Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Jimmy O. Yang: The 60/40 Asian Prince | Whiskey Ginger

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

Welcome to Whiskey Ginger a Wave series presented by Fanduel Andrew Santino sits down with comedian and actor Jimmy O. Yang for a hilarious conversation about stand-up, acting, and the unexpected path from engineering student to global comedy star. They talk about Jimmy’s new stand-up special Finally, Home, building a career across stand-up and Hollywood, and how his perspective and storytelling have made him one of the most unique voices in comedy today. 🎥 Watch Jimmy O. Yang’s new special Finally, Home out now. In this episode: • Jimmy’s journey from tech to stand-up comedy • Balancing acting roles and stand-up touring • Santino and Jimmy talk cultural differences, crowd work, and career pivots • Why authenticity and perspective drive great comedy Drop a comment with your favorite Jimmy O. Yang moment. #WhiskeyGinger #AndrewSantino #JimmyOYang #FinallyHome #ComedyPodcast #StandUpComedy #PodcastClips #comedians ===================================================== This episode is sponsored by: FANDUEL HEAD TO https://fanduel.com/whiskey TO GET STARTED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This whiskey is excellent. Ginger, I like gingers. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest is one of my favorite people on Earth. They say that for all my guest, but I mean once again today. It is the return of Jimmy O' yay. Thank you so much, Andrew. Last time I was here, I went viral for being an hour.

You went viral. And we're going to drink again today. We're going to have some Weller. We're going to have some special reserve Weller. And also, before we even get this going, I want to say, cheers and congratulations. His special is out literally right now. As we speak, it's live. It's available and it's live all over the globe. And it's called, finally home. Finally home. Yep. It's going to be a movie theater. You can catch it. Finally home. In theaters. Yeah, in theaters. That's the only way you can catch it. God, that's crazy. Yeah. In theaters. It's going to be fun.

It's a fun one. It's like a big concert film. We shot at five shows, 8,000 people each show in Hong Kong. It's just big. It's huge. It's an English film, you know, but I'm mixing a little canthony. It's like how George Lopez was Spanish back then. Right.

So, it's fun. God, you're so Chinese. I said that on the way in. Yeah, thank you. You're the most Chinese guy. I have recently gotten back in touch on my Chinese side. Cheers to China. Cheers, brother.

I mean, we have to say that now anyway, because they own this. Don't they own this podcast? Yeah, you were an alcoholic. Well, I'm not. But somehow people misinterpreted tape and said, I'm a binge drinker, alcohol. It went very viral many times. They go very, very viral multiple times because you said, I can't stop drinking. Once I start, I can't stop.

And I jokingly go, well, you're an alcoholic. And we laughed, and everybody was like, oh, my God. It's like, what? It's just a truth, man. I drink much more than you, I'm sure. I think so. Recently I've been drinking a little more, but nothing crazy. Were you stressed out? A little stress, man. Because of the special. The special. I got to go back, well, this is shot like a week ago before, right?

But I got to go back to the sound mix right now after this. I've been editing nonstop, you know? I know some comics, they look at their special, give some notes they don't edit. I've been in this for months trying to put this puzzle together, make sure it's the best, the sound mix, getting songs from people, getting behind the scenes footage, everything. Who'd you pull a song from that you're like really proud of? Man, I am, well, first of all, this special has a few Hong Kong songs in their favorite classics. Okay. It's quite expensive. I'd pay for the rights of that.

But I got a shout out to this brother G. Dragon and his team. G. Dragon, shout out to G. Dragon. The biggest K-pop artist, if not the biggest ever. He's the coolest dude, and his management is letting me use his hit song as my opening song. And that was just unbelievable how Asian brothers would do business with each other. And by the way, and he's Korean, and that's typically not the way that this used to go. So now you're breaking barriers. Yeah, Bobby Lee, they don't even talk to Bobby Lee.

No, the Koreans don't like him. But they're giving your boy, like, I'm super grateful, man. So thank you to Team G-Dragon. Well, shout out to the Asian community as a whole. Big fan. We are at this show and bad friends of Asians in general. We span the globe. There's only one Asian that we don't like, and you know exactly which one that is.

That's right. That's why we're not going to talk about them. We're not going to say it. Yeah. But we all know who is. We all know who it is. We all know what it is, man. We all know who they are.

We all know who they are. Yeah, that's right. They is actually an appropriate, politically correct term. Yeah, because you do. You don't know? That's like the nicest way to go about it. That's right. So you're editing the special. You're going to go right back out on tour when you're done. No, my tour's about winding down.

I got about three more weekends, and then I'm done. What do you do when you're down? I'm going to go back to grind it out at the improv, at the store, or whatever. You're just going to go do new material. Local shit. Yeah. You're not going to take some time down to just sit at home by yourself? But this is, going to the improv is me sitting at home.

Like, it's fun. Like, what else am I doing? I don't know, man, you gotta get a hobby. You know, my buddy told me that. You gotta get a hobby. Yeah, I got hobbies. What are your hobbies? I mean, golf is my number one hobby.

Yeah, that's big. Golf is my number one favorite hobby. You still shoot hoops? A little bit, not like I used to, man, because we're in our 40s. It's tough. Times done changed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, like, I don't want to get, I told the story on the show.

I got dunked on by, like, a 17-year-old at a YMCA, like a couple years ago, and I was like, that's it. Yeah, and you see Tom's a girl, like tear his shit up. What are we talking about? Yeah, what are we doing? I'm not going down that line. I need hobbies. But a hobby, you got to find something that's going to tickle your fancy, you know, that's away from the business. You're so right.

That doesn't make me any money. Well, yeah, it probably is going to cost you a lot of money. Right. I do, I mean, look, I do fantasy football. I play video games with my boys. That's not it. What do you mean? It has to be physical activity?

Something that is a you-time thing that you could do by yourself and you can do with other people. That's a real hobby. Wow. Like, can you do it alone? Yeah, and you can do it with friends, cool, but you can choose instead of like video games kind of a hobby. You know, you can do it alone. I garden. I cook.

I cook. I've seen this online. Yeah, yeah, I love it. So the gardening, that's a good one. That's a good hobby because it takes your mind away. You can escape. You're only thinking about the shrubbery in front of you. Oh, it's great.

I got a Home Depot. I got a local Mickey's Hargettes, pick up some basil, grow up myself, and I get to cook it. What did you say after Home Depot? Mickey's Harjee's Harjit. Shout out to Mickey's Harjit's Harjit's. Oh, the What's her name's Dad? It's Mariska Hargetay's brother? Oh, I thought it was her dad.

