0:00 thank you [Music] welcome to another great episode of careful boys today we have a very special guest we have Mr Hunt's kids ah I'm just kidding all right let's go it's a great first impression dude yeah we've seen you killing it on kill Tony and you're opening for Rogan now yeah holy crap man it's pretty crazy you were you were just uh you're you were a regular and kill Tony for a while but then before that were you just a random walk up and you get a minute to make them laugh totally uh American success story The American Dream you know just from the bucket to the private jet yeah dude so if you guys you guys watch kill Tony yeah that's where I found them first and then like I saw his stand up there and his deliveries just
0:52 so different from everybody else yeah and also like he's just getting railed on by Tony and then he's just taking it's just funny he can hang it's funny yeah but he's yeah giving dishing it back but his delivery's all always consistent and so I hit him up and I was like dude you're ████ hilarious man so I was like you gotta come to JK we gotta have you here hey who hit you up first Joe or Bart uh uh I don't remember I think you did oh buddy responded to Bart that's why he's here oh he responded to me too but I think in the at that time it was you you were probably I remember we were at Vegas at the same time and you just did the opener for Rogan the museum Grand yeah and then you're like oh yeah I'm not in La yet so then after that I went off to Hawaii we stopped chatting yeah yeah the LA thing like once I'm here like I've been doing a lot of stuff so that's like
1:43 good because everything's here especially the Asian stuff have you noticed anything particularly different in terms of what the Asian stuff it's more high octane this is like the peak the cream of the crop of the Asians any other Asian shows or other Asian shows you know um I don't is there a competition but yeah I mean I don't want to we're competing publicity no just kidding I'm doing a dumbfounded yeah we don't mention his ████ name sorry what else are you doing have you done have you done celebration no how about Invasion no yeah yeah you never did those I did celebration yeah Asian
2:33 persuasion 2022 ah dude all the college shows they named their they think they're so unique but every ████ year they name their College event the Asian Club gets together they're like what should we call it oh I know what it is it's age Invasion money yeah celebration yeah preparation celebration is pretty good celebration right yeah I like that one yeah those are good so I feel like you've probably seen a lot of different Asian communities being that you started in let's say Jersey is where you were born yeah Brunswick and then you went with Seattle from there yeah and then to uh New York yeah oh but you went to school in Georgia Atlanta yeah Atlanta okay yeah you know and then what's this blood type Ryan we're gonna tell your story yeah and then you wanted to be you want to get into haircuts but then you're like nah I want to do comedies what do I want to do next and then when did you get Korean
3:24 Korea the whole time so then when you traveled around that much did you do you feel like you saw it was that anything to do with like were you part of different Asian communities at all were you just kind of doing whatever I usually did the church thing with my parents so oh okay I got to know the Asian community that way and that's fun that's cool you know but you can't have sex with anyone there yeah yeah bummer yeah I would argue that the most sex comes from church I know I'm not but they don't always look the best I like church girls well you probably went to a church with cool looking girls I didn't go to church that's why stacked Church girls because then it's like whatever they're wearing you can see what's going on yeah it's exciting Sunday dresses that's good where do you reside now Austin Texas
4:15 home of the Freedom Fighters did you decide to go there to do comedies yeah kill Tony and then I became a regular I was living the aim was killed Tony yeah oh wow that's cool so you moved there to do kill Tony you're like ████ I'm gonna do it yeah and it worked out it was crazy yeah you said you're living in a van yeah I was living in a van and I was like I'm just gonna go to Austin check it out and then get out of there before the summer hits but then I got it and I was like ████ I have to live in a van in Texas just to do kill Tony what was that like how long were you able to live in it it's like waking up in a sauna but some people they they glamorize that ████ like I'm a van influencer yeah I'm living the van life but for you it was more like I'm poor yeah it's practical this is like you know like it's a Tommy mat it's like
5:05 very Asian very like Marie condo yeah it's interesting how people always want to talk to people who used to live in bands but not who currently live in Vans that's sad yeah it's too unrelatable past tense thing yeah when you were moving all those times your family was not coming with you to all these things no yeah they were just chilling being Asian somewhere did they uh also Asian you and be like oh you won't be a doctor no they were just glad I wasn't in jail or like doing drugs on a homeless oh that's good but you did complete mechanical engineering yeah I have a degree Bachelor of Science I'm very bad at it don't have me build any Bridges it'll fall down really yeah have you tried Bridge simulator yeah oh yeah yeah there's a bridge simulator yeah ████ yeah it's on Steam dude check it out
5:55 sick yeah that's awesome did you want to invent ████ or something with mechanical engineer to not be a loser I just want to make a lot of money and have like a normal office job what happened what transitioned you from in that path to becoming loser I just didn't see the larger picture like why am I Building Bridges for these ████ I don't even have health care yeah oh they don't give you health care I thought those kind of companies are loaded well yeah they do but I wasn't I have to like you know get through not as an intern yeah so when were you aspire to be a clown um when I failed at mechanical engineering and uh yeah and we're all clowns here yeah but you've got a Bachelor's over there yeah you didn't fail why do you say you failed I mean I
