LASHING OUT Ft. Atsuko Okatsuka | Episode 175

The hilarious Atsuko Okatsuka is here this week!! Drew and Atsuko talk being a base on the cheer squad, doing standup during an earthquake, whether one hundred men could fight a gorilla, Craigslist comedy classes, Drew teaching hula lessons, a special performance of the Drop challenge, and so much more. Watch Atsuko’s standup comedy special Father, out now on Hulu! Atsuko IG: https://www.instagram.com/atsukocomedy/?hl=en Atsuko Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@atsukocomedy?lang=en Follow The Comment Section on IG! https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/?hl=en eBay is the place for pre-loved and vintage fashion. This episode is brought to you by Sol de Janeiro and the NEW Body Badalada Lotion. Visit soldejaneiro.com to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:32Speaker 01

  People started making memes of me doing stand-up at different natural disasters.

• 0:39Speaker 01

  Me on an erupting volcano. Me in a flood. Me in the middle of a tornado. It was like, oh, ha, ha, ha, ha. You should have been there. Where were you?

• 0:56Drew Afualo?

  Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Comment Section Show. Sorry, me, your fave, everybody knows me, cares about me. Onto the guest today, we have the iconic, the legendary, the unbelievably hilarious, Apko Okatsuka.

• 1:10Speaker 01

  Thank you so much. And hey, everyone, I'm here with New York Times bestseller. Is it my turn to... We introduce each other, right?

• 1:17Drew Afualo?

  You can jerk me off at the end.

• 1:18Speaker 01

  Huh?

• 1:19Drew Afualo?

  You can jerk me off at the end.

• 1:20Speaker 01

  At the end.

• 1:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. Happy ending.

• 1:21Speaker 01

  Okay, got it. I missed that part.

• 1:23Drew Afualo?

  This is my show.

• 1:25Speaker 01

  I was like, you know, it's very Simon Says.

• 1:28Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 1:28Speaker 01

  Oh, you said it. Okay.

• 1:29Drew Afualo?

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• 2:06Speaker 01

  Oh, I mean, you would be surprised how... Some people would actually mess that up.

• 2:11Drew Afualo?

  That's true.

• 2:12Speaker 01

  Knowing the world today, yeah.

• 2:15Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 2:15Speaker 01

  Some people would.

• 2:16Drew Afualo?

  They would.

• 2:17Speaker 01

  I did a lineup show recently. Where I was going up after Ali Wong.

• 2:22Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 2:22Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 2:23Drew Afualo?

  Love Ali Wong.

• 2:24Speaker 01

  Love her too. We know each other. And so after she was done, I was about to go up on stage.

• 2:28Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 2:28Speaker 01

  But then the producer stopped me and he was like, uh, actually, uh, no, uh, never mind, don't. And then he put up a Michael in between us.

• 2:39Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 2:39Speaker 01

  And I was like, oh, right. Because if we went back to back, the audience, the audience might.

• 2:47Drew Afualo?

  They'd be like, wait, hold on.

• 2:48Speaker 01

  Right? Like, what is this? A fundraiser?

• 2:53Drew Afualo?

  It's not AAPI month anymore.

• 2:56Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 2:56Drew Afualo?

  So you're done.

• 2:57Speaker 01

  Is that Lunar New Year? Am I at the Lunar New Year event? As if I didn't get this haircut so that maybe people can tell people apart. But you would be surprised.

• 3:09Drew Afualo?

  I'm really.

• 3:10Speaker 01

  I bet you somebody would be like, Drew had her cell phone.

• 3:14Drew Afualo?

  Drew got a new haircut.

• 3:15Speaker 01

  Yeah, Drew got a new haircut and, or Drew's sister got a bowl cut. You know what I mean? And it's like, ah.

• 3:22Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my God. I can't even imagine. But I, first off, I'm a huge fan. I think you're so fucking funny. Which I think, I mean, you don't need me to tell you that, but I just want to tell you that.

• 3:31Speaker 01

  Thank you.

• 3:31Drew Afualo?

  I think you're unbelievable. And you're a ledge in the comedy world.

• 3:34Speaker 01

  Feelings mutual. You're so fast. You're so witty and icon.

• 3:39Drew Afualo?

  Thank you. But I'd love to know, like, just so for those, maybe the two people that maybe don't know, what's your lore is how you got into stand up and how you got started in the first place?

• 3:49Speaker 01

  Oh, I got into stand up, um, like, maybe 16 years ago. And I found a class on Craigslist. Because I didn't know how else to start. Like, I knew you could go to open mics.

• 4:01Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 4:02Speaker 01

  But back in the day, oh, my gosh, 16 years ago.

• 4:05Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 4:05Speaker 01

  Going to open mics, they're always late. Like, it could go from like midnight to like 2 a.m. They're always in dark alleys. Those are the entrances. And it was mostly like men.

• 4:14Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 4:15Speaker 01

  Like, I was, oh, that's how you go missing.

• 4:18Drew Afualo?

  You're, that's something born to happen.

• 4:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 4:21Drew Afualo?

  I'm not feeding into it.

• 4:22Speaker 01

  Just trying out a couple of minutes of jokes and then going missing, that's not worth it.

• 4:27Speaker 01

  So I actually found an all female, uh, stand up class.

• 4:30Drew Afualo?

  Oh, cool.

• 4:31Speaker 01

  On Craigslist. And when I showed up, luckily, like, it was actually.

• 4:35Drew Afualo?

  For real?

• 4:36Speaker 01

  Yes, exactly. Right? It wasn't just a man with an axe. Yeah. I was very, I was more adventurous back then. So that, yeah, I found the class and then I started to take it. Yeah.

• 4:48Drew Afualo?

  I love that.

• 4:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, so there was like a, you know, supportive environment to start.

• 4:52Drew Afualo?

  I love, I think that's wonderful, especially doing it 15 years ago, finding women who are also trying to pursue the same kind of like inundated with straight white guys industry. I think that's really cool. How empowering.

• 5:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, just cutting out the BS, you know, you could concentrate on the craft without, without being like, is my skirt too short? Do you take a picture of me like?

• 5:14Drew Afualo?

  While I was walking up on stage?

• 5:15Speaker 01

  Something like that, you know?

• 5:16Drew Afualo?

  It's very real. And how was it when you were first going out on the scene? Like after you started kind of learning? And you started going, doing open mics and everything, or working up to like a full hour? How was that experience for you?

• 5:27Speaker 01

  Oh my gosh, it actually took like years because I wasn't sure, I didn't want to like take it too seriously. Because I didn't have the confidence. I was like, there's no way. They have enough stand-up comedians in the world.

• 5:40Drew Afualo?

  Really?

• 5:41Speaker 01

  You know, at the time, they really made you feel like there was only 20. 20 comedians and that's it.

• 5:47Drew Afualo?

  That's it.

• 5:48Speaker 01

  We have all of them, no more needed.

• 5:50Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like we hit our quota. We're done.