It's on Fountain? On Fountain. Great, great place for plants. I passed that a hundred times. And I saw the name and I thought that's got to be the family. Yeah, yeah. Really nice plant place. Mariska Hargette.

Is that her name? Mariska. Mariska. Mariska. Hargette. Hargette. Hargette. I don't know, bro.

Mariska Hargette. Mariska Hargette. Yeah, that's her brother. Where is she from again? Look it up. She's from, um, what show was she on? Law and Order. Lawnor.

Amazing actress. She's from Santa Monica. Santa Monica. Shout out to a local. That's why her dad did that. And you're opening up a business soon here, right? Aren't you going to open up a kitchen here? You should.

I'm thinking about it. Jimmy's kitchen? That would be fun. You know, I just cook whatever. That would be a good hobby. See, that's, yeah. It's not a money maker. It's a money loser.

It's a lot of money lost. And then, but also me and my buddy, my buddy owns dirty birds. Shout out of dirty birds. Great wing restaurant in San Diego. Dirty birds. Yeah, it's awesome. And you're wrapping the hat just to show your boys in my alma mater, UCSD. I own a couple percentage of it.

I'm probably not going to make me any money. But we have this great restaurant idea that we're thinking about maybe opening in Vegas. I don't want to give it away yet. Don't give it away. I don't want to give it away. Don't tell the kids. Dirty birds isn't wearing San Diego. What part?

Many locations. There's one in UCSD. There's one by the SDSU area downtown. Many, many locations. So it's all over the place. Yeah. But I only get money from like one location. So go to the UCSD one.

Yeah. Go to UCSD. Yeah. Yeah, you went to school there? Yeah, hated it. So funny. Why? Fucking most boring school on the planet.

Too many whites, huh? Yes, it's either stoner white surfers or like quite studious Asians. Yeah. And then when I got in there, you know, I was like smoking weed, you know, whatever. I was trying to be cool. I was trying to have my college experience and I never got that because everybody was just studying in that school. Beautiful campus, though. I don't discourage anyone from going there.

Also, I just never like college. I want to do music at first. That didn't work. So, and then I got into stand-up. And, you know. And that kind of worked. Yeah, it had nothing to do with whatever I studied. I knew it had nothing to do.

You know. That's kind of a trip out. You wanted, what was your name as a musician? What was your stage name? Come on. Man, it's so lame, bro. Were you a rapper? No, no, no, no.

I know. Because most Asians get into rap. Why is they go right into rap? I know I couldn't rap. Like, I didn't have the talent. I wasn't on beat. I wasn't MCJN, you know. So I try to make beats.

I produce beats. And my producer name, it's so embarrassing. No, I love this. It's so embarrassing. It's called Doc West. Doc West. Like Dr. Dre and Kanye West combined.

You know, I'm just gonna leave, dude. This is, I hope this doesn't get viral. Go back to that alcoholic, go back to the alcoholic clip. I really hope that clip goes viral. Doc West, a combination of Dr. Dre and Kanye West. Yeah, and I was selling beats. I was doing okay. What do you sell a beat for at that time in your life?

Nothing, man, 200 bucks. Yeah, what do you mean? That's money. I sold it actually to a porno site. Oh, yeah. Called Futch stick. dot com. Shout out fudge stick.

Thank you so much for your support. It doesn't exist anymore, but it's a fudgestick.com. They lost all their money by your beats. They bought a couple beats from me, man, you know? That's kind of cool. How did they find out about you? How do Pornside know what you were doing? So I used to put my beats up on SoundClick.

This is before SoundCloud. SoundClick is for independent musicians and rappers. I think Soldier Boy blew up on it. Really? And then also for you selling beats, you know. So they found me on SoundClick. So that's how I sold some beats. SoundClick.

I'm not sure if it exists anymore. It sounds like bullshit. There's a lot of fun sites back in a day. That used to be my hobby. I need to get back into that. There used to be a site called rockbattle.com, like ROC, you know, and it's you battling beats with other producers. It's kind of fun.

Oh, that's actually a good idea. Yeah. Man, that kind of shit, that's your hobby. Bring that back. I know. I got to do. Yeah. Like, you know, like Russell Peters keeps a couple turntables at the house.

He always, and he has parties. He DJs and shit. Oh, that's fine. Then he'll get famous people to come over and do. DJ as well. That's pretty fun. Yeah. Like he has, Russell Peter's one of those guys. Are you a hip hop fan or no? Yeah, huge. Well, he's, you know, he's like embedded in the world of it all. Like, he brought bumpy knuckles to the, to the comedy store like, what, two weeks ago or whatever? I'm sorry, I'm unfamiliar. Bumpy knuckles. That's okay. Yeah. That's all right. You said you were a huge hip-hop fan.

Did you lie? Well, you know, from a certain era of hip-hop. I'm 38 now. Yeah, I get, we're close. Yeah, yeah. I was graduating high school when you were, you getting in. But also you got to know from zero to 13, I was in Hong Kong so I don't know any hip hop then. Yeah, that's kind of true. Learn about hip hop from like 2009 and on.

The Cisco era, the thong song era. And then it got into the dirty south era, you know, like that kind of stuff. That's the most, yeah, right. Like 2000 and 2005 is what I'm into. Still a good era. We had the guy, oh, I got to tell this is crazy. We had a guy, we were just on the road and we had the driver

pick us up. And DeVan I don't know if you know that is a great comic. He opens for me and we're sitting in the car. And the driver's a little, he's a little, what's a good way to say this? Woodsy. He's from the out. He's from out. He's from out there.

You know what I mean? You understand what I'm saying? And he's like, man, y'all are a lot better than the other guy I picked up. Man, you're cool. And I was like, oh, yeah? Yeah, who's that? He's like, I mean, you're nicer than Tupac. And I was like, you picked up Tupac?

And he was like, yeah, just a couple of months. months ago, I was like, all right. I go, you picked up Tupac, huh? And Devontre is looking at me, like, giving me one of these, like, you're egging this guy on? I was like, so how, what was Tupac's deal? He's like, well, they lost his weed in one of his luggage. And he got all mad, and you know how much they like to smoke weed. And DeVantre goes, who's they? And he goes, rappers. And Devonter's like, right. And then he goes, he goes, yeah, he was throwing a fit. I go, I think you're misting.

Tupac's been dead for a very long time unless you know something we don't know I go unfortunately I don't think it was Tupac he goes yes it was I picked him up and I said I'm sorry sir I'm sure it wasn't Tupac and he goes he said come on he performed at the same place you're doing he sung

a funky cold Medina and I said very famous Tupac's up I was like that's tone loke and he was like yes yes I was like how many people have you told that story to Like how many times if you told people you picked up Tupac and someone was like, wow, yeah, I mean Dave picked up Tupac, man, you won't believe him, but he...

