Episode Transcript
[00:00:15] Speaker A: Greetings, troubled listeners. Welcome back to the Troubled men podcast. I am Renee Coleman, sitting once again in Snake and Jake's Christmas club lounge in the heart of the Clempire with my co host, the original troubled man for troubled times, Mr. Manny Chevrolet. Welcome, Manny.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: Hey. Thank you very much. How you doing?
[00:00:34] Speaker A: I'm good, I'm good. We're here a little bit early. We. We got here. Snake and Jake, they still had the doors chained up.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: Yeah, that was to keep people in.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: Well, surely they do that from time to time.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: Yeah. So, yeah, we were starting a little early tonight, but it's already a raucous kind of crowd already.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: It is. I know.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: I think it's the festival season.
Yes. You just had the FQ fest.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: French Quarter Fest. Yeah, yeah.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: Tomorrow starts the jazz fest.
[00:01:02] Speaker A: Right.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: Which I've already, like. My wife and I are strategically. Got the saw horses and the caution tape and the cones.
I don't use the trash cans because people move dog walkers.
[00:01:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:01:18] Speaker B: Dog walkers. And people will tend to move them saying, what's the trash can doing here? Right, right. Because that's why I use the saw horses with the caution tape.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: And then you have orange cones, too.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: I have orange cones.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: Professional.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And, well, my neighbor Pat Goody from Goody Construction, the president and founder of Goody Construction, shout out to him. He. He gave me some cones a few years.
[00:01:43] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: And after Katrina, he also gave me a.
One of those big long sticks that picks up metal things. A big. Yeah. Oh, you know, for nails and stuff.
[00:01:55] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. With a magnet on it.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, he gave me one. I have one of those. Anytime there's a storm, I go around the house in front of the house,
[00:02:02] Speaker A: pick up any roofing nails that might have blown.
[00:02:05] Speaker B: Roofing nails? You know, just nails. And it's good for the people's tires on the street, you know, So I have that.
[00:02:12] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: And it's always good to have.
And so the jazz fest is starting tomorrow.
The first weekend. Are you playing the first weekend?
[00:02:22] Speaker A: I'm. I'm playing tomorrow with Lynn Drury and playing the next day. Or playing on Saturday with.
With. I don't know.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: You can't remember.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: I'm playing Saturday with yourself tomorrow. No, no, I'm playing tomorrow with Lindro. The next day with loose cattle.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: At the festival.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: Well, you know, things start happening crazy. The heat's coming up. You know, people are getting crazy. In fact, last year, caterpillars. Caterpillars are happening. They're deadly. Apparently. They're very, very deadly. I see them and I just walk around them. I don't want to. Who eats them? Do the birds eat them or.
[00:02:56] Speaker C: I don't know. They're poisonous. I had one fall on my head the other day.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: Really? I heard they can sting you. Oh yeah, they have this vicious sting you.
[00:03:03] Speaker C: It did.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:03:05] Speaker A: The scalp.
[00:03:06] Speaker C: I don't know. I screamed and threw it off.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: Did you write a Yelp review about it?
[00:03:11] Speaker C: I didn't, no.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: You're not going to get any money from that.
Do they die after they sting you? Are they one of those kind of bugs?
Yeah. But anyway, speaking of crazy things, last night I was closing up the house and stuff, closing the shutters and doing some stuff and I saw. I always see dog walkers and you know, in my neighborhood and stuff. I saw this guy across the street. I've never seen him before. He's walking a. Just a regular looking dog, you know, four legs, brown, maybe 60 pound dog or something like that.
But he's brushing his teeth while walking the dog.
I was like, what the fuck is this guy doing?
He had like an electric toothbrush and
[00:03:57] Speaker C: I could hear it multitasking.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: Yeah, crazy.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: I don't know if he's getting ready to kiss the dog or something. I have no idea.
But it was very strange. Now I had never seen that before.
No, no. I've seen people like, I have a neighbor a couple blocks away who walks his dog and holds a cocktail in his hand.
[00:04:17] Speaker A: Okay, that makes sense.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: You know, he walk. He does that, which is fine.
Sometimes I will bring in the trash cans or take out the trash in my robe.
You know, I do that once in a while.
[00:04:29] Speaker A: Huh. But no too.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: It's getting more frequent doing that.
Just walking out with my robe.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: You care less and less.
[00:04:37] Speaker B: Well, I do, but I've never seen anyone brushing their teeth while walking their dog.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: No.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: You know, so I don't know. It's crazy. Going nuts out there.
[00:04:48] Speaker A: Maybe next time you'll see him we'll have like an electric razor.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Well, yeah, you know, I don't know. Or maybe the dog will be walking him.
I have no idea. But the other big news going on we. The sewager and waterboard is again, they a big huge break out there in the canal. Whatever.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: Or it's dumping raw sewage into the Industrial Canal.
[00:05:10] Speaker B: Yeah, right. And the first thing they said was don't fish there.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: Don't fish or swim there. That's the first press release I saw
[00:05:18] Speaker A: who knew that people were swimming or fishing there in the first place.
Well, I Did see a guy talking about one of the divers or something, and he's saying there's zero. You can't see an inch in front of your face. It says it's all by feeling. That's all the whole thing.
[00:05:33] Speaker B: Looking for Loch Ness.
[00:05:34] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He said you have to go feel it around and then make a mental picture in your mind and go up and draw it.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: Well, the thing I'm thinking is, like, these pipes are underwater. How the fuck are you going to fix it if it's underwater?
[00:05:49] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: I mean, you can't drain it. You can't drain the canal.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: No, no. I mean, you must have to put some kind of containment device on it. I don't know how that.
A big, giant clamp on it of
[00:06:00] Speaker B: some sort if you can't see where the hole is.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: Well, I mean, you got a feel for where the hole is.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: Can they lose that? You know, the space imagery? Can't they do that kind of stuff, you know, when they see fires, you know, from space?
[00:06:12] Speaker A: I don't know if it can penetrate. I mean, it's not a fire, you know, it's just water. Dirty water mixing with less dirty water. Slightly less dirty water, and a big, giant black pipe in black water. I don't know, It's.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: It's. They're fucked out there.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: But, yeah, it's. You know, somebody ran into it. But just the fact that the thing is in a position where a vessel could run into it is the.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Why is a vessel. Was it a huge, like, tanker?
[00:06:37] Speaker A: I don't know what it was.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: But it's a canal, right?
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, you'd think that the. The pipe would be in a position where it couldn't be hit by anything, but there you go.
[00:06:46] Speaker B: I don't know, man. I blame our mayor for it. I blame it for everything. I know, I know, I know, I know. You know, scapegoat. Other big news going on is our fearless leader who starts a war and then he can't finish it. And it's. What I'm thinking is like, he started this war and the people he started with are like, what the fuck? You know, we didn't. We didn't ask to get bombed. You know, you just fucking. And now you want us to stop defending ourselves. You know, it's just like. I don't know. Anyway, I can go on and on about it, but he says some of the stupidest stuff I've ever heard in my life. And then his cabinet is falling apart. But another big News. I don't know if you hear, but they've asked.
They're auctioning off memorabilia from the Titanic.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: I did see that.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: Did you see that?
And I saw that a, a life preserver jacket went for like $200,000.
And.
And then I heard also this watch from a very famous rich man was auctioned off just today for like a million six or something like that.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: You have some items that you have your eye on?
[00:07:52] Speaker B: No, I.
Hatred towards the filmmakers anyway.
No. But then I was thinking to myself, well, this guy died with his watch on, so who, who found the body and took the watch?
[00:08:06] Speaker A: You know, maybe he left it in the stateroom or something.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Hurry. You know, you gotta, you gotta imagine he was, you know, not, not worried about the jewelry so much.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Like that old lady with the jewelry.
[00:08:17] Speaker A: Right, Right.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: You see that happened to her that they.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: And they found Seinfeld line ever was when George says, I just saw that movie the Titanic. And Jerry says, well, what'? Think? And George says to Jerry, that lady, she's just a liar. Right.