• 5:52Speaker 01

  I mean, that's for sure how it made it feel like because how many people, how many comedians can people really name back then?

• 5:59Drew Afualo?

  That's true, yeah.

• 6:00Speaker 01

  Let alone women. Also, they were doing the quota thing. We already have an Asian one. You know what I mean?

• 6:06Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 6:06Speaker 01

  That's why it was like Margaret Cho was the only Asian woman for a long time.

• 6:11Drew Afualo?

  Love her. Love Margaret Cho, yeah.

• 6:13Speaker 01

  And there's only so many TV slots. So, you know, I just was like, oh, it's maybe like a hobby. I was afraid to say it was like a dream. And, you know, a job of mine because I didn't want to, you know, not have it come true, you know? And so I, yeah, it took years for me to really, you know, take it more seriously.

• 6:32Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 6:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, I even went to like art school. I was like, maybe this is a backup plan.

• 6:35Drew Afualo?

  Oh, that's nice.

• 6:36Speaker 01

  You know?

• 6:36Drew Afualo?

  What's your sign?

• 6:38Speaker 01

  I'm a, I'm a, oh, do you have guesses?

• 6:40Drew Afualo?

  I don't, I don't know if I have a guess.

• 6:41Speaker 01

  I see your noggin going.

• 6:42Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, because you seem like a planner.

• 6:44Speaker 01

  Oh, really? Planner?

• 6:46Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I'm a planner, but I'm a Virgo, but I don't know if you're a Virgo.

• 6:49Speaker 01

  Planner makes sense, yeah. Well, so. Oh, uh, I thought you were gonna say, cuz you were like trying to keep up with me. I was like, I did this, I did this. I thought you were gonna say that I'm distracted easily.

• 6:58Drew Afualo?

  No.

• 6:58Speaker 01

  So it was opposite. I'm gonna take my jacket off too.

• 7:01Drew Afualo?

  Okay, please do.

• 7:01Speaker 01

  Cuz I'm warm.

• 7:02Drew Afualo?

  Okay, please do.

• 7:03Speaker 01

  I got warm.

• 7:04Drew Afualo?

  Do what you gotta do, let's go.

• 7:05Speaker 01

  I'm so hot. I can be me.

• 7:07Drew Afualo?

  It is warm in here.

• 7:08Speaker 01

  I can be me. I don't love showing my arms cuz I think I have a bug bite. Do you still think I'm organized?

• 7:14Drew Afualo?

  Sure.

• 7:15Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 7:15Drew Afualo?

  Well, you're letting your hair down by taking your jacket off, so there you go.

• 7:18Speaker 01

  Don't bring up the hair. I can't.

• 7:21Drew Afualo?

  I love your hair.

• 7:22Speaker 01

  I miss doing a ponytail.

• 7:23Drew Afualo?

  Do you really?

• 7:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 7:25Drew Afualo?

  I got so much hair on my head. I have a theory that if I shaved my head bald, I'd probably never sweat again. I'm unwilling to test the theory, but I have a strong feeling.

• 7:34Speaker 01

  That you would never sweat again. Oh, because it's the hair that's keeping you warm?

• 7:37Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I feel like that's where most of my heat, my body heat is, is in my head.

• 7:40Speaker 01

  Wow, yeah.

• 7:41Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's all in my follicles, yeah.

• 7:42Speaker 01

  She's her own person.

• 7:43Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 7:44Speaker 01

  Your hair.

• 7:45Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 7:45Speaker 01

  Right?

• 7:46Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like Medusa.

• 7:47Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 7:47Drew Afualo?

  So that's why when I look at men, they turn to stone.

• 7:49Speaker 01

  See, that's why I want it. Like big, like in waves, you could do ponytail, all kinds of style. But, uh, no, I'm a Gemini. Don't hurt me.

• 8:02Drew Afualo?

  Honestly, I think the haircut lends towards Gemini.

• 8:04Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 8:04Drew Afualo?

  I think so.

• 8:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 8:05Drew Afualo?

  Cuz one thing I love about Geminis is Geminis are so, first of all, always so fashionable, in my opinion. I have lots of Gemini friends.

• 8:12Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 8:12Drew Afualo?

  They have such a, they have such a distinct sense of style, but it's like too tailored to them specifically, and they're so confident in who they are. Now, I love Geminis. The people I always dog out are Capricorns. I'm always swinging on them.

• 8:24Speaker 01

  Okay, I know the least about them, actually. I know they're a land animal. Is that, wait, is that what it's called? It's, it's air sign, water sign, land animal, right?

• 8:34Drew Afualo?

  Land animal? I was like, are you thinking Capybara? It's different.

• 8:39Speaker 01

  Oh, those are so cute.

• 8:40Drew Afualo?

  I do love a Capybara.

• 8:41Speaker 01

  No, there's, okay, no, what is that? Earth sign?

• 8:43Drew Afualo?

  Earth sign.

• 8:43Speaker 01

  Thank you so much.

• 8:46Speaker 01

  Have I told you this isn't my first language? Earth sign.

• 8:50Drew Afualo?

  Your first language is actually Gemini, I would say.

• 8:53Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 8:53Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you're speaking Gemini to me.

• 8:55Speaker 01

  And you're fire, right?

• 8:56Drew Afualo?

  I'm actually earth.

• 8:58Speaker 01

  Oh, you're earth.

• 8:58Drew Afualo?

  I'm land animal.

• 8:59Speaker 01

  You're an animal.

• 9:01Drew Afualo?

  What's your favorite animal?

• 9:03Speaker 01

  Um, Virgos.

• 9:07Drew Afualo?

  Period. Love that. Are you afraid of any animals?

• 9:10Speaker 01

  Oh, gosh, um, I don't think so, no. You know, I'll, I'll be careful around a snake.

• 9:16Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 9:17Speaker 01

  Because I can't tell the difference of what, they're like, oh, this one's poisonous, this one's not. I'm so sorry. You think I have time?

• 9:25Drew Afualo?

  They're all snakes.

• 9:25Speaker 01

  You think I have time to take out my almanac?

• 9:29Drew Afualo?

  Like, let me look up if this one's venomous.

• 9:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, cuz you know how it's always like with spiders too, it's like, if the butt is red. I'm so sorry, if I can see the butt, I'm too close, okay? It is biting.

• 9:40Drew Afualo?

  It probably killed me at that point.

• 9:41Speaker 01

  Oh, it has bitten me multiple times, and my grandma too. She is an elderly, I take care of her, and I cannot have that. So, yeah, snake and a, if a, and a spider, if people consider them an animal.

• 9:54Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I, I would say, I'm afraid of a lot of animals. I would say, I have a healthy dose of fear of animals.

• 9:58Speaker 01

  What kind, like, people, animals that people would usually think is cute?

• 10:02Drew Afualo?

  Yes, and I just like, I don't like any sea creatures, really, like, they all kinda scare me. Hate birds, they scare me.

