Ryan Koo - Comedian

[00:00:00] The onset, she comes up to me, she puts her hand on my shoulder and I said she said acting like I'm in love with you was the most difficult acting challenge I have ever done

[00:00:14] And I said thank you Julie, that I'm sorry. She said I'm a method actor That's this, but even I have limits We're all living in a world gone geek, it's time to geek hard or go home The podcast is real Here's your host, Grounded Geek

[00:00:39] Hello and welcome to World Gone Geek I am your host Jeff aka Grounded Geek at it has been a minute Since we last saw you and you last saw us So glad we back took a little extended, I eat lots of different things going on

[00:00:56] Job things family things for all of this Have been kind of juggling for the last few months since the holidays But we're back, we got a guest tonight, we're looking forward to talking to

[00:01:07] We're glad you're here, we're going to be giving away some rental codes, red box rental codes For little Dixie from Paramount Pictures, we're going to do that just a little bit So don't go anywhere, stay with us and we're going to get right into the show

[00:01:20] Before we do, I want to introduce my cohost who is the most and your he is Utah, she's welcome Greetings programs, you know, it's got me on a spit take there I hope that host is the cohost with the most It's no, yeah, Aliah with us tonight

[00:01:42] Oh, you are missing Aliah but she is in Philly I believe she's in Philly Yeah, and I asked her if she, what's the atmosphere there? Since they're cropping for their team to go to the Super Bowl and she had to

[00:01:56] But the Super Bowl is not in Philly, so there's a lot of people in Philly Fans are there though, not everybody in Philly is getting up and going Right, I mean, many of them will be very happy

[00:02:05] I want to say here here in Cleveland Heights, there's a lot of excitement Because the Kelsey brothers, one who plays for Kansas City, one who plays for the Eagles Are playing against each other in the Super Bowl and they are both graduates of Hoi Toy

[00:02:19] That's Cleveland High Ty School for those who aren't aware Any thoughts? Some pictures of their mom with the split shirt right? Yeah, both their numbers and both their colors and everything Yeah, that would be kind of interesting. That house, yeah, I mean she wins no matter what right?

[00:02:37] She wins no matter what. The Kelsey family wins the other one There are KC and Eagles flags both flying from the same house Same house, and multiple houses in the neighborhood It's not a cool. That's fine. Well, so again, we're back. This has been a little while

[00:02:55] I'm already feeling a little bit. I'm trying to shake the rust off a little bit Because I've not been as it has been since last year. Has it been since last year? Yeah, that was the first time. Yeah, that was the last year

[00:03:07] Because yeah, there's been a lot going on. Obviously, I've had this man. You know what? I think you do a lot. You are in the middle of another play. You guys just had a matinee. We were chatting through for about that. Yes. You are. Yes.

[00:03:21] On the spot, the musical tells us about this. Yes. I am in my legal life productions production Of the SpongeBob musical and I have been typecasts old men Jenkins because They said, you know what Utah? You are an old man. So you don't even have to act.

[00:03:37] You can be old men Jenkins. So you had a matinee today. I remember when you were doing the auditioning for that. And I was so tempted because I think I would make a great Mr. Krabs.

[00:03:51] But I don't sing very well. So I was like, see, I thought about it And I'm like, I don't know. I'd have to you would make a great Mr. Krabs If you didn't have to sing? Is that what you're saying?

[00:04:01] No, I mean because it's a voice, though he does a voice. Like you know what I mean? It's like he sings that voice. It is very much different. It's a specific voice. But then, you know, but if when it comes to like the real

[00:04:13] Getting in a real singing like the old tune of musical, That's hard for me. So I was like, yeah, maybe another. We'll see someday. Well, and what's great about my legal health productions is if you want to be involved in beyond stage in the ensemble,

[00:04:27] You don't have to audition. They're all very much about trying to Give everyone the theater experience. So if you just want to get on stage And just do maybe some dance numbers and some singing or do you know what? You know what?

[00:04:41] You know what? You have to make character choices. I'm old-man Jenkins and so I made the character choice of dancing like old-man Jenkins. I mean, great show. So I've seen it on a pair of plus plus. Yeah. And watch the recording of the Broadway musical.

[00:05:07] And that show was way better than it ever had any right to be. I had no idea how good it was going to be. I thought, yeah, it's going to be silly. But you know what? Let's watch it. I loved it so far.

[00:05:21] It's great. It has a surprising amount of heart. I mean, when you think about a musical based on Children's television show, you know, you kind of don't expect a lot of depth to it. There's some really, it's a really hard warming show. It really is.

[00:05:39] What's also impressive to me is that the music is written by various people. Oh my God. That's not written by one. Right. I mean, Sarah Barry else wrote one. Jonathan Colton wrote a couple songs. Arrow Smith wrote a song. David Bowie and Brian. You know, wrote a song.

[00:05:55] That's right. T's, lady Antebellum. So I mean, And you can tell too if you like sit through and listen to the songs and you know who wrote songs, you'd be like, oh, that definitely sounds like, definitely sounds like, uh, that definitely sounds like a Bowie too.

[00:06:11] Or that's so erosmith that's ridiculous. So, um, it's a fun music. It's a fun music. That's a good show. That's another one that I had no idea of what I was expect. What to expect other than I've seen the show, the SpongeBob show, but I didn't know.

[00:06:29] But last week, I got to see a musical here in Cleveland, the playhouse was a Hadestown. And I got to be on the fantastic show. That's the first time I've gone to one of these to a Broadway show where I had no prior knowledge. Like, I've seen them.

[00:06:47] Not even the music. I've never heard the music. I don't know what it's about. The bandies town makes me think there's God's or anything to do with hell. I'm all right. I agree. Yeah. And well, it wasn't even 100% sure Greek. I mean, no Hadis is Greek,

[00:07:01] but you know what I mean? I didn't know it was going to be like a Greek story. I was like, I think it was a Greek tragedy. And oh my gosh, it's so amazing. And I was just so fantastic.

[00:07:09] The music is so good. It is, oh yeah, everything about it. My mind was blown how well. I just had the great. And I wonder, no, I still would have been just blown away by it.

[00:07:22] I think if I'd heard before, but I think the fact that I went in completely blind and deaf, I guess, to what I'm about to see. And then was just hit with just, I mean, the band was phenomenal. Like you know, and it wouldn't be worth it.

[00:07:37] Yeah, those guys were amazing. Yes, I am. It's the set design, the set production, very clever. I love how they show starts. You know, I mean, the show doesn't start in your tab of action with an overture

[00:07:57] and a curtain rises and all this stuff. No, no, no, it's very, I don't want to say audience interactive, but it recognizes that they're on stage and that there is an audience.

[00:08:08] Right. Well, they just, they just walk out too. Like there's a good, they just walk out like there. And the Leonardo, sitting there and the end goes, oh, hello. Like, where did you go from? The same, I guess it's just starting.

[00:08:23] That's really great. Yeah, they just started talking and we're like, oh, hi. Yeah, yeah, I didn't. And one of the best trombone parts for any. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, just insane. So just everything about it is not really great. Yeah, totally. It's just amazing.

[00:08:41] It's a great show highly recommend it. So there's been a lot of stuff that has happened in pop culture. We obviously am going to have time to go into it all tonight. And the, in the upcoming shows, we've got a lot of different conversations.

[00:08:54] We're going to have Oscar nominees came out and weren't the Grammys. Didn't the Grammys happen. Grammys are tonight actually. So right after this, I believe, right? Yeah. Oh, no, they were yesterday. My bad. What is today? I just say it because I just, I just, I just,

[00:09:10] It's today. Some of the early ones have already been given out like the audience. Things like the big, okay. And you know, I'm not a part of the performance. So it's just a part of the performance. I mean, I mean, I'm not a part of the performance.

[00:09:20] That's what I saw the headline that there's another E. I owe a Davis. Yeah, I was going to bring that up funny. We're both seeing where on the same page. We know we're saying, by all the Davis with an E got that's

[00:09:29] Will, does me Grammy Oscar and Tony. She's won two Tony's, by the way. So she was, you know, she's trying to replace that Grammy with an extra Tony and it's like, no, then work back. That's a T. No, no. That's a T. No.

[00:09:46] Yeah, I guess you can put the two T's at the end. Yacht. There you go. She's got a toe. Got her Grammy now. That's, that's, she's only one of 18 people. Yeah. That's what I said. She even that. So congratulations to her. That was pretty amazing. Absolutely.