One of the best lines ever in TV history. That old lady, she's just a liar. And Jerry goes, yeah. And somewhat of a tramp, I think.
Anyway, yeah, they're having that going on. I tried to bid. I build like, I bid for like some menu item.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: In the, in the club. And I bid like eight bucks. But yeah, they wanted euros.
[00:08:56] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: So I was like, whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Any other news going on?
[00:09:01] Speaker A: You know, I could go into stuff, but you know, maybe we should get to our guest. Yeah, she has.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: She's got a great laugh too.
[00:09:08] Speaker A: Yes, she. Yes, we. She's a very spirited young lady. We're anxious to get into it with her. So. Shall we do that, Manny?
[00:09:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: And this is a guest that really is Pennies from heaven came out of nowhere and you know, we were, we were not going to have a show. We couldn't, didn't have a guest. And then out of nowhere, this just fell into our laps. It's. It could have been more.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: I was really drunk when I got that email. I was so drunk I fell upstairs. That's how drunk I was.
Can you imagine that? Anyway, go on. I'm sorry.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: That's all right. Well, she's a terrific stand up comedian, producer, writer, model, actress, podcast host with credits including the Last Comic Standing, Netflix Is a Joke and Peacock Channel half hour special Hanoi Honey.
She's recently launched Rosie Tran presents as a 10 episode comedy series available on Amazon Prime.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Highlighting Female and diverse comedians and stand up and interview segments. She's toured all around the world, but she'll be appearing right here in New Orleans at the Zeitgeist Theater Sunday, May 3rd on the embarrassed by Night show. And also it's documentary screening for the Empathizer, which is a film that she co produced. We're going to get into all that and much more. But without further ado, the great Ms. Rosie Tran. Welcome, Rosie.
[00:10:36] Speaker C: Hi, guys. Thanks for having me.
[00:10:37] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, thanks.
[00:10:39] Speaker A: Thanks for coming on.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: So you, like, you're from here, right?
[00:10:43] Speaker C: Yes, I'm from the west bank of New Orleans.
[00:10:45] Speaker B: Born and raised in New Orleans.
[00:10:46] Speaker C: Born and raised.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: Now, I did see one of your little bits when I before I passed out that you're Vietnamese, Chinese, Right. Or Chinese. What are you?
[00:10:59] Speaker C: I'm Vietnamese.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: Vietnamese. Now, did your family, were they Vietnamese who like came to America after the whole conflict there? Were they boat people or. They were already here? They were boat people.
[00:11:12] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:11:13] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. Because I grew up in Los Angeles and I remember after the war boat people came to California. They would.
The government put them in select places, you know, but for some reason they took a bunch of boat people from Vietnam and they put them in Santa Barbara, California, which I thought was like, well, these people aren't going to like that at all.
[00:11:35] Speaker C: Actually, New Orleans is the perfect place because it's very similar to Vietnam. It's super humid.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: Right.
[00:11:40] Speaker C: There's a seafood culture and there's just a lot of similarities. There's a French influence here, there's a French influence in Vietnam. So New Orleans is probably the closest place to home.
[00:11:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:51] Speaker C: That Vietnamese people could find, I think, in America.
[00:11:54] Speaker B: Right.
[00:11:55] Speaker C: Well, maybe Florida.
[00:11:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:56] Speaker C: I think New Orleans more.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: I think so too.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: I could see sending boat people, like towards the Bay Area where there's like other Asian communities and there's Korean communities in LA and stuff. But to send a bunch of Vietnamese boat people to Santa Barbara just made no sense whatsoever. And Santa Barbara is just like rich, rich, rich people who don't want, who don't want this kind of thing happening to them.
[00:12:19] Speaker A: And I remember other people that are not them.
[00:12:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Who are not them. Exactly. You know, who are not. You know, usually those people are their servants and stuff like that, you know, that kind of stuff. But then I remember about two years after they settled and they, they were opening little shops and restaurants and stuff. And I'll never forget this. This is like, I guess 1980, 81, there was this big news story on the local LA News where Santa Barbara residents don't take this badly. But Santa Barbara residents, when someone says,
[00:12:53] Speaker C: don't take this back.
[00:12:58] Speaker B: Santa Barbara residents were complaining that their dogs were missing.
And it was just like, so of course the Vietnamese got blamed, you know, but nothing was happening. They were just losing their dogs.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: That's probably the coyotes, right? They have a lot of coyotes.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a mountainous community. Coyotes. Lots of, you know, David Crosby lived there for years. He was probably on acid fucking around with dogs and stuff.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: Who knows? You know, we always ask, where'd you go to high school? Now, I actually did see a little interview with you before here, so I know which high school you went to. But not only that, you and I went to the same junior high school. Edna Car.
[00:13:37] Speaker C: Did you? Edna Car.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: And went to the same high school. Ben Franklin.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:13:41] Speaker C: Are you a West Maker?
[00:13:42] Speaker A: Yes, I am.
[00:13:43] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: And I was trying to think when
[00:13:45] Speaker C: you were, where did you go to elementary school, though?
[00:13:48] Speaker A: Alice Hart.
[00:13:48] Speaker C: Me too.
The Alice Hart. Edna Car. Ben Franklin Pipeline.
[00:13:56] Speaker A: That's right. That's right. That's right, exactly.
My sister, Rebecca Komen went through the same pipeline. She's a little bit ahead. She's a little bit older than you. I was trying to think if y' all were in this, would have been at Franklin at the same time. I think she's about six years older than you, so. No, but you must be the child of. Of Vietnamese who came here after the war.
[00:14:14] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm first generation. My parents are immigrants.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Right. So I remember when I was a student at Carr, so I was at Rosenwald when Saigon fell.
So by the time I was at car, that was the first year where we had an influx of Vietnamese students. And I remember these kids coming into class and thinking, man, that's tough. These people barely speak English, man.
That's a horrible position to have to be in. They just came from a war torn country, and now they're now the very next year. Many of these students were at the top of every class.
And I thought, wow, man, that's some fucking people there, man.
[00:14:54] Speaker C: You're like, what am I doing wrong?
[00:14:55] Speaker A: No, no. I was like, no, that's a different kind of people there that can turn it around that quickly. I was extremely impressed. So you were second generation of that community that was there. What part of the west bank did y' all live in?
[00:15:08] Speaker C: In Algiers?
[00:15:09] Speaker A: Okay, yeah. I mean, like old Aurora kind of, or.
[00:15:13] Speaker C: Yeah, old Aurora. I grew up like a block away from Aliceart.
[00:15:16] Speaker A: Oh, all right. Right on. Yeah. Well, that's, man, crazy you have siblings?
[00:15:21] Speaker C: I do. I have a younger sister, an older sister and a half brother.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: A half brother. And your parents are still alive or.
[00:15:28] Speaker C: No, no, my dad passed away four years ago.
[00:15:31] Speaker B: Sorry. Okay, thank you.
And what's, you know, going to these public schools or whatever they're called here. I don't know.
What, when did you, like, did you just sit in front of the TV and watch the Tonight show and stuff like that? You know, we're gonna get to the comedy early.
[00:15:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I didn't even know what stand up comedy was.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: You didn't?
[00:15:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I was not watching the Tonight Show.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: You're not watching any of that?
You know, was he, Johnny, still around or was you just watching Jay Leno?
[00:16:00] Speaker C: I think Jay Leno was on.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:02] Speaker C: When I was younger.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: Because we're much, I think we're much older than you.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: Yeah. She could be our child.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: Oh, absolutely. No, absolutely. I know, I know.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: May you are, you know. I don't know.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: No, I know what I mean.
Age wise. Okay. That's what I mean.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: Right.
So you're in school, you're doing well. Grammar school, you're doing well, you're making friends, American friends, Hispanic friends, all sorts of people.
Melting pot from here. Yeah, I know that, I know that.
