Name: Bobby Lee Roasts the Boys and Laughs Through the Trauma | Are You Garbage
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i don't know my therapist says that um i can't believe you're alive like you
know sure you had
a bumpy a bumpy ride in the beginning right right because when you grew up like
the way i did you
know um you you you turn out a certain way and i took all like my defense
mechanisms and my survival
tools and i used it to my advantage you need to make money okay and to have a
career right
but if like i lived in korea i would just be like on opium probably like you
know and probably be a
koi fish farmer or some weird shit like that right or carrying rice okay i mean
yeah like i would have
no future sure but only in this country i think you can turn your pain yeah
harness it and and do
something good with it right so my dad was where were you born san diego you're
born in san diego
i just remember like um being born and then it just being really cold like the
feeling like even
temperature wise i don't know why because we lived in we moved to minnesota
right when i was born
really yeah so i we lived in minnesota there were no other asians a dina minnesota
and like i was
bullied you know the kids would throw ice at my face and go eskimo you know
what i mean always like
running from them and then like i'd come home and my dad would be like drunk
and um he was very violent
you know what i mean and then like um like he would be beat up my mom and stuff
you know and um
like she would come into my room with no teeth and bloody mouths and like yeah
it was like
pretty crazy serious shit yeah serious and my brother and i would just fart on
each other
and like hey it was a good bit back then yeah yeah and like we would like show
each other our penises
and like do like puppet tricks with our yellow little yellow penises they were
like minions before
minions you know what i mean like a little yellow like you know what i mean you
know you can't do
that on live but you know i mean but we did it you know amongst ourselves and
then um i guess there was
this guy that had down syndrome down the street when we lived in minnesota and
um he he molested me
he molested so that was cool anyway right good times we're having good yeah did
you get out of
minnesota well i want to talk about the molestation if i may sure yeah um may i
talk about it please
am i garbage yet or we don't know yet no but you are crazy do you think i'm a
crazy person no i think
you're uh no you're awesome you're fucking you're the best because i'm going to
tell you something
this is the first time i've been on this podcast and the next time i come on if
i ever do come on
it'll be different what do you yeah because i'm just trying to like um buddy
this is what it is we
want to hear your story i know but it's kind of like you know when i guest star
on like a tv show
you want to be as good as you can be uh-huh so you get invited back uh-huh the
next time i come back
it'll be 50 percent that's great i understand you're really going to phone it
in i'm going to phone
it a second time but right now i'm nervous sure so it just comes out like this
because i really want
you guys to like me we love you i know so and i want the hippie to like me and
i want your fans to
like me so it's coming out like our fans are all your fans you're one of the
most requested guests
100 we're together you know we're in this together yeah and i have to say as a
side note um for white
guys you guys have my body like my shape my personality and it's not a good
thing for you
it's really not a good thing for you but when i looked at you because you look
at andrew schultz and
you look at stefano they're like human looking they're like yeah yeah and they
do they look not
mythological they look like they can stick their penises in anything you know
what i mean you guys
look like incels like you guys look we do beep our penises at each other when
no one's in here my
mother was a minotaur yeah like i don't know anyone in la that even has your
vibe sure maybe like
there's some homeless comedians you know what i mean if you go to open mine
late at night
i love how he sat there gonna be nice this episode no i mean no i'm just right
because i feel the same
sure right i go i think that you guys are white versions of me and that's why i'm
blessed to be
here that's what i'm saying it's a compliment oh thank you thank you so much
for that wonderful wonderful
compliment because because you guys i know you guys get you have a girlfriend i
have a wife you have a
girlfriend girlfriend right and that to me is like mind-boggling it really is
to me it's like oh my
god us too yeah yeah it's it works it's working i know i mean that means you
have the humor goes a
long way because those guys to stefano and schultz and these guys right they
have their looks to get
them by right anybody can get broads when you look good right do it looking
like us all right with us
dude it's like we're like miracles like we're like killing the game right and
we we're also paving the
way for other uglies yeah right so we we're storming the beaches here yeah yeah
and now let me say
