TigerBelly - Ep 236: Roy Choi, We're Cool Now

Episode Date: March 11, 2020

Bobby is on the looter's side. Roy reached his quota. Khalyla is mommy shamed. We talk happy crows feet, Bert Kreischer's burgers, the dental habits of coal miners, and Wolfgang Puck. Please support our sponsors.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

You're listening ad-free on Wondery Plus Hey guys Slap King here. I do live shows. I will be in Denver, Colorado March 12th of the 14th at the Denver Comedy Works Dude, you got to see me in Houston, Texas as well March 27th to the 29th at the Houston Improv Wasab chief Dallas, Texas April 3rd through the 5th at the Dallas Improv

What's up, mongombo? San Diego, California at the American Comedy Club April 30th through May 2nd Poca Obvious Ontario, California May 8th through the 10th at the Ontario Improv. You also have one more date. That's not listed on there It's Calusa Casino in Calusa, California April 17th. Yep. Go to Bobby Lee calm Bobby Lee live calm and grab them before they're gone Enjoy the show Roy Choi don't say anything till I bring your name up. Okay. All right. I

Think he's like I say that to everybody. Okay. Don't take it personally. All right. All right You have beautiful eyes That's first time anyone ever said that to me Your wife. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you why I'm gonna tell you why okay You get it. I'm gonna start a lot five four three two ding dong the baby's gone Hi hi Ding dong the baby's gone. Hi. That's what he's saying after I got an abortion. Yeah Long time ago, but I went I did the doorbell thing ding dong the baby's gone. Bye. Bye

On her belly. Yeah on her belly. Yeah No, that's not Christian of me. Yeah, and that's never got one and here's the thing You know, I honestly regret us getting abortions. Wait, that's not something for you to regret. That's totally my choice I'm just saying that we would have two beautiful babies, but you didn't have a gun to my head. I know but we've had two Delicious little babies here. Delicious ding dong the baby. Anyway, um My name is Bob. I'm I'm pretty cool. I'm doing alright, you know, I look in the mirror I'm trying to be more positive about myself. You know affirmations Look at your round face

It's arounder than most look at my soft skin. It's like a baby's asshole. Hmm. I don't know I've never felt a baby's asshole before but I'm sure it's pretty soft. I Think about you George sometimes, you know, I make fun of you all the time. I get angry at you rageful. I Don't know what it is. Some white people just do it to me like that, you know you know, I was in the elevator in San Jose and I I was in the elevator with a bunch of white people, you know, a family and I and I went and went like this And they all they all covered their mouth They were like that and that that that was pretty racist

But then I kept doing it, of course, so I took I purposely went on elevators just so I can call from front of white people I Did and they got all scared Roy Choi don't say anything yet But Roy Choi's notice that I farted on this Jeffrey Dahmer type over here Yeah, and he didn't fucking blink an eye He didn't move or nothing and that's when you don't trust some people. Yeah when you do the kind of fart that I did Ding dong the babies Gilbert. How are you? How gabby? I'm how's your sister's doing great? I love her. Yeah I love her more than me and some You guys, um, I honestly like, you know

We've had a lot of cool guests, you know on our program We've had some rocky rock starry kind of people. We've had Comedians, but who gives a fuck about them, right? You know, I mean, they're not special But the guests we have today is super special because I love his food. He's a chef, but he's not like fruity Like floofy like floofy fluff through through through you to me like he's David Chang David Chang is floofy fray fray floof. He's a floof. Yeah. Yeah, you know me. He's arrogant Yeah, I went to his restaurant in New York once he brought out the dish and he kind of did a head thing like

You mean, you're welcome. I mean fuck you not Roy, right? Not wrote this guy. You know, I mean this guy makes food For the people, you know, I mean the vote for the working man. In fact, I'm Roy. I'm telling you right now I was telling Clila early tonight. I say I 200 years from now ago. Yeah, what would Roy and I would be doing in Korea working the coal mines we'd be working the coal mines together That's what the kind of phase you have I didn't know you were talking about the phase. I thought you were talking about and his energy energy Yeah, yeah, energy. You know what I mean? We work hard. You know, I mean, we're fucking, you know, I mean blue collar In many ways. Yeah, right? Not David Cheng. Fuck him. Yeah

Who's that other white guy I know that cooks? Curtis Curtis stone Curtis stone that Australian fog snooty fucking Gwen We go in there like All right, I love you. I mean and I love your wife Roy Choi started a Kogi truck. That's right

Right. That's why don't we give him a round of applause? Roy Choi everybody Way more to his credits, by the way. I know he does but that's the one that was That was your um, they give Scorsese taxi driver. That was your taxi driver. Taxi. Yep. Right. It is. How did you start that? I was broke and I was broke coal mine Covered and sit and I was hungry. I I was broke. I was broke out of a job and my friend called me He's like, yo like fuck that man. Don't worry about let's go in front of the club and sell tacos That was the business plan. No. Yeah, but like did you think regular tacos or did you go? I gotta

Do my own thing. No Korean barbecue and tortilla. Those are the two things he gave me He's like, let's put Korean barbecue inside a tortilla. We'll go in front of the club. We'll fucking crush it You know, all the girls are gonna love us. I would feed the bouncers will do everything and then yeah Just started I started tinkering from there and it came natural, you know So when you first Because I don't get it so like because I you know, I was in San Jose and you see the hotdog people. Yeah First of all Yeah, but nobody was in San Jose

But it's it's kind of a similar thing throughout california like any club, right? Right in front of especially you go out You're probably out at like 2 a.m. That's all you can get. Yeah, yeah But what you did though was you've never that's never been done before and we started right next to a hotdog lady And she was laughing at us the whole time fucking Mexican lady. She couldn't believe What the fuck is going on? There was four Asian people in this Really? We're all bumping into each other. She's just shaking her head And at first did people like not want to eat it or did they was original just the people just got They just like I want to try it

But yeah, we had to kind of force it on people but as soon as they took a bite You know, it was kind of like street performing or In a sense, you know, like on the boardwalk or whatever in venice It was like we had to really kind of solicit ourselves and gather people together Because they didn't believe us by the way we look But as soon as I handed them a burrito we started with the bouncers in front of the club And then so as soon as the bouncer bouncers ate it, they were like, oh, shit. All right, you could park right here And then they started being salesmen for

Yeah, the value in charge of you probably gave it to for free. Yes. What club did you first park in front of? It was called Green Door and Cabana. I know what green door. Yeah on the ivar right next to you never let me in Yes Fuck you, Roy. You're acting like David Chang right now Ah, well, it was Asian night though or it was yeah, you know, here's what I've always loved about you is You have your eyes. I said your eyes were pretty right first person that ever said I know But do you know why I say that why because they're not just regular chinchang eyes They've seen a lot. No, you have a little bit of crow's feet. Oh, yeah, right. Do you know why why?