No, he picked him up, dude, I'm telling you. At least he was a rapper and he did smoke weed. Correct, yes. The man had a point. Tupac is pretty far off, dude. Like, holy shit. And Tupac's, like, not a rogue name. That's one of the most famous rappers of all times.

Also famously dead. Famously dead, yeah. You think Tone Loke fucked with him and be like, my name's Tupac. That actually is smart. He probably did. Right? He's like, I got to tell you what, my name is Tupac. And he was like, all right, Tupac.

I heard of that before. Well, listen, Tupac, when you want to go back to the airport, you just let me know, Bill. You go ahead and smoke your weed, buddy. Then he said, this is insane. This was out of pocket, too. We're talking about the Epstein files. And, you know, we were talking like, I said, you know what they should do? Anyone that gets, you know, anyone that they put through the system and gets actually caught

instead of all this, like, speculative, who's in the list. I was like, they should public execute. these people and then stream it i go put it on showtime like we used to pay for fights back in the day you know i was like make me paying and make the money go to like victims and charities right so i'm making kind of like a a bold profound point and then he goes i think they should execute him too and i said right on dude and he goes but you know my favorite is hanging oh my god the vontre slowly turns to me and i was like no no no dude no no no i was like don't don't i don't want to go down this rabbit hole with this guy dude where was this was this was i was

Out in, this is in, where are we, in Oregon, in, like, rural Oregon. Rural Oregon got, got some of them people over there. It's funny. People always think, like, the West Coast, you know, especially like, you know, you going on to the South and they're like, yeah, you liberal, oh, you West Coast, hippie, liberal. And you're like, brother, you don't know rural. You go into suburbs of California, like, deep Cali and, like, deep Oregon. Different worlds.

There are some, there are some races out there. Some different worlds. I was like. Go to Orange County. Well, no. Yeah, that too. But, like, you go out to the state. dude, that's a different culture.

Like, I think people think that's everyone in Oregon is in Portland. You're like, that's not, that is this much of Oregon. The rest is people that work on that land out in the middle of nowhere. This dude was very nice for the record. I think he just was, uh... He just comes from a different world. Different world than us, dude. But Devontre was agging me on too.

He was like, he's like, that's your boy. I was like, that's not, stop doing that. He's like, that's your boy. I was like, don't try to like shoe this guy on me, dude. No, we had some, I've had some fun on the road, but this is the first time. The reason I ask about you taking a break is the first time in five years that I'm not doing a tour. Wow. Do you go from tour to tour? You don't stop? I never did until this year. This is the first year. I'm doing a couple of dates, right?

Like I did a couple of casinos and I'm doing like two more casinos for fun. But no, dude, I'm not doing like an actual sit down and like they were like, in the fall, let's carve it out at the beginning of this year to carve out for this fall. And I had an epiphany. I was like, I don't think I'm going to do it. it this year for the first time. I think I'm just going to let life happen a little bit more. But are you doing stand-up? Are you building? Or are you just doing your hobbies? No, no, I'm building to. But I mean, I'm building on my own accord. I'm not like, there's no gun to the head of like, you got a back, dude, your fall is coming. That's huge. Because I think that's when you get creative. That's when the new ideas come. So you don't just go back to the same rhythm of like,

okay, this is the type of jokes I write. And sometimes you'll write a joke and it'll sound like a a joke you already have done. Drives me nuts. Because you're trying to build a new hour. Right. And you're sort of letting it come to you. So I'm letting it. come to me a little bit more more than anything else that's great man yeah I have to you know I mean I just feel like at an age at a time you know like you're gonna put this out this is huge you know go watch it right now but like I just think we need to at some point go all right let me let me take stock right and see what's next because we always are like go go go go go go go go yeah you know the world is ending now anyway so you might as well enjoy it I think so yeah

it's gonna burn down yeah in many ways I mean yeah it's over man forget about the war just even AI in a couple of years. You're dead. We're dead or it's not going to be relevant. I'll just sell my image and then they're going to write a special for me. It's fine. Yeah, they'll go,

someone will get home after a long day of cooling off some of the machines that are doing AI of like filling the water coolant, you know, for AI. Yeah. They'll get home and they'll go, hey, TV.

There'll be no streaming service. It'll just be, hey, TV. Put on a Jimmy O'Yang special where he's talking about growing up overseas. Yeah. And it'll be two hours of you. And bangers shit. Banger.

Banger. You're done. New shit. New shit. Even the AI of you goes, new shit. And everyone loses it. Yeah. New shit.

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New shit! Just letting them know, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but those are the days that, like, solidified you as a comic. comic and I don't think they're going to take us over. I think people will still want you. I think comedy will be one of the last places because it's a live thing.

People go there for jokes but to feel connected as human beings. Yeah, they want to feel. Well, people relate to you. The reason that I think you've gained so much, and we've known each other for a pretty good amount of time, I think you've gained so much weight in comedy is because, you know, you're funny, but that's, once that's a given, that's over. But you're also someone that, like, people want to see and relate to. you're not kind of this untouchable person

that you know you still have a groundedness about you and I think that's what's important in comedy and people do want to see that and feel that they want to know you a little bit they want to yeah and I think it's I think with other other shit that AI is trying to replace you know it's

it's easier for the machine to mask the human which sucks but with us it's like if you're going to see live performance that's going to be hard to duplicate they're going to try but I hope to God they don't fucking That's why I think, you know, like the theater sales are a little down, but like live stand-up, live music is doing better than ever.

Yeah, it's kind of crazy. People want that connection. Yeah, and I hope they still want it. Yeah. Please, God, keep going to enjoy it and ingest it because otherwise. And I think that that's what we do as comedians, as artists. That's why it's important. You kind of taking time for yourself to let it come to you.

Because AI is very good at sampling what you've done. Yeah. And then creating new shit off of that. And sometimes we do that. Yeah. And they're like, maybe I should talk about my dad more again, you know? Right. And then we do that.

But then when you go a different route, AI can't even do that because you are now reinventing yourself in a new lane. This is no longer, oh, write me two hours as Jimmy O. Yang, write me two hours of Andrew Santino. Because they'll write it based on old shit. But it's that new fresh stuff that I think people will appreciate. You heard it here first from Doc West. Let that go viral, huh? It's just me drinking. No, cheers, by the way.

Let's do have a drink. Let's have a drink. This is, uh, we're sipping. For those that want to know, they always ask, what do we, this is some Weller. We're having some Weller Special Reserve. Very good. Kentucky. Burbin.