something right if you lost weight yeah you could have like a gary gullman vibe
right but you uh-uh
you got no shot you have no shot anyway let's go back to the molestation why
not yeah let's get back
back to the fun stuff i never thought i would say that but please let's
yeah i don't am i being rude no oh my god i also it's yeah you're so good and
so funny that the
fact of he's like yeah i'm gonna be playing a nice but now we're making fun of
each other i'm not
gonna make fun of you guys and then he just like crippled did we get 18 minutes
and he's like good
night oh yeah yeah well i'm no i i that's i was just telling the truth okay
well that's why i'm not
being mean we don't think that so anyway you're being a little mean but that's
i mean we're being honest oh yeah oh yeah so you're in minnesota what did what
did your mom and
dad do for a living what was your dad doing my dad owned clothing stores called
fashion gal he owned
them yeah and we owned um well my uncles and my dad owned like 75 stores across
the country so he did
well yeah they did we did that was doing well yeah yeah but still with the booze
and the abuse and
stuff like well he was like he didn't obviously drink at work but you know he
would drive around
at the stores and this and that but he um would come home and get drunk and
then like you know i
would always like hide in my room jeez because you never knew what what was
going to happen you know
um he turned into like you know incredible hulk but he didn't grow like just
and he's yellow no i
yeah yeah but he was a bad yeah he was a bad dude yeah and he would pick up
kitchen tables and throw
it at people it was crazy geez and so anyway and then i was most of my guy that
guy with down
syndrome down the street that's what my brother says my brother says that and
then um you blocked
it out you don't remember i think i i mean i think i there's some imagery of
the shack and i and then
zamboni you know what zamboni is like that yeah yeah yeah he he took care of
the zamboni in this
outside ice rink ice rink down the street from me yeah and um i think he molested
a bunch of kids
but i went there every day you know i mean in the summer because he had candy i
love candy
you know i mean and so um i don't think anything happened where like i think i
just
jerked him off and you know i mean i stuck my fingers in his um ass yeah yeah
his disfigured
butthole uh-huh never forget it kid really likes a snickers huh yeah and so um
and then i
then we moved to san diego at the age of 11. for business like it was like yeah
my dad goes let's
move up right yeah and then we went to the family stayed together he went with
you to san diego oh
yeah no that's okay he's always been there okay yeah and when we moved there it
was like it was
the best because i saw like dudes like filipinos sure people you can relate to
my age with full-blown
muscles and stashes at age 11. right they i had like skater kids and like you
know this is back in
the days where like bones brigade and all these things were happening you know
shit back then yeah
cool as shit yeah and um i just remember this kid like flipping over his
skateboard and like
putting out a line of meth jesus across the street from me and i went i didn't
even ask what it was
i was like can i have some right he's like yeah dude is that candy yeah yeah
and it was snort that
and then like you know i'm talking about 11 12 you know like young damn is this
just skating fast yeah
yeah yeah is this a nice neighborhood you guys moved into yeah family had a
little bit of money you
moved down in san diego you get a little bit more of a wider cultural
experience a little bit more
familiar yeah nobody nobody grabbing at you like the bullying was different not
exist non-existent
right yeah multicultural multicultural yeah yeah and then i'm sure minnesota is
different now but
in the in the 70s i don't know yeah yeah for sure that makes total sense and
then my dad had this
refrigerator where they he'd stock alcohol you know i mean and because he was
an alcoholic and i could sneak
in there and drink as many beers no one would know so it was it would just
start i just started my
alcoholism and i drug addiction that early early you know and then um yeah i
just got all f's
okay in school i was on the wrestling team and tennis team there you go any
good yeah i'm pretty athletic
you know i mean but other than that like i was just a failure you know i mean i
just you know and then
every time you would bring home like an f to your violent korean dad and your
mom they would
get violent and crazy and it was just like your brother good in school he was
up until his senior
year and then he kind of drifted but um yeah he was like the christian you know
he did he went to
church and he also you know got straight a's and then i don't know what
happened that's a tough comparison
because my brother was really good in school and i was terrible at school yeah
and that just makes you
look you look even worse worse yeah it's terrible did you hate your brother no
i love them yeah i love my
brother yeah i love 100 and then i went to rehabs i just remember in um in high
school i did went to
three two or three like one detox two regular rehabs and then i um yeah and um