Because you smile a lot. Yes, and you laugh a lot So whenever somebody has croat even white dudes has sometimes they have it. I trust them immediately. Do you have it? No, you don't have No, you don't have it. James van der Beek does what croat. Remember you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So James van der Beek has it That's why when people have it I would like, you know, give them a grand and go save save it for me because I know they won't spend it That's how he invests his money. That's how I've got my money I trust dudes with your kind of eyes, bro

And I've never seen an Asian dude with crow's feet, right? So you must smile a lot I've been smoking weeds I was 13. Is that what it is? I've been laughing at the world for 40 years. Is that what it is? That's what it is. Must have been. I don't know. I was always around funny people growing up. I mean, I grew up on the street So it's like I was always around like local neighborhood comedians and And I was I was kind of a quiet kid. So I was always laughing. So that's a really great observation. What in K-town? K-town Watts

Crenshaw Watts Anaheim orange. Yeah, no Let me let me talk about watts for a second. All right a korean dude in watts No, well, was it before pre or post riots? Both well, I opened the restaurant recently in watts. Oh, that's because we're cool now. Yeah. Yeah No, we're cool now But before the riots there was tension there was tension, but uh, I was there were ones that slipped through They did through yeah, and uh, there were some cool Asians on the streets and I was one of them

Oh, really? So yeah, I was able to kind of but then I was real quiet dude. So I was able to kind of dip in and out, you know Yeah, you know, you know, I'll be honest with you during the riots. I was on the black people side Yeah, I mean, I'm like loot loot loot. I would like straight at the tv. Yeah Me too. I wrote a I was writing articles for a korean newspaper at that time Yeah, and they were trying to fucking force me to tell our side of the story I would go to liquor stores. I was like, I don't agree with our side of the fucking story

Yeah, I was like I could see it from the other side for to be honest. Yeah, you we're opening up We're opening liquor stores in urban areas, right and liquor stores. It's a it's a drug. Yeah, right And I don't think that we were um helping the cause, you know, I think that we were and also what you're exploiting the We're exploiting the cause and also I think that you know, all those like stereotypical things like no browsing You touch you by I think that that um sends a certain message That you're untrustworthy and it's it's fucking crazy And I grew up in a korean household, right? My parents are old school fucking racist Oh, what? They're racist as fuck. Racist as fuck. All Asians can be racist. Yeah, exactly

I would just can't do anything about it. They're just racist at the dinner table They just tell their children. I know But you and I I guess, you know, I mean, I don't know about you But even as a kid I was pretty woke, you know, in terms of like they would say if you gay If you gay, I kill you I get you murder me I kill you I know your boyfriend everybody

Right And you say your black people if you did the black girl Does it take you? You know what I mean? And it's like all about murder All about murder and and I was I would always go that doesn't make any sense. Like yeah, what's wrong with gay people? It doesn't you know, I know if your parents were like that. My parents were fucking Fucked up in that way

They're you know, they're they're good now. Yeah, were your parents pretty liberal? Yeah, yeah, but you know Koreans have that weird, you know, I mean like a lot of they're even racist against themselves You know, I know that's how Filipinos are too. It's like the darker you are. You're just a laborer and a peasant Yeah, it's there. It's there's classism too. Yeah. Yeah, you know, look at all the racks in Asia if you go to any beauty aisle It's just in the front all just whitening products. Yeah, all they push even to this day Yeah Sucks but what I love about the riots and why Wow, I mean, I've never heard that census

No, I was gonna clip that out. No, I really loved the riots. No, it was a bad thing. Okay. It was very devastating But if you're gonna take, you know If you're gonna take some positives out of it is what I'm saying. Sure. Yeah, okay You know, I don't like what you guys are doing right now You know, I'm trying to spin a bad and do a good That's what papa does or you can just remember it as a bad time No, I I look like bob you have you have a point of view on it. Thank you so much, Roy Oh, yeah, I have a point of view. Okay. So, um, I wasn't in LA for the riots. I was in the suburb convenient

What a convenient place to be with someone for someone with such an opinion Oh, baby, if I let me say this right now and I don't I I take great offense Okay, all right. If I if my parents had a liquor store, right? During the riots I would I would have been up there with them with the shotguns Wait, because you know how the liquor store owner. What do you do in this war? Yeah, no, if I walk if I was born, I guess into that, you know, I mean I got a fart again. I want to see what your reaction is. He's right here. Let's get the camera on that

Nope, sit down. You're working for us. Sit down Oh, that was very cute Yeah, do you do this to your employees, Roy? I'm sorry. That was wrong. Maybe you aren't cut from the same cloth Maybe you would not be working in the coal mine. I'm sorry. That was rude. Like he would be I'm so sorry, but he would be your supervisor in the coal mine. Yeah, I'm so sorry dude. That was rude No, I'll never do that today again I'll do it again, but not today again. Thank you. That was a little too much

I have a beautiful guest here. I apologize But can I just finish my fucking point of thought, man is is that because Apparently I go to this Korean spa Hyundai spa Oh, I go to that one too. You do $20 massages. Yeah

Yeah, on armoire Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, they stare you down. Yeah, they stare you down. Yeah. Yeah They're just mad dog you the whole time. Really? Yeah, they're scrubbing. Yeah, they mad dog you and then the owner of it Have you ever met him? He's got a dick this big and he's Korean. I think he got surgical operation You know what he does? He'll walk into the steam room and everyone knows him because he owns it And he'll put his hands behind his head like this

And stand in the steam room like this with his long dick Right and everyone People just go, oh, you know what I mean? Like what a power move. It's a power move, dude And he can play ping pong like a motherfucker. This is the same place as the ping pong Yeah, yeah You ever get a massage there? I don't step on you. No, I've never gotten the massage there But the people who play ping pong there are legit legit. They come with their like Olympic gear with their bags. Yes

That's why we don't go there because we went there one. Yeah, we try to play pink We try to play there, but everyone was so good and we're like hitting the ceiling The balls are flying all over the fucking place and they kept looking at us and like fuck this place Fuck it. But the steam room Is hot as fuck, right? Roy. Yes. Yeah. When do you go there? I haven't been in a while, but when I used to go there like when we ran the line hotel I used to go to like unwind and shit. Yeah. Yeah. I want to go there with you Okay, why we could do like the Conan Steven episode

But would you I mean do you get full-blown naked like I stopped that a while ago I I can't do it anymore, man I just go directly from the front desk through the sauna up to upstairs and get the massage You won't you won't go in you won't get naked and go in the steam room. I did for a long time I just I reached the point where I was done with it. I just wow. How do you get over it? I didn't want to see any more dicks That checks out I reached my quota. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't know I had a quota and then I reached that quota and I was just like

I don't want to do this anymore. Yeah Yeah, because I but I you know imagine driving home that day. Yeah, that was it. That was enough For a lifetime There was a clicker that went off Yeah, but I know, you know, I don't it's not as if I walk in there and my eyes are at the dicks You know, I mean I lock eyes with everybody, you know, I mean You mean I'll do a glance at the owner See if it's real. Yeah, you know, I mean, but it's not it's not a sexual deal

You know, I you know what Roy you as a I think he's me because I go directly to It's just you that Yeah, you're doing it wrong You don't walk directly into the dick. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So what I'm saying Joe though is I really would like that experience with you So creepy the way I'm sorry my bad But when did you so then you had that I think I ate at um Cogytruck the the the case I used to see you guys on La Brea and third. Oh, yeah. Yeah

