Free speech is under assault! Not just the ability to say things, but also the ability to question what we should and shouldn't say. Of course, I'm talking more about my open mic adventures! This time, I'm banned from an open mic just for asking why we weren't allowed to tell dick jokes. Keep in mind, this was an ad hoc rule the host decided to tack on after someone's set. This type of thing is bad for comedy. Where else but an open mic can comedians risk being unfunny in order to find what's fu...
Oct 16, 2017•28 min
I love comedy. I'm talking a real love though, not an empty platitude on Valentine's Day candy. I'm talking about having to clean someone else's shit kind of love, which only seems to be appropriate with babies and animals, but here I am doing it for comedy. It's in the awkward moments where the fabric of social norms is whisked aside momentarily that I revel in. I recognize that perhaps I'm masochistic, but I've had enough therapy to realize that it's ok, it's totally appropriate in the context...
Oct 07, 2017•24 min
What's it gonna take? For what, you ask? FOR EVERYTHING!!! Mass shootings, climate change, corruption in our media, government, health care system... just the whole thing through and through stinks of for-profit short-term bloodsucking and not the long-term rational action needed to deal with some really important things. Meanwhile, there's good in this world, just because our media is run by "if it leads, it bleeds" parasites doesn't mean that's all there is to reality. Hug a loved one, and be ...
Oct 04, 2017•29 min
Roasting has permeated geopolitics! Is there no end to the roastification of the planet? You got your carbon heating things up but you also have viscous verbal barbs being slung willy-nilly, with no thought to the consequences. Many people believe the moment Trump decided to be President was when Obama roasted him at the White House Press Correspondence Dinner. Now Trump is President and is roast battling Kim Jong Un at the UN, and KJU responds with the D-bomb that had everyone shitting themselv...
Sep 30, 2017•25 min
Living the life in Los Angeles! Can't complain, or can I? This is a rant cast, off the cuff, riffing hot licks, where I just go, no huddle. Thank you for your patience.
Sep 27, 2017•23 min
John is a playwright who's been putting on plays from his apartment in Culver City. We had a wide-ranging and silly conversation, just a couple of valley boys shooting the shit.
Aug 07, 2017•1 hr 37 min
It's been a while since I regaled you with tales from Roginia. I'm in between jobs and planes of existence. A brief trip though history, and we're in the present talking about the increase in humidity in LA. Not cool. The whole point was to get away from such things, but can you do? Demoisturize LA! I talk about a workout plan I've decided to try and stick to an reminisce about the time I was the most hated creature in all of New York City- the hurt able-bodied person taking forever to go down t...
Jul 14, 2017•28 min
Apologies for the audio, I was talking into the mic like some kind of freak. I snuck away from my duties as a government agent in order to talk about the most important thing on my mind, my hair. We go from my hair to THE Hair to the Chief, and touch about how impeachment may be inevitable or just not happen, whatever! I like plants, by the way, one of my favorite plants is called the Wandering Jew, maybe because no matter how hard you try to kill it, it ends up running global finance! iTunes St...
Jun 09, 2017•25 min
Lots of dong waggling going on in the Korean peninsula, and I waggle my own dong, my history dong, and explore the history of the Konflict between the two Koreas. I then surreptitiously slip in a discussion about stealthing and then onto a recent scientific discovery that allows us to sift ancient hominid DNA from cave floors. What does this all mean? Does it have to mean anything? Yes, but only because we're compelled too. I really have no answers! Anybody who says they do is automatically susp...
May 16, 2017•37 min
In this episode, I rant about walls. The government neared shutting down because of the Border Wall, but what's in a wall? Do they really work? How crazy is it that we annexed what was once Mexico, fought a war over it, promised dual citizenship, reneged on the promise, use Mexicans as cheap labor, blame them for our troubles, and then tell them we want to build a wall that won't really work? Beyond physical walls, we have the metaphorical walls that we construct to make sense of the world- us v...
Apr 28, 2017•28 min
This episode of the Kimcast, I have my cousin Han Kim. He has a podcast called In The Kimchi Jar . He's also runs shit in the poogmul world, as well as spreading the teachings and philosophy of Dosan Ahn Chang Ho . We tried to keep the conversation on track about depression, and we talk about our own experiences with it as well as how we coped and the treatment that we sought. We talk about the times we wanted to kill myself, which for me was all part of a terrible "acid" trip that left me trapp...