Have you ever been to Kentucky? Played Louisville, maybe? I played, Louisville. Maybe like, uh, I think I played a college years ago for like $800. That's good. That's great. It's a paycheck. I mean, my flight, my hotel was like $600.

Yeah, you lost, you lost, you made $126. Yeah. Now I got to pay my car. college age and 20%, so I made like 80 bucks, which is a lot, which was a lot, you know? Did you ever get, did you ever get rip where you were supposed to get this amount of money on the road and they paid you under what you were supposed to get? Because that's the old school stuff. Guys used to get that all the time.

Few and far between, because I would never agree to that much money anyways. Like, 50 bucks and a burger, sure, I'm there. And usually they pay you that. 100%. Yeah, yeah. You get the burger. Yeah, yeah. 50 bucks, we'll put it on your tab.

Oh, oh, I did. I mean, not to talk bad about this man because he's dead. Do it! at Stanford and Sons. We talked about him. The other day. Yeah, man. Craig.

Craig Glazer. Yeah, Jimmy O'Yang, man. You're a good fucking dude, O'Yang. Yeah, man. We love you here. You're not like most Chinese that I mean. I don't like any of them. Yeah, let me show you to my local news station here.

We're going to do a little spin here. Morning radio with that guy. But this guy, this is like one of my first headlining sets. You know, so I didn't sell that many tickets. I did okay. Kansas City. Kansas City. And then right before I got on stage, literally, they were announcing my name.

And then Craig Glazer came was like, hey, man, so ticket sales is a little short, so I can't really pay you a full amount. Let's welcome Jimmy O'Yang! And I'm like, fuck. What am I? I got to go do my set, you know? Did you talk about it? No.

I mean, I was so green. First thing out of mouth. Then I'm like, hey, man, owner just told me I'm not going to get paid tonight, so let's have fun. I was just thankful. Now I would, but like, I was just thankful back then that somebody would let me even do 45 an hour. In here, we pour whistle.

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From the airport. He's like, I'm not going to get you a car. I'll pick you up. So he picks me up. He's like, we've got to go see Black Barbie. I talked about that on the other show. Yeah, we'd go pick up his girlfriend. It was insane.

The guy was insane. He never screwed me on money, but I never got paid enough anyway. It wasn't. I got paid nothing. I mean, it was those days, He had a book. Yeah, he wrote a book. The sting or something?

The sting, that's exactly right. So funny. Dealing drugs out of ASU and then getting caught by the cops. How did he die? Overdose. No. I don't know, actually, but I'm guessing. Yeah.

We can always kind of guess. Like if somebody goes Santino die, Jimmy, and you go, how? And they go, yeah, he drank himself to death. You'd go, right. Makes sense. Right. He didn't die on the golf course. No.

He got hit by a golf ball. But he was drunk. I do drink responsibly. For those, we're just kidding around. Yeah, man. I got to go back to work after. Yeah, well, but a little sip is fine. I mean, they did this in the 50s and the 60s. They had a little drink at lunch. Madman. Madman. Come on. Yeah, yeah, I like that era when you can just have it in the office. They probably have drugs.

They definitely had drugs in the office. Yeah. Yeah. But you can't do drugs? Not in the middle of the day. Oh, but like a night? I'm a nighttime drug guy. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just a weed guy. Well, I'm a weed and beer guy. All right, dude, I mean, yes. I mean, mushrooms I do love. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You ever microdose mushrooms? No, I've never done any psychedelics. Come for a ride, dude. I would be down for that. Wait, you've never done psychedelics? Never done shrooms.

Brother. Yeah. You want to have some fun? Yeah. Not right now, but another time. I would love to with you. Let's do it. Like, they're the best.

Mushrooms to me are the, it's my favorite, it's my favorite intoxicant because it does, you just, you feel kind of buzzy, you feel a little buzzy, boozy, happy. Yeah. But you're not like overwhelmed in a way. unless you take far too much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just take a little bit. You just feel a little jazz.

I feel like everyone, there's like weed and srooms people. They're like pretty thoughtful, smart people. Yeah, usually, yeah. And then there's like the heart drug, like the Coke and the meth people. I don't get along with those people. By the way, I took a big edible with my sister

for my dad's birthday a couple nights ago. And we had a couple of drinks. And then I took an Eddie with my sister. And then as soon as we got to the restaurant, I had a couple of those waves. Where you're like, fuck, dude, am I going to make it through dinner? Like I turned over to my wife

And I was like I'm having a lot of fun She's like, are you okay? I was like, I'm so good But I don't know I'm not even hungry Because I was like zooming As soon as the first wave hits

Sometimes you're like Oh shit And now that shit is so strong Oh dude Edibles are insanely strong I do I mean just vape Like even just once a month

knocks me out dude Yeah Do you ever smoke smoke anymore Nah dude I can't handle it Why? It's too strong Oh yeah Well just take one hit

Just take one hit But then what am I gonna do With the rest of the joint. Save it. What do you mean? Put an ashtray, put outside? I guess so. I mean, we live in California. I mean, I literally tap it out and like my cousin stays at the house and you'll see it every day, slowly go down in the ashtray and go out, take a hit, move on. I mean, some people, young people now, I mean, they can smoke a whole, you know, a whole joint to the head and I, I don't, I can't kill it. I'm not there. I can't do that. No, yeah, I used to take bong hits in college. Yeah, so did I,

remember those days? She just can't do that anymore. Yeah. But even back then, I never did like hard drugs, really never touched anything nah man there's something i'm a downer guy i think my mind is racing to see this clip's gonna go viral i can i can hear i can hear myself and then you gotta say oh no you're you're a fucking drug addict and then it's gonna go viral let's try it go ahead okay i don't know i'm a downer guy yeah i want to take stuff that i go to sleep i don't i don't want to stay up right well it sounds like you're a drug addict i don't see this is not gonna work it's not gonna work nobody's that interested i'm a nerd no you are you're a sweet you're you're a sweet man who's got his life in order. That's what it is. Yeah, you're two put together. I thought I was like a badass.