6:46 failed uh in the job like the job I wasn't really happy with me and also like I didn't get good grades so it's hard to get a job oh they look at your grades yeah you gotta have good grades too but do you feel like you were ever like really in it though like your heart was really in it no you couldn't give a ████ probably just going through the mood it was just school to me you know like I don't like school if I'm like a kid and I'm like man I want to be you know I don't want to I don't know what I want to do yet sell me on mechanical engineer well you'll be having stability you'll have like a you know mediocre life you'll have Safety and Security and you can be like a little like a cow like cattle sounds great I love cows salesman kind of hit so what what where did this comedy like from mechanical engineering to like stand-up comedian
7:38 where did that happen like yeah I mean it's all I know it's all engineering jokes no it's all Joe Rogan honestly you're inspired by him yes yeah oh wow like this is the meritocracy this is like fun this is individualistic I don't have to rely on some ████ so let me if if you can charge people at the door to come watch your show then you can make money just seemed like a good so that must be mind-blowing that this guy inspired you to actually pursue comedy and then you end up opening for him yeah wow that's cool come true like I've been watching him from afar molding my life based on what he says and then he's like you did well you have become the thing I wanted you to become now open for me that's so Chic dude get like along the way did you ever get any other
8:28 affirmations from like just people in your life or friends that were like hey you're really funny man you should do this like yeah I mean I got affirmation when I was doing it like I wasn't failing at it yeah I was doing well in Seattle and then I went to New York and I kind of struggled for three years but people still told me I was funny I still felt good and uh you can't deny what you feel in the room so every day in stand up you get access to an audience so I just feel myself with that you know when you say struggling in New York what what do you mean by that they weren't ████ with me they weren't booking me on stuff they were just like whatever we don't need you but I was just doing the open mic you can't stop people from doing open mics um so I just kept doing that unfortunately one thing about it I think the cool
9:18 thing about uh seeing Hans on kill Tony is that you're a lot of your comedy comes from your natural responses to somebody talking like it's not all just like one man one mic kind of thing but I feel like that's you really shine just answering someone's question like plainly yeah do you do crowd work yeah sometimes uh usually when they shout out something I don't like to do it unless I have to because then it doesn't feel like I'm doing it honestly I'm just like what do you do for work where are you from then it's like I could be doing this about anyone but some people are really good at that which is fine but yeah I like to like do it honestly and like Oh shut the ████ up or something because then if the audience wants them to shut up then it's like easier to tell them to shut up and everyone goes yay yeah but you gotta get the audience on your side I feel like he like he's
10:08 special because his ████ crowd work like when they asked you oh Tony asked you uh what your top three hated racism and he had all good answers because like it's not like there's committees that are funny and then there's some that can ████ will just like melt down under kill Tony like there's not built for that sometimes it's rough to watch so as soon as I can't watch it but then his s███'s like it's he's like standing up to it but it's not like it's not hitting back it's just like you're ████ Tai chiangle it's the Asian way you know Asian conversation style like oh yes I agree with you yeah exactly and make it completely different yes you want to know the top three you don't have to do the bit because we we know you did that it doesn't translate it was
10:59 like more in the moment but yeah it just sounds so bad Native Americans and African Americans oh I think I seen that one it's like they were just straight up asking basket and he just like was answering that's what's so amazing about it like what would most people even say in that situation Sri Lankans don't get much hate so I'd say go for it yeah they give you some shine yeah a lot of people don't know that they exist so the fact that that I know that they are there is like you know positive that's awareness right by India yeah it's an island M.I.A one of the most corrupt places on the Earth Sri Lanka yeah it is pretty it's ran by just nepotism and family well isn't that the family that ditched it too yeah oh there's conversation but yeah bad
11:49 whoa but you're right it definitely doesn't work in the room well yeah most ████ asking after the fact isn't gonna definitely should have been there definitely felt weird after you said it yeah that's what's funny about kill Tony material out of context is always weird let's just try one more let's just see if it's weird one more time unique show too that's a different different room well the format's what you do a minute and then he just roasts you for like 30 minutes how does it oh it's just like him asking questions like why did you say that where are you from let's find out what something interesting you could have talked about is and then they find out more about you and then it's like yeah you should have talked about this instead of like your random observation about butterflies or birds and pigeons so is it like you're getting critiqued like you prep material and then Comics critique you yeah oh yeah yeah I
12:41 love it but I just didn't get the format because I was like is it are these guys just roasting each other all day or are they critic like are they really like helping you develop material or like yeah it's a little bit of both oh cool yeah it's really about the show they want to have a good show and then helping you is like well if we get around to it yeah where do you want to go with with all this like obviously you're doing stand-up already so like but are you the guy who's like I want to do the sitcom thing are you the guys like I want to do like the FX show I would like to I would like to just like do comedy over and over again just headlining do an hour in front of different places and just get really good at talking to people and you know getting good at the art of comedy and making a positive time in a room full of people I think that's I I just wanted to stand up but if I can do other things you know I'd love to do sketches and TV
