Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Aaron Chen Is Here and It's Hilarious | Whiskey Ginger

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

Welcome to Whiskey Ginger a Wave series presented by Fanduel. Andrew Santino sits down with comedian Aaron Chen for a hilarious and offbeat conversation about stand-up, awkward brilliance, and building a completely unique voice in comedy. They talk about Aaron’s new Netflix special Aaron Chen: Funny Garden, his unconventional delivery, writing jokes that zig when everyone else zags, and why being weird might actually be the smartest move in comedy right now. 🎥 Watch Aaron Chen’s Netflix special Funny Garden now streaming on Netflix. In this episode: • The making of Funny Garden and Aaron’s approach to stand-up • Why awkward timing can be a superpower • Santino and Aaron talk writing, bombing, and embracing weirdness • How originality still cuts through in a crowded comedy world Drop a comment with your favorite Aaron Chen moment. #WhiskeyGinger #AndrewSantino #AaronChen #FunnyGarden #NetflixComedy #ComedyPodcast #StandUpComedy #PodcastClips #comedians ===================================================== This episode is sponsored by: FANDUEL HEAD TO https://fanduel.com/whiskey TO GET STARTED! SQUARESPACE USE PROMO CODE: WHISKEY GET 10% OFF YOUR ORDER https://squarespace.com/whiskey SQUARE USE PROMO CODE: WHISKEY GET 10% OFF YOUR ORDER https://square.com/go/ginger Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, Andrew. How you doing? How did that sound? That sound good. Aaron Chen. It sounded really good. And thanks for saying what you just said. Maybe that's your SNL and Aaron Chen. Yeah. Is that still Darrell Hammond?

I think so, right? It's got to be. Isn't it still Darrell Hammond? I feel like it's got to be. Does he come in and do it? I'm sure he does it from his house. Yeah, he does it from his house. a mic and goes in his bathroom. Aaron Chen,

musical guest, Chumbo Wamba. I've never met the guy, Darrell Hammond, you met him? I have. He lives here. He lives here. He's a great guy.

He lives in L.A. See, I don't know if he lives here now, but he's here a lot, so I don't know where he resides, but Darrell is around. He was at the store. Weren't you there that night? He was there a week ago.

It was like me, Pauly, J. Leno. It's kind of crazy. I've never seen his comedy. Funny guy, dude. Isn't that crazy? Like, he's so famous, you know, from everything, but I just never, never saw it. Yeah, but also, you know, I'm a little older than you and he was kind of somewhat in my generation of SNL, so it was probably off your radar. I'm from

Australia, we don't get much. We got trickles of stuff. Yeah, you, yeah, the television show, trickles? Trickles, yeah. What a great show that is. We actually mainly got Frasier. That was like a big television show in Australia. Really? Frazier. Do you, did you like Frasier? I mean, I was like seven i couldn't relate to this guy who couldn't relate to this white guy in an office who's rich salad and scrambled eggs i'll never get that walnuts in his he likes waldorf salads yeah it's unbelievable scrambled eggs it was such a pretentious i hated that show i thought that show was like the word where in australia again sydney australia yes you've been all around right i've done it multiple times i lived down in melbourne when i shot a movie for a couple of months no way which i

fell deeply in love which movie is it out yeah yeah it was called rickie steen Nikki. It was on Amazon. Yes. Yeah, we did it down there. We used the same crew that La Brea used. You know, LaBrea, the TV show, they shot that there. Yes. Now we're talking about it. I was like... Did you like the Australian

crews? They were unbelievable. Yeah, this is what people say. A little too nice. Too nice. How do you mean by that? Well, because in America, these are union crews. And so these people are a little bit more gritty and a little bit more like... Right. They kind of fuck you off a little bit. Interesting. Australia was very like,

Morning, Andre? How well? you might, you good. And I'm like, at like five in the morning. Like when we do morning shoots, they were so excited to see us. Yeah, yeah. Because they're happy about the work. But also because you're American, like any, like, you're a famous American, but any American is a superstar in Australia.

Well, I don't know about that. I just think they were, is that spilling everywhere? That's the funniest thing in the world. He opened up a kid. And it's going. He's really going. He's such a fucking idiot. What's that drink?

It's a coffee. That's a milky drink as well. Coffee, yeah. God damn, dude. It's like you never stop fucking up. You're so dumb. I love you. I yelled at him in front of someone at Gelson's.

I go, that's my son. I'm yelling at my son. They do believe that you're my son. Anyway, back to us. You're annoying. God, McCone. Are you on all the podcasts? He is.

Yes, he does them all for us, and he should be fired. If you know anybody that could do it better. Australians, they're very nice. They're very nice. They are too nice. Get us back. Get us back. No, they were very

They were happy to have us there But they were also extremely peppy And that is hard sometimes in the morning Yeah Because sometimes you're tired You just kind of want to be left alone But man those Australian crews were just Maybe maybe not just nice

But like because American crews are nice But Australian crews are like They're maybe very familiar Very like it's like down to earth It's casual Yeah I just think they want to make you happy so they go above and beyond. And American crews are a little bit more gritty

because they're used to the work. So it's a little bit... It's just like clocking and clocking out. Yeah. Well, when my experience of Australian crews as an Australian actor in Australia is they treat you like you're part of the crew. Yeah.

Like it's like at the start, they're very nice to you, a few weeks in there. You want that, you know? You want a water? Get it yourself. The water's over there. Yeah. That's the vibe.

But I feel like in America, they're always... They're tending to you. They can be. They can be. Otherwise, or you're found a show for a couple of years. You get used to everybody and then they don't. Yeah. Then they don't want to talk to you.

They don't care about you anymore. No, and they shouldn't. Actors are bullshit. Have you been on a long-term show? The longest thing I ever did was three years. I did a show called Dave on FX with Little Dicky. That was three years and that was the longest I've ever done. I did one year.

And they got sick of you. They got really sick of me. Yeah. FX called. They were like enough of this bullshit. Do you play pranks on the crew and stuff like that? Is that the vibe? I'm always pranking. I'm always big pranker. I'm a huge pranker. Jackass style. Big jackass guy. I would just kick the director in the penis every day. That was my thing. That's awesome. That's cool. I slashed the executive producer's tires every other week. That was kind of a rad move. That's funny as hell. Yeah, that was very funny. Everyone's laughing. I lit one of the lead girls' trailer on fire. I lit the whole thing on fire. And her dog was in there. So, yeah, the dog died. It was a big... You got her a new dog, though.

Yeah, we got her new dog. That was part of the prank. Yeah, but we prank her. We pretended that this was the same dog, so we got her, we got her ass so good. Same dog prank. Yeah, same dog prank. And that was kind of it. I mean, the only other thing I did was, um, uh, oh, we did beef. What's that? You did beef? I did beef. That was a big prank show. That's a Korean show. That was a Korean show. You've been on a Korean show before. I'm with a Korean man most days of my life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He is the kind of the, he's kind of the king of the Koreans in America. Yeah, he is. For American. A lot of respect. He's... He's the Korean. There's two styles. I think there's Bobby Lee style and Henry Cho's style. Well, Cho is respected. Bobby's loved.

There's two different. It's very different. You can neither be respected or loved. You can't... Drunken Master style, you know? Yeah. You can't be both. Which one are you?

I don't know. Are you respected or loved? Sometimes I feel a bit Cho. Sometimes I feel a bit Lee. You like to touch both bashesies. Good for you. Haven't figured it out yet. I need to choose a master.

