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I do a joke, I do a bit in my stand-up that I say I wish my girlfriend makes me Bento boxes, and now she does.
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So sometimes you just have to badger someone with stand-up until they do something.
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What's up, GQ?
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It's Jimmy O. Yang, and these are my essentials.
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One of my essentials is this matcha set.
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I bring it everywhere with me to set, at home, anywhere we travel to because I don't really drink coffee, it gets me too great.
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I have multiples of these at home.
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When I travel, I take one of my trailer and I make myself a fresh matcha every morning.
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It gets a little bit of caffeine, but it's also a nice meditative thing to do, to whisk it.
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I don't drink coffee, it gets me too jittery.
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I feel like I can't get into my character a lot of times when I drink coffee and I can't sleep at night.
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So matcha is an absolute essential for me, and everywhere I go I always ask for a cup of hot water, whether it's from crafty, whatever.
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Now I'm kind of doing what my mom does, like she'll go to Olive Garden and ask for a glass of hot water.
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I don't know how older Asian people especially do it, like piping hot 120 degree water, just like, just chugging it, right?
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Just mouth of steel.
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My temp is about 80, 85 max, I would say.
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This is one of my favorite essentials, it's my Bento box set that my girlfriend got for me.
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She lovingly packs me a lunch every day because on set with catering, sometimes the food is a little heavy, it's kind of a bit of a crap shoot.
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So let's see what we have in here.
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Oh, we got some crab fried rice here today.
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I think this is soup, the shrimp tom yum soup.
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I mean, come on, guys, you don't get this on set.
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This is absolutely essential to have a good meal that's not too heavy, and it's also portion control because if there's food in front of me, I'm gonna eat it.
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So if there's a whole catering portion of food, I'm gonna eat all of it, and then after lunch, I just would not be able to perform.
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The Bento box is totally essential.
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And one of my essentials that I'm already wearing is this, these shoes that I discovered.
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They're like tiny little rain boots that doesn't have a whole boot, they're just rubber shoes.
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I love gardening with them.
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At first, me and my girlfriend both bought a pair, and also we wear the same shoe size, so we're very blessed that we can just interchange our shoes.
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Yeah, these are beautiful.
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Look at the color.
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It's by this brand called CVS.
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We just saw it at a store in Santa Barbara when we were in the midst of wine tasting, so this was definitely like a drunken purchase, but it has been the best pair of shoes so far.
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It's better than any slides, it's like a real pair of shoes.
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It's comfortable with driving, good for the rain, and it started what as gardening shoes, and now I just wear it everywhere, even for a GQ interview.
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And from my emotional support essential, I got this guy, my Tayto potato.
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Squeezy Tayto.
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Look at this.
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It's a stress relief potato, and it's just super cute.
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I think Japanese thing called Tato, his name is T.A.Y.T.O.
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Tayto.
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So I've been collecting a lot of different Tayto things.
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This like my Hello Kitty is super cute and squishy, and whenever you know I'm frustrated or like stressed, I just squeeze him a couple times.
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I think everyone should have their version of a squishy squeeze a potato.
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Look at him, he's so cute.
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Anything, when your name is already perfect, why name you anything?
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His name is just Tayto.
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Beat that.
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Another essential that I take everywhere with me is this craft gun, massage gun.
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I mean, there's many brands out there.
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I particularly love this because it's a smaller startup.
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I actually waited like three months on a Kickstarter to get this thing.
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It's really cool, it switches and it's really powerful, and just after a tough day, you know, whether it's doing stand-up or in this new show I'm doing, I might have a couple fight scenes for you guys.
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You gotta get your body right, you know, it just feels really good.
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This one has a good reach, you can go behind.
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We also have a smaller Theragun, like the baby travel size one that my girlfriend loves, because this one's a little too intense.
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Honestly, it's so powerful, I only have it on the first setting.
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I never get it on the third setting, it's just kind of like too crazy.
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But it's, it's definitely one of my essentials to keep my body right for the rare times that I do work out.
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Yeah, my tightest spot on my body is my shoulder blade, so I want to make sure I get a gun that's long enough and it has good enough reach to hit that.
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Ah, you see, like it's just like, it's like pounding cement.
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It's so stiff and hard on that part.
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That is probably doing some spinal damage to me, I'm not sure.
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You know, a lot of times, after I do a big show and stand-up or even after I wake up from like a stressful night, I always have to tell myself to relax my jaws.
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You know, like I feel like I'm always like clenching my jaw, and I didn't realize how much stress I had on it.
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So maybe they should start making one of these that's small enough, just a baby one for your face and jaw, you know?