[00:10:02] I saw that. I'm happy. Yeah. So the Grammy's just happened and the rest of those will happen tonight. Oscar nominees were going to have a show about the Oscar nominees. And obviously we'll do an Oscar pre-show like we usually do. That's in March.

[00:10:14] Another thing that we're going to cover in upcoming episodes, the DC Shake up lots of things. Oh, yes. They did a bunch of stuff too. Yeah. I have a lot of controversial opinions about that. So we'll look at that. Oh, good. Hot takes. I have some hot takes.

[00:10:30] Well, I think it only hot takes for certain audience of Snyder fans that live out there that those are the ones that are going to be angry with me. But that's, that's where we are. And then.

[00:10:43] And then we're going to we're trying to get Tom tenant in here for another Marvel cinematic universe because we've got quantum maniac and now keeps on going that. Marvel's. Yeah, there's some big stuff in store. So we're definitely have a lot to talk about when it comes

[00:10:59] to that and it's going to be exciting. So that being said, we do have just lost the page that I was supposed to read off of. So give me one second here. And this is not unusual for our show.

[00:11:13] No, we have some movie rentals to give away from red box and paramount pictures. Yeah. It is a movie little movie called Little Dixie with Frank Grillo who I have become a very big fan of. Frank Grillo is awesome.

[00:11:28] I'm telling you what he's done so ever since he's been in the Marvel movies I love him and those. But then he did. What's the name of the one that he did for Hulu that is like a yeah, the video game one. Yeah, what was that called?

[00:11:43] It's so good we forgot the title. I know, but that was so great. Like that's another movie that was like under the radar and just ended up being a little one. That's something level, boss level, boss level really really, really good. Well, Frank Grillo is back.

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[00:12:39] So somebody's in there offering, there's a promotion promotion. Oh wait, that oh no wait. I don't want to know we don't want to talk about the car warranty. Or what are what viewer at that moment is, and it was a spam bot trying to sell us something.

[00:12:57] It was not hilarious. No, we know not that I want to people in the viewing audience right now. Especially since we're just coming back from a hideous, but also because we know that our main connection is going bad. Oh yeah you are getting a little choppy there.

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[00:14:06] Can you hear me? You are this choppy. Oh my gosh, is your connection bad because you're not responding to me. This is the internet. Folks, thank you. Lost them again. All right. So that was our promotional from Paramount. Thank you.

[00:14:22] Paramount for providing those for us and for having faith in our little show. We appreciate that. Now, I got to tell you a little bit about our guest because I'm going to bring him on so that I have someone to talk to.

[00:14:33] If I lose you to continue to use Lee, who is Utah tonight? So here we go. Ryan Koo is our guest tonight. He is a comedian actor and musician from Seoul, South Korea. He has performed comedy clubs, colleges, universities,

[00:14:45] and festivals across the nation, such as the New York Comedy Festival and the crazy woke Asians festival where he received the rising star award. Recently, there's one of the comedians on LMAO F Los Angeles, a comedy show on Only Fans.

[00:15:00] So he's only fan star as well, I guess. He's a but his acapella cover of Spider-Man theme song is kind of where he, he went viral for a little while people were really talking about that.

[00:15:14] It was featured on Inside the Magic and we're going to play that right now. And then we're going to talk to him because I would love to do that. It comes Ryan Koo with his little acapella Spider-Man. There you have the Spider-Man.

[00:15:59] In the chill night, the sea, the cry of like a stream, you're flying to the beach and your eyes just as tough as I was. You're a Spider-Man, a friend of me, a brother of mine, a friend of me.

[00:16:13] You're a big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big. In the chill night, the sea, the cry of like a stream, you're flying to the beach and your eyes just as tough as I was. You're a big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big.

[00:17:08] When I was producing a thing, I was trying to make it. All right, that is the show. Ryan Koo with Spider-Man and we welcome to the show. Ryan Koo, welcome. Hi, hey, Jeff, good to see you. I'm good to see you too.

[00:17:31] I lost my co-host somewhere in the middle. He keeps popping it out as internet is coming in and going. It's nothing. It's nothing. I know. At least I have one of you guys to talk to. That's right. Otherwise this would have been a very weird podcast.

[00:17:45] So what a little episode. I'm just going to start with the show. It's not a show. It's not a show. Yeah, and I would, though, but he wants to hear me talk to myself.

[00:18:01] I would do it on that thing as I would continue, but it would be pretty, it would be pretty sad. Welcome to the show. I love that video. It's so funny because I had been following you on Facebook

[00:18:15] and I was like, oh, my co-host, you talk about it. Is that the same guy who did the Spider-Man thing? And I'm like, wait a minute. I don't know. And I had never made that connection, but now we have.

[00:18:29] So you said, you even forgot that you did this in the chat here. How long ago was that? Oh, man. Well, before I answered that, so you taught all the Spider-Man video, and I found the stand-up videos. Wow. There's a stand-up video. Yeah, wow. Yeah.

[00:18:48] Well, I mean, I look crazy different in that stand-up video. That's when I had shorter hair and I didn't shave for like months. Yeah. Hey, you tell your back. There he is. The internet types are so clogged up, and I don't understand why. Yeah. It's okay. It happened.

[00:19:08] I mean, it doesn't work. Right. It's okay. You tell nice to me. You. Oh, well, Jeff just asked me, well, we just talked about how you knew me from my Spider-Man video, but Jeff knew me from my stand-up video.

[00:19:23] So it was like a weird moment when you guys realize that I have the same guy I guess. Yeah. You do look at your spot. Yeah. Like what do you do? Yeah, totally different hair. I heard. I heard. Yeah.

[00:19:39] But you asked me when I made that side of the video, um, it had to have been, I think, 2020. I think, 2020, so maybe three, two and a half to three years ago. It's been a while. Yeah. Was it a COVID project?

[00:19:53] A lot of people did those types of things when they were going stuck for you. Did you guys watch Parks and Rec by the chat? Yeah. Yeah. Do you know, do you remember when Ben got depressed, when he started making claymation? No, something like that. Yes.

[00:20:10] So the Occupella project was like kind of my depressed claymation activity. If I would not go into like a downward spiral. So I made a bunch of Occupella videos. You did. Yeah. There's a few of them. Yeah. And all of them, I arranged everything myself.

[00:20:30] I recorded a report. It is everything. Amazing. It's like, I'm going to take hours. But so it definitely took my mind off of the world going to. I hope I can I cut? I mean, yeah, with a so we're family friendly, but it's like, Peter, I'll believe it.

[00:20:47] Really bad on a cut. I don't have to cut. I don't have to cut. I don't have to cut. It took my mind off of the world, you know, going to a crab. Going to, going to shizzle. Yeah. Yeah. Shizzle is good. Yeah. You know, it, yeah.

[00:21:03] That was my, my, the prospect of it. Yeah. I feel, yeah, my for me, it was doing a ukulele cover every day. Yeah. I did that. I did that for about a year and it was. Yeah. You needed a creative outlet or just something to distract you from,

[00:21:22] you know, lock down and just crap of COVID and everything else. You, oh, yeah. Definitely. Definitely. I didn't like doing Avengers theme, I could tell it with like how, how many tracks were in that was that, and then Avengers, I could fell. There was crap on it. Yeah.

[00:21:40] There's so many tracks you did. Yeah. That one, I think there were over 30. My gosh. That one was through. That one really took the toll on me. Oh, I did that. Yeah. Because I, but I was kind of addicted after a while.

[00:21:56] Like it was kind of like my routine. I couldn't stop. But that one after that, that really burnt me out a little bit. We had, I don't have like over 30. And you know, putting it all together was crazy and at one moment I like didn't save,

[00:22:11] so I lost a lot of stuff. I just don't want to get it. Yeah. But that one was a lot of fun too. It came out great. Thank you. Yeah. Don't talk about the video.

[00:22:25] You'll notice how the sound and video gets better and better, which each one can also just experimenting. Right. So I really wish that in the earlier videos, I have the knowledge now because I'm like, oh man, I could have done that one so much better.

[00:22:40] But it was like literally my first time trying to mix everything and edit everything. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. There are a lot of things I learned along the way. Yeah. Totally. Right.

[00:22:56] Not only was the journey of doing something to keep you occupied but also learning the skills to do that thing that was occupying you better. Yeah. Yeah. Just a video editing part I took for granted and I'm like, oh, yeah, there's a lot of stuff.