You can be your own master. I try to be. You should be. Yeah. You really should be because I think you're, are you a prankster? Start pranking. I'm very gentle pranking. No, start pranking, dude.

Psychological style. Yeah, really kind of ruin someone's psyche. That's how you really get. Over time, they don't even know they're being pranked. They have no idea. They have no idea. You just created a Truman Show world for somebody. You really diabolically shape shift someone's reality.

That's what I'd like to do. That'd be very fun. And then you do a reveal camera there. Camera's everywhere. Kind of like Nathan Fielder. Nathan, Nathan, for you. He's very good at that. Do you know him?

I met him one time. Me too. I met him one time. We worked on a thing together. We didn't really speak much. He was a very interesting person. Yeah. What was your experience?

I did a set in Toronto at the comedy bar. Do you know this place? I do. Yeah, I see. He was just there. He was around. I said, I'm a big fan of yours. I said I love a sketch about, maybe about blueberries or something.

like that and he's like which one I froze I was like I didn't know there was more than one just take the love yeah yeah yeah just take the love and let's move on yeah you don't well that's why that was psychological whenever you say to someone I'm a big fan it is interesting

I'm going to start doing that when someone goes hey man big fan I'm going to go of what what specifically are you a fan of because that will really choke people up I actually really like it now when someone comes up to me and goes hey man I'm not a fan but my My buddy is. Can I get a picture? I love that.

You love that? Oh, it's so funny. It keeps you humble. It's just funny when someone has the balls to be like, hey, man, I don't really like you or know you. But I'll take a picture with you for my friend. I'm like, that's so funny. Do you like when people come up? And say hi? Yes. As long as you're cool. Yeah, yeah. Some people are rude and weird.

But if you're cool and you're like, hey, man, what's up, big fan? That's fine. Some people are really invasive. If I'm at dinner with my wife, it would be nice to not. Sure. But people do. I went saw you at a pizza shop Me? Yeah, I didn't say hi Because it looked private

Wait, why didn't you say hello Where was the pizza shop here in the States? It was in Los Angeles Where? There's a slice shop somewhere Maybe in a strip mall Okay Do you know what I'm talking about? I do, I know what you're saying

Yes, yeah, yeah, late night Late night You probably did a set somewhere You went to get a slice of pizza But I was with a group of friends It was a farce Oh, and you were like, I'm not gonna Yeah, yeah, he'll let you

Live and let live. See, that's why I respect you and I like you. We didn't even know each other and I was like, I really like him. Put him on the show. I just could feel in my bones. From that you saw me. That was it. Yeah.

Actually, the pizza shop owner who I know very well reported that to me. He said, you know, Aaron Chen came in and he looked at you and he looked at you and he looked at you and he decided not to bother you. And I said, I'm going to have him on whiskey ginger. That's amazing. Yeah, that was kind of my mind. Yeah. It pays.

To not say hi. Never say hi to anyone. Don't say hi. It pays off in the long run. You'll be on a podcast. Where are you living now? New York. Where in New York? Brooklyn, Brooklyn Hut.

Okay, put the address right here. Please go say hello to them. Do you like Brooklyn? I love it. Because Brooklyn, what's interesting, Sydney is kind of the Los Angeles of Australia, and Brooklyn is like the Melbourne of Australia. That's what people say. Yeah. Or like New York in general is Melbourne.

Very Melbourne, yeah. It's very like culturally that way. But the thing is like I love New York and I would live in New York. I wouldn't necessarily live in Melbourne. Would you ever live? I live here? I would, but for the weather. I think for the weather, the beaches. Yeah, yeah.

It's a lot like Sydney. I like driving. Yes. You like driving? Love. I like putting stuff in the, you call it the boot or the trunk? For you, we'll call it the boot. You call it the boot.

Yeah, for you. For me. But behind your back, we call it a trunk. But a trunk doesn't seem right because a trunk is the front of an elephant. Interesting. But the boot is the feet. feet the shoes well if you get the boot meaning you get kicked out you get kicked in the ass that's exactly this is the etymology of everything we'll go over it yeah do you know where the word jeans comes from

no jeans sydney that's exactly right yeah so sydney's great great-grandfather was a pretty notorious i mean i don't know if i could say it's slave owner right plantation owner yeah oh yeah this is all very true it's documented yeah it's written down and apparently he owned so much land and had so much extra resources and he owned textile factories, he started making pants for people that had his bloodline, his lineage. He said, so you can only wear these if you have my jeans. And that's where the word jeans comes from Sydney, Sydney's great-great-grandfather. That's crazy. So it is linked. That's very, that's why that commercial, I guess, upset a few people. And it shouldn't have. I mean, it was, it's her family lineage. It's nice. It's very good. What?

Do you know why it's called a trunk? Why is it called a trunk? It's kind of a long rabbit hole, but it comes from the Latin truncus, like a tree trunk, cut off or mutilated is what it means. And it would have meant something that's hollowed out or like a trunk. You put stuff in. That is actually very funny. So it's a trunk, a trunk, a trunk. And auto manufacturers named it a trunk because people would put their trunks there. You know, you could have truncated that whole story.

We didn't need that fucking dumb shit, dude. You're fired. You spilled coffee. You're fired. You could have truncated that. That's where trunk comes from. Where does boot come from is actually more interesting. Why did they call it boot and bonnet? Bonnet's the front, right?

Yeah, I do love that. I think that's a rad. That's a really cool word. A bonnet. Yeah. Because a bonnet goes on your head. We call it the hood. Do you call it the hood? Oh, the hood is the top. The hood is the top. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the front. The all of it's called the bonnet, though. I don't even know. We just call it the hood, under the hood. Under the hood. What's under the hood? What's the boot come from? What's the boot come from the term boot locker on carriages or driver stored boots and purse. personal items. God, that makes perfect sense. But you guys don't say that. No, because we never stored our boots there. And Americans, they never took off their boots. We never stopped working. Yeah, yeah. Interesting. The rest of the world went to bed at night. We don't, we don't sleep.

Never sleep, never stop. And that's why we've been number one for a long time. Yes. You know, we're number one in everything. Name something. We're number one. Swimming. Swimming, that's number one. That's an easy one to start. But I'm trying to think, I'm trying to think of other stuff. rate. Murder rate? No one's better than us. Name a place that has a better murder rate than us.

Maybe like Somalia. Nice try, dude. Nice try. You're out of your mind. You don't think so? We're the best killers in the world. You're good at killing. We're number one.

I'm telling you we're number one. There is killing. Australia is not good at killing. You guys are a little lax on killing. Yeah. I do think once in a while someone will wield a pipe or a knife. They'll do it. We had one punch type things.

One punch knockouts? Yeah, so Sydney, the whole of Sydney. There's new laws that just got revoked, but it meant you couldn't go into a bar after 12 a.m. Like, that's the cutoff. Wait, they would close at midnight? Yeah, they would close at midnight and stuff. But this was because, like, a string of people died because people punched them in the back of their head. Don't do that.

Because we don't have guns. We have to punch. Yeah, these are your guns. These are the guns. That's the most powerful. These are the Lord's guns. The Lord's guns. This is a 22, but this is a 38, dude.

That's your jab? Yeah. Yeah, if I get a, if you fucking get in there, this one's a little bit weaker. Yeah, yeah. But I can. But I can. But I can't. But I can.