• 10:09Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 10:10Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, birds are, like, have you ever seen that thing about how they say crows remember faces? Like, crows have like facial recognition. Could that be the government? Who knows?

• 10:18Speaker 01

  That's true.

• 10:19Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 10:19Speaker 01

  They're the first drones?

• 10:21Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, yeah, just like pigeons.

• 10:23Speaker 01

  And I've seen, and what's sad about pigeons is they were first like grown to be eaten.

• 10:28Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 10:28Speaker 01

  And then they got out of control, right? We were like, oh, shoot, when you like breed, uh, food that flies.

• 10:35Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 10:36Speaker 01

  It's hard to catch them, right, and control them, they didn't think about that.

• 10:39Drew Afualo?

  Even though they didn't.

• 10:40Speaker 01

  They were like, oh, shoot, so then they were like, let's try to make them send mail. Right? That's the second part. I know way too much about pigeons. By the way, I didn't really have human friends until maybe like ten, so pigeons, I've hung out with a lot of them.

• 10:54Drew Afualo?

  You and pigeons are real close.

• 10:55Speaker 01

  So I'm trying not to act offended that you're, you're like afraid of.

• 11:00Speaker 01

  Afraid of my family, actually.

• 11:03Drew Afualo?

  That's your family, that's your kin, my bad.

• 11:05Speaker 01

  That was my first chosen family. But whatever. Crows, though, crows do, because I've seen crows follow people.

• 11:13Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 11:13Speaker 01

  And peck at them.

• 11:14Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and they remember if you're like mean to them. If you harm like a crow, like they memorize your face. So they'll come and look for you later on.

• 11:21Speaker 01

  And that, you know what, like, you shouldn't be harming a crow, though.

• 11:24Drew Afualo?

  I know, I mean, that's what they get, that's karma, I'm just saying, that's kind of shocking.

• 11:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:29Drew Afualo?

  To find out birds can do that.

• 11:30Speaker 01

  A person should be taken down if they have enough strength and like height to hurt a crow, because crows fly, right? That is a person dangerous to humans, too. Take them down, take them down.

• 11:43Drew Afualo?

  I agree, that's actually such a good point. You know, I take back what I said about your chosen family, I'm sorry about that.

• 11:47Speaker 01

  No, no, no, but birds and then sea creatures, is it because like, you know, I don't know, they're more myster- we know less about sea creatures?

• 11:54Drew Afualo?

  Probably. I, I, and I would say too, a lot of my fear is based in honesty, respect, because I'm just like, I don't want to bother you. I don't want to hurt, I don't want to like encroach on any territory, I don't want any problems. Like, my theory is like, if Planet of the Apes ever happens, I'm just giving myself over willingly, I'll ask them if they need a translator, I'll do something like that.

• 12:14Speaker 01

  You ask the birds, or, I mean, the, the animals?

• 12:17Drew Afualo?

  The monkeys, yeah.

• 12:17Speaker 01

  Or the monkeys?

• 12:18Drew Afualo?

  They'll let them take over, if Planet of the Apes does happen.

• 12:21Speaker 01

  And how would you go up to them to ask them this? You, you speak?

• 12:25Drew Afualo?

  Like champ?

• 12:26Speaker 01

  Yes. I was trying, I was like, what's the language?

• 12:30Drew Afualo?

  Well, in the movies, they adapt and learn English. So I'm just, because I'm a lazy bumfuck American, I'm just kind of banking on them knowing English, I'm like, well,

• 12:40Speaker 01

  Right.

• 12:40Drew Afualo?

  You live here, so you should know English.

• 12:42Speaker 01

  You'd be more of a peacekeeper, right? Because they'll be like, we don't need a translator. We speak you.

• 12:48Drew Afualo?

  Right, and then when they say that to me, I go, okay, what about a clown? Do you guys need entertainment? Like a jester?

• 12:54Speaker 01

  Right, right, right.

• 12:55Drew Afualo?

  I'm just kind of giving in.

• 12:56Speaker 01

  I'll be there, I'll be.

• 12:59Drew Afualo?

  And they'll call us the twins.

• 13:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yes. Yeah, and they're racist, too.

• 13:05Drew Afualo?

  The monkeys have adapted racism into their ether.

• 13:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, these Samoan bitches. These Samoan sisters, they're twins, I think.

• 13:14Drew Afualo?

  They're all the same, it's fine. It's us and Ali Wong.

• 13:17Speaker 01

  I keep cutting my hair shorter and shorter to try to look different. They still can't tell. You know, you know, it'd be the world. To be honest, though, I can't tell a lot of animals apart.

• 13:29Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 13:30Speaker 01

  Some people have been like, "Otsko, you can't say..." I'm like, "I'm sorry, you can't tell me every golden retriever looks different."

• 13:39Drew Afualo?

  That's true.

• 13:39Speaker 01

  Right? Am I lying?

• 13:40Drew Afualo?

  No, not at all.

• 13:41Speaker 01

  Would you be able to tell? Like, it's the same kind of monkey, okay?

• 13:44Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 13:45Speaker 01

  There's ten of them. You know which one's Bob, which one's Mary? I don't.

• 13:50Drew Afualo?

  I don't. That's where prejudice is okay, when they're animals.

• 13:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, and they keep to themselves. They're like...

• 13:57Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, they're not bothering anyone.

• 13:58Speaker 01

  They're not about interspecies.

• 13:59Drew Afualo?

  Right, exactly. You're right. So, I'm like us. Bummer.

• 14:03Speaker 01

  I think it's okay, right? And it's good for people to mix.

• 14:09Drew Afualo?

  I agree.

• 14:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:10Drew Afualo?

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• 14:54Drew Afualo?

  Have you seen that argument online where, like, a bunch of men were saying, "If a hundred men could take on one gorilla," have you seen that argument online?

• 15:02Speaker 01

  I think I have heard of it, yes. Yes, it's more recent, right?

• 15:05Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, so like, recently, within the last, like, month or two.

• 15:07Speaker 01

  So what was the point again? No, what were they trying to show off? They said...

• 15:13Drew Afualo?

  I'm assuming just general physical prowess over a gorilla, over a singular gorilla. I'm assuming that's what it is, but like, I have a job, so I'm not too certain of why. You know what I mean? Why they would spend so much time on it, but I think it was just men trying to assert physical dominance in a fantasy scenario, which I think gets them off, if I had to guess.

• 15:32Speaker 01

  And then they were like, "It's gonna take a hundred of us." Is that what happened?

• 15:36Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, they were just like, "I think a hundred could take on one gorilla," and it kind of just spiraled from there, I think.

• 15:41Speaker 01

  That's also like, nothing to show off on. That's like, a lot of you.

• 15:45Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that's a ton of you.

• 15:47Speaker 01

  That's a hundred losers. That's not good.

• 15:50Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 15:51Speaker 01

  You shouldn't say that out loud.

• 15:52Drew Afualo?