[00:23:10] I didn't even realize. Oh. It's just the worth looking up YouTube video. How do you video editing? Exactly. Yeah. How do I do this in Final Cut Pro? Is there a shortcut? Yeah. And there's like a simplest thing. How can I make this square look proportional?

[00:23:27] And it's like so hard to figure that out. Yep. Like I could have just used, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry going to go much. No, I was like, oh, I could have just done command option whatever. Oh. Yeah. Exactly.

[00:23:40] Well, you have to, it's like a 20 minute video on the explainer for like 10 seconds. That like minute or 10 seconds. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. Did you guys say a one more home? Yeah. Alia, she is unfortunately not with us. She's in Philly with you. She's on assignment in Philadelphia.

[00:23:57] You're inside the sign of the mail. Yeah. Yeah. She, I don't even know if she was seeing family or something. We don't know why she's there but we're we're missing her. Maybe she's just trying to get away from us.

[00:24:11] No, she's been away from us for like a month and a half. Maybe maybe maybe she's not really in Philly. She's just really just realized. Man, this month and a half has been in a relief to be with you. She's actually just sitting at home. Actually watching that.

[00:24:26] She just. Yeah. She's the one person watching the stream. Right. That's the sad thing because now it's down to zero. Which means she's not. And I spoke later. And to that least have Alia on watching and she's not so.

[00:24:41] I mean, we can joke about her while she's not here. Yeah. Our audience is primarily the podcast listeners. We do this live because we love this atmosphere and it just raw. And then we just put it out as a podcast.

[00:24:52] That's where most people I think pick it up. But no, totally. Yeah. We get an audience in here. But again, I think right now. This is our first one and over a month and a half and I don't think. Yeah, that's our first one to 2023.

[00:25:04] They're like, oh, those guys are there again. What is going on? I wish I promoted it better. I thought the link like two hours ago. So I posted it on my story like 16 minutes ago and only like 49 people saw it. And that's okay. Why isn't one person?

[00:25:22] I'll drop it as a podcast on Tuesday. I'll send you the links for that too and if you can pass that along. Of course. Yeah, there. There. That's where a lot of people would rather do it. One person might actually be my mom. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a.

[00:25:38] No, just kidding. You know, it's in the watch anything I do. She doesn't she doesn't approve of anything you've done. No. Not. It's a watch to show either but that's because she doesn't understand how to find it. Oh, that's a different thing here.

[00:25:58] I don't know how to get up to YouTube. I gave her an Apple TV. I tried to teach her how to use the technology. But yeah. Better than having a mom who knows exactly how to find it. I just want to.

[00:26:11] Yeah, at least the least your mom has an excuse, Jeff. Exactly. We know what. Or does. I just wanted to watch. She manages to watch her. You know, to get her church service on Sunday at home so that she doesn't have to go in.

[00:26:28] So and that's on YouTube. So come on. I gotta find that. So you're telling me your mom can figure it out for Jesus, but not that. I guess she can figure it out for she can figure it out for God's son, but not for her own son.

[00:26:43] Oh, that's right. Oh my gosh. What's that about? Tell us a little bit about about you, right? And we want to, I mean, I know that you are doing stand up now. I know that you were a quiet director or teacher at one point.

[00:27:03] Tell us kind of what where did your journey? How did this journey start and where how did you end up in stand up comedy from there? Yeah, well, man, every time I tell the story, it can't, I feel like it's more boring.

[00:27:18] I can't make it out of it. But as I'm telling you, I'm like, oh my gosh, if I was listening to this, I would turn off the podcast. I'll try to make it shorter. Pretty much, honestly, like, fours to go with the stand up.

[00:27:32] I'll spread out sports the quick my job because when the pandemic happened and we wanted to lock down, you literally cannot do choir online. I mean, you know, they're certain, like, for math or like English, it's not too different.

[00:27:50] But for a choir, the best part about it is being physically in the room together and making music and having that community, you know, that's the best part and that's why.

[00:27:59] And performances, you know, that's why I thought to teaching choir, you know, not to teach music theory or what not. I mean, that's important but that's not the main reason. So after two years of not being able to do that, you know,

[00:28:15] and having no choice, I had to find something else and I was taking acting classes at the time, improv classes and I just, I was slowly just forced like just ripped from my passion for choir, ripped away from me just slowly over time. And what is it?

[00:28:37] If the pandemic never happened, I would happily still be teaching choir and hopefully one day be like a college choir professor. That was the dream for the longest time until pretty much two years ago. Yeah, and so you were teaching high school. Is that right?

[00:28:55] High school, yeah, kind of a private capital. Awesome. Yeah, I know a little bit about what you're talking about. I do video production full time as my regular job animation and that kind of stuff. But I was teaching on the side at a media school here in Cleveland.

[00:29:13] And when the pandemic happened, I was teaching video production like hands on with cameras and white balance and all this stuff. And they're trying to get me to do it through Zoom. Yeah, and people, they don't have the equipment. And I basically would give them assignments.

[00:29:27] I mean, I was able to teach some of the editing techniques and editing assignments. I could give them, but they were shooting commercials on their phones and you know, and some of them didn't even have computers. They were on their phone.

[00:29:39] So I they would have to edit on their phones. And so I was like these kids can't, they need to get into a studio so they can have access to this equipment and to the software.

[00:29:48] And things like that. And so yeah, I got really difficult. So I had to stop then too. It was hard. Yeah, because it's a lot of fun to do that. But I felt like I was kind of everything they were asking me to do.

[00:30:00] I felt like I was kind of cheating the students a little bit. You know what I mean? I feel like I can't give them what they are paying for kind of. You know, this environment. Yeah, that's so is what it is. I think that was an option.

[00:30:16] Yeah, we could go with the zoom stand up. But I want to give you guys some juicy stories for your podcast. The principle actually had like a big problem with me during this time too.

[00:30:28] So what is it that also played a factor because I'm like, well, I don't even want to come back. Oh no. It all started with a zoom meeting. We had a faculty zoom meeting and I was eating while before the meeting started.

[00:30:44] Or maybe the meeting was in session. But anyway, but people had their screens off people were driving. People are watching TV so it was like everyone. Yeah, it wasn't like everyone was paying attention and I was the only guy eating.

[00:30:58] You know, I'm like, okay, well, we could multitask because one of those meetings and you pretty much shoot me out in front of everyone. And you know, and I got it. I'm like, you know what, I do. I understand so I apologize and whatnot.

[00:31:13] But then after that, I think he had like, he held like a grudge because he like, I had become too the office and he put me on probation for like these things that happened like last year. And the details were twisted.

[00:31:27] So one was I had a choir Instagram where I would post like funny videos from rehearsal and the student commented, I'm dead with a skull emoji, which means this is so funny. It's funny right now. Yeah, he called his parent.

[00:31:46] He called their parents parents and said, is your son suicidal? Oh, come on. Because right. I mean, it is that when I knew like really like, so it's not like the power trip. Yeah, so that's just to me like, oh, yeah,

[00:32:03] and I'm not really feeling it this either. Yeah, don't blame you. Wow. All you were doing was like muckbang or ASMR, come on. Right? I mean, like if you didn't like it, just turn it off. Yeah, yeah.

[00:32:23] I think he wanted to use me as an example, but I don't know. I don't know. And also, it kind of hurt a lot because I did a bunch of stuff outside of what I had to do. Like spend money out of my pocket.

[00:32:36] I was editing all these videos extra rehearsals all that and you know, like, I didn't really feel the pre-cute that I'm there. So yeah. What the funny thing is when I told him, I told him I'm not going to come back.

[00:32:49] He's like, I think I was like pretty affected at my job, especially compared to the choir teachers they had in the past. When I told him, I was going to come back. He says, what can I do to get you to stay?

[00:33:01] Maybe not be me and you said, you can leave? Yeah. So, yeah. Well, how did stand up then start? Were were were you doing that online or was there? It was we we started to come back into into then you were always starting out at that. Yeah.

[00:33:26] I started to stand up. I started over Zoom. I pretty much took a stand up class because I really enjoyed taking improv classes, but I was getting tired of them, but I still wanted to do something comedy related.

[00:33:38] So I took a stand up one-to-one class with the guy named Marshall Gibbons on What's in the second city and it was like a five-week class and we just wrote like three minutes of material every week.

[00:33:53] But the funny thing is I realized when I was in that class, I've been kind of doing stand up for a very long time because in high school, college, even middle school, I was always put in positions where I had to recruit people or had to go into

[00:34:14] a room full of people I never met and kind of sell them something or recruit them for something like in college, I was in charge of recruiting people into the choir program. But you know if you're a college guy, you don't care about choir, you know?