nice ones though out
there in california mcdonald center was the one that got me you know in la jolla
okay and that's where so
that's where see i believe um i what's so funny i don't know you i just i love
you yeah i believe
that nothing happens everything happens for a reason okay and i believe in sort
of like this cosmic
thing where like it just if you do make the right choices that there's a path
and things just fall in
line the way it's supposed to and i don't fight it you know i mean plus when
you're growing up in a
you know immigrant home you you there's no life skills that you learn because i
don't know the
korean language my parents never taught me anything about anything like
everything that i learned was
through like scorsese movies or whatever you know i mean like main streets you
know what i mean like i
would rent movies and watch them so it's like i had no life skills so like when
i went to
that rehab when my junior year in high school mcdonald center that's where i
kind of learned
how to live you know i mean and learned things and i learned that you know
things
kind of happen for a reason and that i'm supposed to be at that rehab and i
just kind of bought into
all that right so it's like so i i went to rehab in la jolla i got sober in la
jolla i grew up in a
town called poway which is like 45 minutes away right so all every a meeting i
went to was in la
jolla now what's in la jolla the comedy store yeah go so after high school i
moved to la jolla because
that's where all my sober friends were and i started working in there and i
happened to have a job
at a coffee shop that was attached to the comedy store the one that you went to
yeah yeah it used
to be a place called disc cafe it was owned by 91x radio which was like the
alternative station
and i had orange hair like i bleached my hair you know i was really into like
early sonic youth and the fugazi yeah southern california yeah all that yeah
yeah sub pop
right and i just remember getting change because we would need to get change
from the comedy store
you know for the coffee shop and so i met fred burns at the time was the
manager of the la jolla
comedy store and then the girl that i was working with at disc cafe her
boyfriend was a guy named mike
carano who was the manager of the pacific beach improv who still works for the
improv now damn
so you you have to imagine i'm in la jolla and i'm surrounded by comedy
indirectly right because mike
would go hey after shift we're gonna go see brian regan at pb uh improv and i
would go i'd see bobcat
goldwaith and i was really like i would like to stand up when i would watch it
yeah but it wasn't
like speaking to it wasn't like pulling you right it's until i saw like an open
mic where i was like
i can do that you see you see someone do do it bad you're like i'm better than
this idiot yeah yeah
so i just remember like um disc cafe closing i'm still sober so i got sober at
17 and then i'm 23
years old now living la jolla working like restaurant jobs and shit my coffee
shop job closed
and i was walking by the la jolla common center and they happened to have a
help wanted sign him
and i knocked on the door because i knew fred and i go hey dude i'm the guy
next door he's like oh
yeah no you know i go can i get a job he's like i only hire stand-ups and i was
like well i'm thinking
about doing it which i don't know if i was or not and i got a job there's a bar
back and then two
weeks later i was on stage that's awesome yeah so that's how it and it happened
quick for me
Thank you.

Bobby Lee Roasts the Boys and Laughs Through the Trauma | Are You Garbage

i don't know my therapist says that um i can't believe you're alive like you
know sure you had
a bumpy a bumpy ride in the beginning right right because when you grew up like
the way i did you
know um you you you turn out a certain way and i took all like my defense
mechanisms and my survival
tools and i used it to my advantage you need to make money okay and to have a
career right
but if like i lived in korea i would just be like on opium probably like you
know and probably be a
koi fish farmer or some weird shit like that right or carrying rice okay i mean
yeah like i would have
no future sure but only in this country i think you can turn your pain yeah
harness it and and do
something good with it right so my dad was where were you born san diego you're
born in san diego
i just remember like um being born and then it just being really cold like the
feeling like even
temperature wise i don't know why because we lived in we moved to minnesota
right when i was born
really yeah so i we lived in minnesota there were no other asians a dina minnesota
and like i was
bullied you know the kids would throw ice at my face and go eskimo you know
what i mean always like
running from them and then like i'd come home and my dad would be like drunk
and um he was very violent
you know what i mean and then like um like he would be beat up my mom and stuff
you know and um
like she would come into my room with no teeth and bloody mouths and like yeah
it was like
pretty crazy serious shit yeah serious and my brother and i would just fart on
each other