13:33 shows if it's easy but if it gets in the way of the comedy then no all right nice so you just love stand up and then so for like comedic acting and all that that's more like on a as a fun side thing if it if the opportunity comes through it'd be disrespectful for me to be like I'm an actor you know like I spent no time doing it it's like a comedic actor being like I'm want to be a stand-up it's like you're not a stand-up yet yeah so I respect the art form too much to do it I'm too you know like yes no I I feel like I wouldn't be the best at it like I would be like a good like autistic character Maybe that's good news Kevin James's acting career offensive to you like offensive to acting you think it's offensive to my bank account get jealous she spend so much money on it buying so many boxes you always go see
14:25 the movie yeah he drops yeah yeah the zookeeper do you uh are you friends with Jason Cheney no I don't think so I met him recently at The Comedy Store dang he said you guys are friends oh ████ I didn't say that ████ he comes he comes here often I just saw that he like imposed with you guys together I was like oh that's cool yeah I just met him yeah super nice he's cool dude yeah nice is a good word for him yeah yeah hey can you explain your shirt I like your shirt uh it was actually at the MGM Grand uh right after I did the set and Joe was getting off stage someone threw this shirt at Joe [Laughter] my whole career is left over yeah
15:15 now here but the successful part is his leftovers is still probably millions and ████ like it's still extremely sweet I know so how many times did you do to kill Tony as a regular before that happened uh well I did my first arena in March and I became a regular in May um but I was opening up for Joe and the Vulcan for like six months before that so it took about six months for me to start doing it at the Vulcan in Austin how did that conversation happen like did he see on kill Tony first or did you guys know each other separately and he's like you called me up Tony was like hey come on Joe wants to have you as opener yeah I was like oh I have a show it's like ████ that show don't do this but I have an obligation I said I would ████ that ████ that ████ the local scene
16:05 no just kidding is it are people like trying to use you to get to Rogan now yeah unsuccessful I don't even have it you know you use Tony to communicate you don't even direct line like a Chinese Whisperer that's so funny that must get so old hearing that oh dude that's what I'm saying by Eddie Bravo yeah so you don't like it when people ask you to get to Rogan no because Nick was about to ask [Music] your face was on the Strip right with Rogan in them because I I remember during that time when you guys were doing MGM I was driving around and I was like oh ████ I think I think the sign had you guys
16:56 yeah I didn't see it I didn't see it um yeah I'm glad that's a badass response to that dude yeah I ████ see it I was probably too busy he's like my face was on yeah no ████ idea this has been on a lot of strips was that like your biggest show after like your audience yeah yeah audience wise I mean they were all big they're all equal like I did the MGM Grand I did the London O2 Arena I did um the you know the Schottenstein Center I did the five star Arena so they're all amazing how long is your uh opener set 15 minutes oh wow damn what's the longest you've done so far like an hour you did 50 minutes last night nice doing it in Oxnard oh yeah tonight yeah
17:47 Oxnard it'll be a nice drive one time oh yeah it's a big comedy stuff yeah yeah did um would you say that your sense of humor at least parts of it are innate were like does your family have the same kind of humor you do yeah it's like they're quiet like well ████ this this is stupid and they just have quiet bangers that just kind of come out every now and then yeah that's kind of my thing I'm not like a large like personality I'm just more like yeah why would you be a large personality I'm just gonna make fun of large personalities yeah that's a good way to do it there's not I don't think there's a lot of people with that comedy Niche you know right sit in the pocket yeah like your style that's why I like his delivery yeah because everyone's everyone's ████ loud yeah and then he comes in and he stands out because he's the same volume and tone no
18:37 matter what he's saying yeah exactly I'm the cool people listen more yeah what was he saying yeah they're more engaged the quiet guy is saying something let's hope it's not about how he's going to murder us I also like how I don't know if it's like a real effect but it sounds less offensive when you say things the way you do yeah it's like sweet you could probably say a lot of things I'll be like yeah this guy has a point like when you watch his stuff transcribed you just like good Lord but like if it's him it's like oh yeah I could see that I feel safe around him you know yeah it's Sri Lanka yeah yeah you're right I think he could read Kanye and be like yeah yeah yeah we're gonna talk about that yeah that's all Kanye needs is like a more chill tone of voice yeah you sound too angry about her yeah is that anxious
19:28 yeah making it too real it's true though dude if Kanye did it while he was playing with toys I think he could get away with it if he's playing with actions like Soul voice when he says the the Jewish media yeah yeah if you think it's not so mad if you said like the Jewish media yeah as opposed to like the ████ Jewish meme but yeah it's cool to congrats on everything though in general it's really awesome to see that rock it up like that thank you it's been amazing I've been super blessed have you upgraded your van at all yeah I have a house that's an upgrade in Austin yeah but no AC yeah yeah still keeping it real this still showering and a Planet Fitness
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