  Right. And I even, I, I even asked, cause my fiancee knows a lot about animals, cause he wanted to be like a zoologist when he was a kid.

• 16:00Speaker 01

  Ooh, I love that.

• 16:00Drew Afualo?

  So he knows so much about animals. He loves animals. So I ask him about animals pretty frequently and I was like, do you really think a hundred people could take on a gorilla? Cause I, I know gorilla has unbelievable strength. So I was like, do you think a hundred men could take on a gorilla? He was like, I mean, I think so, but that would just be like wearing the gorilla out. It's not like whether or not one man could defeat him. It would just be, he would get overwhelmed by numbers eventually.

• 16:23Speaker 01

  Dang.

• 16:23Drew Afualo?

  And he was like, but that's still not a win. Like, it's not like you're physically dominating him. He just gets tired and then gives up eventually.

• 16:29Speaker 01

  That's wild.

• 16:30Drew Afualo?

  And it was funny, cause my fiancee and I were talking about it where we were almost like, I was like, okay, well, let's say they're in the jungle. Like, I was just presenting all these options, cause I just don't want men to win. So I was like, well, let's say it's nighttime and it's raining. Do you think the gorilla would win then?

• 16:44Speaker 01

  Right, right, right.

• 16:45Drew Afualo?

  If he picked him off one by one like the predator, do you think the gorilla would win?

• 16:48Speaker 01

  I mean, pretty much he kept saying, yeah.

• 16:50Drew Afualo?

  Yeah. And then he was agreeing with me and I said, perfect. I knew it. Perfect.

• 16:54Speaker 01

  Right?

• 16:54Drew Afualo?

  I got the answer I wanted. I knew it.

• 16:55Speaker 01

  It sounds like gorilla wins and is alive either way. We love, we love you gorilla.

• 17:01Drew Afualo?

  Gorilla.

• 17:02Speaker 01

  We love you.

• 17:05Drew Afualo?

  Okay. Well, uh, perfect. I was like, let's pivot back to your comedy career.

• 17:09Speaker 01

  Now I'm cold.

• 17:11Drew Afualo?

  Oh, you're good. It's so hot and cold in here.

• 17:13Speaker 01

  Still giving Virgo?

• 17:14Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, of course. When you put it back on, you're giving Virgo. When you take it off, you're giving Gemini.

• 17:17Speaker 01

  I've had to give more Virgo as I aged, actually. It's something I had to learn because, because I was so unorganized. And then so I had to think more ahead, plan for future me, you know, so.

• 17:29Drew Afualo?

  That's what I'm doing all the time.

• 17:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 17:31Drew Afualo?

  It's a prison, honestly. I'll be honest with you.

• 17:33Speaker 01

  Really?

• 17:33Drew Afualo?

  Thinking that far ahead all the time, yeah, that's a little daunting.

• 17:36Speaker 01

  Virgos thrive because of that, though.

• 17:39Drew Afualo?

  That is true. That is why we were successful, but mentally ill.

• 17:44Speaker 01

  Hey.

• 17:44Drew Afualo?

  Love that.

• 17:46Speaker 01

  I'm not.

• 17:49Drew Afualo?

  My nose is bleeding.

• 17:52Speaker 01

  There's something in that nose though.

• 17:54Drew Afualo?

  Back to your comedy career, when did you feel like it was actually, because I know you were saying that you were a little worried to call it like your your dream or your career in the beginning, but when did you feel like you kind of turned a corner and you were like, oh my god, I think this is actually something that's turning into a real thing?

• 18:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, for me, I have to like do what I don't like to do first and be like, oh, that's not me. I always say like the key to life is knowing who you're not.

• 18:19Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, oh, that's true. Yeah, I love that. That's a great way of looking at it.

• 18:22Speaker 01

  It's easy to be like, you know, okay, just find out what you like. And it's like, oh, that could take years. But I know immediately when I feel, oh, I don't like this thing that I'm doing right now.

• 18:34Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that's so true, yeah.

• 18:35Speaker 01

  And in art school, I was like, oh, I had spent three years, you know, on two majors. Like one was creative writing and another was filmmaking.

• 18:44Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 18:44Speaker 01

  And, you know, it wasn't bad. I was like, but god, I really miss doing stand up, you know? And I I knew that it didn't feel, I I if I thought about doing, you know, like filmmaking forever, it it made me feel not good.

• 18:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 19:00Speaker 01

  I was like, oh, I don't think that's my true passion.

• 19:02Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 19:02Speaker 01

  And then so after art school, I was like, I wanna just try it, give stand up more of an actual chance.

• 19:08Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 19:09Speaker 01

  And my husband at the time, who was, you know, we were just dating, he was like, you know, yeah, I'll support you in it. You know, like I'll I'll work extra shifts and you just go and, you know, do more more shows.

• 19:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 19:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 19:21Drew Afualo?

  That's so sweet. I love that.

• 19:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 19:23Drew Afualo?

  And I love a man who's married to a funny ass bitch. I love that.

• 19:26Speaker 01

  Oh, my god.

• 19:27Drew Afualo?

  Would you say you're funnier than your husband? It's okay, you can say it. He's not here.

• 19:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, you know, but he's he's very witty. He tours with me and so he'll, I'll try my jokes on him.

• 19:36Drew Afualo?

  Too, it's similar.

• 19:37Speaker 01

  They have to be funny too.

• 19:38Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, absolutely, because we could never be with someone who's not funny.

• 19:41Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 19:42Drew Afualo?

  Oh, never in a million years.

• 19:43Speaker 01

  Well, because then what? You're talking to a wall. That's, I don't need a man.

• 19:47Drew Afualo?

  Oh no, performing at home too.

• 19:49Speaker 01

  I don't need a man. I have four walls around me at most times, all day. If I just want that. You know what I mean? I'm already with, along with my thoughts most of the time. So no, um, yes, someone who can laugh with me, right?

• 20:03Drew Afualo?

  And gets your humor. But what I love about that is you're with someone, like you are a very successful, amazing stand-up comedian. And I think that's, I think it's so fucking awesome when funny, successful women are, are with men who are like, "Yeah, my wife is so funny."

• 20:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:17Drew Afualo?

  I love that. I think that's so great. A lot of men can't handle that.

• 20:20Speaker 01

  I know, I know.

• 20:21Drew Afualo?

  Which is embarrassing for them.

• 20:22Speaker 01

  I'm trying to imagine them right now and I just see them, I can't imagine them, because they're like...

• 21:04Speaker 01

  Where, where are they? I don't know these people. Do you know, have you met these people physically in person?

• 21:08Drew Afualo?

  Not, oh, yeah, I've met a couple of men in person who I could tell really don't like when women are funnier than them.

• 21:14Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 21:14Drew Afualo?

  I'm sure you're a funny-ass woman, so I'm sure you've been in circles where some men, they kind of start showing a little bit of, like, show some flickers of like irritation when you're running the room. Like, you're kind of like, alright, someone's jealous.