You know, but I mean, I, I'm from here too, but I was, you know, picked on for being Latino and stuff like that and, you know, it happens.
[00:16:45] Speaker C: You know, actually, I think the dynamic of New Orleans has changed a lot even since post Katrina. Like there wasn't really a strong Latino community here until post Katrina.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: No, Manny was out in la.
[00:16:55] Speaker C: No, I know Manny was in la. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm staying out here.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Well, because someone had to rebuild the city.
[00:17:00] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: Well, we always had the Hispanics come.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: We always had Central Americans here.
[00:17:05] Speaker C: We always had a lot of Central and South Americans here.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: And Cubans, we didn't have a lot of Mexicans. That was, that's what we were missing.
[00:17:11] Speaker C: Yeah, that was a post Katrina thing.
[00:17:13] Speaker A: Hard to get good Mexican food here.
Well, so, so you're saying you, what were your interests when you were in high school and stuff?
You weren't into, into comedy or were you in theater performance of some. Of any, any type, music or anything?
[00:17:29] Speaker B: No, nothing.
[00:17:30] Speaker C: Okay. I grew up in a really strict Vietnamese immigrant household and my parents expected me to be a doctor or lawyer or do something like that. And I wanted to be a fashion designer.
[00:17:40] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:17:40] Speaker C: Yeah. But I was dating a guy who wanted to be a stand up comedian and so I didn't even know anything about stand up comedy. And I was going with him to a lot of local open mics in New Orleans.
[00:17:50] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:17:51] Speaker C: And the New Orleans Comedy Festival, which there was. There's been a couple cycles of it, but there was a New Orleans comedy festival and I would go with him to all of his shows and that's how I got introduced to stand up comedy.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: Now New Orleans is kind of a tough town for comedy as as much as it's a town famous for music and food, it's not so much for comedy. Have you. Don't you agree?
[00:18:12] Speaker C: I mean, I think New Orleans has a really, really great comedy community, but comedy clubs always fail here. And one of the reasons is because people come here to listen to music. Right.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: You don't have the fan base, not that you don't have good comics that.
[00:18:26] Speaker C: I mean, Ellen came from here. Mark Norman came from here.
[00:18:28] Speaker A: Mark Norman. Oh, I know you have, yeah.
[00:18:30] Speaker C: Sean Patton. There's all sorts of comedians that come,
[00:18:33] Speaker B: but they've never come back.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: I'm just saying it's not a place that has a club scene, that support.
[00:18:40] Speaker B: She's right. It's more people come here to hear music. Right, right. And to piss in the streets and puke in the gutters and stuff like that. They don't come here to hear jokes.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: But there's been an ongoing effort to develop rooms and to develop the scene. And I know I was looking at your schedule during the past month and you had eight or nine spots, different places.
[00:19:03] Speaker C: Yeah, there's a really, really good local comedy scene here and there's, there's a festival and Skank Fest has been coming here the last few years.
[00:19:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, Skank Fest. Now, did you go to Skank Fest?
[00:19:13] Speaker C: I didn't, I didn't. But there's, there's a lot of, I think draw to New Orleans, but it's just really, really hard to maintain a comedy club here. There's been many, many comedy clubs here since I've been doing stand up. There was a comedy club in Metairie in the old like hotel called the Joke Gym. There was an improv at the Harrah's before it was Caesars. And there's been. There was a comedy club called Comedy House New Orleans that was.
Yeah, so there's been a lot of comedy clubs here and long standing comedy rooms here for many, many years. There's a show called Company Gumbo at Howlin Wolf that's every Thursday. That's been going on for over 20 years.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: That's been going on for A long time. And Howlin Wolf will bring national comics in and run shows, you know, either in the big room drop, you know, dropping curtains, making a smaller room out of it, or in the small room that they actually have there.
[00:20:05] Speaker C: I think that there's a big need for comedy here and a big desire for it, but it's just for some reason, a comedy club does not do well and has never done well in the history of New Orleans.
[00:20:18] Speaker A: It hasn't clicked yet. You haven't found the right place yet.
[00:20:21] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I noticed that some clubs will have music six night outside of the week, and then they'll have a comedy night. Yeah, that's probably the way to do it. That's the only way it's going to survive, I think.
[00:20:31] Speaker C: What is happening? Yeah.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: Now, this boyfriend of yours who is doing stand up, is he still doing it or did you break up with him or.
[00:20:37] Speaker C: He cheated on me.
[00:20:41] Speaker B: With another comedian?
[00:20:42] Speaker C: No, with a dominatrix.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:20:46] Speaker C: And I missed going to comedy nights with him. And so I decided. I remember he would always say, you
[00:20:53] Speaker B: know, was he any good?
[00:20:54] Speaker C: He was okay.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: He was okay. But he doesn't do it anymore.
[00:20:57] Speaker C: I don't think so.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: So this is after you.
At what age are you when this is happening?
[00:21:02] Speaker C: 19.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: Okay, so you were just going to college or.
[00:21:06] Speaker C: Yeah. And so we.
I just miss going to comedy nights. And I really.
I started comedy around 18, 19. I don't remember the exact age, but I.
[00:21:17] Speaker B: Were you keeping it a secret from your family?
[00:21:19] Speaker C: I did. I did keep it a secret because I didn't really know what to say. I mean, I felt like, you know, I was a straight A student. I was a really smart kid, and I think my parents wanted me to do something more traditional for sure.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: Now, did your other siblings become attorneys and doctors and.
[00:21:37] Speaker C: No.
[00:21:37] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: That's cool.
[00:21:40] Speaker A: So you had some coverage. It wasn't just you.
[00:21:44] Speaker C: Yeah. So, yeah, no one in my family has followed the traditional path. So.
[00:21:50] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:21:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: Now your parents, are they doctors and attorneys?
[00:21:55] Speaker C: No, my mom had a very stereotypical job. She had a nail salon on the West Bank.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:21:59] Speaker C: Yeah. And then a Vietnamese nail salon. And then my dad actually worked at Toro. He was the head of biomedical engineering for many years there.
[00:22:07] Speaker A: Okay, well. Yeah, there. So there you go.
[00:22:10] Speaker C: But he also owned for many, many years, one of the two. You guys probably don't know about this only because you're not Vietnamese.
Vietnamese newspapers in the city, huh?
[00:22:22] Speaker A: No, I didn't know that there were any.
[00:22:23] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: Why would I?
[00:22:25] Speaker C: But there's Two Vietnamese newspapers, and he owned one of them. It was. It's still running. I just actually went to a restaurant, a Vietnamese restaurant in the west bank, and I saw the newspaper. Someone else took over it on one of the counters. It was called the Little Saigon News of New Orleans.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[00:22:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: All right, before we go on with your career, what's the best Vietnamese restaurant in this town?
Tell me.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: Good question.
[00:22:46] Speaker C: I don't. I don't like that question, Manny.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: She's going to make. Make enemies. Yeah.
[00:22:51] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:22:52] Speaker C: Well, here's the reason.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: After this.
[00:22:53] Speaker C: Here's the reason why. It's kind of like saying, what's your favorite food? There's. If someone who has. And maybe I'm insulting you guys on accident, but someone who has a favorite food doesn't really love food.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:23:04] Speaker C: Right. Because if you love food, you love food.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:23:07] Speaker C: And there's.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: I like peanut butter and Bosco. And Bosco.
[00:23:11] Speaker C: So.
[00:23:11] Speaker A: No, I get you. I got you. So there are.
[00:23:14] Speaker B: So.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: There are many, many great.
[00:23:15] Speaker C: There's so many great restaurants. Vietnamese restaurants, for sure. Yeah.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: You know, one of the best ones to dine in ditch.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: You know, I was recently this festival out in New Orleans east that's run out of this church, Vietnamese church out there. And I remembered as a kid when that church was dedicated, my band played it, and the archbishop at the time showed up.
[00:23:41] Speaker C: Oh, wow.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: Dedication to this church. And it was this guy Schulte, who was from Pennsylvania, and he sat in and sang the Beer Barrel Polka with the band.