[00:34:30] So I knew that when I just try to make everything as funny as possible and I wrote down everything that I was going to say I try to make it as funny as possible and I would like I would like kill like everyone in the room would laugh.

[00:34:42] They would laugh harder than me doing stand up today and so I realized that oh, I've been doing stand up. I just was talking about choir and now I can just talk about whatever I want.

[00:34:55] So if there were laugh and harder than have you ever been tempted to just like reach into an open mic and just pitch the choir, recruitment again? No, I mean, I never thought about it but I'm terrible.

[00:35:13] Yeah, because they have to and they're, yeah, I mean, they were like, we're a lot of inside choir jokes do but I should try it one day. I mean, they don't laugh at me right now anyway. So I don't know. That's not true Ryan.

[00:35:28] I've seen some of your Instagram reels and clips. There's some funny stuff there. People are laughing. They're all laugh-trying. You don't have that. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. You're not. He's putting his video editing skills to good use.

[00:35:50] That's why when you see the video, there's like two people on the audience when it sounds like the laugh is coming from a stadium. It's over there. Well, that's like a really big venue. That sounds like-

[00:36:05] It's not a coffee shop but it sounds like they're at the garden. Right. I thought, I think some of that stuff is funny. I love your-I mean, every-so there are a lot of people obviously doing stand-up comedy but it really comes down to their delivery.

[00:36:26] Like there's some people who are just-they could tell the same joke as someone else but the way they tell it and how they're going- It's just funnier. You just love to hear the way they do it. And I think you're approached, especially when you feel like-

[00:36:42] People are laughing but they're not laughing as much as you had hoped. Then you get them laughing more by- That kind of stuff. Like you're put out by just love that. Oh, okay. I'm proud of humor. I think it's just really funny.

[00:36:59] Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it because I think that kind of- Because that means one person- Oh, that's kind of like a nuanced sense of humor. You know? Like, it's not like a classical set-up joke, set-up joke, set-up joke.

[00:37:17] So, you know, yeah, and I also have a very dry self-deprecating sense of humor. But sometimes it gets too self-deprecating so people start to feel uncomfortable. And- Oh, that'd be great for that too. Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah, sure.

[00:37:36] The best situation for me is when half the room gets it and the other half don't. Yeah. And that's when I enjoy it the most because- Because it has like that tension, you know? Like, and I love that vibe of like-

[00:37:52] After people are like, oh, yeah, I know what this guy's doing. It's funny. And the other half that room is like, like, this guy's an idiot. Why is he- why is he here? You know, all these guys that are laughing must be his family members. You know?

[00:38:07] You know- They are because your mom won't come to the show you said, right? Exactly. Well, it's just- Well, it's- Hold on to aunties and uncles, you know, and cousin. Yeah, yeah. But thank you. Yeah, I-

[00:38:22] I-I definitely like it when I'm bombing, but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But most of the times it works, yeah. But there are times where it doesn't work and it gets- I'm gonna get like- I can't know. Well, I- I've been-

[00:38:38] You're the first comedian we've had on, uh, and- What the- he's the first, like, comedian we've had, right? Like, there's- Get up the comedian or- Yeah, I don't think we've had a stand-up. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I just- Not exactly- You don't-

[00:38:55] You're going to think of a comedian? Yeah. Ah, ah, ah- The- Um, but I've wanted to ask, um, because I- I watch a lot of comedians through Instagram, I mean, I think that's really where a lot of-

[00:39:10] Uh, a lot of people are going now to kind of like get their talent out there and so I've been following several different people. And I- It seems like- Is it- Do you feel like it's tough to be a comedian? Yeah. These days are stand-up comic because there's-

[00:39:27] There's like two- There's two, um, I guess walls on either side that you have to avoid. One is that you have to avoid saying something that might offend a group of people and then they will.

[00:39:38] And then, you know, that you have to be careful to find humor that isn't necessarily going to, you know, denigrate another person. But then on the other side, uh, even if you are not being offensive,

[00:39:51] there are people who will rush the stage or I don't know if you saw the clip of, um, a kind of drinking on your table. Where are you through? It's a female comedian and they throw a beer- Oh, I don't know that yet, I saw it.

[00:40:04] I thought it was- That actually picked it up and drinks it. It's like, it was like, you know, the presence of mine to do that was just so great. It reminded me that Waffle House personally, like, deflate- Yeah, they just caught the chair. Yeah, she just-

[00:40:19] Oh, I didn't see that. But I thought the beer one, I'm like, holy cow, that probably could have been- That could have been worse. And it would be right. Oh, beer, yeah. So it's like, you do it hard. Yeah, that was- It's dangerous-

[00:40:32] A dangerous profession to be in now because of those kind of two extremes and you're just like, how do you write that line in the middle where you can still be funny and not- Yeah. And your people and nothing- You're just to get a beer-

[00:40:44] I don't know that too or cancel on Twitter. Yeah, yeah, totally- I think that- Yeah, they're what's definitely time. Earlier- The earlier stages when I was doing stand-up were else like, man, I don't want to be seen as a sellout.

[00:41:03] I don't want to be seen as a guy who's, you know, a hack for making Asian jokes. But I realize that most of the time though, at least for me, I- Now, to all note that I-

[00:41:18] I realize that the people that do get mad at jokes like that. They tend to see everything in black and white as in if they just hear the word Asian in a joke or if they just hear the word-

[00:41:30] If they just hear a rape, if they just hear a stereotype, they automatically just go, you're at half. They don't really see the nuances of the joke, you know? They don't really see how the joke is being delivered, the content of the joke.

[00:41:45] They don't even want to analyze it. If they just- they're just kind of like, trigger happy. So that's what I realize. Well, that means- No matter what I say, if I just talk about my race, which is Asian, they're going to think I'm a hack anyway.

[00:42:01] So I realize like, oh well, as long as the reason of what people can kind of see what I'm doing, that's fine because they're logical. But I can't appease to a group of people that is, you know, a logical I suppose.

[00:42:15] So that kind of what made it better. Funny story, actually. There was a guy in my improv group who- We're not- I'm not an improv group anymore, but he would kind of say like, no matter what if you use your-

[00:42:31] If you talk about your race when you're doing stand up, you're a hack. So he was pretty much calling me a hack. And we were at a restaurant, we're at a Chinese restaurant. And he was just talking about how like, yeah, like, it doesn't matter.

[00:42:46] Don't talk about being Asian, you know, even if you're Asian because that's hacky. You shouldn't do that or something. And then he or- and I thought that was funny. And then he ordered orange chicken. And then he told me, yeah, you know, people don't have a name.

[00:43:04] Yeah, you know, people think orange chicken is so stereotypical, but I'm like, well, if it's good and I like it, I'm going to get it. So I'm like, well that's kind of what I'm sort of doing, you know? And we're in a weird, like, metaphorical way,

[00:43:21] but I thought I was like, oh, well, I'm just kind of eating orange chicken too because I- Not because I think it's racist, but because I like it, and I think it's funny. Yeah. So just like you're eating orange chicken because you think it's good.

[00:43:34] I'm saying Asian jokes in what I don't- In a way that I don't think it's stereotyping that in the hacky way, because I think it's funny. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, I mean, are you supposed to find kind of humor in your life and where you are?

[00:43:49] And if that's where you are at or understand why you wouldn't, you know, especially when it comes to, well, one of the first jokes I think I saw you tell you, was about a woman who asked if you were from North Korea or South Korea. Oh, yeah.

[00:44:04] And then you, I won't like tell your joke for you, but I mean, I just, I love that delivery made me just crack up and I was like, oh my god, it's so funny. I mean, just the funny things that people say,

[00:44:17] and I don't think that lady probably, you know, she's just innocently asking, it's not trying to be a dirty thing, but yeah. And you just handled it in such a fun way, I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, yeah.

[00:44:30] And most of the times my jokes are kind of based off actual stuff I've experienced. I've been asked to come from North Korea so many times, you know? And I'm always thinking to myself like, wow, like, they really don't know that North Korea is like a place

[00:44:48] that you don't get to leave, you know? I'm just crazy country with a crazy dictator who's like making people think he's a god. So I always thought that was funny, so yeah. They don't have a stand-up exchange program with America or anything. Yeah.

[00:45:05] You're standing in over there and they send comedians here and we just, yeah, yeah. They come over and balloons. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Um, yeah. I think, uh, I think, and also, I think all comedians of all races talk about their race.

