I know you know what I mean is that common one thing I will say is like stuff old timey rulle Korean version of southern hospitality is it does it differ at all when keep his shoes on Kore keep bit that's keep give side dishes with everything I mean I don't know if there's a difference with the

11:53 Koreans I don't know I think it's just kind of ingrained where like people don't make as much eyee contact or small talk here um I cuz you don't know if they're going to bite you or not exactly that's true that's valid he can't tell I I was dating a girl that she's never been to like America and I took her to Georgia and then we were just driving around town and I parked in a spot and then the guy was outside waiting for his door Dash and then he I like we got out the car we're walking away he's like oh hey uh I just saw someone get a ticket 15 minutes ago I was like okay cool and I got in and then she was like tripped up about that I was like wait why she's like do you know that guy I like nah and so she thought that was like like strange wow but that is just like a stranger technically it is strange yeah

12:44 cuz like Southern Hospitality um here or not just here but people that don't know only equated to like opening the door yes sir yes ma'am but it's like deep for like example when a guy's on a date one thing I tell guys is would thing I tell ladies is focus Less on if he pulls a chair out for you but focus more on where he chooses to sit meaning like I think that's Southern Hospitality a man that kind of sits where he can face on top of the table exactly kind of like you know what I mean so he's like kind of taking charge of so like I think it's just like these tiny little things I mean the sidewalk thing that everyone now knows but it's just these jacket on the puddle jacket on the so southern hospitality means you don't believe in equality huh here's

13:35 women actually no under the table I can't even but Koreans are still women versus Korean here's women here's Koreans that's a good scale I like that scale I what I do like about it is like when you grow up in California you have this stereotype about like Southerners being racist Hicks and uneducated and mean and whatever but you go out there that's cuz California is stupid stupid is dumb dude the kindest people on Earth and you're just like this is what they mean like you really don't get it until you go there and then you go there and you're like Texas is awesome the Carolinas is awesome the south is cool like it's like all of that area is like oh yeah I mean like maybe there are like Hicks and racists and but they treat me better than the ████ white people here in California so like straight up dude like

14:28 I don't know i' rather around a redneck than a liberal snob like ████ I get treated way better by these folks one thing I do respect about like the south is you might not agree with them and they might not agree with you they're very strong on their morals and beliefs but there's something respectable about that even as a man you're like but then they're usually kind enough where they're like this is what I think but I don't yeah they don't expect you to they're not imposing on your belief one thing I've noticed about La this is tur into turning into like a la just like sh I like I like absolutely valid you're allowed as an Angelino born and raised all of us are local we're not transplants here but one thing I will say is but I will die ATO you know what I'm saying yeah that's fair you should as you should maybe I don't know yeah you'll probably die here actually statistically no go ahead go

15:18 ████ on La La will la will believe in anything but religion what do you mean that it's true it's true with the LA hat on yeah yeah like what do you you mean by that I it's just everything is a religion plants yeah you're right oh like astrology crystals Yoga Yoga a health like vegan veganism I feel like Christians in La kind of feel like oh we got to be secret I feel like being Christian in 2024 is Extreme yeah that's the radical behavior that is like right now that's extremist yeah you're right that's very true wow yeah no that's that's a good take cuz in Hawaii I'm constantly invited to churches like people openly just be like oh you should come to my church whatever I just met

16:09 you fool that s███'s crazy that's like sleeping on the first date in La no one would do that like it's rare like people don't ████ meet you the first day and go come to my ████ synagogue come to my church come to my MOS they don't do that ████ you got to like you got to date and then they go hey what are you doing Sunday yeah you know and then you ████ ask to ████ you know like it's and then you ask to ████ yeah religion got replaced by f45 in Soul cycle yo shout out to f45 yeah I think I think it's like a it's a more like oh I don't know you know if I should say this to them but that's actually normal like in other parts of the country is just come to church with us I think La needs a little more God you know what I mean I think it needs to lower anxiety I think there's so much tension and anxiety in the air people are like I don't want to I don't want to inconvenience you I don't want to talk you I don't know what the ████