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Are you a bad boy party animal? Not me, myself. I get red. I can't even drink, you know? You got the tolerance. I got the disease. You know about this? Yeah, man.

I'm friends with many, many Asians. Yeah, yeah. And most of my Asian friends have it. A lot of them, I think Korean people, they push through. Like my wife, she pushed through, she pushed through the disease. Yeah, she's Korean. So Koreans have it less so than Chinese. Chinese have it pretty bad.

I think most of my Chinese friends get it. It's horrible. And Japanese, they drink so much. I don't think it matters. It doesn't even matter. Yeah, they're like the salary man culture. They drink off to work. It's great.

Have you ever run into these guys? Have you been to Japan? I've been to Japan. You've seen them passed out on the street in the sidewalk? Maybe I have seen it. I've seen it a few times. It's actually really sad to see a man in a suit. Pastel.

With throw up all over. It's kind of like the saddest shit you've ever seen. But it's culturally normal and okay. And then back to work the next day. You got to go back to work. Scrap off the pewk and go back. Are you a big party guy? I like to have a couple of cocktails.

Are you from Los Angeles? I'm from Chicago. You're from Chicago. Where we drink and where we eat bad foods. Yeah, yeah, you can do it all. Yeah. Chicago number one for heart attacks, number one. But this is like the opposite culture, you know?

This is like active wear running. So this is where I kind of, the, this is the yin and yang of life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm an alcoholic from the Midwest who came here to live a healthier life. You need to be here. Yeah, so I'll black out on a Tuesday, but I'll be at yoga Wednesday morning. Great.

That's kind of, that's balanced. Yeah, you have to have that. You can do yoga? No, I won't. I refuse. Yeah, I refuse. I refuse unless it's an all-male class. I don't like these mixed classes.

You don't like, you know. I don't want women to see me in vulnerable positions. No. Yeah. Not race. No, no. Oh, um, race too. Race too?

I won't take a yoga class. Well, first of all, yoga classes are usually all white, by the way. No, I won't do a yoga class with all men. Yeah, that would be fun, huh? That's funny. Because with women, I feel vulnerable. I don't want some girl looking. I look, I'll look dumb, and I don't want them to laugh at me and Snicker,

and then it's a reminder of, you know, and it's junior high all over again. It's my feet. I feel self-conscious about my feet. I got like bunions and stuff on that. Do you have bad feet? Bad feet. What? Flat feet.

I played soccer. Yeah, I did. Yeah. Yeah. Everything. How big, let me guess how big your shoe is. And this is going to be U.S. size. Yeah.

That's a seven and a half. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. This will either be a seven or a seven and a half shoe. Look seven and a half. Yeah. You want to look?

Yeah, please. Seven. This is seven. But that's really good. And everyone, I'm pretty good at stuff like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of my specialty. Yeah.

And then everyone always has one foot that's bigger than the other one. Interesting. A little bit. bit, right? It's usually by like an eighth of an inch or something like that. Yeah. I would guess, do you know with yours? I don't know. So you could guess. Yeah, but will you go home and text me later when you find out because we can put it up on the show and say Andrew was right or wrong. Yeah. I will say you seem like a guy who's right foot longer. Okay. I'll have a look. Do you kick right of or kick lefty? Which are your right foot's longer. Yeah. Your right foot's a little bit longer.

Are you a soccer player? I played it when I was a child. Chicago Fire. Chicago Fire. What a team. I went to high school with the guy that played for the fire. Nice. Incredible. And then I went to the sting when I was a kid, which is their indoor soccer team. Yeah. That's how much I used to love soccer when I was a little boy. And ironically now, I don't even care about it.

And Bobby is a massive soccer guy. He's a big soccer guy? Yeah. You guys go to the World Cup? He would. I wouldn't go. You wouldn't go? That's like once in a lifetime stuff.

But it's so much commotion. I'm kind of autistic in that right. I don't like big crowds. You don't go to any sport? I will. I will. You go to like golf. No, I never would go. That golf's too much. Tennis, maybe. Tennis is cool because you can sit and you can hide away. That's quiet. That's nice. You can have a big sensory like the earphones. Yeah, and I can play with my little toys that I get. Yeah, my little fidget spinners. What's the, yeah, I can go to a sport if it's sitting to watch, but if it's walking to observe.

Like concerts? They're a little hard for me. Yeah, I don't like them. Anyway. Yeah. I feel like I like the first song, the last song, and then it's like, if you're standing, it's horrible, you know? Just play the first and last. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That should be a tour called First and Last.

First and Last. And the band just does the first song and the last song. That'd be great. Yeah, that's awesome. Would you go to that? Yeah, you're back home by nine. It's amazing. Half the price.

Two songs. Half the price for two songs. Great. Yeah, I don't like the, I do really want to go to a lot more live shit, but we perform live. So it's hard to go to live stuff because you already have, you live that world. Yeah. It's kind of hard, but if I can sit quietly and observe, like we went to Wimbledon this last year. That was amazing.

That's very quiet. That's like one of the most quiet tennis ones. It was incredible. That's the autistic sport. Autistic gentleman's sport. That is a very much. And we sat next to, or we sat near Riz Ahmed. Do you know who that is?

Nice, yeah. British actor. Tremendous actor. I just watched this movie Relay. Did you watch it? Did you like it? I liked it a lot. I watched it on the plane.

It was like such a good concept. Yeah. You know when there's a world and you want to kind of live in it for a bit? You want to live in that world? Just like see what he gets up to and stuff. I want to see like I want to see like more times he's done it. Ah, have you seen this movie? No.

No. No. Good. Good. Riz is a great, but great guy. Yeah. Talented guy. Great actor and a great tennis watcher.

knew so much, asked him a few questions. I don't know enough. You see Four Lions? Is he in that? Four Lions? Yeah. No, I don't know what the... Four Lions.

Lions, L-I-O-N-S? Yeah, can you check if he's in that? Because I took a punt, but I... Yeah, he is, Omar. He's the main character. He is in it. He is in it. Four Lions.

This is one of the funniest movies of all time. Shut up. 2010, British political satire comedy. Big fan. It's about like four terrorists two botcha botcha bombing oh that's so smart

yeah four lions I have to watch this it's on prime love it's funny yeah four terrorists that botcha bombing

do you write movies do you write TV or film I don't write I've tried to I can't hold you know like

like I do like comedy bits which is so short yeah I can't hold a story more than like like I tried to write

a feature film one time and I was like I'll write it I'll see how I go I got 10 pages and it was like done

that's it that's not really a feature Like, they can't really stretch it out that much because I've heard they can stretch it out a bit, but... Not from 10 pages. 10 to 90 is a big... 80 pages is hard to find, yeah.

There's, like, techniques, like, slow-mo, stuff like that, but you can't hit it that much. Action lines don't take up 75 pages, I don't think. You could try. I mean, good luck. Maybe I'll get something to punch it up. The script for Eraserhead was only 22 pages long. Eraserhead was 22 pages.

There you go. 12 more pages you're on your way. I haven't even seen it, but I've got to see it. You got to watch it. You can tell it's 20. pages. Yeah. It really shows itself.

Because you could film other stuff while you're there, like you see a nice, like... Yeah. Do you write movies? I have. More TV stuff than film. Yeah. An episode kind of feels like okay, you know? Yeah.

