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  Speaker 1: he's a he's a gamer, he's a he's a chef,
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  Speaker 1: credits out right quick. My next cast is a Chinese
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  Speaker 1: American actor, host, chef, singer, songwriter who hosts a very
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  Speaker 1: popular YouTube cooking show called Feast of Fiction. With his
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  Speaker 1: co host Ashley Adams. They create their real life interpretation
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  Speaker 1: of fictional dishes to pay homage and the genuine geeky
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  Speaker 1: and live the way. That's pure genius right there. I'll
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  Speaker 1: just tell you right now, the fact that they came
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  Speaker 1: over that and doing it is pure genius. He's on
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  Speaker 1: the show to talk about their new cook book, their
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  Speaker 1: new cookbook, the Feast of Fiction Kitchen, their Feast of
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  Speaker 1: Fiction popular YouTube channel, and his role in disney new
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  Speaker 1: live action movie that he's co starring in called Mulan.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you've heard of that Mulan. Please, welcome to Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversations. My man, Jimmy Wong. How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great. Thank you so much, glad to have
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  Speaker 1: to have you to have me on, and thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the very kind words as well. Kind of worry.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, jim Jimmy, what you're not gonna do is
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  Speaker 1: come on the show laid back. I've seen all this energy.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen I've seen selling this. I've seen you take
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  Speaker 1: a pie in the face. I know you're a gamer.
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  Speaker 1: Now you thank you for coming on this show. I
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  Speaker 1: would appreciate the nice statements that you say about me.
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  Speaker 1: So wait, wait what Jimmy, am I gonna get I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to beat Jimmy? That that's exciting. That makes me
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  Speaker 1: laugh and I go, he's crazy, he's a nut, He's
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  Speaker 1: a fool that I said on YouTube channel. Who is
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  Speaker 1: the real Jimmy? Maybe I should ask you that question.
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  Speaker 1: The real jim is probably someone that has too much
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  Speaker 1: on this plate at any giving time. Now, when you
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  Speaker 1: said too much on your plate, what does that mean? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean last week was quite an interesting one given
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  Speaker 1: the current world circumstances. Actually, this whole you know, the
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  Speaker 1: last two months has been interesting. Mulon was originally played
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  Speaker 1: to come out in March, which obviously was pushed because
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  Speaker 1: we want to keep everyone safe. The cookbook, however, is
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  Speaker 1: a physical print thing and the digital thing, and so
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  Speaker 1: that actually didn't need to change its release date, which
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  Speaker 1: was last week in the app. So you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of releases and stuff around all that.
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  Speaker 1: You stuff to do all the promotion that you're not
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  Speaker 1: going out and doing a book tour, but you still
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  Speaker 1: need to be very much up to date on interviews
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  Speaker 1: and everything else. You need to make sure you get
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  Speaker 1: the word out there, because selling a book is you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's no one evy simple task. Unfortunately, well you have
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  Speaker 1: you have. The great thing about it is that I've
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  Speaker 1: been fortunate. I've managed to Harvey and we had three
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  Speaker 1: number one best sellers. Our first book sold over three
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  Speaker 1: million copies. Act like Lady, Thinking like a Man. It
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  Speaker 1: was translating the thirty in languages. So I know what
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  Speaker 1: you mean when just a lot of work. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people would love to think that you just write
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  Speaker 1: a book and people buy it. You have to promote it,
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  Speaker 1: you have to you have to be in their face
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  Speaker 1: and and unfortunately, in this situation, you can't do any
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  Speaker 1: book signings, which really does enhance book sales and also
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  Speaker 1: allows you to meet your fans and so, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the book is available. Now. Uh, I'm pretty sure you're
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  Speaker 1: doing a lot of zoom interviews for the book. Correct, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: zo interviews, Skype, Google, hang Out, you name it. Basically
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  Speaker 1: if you can video in somewhere that or you know,
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  Speaker 1: phone interviews and stuff like that. So whatever works. Right
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  Speaker 1: before we get to the to the to the YouTube challenge.