17:00 you're dealing with you're probably deal with some crazy ████ so am I so let's just so there's all this weird distance so it just feels like cuz when you go to the South it doesn't feel like I got to keep all my ████ to myself oh dude nice pair of shoes oh cool that's what I love I love that there just like Humanity right away versus like La everyone's like oh I'm ████ late 30 minutes and I ████ I'm blid on my bills no one talk to me God damn man you're going to invite me to your church ████ you it's like it just feels like like ████ rubs off on you too it's like just like that girl it's like when you do face that Hospitality somewhere else you're like thrown off right it's not like a normal like it's like oh yeah this is what it should be like at first you're like whoa uh yeah I guess we'll talk right now like a Uber or lift driver that picks you up in another airport or something like that they're like super like super nice but they're asking everything personal but usually

17:50 in La you ████ like put on your airpods or some ████ and you sit for like 45 minutes in traffic don't talk and if someone tries to talk to you you're like what the ████ do you want for what what's ████ angle well you know why though you trying to get a tip I don't want to read a script dude I have an agent all right you know why I don't want to do herb life all right it's I am an agent we probably did open up and got burnt for it that's a big city thing there's a lot of cons here there's a lot of crazy people here lot of traffic moving there's a lot of ████ going on here and you there's like consequences for your kindness and I think that's what happens a lot where people close up or they get annoyed really quick and then sometimes you ride the Metro station La and then you get lice there's a lice Outbreak on the ████ Metro station that's the next thing that happens yeah isn't that crazy

18:40 oh yeah what's your favorite thing about it is like the light yeah ticks you like The Tick let me let me say this in front of the camera um I think La does enough dreaming for the rest of the country wow that's a really cool statement that's that's really romantic that's pretty deep though yeah I think yeah la is the beacon of like imagination creativity like foresight like where are we going to take culture we going to push the boundaries and then I think everyone goes say what you want about La but that's true I think a lot of those people are the ones that are fearful of chasing their dreams hey you know I'm proud of be in La dude the the other cities and states they're they're they're scared of chasing their dreams yeah like the people that are like just just purely ████ on LA yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah I think yeah I think there's a

19:31 little bit of that um I think just the N uh nature of La is the first year or two you're like this is the worst city in the world and then something happens you're like it happens in year 40 kind of nice LA's kind of nice it's like okay and so that that kind of happened to me and um I love La that's I think it's funny for me because I grew up here so I it's almost like you have to talk ████ about it cuz it's funny but true but there's something that brings me back consistently I mean you're still here and I think you're right it's it's not our lease yeah we have a lease not this that's a small thing yeah five commitment I think it might be also big city right but but the thing is I've now worked in

20:22 different cities met with different people in different cities and how they operate is completely different it's much slower you have less motivated people or or driven people and dreamy people right so like you can get a group together and we're like all right we're going to execute this thing in La you have people that get it and they'll be like all right tomorrow it's done and we're just going Bam Bam Bam like I'm not saying people have bad work ethics I don't want to be confused with that yeah at ji Hawaii no it's just a different level of speed and pace and mentality and New York Yorkers are probably 10 times what La is without the creativity so I think it's like out here you have Tech entertainment um a lot I mean entrepreneurs are everywhere but

21:13 the types here it's like you have way more so you have like maybe thousands of people that you can Network and play with to assemble and get a game going versus other cities maybe your circle's a 100 so it's like you have less options to kind of get together and it might be even more competitive where you can't like work in a way where it's collaborative because everyone has their section whereas in La there's like it's almost Limitless where it's like I don't really like this group right here and we can compete but I can find this other group here that meshes well with my personality I think that's the biggest thing I've noticed yeah bigger Market yeah it's like limit yeah it really feels endless here whereas other places you can see the limitations you're just like oh there's only one industry ████ on New York a little bit

22:03 more there's like one theater yeah get them real mad I have some New York stuff too yeah what you got are we just ████ on all the cities let's just go down the list too expensive everyone getting priced out dude I don't know ████ about New York I love New York too I don't know anything but the funniest thing on it I love it it's love hate with everything right I think the funniest thing to me is I think New Yorkers when they go outside everyone's like oh wow you're from New York when they come to La we're like so you know what New York people very stylish so folks are very stylish they got more weather so they got more options to like we're supposed to talk ████ about New York Tupac versus bro Q me Q me very stylish but dude they're going to the ████ grocery store bro like just relax a little bit just a little bit just there's the shade yeah you're going You're Buck your erand dude you buying

22:53 milk in crocodile boots they crazy Bro ████ du [Music] what

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