0:00 Welcome back another episode of Careful Boys. Last time we just went straight into shooting. We didn't even do an intro episode with Peter Liu cuz we're stupid. So, please welcome back for the first time. >> I will not going to do it this time. You thought we're going to do it. First topic. Let's do it. No. What's your favorite Klondike bar? Let's >> Yeah, let's hear it. >> Original. >> Top five favorite Klondike flavors. >> Neapolitan, all Just kidding. >> Give it up to Peter. Peter. Give it up for Peter Liu. Oh, yeah, and this is also your first time meeting Nick as well. So, he wasn't here last time, but >> I'm here now, dude. >> He's a very essential, almost the most important cast member, so it's nice of you to be here. >> That's a joke. That's a >> People click away when they don't see that Nick is around. >> That's a that's a joke on me, actually. That's so mean, dude. >> What? You know, you think I'm inverse
0:50 complimenting? >> It was really cute how you guys bonded over jiu-jitsu immediately. That was really cute. You guys were like talking about how small you guys' wrists are and looking at you guys' ears and stuff. That was really adorable. >> He's one of us, dude. He's one of us. >> How important is jiu-jitsu for your life right now? >> He's never touched your wrist. >> Oh, he touches my wrist, brother. I You know, I said to him I said nice butt earlier. Remember that? You didn't even bring that up one time. >> Bro, this isn't a Patreon episode. Can we keep it clean? >> Oh, sorry. What were you saying? >> Oh, how important is jiu-jitsu to you now? Like, is that like one of the main things you do? >> Dude, go hard every day. Um, no. >> Damn. That's a Brazilian guy >> That means go hard. >> Yeah, it means like fight, ████ whatever. Whatever you want to mean. >> Really? >> It means whatever you want. It's both. >> Does it mean go hard? Does it mean fight, ████ >> It means ████ and fight. >> Okay. >> ████ Brazilians got it down. >> You got to do it passion, dude. >> So, I guess going off of what little details they could people could scavenge from us talking to you about other
1:40 stuff. I think one of the main things was like how you how you got into comedy cuz that's not primarily where you started career-wise. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I I was I quit my like day job like two years ago. >> It was a very impressive day job. >> It was okay. It was like fine. I was like doing like >> he means for like parents. >> No, they're still super Chinese. So they were like it's okay. You know? >> Got it. Got it. >> And what was the title the official title of your job? >> Engineer. >> When I left, it was associate director of process development. >> Damn, that sounds nice. >> What development? >> The process development for like gene therapy. So it was like >> What? >> But you're in so you're in like the biomedical field or what are you what are you in? >> Yeah, it's like biotech. So it's like you know the CRISPR gene editing stuff? >> Yeah. >> Yeah, that's what I was doing. >> Wow. >> Damn. >> that's not a big deal is very Chinese. >> That being average is lit. I would love to say that to my parents. That's what I do. >> They're super Chinese.
2:30 >> Yeah, your dad would be like, "What? What? You just tell me why?" >> Your dad would be jerking off in this in this scenario. >> Oh my god, did I just have a dream come true? >> So what were they what what what to them would have been good enough? >> Astronaut. >> Or take the assistant out. >> Yeah, take the assistant out. My mom, she like I think they both wanted me to be a doctor cuz they're super Chinese. >> Of any type, any kind of doctor. >> Like like a western medicine >> But did you tell them this is like better than doctor? >> They I don't >> Cuz like doctor's like mechanic. Like you're inventing ████ >> It it uh I mean when I was working there, I had to say it was better cuz I had to defend myself. So 100%. I was like if I ████ up, millions of people die. If a doctor ████ up, one person dies. >> That's true. >> That was what I would say. But like I don't know, it's I think it's all fine.