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  Speaker 1: But let's go back to the movie Boulan. Okay. You
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  Speaker 1: know Disney is big into live action. You know last
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  Speaker 1: year Lion King Starr and Beyonce it came out, it
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  Speaker 1: made over a billion dollars at the box office. A
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  Speaker 1: Laddin with Will Smith it made over a billion. And
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  Speaker 1: then we had in twenty seventeen The Beauty and the
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  Speaker 1: Beast with Emma Watson. Now we have more on coming
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  Speaker 1: out now. I'm a big fan of the of the
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight and Mulan would start Eddie Murphy. Now, that
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  Speaker 1: character that the dragon sidekick that Eddie Murphy played in
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  Speaker 1: that movie will not be in this live action version. Correct, yes, correct,
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  Speaker 1: that is not a moose shoe that the beloved dragon
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  Speaker 1: sidekicks from the original Mulan is not in this new movie. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but you play the beloved link correct. Yeah, so there
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  Speaker 1: are some things that are fault um have translated over
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  Speaker 1: from the original. It's an adaptation that's not straightly one
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  Speaker 1: for one recreation. It's also different than that. This version
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  Speaker 1: is not a musical. So that actually the first Disney
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  Speaker 1: live action that takes I think more significant steps away
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  Speaker 1: from just doing a full on, sort of like carbon
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  Speaker 1: copy paste of the original. This has been sort of reimagining,
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  Speaker 1: a re restructuring a little bit of reskinning of what
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  Speaker 1: the original movie was to something that's a bit more
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  Speaker 1: effectually authentic and obviously a lot more action. So if
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  Speaker 1: you saw the trailers, so what would that be and
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  Speaker 1: say that when I when I go through your bio,
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  Speaker 1: I see actor, I see host, I see chef, I
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  Speaker 1: see seecret songwriter, I see gamer. What what what any
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  Speaker 1: particular lanes that you favor when I when I when
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  Speaker 1: I shout him out like that, I think hosting any
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  Speaker 1: gaming like the two that I'm the most joined two
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  Speaker 1: or the most like comfortable withst gaming is something that
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  Speaker 1: I've just been doing since a very very young age,
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  Speaker 1: and it's also something I often find is tangential to
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  Speaker 1: the hosting gigs I get or the things that opportunities
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  Speaker 1: I see, you know, and hosting is something that comes
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  Speaker 1: really naturally in me, on someone that's podcasts for a
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  Speaker 1: decent amount of time. So being able to just present
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  Speaker 1: information in the clear concesse way to people is something
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  Speaker 1: that I like doing and it comes naturally to me. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I love acting too, Don't get me wrong. Why I
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  Speaker 1: moved to La originally was to be an actor. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not an easy world out there coming any minority
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  Speaker 1: groups in general. I'm on that. I know, as you
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  Speaker 1: get older, the opportunities get even less, and for our
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  Speaker 1: minority and so and so. But so you see the
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  Speaker 1: value of having multiple streams of income or multiple streams
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  Speaker 1: of opportunity, and you will preach that to people who
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  Speaker 1: are trying to pursue in the any lane of our
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  Speaker 1: entertainment that you're in, especially acting. Correct. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's I'm in a very unique position. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: most people can just pick up their lives and say
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do five different things at once right now.
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  Speaker 1: But entertainment is a very fluid industry. And for me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the reason I started pursuing making a cooking
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  Speaker 1: show and hosting and doing all sorts of other things
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  Speaker 1: that were sort of running parallel to the acting industry.
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  Speaker 1: Was because of the lack of opportunity, but at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, you know, new booming industry at the same
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  Speaker 1: time when I came to l A was the YouTube
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  Speaker 1: content creation one. So for me, it made perfect sense
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  Speaker 1: to at the very least see what that world had
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  Speaker 1: to offer and see if I had a place in
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  Speaker 1: it or if for something most comfortable with, and then
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  Speaker 1: sort of reevaluate and constantly be shifting and nimble on
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  Speaker 1: your feet when it comes to developing out what you're
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  Speaker 1: brand is in your brand, and your brand is very diverse.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's talk about Mulan a little bit, because of
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  Speaker 1: it's a big Disney movie, it comes with lot of
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna open strong domestically, it's gonna be worldwide, and
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  Speaker 1: we know what we're dealing with from a pandemic standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: It may even damage the the the China market, which
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  Speaker 1: is a which is an incredibly fast amount of money
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  Speaker 1: comes out of that particular movie industry over there. So
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  Speaker 1: when you get an opportunity to know you were cash
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  Speaker 1: for this, how do you why do you why do
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  Speaker 1: you lay that down, do you do? You see, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a stepping stone, one of the many things that
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  Speaker 1: come out your life or you are you way the
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  Speaker 1: importance of what it can do for your brand right now,
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  Speaker 1: because you are a brand, right Jimmy, I guess yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you could describe my essence as a brand.