Apr 03, 2017•1 hr 36 min
Flat Earth again!?!?!? Yes, it raises it's stupid head again, this time with Kron Gracie, who I highly respected as a martial artist, but now not so much as an astrophysicist, but that's only fair. We can't all have a grasp of the universe can we? It's more an indictment of our education system if anything. Science, bitch. iTunes Stitcher Download...
Mar 27, 2017•35 min
I have a job now! I'm on my lunch break! I'm in a car! This is fine! I'm pondering on the need for some structure to this podcast, but then would mean I have to put in more work and effort, meaning less podcasts overall? Maybe less is more, unless it's not, then it's less and more is more. In this episode, I talk about how it's St. Patrick's Day, how the State Dept. has been gutted, the irony of a guy who wrote "The Art of The Deal," trying to defund the arts, Rex Tillerson aka Wayne Tracker, an...
Mar 21, 2017•21 min
I walked my dog Badger around Torrance and ruminate on the movie GET OUT and the nature of inspiration.
Mar 09, 2017•26 min
I'm tired of Trump, so I'm taking a much needed Trump dump. Enough talk about politics, let's get back to me. This episode I ruminate on famliy. Part of leaving LA when I was a kid was all about leaving my family and abandoning my dad the same way he's abandoned me. I've since grown older, wiser, done a shit ton of psychedelics, and has a shit ton of analysis in order to find myself here, back in LA having to ask my dad for money, and having to work for it. He helped me see both a reflection of ...
Feb 24, 2017•26 min
Another crazy week! This podcast is a bit late because I was working on my NEW INTRO! I'll be back on track in no time. In this episode I talk abut the Muslim travel ban, whether it was a botch-up or strategic chaos, how Trump is viewed through different filters a la Scott Adams, and how we are manipulated because our monkey brains are more in control than our so-called logical brains.
Feb 06, 2017•27 min
We're a week into the Trump Administration and the Doomsday Clock has gotten two and a half minutes closer to midnight! Hooray for us! Now is the time to exercise the right to assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment before it get repealed, so I went to the Women's March in Downtown LA. I love protests and marches! Movements like labor, suffrage, and civil rights were all instrumental in making sure that I didn't end up the angriest waiter in America. What about punching Nazis? Does freedom of...
Jan 27, 2017•33 min
Just look at him. You know he wants that dong from Hong Kong. He's definitely jerked it to Enter the Dragon while imagining Bruce Lee's hot yellow rod up his, SURVEY SAYS... ass. The survey says ass. Steve Harvey underwent some controversy this past week by making jokes about dating Asian men, namely, that nobody wants to. Eddie Huang responded in suit and hey, he did a great job so that the rest of us don't have to struggle with articulating some shit we need to move past. If anything, I have t...
Jan 17, 2017•27 min
Twelve days in and I finally address the new year! Let's start it off with The Cranberries, Ode to my Family, because I'm unemployed, or self-employed rather, and staying in an Air BnB in gorgeous Park La Brea, which is basically the immigrant middle class projects filled with cockroaches and immigrants! It's 2017, dammit, and I've stayed off the radar. I recount watching Trump get elected at The Comedy Store and making eye contact with Joe Rogan, who I saw being a real good dude. He's definitel...
Jan 12, 2017•30 min
It's Election Day Eve and both sides are likening tomorrow's results as the harbinger of Armageddon, but that's soooo dramatic! Come on, you really think everything's going to change? Do you think the President has that much power? When was the last time a President delivered what the candidate version himself said just a year earlier? There's a lot of pillow talk that happens before someone's elected, but afterward, it's business as usual. Too bad that business is war. Marijuana legalization is...
Nov 07, 2016•32 min
Podcasts are crucial to the economic backbone of this country. If you took them away, productivity would plummet and you'd have to reintroduce whipping to get the numbers back in the black. I would say that the above is non sequitur but it's the first thing I said, so how can it be? Glenn finally died after waiting seven months in between seasons of The Walking Dead. A lot of Asian guys are saying that they'll stop watching the show now that he's dead and to them I say, good riddance. Those guys...