No, you're not bad. I'm like, I'm gonna go day some girls. That's like bad. No, no, I can't do it. I'm a nerd. Are you still single? Uh, yeah. Oh, no. It's tough. It's tough out there, dude. You're not on the apps though. Not really. I'll get them when I'm bored and I delete them. So what are you doing? How are you fishing at all? Instagram? I try to meet people in real life, Instagram, friends of friends. Yeah, but that's not working. And then also, lately I've been traveling to Asia a lot. You know, I try to meet some. people there. It's a little different dating culture. We want an Asian girlfriend now. I think so. I think I've came back to Christ, but you know, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

Because I started having like all these boxes, you know, that I want to check. I'm like, she needs to be Chinese. She needs to speak Mandarin. Know the culture. But can cook, blah, blah, but who gives a shit about any of that, right? Like, you just need to find a person you have fun with. Well, your mom probably does. Yeah, but, you know, I'm not dating for my mom. I think at some point of my life, maybe I was, but now... Yeah, but are you, would you ever want to get married or is that not a thing on your sleeve? For sure. Oh, you do? I think this is my new hobby.

Trying to get married? Dating seriously. Yeah, that's the hobby. Yeah, that's... Is that a hobby? Dating? Yeah. It's got to be. It's got to be a hobby. Or is it too serious? It doesn't make me money? It loses you money, just like every other hobby. Yeah, but I can't do it by myself. Yes, you can. Take yourself on a date. Yeah. Yeah. I could. I could. I mean, if you're not connecting with

any of these people, technically, you are doing it by yourself. doing it by yourself. That's true. If you're not connecting with the person that you're with. So what's the difference now in the dating that you're taking you're taking a minute? I'm trying to take it slower. So not trying to hook up right away? I don't think so. I mean I do some. You do. Yeah, you still. But I, you know, I think like the old school courtship. I actually talked about it with Bobby and Kalila on their podcast. Because she's Filipino, the Filipino courtship and like the Asian courtship. I kind of like that. But then you put yourself vulnerably out there. You don't know, do they subscribe to that program?

You know, what if you're just friends owning yourself? Right. And they're like, you know, banging 10 other people. You don't know. It could be 10. I don't think so. Could be 12. But I'm trying to, I'm trying to date seriously now.

Because did you have some horror stories or something? Did something bad? Some horror stories? Horror stories. Some horror stories? Did you have some horror stories? Yeah, I got both. Yeah, you got both.

No, no, but a lot of it, I did it to myself because I wasn't dating seriously. And then I'll start taking someone seriously. And then you're like, well, you never kind of was on the right foot anyway. You know, but now I'm a little more intentional. It's a little more vulnerable and we'll see what happens. Are you counting the days until you think it's appropriate to hook up? Not really. You're just saying let it happen but not right away.

Yeah, I'm not trying to force it. You know. Right, well, that's important. You know what? In the name of the law. Yeah. That's very important. That's very important.

Yeah. Yeah, no, I just, because I think back in a day, especially the age that we grew up, American pie, big pie. pimping, like all that shit, right? Like, you know, that's what I grew up with. Like, when I came to America, I'm like, oh, you got to hook up. Yeah. Or you're a fucking loser.

Right, you got to get some chicks, right. But now it's like, I'm trying to friend zone myself sometimes. You're doing it. You know? You're doing it. And by the way, then they'll come. Whoever's supposed to be there or there. But you're going over to Asia to go.

Not, yeah, just. You're looking, yeah, you're really looking to grab one, huh? We'll see. Bring her back. We'll see. I mean, I have this whole bit that I'm working on. It's like, I got to find a right amount of Asian. Yeah. What's the percentage?

I don't know. I've dated this half Asian girl that didn't work out. I dated someone that's too Asian didn't work out. You know, like you got to see, I just got to find the right, like I am a certain amount of Asian. What Asian are you? How many Asians are you? I am just Chinese. No, but I mean, what percentage of Asian are you? In the way that you're speaking. I would say like 70, 30, 70% American, like westernized and 30% when I grew up in Hong Kong and now I'm a little more back in touch, maybe 40%. So we're, 6040 now 6040 so we're losing them I told you we're losing them yeah so what's it going to be for you you need a girl that's around the same around the same are you a 6040 Asian

woman we need you to date jimmy oh yang so please email us here at i want to date jimmy at gmail com we're going to get you linked up with him and make sure you list your percentage are you a 6040 are you a 50 50 50 or you can explain the percentage how it came about you know we'll go through we'll log we'll you know we'll have someone at the at the studio build an AI thingy yeah and just figure out who's the best you're the best thingy yeah and just figure out who's the best and we'll match make four. We act like we're going to get a thousand submissions. We need like a, yeah, it's going to be three people. Yeah. We just look at it. It's like, it's like in people that you know very well already.

One of them's your ex and you're like, no! No. No, you have to, you got to get the Asian percentage. Your 60-40 sounds. Here's the thing. Probably right. There are full-on white girls that could be 40% Asian. There's some full-on white girls that might be 60% Asian for some reason. Yeah, I don't mean like by blood or what it's, it's sometimes the mannerism, the culture, the respect. Yeah. You know. diet the understanding yeah whatever yeah you gotta like Asian food well you got I mean you gotta love it yeah that's 10% I mean this guy he pushed me over I mean I was always a hundred percent American dude but Bobby really pushed me into the Asian world I mean what are you now 20 yeah probably 80 20 yeah that's pretty good he slid me in

25 some some weeks I really get Asian but how how Asian is Bobby himself he might you know you know secretly this is kind of funny he can attest to this he's more Asian than people give him credit for that's true because he does love the culture, like obsessed with great Asian restaurants we'll avoid it, but does still speak Korean to his mom.

But do you like, will you ever, will you only speak a foreign language to foreigners or will you interject English into it too? To family members. Oh, like when my parents will usually speak Shanghai's, nobody really speaks Shanghai's. Except for you guys.

Yeah, but they can also speak Mandarin and English is a struggle like when my ex or girls I've dated them and my parents will speak English and if they're polite you know they pour them tea call my dad uncle or like whatever like just be nice like it's fine you know it's a part of life

it's a fairly big part of my life my family but it's understandable as long as there's a respect you know because learning the language is going to be very hard and then but it will be nice to have someone that speaks Chinese but I think I

I have done that or I try to find somebody like that but I overend that in that skill. You know what I mean? Yeah, you put too much stock into it. Right, like someone, oh, they speak Chinese or like they can cook and then, but we don't really even

jive, you know? Right. Yeah, but that's called, this is what most Americans do, I feel like, is they compromise. They go, whatever, this is good enough. But what I'm saying is, instead of looking for the stats now, you know, checking the boxes, the technical stuff, I'm kind of going back to like, we got to get along.

I got to be happy around you. I got to like you first. That's the most important. thing. I can beat the Chinese India. Yeah. Yeah, man.

Everything else, just don't be a fucking dick. Right. You're going to get there. No Raya, though. You never did that. I've done that. I have that on my phone.