• 21:26Speaker 01

  That's very true. I had just probably blacked out their face, but now they're coming back. Like, at a show or something.

• 21:33Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, exactly. Or even in like, uh, if you're in like mixed company, like you're with people and you met new people, and then you can tell there's a dude that really doesn't like when women are killing it. Telling jokes, just generally, like entertaining. So I've met, I've met quite a few men like that.

• 21:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's true, yeah. And then most, and then the rest of them kind of live online. So I don't really know what they look like.

• 21:54Drew Afualo?

  Exactly. Not good, I can tell you that.

• 21:56Speaker 01

  Because their picture is like a rabbit or something, right?

• 22:00Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's like a smiley face. But if I do find what they look like, they're always ugly. It's okay.

• 22:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:05Drew Afualo?

  They're always really unfortunate looking. And I said, yeah, you know what? I'd be mad too. Because if I saw me being hilarious and I looked like you and I was an asshole, that would suck. I would hate me too.

• 22:15Speaker 01

  And it doesn't even have to be that way. Go get some sun, sweetie.

• 22:18Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 22:18Speaker 01

  Okay, go get some. It's not too late. Plus, they're actually fans because they be watching.

• 22:22Drew Afualo?

  Right, exactly. I'm sure. Speaking of, like, have you ever, this is one of my favorite questions to ask, uh, female stand-up comedians, but like, have you ever gotten unsolicited advice? Any memorable, like, unsolicited advice on your, on your jokes, on your tags, or anything like that from men?

• 22:37Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. I, I think I have.

• 22:42Speaker 01

  I will say, in the past, when I have, like, done, uh, gone on tour and my husband comes with me. So when I was like, more start, like, earlier on in my touring, which was not too long ago, just like three years ago.

• 22:55Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 22:56Speaker 01

  Starting in clubs, a lot of times, the husband of the wife, who's the fan of mine, will go up to Ryan, my husband, after the show.

• 23:03Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 23:04Speaker 01

  He won't talk to me, but he goes to my husband.

• 23:06Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 23:07Speaker 01

  And will say, you know, like-

• 23:08Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you're so funny.

• 23:09Speaker 01

  Right. I didn't think she would be, or like, you know, I didn't know because my wife's the one that dragged me here, like that.

• 23:15Drew Afualo?

  Oh, they talk about you?

• 23:17Speaker 01

  Right, to my husband, to my husband. But man, she really surprised me. And my husband would be like, you should listen to your wife more.

• 23:26Drew Afualo?

  Exactly.

• 23:27Speaker 01

  And, uh, you should tell Otsko that she's funny, not me.

• 23:30Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, why are you involving me in the conversation?

• 23:32Speaker 01

  They still won't talk to me. They'll still talk to man to man, you know?

• 23:36Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 23:37Speaker 01

  So it's a little different than what you had asked, but that's what I could remember.

• 23:40Drew Afualo?

  That's so real. It's the same thing. It's like, it's very like, their pride's a little too big to tell you to your face.

• 23:46Speaker 01

  Right.

• 23:47Drew Afualo?

  You're so funny.

• 23:48Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 23:48Drew Afualo?

  You're so, they, they have to tell you to, like, two steps left of center. They're like, you should tell her she's really funny.

• 23:54Speaker 01

  No, I know. And, and that they didn't think I would be.

• 23:57Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that's, yeah, exactly. I was gonna say, it's, it's such a backhanded compliment. So it's like, you know, I had my doubts. I wasn't sure.

• 24:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 24:05Drew Afualo?

  And then again, you got a couple chuckles out of me. Gee, thanks.

• 24:09Speaker 01

  I wonder if that's why I keep my hair, because it's kind of like a deterrent? Like, you know what I'm- I mean, it's like you're in or you're out very quickly, very quickly.

• 24:19Drew Afualo?

  Confront it immediately in front of me. Yeah.

• 24:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 24:22Drew Afualo?

  I love that.

• 24:22Speaker 01

  People will be like, oh, never mind. This, no, no. And it's like, yeah, go away. You're, you're gonna be that person that

• 24:29Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 24:29Speaker 01

  Didn't think I was gonna be funny anyway, because

• 24:32Drew Afualo?

  You're so real for that. You're weeding them out fast. I love that. That's awesome.

• 24:36Speaker 01

  Well, I still get comments online sometimes from these guys, you know, it's always about my hair.

• 24:40Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 24:41Speaker 01

  But it's always like, is it a boy or girl? Same comment. Is it a boy or girl? Cause girl, long hair, boy, short hair. And don't you get near my butt. No, I know.

• 24:52Drew Afualo?

  This is somewhere in the middle and I'm confused.

• 24:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, they're confused. They're like, why am I so attracted to it? You're, ah, you know, ah, they're just mad.

• 25:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, they're so upset.

• 25:05Speaker 01

  They're like, I wish I had a gorilla to fight.

• 25:10Speaker 01

  You know what I mean?

• 25:11Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 25:12Speaker 01

  Am I gay? She has short hair. It's crazy. It's insane.

• 25:19Drew Afualo?

  And they're like, uh, short circuiting.

• 25:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, so it's like, well, they're, I can't, they're never gonna listen to the words out of my mouth, so don't even come to my comedy show. If you can't even get over this.

• 25:29Drew Afualo?

  Hey, eat it immediately.

• 25:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:31Drew Afualo?

  I got other things I'm gonna say.

• 25:32Speaker 01

  Right, yeah, yeah.

• 25:34Drew Afualo?

  I love that. If that is the real reason, like, if you find out one day, deep down, that was part of the reason that you really like, love your hair like that, I think that's fucking awesome. It's just like upsetting them. Like, it's, and it's in a way that's like, that's what I, I think is, uh, tributes to like, removing yourself from the male gaze. It's like, you do what you like, because that makes you feel confident, that makes you feel good. And when men don't, don't find it attractive, they like, get upset at you. Like, they get pissed off. Like, they're like, everything you do is supposed to make me wanna fuck you. And this is getting in the way of that. So, like, they get, they take that shit so personal.

• 26:12Speaker 01

  Right.

• 26:12Drew Afualo?

  And I find it, it's so embarrassing. I'm like, don't you wanna hear jokes? Who cares?

• 26:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, I know. I know. It's why, like, yeah, it, you know, I wonder if some female comedians have ever wanted to To just be like an avatar and do stand up that way.

• 26:27Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 26:28Speaker 01

  You know what I mean? It comes so much with your physical appearance.

• 26:31Drew Afualo?

  Absolutely. And it's funny too, cause uh even female stand ups, I talked to my friends in comedy about this a lot, like there are some things they can't even joke about that men can joke about, like it, they could say the exact same joke. And it will, it will obviously be received differently when it comes from men, especially if they're white men. And I was like, I, I was joking around with my friends the other day and I was like, oh man, if I gave that joke to a, a white straight guy pursuing comedy, he'd sell out Madison Square Garden. If I gave that to him, if I said it, they'd be like, um, I think that's kind of fucked up, cause oh, you know, all of a sudden there's logic being applied to comedy. I'm like, for sure.