[00:45:27] Not because they're trying to find easy jokes, but because your race is such a huge part of your identity that,

[00:45:34] I mean, black comedians talk about being black all the time, white comedians talk about being white all the time, Asian comedians talk about being Asian comedians talk about being Asian all the time. It's kind of a thing in stand-up.

[00:45:42] It's not like a new thing that just came out. That happening since pretty much the start of stand-up people talk about their lives and the floors are going to talk about their life and the perspective of the race they are. So it's kind of inevitable, yeah.

[00:45:58] I mean, I want to make sense if I start talking about like, you know, like being a black person or something is they should only talk about being an Asian person. Right. That's what you know best. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:46:16] I want to think that I've noticed a lot of videos from comedians now. There's like a huge influx of crowdwork videos, like that's where people are.

[00:46:30] I guess I don't know if it's just because audiences are getting more like vocal and like how they control and so they're constantly happening to like address that or what

[00:46:40] or what but how is your experience been as far as like hagglers and crowds and things like that when you're trying to do. I think most comedians put up crowdwork so they don't have to put up their material, you know.

[00:46:55] Because like even for me, I have some jokes that I put up where now a bunch of people heard it. So now when they come see me and they already know the punchline, they already know the jokes so it's not at fun for them.

[00:47:13] So but crowdwork is different every time and it's in the moment spontaneous. It's just an easy way to get content without sacrificing your jokes in the sense that they won't be fresh anymore once you post it.

[00:47:29] But you know, yeah so I think that's crowdwork but I love doing crowdwork too. I always enjoy doing crowdwork. I try to do crowdwork as much as I can. And I'm never thinking like, oh because I need content, but it's just fun.

[00:47:44] I always like it when the audience is kind of involved in some way. Yeah. Do you have you had any really negative heckler experiences or has it mostly been positive? Yeah, my mom threw a beer can at me.

[00:48:01] You know, I just have a weird, no, I definitely had weird ones but nothing that I could think of where it was like hateful. The weirdest one was that it was not a diner which had a theater room in the back.

[00:48:21] I was a writer called some some deli longgers, I think. Some deli, some famous deli and comic before me was yelling at this woman. And but she had a boyfriend. And the boyfriend started yelling at the comic and they almost got into a fight. And I stopped it.

[00:48:45] I was like, hey, come on, come on, come on. I was trying to calm down the comedian. It's okay guys, whatever. So it cools down and I was up next. And then as a joke, I said to the woman, hey, I came to your rescue.

[00:48:57] You know, I helped you out for fact there. I think that was pretty brave. And she was really drunk but she came up on stage and she started and dryhumping my leg. But no one would help me. I just didn't know what to do in that position either.

[00:49:15] So I just stood there. It was really drunk though, but she was like really dryhumping my leg and that went on for like 30 seconds of me. Every little just silent and me silent too. And we just heard like the her cheese rubbing against my head.

[00:49:33] You're rubbing with the, yeah, like this now. Oh my gosh. Yeah, but now is the weirdest one. I wish I recorded it. That was a one night that I decided not to record. Yeah.

[00:49:46] Yeah, that would have been in your boyfriend just sat there and watched this and listened to this. I picked out my. I think the boyfriend got a shower down. Okay. So he was kicked out. Yeah, he was she stayed. He stayed. Yeah. That's okay.

[00:50:00] I think you probably hit on where a lot of that kind of behavior comes from is that most of these events and then use there's just quite a bit of alcohol, you know. Yeah, he served as well.

[00:50:15] And so they're throwing it at the at the community and so. I think I do that. Oh, I know. I know. Um, I think that I have another weird one. I feel like I did. Oh, no, no, no, no. No, no, no.

[00:50:30] No, I keep it up to my point. I was going to say, I don't. I don't. I hope I boy, if there's anything weird in that, I don't know if it's going to be okay to just. Wow, that.

[00:50:42] That perhaps that moment was the most intimate I've ever been with a woman. So that was kind of nice. Yeah. So he has always a silver lining. Yeah. Take the positive. Exactly. You know, that's did you get her number or no? No, no, she.

[00:51:05] She said, oh, what is she saying? She's silvered up and then. She real like wanted nothing to do with me. Yeah. Well, that's that's another area of humor. I feel like that you are. Exceptually funny at is the end at your approach.

[00:51:28] Like the way you just delivered that just now was like. That's that's what I'm talking about. I've seen a lot of your like podcast episodes where you've got. Women trying to help you work on your your talking the women game. Yeah.

[00:51:45] Jeff, that was we Jeff, that was redundant. Yeah. I'm talking to women game is like. Pin number. It's the same. Oh, that's about it. You don't have to. Yeah. I had to find a lot of those really hilarious.

[00:52:06] I actually was hoping a Leo is going to be here. I thought maybe she would be perfect. Yes. How do we do it right now? I always the funny thing about that is I didn't do that for the podcast.

[00:52:21] I've always done that ever since I school and not as a joke. I always because I was genuinely like no, I need help. But as they were helping me, I just thought it would be funny if I kind of made it a little goofy.

[00:52:37] But I always enjoyed doing stuff like that. So I did that long before the podcast. But if you guys want to do one now, I would happily like to. And I always I really am a horrible Vader though. Like really I'm bad at dating.

[00:52:53] I actually got rejected just a week ago. So it's it's it's it comes the curiosity and the want to do these improv exercises also come from a genuine This is genuine crime for help as well.

[00:53:09] Wow, I think the problem is that well, I mean you taught our both married so it did work out for us eventually at one point. But I still have blind squirrel will find another somehow.

[00:53:20] I didn't have any idea how to how to respond or like I couldn't play the other role because I don't know what they're thinking either. I've been married for 30 years this year and you know, I love her to death. She's still a mystery though in some areas.

[00:53:37] Yeah, I'm bad. Yeah. You're saying that because she's right next she's right there. She's right over there. Yeah, Leo is young. I did. Yeah, Leo will be perfect for. Yeah, that just means we have to have you back. Yeah, I'm always now I love doing podcasts.

[00:53:59] I be down and to me. Alia, well, I mean, I'll ask you guys. I think you guys talk to me for about an hour now. I think that my guests on why women don't find me attractive enough today.

[00:54:16] You know, actually like, women might find me like kind of attractive at like a first glance level. But it's always when they get to know me better that I feel like I've been able to them slipping away.

[00:54:28] And I think it's because I'm just not I think I'm very not assertive. And women really like assertive guy. Yeah, I mean, I guess it depends on the woman. Yeah, I mean, that's hard to and then how do you know right which ones.

[00:54:47] Because then you find one that you and then you try to be assertive and they were somebody who didn't want anything to do with that. So you're always like a gamble every time, right? But I feel like assertiveness is like one of those universal traits all women like.

[00:55:01] Okay. Don't you think so don't you think all of it would prefer an assertive not like a abusive guy. Yeah, that's something that I wish you watch. You're right just kind of right knows yeah. I'm very good at you.

[00:55:17] But the wish you was she doesn't come from a place of insecurity. It comes from a place of I would rather have them be happy, I guess. Yeah, you generally want to please them right? Yeah, you genuinely want them. Yeah, but and they don't get that all.

[00:55:39] Yeah, and it doesn't come off like that. Yeah, so.

[00:55:43] Well, I mean, I got any honest. I don't know how it is with you and Karen Utah, but here we have similar just even the discussion of you know what show do you want to watch tonight or what food are we going to get?

[00:55:57] And it's like if you're assertive and you know what you want and it's not what they want then you're you know then well that's what you don't like. You don't ask you just say we're going to watch this tonight or we're going to have this for dinner.

[00:56:13] Oh, maybe I can. I just I just sit here and I just kind of sit here and go, yes dear. Well, but the thing is let's not get married. I feel like once you get married that's when women don't want you to be assertive anymore.

[00:56:30] There's there's this weird kind of grass where they want some assertiveness, but then it goes down once you're in there. Once you're engaged and it goes down a little bit, then once you're married just like we're down there. What's going on? You're married.

[00:56:44] You can say yeah, I know. I know. I don't know what to say. Where it is right. What do you want for dinner? We're going to go to fast food. What do you want for dinner? I don't know. What do you want? I'll eat anything.

[00:56:57] What do you want? Okay. How about then? I don't know. I don't feel like I'm talking about. No, I don't know what it's like. It makes me feel safe. Okay. Let's go to Wendy's. Like now Wendy's is. I don't like redheads. Yeah.