Yeah, an episode's enough. Because there's like A, B, or plot lines and stuff like that. Beginning, Middle End, it's really easy to wrap up in 35 pages. Really hard to do. Feature films tough. I give credit for people that too. that. I can't, uh, not for me. We've tried, we've got a couple. We've done a few, we've written a few of them, but they're really bad. We won't, we wrote one. So you did it. That's an achievement. I did it. Yeah,

I've done it. That's amazing. Yeah, but I'm 42 by now. I should have done a few more. 90 pages or more? No, the comedy's usually 60 to 80. Like, really? 80 is kind of the max for comedy that you want. I didn't know you could do, I didn't know 60 was, I thought you had to hit 90. No, you do, but also comedy is going to always get, it's going to inflate as time goes on. Because you're riffing. Yeah, you're riffing and you're also rewrites or, gonna grow it naturally into a new adding shit and taking a... But I mean, there's no right way to do it.

I mean, Tarantino wrote scripts that were like obnoxiously long, like, never-endingly long, and then would whittle it down to nothing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're basically the modern Tarantino. We are, yeah. You and I. Yeah, well, you see the ten pages I wrote. Send them to me. I really want to see him. Please send

them my way. I'll see. Do you miss home or no? Do I miss home? Sometimes I miss home. I miss more people than the actual place. Like, my... mom and dad. Yeah, family and friends and stuff like that. The scene? I watched the clip. It was like a comedian that I didn't even like really hang out with or watch their stuff that much. But from Australia and I was like, damn, I miss this place. You miss that thing. You miss just like seeing that type of comedy all the time. Right. Because it's a style, you know?

What you're used to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like your style. It's like you, you're saying? Like me, like I'm one part of it, maybe. You're a big part of it. Because you got over here. Because I got over here. And people like you over here. Yeah. I like you over here. That's really.

You can't leave. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you have to stay now. I will stay, yeah. Yeah, we bought you a house in Louisville, Kentucky that we'd like you to move into. Louisville? Yeah, we did. I went there the other day.

That's why we bought it. Why did you say Louisville? Because you went there and I said, I want to buy him a home there. Would your wife move there? To Louisville, Kentucky? I don't think, I don't think so. She likes San Diego. Yeah, I get the.

that? I get that. Would you move her to San Diego? Maybe one day. It's very nice. First of all, it's closer to home for you. Yes. San Diego is a much easier flight than Brooklyn. Yeah, than Brooklyn. Yeah. And also it, it emulates a little bit of the San Diego lifestyle, I mean, Sydney lifestyle. Yes. Right. Beach life. Beech life. Bro. A lot of bros. And you're a huge surfer. I'm a big bro. You're a big bro. Big wave surfer. Big wave, no small wave. No small wave guy? No small wave. What's the smallest wave you'd hit?

12 foot. 12 foot, yeah, that's pretty small. That's pretty weak, so shit. Yeah. I'll only rip 30s. Do you surf? No, that's insane. It doesn't even make any sense to do why people would want to do that.

Mother Nature is such an aggressive, mean... Yeah, it's not for humans. Nope, you're not supposed to do that. Yeah. The waves are a sign of the ocean's power. Oh yeah. Why would I try to fuck with that? It's interesting, huh?

And sharks. What's the point of any of it? Water sharks. Yeah. Like if when I played pickup basketball, there was a guy who just had a loose knife and you might get, I'm not interested. It's the exact same thing. They should introduce that, you know? Well, they do in certain areas. I don't know if you've been all over the U.S., but it is actually, it does happen at many parks. I just think surfing, the respect I have for it, huge, I have some good friends that surf. I do not, I'm not interested. I don't like sand. Yeah. And I don't like being wet. In here we pour whiskey.

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Sand is not awesome. It gets everywhere. The beach is nice, like the salty water. I like sitting at a restaurant having lunch or a cocktail looking at the ocean. The West Coast is perfect for being a beach guy. Is it, though? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you seen this?

What? I have sunscreen on now, inside, right now. I wear it every day of my life. This is bright lights, though, you know? Well, these are hurt a little bit. These, yeah, I put on SBF 20 for these. They captured the sun with these. Yeah, they've done a great job.

This is technology at its finest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't be a beach guy, man. You can't be, yeah. There's no, you're a beach guy? Not a beach guy, but like, like, we went to San Diego just then, and then we went to the beach like two times. Where'd you go, La Jolla?

Went to La Jolla one time, and then we drove up. We went to Laguna Beach. That's Orange County, yeah, that's nice too. Very nice. That's fancy. Fancy. And you went there because you were a big Republican.

That's why I know you went there. Laguna's like maga heaven, right? All Orange County. But Laguna specifically is like Maga. Isn't that right? That's what I've heard. We went to watch the Melania Dock there. You had to go there for the dock.

Yeah, for the dock. It wouldn't be fun watching it in like the Grove, you know? Some bullshit liberal hub. No, you gotta go where it starts, baby. Oh, it's a Laguna. Yeah, Orange County does have, they think we're all, we're liberal losers, Orange County, and we don't care about Orange County at all.

That was a big show in Australia. Orange County. The OC. Yeah. Was that big here? Huge. I think, right? It was big everywhere.

Was it? A little before my time. For the age range, it was big. How old are you? 26. Okay. He's a baby boy. Very baby boy.

I did watch Wilfred though. Wolford, Australian show. Dogman. Dog man. Dogman. That's what's his name? Who's the actor? Why can't think of that guy's name?

I don't have it either. He was in both the American and the Australian version. Yeah, I know. What is his name? Why can I think of that guy's name? Ooh, that's annoying. I never watched it. Did you watch it? Jason Gann. Gann. Jason Gann. Shout out to Jason Gann. Sorry, shout out. Shout out's Jason Gann.

Who's your favorite Australian star? Star. Musician, actor, performer, anything. Anybody from your country. Great question. Yeah. Disregarding sports. You can't regard sport. But I think what Jacob Allaudy is doing, that's kind of, he's doing nice with it. Like, he's kind of keeping it low-key as well. you know, like he's not doing like everything. Right, he's kind of... He does what he wants to do.

Yeah, he's almost like he's getting close to the resume of like a Daniel Day Lewis type. Yeah. Where you kind of pick and choose, you get a little, you know, you're allowed to be a little bit more picky now, you get the respect, you've done like the... Young Daniel Day.

Young D-D. Young D-D. Young D-D. D-Day. Whoa, tough time. Don't bring that up, dude. That'll... You get my grandpa coming out of me.

No, man, don't do that, okay? That's insanely offensive. He is probably the greatest, he's probably one of the greatest exports you guys have ever pushed out. There's a lot, though. Other than Aaron Chen. We got a lot.

Yeah, name them. Eric Banner? Fine. Banner's fine. Russell Crowe? Crow could be New Zealand. He's New Zealand. Yeah, yeah. Margo?

Margo Robbie is interesting because we don't, we love her. You love her, yeah? But we don't respect her. You don't rest. Say, maybe same with the Hemsworths. Sarah Snook. Sarah Snook.

We love Snook. She's the best. Naomi Watts. Fine. Take it or leave. Nicole Kidman? Again, another one I can take her leave. AMC.

Anybody that was married to Tom Cruise. Yeah. Heath Ledger. Rest in peace, dog. Tony Collette. Keith Urban. Keith Urban, can you guys take that back? You might take that one back?