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Yeah, I think they call that a vibrator.
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I think everyone should have one of these in a household.
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It's a Pei Pa Koa.
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It's something I grew up with in Hong Kong, it's like a throat coating medicine syrup.
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It's a lot of herbs in it.
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It's actually great for voiceovers.
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One of my favorite actors, friends, and one of the most brilliant voiceover actors, my friend Ben Schwartz, he's the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog.
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I've always had this in my house, right?
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But he was the one that told me to take it before and after voiceover jobs.
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So the word has gone now outside the Chinese community into the voiceover community, and now hopefully to the world and the fashion world in GQ.
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Cough suppressant and dispersing of mucus.
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That was actually a commercial in Hong Kong.
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Oh yeah, it rhymes.
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Flonase, I need it every day, just a couple spritz inside the nostrils got me feeling right, you know what I mean?
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I actually used to get a lot of strep throat, a lot of sore throats, and I went to an ear, nose, and throat doctor even as an adult when I was like 30 years old, like maybe I need my tonsils out, and he was like, that's the procedure I should really avoid.
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How about just try Flonasing for two, three months straight?
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Don't skip a day, don't only Flonase when you need it.
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Flonase every day, and then all my sore throats went away.
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And this is not a commercial for Big Pharma, this is just something that works for me.
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We need medical disclaimers.
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Don't let a comedian tell you to use Flonase.
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Interesting, I think growing up in Hong Kong and China, allergy wasn't a big concept.
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And now coming to America, I'm like, oh, a lot of my ailments were just allergies, you know?
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But I don't know, I don't know which culture is actually correct because now you have people that are deathly ill with a flu and they're just like, oh no, just, just allergies, man.
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I'm totally cool being at this party.
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So I don't trust that either.
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This is one of my essentials.
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What is it?
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It's a drink, it's called in Mandarin, and it's literally a dollar for this whole pack.
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And if you open it, there's these little packs, and then you can make a little tea.
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It's a little sweet herbal tea, it doesn't have any caffeine or anything, I don't think.
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There's hot and cold, you know, in Chinese culture, this is more cooling.
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So if you eat too much fried food, too much hot sauce, you want some of this to cool you down.
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So this is what I do after lunch.
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To me, it's almost like a Chinese digestive, and it's better than, you know, drinking coffee or drinking another tea, too much caffeine after lunch.
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So sometimes I mix this with a little ginseng and that gives me the energy, but this is just a nice chill drink.
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You pour in some hot water and it mixes it, it's pretty cool.
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And I think it's good for you, not sure.
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And to go with my Bento meals, it's very essential to have a good hot sauce.
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I actually have a collection of hot sauce in my trailer when I shoot.
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I have some Italian turoni peppers, I have the Lao Gan Ma, the Chinese chili oil, and this is one of my recent favorites, it's the Queen Majesty Scotch bonnet ginger hot sauce.
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It has a really good kick with the Scotch bonnet, but also very sophisticated and goes well with everything, chicken, fish, Asian food, American food.
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Big favorite.
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I think it helps my performance to feel like I'm not at work and I'm at home, and I'm comfortable and I'm in my body, right?
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Like it's, I guess very actor talk, but at the same time, one time I brought this Trinidadian scorpion sauce to work just for fun.
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It's delicious, and I put it on some chicken that Bree made me, and it was so hot, completely ruined my whole face of makeup.
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I was sweating, they had to redo my hair and makeup for like another 30 minutes, so don't do that.
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Know your limits.
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And another one of my essentials is this, it's a hand sanitizer.
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It looks like a little credit card.
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It's this brand, No Shin Ku.
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We got in the gifting bag once, and now me and my girlfriend love it.
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It smells great, it almost smells like perfume.
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This one's actually out.
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How embarrassing.
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That's how much I use it.
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But it's like a wallet size hand sanitizer, and you just spritz it on here, and it just, you gotta just trust me, it smells really good.
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I used to use some hand sanitizer before COVID because it's just easier than washing your hands at times, but ever since COVID, I have like an assortment of hand sanitizers in my house, but this is definitely the most classy, coolest, and best smelling one.
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Yeah, it comes in a lot of different scents.
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This one's called Vetiver.
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I also don't know why I said it in like a French accent, like it's probably just like Vetiver.
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No Shin Ku, if you're listening to this, send me some more, send me a box, I need this.
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It's kind of expensive, I think.
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Oh, oh, wait a minute, it's coming back to life.
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Perfume, it's beautiful.
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Big fan.
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Thanks, GQ, and these are my essentials.
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Thank you for tuning in, and repeat.