[00:57:13] And then it's like well, I thought you said you didn't care. Yeah. Yeah. And they just it's just a circle forever. That's that's you think that's a cliche. But we have it. It really happens. Yes. And I'm like, she asks me. And I'm the same way.

[00:57:28] And I think like, I think you're not wrong Ryan. I think it does at least in our relationship. I feel like it does come from a place of, you know, we get frustrated with each other for not making a decision.

[00:57:38] But it comes from a place of, no, I really do want what you want. Whatever makes you happy. At any time I still do have preferences. Don't let you have to wait. So it's like how do you have finding that balance is really difficult. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:57:53] And we are, we fight not argue or fight. But we are conflicts are over like what show we're going to watch because we have, you know, what we might have a couple of different shows that were binging and so we'll sit down

[00:58:06] and say, okay, it's time to watch a show and it's like, which one of the air, whichever. And then it's like, oh, I don't want to. Even having someone to have that argument with is a blast. Yeah, it is. I mean, I, yes, no, 100%

[00:58:24] I want whatever I want. But I would rather argue with someone. Just have a disagreement. I would rather have someone to be in a disagreement when I'm saying, oh, no. Yeah, absolutely correct. Yeah. That is a goal to achieve and to seek out for sure. No, no question.

[00:58:50] But you know, I come, I came to peace with it. I think some men are meant to traverse this valley alone and successfully destiny. Then so be it. How big are you? I'm 30. 30. Okay. All right. So you're, yeah, you're just, I'm all nuts.

[00:59:13] But that was such a great reaction. Oh, you're 30. Okay. Yeah. I always forget asking that question. I don't know what's so encouraging Jeff. I don't know what, but well, you're, yeah, you're older than me.

[00:59:31] So I don't want to even know how I'm the old man in the room. How old are you? You don't mind me. I turned, well, yeah, you go first. You have to go ahead. Why don't you kind of make up a year after I give, give might know.

[00:59:48] So I just turned 50 last year. So oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. I'll be 52 in March and see, and I'll be here. Alia is young. She's like 28 or whatever. She's the youngster in our group. So she's kind of like, so we're the old,

[01:00:06] we represent the nostalgic old part of the pop culture, you know, discussion. She's the new one. I'm going in talking about, you know, all that. Yeah, she keeps us honest about whether or not the stuff that we're talking about is just,

[01:00:22] we're just blinded hold up or if it's still good. What's it? Is it still really good or are we just blinded by our childhood nostalgia? Right. Yeah. So yeah, I was kind of thrown off when you guys said, do you know anything about the Civil War?

[01:00:40] And I was like, oh, okay. What was for the days? Why was thinking, because this might actually be helpful, because in the future, if I do get married or engage, I will have to meet my in-law and the first impression with the in-laws is very important. Oh, what?

[01:01:03] Number one, you should have a Hyundai Tucson. Oh, you didn't know that. Yeah. That was great. No, yeah. That was, yeah. That was that for Hyundai Korea? It was for the Asian channels in America. Oh, interesting. Okay. All the Asian channels in the United States,

[01:01:25] that's where it's going to air. Yeah. That's cool. It's telling, I was talking to Jeff earlier. I found it. I find it interesting that Hyundai USA has basically the same commercial. Have you seen it where it's like,

[01:01:40] The family adopts a dog and the father just doesn't want a dog, and it's like 1,000 miles. But then they jump up to like 41,000 miles and now the dad and the dog or grown up and older and their best friends now, like playing fetch.

[01:01:56] So it's just kind of like a lot of their rights. So I found it interesting that Hyundai did the exact same concept, except instead of a father and a dog. It's a father and the son and law. Right. Wow. I didn't know that. I just told you that.

[01:02:12] Yeah. They on TV now. So you know, you can, oh, yeah. That's true. You've been married on television, right? Or were you just engaged in that? Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think, no, we were engaged. We were engaged. Okay.

[01:02:30] Should try and press the father and law on that and that commercial. Because she got ready to practice. Yeah. A little bit of practice. But I like the fish and the rod gig. Yeah, I get the end. That was cute. Oh, thank you.

[01:02:42] A little bit of the saddest part about that is Julie on and played my wife or my fiance. I'm actually seeing her later tonight. We're going to watch Bobby Lee at the Hollywood Improv. Oh, cool. So on set, she came. She comes up to me.

[01:02:57] She puts her hand on my shoulder. And I said, she said acting like I'm in love with you. What's the most difficult acting challenge I have ever done? And I said, thank you, Julie. It's an absurd thing. She said, I'm a method actor. That's this.

[01:03:17] But even I have limits. I don't believe her. Wow, she deserves an Oscar. That's not that. Yeah, she does. She's, no, she is still method acting tonight when you guys hang out at the show or

[01:03:38] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Or do you? Do you not know? Is it hard to tell? Yeah, oh, oh, oh. I'm probably still going to be method acting. I don't, I, I, I, I, all over some money.

[01:03:54] And she said, I won't come back until we meet in person. So yeah, see, there you go. Well, that's fair. That's fair. Hey, yeah, all's fair. Love and war. That's true. What should I can experience the love part? Yeah, well. The civil war was overrated.

[01:04:13] It was neither civil nor war. No, or war. Yeah. That's the, um, that's so funny. Oh, my gosh. Well, no, good luck at home. I mean, this sounds like maybe you guys are going as friends, but you never know.

[01:04:29] Like my wife and I started out as best friends. You never know. That's, that maybe we're, we're, it starts. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, if she can act like she's in love with me, maybe she'll be able to love me in real life as well.

[01:04:44] But I mean, you know, a lifetime of method. That's happened before. That's possible, right? I mean, I don't know. She said, hey, she said, I played an octopus in my last experience playing a woman who loves you. It's tougher than that.

[01:05:02] It's easier to pretend I have multiple appendages. That's not enough. And to look at you and smile. Well, that was a real question, is though then the actor who plays your father-in-law was he method acting too?

[01:05:25] Ah, um, I know I, I, I, I, I, I all, I do know what parents I, I do know with everyone. Except for a character. Yeah, no, no, no. Interesting. So you're the, you're the guy that they want to take home,

[01:05:43] the, you're the guy that they want to take home to meet mom and dad. But that's it. Well, like, I, like, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I do, I just, I'm just very smooth and charming and charismatic when I talk to like parents.

[01:06:02] But when I had when talking to the, the my partner or perspective romantic interest, that's how I all goes to shambles. Yeah. Yeah. And, and I don't think the recommendation of pretending your date is their parents would work. That just seems really creepy. Right. Right.

[01:06:25] I mean, I, I, I try something similar. I'm like, what if I should be her like my friend? My friend's like me. So I, I'll try and try to like that. I try to, I try to fool myself and try to incorporate some my interacting styles.

[01:06:39] But I don't know what it is. I just. Well, I feel like that's, I mean, I guess it depends on the one, but it's like, I feel like that's like I said, my wife and I were friends before, you know, of course,

[01:06:54] she'll tell you that she, I guess she tells the story that that's not how it was that she was interested from the start, I guess. How funny her story is different than yours, Jeff. Yeah. And that's not funny. I wasn't also interested.

[01:07:09] My point is that we were just friends though, like we weren't pursuing that kind of thing. I think based on her story, you were just totally clueless and she just had to smack outside the head. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's how that goes. Yeah.

[01:07:24] And I just didn't back with my popcorn. Yeah. That's how far back we go. But we were, I mean, we were best friends. We're doing all kinds of stuff as friends and it just kind of happened. You know, me, like it wasn't, you know, added.

[01:07:41] Well, that's what confuses me, you know, because I wouldn't mind having a relationship start out of friendship. But what's the difference between a platonic girl boy relationship and a relationship where two people are agreed to date each other? I think the pressure is off.

[01:08:00] And you can be yourself, like you were saying, it's a lot easier for you to talk to a friend than a little bit of a, like we take that off the table. Well, it's kind of like, gypsy when Harry Met Sally and he's the whole joke is that

[01:08:12] went men and women can't men who can't be friends. You're right. But if you take that romantic interest off the table, maybe we can just be friends. I want to be with my friend forever.

[01:08:27] And I think we should be more than friends, and then it kind of blossoms from there maybe Adam. That's a great point of the day. Yeah. No, but that makes sense.

[01:08:37] But I think men or women they want to have that status like we are dating because it's more secure and safe than wow. It's interesting. That's what I need to change. Yeah. Just make a good. I just sit here in the attic with my toys and my collectory.