• 27:06Speaker 01

  Right, no, they would run, they would run with it, they'll never see you again with the same joke, yeah.

• 27:13Drew Afualo?

  What, what would you say has been your uh most memorable milestone in your career so far doing stand up?

• 27:19Speaker 01

  Oh my gosh, um, it's hard because you know, you always think, oh, this is it. Cause I wish it was like a marathon where you knew, like now I'm at, at mile five, mile seven or whatever. Right? And then the finish line is literally physically tangibly there. Yeah, with comedy, it's like, oh, it's, oh, me, you know, opening for Margaret Cho. Oh wait, but now we're friends, you know, oh, it's me doing, you know, having an HBO stand up special. Being the second Asian woman to ever have one, the first ever one being Margaret. Twenty seven years later, but then you go, wait, is that a good thing? Why did it take so long? So it's up and down, you know what I mean? You know, and that was just two years ago that I had my HBO stand up special.

• 28:04Speaker 01

  And then, you know, so there hasn't been a third uh yet, you know, and so, you know, and then sometimes you think, oh, I did a stand up set during an earthquake and no one died and I, I, you know, that's also a win. I did that too.

• 28:17Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's funny, cause that's on your fun facts with me on here. Fun fact is that she once got hit with an earthquake in the middle of a live stand up set.

• 28:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, seven point one magnitude.

• 28:29Drew Afualo?

  That's crazy.

• 28:30Speaker 01

  And you know what's tragic? Like, so the video went viral, ah, ha, ha, ha, you know, it's like, bitch, it was scary. Oh man, ha, so good.

• 28:39Drew Afualo?

  Ha, ha, everyone's laughing.

• 28:41Speaker 01

  People started making memes of me on uh me doing stand up at different natural disasters.

• 28:48Speaker 01

  Me on an erupting volcano. Me in a flood. Me in the middle of a tornado. It was like, ah, ha, ha, ha, ha. You should have been there. Where were you? You left now.

• 29:01Drew Afualo?

  You were on the front lines.

• 29:03Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 29:03Drew Afualo?

  You were there.

• 29:03Speaker 01

  In the video, you could see that the room is shaking like that. You think I'm dancing. And that's why everyone's screaming, but no, it screams of terror.

• 29:14Speaker 01

  And so, yeah, so.

• 29:15Drew Afualo?

  Did that kind of make sense for you where you're like, that would happen to me?

• 29:19Speaker 01

  Oh, 100%. Yes. Yes, I'm not the kind of person that's like, oh, I'm just so, I was born so hot and everything, oh, so much money. Oh, I'm just so pretty. I'm just, oh, I can eat anything I want and everyone, I'm not like that. And that's, and props to girls like that, too. I will, I want that for you. I want that for you. But for me, yeah, it's always like, of course I have a mom with schizophrenia. And of course, oh, of course, we're, you know, moving to America. Like, you know, I thought it was a vacation at first and then they were like, you're gonna stay here. And of course, we're living in a garage. Of course, that's my love.

• 30:00Speaker 01

  It's, you know?

• 30:01Drew Afualo?

  Do you look at it and you're like, well, no wonder I turned out funny?

• 30:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, I told my.

• 30:04Drew Afualo?

  There's no other way. Either that or I'm killing everybody.

• 30:07Speaker 01

  No, I know, right?

• 30:08Drew Afualo?

  Either that or I'm a serial killer.

• 30:11Speaker 01

  Exactly, or I'm gonna retire as a crow. Okay? I will fucking, yeah. I will troll, troll every person as a crow for the rest of my life. Yes. Because, yeah, I mean, I told my grandma, I said, by the time, it's like, okay, so you kidnapped me from my dad in Japan. Uh, you told me this was a two-month vacation. Now I'm, we're undocumented in America, living in a garage. I said, Grandma, if you wanted me to become a comedian, you should have just told me. You could have just told me.

• 30:44Drew Afualo?

  We could have cut all of this middle stuff out.

• 30:45Speaker 01

  What else did you think I was gonna do? Be a doctor?

• 30:49Drew Afualo?

  Who was I supposed to go after that?

• 30:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, be a doctor. With what money? What? I didn't even have big dreams. This is was, you know, it wasn't supposed to happen.

• 30:59Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 30:59Speaker 01

  My biggest dream, because I was afraid to dream big, was to work at an ice cream parlor. As a kid, I wanted to work at an ice cream parlor.

• 31:06Drew Afualo?

  Oh, wow. Anyone in particular? Like, was there a favorite one you had?

• 31:10Speaker 01

  No, just truly anyone. So, very, very attainable. Very attainable.

• 31:15Drew Afualo?

  Pretty open, yeah.

• 31:17Speaker 01

  And at seventeen, I did.

• 31:19Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 31:20Speaker 01

  And I said, fuck. Well, I already reached my dreams.

• 31:24Drew Afualo?

  You said, damn, I climbed this mountain top. I don't like the view.

• 31:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, I said.

• 31:30Speaker 01

  Does everyone reach their dream this quick? Because I said, well, now, now what? I have to dream more? That's scary.

• 31:37Drew Afualo?

  I don't want to.

• 31:38Speaker 01

  When anything is possible, I've never, I need limitations.

• 31:42Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 31:43Speaker 01

  If you give me two dollars, I know what to do with it.

• 31:46Drew Afualo?

  Got you, okay.

• 31:47Speaker 01

  Right?

• 31:47Drew Afualo?

  You need parameters.

• 31:48Speaker 01

  You give, you say, you, here's a million dollars. I'm like, I don't, and more. Oh, my God. I, I would like, I don't know what to, that's too much power.

• 31:56Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 31:56Speaker 01

  I would like start a war or something.

• 31:58Drew Afualo?

  I was gonna say, are you afraid of the power? You'll, you'll be like, huh, huh, turn into a supervillain.

• 32:03Speaker 01

  You just don't know it's so overwhelming. I can help, you know, uh, stop world hunger. I could, you know, get someone to help bathe my grandma, someone to take care of your grandpa.

• 32:12Drew Afualo?

  Right, there we go.

• 32:13Speaker 01

  So that your family could take.

• 32:14Drew Afualo?

  Thank you, I'm glad you included me.

• 32:15Speaker 01

  So that your parents could take a break.

• 32:17Drew Afualo?

  Yes, of course.

• 32:18Speaker 01

  You know, buy another house next to your grandpa's.

• 32:22Drew Afualo?

  We just keep buying them, one at a time.

• 32:23Speaker 01

  I'll move in.

• 32:24Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you'll move in, then your grandma moves in on the one next door.

• 32:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, so we're just one big, and then they'll really think we're related.

• 32:31Drew Afualo?