Yeah, but the the KCD wouldn't add stuff. I have been following Kogytruck since I was in college We would have to figure out where it was. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Where'd you go to college? Um Long Beach Yeah Long Beach is one of our best. Yeah So my friend Cindy and I would always go find the Kogytruck. We still go Fridays on atherton Like yeah, I went that's I know exactly where at it. But you're not there, right? You're not are you still in the truck? I still drive to the trucks. Yeah So people trip out like I'll just show up like you at the comedy store, you know, like just showing up All right, you know at midnight, you know, yeah, yeah, I'll do the same thing to the trucks like people won't expect it

They're not expecting it and I'll just like be right next to them. They're like, what the fuck. Oh, wow It'll be anywhere from Long Beach to Pomona, but you go to get recognized. Yeah It feels good, right? Yeah There is that little thing and it's maybe it's an addiction Maybe you know, I mean, but you know what I did at the low at San Jose. I was just at the improv I would wait 30 minutes after the show And still some people would still wait

And I take photos with them. Nice, you know, but just to see who the true fans are. Yeah, it feels good You know, it feels it feels good to make people wait Oh, there's that core. There's the core. I'm kidding. I love you guys. Come on I come I'll do whatever you want. I mean, I'll do whatever you want So then what so after so after the Kogi? What did you what was the next thing that you opened? Well, Kogi was such a big thing You know, it was like it came out of nowhere and completely consumed our lives

So that first year was just all Kogi all Kogi opening another truck Continuing to go to different stops and we were just saving our money You know, we're getting hit up by like all these investors and you know venture capitalists and everyone that wanted Kogi to grow and It just didn't feel right. So we decided to just keep it to ourselves We save money and we open chego after that. You guys are right chego. Yeah. Yeah So we open chego a year late. Is it hard to resist that though? um, I I had never experienced it before so

I just kind of used my street sense in figuring out what was going on. So Um, at first it all sounds pretty alluring, you know, like people come into you saying you could have 40 of these You should be all over the world. I have You know hundreds of thousands of dollars millions of dollars and then they take out the dinner and do all these things Wow, but uh, every single time there was like the sixth sense within me that felt like this doesn't feel right You know, right? And so I just followed that, you know, I think We had some arguments internally. Um, I think I think maybe I stunted the growth of Kogi because I was ultimately the decision maker

Um, maybe I stunted the growth, but I think it in the end I made the right decisions for Kogi Because we still own it. Uh, we've never taken outside money and it's stronger than we've ever been 11 years later because everyone wanted us to be like frozen yogurt at the time Yogurt lamb was blowing all those things and um, I feel like we made it through that That came out the other end stronger while that whole thing fell and died Yeah, for like if you're thinking about like longevity or at least from like an outsider on nobody's um, like perception Um, it does kind of seem like cooler and more punk rock

Yeah, and like more true to like what la is, you know, like you don't sell out to the big man And you know, I sold out in other ways But but it uh, it allowed me by doing this allowed all of us to find our own different paths, but Kogi remained Punk rock. Yeah, yeah its own thing, you know um, maybe like if you were If you were to do big movies or whatever, you know, but like your stand-up could still be yours No matter what no one can touch that you could still be as Whatever is you want to be because you never sold any of that off and that's what Kogi is for me

It's like the band Fugazi. Oh, yeah. Okay. So when Fugazi when Pearl Jam and Nirvana hit right gigantic record companies went to Fugazi. There's something on my face, right? Yeah, I thought it was a mole It's like a black speck Yeah, I was like what the fuck oh, you know what it's part of the mic. Yeah, like the foam you saw it and you didn't Know it was at the same time I want to go to the fuck stop. I know what the fuck bro. You have a direct line to my face But I thought it was a mole too I don't know you that well

this close up on tv But there's makeup on tv. I've never been this close for you for this long I have this black thing on my face and you didn't say shit, but it's fine. I'll let it go That's a good topic. I what kind of he's a type of person if you had shit smeared across your face He would never tell you and he would allow you to walk into a room and speak to 100 people with shit smeared on your face So I don't know why you're coming after him because you're worse Because um, you know when the so burgers and things and you don't tell anyone. No, he doesn't do you

You could have a pizza on your face I won't say anything I I do I I resist and I try to go as long as I can without telling And then and then I always end up telling and then I always getting trouble for it to get mad at me Or they get mad at me. They're like, why don't you tell me sooner? Why did you tell me kind of there we go? I do this other thing where it's like, um, sometimes it doesn't work, but usually I'll be like

I'll do this and then I'm like, let's do this and then I'll take it out for them. Yeah, or or you rub your nose Or like I don't do that. I just rub their nose for them Okay, and then they're like, oh, that's kind of sweet and now we're closer But I always have that problem when people ask me to tell the truth, you know, like especially chefs They'll ask me like tell me how that really was and then my wife would say don't don't don't tell them because And then I always do and then they they end up climbing up and walking away Oh, yeah, so I try to stop telling people, you know, when I was when I watched this latest season of chef I was what I took from it was like, oh, they really are different kinds of teachers

Because nothing made me more anxious than watching wolf gang puck. Yeah Um, look over Jean Favreau making that omelette. I just I was sweating through my armpit. Wait wolf king puck is an actual guy. Yeah What hold on wait, what there's an actual guy named wolf bang Wolfgang bang is a real person. Oh, you thought it was just a restaurant No, I thought it was like chef boy rd. There's no guy named That's what that's fucking called There's a guy named wolf bang puck

That's a better name. Yeah. What's his name Wolf gang Puck there's an actual. Oh, wow Is there a P of Chang's? No, there is a Philip Chang. Oh, there we go. Okay. Okay. There is a P of Chang Oh, there is a P of Chang Is he nice? That's him. Oh shit, he's white But he's not American. He's not Wolfgang. Him and Arnold came together. Yeah. Oh

They came in same type. Oh, really? Yeah, around the same time. And he's been around for forever. Wait, wait. Wolfgang, Puck and Arnold are brothers They were twins. Around the same time they immigrated around. Oh, they immigrated here together on the same plane? Yes, and he broke that whole like Vegas buffet thing and he started putting like nice or high. Yeah, Spago in Yeah, and his first spago was right by the comedy store. Yeah, that's right. I've heard a spago. That's Wolfgang Puck. Yeah Am I an idiot? Yeah, a little bit. I feel like an idiot right now. I feel foolish You know, that's okay, but you know when I was I was like, okay, they're Yeah, he's a very right in your ear. So there's that episode and then there's your episode at best friend And I was like, oh, I could never learn from someone like Wolfgang just breathing down my neck

Yeah, I would absolutely shut down, but you're more of like here's this very clear very I'm like a surfing instructor Yeah, but Wolfgang is very European. That's how it is in Europe. In fact, I tested it because I was like, okay What do I remember from except for morals about that episode and how he was kind of guiding through making the omelet? But I remembered everything you made even the black vinegar. I know that it go get it from Chinese market I was like, oh, that's how I learned when it someone is calm and clear And you're the same way because when people are kind of more authoritative you shut down, right? Oh, I can't I can't do it Yeah, I

Well, it's because it's the way my dad talked to me. Yeah, so I either freeze up or I just don't like it You know, I like dudes that are like calm Right. And also, okay, let me ask you this because I was thinking about this Not everyone can learn to cook though, right? Is it a talent? I think I feel like it's a talent It's a talent, but it does have a system that could make someone who has no taste actually make something okay, but they got a that person with no taste has to listen and They have to be honest that their food is horrible