and like hey it was a good bit back then yeah yeah and like we would like show
each other our penises
and like do like puppet tricks with our yellow little yellow penises they were
like minions before
minions you know what i mean like a little yellow like you know what i mean you
know you can't do
that on live but you know i mean but we did it you know amongst ourselves and
then um i guess there was
this guy that had down syndrome down the street when we lived in minnesota and
um he he molested me
he molested so that was cool anyway right good times we're having good yeah did
you get out of
minnesota well i want to talk about the molestation if i may sure yeah um may i
talk about it please
am i garbage yet or we don't know yet no but you are crazy do you think i'm a
crazy person no i think
you're uh no you're awesome you're fucking you're the best because i'm going to
tell you something
this is the first time i've been on this podcast and the next time i come on if
i ever do come on
it'll be different what do you yeah because i'm just trying to like um buddy
this is what it is we
want to hear your story i know but it's kind of like you know when i guest star
on like a tv show
you want to be as good as you can be uh-huh so you get invited back uh-huh the
next time i come back
it'll be 50 percent that's great i understand you're really going to phone it
in i'm going to phone
it a second time but right now i'm nervous sure so it just comes out like this
because i really want
you guys to like me we love you i know so and i want the hippie to like me and
i want your fans to
like me so it's coming out like our fans are all your fans you're one of the
most requested guests
100 we're together you know we're in this together yeah and i have to say as a
side note um for white
guys you guys have my body like my shape my personality and it's not a good
thing for you
it's really not a good thing for you but when i looked at you because you look
at andrew schultz and
you look at stefano they're like human looking they're like yeah yeah and they
do they look not
mythological they look like they can stick their penises in anything you know
what i mean you guys
look like incels like you guys look we do beep our penises at each other when
no one's in here my
mother was a minotaur yeah like i don't know anyone in la that even has your
vibe sure maybe like
there's some homeless comedians you know what i mean if you go to open mine
late at night
i love how he sat there gonna be nice this episode no i mean no i'm just right
because i feel the same
sure right i go i think that you guys are white versions of me and that's why i'm
blessed to be
here that's what i'm saying it's a compliment oh thank you thank you so much
for that wonderful wonderful
compliment because because you guys i know you guys get you have a girlfriend i
have a wife you have a
girlfriend girlfriend right and that to me is like mind-boggling it really is
to me it's like oh my
god us too yeah yeah it's it works it's working i know i mean that means you
have the humor goes a
long way because those guys to stefano and schultz and these guys right they
have their looks to get
them by right anybody can get broads when you look good right do it looking
like us all right with us
dude it's like we're like miracles like we're like killing the game right and
we we're also paving the
way for other uglies yeah right so we we're storming the beaches here yeah yeah
and now let me say
something right if you lost weight yeah you could have like a gary gullman vibe
right but you uh-uh
you got no shot you have no shot anyway let's go back to the molestation why
not yeah let's get back
back to the fun stuff i never thought i would say that but please let's
yeah i don't am i being rude no oh my god i also it's yeah you're so good and
so funny that the
fact of he's like yeah i'm gonna be playing a nice but now we're making fun of
each other i'm not
gonna make fun of you guys and then he just like crippled did we get 18 minutes
and he's like good
night oh yeah yeah well i'm no i i that's i was just telling the truth okay
well that's why i'm not
being mean we don't think that so anyway you're being a little mean but that's
i mean we're being honest oh yeah oh yeah so you're in minnesota what did what
did your mom and
dad do for a living what was your dad doing my dad owned clothing stores called
fashion gal he owned
them yeah and we owned um well my uncles and my dad owned like 75 stores across
the country so he did
well yeah they did we did that was doing well yeah yeah but still with the booze
and the abuse and
stuff like well he was like he didn't obviously drink at work but you know he
would drive around
at the stores and this and that but he um would come home and get drunk and
then like you know i
would always like hide in my room jeez because you never knew what what was
going to happen you know
um he turned into like you know incredible hulk but he didn't grow like just
and he's yellow no i
yeah yeah but he was a bad yeah he was a bad dude yeah and he would pick up
kitchen tables and throw
it at people it was crazy geez and so anyway and then i was most of my guy that
guy with down