I've heard that's a nightmare. It is what it is. Bobby gets on that thing and it's like supermodel in Sweden. He's like, what the fuck am I going to do with that? I don't put too much stock in it. I've met a few people on Raya. That's very nice.

Never day to date. But, yeah, it's not. If it happens, it happens, hey, I'm fast on these dating apps. Like, I don't try to fucking talk to you for, like, three days on riot. I'm like, hey, you're in L.A.? Okay, you want to hang out? No, you don't want to, goodbye. If you respond, okay, we hang out, blah, blah, that's it, you know. Anybody famous, famous? You don't have to tell me. No, not really. Nobody crazy. Fringely famous, maybe. Fringe famous. Yeah, I've never

dated anyone famous. You're there, dude. You could. Do you go? But I, why would I want that? Because you're a little famous, dude. But, like, what I want a day in an actress? What is that? Yeah, why not? I'm going to have to help her with her. If I was you single and Chinese. If I was you, why not? Why not give it a whirl? You have nothing to lose. I don't.

I think it's a fun story. I think famous people date other famous people just for the story. Just so they look good. Well, okay. There's certain levels of people that date that are famous and it's all business related. But then there's certain people I think they just date other famous people for a short term because it's fun because it's a story. That one time, you know, one time I dated. I think that's fun for other famous people to do that.

I just don't. A musician maybe or an athlete. I admire those people. Is there a babe musician that you got a crush on? Oh, all of them. Fuck. I'm such a fan girl of like girl musicians. Oh, you are, yeah.

Sabrina Carpenter, Billy, Ilish. If anybody's listening, Sabrina or Billy, if you guys are interested in Jimmy. Yeah, Sabrina Carpenter, it'd be 40% and 60% of the Asian scale. You know, we can do this. Billy could feel like she could get there She could be like she could slide into the Asian scale Yeah yeah yeah carpenter probably not You're not gonna get her I'm sorry brother

Yeah yeah yeah but I don't know I'm no interested in dating an actress Because I think it's a Because they're insane Yeah and also like what I gotta help people fucking self tapes and shit Actors are crazy you know It's the darkest world and ever Yeah yeah you gotta be really internal and then once you go acting Forget it you know

Yeah well you're an actress Yeah I am an actress That's what I say all the time. Someone's like, well, what do you do? I'm like, I'm a comic, I'm an actress and they're always like,

what, what? Yeah, yeah. They put someone in a tailspin. They're like, what do you mean? Acting is tough, dude. It's a nightmare. It's the worst thing in the world. I mean, I love it.

You know what I mean? Especially be a stand-up. Yeah. It's like, I can do this sprint that I'm very good at for an hour night and go party before an actor. But an actor,

16, 12, 16 hour days for like six months, forget about it. Yeah. What are we doing? What, do you never want to act again? I would, but it will be kind of my own terms on like, with people I like, fun stuff, and maybe something I write.

You and I should get in a movie together. You know what we should do? Let's do it. We did something together. Well. But that was very... Yeah. Yeah.

Barely. Yeah. Barely. Barely. But we did. But barely. That's fine. Yeah.

No, we should do something real for us. That would cool. You know what we should do is we should do, me, you and Bobby, our three adopted brothers. and it's an all-Asian household and somehow I'm the most Asian You guys are American kids We don't even speak No

You guys speak English I speak shanginese Yeah there you go There you go Yeah yeah I'm in Yeah I think we do need to return to the time Of like comics working together In film

Doing like a comedy buddy movie Because it hasn't happened in a long time And also comics doing what they do But it's like fun shit Yeah goofing around Yeah, man. Like Sandler, I think has the perfect career. The guy's the best, man. He figured out the science of like, hire my friends. Have fun. Then do like a couple of very good, serious, weighted movies and then go have more fun.

That's it. Yeah, what are we doing? How do we fucking that up? I think for a while, I was like, I can cry. You know, I can be dramatic. I want to prove myself and do that. And I did to some degree, but it becomes a very grueling exercise for me. Yeah. It's just not me. Can you cry? Yeah.

Can you do it now? Right now? Yeah, that's it. No, I want to do it right now. It's weird. Do it, do it. No, man. I'm not going to do it right now.

Do it! No. I'm going to start yelling at him until he starts crying. Crying on Q is a very odd thing when you think about it because it's a really, it's a psychological mind fuck. Yeah. You're forcing yourself. You're forcing. That's why acting is insane.

Like, why am I forcing? And also, I don't know how crying became like, I'm a good actor because I can cry. Now everybody's trying to cry on. and to show that you're a good actor but good actors try to not cry right if they really feel it right like me and you if we like want to cry right now I try to not cry

that's how you feel it but then every rookie actor thing like hey man if I can just fucking like some tears just come down my eyes man I'm a good actor man you're right though good actors try not to cry yeah Stella Adler yeah

Jimmy O Yang that's right Meisner Jimmy O. Yang. That's right. Did you take classes? Were you into that? You did.

Yeah, read books, took many classes. I was obsessed with it. What class? Who'd you go to? Who was your... Oh, many. Shout out to my acting coaches.

Karen West, what's my first one? Jimmy Schubert recommended me to her. She was very good. Jimmy Schubert. Yeah, and then I went to Marjorie Ballantine. She was like tough. Stella.

She learned from Stella Adler. And then I forgot. Maybe there's one more. I'm forgetting. I'm sorry. But it got to a point where I got on Silicon Valley. And then that became university for me.

Right. You know, to learn from the best improvisers to best writers, the best directors, especially in the comedy world. And I was on there for like six years where my role started really small so I can handle it. And then it got bigger and bigger.

So that was like my college. That's good. That was where you really learned. For sure. And it's Space Force. I was in a writer's room for Space Force during the pandemic. It was awesome.

It was five of us in a mini room. It was Greg Daniel, Steve Carell, Brent Forrester. Paul Lieberstein and me. I learned so much from those guys. That's nuts, man. And Silicon Valley, what a great show. I mean, the worst part was that you had a falling out with everyone.

You hated everybody on that show. I mean, notoriously. I'm really trying to fish some viral clips. No, man, I got along with everyone. Yeah, of course. I mean, everyone on that show kind of had their own leap out afterwards. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of cool.

Like everyone off that show did their own thing and continued instead of, you know, you see a lot of times shows they disband and then it's like they ghost. And also looking back, that just, that show might never happen in my career again. It's like so good and so fun to do. Yeah, you got lucky. You got lucky, not lucky, but you got blessed in the sense where right place, right time, good work ethic and you worked hard and you deserved it. So it's like it happened. Yeah, and it was a hit. Like I've worked on shows.