  Yes, and then we'll gentrify.

• 32:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 32:33Drew Afualo?

  Then we start redlining differently.

• 32:34Speaker 01

  A hundred percent. Okay, so I do have some plans.

• 32:39Drew Afualo?

  That being said, I have a plan.

• 32:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, but this is just a living situation. I don't know, you, yes, oh.

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• 33:21Speaker 01

  What? We've been talking five minutes. It's only been five minutes. I haven't even asked, I haven't even asked her her goals and dreams.

• 33:31Drew Afualo?

  I can wrap it. I can keep going and wrap it.

• 33:33Speaker 01

  Oh, right, right, yeah.

• 33:36Speaker 01

  She's like, bitch, I went through one question.

• 33:38Drew Afualo?

  Okay, Ofsco has to go, team. Ofsco has to go. So we're gonna rapid fire some fun facts. I'm gonna rapid fire some fun facts about you.

• 33:45Speaker 01

  Oh, good. I'm historically really good at talking fast.

• 33:47Drew Afualo?

  We were, and we were talking about apes for too long. I'm sorry about that.

• 33:51Speaker 01

  I'm sorry this bitch is so fun that we ran out of time. I'm sorry we're so fun.

• 33:56Drew Afualo?

  Sorry, we're, we're literally Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap. We got separated at birth by our mom and dad.

• 34:02Speaker 01

  My long-lost sister. I'm sorry that time flies when you're having a good time. Rapid fire.

• 34:08Drew Afualo?

  Rapid, I'll just, I'll just.

• 34:09Speaker 01

  So like, what, one-word answers?

• 34:10Drew Afualo?

  I'm just gonna spit them at you and then you give me whatever reaction you would like.

• 34:14Speaker 01

  But fast?

• 34:15Drew Afualo?

  I won't go too fast.

• 34:16Speaker 01

  Good, cuz I.

• 34:17Drew Afualo?

  I'll talk you through it.

• 34:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, cuz I, you know, the, um, the cans that you kind of huff?

• 34:23Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 34:24Speaker 01

  I did that when I was 19, probably too much.

• 34:26Drew Afualo?

  Oh, right.

• 34:27Speaker 01

  So like.

• 34:28Drew Afualo?

  Sure, that's why you're delayed.

• 34:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:31Drew Afualo?

  I'm sure it's not the hair, I'm sure it's the huffing.

• 34:34Speaker 01

  This bitch has been in my comments, now trying to, now she's mad because she's gonna miss me because I'm leaving.

• 34:40Drew Afualo?

  That's true. I mean, I'm lashing out, I'm pissed off, I'm lashing out.

• 34:43Speaker 01

  She has to do another episode after this, but it's not gonna be as fun.

• 34:46Drew Afualo?

  Exactly.

• 34:46Speaker 01

  She's lashing out on me, now trolling.

• 34:50Drew Afualo?

  You're right. You got me, sorry.

• 34:52Speaker 01

  Sometimes the people you get along with the most are your first bullies. Go ahead. What? Give me the rapid fire. Go ahead, Drew. Hit me.

• 35:04Drew Afualo?

  That's what says you were a cheerleader in high school.

• 35:06Speaker 01

  Yes, I was.

• 35:07Drew Afualo?

  Were you, uh, what were you? Do you remember what position or whatever? Were you a flyer? Were you a tumbler?

• 35:12Speaker 01

  I was base. I was the one. I was the one throwing bitches in the air, catching them.

• 35:19Drew Afualo?

  I quit cheerleading because I got too big to be a flyer and they wanted to make me a base. And I said, that's not true to my spirit. I can't be doing that.

• 35:26Speaker 01

  That is, yes. We love a girl that knows her boundaries. I did not, I never was a flyer. I started at base, so I said, I can only go up from here.

• 35:37Speaker 01

  This is sweetie, no. Sweetie, no, actually, that's not how it works. You are staying, you are staying on down. You started down, you stay down.

• 35:45Drew Afualo?

  They're like, no, you're grounded forever.

• 35:47Speaker 01

  Cause they kept casting girls lighter and lighter. I was like, okay, I guess. All the, all the catching bitches.

• 35:53Drew Afualo?

  They're like, damn, she could throw everyone. Put more in there.

• 35:57Speaker 01

  That was me.

• 35:58Drew Afualo?

  Okay, it says, your parents met on a Japanese dating game show?

• 36:01Speaker 01

  Oh, it was actually Speed Dating.

• 36:03Drew Afualo?

  Speed Dating, okay, love that. Is that how you met your husband? Speed Dating?

• 36:08Speaker 01

  No, I wish. That would be, you know, what is it? Historical? That would be legendary. No, we just met through a friend. Classic.

• 36:17Drew Afualo?

  Oh, nice. Boring.

• 36:21Drew Afualo?

  It says you used to teach dance fitness classes in LA?

• 36:24Speaker 01

  Yes, yeah.

• 36:25Drew Afualo?

  What kind of dance?

• 36:26Speaker 01

  Dance hall, yeah.

• 36:27Drew Afualo?

  Okay. Any particular type of dancing or is it just kind of free?

• 36:31Speaker 01

  Dance hall music, like Jamaican music. Yeah, yeah, like Caribbean music. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 36:35Drew Afualo?

  Oh, okay. Well, when I see you, I think Jamaican music.

• 36:39Speaker 01

  Exactly. That's what happens in Alwater Village. I was the closest thing to Jamaican they could find. Okay?

• 36:46Speaker 01

  They said, I said, no, no, it's the other Ja.

• 36:50Drew Afualo?

  Same first two letters, different country.

• 36:52Speaker 01

  Japanese, Japanese. They're like, no, no, you're available? I said, yes, yes, I have experience.

• 36:58Drew Afualo?

  You're available and ethnic? Get in there.

• 37:01Speaker 01

  It was just me and 10 to 12 white soccer moms. Finding their hips for the first time.

• 37:06Drew Afualo?

  Love that. That's me when I like, I got hired in college to do a hula for like a birthday party. For like bougie, rich, white people and they were gonna pay me like, what was a, like a bajillion dollars to me at the time. It was like 200 bucks.

• 37:19Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 37:19Drew Afualo?

  And I was like, yeah. They said they wanted a hula dancer. I know hulas, but I'm not a hula dancer. I would never call myself a hula dancer. But they literally can't tell the difference, so I did take that money. And I said, if a real hula dancer saw me perform that, they'd be like, that's not.

• 37:36Speaker 01

  They would oust you from the community.

• 37:38Drew Afualo?

  They're astronaut. But they were like bougie, rich, white people, so I was like.

• 37:42Speaker 01

  They'd be like, what are you, Japanese? Doing, doing another person's culture?

• 37:48Drew Afualo?

  Nice track.

• 37:48Speaker 01

  I mean, actually, you are Samoan, so.

• 37:50Drew Afualo?

  That's true. There you go. It's all the same.