And then and then they can open up like grew up with an aunt who couldn't cook It was one of those like comedic scenes She would cook huge tables of food like this. Yeah, and then we'd have to go and everyone would just look at each other Yeah, you better eat it. Yeah, he was that bad. Yeah, but I don't know if She you could ever tell her like, okay, like you can't do it this way or do this way But it's almost willing to listen. There are systems that could make you a good cook now for someone who's 48 and can barely boil an egg On his own. Do you think that someone like Bobby could Learn I think that he has great taste. I think if he's earnest and honest about it and like our show

I think could teach Bobby. Yeah, the chef show. Yeah for sure because I we tried to choose recipes that You know, the best way to cook is to cook the things and Robert Rodriguez said this in one of the episodes Is to cook the things that director the director? Yeah Yeah Literally just got goose bumps. I'm I'm I'm like Forever said, you know, I was so I never knew he was that cute of a man. He's so cute He put on that hat like I heard any of that little hat and I was like, oh, he's like the better version Cuz he kind of looks like Kevin Spacey a little bit. Oh, yeah

That too. Yeah, did you ever see it? Yes, Spider-Man Evil Dead 2 Yeah, and you you're on the show with Spider-Man's friend in it Favro Favro and Spider-Man was on one of the episodes. Oh, I'm hollering. Yeah Spider-Man and Iron Man together Bill Burr's been in it. Bill Burr was on our first episode I'm just getting fucking goosebump. Bill opened the the whole series. Did you make a sandwich? He made kubanos? I used to be Burke Christcher's neighbor Fuck that guy Was he loud? I

Feel like you could hear him from like across the street. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you ever meet him? Yeah We our kids were friends. So I had I had to hang out with him Roy judged a grilling competition between Sebastian yeah, oh the oh the fucking hamburger the hamburger. That's right Because I went into Sebastian and because I had heard that his hamburger that bird had won. Yes, right? It was really painful for me And so then I went to Sebastian I go Aha bird beat you and I had never seen Sebastian that irritated. Oh, really like he just did he did an Italian like I twitch He went like, you know, I mean, you know how the Italians when they the wise guys when they had they fucking, you know

I mean shoot people, you know, I mean, that's what he did an I twitch like that They did like if they do in the movies, you know, I mean and it really affected them. Was it that much better birds? No, I admit Sebastian if you're listening to right now, this is right in your face. Yeah, what it was Sebastian had everything going for him He had the kit. He brought all the tools everything his process if the whole thing was judged on everything up except flavor He Unfortunately, yeah, he beat Burton every other category right except for the one that counted which is at ability, you know what? That's what I would liken myself to I am so not technical in the kitchen, but I cook like a grandma Yeah, so I cook for my heart and if it doesn't have to look pretty, but if the flavor is right

I'm not a plating queen. Yeah, but I'm like I cook the hits like a grandma does you're from Hawaii, right? Philippines, well, Philippines. Yeah, so I cook a lot of food. Yeah, the islands They it's like that because you're just cooking in big pots or yeah family. You just put it out there a lot of stews I just made Gilbert mongoes, which is like a poor man's Friday dish. Oh and Do you but anyways, I think that I could teach Bobby how to cook because the way you learn how to cook is is Cook the food that you want to eat. Yeah, you do eat every day And then you're already interested and engaged and then from there, you know, you just listen to someone that knows how to cook Yeah, so if I said to you, this is what I like. I like spam. I like rice and I like eggs

All right, no, I'm just let's just listen to what I'm saying because they all take cooking No, first of all, you laugh at that. No, I eat that all the time I know but let's think about this though. Okay, you go to a Mexican restaurant They can make 90 different things off of four great ingredients, right? So what I'm asking Roy Choi is is that with the elements that I just gave you could you come up with something different? I Could definitely come up with at least 10 things off the top of my head with those ingredients Yeah, I mean, you know, you can make it in wasubi. You can grind the spam and make a rice cake out of the rice You can oh wow. Oh, I can make an omelet, you know. Oh my god

You can make a sandwich you can Make it into a soup or an egg drop soup. Oh crispy rice that You know bubbles on top. You know what I would do with it. Just pile it on and then build a building Structural a structural thing, right like in 51st dates when they first meet They're me cute. We're Adam Sandler swings the spam door open and she's like, why are you touching my food? Oh, he does that in that movie. I don't watch like that cuz I'm an adult I like real movie. That's all I love you Adam. You're great in Jim jams

It's weird how people Classes or want to learn how they could and I see their classes in proper I've never seen a class for like a stand-up or their classes for stand-up They keep talking about or could you teach someone to be a stand-up? That's not funny. Same question as you're asking me about food. Yeah That's an interesting question. Um Here's my my theory on stand-up. Um There's a lot of comics that um shouldn't be doing it

But they do it because They've been on stage for so long, right? It's about stage time Yeah, because what ends up happening is is that the more you go up the more comfortable you become with the environment Yeah, and so then the audience when you walk up on stage you can already feel your energy, right? In terms of oh this guy doesn't give a shit. He's completely comfortable Because what fucks people up is when you know what I mean? Like when I did the first show Friday night in San Jose all the shows were sold out

and um And matt lockwood who was a guy he's a doorman at the comedy store And andro santino had told me you got to use this kid. He's got potential But the opener was so good. It was this guy named mark smalls. He's from san francisco. He is destroying it in this packed crowd and I can see matt lockwood Backstage pacing. You know what I mean? And he was sweating, right? And the first three minutes of that first show it was fucking terrible

You can tell But then you can see him relax. Yeah, and once he relaxed the audience shifted Right and then every show after that he was great. All right. It's about Feeling comfortable. So even if somebody isn't funny necessarily But is relaxed up there and and can construct a joke and say it comfortably and organically That can be misconstrued as being funny Honestly on it because you see comics that are good writers

I want to name some names so bad right now, but I can't I don't hurt anyone's feelings, right? And then you have somebody like chris delia, right? Who's so confident, right? And so just a funny intrinsically funny up there It doesn't matter what he says Right. It's about just so you can teach somebody like you could do it Thank you Would you ever try? Uh, I think I could do it from uh

from a crowd Commanding standpoint. I just don't have the material, but if if I had material. Yeah, I would try so if we um If you go through if you go So you stay in a kitchen and he does stand up. Yeah, I mean you would tank his restaurants. That's it. I wouldn't serve it to anybody But like you know and also we would put him in front of a small audience Right, like I would serve it to the crash course is one week. Yeah to do a one week crash course Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, that would work or or you'll just take his material already and kind of just um Because he's gonna cook your your recipes and I take his jokes. You take his jokes

Yeah, you could have five minutes of my jokes. All you do is five minutes. Yeah, and all you have to do is five recipes It's all just spam and eggs Rice like like oh, let's be honest if you were to teach me something the first thing. What would it be? I would start with spanned eggs and rice. I'll teach you how to cook the spam properly the eggs I would teach you maybe five different methods on the eggs I would teach you how to cook rice properly and then maybe turn the whole thing into fried rice Right, so I would teach you each thing separately And then ultimately the punchline would be you would make fried rice out of these three things that you never saw coming together

Roy, have you ever met an asian that doesn't know how to cook rice? Dumbfounded Number two, I respect dumbfounded. Yes And that's the funny thing that he said that because I love dumbfounded. Yeah, very talented young man It's like the crow's feet. He's got you two got the rice in common Fuck you people. All right, not every you want to you want to go there then what do you mean? At least my mom knows that the eat rice Why are we going to our mother? My mom choked on rice and I had to do the heimlich on her, but it was a rice ball

And she has um esophageal um, I'm just saying I never met an asian That didn't know how to eat rice Right, we had to call 911. It was a whole thing. Yeah, Bobby and I were crying We were crying at the time, but I've been laughing ever since. I mean, who the fuck doesn't know how to eat rice I don't know. I've never heard of that. I've never heard Also, they're like the little tiny bits of it. But the way my mom eats rice. She puts the whole rice ball Yeah, she does that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Because in the Philippines we but doesn't it dissolve?