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  Speaker 1: It's the sort of thing that you are constantly keeping
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  Speaker 1: in mind when you go out to make videos or
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  Speaker 1: to even approach other brands to see if they would
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  Speaker 1: like to sponsor content. You need to think of yourself
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  Speaker 1: as more than just like a person. You're a personality
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  Speaker 1: and influencer. There are a lot of different ways skin
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  Speaker 1: it um. When it comes to a movie like moul
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  Speaker 1: On You. I think the first impression that I had
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  Speaker 1: when I got the role was like, this is it,
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  Speaker 1: this is my big break. It's sort of the language
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  Speaker 1: that has commonly used for actors in Hollywood and the
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  Speaker 1: movies and writing and all that um. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: that was almost three years ago at this point by
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  Speaker 1: I first time I was gonna be in the movie,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And then the next year I filmed in
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  Speaker 1: another year and stuff for post production. So over time
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  Speaker 1: you get to sort of re sample that same plate,
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  Speaker 1: that same dish that got you so excited in the
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  Speaker 1: first place, and get a little more context, to get
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  Speaker 1: a little more understanding about what it means for you
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  Speaker 1: and what your career is and all that stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that the most important fact that was currently
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  Speaker 1: that I've been I've realized, especially after this delay, is
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  Speaker 1: that this movie is obviously a great milestone. It's a
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  Speaker 1: stepping stone, it's it's a lot of different things, but
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  Speaker 1: what it's even going to do is be the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that breaks it all open, because that's not solely
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  Speaker 1: on the movie to do. You know, you as a person, know,
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  Speaker 1: my character's name is a link. My character's name is
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  Speaker 1: not Mulan. I'm not the main character of the movie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a side character, but I'm in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the movie. So I need to make sure that I
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  Speaker 1: manage my expectations and also understand where I'm coming from
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  Speaker 1: when it got to promote the movie and talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: and also understand that, like, hey, this isn't going to
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  Speaker 1: instantly make you famous. Nothing really does, unless it's like
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  Speaker 1: a sex tape or something. But what this will do
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  Speaker 1: is provide opportunities and if you're able to you know,
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  Speaker 1: manifest what you want from those opportunities or take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of those situations that arise. Then you're going to find
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  Speaker 1: yourself in a much more comfortable position because you're at
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  Speaker 1: least in more control of what's happening instead of just
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  Speaker 1: sort of saying, hey, I hope this makes it all
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  Speaker 1: work and then letting the sort of the river flow
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  Speaker 1: from there. Well, it's really important because it is a
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's as being that African American with certain
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  Speaker 1: movies com specifically impact who I am as a person,
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  Speaker 1: who I am as my race. It puts an extra
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  Speaker 1: layer of important zone there is this is this movie
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  Speaker 1: important to you? I mean yeah? Absolutely? Like like I
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  Speaker 1: I was interviewed by another Everything American on the Red
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  Speaker 1: carpet and he was like, how excited are you? And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I mean, how excited were you when
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  Speaker 1: Black Panther came out? Very exactly? Yeah, I mean, like
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  Speaker 1: we can share some of those that was that that
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  Speaker 1: was our movie, that that that's our moving that you
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  Speaker 1: know Black Panther. Like, I mean, here's the thing. When
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  Speaker 1: you are a marginalized group or a minority and you
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  Speaker 1: don't have as much representation as the majority. Then you
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  Speaker 1: kind of just have to even let's say the Black
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  Speaker 1: Panther was I love Black other by the way, I
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  Speaker 1: thought was a great movie. But let's just say in
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  Speaker 1: the most reality, Black Panther was a bad movie. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: yes it was bad. The writing was bad, that everything
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  Speaker 1: was bad. It was still in a law voice have
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  Speaker 1: to become people's de facto movie because just there hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been anything else that exists like it. So that's like
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  Speaker 1: the position that I think marginalized groups and minority groups
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  Speaker 1: are put in that people don't realize is that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you can't ask for you know, the world. When you
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  Speaker 1: get something like this, sometimes you just have to clasp
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  Speaker 1: your hands and go, man, I really hope this is
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  Speaker 1: good because we really don't have that much else. Ouf
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  Speaker 1: they are representing us. I can, however, say it was
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  Speaker 1: confidence that both Black Panther and The One are great movies.