3:20 It's all like >> they looking at? Mental gymnastics, huh? >> Yeah. Now I mean yeah, no. She was like basically if you're not going to be a doctor, become a CEO. That was her like >> A CEO. >> Just be you Jeff Bezos if you can. >> Hey, that's easier. You could just start a company with you and you're CEO. >> I'm CEO of Peter Lo Comedy right now. >> Let's go. >> So what possessed you to after getting that career which already sounds great to us, but is still falling short to your parents, what possessed you to move even lower and go in comedy? >> Be clown. >> Even lower. Um I like the you put that. Move your goal >> On their standard, not ours, yeah. >> Um I a couple reasons. Like for one, like I was like, "Oh, there's no like they're never going to be content." So, I was like, I when I realized they're never going to be content, I'm like, "I'm going to do what I want to do cuz I'm like I've been doing stuff for you
4:10 guys for a while." Just to make you happy, you know what I mean? And then after a while, it's just like, "Oh, like you're never satisfied." Cuz I remember once she was like, "Oh, you got to make more money." I was like, "Why do I have to make more money?" She was like, "Well, you got to buy me a house." I'm like, "I have to buy you a house? How much money do I have to make?" And and then she like didn't answer the question. So, I was like, "If you gave me a number, I could have tried to hit that so you stop bugging me." >> Yeah, cuz the goal posts won't change. But the goal posts this is an infinite goal post. >> He's sliding it, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Cuz you'll buy the house and they go, "Isn't that two story?" >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not five million. >> House is like, "Oh, so you just want me more money to make ████ for you." So, it's not even for me. You know what I mean? Like what is what is this for? >> Buy me a house. >> You're thinking very selfish. >> they take it? >> Uh when I first did it? Oh, my dad was like he called me my mom. >> convo where you you had to tell them like, "Hey, I'm not in biology or >> called me, I was at the comedy club. He was like, "I heard you went crazy." That's how he started.
5:00 He was like, "I heard you went crazy." I was like, "This is a good start." >> He said that in Chinese or English? >> Uh >> You fung la? >> Fung la, yeah. >> You fung la? >> Uh that was that there was no hello. >> YOU FUNG LA? >> NOT EVEN NOT EVEN ASKING HE WENT CRAZY. He's just saying, "You're crazy." Like you went kookoo. Yeah, you went kookoo. That was that was the first conversation. I don't remember the rest of it, but I was just like that was that was the tone. >> Are they in your field like science and stuff too? >> No, they're not. They're like like >> They're both less successful stand-ups, actually. That's like, "Why would you do this to my career?" >> They do improv? >> No, no. My mom was like a she like works as an accountant and then my dad like did his own like business for a while. >> Okay. And where did you grow up? Like what city did you grow up in? Most of your life? >> Uh I was born in China and then when I
5:51 was eight I moved to Australia. And then I was there for like a little bit. So I did like the like the British style whatever schools they had. And then I was then we moved to New Zealand cuz they couldn't like they couldn't get like citizenship in Australia. So then I was in New Zealand for like 4 years. >> Damn, you learned every different English there is. >> Yeah, I had all the accents. I had the Australian accent, I had the Kiwi accent. Yeah, no one understood what I was saying every time I moved. >> And then now you're in New York so you got a New York accent. >> Yeah. >> Now you're a Brooklyn guy. >> That's crazy. >> Yeah. I was And then for high school I went to Jersey where like that's where we came here. >> Joysey. >> Dude, how did you come out talking so normal? >> Yeah. >> Dude, I it like switched every single time. Cuz I remember when I was like a New Zealand Kiwi kid in America in like New Jersey and they're like trying to talk to me and they have no idea what I'm saying. Like one kid was like, "Oh, like how you
6:41 doing?" And I was like, "Oh, I'm bored." And he did he was like, "What did you say?" I'm like, "I'm bored." And then we just went back and forth. >> Like a wood board. I'm a wood board. >> Bored? >> Yeah, like I'm bored. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Well, a wood board is still the same sound as bored actually, Bart. >> He didn't understand either. >> What's she ████ saying? What the ████ Said I'm bored. He said I'm bored. No, you're bored. I think we're all bored, aren't we? >> Yeah, everyone is bored. But yeah, like cuz I I remember having like every it was so hard to learn American English was the hardest one. Because you had to like try so hard to talk. To enunciate. >> To enunciate. Oh, you got to put effort into it. >> Yeah, like hard. You could be like hard and that's like so much less work.