I just had this. As I'm pulling into the park, and I'm like, oh, I thought I was. Remember this thing that happened?
Anyway, so. So you're. You're. You. You get the taste for it now, do you?
In. In your boyfriend's absence. Absence, you start going to some open night, open mic nights and. And trying your hand at it.
[00:24:10] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: Now, how was that? Just writing? I mean, what was the process for you? You know, getting your feet wet?
[00:24:18] Speaker C: Yeah, So I kind of already, I think, was doing comedy writing unconsciously by going with him to his shows. Cause I would sit in the back
[00:24:25] Speaker B: and say, he should have said this. He should have said that.
[00:24:28] Speaker C: Yeah, I would tell him that. I would tell him that all the time. I would say, you know, babe, you should say it like this. It's funnier.
And every time he would do it, he would get a laugh. So I was kind of writing.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: So he liked being dominated.
Yeah, I get it. I get it.
[00:24:45] Speaker C: He would get a little annoyed. He would say, well, this is actually. He planted the seed. He said, well, if you think you're so funny, why don't you write five minutes of material?
And I would. And I would, you know, think, well, I'm. I was so shy. I was like, oh, I'm not gonna write five minutes of stand up. But then when he said that, I started. The wheel started turning and I was like, well, what would I talk about? And so I started thinking about material.
[00:25:04] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:25:05] Speaker C: And that was the start of it.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: So then you're. You're. I know, I know.
[00:25:10] Speaker C: So.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: So then you're at. In college at the time now, where'd you go to college?
[00:25:14] Speaker C: I went to Cal State LA in Los Angeles. Okay, good. Yeah,
[00:25:19] Speaker B: yeah. Well, I grew up in west la. I've been to Cal State la. It's a nice campus.
Last time I was there, it was maybe the 80s.
I'm sure it's changed.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: So were you doing comedy out there when you were in college?
[00:25:35] Speaker C: I was. I was doing comedy very aggressively and pretty much.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: So why do you go there to school? Is there just a major there that they offered that they couldn't get here or you just wanted to get out of town?
[00:25:46] Speaker C: I wanted to get out of town. I basically moved with my boyfriend. He wanted to.
[00:25:51] Speaker B: Oh, you were still seeing him at the time?
[00:25:53] Speaker C: At the time, yeah.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:25:54] Speaker C: I wanted.
[00:25:54] Speaker D: He.
[00:25:54] Speaker C: He had a. An uncle who was a famous screenwriter, and so he thought maybe he could help him with his career, so we moved to Los Angeles.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: Okay, and so you're going to school out there and you're still doing spots, going out.
[00:26:09] Speaker C: Yeah, Doing stand up.
[00:26:10] Speaker B: And where are you. Where are you going? Like you're going to the Sunset Strip, Melrose.
[00:26:14] Speaker C: Yeah. Comedy Store.
[00:26:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:15] Speaker C: Laugh Factory.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: Yeah, Laugh Factory. Go to open mic nights and stuff.
[00:26:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:19] Speaker B: Now, I've only tried stand up alone, by myself maybe a dozen times in my career. And I must be honest, it is. And you can ask any fucking actor, any fucking person who's been on stage in a play, doing stand up is the hardest thing to do ever.
[00:26:38] Speaker C: Will Ferrell says it's the hard. He can't do it. Will Ferrell tried to do stand up.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: No, no. Well, look at Michael Richards tried to do.
Didn't work out. Well, you know, it is. Has to be the hardest thing to do.
I mean, you could be a fucking Shakespearean, thespian, trained actor, but you. Hey, thespian. Hey, Olivier, come do two minutes, three minutes of fucking standups.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Nowhere to hide. Nowhere to hide, man. You're completely exposed.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: Yeah. And when you bomb. You bomb.
[00:27:10] Speaker C: And also, audiences are more judgmental of stand up. They're like, make me laugh, you know,
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Whereas, Yeah, I paid 20 bucks a year. Fucking make me laugh.
[00:27:18] Speaker C: Whereas if you're a dramatic actor or something else, I think there's a little more leeway.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Yeah, they're more open to it.
It's more of an adversarial relationship in comic.
[00:27:31] Speaker C: I've even done shows where people are trying not to laugh.
They have their arms crossed and they're like, yeah, make me laugh, bitch.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: Right? Yeah.
[00:27:40] Speaker A: So when you get out there to the Comedy Store and Laugh Factory, are people welcoming to you? What's your experience when you get out there? Is there. Who is out there? Who's up and coming? Anybody. We would know at the time who. You're rubbing elbows.
[00:27:54] Speaker C: I.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: Any.
[00:27:57] Speaker A: Any horrible stories you want to repeat? You don't. You don't have to. You don't have to.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: But Bobcat Goldthwaite, the comedy scene was.
[00:28:04] Speaker C: Was pretty brutal. When I started in the early 2000s, it was. It was pretty. It was pretty much a boys club.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: And that was like, before the current comedy boom. It was really a low ebb.
[00:28:17] Speaker C: Yeah, it was pretty, pretty brutal. It was very, very misogynistic.
It was pretty. It was pretty bad.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: It's even tougher for women. Yeah, it's very tough for the women to get their feet in and stuff like that.
[00:28:31] Speaker C: I mean, I. So I'll tell you guys a story. I won't name names, but I. I submitted a comedy tour idea to the head of a very big chain who. And he. He liked me. He. He was a. He was the manager of a very big comedy chain, and he really, really liked me. And I had performed at the club and I was a regular, and I had submitted an idea for a funny women comedy tour. And he basically said to me, rosie, nobody wants to see funny women. Sorry.
So I would get things like that,
[00:29:01] Speaker B: you know, you wanted to see domineering women, right?
[00:29:03] Speaker C: Yeah, I got. I actually got offered a show on XM radio very early in my career, and I got a voicemail. I mean, this is how brazen it was. I probably could have sued, but whatever. I got a voicemail from the head of, like, XM or Sirius, I can't remember which one, saying, we have to cancel your show because we just had a gay guy and he sued us, so we don't want a woman to sue, and he just canceled me.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I think you probably did that.
[00:29:31] Speaker C: I probably. Probably did have a really great lawsuit. Don't you say, and he left it on voicemail. I was like, oh, great.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: Don't you think, though, when the late 90s came and the Internet and these, these devices and all this, it opened up more doors for women, right?
[00:29:45] Speaker C: It did. But I think they're still. I think so. I think the Internet's amazing.
The Instagram is amazing, all of these platforms are amazing.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: I think it's great. But I also think it's horrible because I think it gives too many people a voice.
[00:29:59] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:29:59] Speaker B: And there's so many people who shouldn't be talking.
[00:30:02] Speaker C: That's a trade off. Yes, exactly. But it does help the little guy. But I do think that there's still an insane number of gatekeepers.
[00:30:08] Speaker B: Right.
[00:30:09] Speaker C: And I think that with the consolidation of media, there's still a lot of people that maybe you think they got famous or viral online, but they're backed by a huge network of corporate conglomerates.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:22] Speaker C: So I think it's kind of a little tricky.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: So. So it just kind of gives you the illusion that this is a grassroots.
[00:30:28] Speaker C: Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:30:30] Speaker A: Okay, interesting.
[00:30:32] Speaker B: Now who, who do you like growing up when you're think you're not even a comedian yet, but who do you like?
[00:30:37] Speaker A: Men.
[00:30:37] Speaker B: Are women doing stand up. Who are you like, wow, that guy's great, or this chick's great?
[00:30:42] Speaker C: Oh, I really. So my idol was shown reverse.
[00:30:45] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, of course.
[00:30:45] Speaker C: I got to meet her in before she passed away and my friend was opening for her in Santa Barbara.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:30:52] Speaker C: I went to go see her and talk to her backstage and she actually completely changed my stand up comedy. I'd seen her, you know, specials and other things like that, but there was nothing like seeing her live.
And she made me realize how lazy I was as a comic.