• 37:51Speaker 01

  At least you were doing your culture. I wasn't.

• 37:56Drew Afualo?

  Uh, it says your first intro to perform, oh, it was, uh, the Craigslist thing was also on here. Uh, it says you originated the drop challenge across the internet, inspired by Beyonce's Partition Music video.

• 38:07Speaker 01

  Right, right, yes.

• 38:08Drew Afualo?

  How was that?

• 38:08Speaker 01

  That was an accident, too.

• 38:10Drew Afualo?

  Starting a movement like that.

• 38:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, I, I was just having fun with my grandma around Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

• 38:16Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 38:16Speaker 01

  I was, I had the song in my head and I was like, oh, man, that part that goes, whoo. I was like, wasn't it, wouldn't it be so fun if your body also dropped during it? And so I just started doing it around Little Tokyo. I told my husband, film me, film me.

• 38:31Speaker 01

  And then we just posted it and then next thing you know, yeah, the world was like, we like that drop.

• 38:36Drew Afualo?

  Taken by storm.

• 38:37Speaker 01

  We should do one.

• 38:38Drew Afualo?

  We should, I would love to do one with you.

• 38:40Speaker 01

  After we tape?

• 38:41Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, of course. I would love to do that with you. And then the last one says, in 2014, you made a short documentary called In Waiting about your real-life mother and grandmother.

• 38:50Speaker 01

  Oh, yes, yeah, yeah. I feel like, you know, that's, so that was when I was, you know, in art school.

• 38:56Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I was gonna say.

• 38:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 38:58Drew Afualo?

  That was when you decided, God, I hate filmmaking.

• 39:01Speaker 01

  I was like, oh, I'm barely, yeah, cuz I was like, uh, I watched, I finished the movie and I was like, excuse me, I'm barely in it.

• 39:09Speaker 01

  Where am I? I was holding the camera. I was like, uh, how are they gonna know it's three generations of women?

• 39:16Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 39:17Speaker 01

  The third one is behind the camera.

• 39:18Drew Afualo?

  If the star is not in front of the camera.

• 39:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 39:20Drew Afualo?

  I get it.

• 39:21Speaker 01

  And it's a, you know, it's a very emotional piece, but you know, I could have shown more face in it.

• 39:28Drew Afualo?

  I could have gotten more attention.

• 39:29Speaker 01

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 39:31Drew Afualo?

  Well, thank you so much for coming on the show.

• 39:33Speaker 01

  We did a rapid fire?

• 39:34Drew Afualo?

  That was all of them. You survived.

• 39:35Speaker 01

  She's so fast.

• 39:36Drew Afualo?

  Look at you. She's so rapid and so fire. I fucking love you.

• 39:40Speaker 01

  Should we do the drop?

• 39:42Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, we can. You wanna do it on camera?

• 39:43Speaker 01

  I don't know. We're gonna, we're not even, we're too tall.

• 39:46Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yeah, we might, we might. Well, this is a wide that can see us pretty well. Laura, wanna come do it with us?

• 39:52Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, and then I'll give you my phone, too.

• 39:54Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 39:54Speaker 01

  Cuz, um, I'm doing like a three years later, we're back.

• 39:58Drew Afualo?

  Laura can airdrop it to you too if she makes it.

• 40:01Speaker 01

  Oh, great.

• 40:02Drew Afualo?

  Oh, we'll look at the phone. Got you, got you, got you, got you, got you.

• 40:05Speaker 01

  Let's do three, okay?

• 40:06Drew Afualo?

  Okay, you gotta, you gotta show me how to do it though.

• 40:08Speaker 01

  We should do one where we're just like laughing, haha, and then when she goes, "Give me some." Well, we should be standing.

• 40:13Drew Afualo?

  We stand up. Okay, stand up.

• 40:15Speaker 01

  Oh, tell us when and then we'll start chatting.

• 40:19Speaker 03

  Okay, start chatting now.

• 40:22Speaker 03

  Wait, it's counting.

• 40:25Speaker 03

  Great.

• 40:30Speaker 01

  Move around.

• 40:41Speaker 03

  That was good.

• 40:43Drew Afualo?

  Yay. That's perfect. Well, that was the first time you saw us do it live.

• 40:49Speaker 01

  Well.

• 40:49Drew Afualo?

  Look at us.

• 40:50Speaker 01

  Well, well, well.

• 40:51Drew Afualo?

  Thank you, thank you so much, Otsko, for coming on the show. I fucking love you.

• 40:55Speaker 01

  Thank you so much for offering to drive me to Burbank, my next stop.

• 40:59Drew Afualo?

  You're so welcome. I do Uber on the side, so it works out.

• 41:02Speaker 01

  Oh, my god.

• 41:03Drew Afualo?

  You can give me a five-star rating.

• 41:04Speaker 01

  And your sister's gonna host the next episode, right?

• 41:06Drew Afualo?

  Yes, of course, yeah. We're just gonna keep round-robin-ing. Well, then you'll be in the chair and they won't be able to tell the difference.

• 41:10Speaker 01

  Right, they'll be like, "Wait, if she's here..."

• 41:13Drew Afualo?

  Who's driving the boat?

• 41:14Speaker 01

  Who's in Burbank?

• 41:17Speaker 01

  Who's driving the boat? You're a boat Uber driver?

• 41:21Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 41:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 41:22Drew Afualo?

  Aren't you?

• 41:22Speaker 01

  Respect.

• 41:25Drew Afualo?

  Thank you all so much for tuning into this episode of the comment section. Thank you so much to my amazing guest, Otsko. Where can everybody find you?

• 41:31Speaker 01

  Oh, I'm at Otsko Comedy and on the comment section. Right now.

• 41:36Drew Afualo?

  Period.

• 41:36Speaker 01

  Uh, yes.

• 41:37Drew Afualo?

  And you have an HBO special.

• 41:39Speaker 01

  Yes, and oh, a Hulu special.

• 41:41Drew Afualo?

  A Hulu special, love that.

• 41:41Speaker 01

  Hulu special is, yeah, Father, and it's also on Disney Plus internationally.

• 41:46Drew Afualo?

  Period. Amazing. Thank you so much, my amazing guest. You're so fucking funny. I love you.

• 41:52Speaker 01

  It was so fun.

• 41:52Drew Afualo?

  And I'm honored to have been with you here today, twin.

• 41:55Speaker 01

  Oh, my gosh, same here.

• 41:55Drew Afualo?

  You're amazing.

• 41:56Speaker 01

  Yeah. Have fun with the next episode.

• 42:00Drew Afualo?

  Thank you so much to all of you. Don't forget, new episodes of the comment section drop every Wednesday. You can stream the audio on all streaming platforms, but the video list are free and exclusively on our favorite platform, Spotify. Thank you to my amazing guest, Otsko. Thank you all so much for tuning in, and I'll see you next week. Bye.

• 42:13Speaker 01

  Bye.

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