[01:09:03] And then at some point, I go downstairs and actually interact with my family. Oh, okay. Then I come back upstairs. If I thought of it beforehand, I could have a look at the other side of the house.

[01:09:19] I could have asked my daughters for some advice to give you. But I so. So I have three daughters. One of them is married now. And that was an interesting process. But it wasn't an interesting process. Just doesn't.

[01:09:37] It was just, you know, because now she does the live here and it's just it's odd. Like it's just a process of like realizing that she lives somewhere else and that someone else is up there for now and.

[01:09:50] And it didn't help that when they were, then when they were dating. During the pandemic, my daughter was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. And she's fine now, but she did have to go through chemo and all that stuff during the pandemic.

[01:10:05] And I'm her dad, you know, and I want to take care of her. I want to be the one who protects her and she had him too. And I'm like, you know, and I'm great.

[01:10:17] She did have him and I think that he was great and helping her get through that. But it's hard to watch as a father and be like somebody else is doing my job. Right, right. The fact that you had to defer was very difficult. Oh, yeah.

[01:10:32] Does that something that you're used to? Yeah. Right. Right. Just. Yeah. He's wonderful. Yeah. Because you know, you'll do everything you can to help her.

[01:10:44] So you know that for sure, but it's hard to think, well, what would anyone else be willing to do more than me or just the same amount. Yeah. Well, hopefully.

[01:10:57] Well, you guys both have that person already, but hopefully I'll have someone that may be willing to do that for me. Yeah. Absolutely. We're going to start a hashtag. We need to start a hashtag.

[01:11:12] You started at this started out, I think you were kind of getting around to asking like what it would take to impress the fathers and I think for me that's what it is.

[01:11:22] I need to know that you care about her enough to that, you know what I mean that you. As far as I'm concerned, you will never care about her more than I do, but I want you to try to convince me that you would.

[01:11:34] Do you want me to try and do what if I want her?

[01:11:37] I want your one of your daughters beyond say and my goal is I have to prove to my father and mom that I'm going to protect his daughter and love his daughter as much as I can. So this is like the first dinner. Okay.

[01:11:53] I was going to convince you. And you can tell me if, you know, you can tell me something. This is sounding a lot like the plot for Megan, the movie they just came out.

[01:12:03] The dog for the doll is like tasked with protecting the little girl I would ever cost and start to murdering people. No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. First advice, don't go as far as Megan to protect your death.

[01:12:19] That's not how far that's that that would that's not impressing the fathers is what's the. I want to do my. I'm going to be around long to take care of you. Then by the way, man, math, guess is one of my students. Oh, look at that. Hey, hey.

[01:12:42] Thanks for watching. Cool. He's my biggest fan. That's pretty awesome. See that that that speaks a lot that students are still seeking you out. Oh, the doctor. Right? I mean, it definitely says what kind of teacher that you were. Yeah.

[01:13:00] Well, I think because they probably think I'm going through like a midlife crisis. I'm kind of like watching a bad car accident. Wait, but you can't. But they're draws. Maybe this is what you should it should be a reality show and you should just like.

[01:13:20] Just record your descent into whatever you're descending into. Because like you said, maybe maybe people would just can't turn away. There you go. See. That speaks volumes. No, we need to put that all. We need to put that all over the place. I think women love the date.

[01:13:42] I think people when we love the date, the greatest music teacher. Yeah, I know. You need to be your height man. That's what you need a height man. I think vans is your height man. Out of the 300 students I can't only one of them. Only one soda.

[01:13:59] Well, vans is the real one. Thanks for reading here, vans. I think now. What if we did so you've given me an idea you to what if what if we'd started a reality show? It could be online called Mary Ryan Co.

[01:14:18] And we could have different people kind of and practice, you know, you could practice on different women to try to find something in common.

[01:14:27] And you know, I mean it doesn't work or whatever but it could be a big idea for you to be kind of see what's working and what is it? Because I guess my first question is where are you meeting? How do you meet?

[01:14:42] I'm obviously met one on a job together. But yeah, where do you get a chance to go out and kind of meet people or are you busy doing this all the time? I didn't date anyone for the last first six years.

[01:15:00] So I recently went on the app like two months ago and I went on like one day with the girl but I don't think the apps are for me. I always, but the apps you have to have a killer opening line, you know.

[01:15:16] So I always if I match with someone I always say hey are you a transformer? Because I think you're a hot towbot and none of them ever respond. So if they're not going to respond to the killer line like that there's no.

[01:15:33] I need to write that down because holy cow, that's fantastic. You know what, I mean there's a very important audience. There's a type of woman that you're looking for that would respond to that right?

[01:15:48] And they're probably someone who's already as a transformer stand or at least gets the reference right off the bat and doesn't have to think about it or Google it. So well, I won't say this. Out of the two dates I went on.

[01:16:06] One of them asked me if I was on the spectrum. So I think I'm also doing that. Is that a heavy vitamin? So I don't know what I'm doing or saying what I think I'm kind of giving off that vibe as well. Interesting. What do you guys think?

[01:16:28] Did you guys, can you guys see how some people may perceive me that way based on our interactions? Not necessarily. No, I perceive you as a pretty cool middle aged Asian guy. So you know. And this is coming from an old Asian guy.

[01:16:46] So I'm not sure if that's quite the compliment you want to look for but. Yeah. Well, maybe she was asking about cable spectrum cable. Maybe that was it. No, maybe that's why it didn't work out. She actually was wasn't referring to the cable.

[01:17:07] She wasn't referring to the spectrum of cable company and she had a bad experience there for it. Well, I'll say this much if I ever see her again, he won't be getting a box of chocolates from me. There you go. That's the spirit. That was being assertive too.

[01:17:22] So good on you. There you go. Just give me a. Yeah, if you're a certain one more. Did you guys get that reference? So I'll the forest, come for reference. Right. That's a box of shit because you never know what they're going to get. Yeah.

[01:17:38] I said that it was someone else recently but they I don't think they got it. You know. Had they seen them? Me sometimes it's too dry. Right. But that's what I mean like that's like that's really dry. You know.

[01:17:51] Of course if you were making force if you were sounding like forest cup that may have been in the past you asked if you were on this spectrum. I don't know that's fair like that's fair. That's interesting point because people.

[01:18:06] I don't think I have an attractive voice either, like I'm not this is not a joke. Two people that don't know each other on two separate occasions said I sound like a gay roba. I don't even know what that means.

[01:18:20] I know but I mean it to different people. You don't sound like C3PO. Right. I still don't like it. What about you three of you? Oh my god. C3PO had a homosexual chip and then there's a programming. Oh that is that is. That is funny.

[01:18:44] You're never heard somebody say like that would be how to take that. Do you know either? Do you have the same sort of speaking voice? Do you speak Korean and do you have the same outside of the commercial because I know that you spoke Korean

[01:18:59] and the commercial but do you think you sound the same in Korean? Do you sound like a gay roba when you speak Korean too or? No in Korean I don't think I do but I speak English.

[01:19:10] I don't know why but I kind of flow with kind of monotonous and it's kind of like nasally. Okay. That's fine but. I mean that. Well are they all single like me? Well that's a good question. That should be problematic maybe. So let's go.

[01:19:36] So kind of I'm going to kind of move the subject back to what you taught said there and that you spoke Korean and the commercial. Did you sort of grow up in Korea and moved here? Did you grow up here?

[01:19:54] What was your where did you and was it? No, for yourself. It was East Korea. That's I heard that's the best Korea as East. Yeah yeah. I was morning South Korea. I moved to LA when I was seven years old and I've been here ever since.

[01:20:16] I didn't really you. I where I grew up not a lot of Korean speakers. I kind of lost a lot of it. Yeah. And I didn't go to Korean school because I didn't like it.

[01:20:27] Yeah so I was born in Korea for a good chunk of my life but I lost a lot of that culture. Because when I moved here I was just there were a lot of Korean people around me so I was just kind of immersed.

[01:20:39] I was forced to kind of adopt and I grew up with a lot of Filipino Mexicans, Armenia and actually we're up in Glendale. So probably have a lot of them don't culture and mean yeah. That's interesting because that kind of reflects my experience.

[01:20:56] I moved I was born in Taiwan and moved here to America with when I was three. So I've been basically I basically grew up here in America and so.

[01:21:11] I don't have a lot of Taiwanese culture kind of oozing out of me and I also don't speak a lot of Taiwanese if at all. So if somebody if a Taiwanese if Hyundai came up to me to do a Taiwanese ad, I would have butchered it.