It was like maybe equally as fun, great cast. but it just didn't hit. Yeah. Yeah. I had a hit show and they killed it. We did Dave and it was phenomenal. Yeah. Even the good ones get shot out of the sky.

You just never know. Well, I mean, it's, you know, that was a million things at once happening. But those things were, you know, that is, when you said you went to school, that is kind of where you learn was when you go back to real work. That's like a real. Yeah. That's when you're like, oh, you figure out what you like and you don't like and what you're good at and when you're like, I'm not doing that. It was whatever they teach you in acting school, they give you an entire tool bag. You just got to figure out what works for you.

You know, like, you can't just be like, I'm going to do this, do that. Some of it doesn't work for everyone. Yeah, I mean, most of it doesn't work for anybody. Yeah, that's true. I mean, you see like that famous Jim Carrey speech, which, by the way, I don't know if you saw this, Jim Carrey, they're trying to say that he wasn't in France. That's insane. It's him with some Botox. Well, he had to come out and be like, that was me.

What the fuck? It's him with some fresh Botox. And then that guy took credit for him. There's a guy in there. brilliant marketing though. So smart. What's his name that guy? Alex Stone or something? He does this a lot, right? Like he actually, half the time he actually does play characters, but then he takes credit for these moments. Alexis Stone. Yeah. Alexis? Yeah. Yeah. Alexis Stone. I thought it was Alexi and he's European or something. That

sounds right. Look, you sound like my dad. Maybe he's like an Alexi European. You know these fucking weirdos in France. No, but took credit for it. I saw that. And Jim. And Jim, Jim had to like dismantle it. But also then the conspiracy theory kicks into my brain that's like Jim would also back this up if it was fake. I mean, yeah. And he would come on me. That was me? Maybe he's promoting a movie, you know, that he has these things, you know?

Like was it Kevin James in the Super Bowl? Like wasn't he doing some movie holding some flowers? Yeah, I think it was like for a, yeah, for like a romantic comedy or something like that. Yeah, no, but Jim would play along. He's smart like that. If it was fake? Yeah. It's like Andy Kaufman type shit.

100%. I mean, he was that. He lived that role. I mean, he did it so well. Awesome. But Jim had a great interview that they put viral again. The conspiracy there, the tinfoil hats put an old interview viral to give credit to what just happened. And he says in it, I've been playing a character my whole life.

I played a million characters. He's like, Jim Carrey was even a character. I played a guy that I thought would be affable and likable for people to want to like me so I could play other characters. Wow. So he's like, I was always playing a character. I've always been playing a character. So they utilize that as like logs on the. fire. He'd be like, see? Yeah. He's always fake his whole life. Nothing's real, you know?

But that's all of us. Yeah, well, yeah. All of us do that. You're playing a character of some time. Yeah, you go to work and you're nine to five. You're playing character. Yeah, you have to play nice with people. I mean, you're not even Chinese. That's the biggest secret of all. That's right. I'm actually Korean, guys. Rips off the mask. Bobby Lee. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, we are. You are playing like you, you do have, but the role of your life is you figure out how deep you get into character. Right. Like how much at this point in your age are you or are you still playing for other people? I feel like you grow up and you just go, I'm just going to be, I don't fucking care if they don't like it.

But which version of you is the real you, the one around your wife, the one around the comedy club, the around your parents? Those are also different versions. The real one is probably you. It's probably you if you were isolated. Like if you hiked by yourself. and you had a conversation with yourself, that's probably you. That's probably the most you ever

is when you're alone. Yeah, or when you're laying in bed about to go to sleep. When you're alone, though. I always go to bed alone, so. No, Jimmy. Is that? Please email once again

at I'll date Jimmy at gmail.com. Send in your Asian percentages. We're really trying to get this way into. No, I do think that when you're alone, you find out who you really are. That's true. It's very important being alone. Yeah.

That's why I love going. Like, when I'm on the road, I like traveling with someone to, like, open for me or feature. But a lot of times I like the alone time. Yeah, or driving in a car? That's huge. That's how you come up with the jokes. I take night drives a lot. Just where do you go?

I usually go out to Malibu. Literally, just a drive and then back. Yeah, I whip out to the beach. I got to do that. Not at the, I don't go to the beach. I'm looking at me. But at night, I'll drive way out to the canyons. I also like to drive fast and fun, and I'll whip through the canyons.

I'll go up the coast a little bit, and then I'll just go to a gas station, get, you know, get something to drink, fill up, and then come home. That's freedom, man. I know, it's great. That's nice. Kerouac talked about that, right? Isn't that fucking Jack Kerouac? Didn't he, the open road?

What was that book? I need to do that. Just get in the car and go sometime. I always think I need a destination. Fuck that. Why? I don't know. I'm like, everybody's doing something.

I got to go do some. I mean, how corny. It's the journey, not the destiny. But it's all about to doing the thing. Fuck going somewhere. I mean, going somewhere is a task. What is it? Yeah, on the road.

On the road with Carowac, yeah. Going somewhere is a task. Yeah. It's like a task, and you have to do it. I'm going to do some more nitrash. It's just nitrash. I love being in the car. Dude, yeah.

Do it. What's the name? There was an NBA player. You have to Google this. This will blow your mind. A retired NBA player went on daily long drives out of boredom. So he retired. And he got so fucking bored.

He didn't know what to do. Jason Williams. Jason Williams? The white one? No. The black one. No, actually? Yeah.

He got on the motorcycle accident. I almost killed himself. The black one? Yeah. Second overall pick, Jason Williams' point guard. Is that who went on those drives? That's what it says. He would like...

And he crashed this motorcycle. The motorcycle ended his career. Yeah, that... Well, yeah. We're talking about the same guy. I don't know if it was Jason Williams. Former and all this... What does it say?

It says former NBA, All-Star Jason Williams, engaged in intense in a tense, daily long, hour drive is part of his post-basket Is he a white guy? White chocolate? No, it's not white chocolate. No. No, this is black Jason.

Oh, okay. No, but he, but I just saw this, or I heard this interview where he spoke about, like, sheer boredom and fear of, like, what he would do all day. So he would, like, drive for hours and hours and hours, and then go to get lunch that would kill enough time to think about a longer drive to get maybe to dinner. You know, like, it was like, how do I kill enough time?

Because he was bored. He found some solace in it, but then it was also who am. Well, who am I? Yeah. You meet retired athletes, and a lot of times they retire at 35 years old, and they're like, what the fuck am I going to do? We just start our careers. Do you ever think about, like retiring?