[00:31:08] Speaker A: How much she wrote.
[00:31:09] Speaker C: Well, not just the writing. So before her, I was just doing straight stand up.
When I watched her, she would do a setup and a punchline, then she would do a tag, then she would do an act out, then she would do another tag to the act out. She was just, she would milk every joke as far as it could be milked.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Yeah, right.
[00:31:28] Speaker C: And I was like, like, oh, I'm not doing that. And I'm still not doing that because I'm not a genius like her. But I just, I realized I was being too lazy by just doing a setup punchline. Another thing I was really embarrassed of was I was, you know, grew up very smart and the comics that I really liked were very edgy and intellectual and I kind of looked down on comics that were Very physical on stage at the time. I don't anymore. And I was like, oh, well, you know, they're just kind of doing physical comedy and just moving around and being very animated. And that's kind of like beneath me. Right.
[00:32:02] Speaker A: Because I wanted to be this cheating or something.
[00:32:04] Speaker C: Yeah. I want it to be this like intellectual comic and be witty and sarcastic. And then I saw Joan and she was not afraid to do an act out. She was not afraid to like make fun of her ex husband in a wheelchair and then push a fake wheelchair on stage.
[00:32:16] Speaker A: Right, right, right. Making faces and stuff.
[00:32:19] Speaker C: Making faces. And I was like, oh, okay. I guess that was a really smart joke. And she didn't act out.
And so she kind of changed my point of view on that. And I'm a little more physical and safe now. I don't do full act outs. That's not really my thing. But I'm more animated, I think.
[00:32:34] Speaker B: Go ahead.
[00:32:34] Speaker A: I was gonna say I saw her the last time she played New Orleans, right before she passed. She did a gig at the Healing Center. And I talked about this recently on the show.
She would do some stuff. She goes, I'm gonna get to the act in a minute. And she would tell more jokes. She goes, I'm gonna get to the act in a minute. You know, it's like that was part of the shtick she had as she was great.
[00:32:55] Speaker C: And also she was like a senior senior citizen and she had like 5 inch high heels on and like a feather boa and did an hour of stand up and like wasn't sweating. I'm like, are you human?
[00:33:06] Speaker B: Like, well, we had. I don't.
Sergeant T. Ben Boudreaux from wtix, he's a joke writer.
He wrote jokes for Joan.
[00:33:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:33:18] Speaker B: And he also wrote Joe jokes for the Tonight Show, Jay Leno and stuff. He was on the show and he told us, which I couldn't believe. He says, he, he wrote, he writes to this day, 40 to 50 jokes a day. It's like, how the do you do that?
[00:33:32] Speaker C: That's insane.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: How do you write 40 to 50 jokes a day? I can get maybe two or three a week, you know, and he told us, he said, well, not all of them are good. Yeah, that's true.
You know, but yeah, you should listen to. He's pretty good.
[00:33:48] Speaker A: Well, he was saying a lot of them that he was writing for the, the radio. He would, he would reformulate. You know, he has standard formulas that he can plug recent current events into. So they weren't.
[00:34:02] Speaker C: Well, you would be Surprised how many things in current events just repeat.
[00:34:05] Speaker A: Yeah, sure.
[00:34:06] Speaker C: Like 10 years later. And then. So you just replace, you know, said child molester with other child molesters.
[00:34:11] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:34:12] Speaker A: The joke still holds up.
[00:34:14] Speaker C: Or a certain corrupt politician with other corrupt politicians.
[00:34:17] Speaker B: Right, yeah. Everything repeats itself.
[00:34:20] Speaker A: Well, so, so, so you, you complete your degree out there now? I think you, you have a graduate degree somewhere, huh?
[00:34:28] Speaker C: I have my master's from Cal State. La. Yeah.
[00:34:30] Speaker A: Oh, you just went straight through.
[00:34:32] Speaker C: It wasn't because I wanted to get it. It was just my parents kept, not necessarily bribing me because I was working as a waitress and other things, but they kept encouraging me to continue my education and hope that I would give up this silly stand up thing.
So I don't want to say it was choice because obviously I have a choice in everything, but I think they really, they really thought it was a phase.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: Right?
[00:34:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:59] Speaker A: So it was a compromise on your part too?
[00:35:01] Speaker C: It was a. They kept encouraging me and kind of like I was, I was, you know, struggling and I was working like waitressing jobs and stuff, so they would send me money and encourage me.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: Sure, right. Oh, yeah, the money talks.
[00:35:12] Speaker C: Like maybe you'll give up, stand up and get a real job. And they, they kind of wanted it as a backup because they didn't really, I don't want to say they didn't really believe in me. I think, you know, you're coming from a war torn country with like $2 in your pocket and you're like, you want to tell jokes for a living? Like, what are you talking about?
[00:35:28] Speaker A: Right, right, right, right. No, we, we, we sweated and worked so hard so that you don't have to be in this position.
[00:35:35] Speaker C: They're like, what are you doing?
[00:35:37] Speaker B: Right.
[00:35:38] Speaker C: So I think they, they wanted me to have a backup. So, I mean, I'm, you know, proud to have my master's degree, but it
[00:35:43] Speaker B: wasn't Masters in what?
[00:35:46] Speaker C: In communications.
[00:35:46] Speaker B: Okay, communications.
[00:35:48] Speaker C: But I wasn't, it wasn't my preference.
I was kind of egged along.
[00:35:51] Speaker A: Right, right, right. You eventually break up with the boyfriend?
[00:35:55] Speaker C: Yeah, well, yeah, he cheated on me and I.
[00:35:59] Speaker B: Are you seeing anyone now? Oh, you're married? I'm married. I'm married, yeah. You're married now?
[00:36:03] Speaker C: I'm married for 15 years. So.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: Children?
[00:36:07] Speaker C: No kids.
[00:36:08] Speaker B: No kids, yeah. Good. Kids are a waste. I just had dinner with my daughter last night. I just looked at her, you know, I looked her and I said, okay, whatever, she's a good kid.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: You've been doing comedy for 15 years or something like that at this point or 24 years. 24 years. Oh, okay. You look very young.
[00:36:29] Speaker C: Thank you. It's a dark bar lighting.
[00:36:31] Speaker A: Sure. Yeah. Well, yeah, this is my preferred lighting too.
This is what I look my best as well.
You still have sitcoms going on? You're going out for pilot season?
[00:36:43] Speaker C: Yeah, I was auditioning. I was, was. I was touring a little bit. I. I toured with the uso.
[00:36:49] Speaker A: How was that?
[00:36:50] Speaker C: Performing for the troops. I toured, you know, internationally and things like that. It was amazing and crazy. I know you guys aren't like, really a political podcast, but just know our dollars are being spent overseas.
[00:37:02] Speaker A: Yeah, well, sure. You know, yeah, we have a huge global presence.
[00:37:05] Speaker C: Yeah. I was just.
[00:37:06] Speaker A: American hegemony is.
[00:37:08] Speaker C: I was just shocked at it. Like, I went to Germany, perform for the US military, and I think we visited 28 bases. I didn't realize there were 28 bases. US bases in Germany.
[00:37:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:37:18] Speaker C: So there's like whole bases that are like entire cities in Germany.
[00:37:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:23] Speaker C: So that was like a wake up call for me. I was really shocked. And I went to Iraq and Kuwait and we were.
[00:37:28] Speaker B: And the, the reception was good with the soldiers and all that.
[00:37:32] Speaker C: Yeah, I had a really positive reception. I was, I was surprised. I was a real. I was a little nervous because it was a lot of, you know, young men.
[00:37:41] Speaker B: Sure, right. Yeah. They want Ann Margaret.
[00:37:43] Speaker A: Right.
[00:37:44] Speaker C: It was fun.
So I, I was a little nervous. It was. It was very strange. There was a lot of things about military culture that were strange to me that I learned about.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:37:56] Speaker C: We had to, like, check in before and after our shows and we'd get debriefed and things like that. So it was very militaristic.