And then she I don't know how her mom's mouth what I think happened is that like she drank a chug the big thing of water And there was a rice ball and it just made a paste Oh my god. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah, and then what happened was I I was in the other room and I came into the living room and she's doing the Heimlich and her mom is completely All right, let's not relive this fucking traumatizing. I'm just saying though. It was the most traumatizing shit I've ever seen making a traumatizing and I want to ask you what you would do in this situation

When I was in San Jose I you know met some audience members and I was this guy just goes what's up and he put his hand out And I shook it And he had three fingers missing Okay, yeah, yeah, so I tried to play it off cool But this is what I did Oh weird Fucked it up. It was a bit too much. Yeah. Yeah, I should have just stayed in the pocket

Yeah, and like I always fucking shake two-handed Hands, you know, hey, where's it this three? No, this was this was there. I think it was this He had like a fucking death metal. You know what I mean? Yeah, so he shook me like this Right, and I didn't know what the fuck I was well. I understand why then because do this you should have got like this rock Because do this the reason the do this to me The reason that you pulled away is because technically you felt that you were crushing his fingers And you were like, oh, excuse me. That's exactly what I think

That's what it was. That's what it was. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. He should have done it differently Yeah, that's on him. Yeah. Yeah, you should have lost these you know me or these two, you know I mean next time you throw a firecracker just make sure you have your hand, you know, I mean But I don't know I didn't even ask him like what happened. I just went and then went oh, I don't think you're supposed to You don't know him Well, he's meeting me, right? Yeah, I want to know the story Okay, how would you do this? Okay, let's play it out. I'll go go. Okay. All right. Hi Bobby. I'm such a big fan and what? Okay, and then what the fuck bro

That's how you that's how you would ask what happened your hand and make fun of no I would go okay, because I didn't do that. No what happened was I squeezed it I went like this I go oh my bad And he goes can I have a photo and that's it was really awkward Right what I wish would have happened is me say Oh, dude. Oh, fuck. I'm sorry and like make a joke out of it. Like no, I thought it was like a record I don't know. What would you say? Just don't even make any comments about it. What would you do? I think you have to call it. Well, you got to lean into it. So I don't know

What I wouldn't have done that so I don't know I don't know what I would have done because Naturally, I would have leaned in and just hey, Roy. Hey, can I get a picture with you? Yeah, you just go hand. You just start doing a handshake. He just starts doing handshakes. You work with the fingers. Right. And then maybe just do an E.T. thing. NBA handshakes. Wow, I fucked it up. Oh, man. Oh, I learned. No, what? It's his bad.

I'll tell you why it's his bad. Did he have a regular other hand? How about a warning? Like how if you have two fucking fingers, bro And you go in for a handshake, I would say hey, just let you know, or do you feel he should go in with the other hand? That's exactly because I saw his other hand normal I mean just full not normal, but full hand. So is it more weird though that to shake with the left hand though? Yeah, it is weirder. It is weirder. It's a dilemma. Yeah, you know what? Just don't wait in line next time, bro. Don't get a picture with me. Don't create this fucking situation. Because if he had given his left hand, then you would have kissed it. Yeah, like a, you know, his left full hand.

Milady, Milady. Yeah, I know him. If you offer the left, he'll kiss it. Oh, I will kiss and I'll do a curtsy. Yeah, a little curtsy. I knew this one girl. She had no arms. She used to hang out at the comedy store in La Jolla. This is why the abelists, you know, like the, I want to know what you did. This is why they come after you. No, I just remembered, but she was like totally cool. That's all I was saying. I saw it edit in your brain. Your eyes started doing the Italian twitch. He went Italian twitch. You know me well. Yeah. I went, I went down the road. I was waiting for it. Right. And then I fucking backed out because we're not going to edit this fucking thing. You know. So what restaurants do you have now, Roy? I have a restaurant called Best Friend in Las Vegas, which is the most recent restaurant.

Um, do you ever play Las Vegas? I used to a lot, but I haven't been there in years. Well, now you can, you can do. What kind of, is it the same kind of food? It's like, uh, a culmination of everything. It's like all my greatest hits in one. So it's got like tacos to Korean food to stoner food to, uh, vegetables, everything. So it's called Best Friend. Um, I have Kogi taco shop, Takaria. I have the Kogi trucks, alibi room. And that's it right now. So you're killing it. Yeah. I, I, I lost a few restaurants over the last couple years, but it was cool. It's, it was all part of the cycle. A frame and the pot and commissary, but those were all kind of like real estate issues that, you know, they lived the term of their lease. Ah, it is what it is. But did you, uh, design the, or conceptualize the interior of Best Friend?

Yeah, I was, um, it all came from my head, but I had a team, I had a team that helped me bring it to life. It's your dream come true. Yeah. It is so playful and fun and everything that you like. Yeah. So I've been lucky. I have these, um, kind of like you guys have, you know, team and producers and stuff. So I would call it. Yeah. It is a little different team. It's a little different. I don't know if I could have pulled out Best Friend with you. But, uh, but I give up the ideas and then, you know, I have an architect, a designer, a brand developer, and then we just start, they just start, um, giving ideas. Who's a designer? Uh, this brand designer's name is David Irvin from a company called Folklore. Uh-huh. You can't afford him, babe. His, his first claim to fame is he invented the Sprinkles Box. Oh, damn. And the Voss water bottle. Oh, wow. So he was a part of that whole design group. And then he did the Jelina brand.

Do you know Jelina? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He did that whole brand, Jelina, GTA, Jousta, and then, um, and then- But the interior designer, do you think we can afford him? No. And then the interior designer did my restaurant A-frame. He also did a lot of gardens like- That's who we need, babe. In big homes and stuff like that. His name is Sean Nibb, KNIBB out of Venice. And, uh- Should we write that down? Do you, how- I don't know if you could afford either of them. But, uh, no, but for like, for, you know, they don't do houses. They don't do small projects like this. They go big. Yeah. Yeah.

If I went in there, I go, here's 10 grand. Can you help me? No, that's not enough. They'd get their lowest, they'd get the guy. 10 grand? No. No. 10 grand? No, but just a concept. Concept, no. 50 grand. Barely. Closer. Really? Yeah.