You mind taking that one back? Isn't that funny with Nicole Kidman? Anybody that was married to Tom Cruise goes down on a knock. for me like Katie Holmes loved her when I was a kid yeah and then when I found out she married that guy I go well I don't want to watch her films anymore why is that because he's got a very ye about him yeah he's like it gives me the yucky creepies it is the yucky creepies but it's exciting as well well no it's fun to watch I'm gonna watch his stuff but if I know you married it almost like you get a

cake if you're in his orbit I got a cake you got a cake yeah no I've never gotten a Tom Cruise cake. Imagine that. The coconut cake? Yeah, the coconut cake. We know all about the coconut cake from, where is it, from Brentwood or something? Yeah. Yeah.

From Brentwood. Yeah, I just feel like, you know how when you were young, okay, when you were in high school and there was a girl maybe you had a crush on. Okay. And then whomever she hung out with or hooked up with or whatever guy she would end up dating, if you didn't like that guy, it like grossed you out about the girl. You're like, you dated that guy? Yeah. I thought you were so cool. That guy stinks.

that's how I feel at everyone that goes down that path you dated that guy I thought you were rad how did you lose it what slipped or what do you know that I need to know but don't you find that like with almost everyone in your high school

you know you look back yeah I guess that's true yeah what are they doing now like they used to be like so cool to me a lot of cool people were you cool in high school I wasn't cool I was just regular like I wasn't uncool or funny I started comedy

At 15. What would people say that, okay, now, what are you now, 12 years later out of high school? 15 years later. 15 years later. Yeah. 15 years later, what do they say? They say, oh, Aaron Chen, you know what about that guy? What?

What would they say about you? Racist. They would say racist. And that's a good, that's a, well, you got to stay strong, brother. Got to stay strong. What would they say? They'd say, I don't know. He was, in high school, Aaron was.

I would that's a great question I was like cool funny smart they wouldn't say cool sexy

yeah sexy you won very sexy strong very strong very strong very strong right that's what people would say

yeah sexy and very strong yeah those are the only two qualities they would describe yes sexy and strong oh Aaron Chen yeah sexy strong guy sexy strong guy

that can be your next he's a comedian now really I would have thought he would be into like a bodybuilder model Body but Romero, yeah. Can you make your next special called Sexy Strong Guy?

Sexy Strong Guy, yeah. I would fucking like that. Dude, that would be so fun. Aaron Chen's sexy strong guy? I do it topless. You have to? Yeah. Well, Bert might sue you.

Yeah, he might sue you. That's his... So no one's allowed to do it anymore. He's copywritten it. Yeah. He's being topless. Yeah, being topless on stage. He calls Playboy.

He's like, actually, that's mine. I like what you guys are doing, but I am going to do a cease and desist. But bottomless could be your thing. Bottomless Aaron Chen. Sexy strong guy, bottomless Aaron Chen, live, you know, live from the Paramount Theater. Bottomless brunch.

Bottomless brunch. That's good. And you have a thing that says, eat it up right over your penis. And then on your bag and says, can I get you a refill? The refills from my ass. That's crazy. That's crazy. But that's part of the show.

Yeah, yeah. Enjoy the show. Yes. It's the hits. You're running around the country now, too. You're on tour. That's why you just came back from Louisville, huh? And what do you're here? Are you doing shows here? I did one in Ontario. Ontario Improv? You did that? I've done it once. Yeah, nice. You did it one time the Ontario Improv. You do like a Friday, Saturday, Sunday? Just did the Sunday, because I did Friday Saturday, San Diego. Oh, that's right. Where was San Diego for you? What would you perform in San Diego? Okay, okay, right on. Have you ever done the La Jolla comedy store? No, but I hear it's amazing. We'd like you there. We would like you there. We would. Yeah, because I'm a comedy store guy. That's my home.

I started at the comedy store. So we would go down there and we would pick who we wanted. And it was mostly sexy, strong guys. And we would like you down there. There's a lot of sexy strong comics in this very scene. 100%. Yeah, 100%. This is the sexy strong scene.

Austin is strong guys. Not sexy. We're sexy and strong. Austin's just strong. And New York, neither. New York is cool and smart. No, it's cool and smart. Cool and smart.

New York's cool and smart. We're strong and sexy. Austin is strong and scary. Strong and scary. Strong and scary. Weapons, I would say. Yeah. By the way, the scene in Melbourne,

loved. I went to that club. I went to the club. Which club? I went to the... There's... I'm so embarrassed that of Camptu. I remember the name.

It's in the... Comics lounge. Comics lounge. In the CBD. That's good. I performed there a couple of times. It was great. Uh-huh.

Because I was there when I was shooting the movie and I said to my agent, I kind of don't want to sit on my ass anymore. I feel like I really want to do a spot. And he was like, he's like, let's call the club and see if, and I said, yeah, I'll just pop in on a whatever, random show. And they were super generous and nice and we just put up a couple of shows. And the other Australian comics were awesome. Were they very excited to see you?

Yes. Yeah. Yeah, should they not have been? No, it's interesting. Maybe the cultures changed a little bit, but like I remember back maybe in 2014 or something, Louis went down to the comics lounge in Melbourne, and he was like, this is the only place in the world where like they didn't know who I was. Well, 2014. He was big, though.

I know, but I think more, the, the comedy culture is so much more globalized because, of the internet, especially post-COVID. So I would think that helped me tremendously. Yeah, right, right. Because we have a huge fan base in Australia. We played Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane. We didn't do Auckland. We didn't do New Zealand, right?

We did do Auckland. Oh, we did. Because I went there separately without. But every city showed up. Yeah. And it was fucking crazy. Sydney was probably the craziest. Sydney's the best.

What do we play in Sydney? What was it called? It was the Boner Palace. I think we played the Boner Palace in Sydney. Was it a big theater? Yes. State theater? And more theater. Fuck, I have to look it up. Yeah. I got to look it up, only because I'm very curious. Those are great theater.

Okay, so here, Sydney, Sydney, S-Y-D. How do you spell Sydney? Sydney, Sweeney. Sydney, Sweeney. We did the ICCC theater. That's a big theater. I would even call that not even a theater. Why is that? They call that a super theater. Is that a super theater? ICC theater, Sydney. AKA a small arena. That's like six, seven thousand seats. I think it was 10,000. Apologies. Yeah, watch your fucking mouth. It was about seven. Ten was in London. Oh, London was bigger. Right, London. So London shows our biggest at the time.

Seven thousand seats. That's a big. Big theater. More than the state population of Nevada when it was ratified in the 1800s. Tell it, what, why do they call it a trunk? Got you. Burned his ass, dude.

Got his ass hard. What's the biggest crowd you performed for? In my lifetime? Yeah. In any context? Well, not in a parallel life. In this one right now. Give me this one right now.

One time I opened for Ronnie in Ronnie Chang. in Washington, D.C. at like Friends of something. Was that the Daughters of the Revolution? Daughters of the Revolution. That's where we played, yeah. That's a big one. That's where Eddie Murphy did Delirious.

You know that? That's crazy. Yeah, you played there. It's massive. Yeah. I don't even remember how many that is. That's got to be six, maybe, five or six. Seven, I think.

Yeah. So, six, seven. Six, seven. Don't do it, don't. It's very funny to me. It is funny. To him, it'd be hilarious. It's hysterical.