[01:21:25] I would have asked them can you just do that CGI thing with my mouth and have some nasty voice over? Well because there's no way I'm going to.

[01:21:34] Well I say I knew I say oh and the spot and my accent's really thick so native Korean speakers will know all this guy. He's not a native speaker. This guy is not native. Is that the only line you having there? No, I have a lot of lines.

[01:21:51] It was actually funny thing is I was supposed to only speak Korean in that spot but I think my Korean was so bad they told they switch it to the.

[01:22:00] Yeah, they're in the addition I only spoken Korean and at the call back he said you know what we're going to speak in English instead. Yeah, interesting. Wow. It's funny that you guys are sharing that because Utah has been in a car commercial too. Oh really? Right?

[01:22:19] No, but yeah just a local TV spot for local super-roodily that's all. I didn't have any lines. I just you know shook somebody's hand and of course and the funny thing is is the casting call was for diverse group of people and there was one other Asian woman.

[01:22:36] There was an Asian woman about my age there and then there was a younger Asian man and they had him looking at like the civic R of course because you know I wouldn't look for a civic R.

[01:22:48] The young Asian guy would but then when it came to we need we need a couple here to talk about that. I mean, I need a couple here to talk to this this this car salesman.

[01:22:56] They paired me with the Asian woman to be the couple talking to the car salesman because about the many bands. I don't know what it was. I kept on talking about the civic R. That's funny.

[01:23:12] But yeah, so yeah, I guess we have that in common too except yours is like all over Asian you are. I'm so here in North East Ohio. Yeah, oh, oh, no that's no good. I mean a lot of actors would kill to have that role. It was fun.

[01:23:29] It was fun and I got paid for the day so you know. I can't complain. They didn't give me a car though. Did you get a car? They did Hyundai give you a two-zone. Okay, see you know what it is this. Right.

[01:23:41] I feel like we need to write to these car companies but you know super-roos Japanese and Hyundai's Korean. So I don't know what what leg we'd have to stand on. Not you don't come day who's on wasn't nice car though. Really surprised by in the career.

[01:23:59] Yeah, and it looks really cool. I was like, oh wow, I wouldn't mind having this car but. Did they have a stunt driver or anything or were you actually doing driving? Yeah. No, what we had we are car was carried by a rig. Like a huge rig.

[01:24:15] So I was driving but we were on you know, do you see a James Corden's a powerful karaoke? Yep. Yeah, yeah. We're kind of like that. Looks like that. Yeah, exactly on trailer. That's not true. Okay. The magic of television. Exactly. They were telling me to open my,

[01:24:37] they asked me if I could make my eyes bigger because when I smile or laugh. Oh come on. Well, the director was ages. So I knew it wasn't a racist thing. Oh, right, right. We have really good camera but we can't.

[01:24:52] We can't zoom in enough for it to look big so if you can make me thought, kind of like laugh without make my eyes. They would, and I just like, we're doing it. Yeah, yeah, because in your life,

[01:25:05] it looks like you're put it in the effort to do something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's funny though. Oh, like so speaking of things that you guys haven't come and I'm going to, we were just talking to you, Ty.

[01:25:21] He's in a, he's in a production of SpongeBob the musical here locally. Oh, my God. And I know that you're, you're an actor. You're obviously a musician and can sing. Have you considered, have you ever done musical theaters?

[01:25:36] That's something that you would consider if it came along or you would audition for? You know, you may be, maybe. I feel like musical theater, you need to have a lot of like, bubbly energy and I'm not sure.

[01:25:54] I mean, I, I, I'd be willing to try it out but definitely it will be putting me out of a comfort zone for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no that makes sense. I'd be interested, yeah. I was just curious because you've got the,

[01:26:07] do the acting and the singing. I wondered if you'd combined the two. Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't mind that's for sure but I definitely wouldn't be like, I would prefer to do just acting or just stand up for just singing. Yeah.

[01:26:23] And I never got into musical theaters for some reason. I'm not sure why. No. That's for everybody. Yeah. Right. I mean, I love it. I think it's great and I have huge respects for anyone who does it. Yeah. But I, I just never got into it. Yeah.

[01:26:40] Well, we are coming up on time. Ryan, this has been awesome. I'm so glad that you came to spend time with us tonight. And I really appreciate that you took time out of your day to do that.

[01:26:51] Um, as you said, I would love to have you come back. Yeah. Maybe we'll have to do, you know, an episode of Mary Ryan Koo. You can come on. Ali, I can give you some advice from the female persuasion. Yeah. And I'm not right. That's right. That's right.

[01:27:10] We can do an episode called. I have an episode called Koo for you. Oh, there we go. I like that, yo. Yeah. I want that. I don't know. I don't think I'll be in the afternoon. I will figure it out. We'll help you. But um,

[01:27:27] I, uh, do need to let our audience know a couple of quick things before we go. I, um, It is almost March, which means it's Saint Baldricks time, which is the time that I shave my head. And I'm actually going to shave the beard if we ran.

[01:27:46] Well, money, not all the way. And not to like a bear face just all the way. No, none of us will recognize you if you do that. Well, this is what I've been growing out since, uh,

[01:27:56] you know, what I think last time I shaved was in the summer. But uh, yeah, Saint Baldricks is great. It's uh, we're donating, we're raising money for pediatric cancer research. So if you could be interested in doing that, she run, you gotta go.

[01:28:12] Go home, say bye to man. Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, he says he wants, he wants the mystery one listener. Yeah, it's right. So this is a work, that you can scan.

[01:28:26] I put it in a very strategic spot so that you can, you know, distract. But yeah, if you are watching us on YouTube, if you're listening to us on the podcast, it'll be in the show notes. Check that out any, any amount donations,

[01:28:41] and I will everything will be shaved March 10th, and all the money goes to raise money for pediatric cancer research, which of course is how my daughter was, We're the new toggle. Exactly right? Anyway, so there's that. I'll move it now here. I could have put that anywhere.

[01:29:04] I don't know why it ended up playing. I feel honored and privileged to have a cure. So we, we're back people. We've got shows again every week. We are also combining with combining forces with our good friends at the promptly written podcast for another crossover episode,

[01:29:24] where we will be writing short stories with those guys, reading them here on our show and then listening to theirs on their show. So you have to listen all. And the prompt, since you see the prompt Utah, I've been a prompt. The prompt is World Gangique. Oh, wow.

[01:29:43] I didn't really like the color of them. You just decided to make it World Gangique. So they didn't do a poll. I was going to add a lot of prompts for them. Yeah, no, they didn't do a poll.

[01:29:54] So we're going to be sure to tune in for that. That's coming up very soon. In March, we'll be there'll be on the show and we'll talk to them. Once again, Ryan, I can't thank you enough for being here. It's really pleasure talking to you. I'll continue.

[01:30:10] Thank you. Thank you. Good job. I've been going to. Is there anything you want to tell folks like where you're going to be next? What type of, you know, where they can find you on the internet? And all that kind of stuff. Yeah, totally.

[01:30:21] You guys can find me on all social platform that I have at OncleCube, which is spelled H-8-N-K-Y-O-L-K-O-O. My website is ww.honclecube.com. And I'm actually going to be attending a neck conference, which is like a showcase where you do a lot of college

[01:30:45] and all over the nation. So I'm hoping to start hitting the road soon. And so hopefully, I'll have some coordinates out and I'll be in like state outside of California. So you could follow up with that on my website or Instagram. Yeah. Awesome.

[01:31:06] Yeah, we'll keep an eye on you. And if you're going to be in Ohio, please let us know. We'll figure out a way to address you somewhere. I hope you had Ohio. Yeah. We'll put that on the couch. Okay. Okay. Come to Ohio State.

[01:31:19] That's only about two hours away from us. We could go down there or Cleveland State here in Cleveland. Wow. Yeah. We've come see you. Well, we'll come see if you come to Ohio. You guys may want to leave the drive two hours for me? Sure. Why not? Yeah.

[01:31:35] Maybe you can have two hours for the coup. Yeah. But now, yeah, we would. That's not far away. And we both, uh, we both have, uh, friends and folks that we can visit Columbus because we both went to Ohio State down there. I don't know. I don't know.

[01:31:50] You don't have to come see me anymore? Are you John Columbus? No. Yeah. I'm just okay. I was going to say you probably have more friends on their night. I'm, um, I tend to do not make a lot of friends when we're in. No.

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