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  Speaker 1: So it's amazing to be able to say, oh, great,
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome, this is gonna be a good movie. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to represent a lot of people in want culture.
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  Speaker 1: It's more importantly open the doors for more filmmakers than
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  Speaker 1: young ones, especially to come out there and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I want to make a movie about my Asian culture
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  Speaker 1: or my blank culture and hopefully be empowered by movies
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  Speaker 1: like this existing to say that they can you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, I'm talking to Jimmy Wong. Were right back
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  Speaker 1: with the Feast of Fiction Kitchen. We're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about from the book. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this, this whole phenomenon of launching a YouTube
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  Speaker 1: channel that has over one point two million, almost one
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  Speaker 1: point three million subscribers, eight years in the making. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be right back with Jimmy Wong. Um, hey man, you're
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  Speaker 1: you peel back, you realize that he's more than just
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  Speaker 1: an actor. He's a humanitarian. He's a person who has
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: an opinion, and he also a guy who fall back
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: a racist situation. I just want to talk about touch
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: on this a little bit before we get into YouTube channel,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: because I think it was important because as minorities, you know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't understand the things that we
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: have to deal with. And I wanted to go back
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: to that situation that happened to you in college and
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: how you felt about it and give us some detail
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: and then how you reacted to it, which led to
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: a very popular music video that you created. Talk to
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: us about that, because a lot of people understand as
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: a minority that they might think it's funny and cute,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: but it really plays back in the different manner when
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: it affects us. Talk to us, Jimmy, Yeah, that's a
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: great that's a great way of describing how I saw
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: that at the time too. Back inven read after college,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I was in Los Angeles trying to pursue it as actor,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and after a year sort of you know, just giggling
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: around not really doing much, I decided, you know, let's
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: make music videos of this music. And right around that time,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: there was a sorority student from mu c l A
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: that decided that she was going to launch on her
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: own content creation uh skick, and it would start by
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: vlogging from her computer about people and things that she
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: did not like. And the very first video she ever made,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and the only videoship made to that matter, was about
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Asians and the library and specifically how loud they were being,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and how disruptive that she felt they were being when
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: she was trying to study for her own work, and
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: she created a racist caricature impression of them as well
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: in the video, and unfortunately for her, back fared quite magnificently.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: The video itself was viral. News outlets everywhere picked it
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: up nearly going who is this person of why are
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: they being such a dumbo? Essentially that no one really
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: called her a dumbo, and you know, to her face
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: um and death threats for flying in And this person
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: was receiving a lot of flak for this are you
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: should person because it was very clearly just racist in nature,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: you know, in like the very benign way. This person
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: in retrospect just was trying to make a comedy blog
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and clearly didn't realize that her brand of humor was
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: not only offensive, but it was the caricature of one
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: that was based heavily in racist stereotape. So as a result,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I made a music video that sort of took the
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: entire encounter and reframed it and tried to give her
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: an out. If that makes sense, just say, like, hey,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: what you're saying? You know, everyone's misunderstanding you. I just
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: get it. You're trying to say that you love us,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And I started put it into a
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: song and took it in a satirical, such fanctical way
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: where I basically mocked her but encouraged her and glorified
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: her at the same time. As a result, that response
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to a very vitriolic situation went viral and five million.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Don't don't see people just throw their word out their
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: viral five million is a phenomenon. Okay, that's a that's
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a slap in the phase that you that you should
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: have done that, and people reacted to it and it well,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: do you see that was? That was key to use
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: your creative system? Okay, man, what I do? People react
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: to it because you know, we all need that little
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: stepping stone of going man, I have talent. Uh, I
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: just want somebody to understand it. And you did this
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: just like as a as an improv moment, I guess
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: of creativity and it would viral. What was the next
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: day after that? After that, I sort of described to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: people as like a tidal wave that hit my career.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: But I wasn't strong enough or you know, in this case,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: mature enough and had enough years in the industry to
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: know how to ride the way about me just sort
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: of carried along by it, which is just as fine,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: especially they're starting out, um, just because that way of
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: activity and attention and potential, you know, really exploded, and
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: it was great to see it happen, and all because
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I think it was a common thread and something I
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: still see today, which is people, especially marginalized groups of minorities,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: need a voice, and they need a way to be
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: able to communicate their needs and wants to the world