Yeah. because I'm older. It's not that funny. It's not that funny. For you, it's pretty funny. A little bit funny. For him, it's insanely funny. But then below him, it's angering. Oh, yeah, they get pissed off. Young people get very mad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dark Constitution is 3,7002.

4,000. Making the largest concert hall in the city. It's a lot of people. It's a lot of humans. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of people. But you're doing a club run. I'm doing a club run. You're doing a lot of clubs. Yes, when you did club runs, you still do them sometimes?

Do you still do them? Yeah, why not? Did you ever do meat and greets? Interesting. Yeah, I would sometimes. It depended on the city and the venue. So once I played it once, I learned whether or not it was a good city for it. Or easy to do. It's like some places aren't outfitted for it. And you're like, this is weird and it feels strange. But yeah, I would do it. I used to do it. But it's a good thing to do, right? It's very nice. I've never done one. You should do. You should do. Well, tell me the pros and cons. The pros are you are greedy. the people who support you so you're supporting the people to support you yeah it's beautiful the cons are you're already tired it's hard to do more work after you already did the job yeah sometimes a second show that's what i mean so it's almost like the boss is like can you stay late

and you're like i've been working all day yeah like just stay late and say hi to my entire family will you so it's a little it's a little taxing i think people don't know that or care but the pros to me are this and i'll be genuine this is no joke these are the people that are helping you continue your life. Yeah. They're paying your rent. They're helping you live and fulfill your dreams. So the fans, you got to show them as much love as you can.

It's hard to do meet and greets because you're like, I'm my 15th city and I'm exhausted. And I just want to go back to the hotel and jerk off and watch bad TV. And that's all you're thinking about while you're talking to the fans. Yeah. I'm jerking off. Hello. Hi. I'm jerking off to reality television.

Oh, you're already in the future. I'm jerking off in my mind while I'm meeting the fans thinking about reality television. You can hold a lot. in your mind. It's two, no, it's split hemisphere. This one is I'm jerking off in the hotel. This one is hay. And this one is high.

Thank you for all you've done for me. I don't even know if I get that. It's just high. High. So high. And then it's kind of, it's a balance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but these people are supporting you.

And I, and I, I don't have that culture in Australia. To say hello? Yeah, there's no, there's no real meet and greets. Like, if there's kind of this thing in Australia, it's called tall poppy syndrome. Yeah, I know tall puppies. Yeah. They talk about it a lot, actually. talk about a lot. So there's kind

of a vibe, it's like, oh, you're doing a meet and greet. You think you're like, yeah, yeah. But here it's like, not, it's like, they're not, I think I'm special. It's like, thank you for coming out. It's being gracious for someone who supported you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's thanking the fans. Yeah, it's beautiful. If you can do it, it's cool. We did it on our tour. We did all of them, every city. Um, but

it's really difficult to do. Timing wise, and especially if you've got multiple shows and you're like, I just want to go home and I'm very, it's a long travel. Yeah, yeah. You know. And there's always miscommunications. with when it is and people showed up early or late and there's always The hardest thing is that people pay for it and they didn't show up for it because they thought it was post show But it was pre-show and then they get fucking mad and they yell at someone at the venue and then they're like we didn't know

We drove all the way here from da da da da da and done you're like okay okay well me a lot of that was venues of venues There was a venue people pay for the meat in Greece so for Bobby and I's for when we did yeah yeah yeah because the theaters yes yeah yeah then you whittle it down yeah capped at a hundred But I did say this on the next time I do tour I'm going to do meet and greets because what I figured, this is a smart move, I'm going to overcharge like crazy for the meeting and greets. I can say it's like $1,000, right? Great. To meet me.

And I'm going to donate all that money to charity. So then if you're Mr. Rich showoff guy and you want to be a big shot and you think, you know, you can afford it, it's great. But it'll limit the amount of people that want to do that. And then the money will go to a charity of my choice. So then I don't. So it's like when someone's like, oh, you're charging $1,000. It doesn't go to me.

It goes to the six. kids. Yeah. And do you hate them? And do you hate sick children? Yeah, yeah. Well, you're a bad person. That's a perfect plan. It's kind of a good little diabolical plan. But it's going to be, it's going to be, yeah, well, actually, but all the money is going to go to fund ice. It's going to be an ice.

It's called the ice chest, is the charity that I'm supporting. Yeah, and it's to find. The ice factory. The ice factory. The ice house. The ice house. Yeah, we'll do it at the ice house in Pasadena. Boy, do they need to change their fucking. name, dude. Shit, dude, the poor ice... Did you watch the Grammys last night? A lot of ice talk on there. A lot of ice talk.

Yeah, a lot of fuck ice. Yeah, a lot of pro ice. A lot of pro ice. It was mostly... Thank you for your work. A lot of the icees. A lot of the... No, I think almost every artist that said something said something about fuck ice. Especially, Billy Elish was the one that I saw. I got home last night from driving up.

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Is that a headline show or the casino? It's just like a separate thing altogether. It's just me, me at a casino. Okay. Just me in front of. Like, is that part of your tour or does a casino? I'm not touring. I'm just doing a bunch of casinos because I put out a special at the end of last year,

and so now I'm building this new hour. Because they let you play a little bit on the house. Uh, yeah, I don't gamble I don't gamble as much at all these places. Some of them. Interesting, they actually do. Oh yeah, you play, oh yeah. You can get paid in chips.

Wow. Every time in Australia, they're like, you can't play while you're working. Really? Yeah, yeah. What the fuck do they care? I went to the Crown Casino. Is that what you're talking about?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I went to the Crown. Yeah. Yeah, and I lost a lot of money. Big casino. Yeah, I was a little upset about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In fact, isn't the guy who owns the Crown Casino

is that the guy there's a conspiracy theory but no what is it well it's like we have those lockout laws but they don't apply they didn't apply to the casino so everyone thought the casino

was make kind of like puppeteering well do we not think that that could be a possibility or yeah yeah I mean that's got to be it right well it's like it just didn't apply to that and like a few other places have you been to the Mona in Hobart yeah crazy

one of my favorite machine that makes the shit. Dude, it's one of my favorite museums on planet Earth. Yeah, it's crazy. And that guy was a gambler. He's a gambler, but he's good at it. He got banned by the Australian government. Yeah. Because he was so good this guy, I have his book

at the house. They tried to stop him multiple times he couldn't, but he's such a genius that he was able to get away with it. He wasn't cheating. He was just bending the rules. He knew a lot about maths. I think he had like a math. He was a

genius. Yeah. And he lives above the Mona. Does he really? Yeah, part of his property is still there. Apparently. It's like a bunker. It is like a little bunker.

It's like 10 floors down. Yeah. Which is where I'll be when they come to get us. Where will you be when the world ends? I like would like to be in the epicent. I'd be like the first guy to like die. Do you think you're first to go? If there's like a nuke, you want to be in the, you don't want to be like just on the side, you know?

Yeah. You don't want to like live with the. I want to be where the point of the missile is. I want that to be on my head. We're aiming at Chen. He's in Memphis. I think it's going to be a rock. It's a rock?

I think it's a massive meteor that's hurtling towards us and they don't really want to tell us. You know what I mean? And they're like, look, if we tell them this, it'll be chaos and panic. So I got a movie for you. It's called Don't Look Up. I love it.

It's a great movie. Yeah. That's about a meteor. It's about our world as we live in right now. Yeah. Because apparently we said we're 68. This is even creepier. I don't know if you follow this ever.