[00:38:03] Speaker B: Oh, I bet.
[00:38:04] Speaker A: Well, yeah. Military.
Supposed to be. Yeah.
[00:38:07] Speaker B: Yeah, let's hope so.
[00:38:08] Speaker A: Debriefing is some of the best part of it, though.
[00:38:11] Speaker B: Then again, some of our military leaders are flying by the. You know, they're getting shot down by the appointees anyway, so.
So that's a good reception. And if I remember correctly, you've.
You've written on some series. Comedy shows. Comedy series. Have you done any writing? Like, like sitcom stuff.
Oh, okay. I thought I read it wrong. I don't know.
I was cramming everything in with one eye open.
[00:38:40] Speaker A: Sure, sure, sure, sure.
[00:38:41] Speaker B: One leg in the toilet, you know, so five.
[00:38:44] Speaker A: Five. Five drinks in. Well, you know, I was actually thinking this. This seems like a.
[00:38:48] Speaker B: Good.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: Take a little break.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: Okay. Rosie. This is a time where the troubled nation knows what to do, and we.
[00:39:04] Speaker D: I will buy you pretty things Everything the season brings and when I'm rich, I'll buy you rings?
Now I'm poor so I will say you are my final change of mind I won't go back, no, not this time. To past and future Now I'm blind, you are my final change of mind I pull my hair, bite my tongue did you know I was once young? Too many groups I did belong.
I'm not the singer but the song I'm not the singer but the song.
But can never cross your moat.
[00:40:25] Speaker A: And we're back, back with Mr. Manny Chevrolet. I am Renee Coleman, back with our guest, Ms. Rosie Tran.
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[00:40:55] Speaker B: Lawrence Gilbert.
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[00:40:58] Speaker B: I'm not sure, but he's not the Hollywood guy. Larry Gilbert, I don't know Gilbert. Remember that guy? I think he produced Cheers.
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[00:42:24] Speaker B: Are you playing the Bob Dylan birthday concert?
[00:42:28] Speaker A: I'm not. I think I'm gonna be.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: I Thought for sure you'd be playing that because you love him so much.
[00:42:33] Speaker A: I do love Bob Dylan, but, you know, everybody does their own thing. So, you know, sometimes people.
[00:42:37] Speaker B: You weren't invited.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: I think I'm on the road then, but I was not invited anyhow, so.
[00:42:42] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:42:42] Speaker A: It's some other bass players involved in that anyways, so there's that. That's enough of that. Back to our guest, the great Miss Rosie Tran now. So, Rosie, welcome back.
[00:42:56] Speaker C: Thank you so much.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: I want to ask you a question, Rosie, real quick beforehand. My question is, why are you here? You're a big star.
You don't need to be with us.
He's a big Jew. I'm a little spic. Where are you going to go with us? Where are you going to go with us? We're not going to go anywhere.
[00:43:14] Speaker C: I love being on the Troubled Men podcast. I'm so happy to be here.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: All right. Okay.
[00:43:18] Speaker A: Now, were you familiar with the Troublemen podcast before today?
[00:43:22] Speaker C: I wasn't.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: Okay. Now we're still. It's still a bit of a mystery as to how we connected, how this. What the. What the exact conduit was that your representation got in touch with us. But we're.
[00:43:35] Speaker C: Well, I'm here. Here I am.
[00:43:36] Speaker A: That's right. It's as I said, pennies from heaven.
Why ask why?
[00:43:41] Speaker C: Just.
[00:43:42] Speaker A: Just be happy with the gifts that God gives you.
[00:43:44] Speaker C: I'm here. We're laughing. We're having a great time. That's all that matters.
[00:43:47] Speaker A: We're having a great time. We and I are having cocktails. You're having a.
[00:43:51] Speaker B: So sweet.
[00:43:52] Speaker A: A soft drink.
[00:43:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I know.
[00:43:54] Speaker A: And. And you're actually doing a show tonight, right? Right after this.
[00:43:58] Speaker C: I am, but this will be released in a week, so.
[00:44:00] Speaker A: I know, but you can still talk about it.
[00:44:01] Speaker B: You.
[00:44:01] Speaker A: So, so you're playing tonight at the. The. The Britannia Bar.
[00:44:05] Speaker C: Yes, at the Britannia Bar.
[00:44:06] Speaker B: They do comedy a lot there.
[00:44:08] Speaker C: They do comedy once a week, every Wednesday.
[00:44:10] Speaker B: Well, that's good. The listeners should know that. That the Britannia Bar does.
[00:44:13] Speaker A: It'll probably be.
[00:44:14] Speaker B: It's on Britannia.
[00:44:15] Speaker C: It's on Britannia.
[00:44:16] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:44:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:17] Speaker A: Whereabouts?
[00:44:18] Speaker C: It's by Turo Hospital.
[00:44:21] Speaker B: Okay. I know exactly.
[00:44:23] Speaker A: Near Louisiana Avenue.
[00:44:24] Speaker C: Yes, exactly. Every Wednesday at 9 o'. Clock. There's a comedy show there and has
[00:44:28] Speaker B: been for a couple of years from Turo. Are dying to get in, I bet. Right.
[00:44:31] Speaker A: They're dying to do.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: Anyway,
[00:44:35] Speaker A: Manny and I, the. The. The Troubleman podcast physician is. Is right there. Right in that locale.
[00:44:40] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:44:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And anytime time we've been admitted. It's been to Touro.
[00:44:45] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a good guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:44:48] Speaker A: Solid.
[00:44:49] Speaker C: So I'm here. So to answer your question, I'm here to have a blast with Manny and Renee.
[00:44:53] Speaker B: Okay. Okay.
[00:44:54] Speaker A: But you're, you're here in New Orleans visiting family and also doing, you know, doing some dates.
[00:45:01] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I spend about 30% of my time in New Orleans, so I come here a lot. My mom's still here, but my sister lives here. I'm very connected to the city, so I'm here performing as much as I can when I could make it a win win and perform and visit my mom.
[00:45:16] Speaker A: Right on. You still have a lot of friends from Ben Franklin here or.
[00:45:20] Speaker C: I do. Most of my friends are from the comedy community now, though a lot of my friends from Ben Franklin have moved away and obviously started their own lives elsewhere. Chicago, New York, wherever people drift off
[00:45:31] Speaker A: to kind of stiffs. Yeah.
[00:45:34] Speaker C: So a lot of my friends here are from the comedy community, which is, like I said, there's no club, but there's a vibrant community. For sure.
[00:45:42] Speaker B: Do you know Mike Strecker?
[00:45:44] Speaker C: I do know Mike Strucker from Tulane.
[00:45:46] Speaker B: Yeah, he was here. He's been on the show.
[00:45:48] Speaker C: Mike Strecker is one of my oldest colleagues in comedy.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: Really? Oh, really?
[00:45:54] Speaker C: I love Mike Strecker.
[00:45:55] Speaker A: He's a good guy.
[00:45:56] Speaker B: He does those children's joke books and stuff.
[00:45:58] Speaker C: Yeah, he's really, really fun.
[00:45:59] Speaker B: Funny. Yeah.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: Have you seen a stand up?
[00:46:01] Speaker B: No, I haven't.
[00:46:02] Speaker C: He's a good guy.
[00:46:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:04] Speaker A: And Jackie Palms, you must know.
[00:46:07] Speaker C: Yes, I know Jackie Palms as well.
[00:46:08] Speaker A: Yeah, she was on the show.
[00:46:09] Speaker C: She's an improv and in an improv troupe as well.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:46:13] Speaker C: A stand up.
[00:46:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Are you involved in improv?
[00:46:16] Speaker C: Not anymore, but I. I've done improv.
[00:46:18] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:46:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:46:19] Speaker A: Well, do you. You went through some comedy training at some point or.
[00:46:24] Speaker C: I did. I studied with a comedian named Adam Barnhart who had a class at the Comedy Store and he helped me out a lot. And I also guest teach at a few comedy teachers classes and stuff like that. So.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: Right on.