I'm willing to do it. No. Because I don't know what to do with this place. Come on, let's just- I don't have the vision. I, you know, he- You have the vision. You just don't, um, have, you know, you, you don't have the vision. It's just a mishmash right now. He's like, I like mid-century modern, but also like poquito, you know, or like, he's just everywhere.

If you like mid-century, you should talk to Randall, Randall Park. Are you friends with Randall? Yeah. He's good. What do you mean? Good. For furniture. He is?

Yeah. Like he'll go- Right, Randall? Is that my camera? Right, Randall? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, he's good. He's good. He knows where to go and all that stuff. Where to go, what to pick, how to-

Maybe I'll call him. Yeah. Yeah, because I need, I think I need help. Yeah. I'm a little lost here. Yeah. And that's Greek. It's for-

I know, but I want something cool. Like your shit, your shit, you know what I mean? That's like his restaurant. That's the front. Oh, wow. So you walk through a liquor store. Wow. But there's also another area with all the hanging plants.

And so the other area, which is the more eloquent. So you walk, so we walk everyone through this liquor store, which is kind of like this room. We just completely discombobulate everyone. They're like, what the fuck is this? And then they go through the shower curtain, and then they end up in like this beautiful, beautiful room. Wow. And that's, that's the one in Vegas.

That's Vegas. Wow, man. That's so fucking dope. I wish I just had that kind of talent. You know, that is a fucking talent. It is. To match tile with certain woods and all that kind of stuff. It's like, I just get confused.

To create, like put a lot of texture and stuff in a room, but it looks like it's all supposed to be there. Why? Yeah, yeah. Unlike this room. That's his dining room. Fucking son of a bitch. That's the dining room.

That's so fucking dope. So you see how we switch gears with people, like we walk them through this liquor store, which is completely lit by neon. Yeah. And then, then you go through this red tunnel, and then you end up in this dining room, which is like a, like a poem to LA with all the photos.

I swear to God, I will go to Vegas. Honest. Let's go to Vegas to gamble a little bit, but I want to go to that restaurant. When you say gamble, it's just, baby, I know how to do it. No, he doesn't. He doesn't.

I had to spend six hours winning all his money back. You and me and Cho. Let's do it. Really? But Cho doesn't gamble anymore. Then he blacklisted himself. You and me. We can, can David Cho not go to casinos anymore?

Yeah. And he blacklisted himself. He blacklisted himself. Oh, but if we said to him, can you help us? That's not good. No. You can't, how about with this saying, David, you can't use your money.

Yeah. Use our money. You can use our money, which is going to be like a grand. Yeah. Right. That's because that's all, I'll go up to 2,500 and that's it. Okay. Right.

We'll set a limit. You think he still won't go? He won't go. He's an addict. Oh, that's true. Well, I was like, ask a crack, like a crack addict. Come to the crack house with me. Can you pay?

You can use my crack. Use my crack. Use my crack. How the hell are you? But just like cut it up, but don't take it. Like that's, that's crazy. Yeah. We fun though.

Yeah. That would, what? I'm thinking about doing something like that, you know, but can we not go there? What do you mean? I want to go and go to his restaurant. Absolutely. I think we should.

Because that shit right there, dude, is like amazing looking. Thank you. Thank you. You know. Yeah. So that, that's definitely it takes a team. It definitely takes someone that you got to be able to unload

your ideas or help them extract the ideas from you. If you can't, if you don't have them already, these brand designers and architects will be there. They'll ask you questions almost like a psychologist would and then extract it out of you and then turn that into whatever you want. And when you know why we should go, there's a bologna sandwich on the menu.

Oh yeah, a fried bologna sandwich. That's like his dream come true. Oh yeah. There's a fried bologna sandwich. You know how I love fried bologna. I know you do. What else is on there? There's an LA street dog.

There's kimchi jjigae. Well, wait, LA street dog. A lot of bacon wrapped street dogs. Yeah, just a bacon wrapped. And then you have a lot. A lot. So we have street food and then we have Korean home food. So we have like,

kaibi, tejiburgogi, kimchi jjigae. You have kimchi jjigae there? Kimchi bokumbap. We have all those things. And then we have kind of California produce driven food. You know, like walk fried vegetables and all these things. Yeah. That's amazing.

And then we have stoner food, like chili spaghetti. And you know, like. Like Bob Spig boy. Like Bob Spig boy. Yeah. That's my favorite there. Is yours better? No, we tried to be as good as them.

That's my favorite too. I love that fucking place. Yeah, I grew up on that. Yeah, what is it about that chili spaghetti that's so good? It's like any old recipe or any old diner. It's a it's a mixture of the seasoning on the griddle, the cooks that have never left. You know, like a lot of those places,

those cooks have been there 25, 30 years. So they're doing it like even without thinking. And a lot of it is a little bit of like the mysticism and the and everything surrounding the place. There's like seasoning within the air, you know. Wow. You think that affects everything? I think so.

Why is it? Do you think the comedy store on Sunset has a little specialness to it? Right. There's got to be some fifth element to it all, right? You know, it's so funny that you say that because people ask me, why don't you play the laugh factory that much? I do it maybe 10 times a year.

Yeah. Because the comedy, I couldn't put a finger on it, but I think that is it. It's the history. It's a history. And there's something. There's got to be more than our physical beings in life and that I think those are the things that

live between us and whatever our dream world, our paranormal reality, whatever it is. Oh, shit, you're talking about fucking some spooky shit. Yeah, sorry. Some spooky, too, shit. But there's got to be something, you know. So that's why those places are good. Wow.

So the good, the good, the Bob's Big Boy, you were referring to the one in Burbank? Yeah, Burbank. Because when you walk in there, it feels like, not like the store, but it does feel like. Historic. Historic. Historic.

Historic. Because you know that the buildings have been there for a long time and also like some of the furniture and even the Bob's Big Boy itself, right? It's all the same. It's all the same. Yeah. Someone farted on that couch in 1950.

You know? Yeah. And then like the fart essence gets into the floor. It's all there. All there. That's really fucking interesting, man. That's why it's like, you know, even, that's why I like going to that one place

called the Smoke House, the one you don't like. Is it called the Smoke House? Oh, in Burbank, too. It's in Burbank, yeah. Serve, yeah. The reason why I like going there, it's not necessarily the food is the best. It's just because when I walk in there,

I pretend that I'm Frank Sinatra. But it is kind of cool because a lot of old-timeers be there. It feels like back in the day. And hey, give me a, I just even said, hey, give me a little booth, you know what I mean? I talk like that, you know what I mean? And I walk in and I cross my legs like this.

I pretend I'm smoking a cigar. And like I do the whole thing. It's like kind of like that old Hollywood magic. Yeah. And I think that's why I like the food there. Yeah. And I never really put the, Wolf King, Puck is real?

Yeah. He's real. You gotta go there, bro. He should be on the podcast. Roy, does it break your heart to know that Bobby can't chew steak? You know I can't? No.

I'll put, I'll put, I'll put. Look, look. Only Hamburg steak. No molars. You too? Dude, they are coal miners. They're fucking coal miners. Some other life.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you, you, look, how many did you lose there? I have one. I have zero here. Yeah. So it's a Wagyu or a bus? And I have no zero up here. Yeah, yeah.