68. We are, we are 85 seconds. To midnight. To midnight. Do you not know this? I don't know what that means. Huh? We've been a lot closer before.

I know we have, but 85 is still pretty scary. We're 85 seconds to midnight. Midnight to Doomsday clock? Do you know about this? I know about some of these clocks. They have one of these clocks in New York. Hmm. On the side of a building.

That's the one in Union Square that shows the deaths. Yeah, maybe. Cancer deaths. Yeah. Or maybe it changes all the time. Now it's like national debt or something like that's fun. They have the smoker clock. Smoker clock is fun.

We got one of those on Wilshire. Yeah, yeah. People like celebrate. People go out there to party. They go crazy. It's actually when they restarts. It's right next to where my wife used to live too. It's literally like in that Westwood neighborhood.

No, the Doomsday clock, we're 86 seconds away from, from it being over, I guess. And you know. What does that mean? We've been talking for 85 seconds. At least. But that, the scope of time. I think 85 seconds till midnight means on the scale of the time of the earth. That's how much time we have.

We're so close. We're pretty close to being the end. And honestly, I think it's a celebration. Yeah. We don't deserve this to last forever. How about all the time we did have? So much. We had a full day.

It was pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, I just think we can't get greedy. Like, imagine if you ate a piece. of cake and they never stop bringing cake. It's like, come on, man, at some point you've got to run out of cake. Yeah. And we're running out of cake. Yeah. It's coming to a close. Speaking of cake. Yeah. Aaron's got a great BBL. He got a Brazilian butt lift a couple weeks ago. Yes. Do you care to talk about that? Was a surgery invasive or how was that? Not invasive at all. Really? I don't even know how BBL works,

you know? It's an injection, no? No, it's not. It can't be. Implants? Implants. Implant. They literally implant. That kind of culture's over a little bit, don't you think? Brother, we're bringing it back. You're bringing back. I am single-handedly. I'm BBL in my way around town. That's why you're sitting kind of high up that chair.

It's my tits. It's my butt tits. That's what I call them. My little butt tits. I would love to get a BBL because I think if men didn't jump on that train. Why don't we deserve a nice thick ass? What train? On the BBL train, baby?

Why wouldn't we deserve that? Yeah. You know? I want a nice, cush. You think it's a thing to deserve. Yeah, we deserve it. I think it'd be very painful. You'd have to sit on that donut for a little while.

Fine, I've had hemorrhoids before. You know, it would be painful as all the men I'd have to turn away. That'd be painful. Sorry, boys, I'm taken. That would be painful. As you bounced down the street. Just my cheeks like a cartoon from fucking snapping back and forth. Did you guys watch cartoons as kids?

Did you have cartoons in Australia? We had very primitive drawings. We had like... It's all stick figures? Yeah. Did you get American cartoons? For sure, yeah. We had, uh...

It depended on the kind of vibe, but we got a lot of anime as well. So... Do you like anime? When I was a kid, yeah, I liked Pokemon and, like, video. That's, that kind of thing. But what... We had Hay Arnold. Oh, you did?

We had Hay Arnold. What other cartoons are you? Simpsons? Yeah. That's a nighttime. SpongeBob? Spongeb. Was that big in Australia?

Big. Big everywhere. Yeah, I guess that was big. That's like Frazier levels. I don't know if Sponge is bigger than Fraysh. SpongeBob would like to think he's bigger than Frasier. Sponges is king, brother. Scramble eggs. Scramble eggs.

What a gross. Scramble eggs is such a gross visual, too. It's a gross thing to... Scramble eggs, although I like them, visually gross. There's a handful of foods that are visually disgusting, but they're so good. They didn't even really try with scrambled eggs. No, it's...

Mashing it all together. Mash slop. Mash slop fluff? Yeah. That's what we call it in my house. Mash Slop Flop. It's a metaphor for the mixed up mental emotional problems that the callers have. Yeah, I'm aware of what when I say, like, my brain is scrambled eggs right now.

I'm very aware of what it is. The idea that we moved on to was the food's visual versus its taste. But thank you for ruining the situation. What's another food that you eat that you know looks gross but tastes amazing? Looks gross. Tastes amazing. Big fan of yogurt And it's just gross

You think that looks gross? It's I'm gonna be crass But anything jizzy It's creamy Anything jizzy creamy is Yeah, interesting Oh, you like that

I don't mind yogurt I like it Bone marrow Bown marrow Gross, so good You like eating it? Oh yeah, it's delicious It's delicious

You're not a Vegemite guy I like I like Vegemite Why do you guys lie? What do you mean? You guys all say you like it you don't none of you like it it's it's it is a very culturally strange thing because you guys all do this all the people i've met that i'm friends with that are Australians they go no i like

it i like it but you don't own it or buy it you have a jar somewhere yeah i have a jar but you don't consume it really so you don't like it that's it's this weird cultural lie i think is if it's there i'll have it if it's there i will have it when's the last time you had it long time you don't like it but i'm living here now there's not Vegemite City. It's all over the place. You can go buy it. I'll go get it for you right now.

We sell it here. I'll eat it, yeah. But you don't want it. Not really. But I like it. I do like it. I love it. It's my favorite food.

I'll never eat it. This is what's funny. It's, this is like, what this is to Americans is like our staunchness about our constitution. You have to defend it. even though you're like, well, it's pretty fucking ridiculous.

It's all we have. That's what I mean. As a boo. This is the same way that America's where we're like, no, we, it's a... But you guys are the best at everything. Thank you. You heard it here first from Aaron Chen. You better fucking...

Best country. Best country. Getting better every day. Best countries. Because we own everything. We're owning Greenland now. Who else are we buying? Venezuela.

Are we buying Venezuela? We're going to keep buying more. We're going to keep consuming and buying more. It's awesome to buy a country, huh? Pretty rad. Pretty rock and roll. never do that. Well, you guys did do it. Didn't you buy Alaska? Alaska, I feel like we didn't buy. It was

a trade. It was an ice trade. It was ice trade. Yeah. We famously purchased Louisiana territory. Yeah, we bought Louisiana. California? California Was Mexico? Well, everything in the Southwest was. Okay. And we didn't buy it. We came over and we said, we want this. We like it. Yeah. It's nice. We like Hollywood. Can I have it?

We love the movies. And they said no. And because Hollywood was run by Mexicans. It was the Mexican, the Mexican mafia. Uh-huh. But we took it. You took it? Yeah.

Yeah, we took it. And we're going to own it forever. It's ours. And no one else gets it. America first. Australia third. Who's second? Taiwan.

Taiwan. Taiwan's always been second. In my heart. Where are your parents? Where are your parents from? China, China, Shanghai. Shanghai, my dad, my mother's family's from Fujian. Fugian. I love Fugian. Do you? Fugian. That was very delicate. Well, that's how you have. Chinese.

Yeah, the four sounds. Yeah, you have to, the four little sounds. You're master of it. I'm learning. It's very good. Give me a, give me a phrase. Let me see if I can, I can recite it back. Oh, like, you want me to say something in Chinese? That's right. What should I say? Well, this is for you, man. Niho, I'm sure Andrew.

Niho, I'm sure Andrew. That's really good, and you hit it on the Andrew as well. Andrew. Andrew. Thank you. Ni'u.

Yeah. I'm sure. Was. Was. That's very good. See, the only reason I'm able to do that is because I can imitate accents very well. Yeah, yeah.