Oct 27, 2016•20 min
What a wonderful world we live in! I'm broadcasting from lovely Torrance, CA with my dog, Badger, amidst the controlled release of flammable fumes rendered harmless by plumes of fire. That doesn't worry me. I also saw a coyote in Torrance, right across the street from me, perhaps on his way for the day shift at the refinery. None of this bothers me! I'm a bit stressed about money, but beyond that, life is great! I'm in sunny LA, hitting mics, doing my thing, and getting by, what more do I need r...
Oct 24, 2016•31 min
Never in my wildest dreams or deepest darkest nightmares did I ever think that I would be back in the Valley sitting in a room filled with Korean dudes, nor did I think that I would have a great time, but I did! John Cha is an author who writes about the Korean and Korean-American experience, and was the first person to interview a high-ranked defector from North Korea. He was instrumental in breaking through the Ginseng Curtain, allowing the US to learn about North Korea's inner workings for th...
Oct 03, 2016•1 hr 36 min
Tino Romero is an open mic institution in NYC. We sat in a park and talked about his experiences growing up Panamanian and black, his adventures in squatting following a Craigslist housing scam, a racial roast battle controversy that spun out of control on social media, and his experiences growing up as a weed smoker in the 80s in NYC. Tino is a good dude and one of the first people who put me up. The mic he ran at Bar 82, will be spoken of at length many years from now during the documentary th...
Sep 28, 2016•1 hr 9 min
I met with Johnny Zito in a Whole Foods at Union Square in NYC to talk about a bunch of stuff. We started off with bitcoin, the darknet, research chemicals, and my 1p-LSD adventure with Caleb. We talked about filmmaking, screenwriting, Johnny's misadventures hiring crew for his short film, weed in NYC during the 80s, and finally his band Crusade. All the music is from their album, Atrocities That May Have Been Committed. Click here to listen to them on iTunes!...
Aug 25, 2016•1 hr 33 min
Lisa invited me over to her apartment in Queens that her mom bought for her because THAT'S WHAT PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO TO, DAD!! We had a great conversation starting with the happenings of Lisa's neighborhood of Woodside, Queens to the intricacies of the different levels of the Atkins Diet Then we discussed capitalism run amok, Steve Jobs, conflict minerals, the rise of totalitarianism, the Ottoman Empire, World War I, the Middle East, the Syrian refugee crisis, mass shootings, 1980s New York, ...
Jul 27, 2016•1 hr 25 min
I went with Caleb to Rockaway Beach to spend the day in contemplation, which meant eating a tab and sitting on the beach become aware and completely fine with the inevitable heat death of the universe, or at least the sun. The same sun which burned me and Caleb despite our attempts at applying sunscreen to ourselves. We were too straight to even consider asking the other to put lotion on our backs. Now my back is peeling so much my DNA is probably going to be popping up in crime scenes all over ...
Jul 07, 2016•49 min
The rise of the right wing is evident with the stunning upset results of the referendum on Britain's membership in the EU. The right wing uses tactics based on the fear-centered lizard brain, and it's the same old song whether you're talking about the present climate, WWII, or even California during the Gold Rush. History has a linear path, and the roots of the current rise of fascist dialogue can be seen in the colonial mentality of post-WWI Britain and France. Some might even say that the refu...
Jun 30, 2016•31 min
Guns! Manifest Destiny! Crazy people everywhere, and I'm going going back back to Cali Cali. I'm sure there will be no crazy people there at all. More science! Gravitational waves! Plus I talk about Stephen Hawking and he's kind of a dick, and then we bring it back to Earth with a little Taylor Swift, Kanye West beef as manufactured as Kim Kardashian's career.
Jun 24, 2016•18 min
This episode is brought to you by Headspace! Give them your money! No wait, give me your money! Nah, it's ok, you keep it. That right there is why I am the worst businessman in the world. The shooting in Orlando is a bummer. So is the reaction that happens afterward in the media, social or otherwise. Maybe we can take solace in the fact that this is all a simulation, or that it's all too real, either way, what's the difference? The difference is YOU!!! Thanks so much for listening!
Jun 15, 2016•22 min