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and the way they're going to be heard and respective.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: And you know, we still see this every single day
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: in modern America with lives Matters and with the recent
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: outbreak of racist taxicast Asians, Like there are issues that
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: people need, you know, we need strong boys to be
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: able to speak out, to be able to stand behind.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And I didn't realize that when I made the video,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: But what I did was addressing a source spot in
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: what what has now sort of materialized itself in modern
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: day America is like, hey, this is still very much
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: a real source spot that it still exists, and that
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of fear in xinophobia. How do we
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: combat that in a way that's not just you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: taking an eye for an eye. First of all, congratulations
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: for standing up for congratulations for doing it in the
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: creative manner, and congratulations for an impacting and you know,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: not so much changing people, but making people aware. That's all.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: That's all you can do. You can't change a person,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: but if you can make them aware and make them
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: think about what their actions, it can't make a difference.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Go down that level of ignorance that people minorities often
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: have to deal with on a regular basis, and a
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: lot of people go, what's the big deal? There's always
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: a big deal when you walk in the room, and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you you know, I always tell people a walk in
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the room, I'm a black man. I'm black. You know,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: you know you can't you can't. You can't think I'm white.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: You can't think I'm Jewish, you can't think I'm a
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: tall you can't think of some other disguise, you know.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: And I and I deal with that, and I champion
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: myself when I realized there's a responsibility that comes with that.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: And because of that, I don't allow it to to
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to become the driving force to why I'm successful. I'm
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: successful because I've been blessed with a lot of talents,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and you've been blessed with a lot of talents to Jimmy,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and I transition that to the whole YouTube channel that
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: you launched in twenty with Ashley Adams. Tell us because
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: that's a phenomenal. That's a that's a big that's a
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: big deal. It's the same year, but that's a big
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: deal because it started as an idea, but now one
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: point three million subscribers. That's a money making conversation right there. Yeah,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: started off as like a passion slash question flash you
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: know need, Like my brother and I are sitting around
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the kitchen table going what does the internet need that
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't have right now? And this is twenty eleven, after
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I made the music video and tried to use the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: galg YouTube for a while. It wasn't that it didn't
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: feel as sustainable as fun as I wanted to be,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And so my mind started hopping to the next thing,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: just like, what can I do now that's that's interesting
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: and fun to me? And the cooking show just had
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to be on the list, and so we wanted piece
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: of fiction then and it's just sort of been like
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a steady progression of a passion project slash Love between
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: myself and my co host actually for the past eight years,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: and about two years ago we were like, you know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: it's time, let's make a cookbook. I think we have
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the skills necessary. We don't want to do it too early,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: you know, we were still rookies, and so we're like,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I think we're mature enough. I think we understand this
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: market and what we want to do here and how
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: we want the book to look, specifically as creators um
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And so we launched into it and made a book.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: And you know that again, like you said, it's not
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: just staying down writing something that took two years of editing, photos,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: working with the publisher and they're finally released in two
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: years after we started it. Now, let me ask you this,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: but the YouTube channel at one point three million subscribers,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: we're along the way. You went, wow, this is a business.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: This is you know, you know, you know, because you,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: like I said, you're just sitting in the kitchen with
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: your brother trying to think of an idea of what's
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the next step, what's missing? You come up with this
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: brilliant idea and I and I don't laugh when I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: say that this is a brilliant idea of my friend.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Obviously one point three million people think so too. And well,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: your talents at all time to cooking or baking, because
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I know you you give your gamer and you give
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: all credits over there to Ashley, how did that relationship
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: come about? And how did you start saying that this
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: is truly a direction that's gonna catch on? You know?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: It was we were at Disneyland. Of course that happened
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: uh a mutual friend's birthday, and we didn't know each other,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and at that time I was still formulating the idea
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: of my head. I met actually asked what she did.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: She showed me a couple of pictures of these like
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: little fun takes that she made for her friends using
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: fonding and you know, the sort of stuff you see
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: on cake class, and of like, wait, this is perfect.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: You want to come and help me out and make
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: a recipe? And before I knew it, I just sort
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: of de factove in or my co host. But I
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: think that the moment that we realized that I realized