7:32 >> Right. >> You know what I mean? >> Uh like hamburger. >> Hamburger. >> Yeah, exactly. ████ ████ hamburger. And you're like, "There's so much less work to like speak this language." >> I didn't realize it was that much more work. >> Dude, it is. Cuz you do it for the whole >> Right. Interesting perspective, yeah. >> Faster. Could you make my hamburger faster? It's like ████ hamburger faster. You know what I mean? It's like >> up, bruv. >> What What are all these Rs for? You don't need this ████ >> Right. >> vowels. Just end on the vowel. >> So, when did you come to America? What age are you? >> Uh, I was 15. >> 15? >> Yeah, yeah. >> It's a very impressive >> accent? >> Dude, it changed. >> I have friends that moved here when they were like six and they have >> Are you able to code switch when you travel? Like if you go back to Australia or Can you like instantly code switch so you're more understandable to them, locals? >> I tried. Like last time I went back to
8:22 Australia, I think it was like seven, six, seven years ago. >> Uh-huh. >> And like they're like, "Oh, you speak with a little bit of a twang." And I was like, "F███." So, I like I couldn't like fully do it. You know what I mean? But I understand them very well. You know some people like There's a bunch of like like Australian comics and people like, "I don't know what you're saying." Uh, like I can understand what they're saying perfectly. >> Yeah. >> Is twang exclusively like American? >> No, cuz that was an Australian woman that said that. >> But she said you had a twang. >> The The type of like the that sound, I guess, that makes it twang. Is it like your American influence? Cuz obviously we got like clearly Southern twang, but I don't know any other place that has >> other type of describably twang. >> I don't think she meant it. I get what you're saying. Is it you're talking about Southern twang? I think she was just like, "You talk a little weird compared to how you should talk." >> ████ >> Yeah, ████ but like but like not like Asian ████ you
9:13 know? So, it's like >> Which out of all the regions you lived in and learned English, which one messed with you the most? Which one changed the way you talked the most? >> Well, I was also in Boston for like a decade. >> That's the one. >> That's the one that'll get you. The biotech. >> Bastard. You went to You went to Jersey, too? Jersey's really strong. >> That's strong. Jersey's only strong if you're like in the bottom by the like third generation Italian. >> Yeah, like closer to that area. >> For normies and all. >> not where those people are, you're just surrounded by immigrants. >> So, not around Snooki and >> Yeah, yeah. >> What are the What are the most occurring immigrants that you would see in Jersey? >> Oh, I mean they have all of them, but like >> Isn't there a hell of Koreans? >> Koreans, like Paramus, Fort Lee, it's like all Koreans pretty much. There's like some Chinese people. Uh there's like some Latinos. There's There's a bunch of white people, bunch of Jews. >> Nice. >> Oh, yeah, that's right.
10:03 >> I had a question not about the Jewish thing. Uh Which Which >> Weird way Weird time to raise your hand. >> Which English-speaking accent was like the most attractive when it came to like hearing like girls or whatever? >> Appalachian. >> Cuz I I hear Australian girls talking and I'm like >> Are girls ever like, "Peter, talk in your Aussie accent." >> or not coming? That was you coming or not coming? >> That was me That >> That's pre-coming. >> That was That was like the whole thing all all in 3 seconds. >> I think now probably I the Australian, New Zealand ones sound more interesting to me now. >> They sound better. >> Like This sounds boring. >> The way I'm talking right now? >> Wherever you're always at, the other one is more interesting, right? >> No, but I never thought the American was interesting. >> American accent's not that cool. >> Well, no, Australian >> East Coast ones? >> Well, maybe they were lying to us, but they they say they would say American accents were attractive. >> The Boston one is not attractive at all,
10:54 but it's interesting. >> Yeah. >> I don't even know where it comes from. >> What about a Baltimore accent, dude? >> What does that sound like? >> Oh, when when you guys do the Jewish aunties? Peter! >> That's the Jewish >> That's Rhode Island. I feel like Excuse me if I'm wrong on this, but I feel like if I've been If I grew up and I maybe somehow trained by force like five, six different accents, I'm I'm using the most attractive one all the time. >> But it depends on where you're at. >> Yeah, but like I mean I'm just saying in general, one's going to win most of the time. >> Italian. >> I would Okay. >> But I'd say Scottish or >> Which one are you using for the biotech job interview? >> Oh, the American one. >> The Chinese >> Really? That's the the best? >> one, yeah, yeah. >> Oh. >> I I can't like go back. Like if I had the option, like if I could just switch, code switch to Australian accent, I would probably just do that. Cuz I think I would just people just like you better. >> That's what I'm saying.
11:44 >> about Chris Hemsworth the whole time, >> You could say ████ up ████ in Australian accent and it sounds so cool. >> foreign. >> If I've got if I've got some version of allowance, like I live there, I'm using the one that's most convenient for me. >> all the time. >> It does make you the more interesting person in the room when you have like an accent no one else does, yeah. >> Yeah, it's a power, dude. >> you become more attractive when you're the only one with it. >> So you just tell everyone else to stop. >> Me only. >> Yeah, me have but it's not an accent if everyone else can do >> Well then he uses his power for good instead of evil. Cuz he could have came in here. >> Hello. Hello. >> And that's evil? >> I'm Peter. My name's Peter. >> I don't think I always never talk like that, but >> Cuz you're you're doing like the the boat bogan. >> Bogan, yeah. >> That's like the rednecks of Australia. >> That's what I married. >> It's like the strongest word. >> one of those ones.