If it wasn't for that, it'd be hard to learn a second language. Do you learn any Korean? Uh, uh, uh, Esamase. Yeah. That's really good. You've been learning in the fly in the wild

at Korean restaurants. Bobby's mom will talk. When they speak Korean in front of us, I'll try to pick up some stuff. You'll join in. But he doesn't speak Korean well. He's very,

he's very shit at Korean. Yeah, yeah, and you can tell. You don't even speak it, you can tell. I can tell he's bad. Because she gets annoyed with him when he's not speaking properly in Korean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She gets very upset. Yes.

I think Steve knows more Korean than Bobby. I think his brother actually is more attuned to it. But Bobby just rejects it because of this, like, because as a, you would know nothing about this. But as an Asian, growing up in a neighborhood with all white people. All white. who make you feel bad about your history. He didn't want to be Korean. He didn't want to soak up all this Korean heritage

because all of his friends were white San Diego punks. Did you grow up in a white neighborhood? Kind of, but I feel like that was more... I went to a middle school, high school. It's all combined. It's called high school in Australia. Middle school and high school are one. So you're 17 going to school with a 12-year-old.

Yeah. That's fucking insane. I like I never understood that these people should be broken up yeah those are children and then young adults yeah it's 12 to 18 I guess why would an 18 year old be near a 12 year old in the same school they he he not good you're asking me like I decided that are you did you decide it did you vote on it I would vote to keep it going okay if I could vote middle school and high school are just called high school that's And prior to middle school, it's called what? Elementary or do you call it?

We call it primary school. Primary school. Primary. Primary. Yeah, it's not primary, it's primary. Primary. It's very British. See, that's the British influence on you guys. Fucking scumbag.

That's the one thing we share. We hate Brits. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, I'll do it. Yeah, I hate the Brits, dude. Who do they think they are, dude? No, we actually really enjoy the Brits.

No, you don't like them. No, we owned them. We own their ass. The Irish, really, they don't like it on another level. My people have a different problem with them. Yeah, yeah, we don't like them. They were bullies, they were mean, they were meany-weenies to us. Mini-weenies.

That's what we say in Ireland. Mini-weenies. Yeah, that's what we call the Brits. Many-weenies. That's your Irish accent? Mini-weeney. Meany-weenies. That just sounds more Australians.

Many-weenys. Down there's a bunch of mani-weenies. You know them? Those guys? Many-weenies? That sounds more bogan. Many-weenies. That's really good.

Yeah, not bad, right? That's really good. I can tap in. Okay, tap in. I can tap in pretty good. What's the difference in your mind between Western Australian accents and East Coast accents?

That's not where the separation lies. It's class-based? It's all, yeah, I guess yeah, you would say maybe it's class-based, it's a bit like there's like a in Sydney there's like a Western

Sydney accent. Yes. That's a beautiful accent. Do you know Nick Kierios, the tennis player? Yeah, I love Kierios. He kind of, he's not from there, but kind of has it. That's probably the closest worldwide example. And you're east, you're, your, you're east Sydney. I'm from, I'm from like very far north in Sydney. Like almost all the way up to Central Coast. Okay, the Central Coast. Beautiful place up there. Yeah, but Western Sydney, that's good because they have like all the like Asian people,

Lebanese people like Islander people. Mashed as one. Mashed as one. That's smart. And the Perth people. Well, the Perth people very nice by the way underrated underrated underrated Perth it's a good city now it's fucking awesome what'd you say

it was crazy underrated you went down as well he did and people were like people were asking us they're like you're gonna go to Perth and we're like

so far away yeah Perth is good yeah that was the finale yeah that's where we ended we had so much fun that's the West Coast

loved it I actually really enjoyed it I'm not gonna lie I think they got I think shot up Perth they don't get enough love they really don't Shout out Perth.

And no shout out to... What's the worst city you went to? Memphis? Yeah, Memphis, Tennessee. Yeah, tough, tough place. Yeah. Tough vibe. Yes.

Tough vibe. Because I like Tennessee as a state. Like Knoxville, like Nashville. Why's Memphis tough? Elvis came from there. I guess he's a tough guy. Tough guy. Tough guy.

He could never stand up to his manager. That's exactly right. Elvis would have loved your guys's school system. Yeah. Yeah. He was a big fan. Interesting. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think when he got married, his daughter was four. I think right, isn't that right? She was four. When he... He married a four-year-old. He married a four-year-old? Yep.

Are you serious? That's what jailhouse rock is about. She was four? I'm gonna go to the jailhouse rock. No, she wasn't four. She was an adult. No. I actually, no, that's not true, right?

She was 16. She was 14 when he met her. Yeah, 14. It was like 24 or something. Yeah. But he had no Kendrick Lamar. You know, there was no guy. Yeah, right.

He couldn't get draked. Yeah, yeah. So he just cruised. That's like, it's like Munson. He couldn't get draked, man. Couldn't get draked, man. Yeah, Elvis was a very,

it's funny because he is regarded by a generation above a mine of like this like godlike creature. And then. But there's so much Elvis for us. now. There's like three movies about Elvis. But as we exposed him over time, we're like, this guy was terrible. Yeah. Like, he's terrible on like a million levels.

And one of the Elvis movies stars Australia's own, Jacob, of Lurdy. There you go. I'll tell you what, when we went and toured Graceland, the woman who toured us around was like mind-blown that people... He was a bunch of young kids. It was probably high school tours or whatever. And they kept stopping and noticing me and recognizing us. And she was like,

I'm sorry, I don't know who you are. And I said, that's okay. I said, young people know us because of the internet. And she goes, well, it's crazy because I had Austin Butler here who played Elvis in the movie, and ain't nobody recognized him at all. And I said, well, that's pretty impressive. And I'm going to say that on every podcast from now on. Austin Butler, I'm more famous than you, pal. That shows you the way of the world now. It's the internet. The web, dude.

It's this. And you're on the web a lot. I'm on the web. You're a web dog. Web. I love the web. Big web guy. Yeah.

How many cities you got left on this tour? And I'm plugging it right now so people can go see you live. I'm bouncing around. I'm touring. I have a special coming out at the end of March, so I'm just trying to go to a lot of cities. The special comes out at the end of March on what? Netflix.com. And what's it called?

It's called Funny Garden. Not going to be strong and sexy? I can't, I probably could change it. Wait, what is it called? Funny Garden. Funny Garden. Yeah. A funny garden from Aaron Chon on Netflix.

Coming out, March 31st. March 31st, the very end of the month, one of the best days in March. by the way. Yeah. The funny garden. And when you're surfing the web, looking for something to do, this is me being very serious.

I think you're very funny. You're very talented. And now that I know you're very, cool, dude. I like and I respect you. You as well. Ditto. Look at this.

We're sharing. Go see him live. It's got to be Aaronchen.com. If it's not, you've got to get that. Aaronchencom. Fucking annoying. That's so annoying. Aaronchencomedy.

go see him touring all over the great United States of America while he's still here before he gets deported knock on wood because we think it is coming soon Yeah I'm good at dodging

Yeah you have been You have been kind of ducking around hiding a little bit Yeah Yeah go see Aaron Chencom Go see the boy Go watch his special Funny Garden

When it comes out on Netflix I know it's going to be good I can't wait to watch it myself And when I do watch it I'm going to text you and say Very funny stuff Sexy Strong Guy Thank you

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