[00:46:42] Speaker B: Now, is the improv still in LA or is that gone?
[00:46:46] Speaker C: There's an improv on Melrose.
[00:46:48] Speaker B: On Melrose still there. I used to go there a lot. This is way back, back in the 80s, you know, way long time ago.
[00:46:56] Speaker C: And it's the same location.
[00:46:57] Speaker B: Same location, yeah. And because I hear Melrose is so freaking expensive now that it's so hard to like have a business there.
[00:47:05] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, things are Changing in Los Angeles for sure.
[00:47:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, definitely.
[00:47:10] Speaker C: It's definitely. I mean the whole.
[00:47:13] Speaker B: I, I couldn't move there, back to la, unless I hit a number, you know, that's the only way I can
[00:47:18] Speaker A: move back to number.
[00:47:19] Speaker B: It's very expensive.
[00:47:20] Speaker A: Expensive? No, like the lottery.
[00:47:21] Speaker B: Oh, okay, yeah, that kind of number. The Powerball. Did you hear that? The Powerball is going to go international.
[00:47:28] Speaker A: Huh?
[00:47:29] Speaker B: Did you hear this? No, but yeah, just yesterday I heard that the power, the Powerball is going to go international, which means they'll have like jackpots worth like, you know, a trillion dollars. Yeah, a trillion dollars.
[00:47:42] Speaker C: I don't think that's a good idea.
[00:47:44] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: Could destabilize the, the, the global economic.
[00:47:48] Speaker C: No, so usually like, like, usually lottery winners like don't do well after winning the lottery. Kind of a curse people get. It's just so much money and.
[00:47:57] Speaker B: Well, I would love that curse, baby.
[00:47:59] Speaker A: That curse you'd last about nine months.
[00:48:02] Speaker B: But I think it makes people a fun. Nine would be a great nine months, man.
[00:48:07] Speaker C: I think it makes people like go a little crazy.
[00:48:09] Speaker A: Well, yeah, you know, people that get too much money, they're eight able to, to institute all of their bad ideas, all their worst ideas, worst empire.
[00:48:19] Speaker C: I think it's good if you win the lottery, but like a smaller lottery, like 2 or 3 million. When you win like the billion dollars or the 500 million, that's where you go cuckoo kaka.
[00:48:26] Speaker A: Oh, I thought you were gonna say like a scratcher. Like, like A$20.
[00:48:30] Speaker C: I bought a couple of those actually.
[00:48:33] Speaker A: Yeah, man, he loves the scratches, man.
[00:48:36] Speaker B: I do the scratches. Not, not that, some much anyway, I give them away. I, I do party favor. I, I, I buy them as presents.
[00:48:43] Speaker C: My mom does that.
[00:48:44] Speaker B: Really? I'll buy like say your birth, your birthday was tomorrow. I'd get you like a 50, $50 worth of scratchers.
[00:48:51] Speaker C: Well, $50 worth of scratches.
[00:48:53] Speaker A: Yeah, you're bound to win with $50 a scratch.
[00:48:56] Speaker C: The $2 ones you win $2, you
[00:49:00] Speaker B: know, some more tickets, then it gets you hooked.
[00:49:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:03] Speaker B: So basically I'm a, a pimp.
[00:49:05] Speaker C: You're trying to get people addicted to gambling.
[00:49:08] Speaker B: The pusher, man. Yeah, exactly.
You know, but yeah, they're thinking about doing that and whatever, man. I, I don't care.
[00:49:16] Speaker A: Sure, yeah. You know, manipulating the, the population.
Well, well, so, so you have new representation. You have somehow that they got to us. The, the, the people are, are effectively representing you.
You have the Tell us about Rosie Tran presents.
[00:49:34] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. So that's my new show on Amazon Prime. You guys can check it out. It's 10 episodes and it's me interviewing different standup comedians and then they do their standup.
[00:49:45] Speaker B: Okay, okay, yeah.
[00:49:46] Speaker A: And you do this from LA?
[00:49:48] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, we shot 10 episodes and it's two comics an episode and it's really fun.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: Now, who are some of these new comics? They're up and comers. I'm sure they're just not already so there.
[00:50:00] Speaker C: I wouldn't. I don't know if I would call them up and comers. A lot of them are comics that already established, I think are established but don't have a big like. Remember how I said that even though there's this facade of people kind of coming up from the Internet or Instagram, that there's these large corporate institutions kind of backing them, These are comics that are. A lot of them are my friends. A lot of them are people that I started with, came up with, have been doing stand up forever, are hilarious but don't, like, never got a chance, basically.
[00:50:27] Speaker B: Yeah, Right.
[00:50:28] Speaker C: So I wanted to feature people that. Do you think were really funny.
[00:50:31] Speaker B: Do you think platforms like YouTube and Stuff? Because I know there's a lot of comedians who've never played in front of a live audience, but yet they're popular because of platforms like YouTube and there's comics like that. Yeah. And how do you feel about that?
[00:50:47] Speaker C: I feel very mixed. You know, I went to the Irvine improv stuff and I was talking to the manager and there was a. You what we call a YouTube comedian, right. So there was like. Or Tick Tock comedian, right. That was headlining. And I said, you know, I was talking to the manager, I said, I've never heard of this guy. Who is he? Is he even funny? And the manager said, he's not funny, he's horrible. And he said, but he has 2 million followers on Tick Tock or whatever and he can sell out the menu and that's all we care about.
[00:51:15] Speaker B: Crazy.
[00:51:17] Speaker C: So I think that there's a little bit of.
I would say that there's a little bit of friction. Like there's a lot of comics that I know that have been doing it for 20 years pounding the paper.
[00:51:28] Speaker B: Well, yeah, these YouTube guys aren't paying their dues in a way.
[00:51:32] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:51:32] Speaker B: Sometimes, yeah, you gotta pay your dues in many ways to get to the top before we knock you down, right?
[00:51:40] Speaker C: I wouldn't say that, but I would say that maybe they're not as seasoned as they should be to have that level of following.
[00:51:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:51:45] Speaker C: And I think that, and I think that being funny for two seconds in a TikTok video is a different skill than doing stand up for an hour.
[00:51:54] Speaker A: Now when those people get in, in front of a room of people for an hour, even if they sell out the room in, in five minutes, that's a long time for somebody that does TikTok videos to stand up. And do they fare well? I can't imagine that they do.
[00:52:09] Speaker C: So it's mixed because I know a few comedians who I would call, call them TikTok comedians that I performed with and they, I think if you do it right, it's okay. So I, I, I know a few comedians that are TikTok comedians that have leveraged their way into having a decent stand up career. And then I know people that are TikTok comedians that haven't put in the work, so to speak, and they, it's really hard for them.
[00:52:33] Speaker A: Well, I mean when you stand in front of a, an audience, they're animals. They're, they're, they're going to eat you alive. It's. Well, yes, if you don't know what to do, yes and no if you don't have those skills.
[00:52:43] Speaker B: But if it's their TikTok fans there,
[00:52:45] Speaker C: that's what I, that is, Manny has,
[00:52:47] Speaker A: they can just stand up there and they don't get.
[00:52:50] Speaker B: If that Tick Tock guy would go to 1am at the Comedy Store, he,
[00:52:55] Speaker C: he can't, he can't do it. Yeah, but so that's what Manny is kind of expressing, which is why I say it's 50. 50.
[00:53:02] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:53:03] Speaker C: Because if they're bringing their own audience, these people are already hyped up to see them. They kind of, so it's a softer audience.
[00:53:10] Speaker A: They're not even necessarily comedy fans. They're fans of this.
[00:53:12] Speaker C: Yes, exactly. And so sometimes those people can have a really great stand up career. And I'm using stand up with quotations.
[00:53:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:53:19] Speaker C: But it just depends on how they leverage it.
So they might not be. So if I was a TikTok comedian, for example, they wouldn't necessarily be stand up comedy fans. They would be Rosie Tran fans.