syndrome down the street that's what my brother says my brother says that and
then um you blocked
it out you don't remember i think i i mean i think i there's some imagery of
the shack and i and then
zamboni you know what zamboni is like that yeah yeah yeah he he took care of
the zamboni in this
outside ice rink ice rink down the street from me yeah and um i think he molested
a bunch of kids
but i went there every day you know i mean in the summer because he had candy i
love candy
you know i mean and so um i don't think anything happened where like i think i
just
jerked him off and you know i mean i stuck my fingers in his um ass yeah yeah
his disfigured
butthole uh-huh never forget it kid really likes a snickers huh yeah and so um
and then i
then we moved to san diego at the age of 11. for business like it was like yeah
my dad goes let's
move up right yeah and then we went to the family stayed together he went with
you to san diego oh
yeah no that's okay he's always been there okay yeah and when we moved there it
was like it was
the best because i saw like dudes like filipinos sure people you can relate to
my age with full-blown
muscles and stashes at age 11. right they i had like skater kids and like you
know this is back in
the days where like bones brigade and all these things were happening you know
shit back then yeah
cool as shit yeah and um i just remember this kid like flipping over his
skateboard and like
putting out a line of meth jesus across the street from me and i went i didn't
even ask what it was
i was like can i have some right he's like yeah dude is that candy yeah yeah
and it was snort that
and then like you know i'm talking about 11 12 you know like young damn is this
just skating fast yeah
yeah yeah is this a nice neighborhood you guys moved into yeah family had a
little bit of money you
moved down in san diego you get a little bit more of a wider cultural
experience a little bit more
familiar yeah nobody nobody grabbing at you like the bullying was different not
exist non-existent
right yeah multicultural multicultural yeah yeah and then i'm sure minnesota is
different now but
in the in the 70s i don't know yeah yeah for sure that makes total sense and
then my dad had this
refrigerator where they he'd stock alcohol you know i mean and because he was
an alcoholic and i could sneak
in there and drink as many beers no one would know so it was it would just
start i just started my
alcoholism and i drug addiction that early early you know and then um yeah i
just got all f's
okay in school i was on the wrestling team and tennis team there you go any
good yeah i'm pretty athletic
you know i mean but other than that like i was just a failure you know i mean i
just you know and then
every time you would bring home like an f to your violent korean dad and your
mom they would
get violent and crazy and it was just like your brother good in school he was
up until his senior
year and then he kind of drifted but um yeah he was like the christian you know
he did he went to
church and he also you know got straight a's and then i don't know what
happened that's a tough comparison
because my brother was really good in school and i was terrible at school yeah
and that just makes you
look you look even worse worse yeah it's terrible did you hate your brother no
i love them yeah i love my
brother yeah i love 100 and then i went to rehabs i just remember in um in high
school i did went to
three two or three like one detox two regular rehabs and then i um yeah and um
nice ones though out
there in california mcdonald center was the one that got me you know in la jolla
okay and that's where so
that's where see i believe um i what's so funny i don't know you i just i love
you yeah i believe
that nothing happens everything happens for a reason okay and i believe in sort
of like this cosmic
thing where like it just if you do make the right choices that there's a path
and things just fall in
line the way it's supposed to and i don't fight it you know i mean plus when
you're growing up in a
you know immigrant home you you there's no life skills that you learn because i
don't know the
korean language my parents never taught me anything about anything like
everything that i learned was
through like scorsese movies or whatever you know i mean like main streets you
know what i mean like i
would rent movies and watch them so it's like i had no life skills so like when
i went to
that rehab when my junior year in high school mcdonald center that's where i
kind of learned
how to live you know i mean and learned things and i learned that you know
things
kind of happen for a reason and that i'm supposed to be at that rehab and i
just kind of bought into
all that right so it's like so i i went to rehab in la jolla i got sober in la
jolla i grew up in a
town called poway which is like 45 minutes away right so all every a meeting i
went to was in la
jolla now what's in la jolla the comedy store yeah go so after high school i
moved to la jolla because
that's where all my sober friends were and i started working in there and i
happened to have a job
at a coffee shop that was attached to the comedy store the one that you went to
yeah yeah it used
to be a p