Every day. No, I'm kidding. No, I'm kidding. No, I think about what my next chapter of my life will be. Right. Yeah, I mean, at some point, yeah, I mean, I don't know what it's going to look like. In my favorite version, I would own a, I would own a bar, just be able to hang out and to talk to people every day. that come in.

Yeah. I'd lose my ass on the bar. That's a soft retirement. Yeah. You're not there for money. No, it's a thing to do and to having to talk to people every day. I see it in my dad.

My dad's retired. He's here. My parents are in L.A. with me. My dad will talk to fucking anybody. I mean, the Uber driver that came to pick up my sister and her husband to go to the airport. And he goes outside.

And he starts yapping with the driver. All of a sudden, my dad comes back in. He's like, you know where this guy's from? He's got two kids. I'm like, dad, how do you fucking do you just? Talk to the Uber. Just yapping with the Uber guy. Yeah.

But I mean, I think you get bored when you get retired and you want to like have that connection with people, especially because of what we did. Yes. And my dad was in sales. Like he can't not. He wants to talk to people. I have this like quiet fantasy of when I'm like semi-retired. I don't think I'll ever be like fully retired.

I have something, right? I would just set the improv in the corner. People don't know who I am anymore, you know? And then and then I see this kid like go on stage and he's crushing it, the open mic. And then I call some agents. I'm like, hey man, watch this guy. And he doesn't know, but I helped him out in his career. And then the next thing you know, he's on, like, last comic standing or something.

He's huge, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's what I want to do. I don't want any money. I just want to be, like, the whisperer in the back. He wants to be like the guy in Back to the Future where he's like, you got to hear this new sound. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cousin Marvin Barry.

Yeah. And maybe years later when he makes it, I'm like, hey, man, you remember that night at the open mic? Yeah, I was there. And I made that call. And he'll go, yeah, right, bro. Yeah, fuck you. What do you want money? Bozo?

Yeah. This guy tried to tell me he fucking made my career Yeah, you'll never get credit for that Yeah But I don't know, it's such a fantasy of mine Like I love it That's your fantasy That's my fantasy

It's like helping without like people knowing You could do it now I think so I guess so Nobody listens to me I guess But uh you know I could Is there someone that you see now

That's good that's young That you want to plug it on the pot You know what that's what we should do Is plug them on the pod Yeah there you go On the pod Man I don't really hang out And watch too much

But See I try to the store a little bit for the younger... You got somebody applying? Well, no, I mean, Devontre Coleman, who I take out, who I think is brilliant. I think he's phenomenal. But I see, there's a couple of young people at the store that I do really have started to watch a little bit or I'll sneak in and try to see people, just so I can see who's

coming for our throats, you know? Yeah, exactly. I mean, they're taking, they'll take over the way that we took over for older guys, you know? Especially the Asians, I really watch them. Well, they're the most slick. I'm friendly with them, but I'm really good. Who are the agents that you're...

No, I'm kidding. I'm super proud of anyone that's... like coming up. Sure. You know, in the Asian community. Andrea Jin. She's a friend of our show.

Friend of, awesome. Big friend of, big friend of Tiger Valley and Bobby. Yeah. They promote, he's good about promoting people over there. Like I will say,

I give him credit for that. Yeah. You got Andrew Jin, you got Leslie Lau. Super funny. Lai Lowe, yeah, very funny. Vic Tran is very funny. Jason Cheney is very funny.

I just had Aaron Chen on this show. Do you know him? Yeah, he's great. Yeah, he's from Australia. Australia. Yeah, he's phenomenal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of people, man.

A lot of people coming up. Good Asians. Good Asians. That's the name of this episode. It's called Good Asians. 4060. 4060, good Asians. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, good Asians. No, I just like to see some of the young guys because I think it is nice. I try my best to help. I'll call and make calls and try to get people jobs and shit. For sure. And my favorite type of calls is somebody calls me and be like, hey, man, I'm meeting with these agencies. Do you know this guy?

Like, how is that? Like, you know, that advice. Like, I wish, I did have people like that also when I was coming up. But those are nice calls to get. Like, I can actually be helpful. Yeah, that's good. You know. Well, you got the power now.

I don't really have any power, but I can give some advice. No, you have more power than someone who's starting out. True. You have the ability to call. You were in a room with Greg Daniels and those guys. I mean, it's like, you have the ability to, like, make the stretch to try to go. You know who's really good? We'll be good for this thing.

For sure. And I think even just a few years ago, I'll be the one that's like, no, I want that job for myself. But now I'm like, nah, you know what? I'm actually happier if, like, I hook somebody else up with that job. or like something right you know yeah give it to somebody else you don't need it you're fine fuck it you know I'm gonna retire in two years this guy's gonna retire he's got a Scrooge McDuck pit of money at his house you should see swims in money he swims in money every day he's got a diving board but ad da da da da da da da and he swims around in money but it's in yen right

it's Chinese yen it's not in American dollars he has started a war with that yeah sorry brother my bad I take it back I take it back I take it back dude I take it all back you're right he says that and I really feel it the camera start flickering. Agents come in. We're like, no, no, no, we didn't. We didn't mean anything about that. We didn't, though.

No, we didn't. Jimmy, please. I never did. You didn't. Tell them I'm good. He's good. He's all right. Jesus Christ, Jamie.

You got out of your fucking mind? Trying to bury me? No, I think we should do our best to continue to help the next generation. I think it's important. Yeah, man. And you know what's more important? Everybody going to see your new special. March 20th.

It's out right now. Tonight, today. Only in theaters. It's about 100, 200, 200 theaters in America, Canada. Hong Kong. Yeah. How many here in LA? I don't know, but there's a good amount.

How many in Hong Kong? A lot? All the Emperor theaters, you can see it. All the Emperor theaters, you can go see it. So my huge Hong Kong audience, because I know I have a big Hong Kong audience. I know you do. Always have. Please go see it.

And support the boy as he continues his rise to the top. He's got to go finish editing. I appreciate you having you on the show. Dude, thanks for letting me come on, man. And this time, no one will call you an alcoholic, because you didn't even finish your drink. I'm drunk. after like three sips, honestly. Like this is, I usually don't drink hard alcohol,

like I was saying last time. I know, you like beer. Yeah. It's fine. You don't have to finish it. McCone will. Yeah. Yeah. Cheers, brother.

Cheers. Cheers. Do me one favor. Look at that camera. Say one word or one phrase to end the episode. A word or a phrase. Could be a phrase. Wow.

I'm Jimmy O-Yang. I'm not an alcoholic. In here, we pour whiskey, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk. Oh, that creep. The ginger in the ginger beard. Sturdy and ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Ginger's a fugitive.

You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Ginger's, oh hell no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger, I like gingers.