I have UB. Why did you, you don't brush? Yeah. Let me either, let me ask, because she gives me shit about not brushing in the morning. Be honest with me. Do you brush in the morning? I brush in the morning.

I don't brush at night. That might be worse. That's worse. You watch the build up. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's good. Yeah, you say you let the fucking feel this,

you know what I mean? Absorb into your teeth at night. When you start your day off. I ferment. You look at ferment, yeah. Yeah. Why don't you brush at night? I'm usually, it's the intervention.

Boy choice. That's weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I never really thought of it, but now that I'm thinking of it, it's, it's because I'm usually stoned. I usually smoke a lot of weed at night. And I fall asleep, stoned, eating. And I just don't have the physical energy to,

to go up and brush my teeth. You can't do this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, it's like that or move from the position that I'm in. Yeah. And so that's probably the reason. And then, and then I start to convince myself as I'm sitting there that I'm going to brush my teeth in about four hours.

Anyways, because it's just like. Right, right, right. So then I was like, okay, well, you know, it'd be fine. Wow. You're worse than me kind of. Yeah. I think it through every night. That do you floss?

Only right before I go to the dentist, I do. I do, I do everything. At least bleed. Yeah, I do everything right before the dentist. I'm bleeding like a fucking. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, I'll do it all a water pick. I'll do everything I'll fucking swish and then I go.

And yeah, that's the only time I floss. Yeah, because my, my, my, my family never made it like an effort to ever even teach me how to do any. But your mom and dad had good teeth then. They had good teeth, but they never like said like. Because sometimes. Brush your teeth. It is a genetic.

Because like for us, my mom had and all her sisters had. My mom still has some of her own teeth, but all her sisters had postiso. They call it. Dentures. So it was. I grew up without dentures too. All over the house. But that didn't scare you.

Like I got so scared for my own because I was like, oh, I have genetics. Yeah, but I go to the dentist every six months. I do the whole thing. She's like, I have almost like obsessive about it. I floss every day. But that's because there was no fluoridated water in Philippines. A lot of my family had really crap, rotting teeth. So that it put the fear in my, in my head.

Really? Wow, it makes a difference. Wow. I thought I thought there was a slight difference. And what normal people do. But wow, I know I have to stare at this shit all day to remind me how follow my mouth. And then she says stuff like, like the other day, remember, you go, why don't you brush in the morning? It's disgusting.

Like she says it and rubs it in my face. It's disgusting. I just, well, here's, it wasn't disgusting for me. He was going to do Whitney's podcast and him and Whitney are very close. And, you know, they hug and they do all that. And he just goes straight from bed, smokes a cigarette and then straight to Whitney. And I'm like, no, you're not leaving the house until you brush your teeth. Because my theory is this, if you would listen, all right, is I already brushed it

when I, the night before and when I was sleeping, I didn't eat a ham sandwich. But you know what? Roy might have, you wash away the morning breath. I wash away the morning breath. That might be actually better. But he washes it with a cigarette. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to try Roy Choi style.

I'm not going to brush at night. I'm only going to brush in the morning. I'm only going to do it once though. I do think he's kind of like an anomaly in the sense that like he never has, he doesn't have body odor. He really doesn't have bad breath for someone who never brushes. Never smelled it. And yeah, right.

You've never smelled his breath other than like cigarettes. So I don't know how that happened. It's hard to name that smell. Not me either. Thank you. It's called evolution. My body, I'm tight. You know what I mean?

Yeah. You know, I have a lot of problems. But you know, the one thing about my body is, is that I don't smell that much. Right. I don't really, you neither. Yeah. We're soft. Yeah.

Are tattoo artists, loves my skin. Let me see. Yeah. Touched mine though. Yeah. Yeah. That's legit, bro. Yeah.

Like if there was a contest with that, I would win it. Yeah. Children. I have one high school kid. Yeah. What? Yeah. You have a high school kid?

I have a high school kid. Yes. From your wife? Newly in high school or been in high school for a while? Sophomore. So 15 years old. Boy, you're a good kid. I'm a good kid.

I'm a good kid. I'm a good kid. I'm a good kid. I'm a good kid. I'm a good kid. I'm a good kid. I'm a good kid. I'm a good kid.

Okay, yeah. So I have a particular high school kid and I'm a good kid. And I have a high school kid. I love that kid. I'm into high schoolso when I look at my kids. get straight a yes exactly that's what I would do yeah well that's how I was

raised no a-minus even yeah I this is there's a urban legend I don't know if it's true but he said it once Deepak Chopra let me look this up okay no I'm being real this is I'm not making this up why would I say his fucking name Deepak a fraud because he doesn't tip yeah I had heard that he went to the restaurant that I used to weigh tables at and they would dread him coming in because he wouldn't tip that good he would still tip but not like you know Deepak Chopra style you know the way he should be this is when he was already rich Deepak yeah there was never a poor there's never a poor that doesn't exist yeah maybe on the

way up Deepak didn't have the cash flow just yet but I apparently Deepak Chopra told his kids you know I mean I don't care about grades I just want you to live in the moment yeah right and to always be in service and to help others right and then by them doing that they all got straight A's and went to great schools so I don't know if that theory that doesn't always work babe it's kind of a gamble really because I know great parents with shit kids I know shit parents with great kids it's you kind of have to just cross your fingers and hope that you know speaking of great parents did you see the trials of Gabriel

Fernandez no I it keeps popping up on my feed but I think again is it worth watching only if you want to be really enraged oh yeah yeah it's very what's this did you see I have no idea did you see wait did you see don't fuck with cats I started it I got through maybe a third of it was it disturbing to you it was disturbing but it wasn't because it was disturbing why I didn't finish it I just got bored Gabriel Fernandez was an eight-year-old boy from Antelope Valley who was basically systematically tortured by his parents until he died listen don't have kids you know that I mean honestly if you're

gonna do that don't have them you know how like they always say oh you can tell how good a person's gonna be a parent if they're kind to their animals that's total bullshit that that is debunked by this documentary because when her child was dying all the woman could say yes what about my cats where she was going to jail yeah so she loved her cats but hated her kid oh yeah it's fucking and are you gonna watch it I'll watch it with my kids don't get seas or but it was it's it's it's fun it's like everyone failed even the teacher would like you mean call the sheriff's department or social services and just

no one imagine being that young and just there's just no one to help you well what they discovered was that DCFS was a far more like they were a closed system like they were how do I say like you know how in the FBI is kind of secretive in some parts I guess DCFS was just completely secretive like no one knew what was going on and that's why eventually I mean it was a bad thing that it happened but it needed to happen for them to be exposed wow and the parents are in jail now obviously yeah but you know how it's very hard to get death row in California that's what they were fighting for for both of those

parents yeah and it's so funny because everyone's making a stink that she should have got death row too but she pleaded like she made a deal with the prosecutors but I read on I read on Twitter this lady this Mexican lady said yeah my mom was in prison with Pearl Fernandez was the lady and my mom and all the ladies that are at this prison were beating the fuck out of her every day of pearl of pearl yeah so I think pearl even though she didn't get the death penalty is live living in hell like suffering yeah remember like when Bill Cosby they threw they threw a chicken sandwich at his face you hear