12:34 >> Oh yeah, actually? >> Yeah. >> Okay, okay, okay. So you yeah, so that's like like Jenny Tien, she's a comic, she has like a closer to that accent. Like a very strong Australian >> one. That's like ████ Cantonese movies, yeah, that's the one I like. >> What, Steve Irwin? Doesn't he He's >> He's got >> He's considered a bogan, right? >> Yeah, his accent is pretty strong, yeah. >> And he's a legend. He's their He's their guy. >> His son does Dancing with the Stars. >> I bet he kills. >> Yeah, cuz the accent's just so interesting and you're just like this is why they host. >> Cuz it's more interesting. I don't want to hear a regular ass >> That's true, they do always use a host that has a different accent for a lot of stuff. >> His son's also very charismatic just like >> They're the best. They're the best. >> No, no, they're not kidding. It's just the accent. >> family on the planet, bro. >> He used to wrestle, he does jiu-jitsu, too. Steve Irwin. Big jiu-jitsu guy, yeah. >> Oh, nice. >> So we went comedy, biotech, jiu-jitsu. What else is really important to you? >> Right now, uh I think I'm focusing mostly on comedy. I I tried acting for a
13:25 little bit. I'm a terrible actor. So I just did like a bunch of ████ commercials and stuff. >> Oh, you did? >> Yeah. >> Oh, so you had an agent and you were going for auditions and everything? >> I still have them. >> Define Define ████ commercial though. >> It doesn't get you stuff. >> Verizon? You've never seen any of them. I don't know, like WebEx, like ████ during COVID I'm in like a COVID get your vaccine commercial. >> Oh, no way. Really? >> Yeah, like ████ like that. Yeah, I did. There's like a There's a doctor in there. I'm not even a doctor, I'm just Asian guy, you know, whatever. >> In a lab coat? Asian guy in a lab coat? >> I'm not in a lab coat, I'm in my ████ T-shirt. They didn't even give me a wardrobe. They're like, "Yeah, just go in the way you are." >> They're just going to know that you're the doctor. >> Bro, it's >> No, they just know I wasn't the doctor. >> What? >> Exactly. I was like, "What, really? Even this I failed?" >> YOUR MOM'S ON THAT >> ████ >> YEAH, HE'S >> YEAH, so I did that. But like I I
14:15 remember cuz I took a f██████ of like real acting classes for a while. And then I was in the room with people who were like actual actors and >> What kind of acting class was it? What was the like uh the technique? >> Franco one. >> Uh >> I think I read the Meisner book, but the other guy had another He had his own thing. He was like I don't know, he was just ████ was his name? Dennis something Lovsky. >> Quaid. He had his own >> Dennis Quaid. But >> Stanislavsky? >> Stanislavsky? I don't know. >> Why does that Why does that enrage you? >> Is that No, it's a old Russian style. >> No, that's not that one. It's not that. But I I just remember being in the class >> Yeah. >> and these people had like they like went to school for theater and they've been acting their whole lives and they do like a 6-minute scene. I was like, "Wow, you were that person the whole time." >> Mhm. >> You know what I mean? Like it's like the transitions. There was no transition. You were just always that person. And I'm like, "Oh, I don't
15:06 I'm never going to be this good at this." >> remember the kind of feedback you got about your performance as an actor in there? >> STANISLAVSKY? >> UM >> I I I don't >> Cuz like how did you know that you were like not as good as that? Cuz it's like well you don't have to be very good to do commercials or industrial shoots which I was already doing. But I'm like I want to segue into like maybe more theatrical stuff. Like sitcoms. I like I I could do sitcoms. You being funny and like not really acting. You know, you don't have to be dramatic. You don't have to like I don't know. Like like Bill Burr was talking about how like when he talks to other actors when they like are playing a person, they walk like this person. And he's like I walk like me all the time. I was like yeah, I walk and talk like me all the time. >> I just say funny ████ >> Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's just like the the ability to like be another
15:56 person and like fully them and like do the techniques that let you do that. I'm like I I simply >> You're not interested in that. >> I just don't care enough to nerd out about this like the way you guys do. Cuz like comics nerd out about comedy. Like you see how got extra laugh by like twitching his face? Like ████ like that, you know? They do that about like acting. It's like oh, did you see when he felt that emotion? His ████ whatever this winked moved up a little bit like that. And then his toe moved or some ████ I'm like I get what you're saying but like I don't care about that. >> Yeah. >> As much as you guys do. Do you know what I mean? So I'm like I'm never going to be that. >> He's just like dude, that's really cool. I don't give a ████ >> Yeah, I don't exactly. It's like you know. >> That'd be funny if we really watch all of your commercials and you just keep going >> You're like I'm working on my twitch today. >> Yeah. >> Um when all I have herpes, I always take
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