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PAID SUBSCRIBERS will hear about that “hot” Palm Springs panhandler, the effects of the Dump Tariffs on Kim Chi’s makeup line, and our UNBOXING and TASTING of the viral Los Angeles bakery goodies that Kim Chi brought for us!
It is FRIDAY, MAY 2ND, 2025 here in Los Angeles, and this week, like the Sinners IMAX ticketing sites, I am CRASHING OUT.
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Today we are focusing on FOOD AND EATING – what I live for. With a SURPRISE AGENDA ITEM AT THE END: Kim Chi brought us TikTok Viral bakery goodies to taste! On today’s agenda we have:
PODCAST UPDATES
For APA Heritage Month: Do Frivolous Things!
Cooking yummy food on a calorie deficit
Terrible types of people to eat with
Everyone freaking out about PROTEIN
Single people and Costco
Dump Tariff War
Self-described “Career Panhandler” Brad Love is going viral for being conventionally attractive and shameless about asking for money on the streets of Palm Springs.
ACTION ITEMS
SHOW ME SOME LOVE
SURPRISE AGENDA ITEM: Unboxing and tasting bakery goodies!
In the studio we have H. Alan Scott slash Sadie Pines. Writer, comedian, head pop culture nerd for Newsweek. Host of The Parting Shot podcast and co-host of Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast. Subject of the documentary Latter Day Jew (on Tubi). Aggressively indoorsy.
We also have Saeng or KIM CHI. He is a make up mogul, drag queen, soon to be cookbook and young adult novel author. Get Kim Chi’s beauty products! They are soooo good. USE CODE “JENNY” FOR MY DISCOUNT! PRE-ORDER THE COOKBOOK, Kim Chi Eats The World! Get Donutella Hamachi, the young adult novel!
ME? Here are my recommendations for the week: George Carlin’s American Dream on Max, and Claim to Fame hosted by Kevin and Frank Jonas on ABC.
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Jenny Yang is a standup comedian, actor, and tv writer who was named one of Variety's Top Ten Comics to Watch and has been featured at Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, the San Francisco Sketch Festival, and Netflix is a Joke Festival.
Jenny is a former labor organizer who was born in Taiwan and raised in Los Angeles, and stars opposite Michelle Yeoh as an assassin in the Netflix action comedy-drama series, The Brothers Sun.
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