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: at least that this was a business. Um, was the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: moment that a brand approachests and what, hey, do you
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: want to do something together and we can pay for it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: But if you guys are cool with it, then we're
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: cool with it too. And it took a while, right,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: It was like a few years before brand started picking up.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And when I first made the show, I was like,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you know what, what movie wouldn't want this? This is
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: great promotion. It's organic. The entire show is based off
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: of the franchises, so don't get a question if you
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: support or sponsor a franchise. But it didn't happen at
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: first because I think the show is still picking up steam.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: And then maybe it was there a newer industry for
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. But after a while, you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: after doing a couple of brand deals, I looked at
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the whole operation and one, you know, this is something
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: that we could scale up. This is something that we
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: could just make more than just a hobby for fun Um,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: because I actually wanted to be a TV host when
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: she came originally, and so this was definitely in line
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: with her dreams. Fun pressed to do without having to
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: worry so much about turning a profit or whatever for
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the first couple of years because it's just together a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: passion project. Now let's talk about the book. Okay, because
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: of the fact that, um is, you have five recipes
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: and I like. I like, first of all, I love
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the book. Okay, this is five recipes because I want
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to cook immediately after reading the book. Um the shrimp cocktail,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: which is for some reason, if you if you go
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and yeah, you know something, going the restaurant and I
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: order a shrimp cocktail. It's something about it. Such a
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: simple dish that's so tasted me that I love it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: That's from Beetle Juice. That's on page fifty three, the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: movie Beetle Juice. That's when the shrimp started dancing around
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and then you, uh, trade to my heart that crabby
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: sliders from Spongeball crap SquarePants. Oh my god, I I
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: gotta make that the Tianna Tianna's come gumbo from Princess
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: in the Frog. And then oh, hey, look at it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I read the recipe. I'm from Houston, Texas by way
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: of Louisiana, so I would not be telling you. I
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: would not be telling you I'm gonna make gumbo if
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I didn't look at the recipe and go, h this
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: is crap, some crap. No. No, I looked at the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: recipe Jimmy, y'all, you guys are the real deal. You're
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a real deal. Okay. And then, uh, the thing. I
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: love oatmeal cookies to death, my friend, that's my favorite cookies, oatmeal.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: So when I saw the giant oatmeal cream pie from Honey,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I shrunk the kids. You have me, brother, you have it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: But then you closed out. You closed out with this
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: one from my one of my all time favorite shows
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: with the worst inding in the history of TV, Game
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: of Thrones, the lemon cakes. The lemon cakes. So Sean
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: McDonald and what I'm gonna do is you know what
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I got. I got. I got seven hundred and eighty
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: four thousand Facebook followers, eighty and apercent of my followers
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: a female, and I always post foo. I'm gonna post
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: your book if you don't mind, tell everybody to buy it.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a couple of these recipes and and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and post them on my social media because Jimmy, I'm
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: a fan. If Ashley ever has time to come on
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the show, please invite her on the show. I just
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: wanted to bring you on the show and just you know,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: let's slow it down, talk about your story, talk about
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and I haven't touched the entire story, but as you
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: want to touch enough of it to let people know
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: how special you are as a as an individual man,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: because you know you you're you're you're breaking ground, my friend,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and and you're doing it with a high level of respect.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: You're doing it in the money Making Conversation, and you're
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: a leader. And that's why I wanted to bring you
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: on Money Making Conversation. Congratulation on Milan, congratulations on the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: YouTube channel Feasta Fiction Kitchen, the book. Almost I'm gonna
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: push it as hard as I can because now that
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you need my help, but I'm just gonna be a little,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: a little, a little bit of help for the bigger pictures.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: That cool. Jimmy, Well, you know, you know how it goes.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: We will always take the help that we are giving.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: So I appreciate it, man. And you know actually from
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Austin as well. So she's right around the corner. Oh absolutely,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: your Texas girl. Well, I gotta get on the show,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: my friend. I want to thank you. I want I'm glad.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I know the first time we met, first time we talked.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I want you to consider to be a friend of
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the money Making Conversation. You have some other projects coming
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: down later on this year, And if you want to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: come back on the show, please come on because I
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: will not get enough of talking about you, and I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: can also dig into some of that gaming area of
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: your career that we didn't talk about on this But
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: we want to talk about the book. I want to
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: talk about that book, want to talk about the movie.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about your impact and standing up
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: for who you are as a person and who you
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: represent as a people. Keep winning, Jimmy Wong, thank you
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: for coming on my show. Appreciate man. You two have
• 28:54
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