about that yeah chickens yeah Bill Cosby's eating you know me is putting pops or whatever right yeah putting putting pops you know I mean and then some guy just threw a fucking chicken sandwich it hit his face like this you know me it's it's the same thing but with like rocks and shit yeah fuck that pearl Fernandez at the end of our podcast dude we do a thing called unhelpful advice okay I just want to also want to say that number one if you would have me I would love to see be there live when you're doing your show I just want to watch oh the chef show yeah okay no because I really honestly I

love food okay and after you do it maybe I can try a little bit or whatever yeah I won't I won't be an interference no I'm being I won't be an interference you won't even know I'm there I'd love to have you I'll be like a ninja you won't even know okay that's number one number two honestly I want to do the spa with you I refuse I refuse for you to say no okay you got to see my dick show me right now you'll do it I will do it that was a test you failed it I'm not gay bro the third thing the third thing is dude thank you so much for doing our podcast how many times have I said so many times we've been wanting you for a

long time all right you killed it and thank you so fucking much Roy Choi I also want to say one thing I've been a fan of yours for a really long time Gilbert knows this and I want to say that you make Angelina was really proud oh thank you yeah I'm so happy thank you for doing this yeah and I was great connecting with you at David's place that one time so it was like you know you saved me from being mommy shamed and you didn't even know it oh I fucking love Roy yeah because I was holding my best friend's baby and my best friend was I don't know somewhere and her I thought I was supporting the baby just fine but

her neck was hanging just a little bit but the baby was in the crying baby was asleep and some fucking snotty chick was like oh you know and not even a mom she's just some chick in her young 20 she's like David Changs go for me get all the way back yeah your fans are called a callback David call back and then she was like you know you're holding the baby wrong it needs more neck support the baby's knocked out in my arms this is my goddaughter right and he was like no she's fine like you kind of just said it in passing like no baby's fine and I was like oh my fucking god they're rage that boiled in my heart you remember

saying that I I do remember sleeping and then that was such a probably you probably grow from a humiliation from affiliation that thanks man thank you no problem you got my back I got you back yeah that's what we should see each other's dick yeah I got each other's fronts yeah what's the question yeah I'm hopeful vice with Bobby Kalilah at Roy Choi hi my name is Sid and I'm 36 and I need dad help so I grew up without a dad not a big deal and now I believe that I know where he lives I'm in Bakersfield and he's in San Jose and my problem is should I reach out to him as far as I know he doesn't know I exist in contacting him wouldn't be so much for me but now that I have a kid it would be

nice for him to possibly have a relationship I don't need anything from dad but now but how should I attempt to reach out to him wow just how old is he 36 oh kid so no with you and me that's a loaded situation yeah you know a lot of Americans grow up with that daddy issue which we don't really grow up we grow up with a different daddy issues Korean yeah they're yelling at us I know you white people abandoning your children yeah so how does he know that that's a day he probably did research he probably does some research that is his father okay that is his

father you know I think I don't think it would hurt to put your hand out and go it's it'll be a shock if he doesn't know imagine not knowing just out of like you came up to me one day and you said to me dad I'd be like what the fuck you mean that would be shocking they'll be shocking I mean it for a man it is to be honest possible because there are women you sleep with when you're younger that you may know have no idea yeah yeah so do we know if it if like what is his mom told him about the dad like was it a sperm donor thing was it a he doesn't put any the information just that he knows where his dad lives he is able to reach

out to him should he do it because now yes I mean he's never seen his dad his whole life yeah grew up without a dad grew up and he said he said that the dad isn't aware that he has a son no all right so it's gonna be shocking really shocking to the dad yeah but you know I think it's worth it because you know I think it's a 50-50 gamble how would you write that email hey dad or no I wouldn't email fuck email well that's off his door old school so yeah and you think he'll know immediately that that's a son you probably would yeah so the kid having a kid you know you have that there's something you know yeah really

look like you yeah wow even if they don't look like you they look like you yeah you would show up ring the doorbell and what would you what would your be opening statement would be hi who are you oh me I'm your son would you bring something like an offering I guess it would depend I think being Korean even if I hated the son of a bitch I would probably end up bringing something would you up your chances and roll up by rolling up in a fancy car like would you try to be like oh like this is not at this stage in my life maybe young but you know I'm pretty comfortable who I am like so it's like I probably just not

gonna door old school stuff you know this is what I would do I don't need Comcast you're gonna make it into a joke first let's go let's do it again start I have another one go ahead hello why don't you wear a condom motherfucker life sucked son Comcast you fucking stole that fucking joke you fuck guys do it so differently you guys aren't trying to tug at the heart stream I would do what Ariel did in Little Mermaid Triton hello act it out baby hello I'm turned on that's what Ariel did when King Triton turned into one of those

little seaweeds yeah I again I watch good movies and adult movies okay babe I don't watch dates or none of that I was watching the Little Mermaid the other day and I was crying my eyes out cuz I just got Disney plus and he was humiliating me the whole time about my childhood yeah I never saw that or Marlon I never saw I never saw I saw Nino I saw that I think a little bit I like the robot Wally Wally is a good one I liked the toys one with the story the story good story what else was good you don't like the OG's like beauty and the beast I never saw that and I remember like I thought it was a lion a lion the

beast was a lion oh he's not lying he's like a man goat yeah but he's a lion yeah Roy I'm sure that we gave the guy the advice I know yeah I mean we have three variations of how I handle this yeah Roy do you want to is there oh wait I want one final question for you sorry I was because I wasn't asking are there other chefs you're jealous of we'll bleep it out if you want no no I don't care I no that's I don't think so no I because Kogi gave me such a fucking great lane to occupy you know like I it gave me something that was very different than any other chef I even lost all like my competition that you know like nature

once Kogi happened like I wasn't trying to be better than any chef because chefs are really passively aggressively competitive they'll walk into each other's restaurants and just criticize the fuck and I just I lost all that when I started Kogi I just became obsessed with feeding people you know I'm kind of I'm an addict too so it's like I found this new addiction where I was able to really feed it and just feed people and just take care of myself so I'm not that I'm not that jealous the only but the only two that I do look up to that I feel like I'll never catch is Wolf King puck and Nobu like no matter what I do those

two fuckers always are like 10 steps ahead so I wouldn't call that jealousy or anything it's just more of like but they're older yeah right and they've been in the game longer I'm sure 20 years from now a kid will be like I'm not gonna match Roy Choi maybe yeah yeah it's like a cyclical you know yeah ask me if I'm jealous of any comedian are you jealous of any comedians no today today he came home he's like I'm not going on social media for a week I was like why he was like I wasn't invited to the Netflix comedy oh the festival I just read about that oh wow listen Netflix they got Ali Wong though

oh she was there at the party she was there at the party too yeah and on the bill no I love Ali I love all the ones invited but invite me to yes that's all yeah right you that's true you invite Ali Ronnie Chang Margaret Cho right just fucking Ken Jeong yeah just like me too mm-hmm anger fart anyway give Roy Choi a round of applause everybody thank you so fucking much man thank you make sure you check out the newest volume of the chef show on Netflix hey guys thanks for listening to our episode of Roy Choi and if you haven't seen the slept King live you must do it it is probably one of the

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