[00:53:28] Speaker B: Right.
[00:53:28] Speaker C: And so that makes personality. Exactly. So that sense makes, makes their.
What would be a hard landing? More of a soft landing.
[00:53:35] Speaker B: So to me, they're not really standups then.
They're just a certain, I would say they're, they're entertainers.
[00:53:42] Speaker A: Entertainers. That's a nice way.
[00:53:46] Speaker C: They're performers. I mean, they're performers, they're entertaining people, they're selling Tickets.
[00:53:51] Speaker A: God bless you. Look, anybody that can make a career in show business, more power to you. It's. It's tough.
[00:53:57] Speaker C: But in the comedy world, there's definitely a mix of respect, depending on how.
How you leverage it. And what I mean is that I do know comedians that started as TikTok comedians, but then they went and paid. Paid their dues and pounded the pavement, and they're actually really funny. And I think those types of comedians get a lot more respect than just like someone making goofy videos that doesn't respect standup comedy.
[00:54:22] Speaker A: Sure. And I would imagine that. And the person making the goofy videos, while they may have fans for a short amount of time, those people will age out of.
[00:54:31] Speaker C: You would be surprised, but yes.
[00:54:32] Speaker A: Okay. All right.
I don't know. I'm old. But you know, the people that can square that circle.
[00:54:41] Speaker C: Then there's YouTubers that are making millions of dollars.
[00:54:44] Speaker A: Oh, of course. You know, making all sorts of, you know, if you never really develop the chops to do it for real, then, you know, it would seem it would have a limited lifespan.
[00:54:56] Speaker B: And they don't need to tour, really, these YouTubers.
[00:54:58] Speaker C: Right, they don't, but I think a lot of them.
So I don't know if you guys.
[00:55:02] Speaker B: Because if a YouTuber is doing well on YouTube and then he plays Hollywood and he's got lots of followers in Hollywood, but then he has to play like, you know, Poughkeepsie. Well, Poughkeepsie or, you know, Flutters Club in Phoenix or, you know, places like, you know, Yuck Yucks. Yeah, exactly. Yuck Yucks in Des Moines. They're not gonna do well there, you think? Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
[00:55:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:55:27] Speaker C: Well, I don't know if you guys have ever heard this quote, but there's kind of like a quote that says every comedian secretly wants to be a musician.
[00:55:36] Speaker A: And every musician secretly wants to be a comedian.
[00:55:39] Speaker C: Right, of course. So everyone's always kind of, kind of searching and I think for YouTubers and tick tockers, I think a lot of them secretly do want to be stand up comedians. That's why they started making funny videos. So to. So your point, Manny? I think a lot of them, they want to prove themselves in a way, even if they're not.
[00:55:54] Speaker B: Let's hope so.
[00:55:54] Speaker C: Even if they're not that funny in real life, it's.
[00:55:57] Speaker B: Well, you ever hear this expression, every dope addict wants to be a stripper, and every stripper is a dope addict. Never heard that. Never heard that one.
[00:56:06] Speaker C: Have you ridden?
[00:56:08] Speaker A: I heard it just now.
The first time for everything, man. It's a font of genius over there.
Well, well, so. So speaking of performing. So part of your new representation is with the global talent. Entertainment is some touring component, right?
[00:56:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And.
[00:56:32] Speaker A: Well, tell us about that. That the wicked women of comedy and international comedy.
[00:56:36] Speaker B: And.
[00:56:36] Speaker C: Yeah, so those are the episodes. Some of the episodes of my Amazon show, and I'm just going on tour with them, so hopefully we'll get some dates soon. And I just signed with them, so we'll see. We'll see what happens.
[00:56:46] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:56:47] Speaker C: I do have a funny story. When you said my intro, though, I do have a funny story about my comedy special, if you guys care.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, please.
[00:56:53] Speaker C: So my comedy special is called the Hanoi Honey. And it's called that because when I started comedy in Los Angeles, everyone would, you know, a lot of comics. That was my nickname for me, the Hanoi Honey. And it was a silly nickname, and that's what I wanted my comedy special to be named. Well, if you guys look up the Hanoi Honey on Peacock, it's now the Saigon Honey, because apparently NBC thought that was, like, too communist.
[00:57:17] Speaker B: Oh, really? NBC of old networks. Really?
[00:57:21] Speaker C: So they changed it. Not. I didn't realize that. And because a few people were like, I can't find your comedy special. And I was like, that's weird. Weird. So I looked it up. It's. So they renamed it the Saigon.
[00:57:32] Speaker B: Well, they don't even.
[00:57:32] Speaker A: They don't even call Hanoi Hanoi anymore.
[00:57:35] Speaker B: Right.
[00:57:35] Speaker A: Ho Chi Minh.
[00:57:37] Speaker C: So Saigon is now called Ho Chi Minh.
[00:57:38] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:57:38] Speaker B: So.
[00:57:39] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:57:39] Speaker B: So does that affect the material at all in your act?
[00:57:43] Speaker C: It doesn't. It doesn't. But it's just more pro American and less socialist slash communist. But I wasn't. That's not the reason it was called that. It was just called that because that was my nickname when I started the comedy scene, but apparently it was too social.
[00:57:55] Speaker A: It has the alliteration, you know.
[00:57:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it works.
[00:58:00] Speaker C: Apparently, I was too socialist for NBC, so they changed it to the Saigon Honey.
[00:58:03] Speaker A: Now, do you have. Do you have family still in Vietnam now?
[00:58:07] Speaker C: I do, but it's a lot of, like, distant cousins and stuff like that. Most of my family's here. My brother lives in Paris and the rest of my family's here. My sister's in New York, so.
[00:58:16] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:58:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:58:18] Speaker A: Now I don't want to get back into politics, but I would be curious about, like, your family.
What are their feelings on the warm embrace of collectivism?
Are they looking forward to America becoming more Marxist?
[00:58:36] Speaker C: You don't know how to Answer that question.
[00:58:37] Speaker A: Okay, never mind.
[00:58:38] Speaker B: Moving on.
Well, you did say. I did catch this morning when I was having coffee. I did see one of your videos and you had this joke where you were saying that.
That you love everybody, but it had something to do with Koreans. You didn't care for Koreans.
[00:58:55] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I saw you going hard on the Korean.
[00:58:58] Speaker B: Yeah, you went hard on the Koreans. And I. I could relate to that because I used to have this joke where I said, I love everybody except Dominicans.
So I could relate totally. But. But can you expand on that a little bit? The Korean joke.
[00:59:14] Speaker C: So I love Korean people. I don't hate Korean people. That would just me being silly, but I. If there is a little jab in there. My ex that cheated on me, he did cheat on me with a Korean dominatrix.
[00:59:24] Speaker B: All right, well, that's all I need to know.
I don't like the Dominicans because they think they're better than the Haitians that they share the same island with. So that's my whole deal, you know?
[00:59:36] Speaker C: But it was a little job. But I have a lot of Korean friends.
[00:59:39] Speaker B: Oh, okay, good. I love Korea. I love it, man. So, yeah, I just wanted. I just wanted to get the answer to that joke. And I got it. Thank you very much.
I did get that. That was good. I like that a lot.
Drinking a soda pop.
[00:59:54] Speaker A: I know. It really is like, what the soda pop with. With booze on it.
[00:59:57] Speaker B: I don't even taste the booze, man. Yeah, I'm gonna take. I'm gonna feel it probably later, but anyway, sneaking up on you. So what's next for you, kid? Any you're gonna. One going to do a movie? You're going to do some acting? All comedians want to act.
[01:00:14] Speaker C: So I actually have a movie if anyone wants to buy my movie.
[01:00:17] Speaker B: Oh, you have your own movie?
[01:00:19] Speaker C: Yes, it's completed if anyone wants to buy a movie. It's a horror comedy starring Jake Busey and B. Ling.
[01:00:26] Speaker B: Jake Busey?
[01:00:28] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:00:28] Speaker B: Oh, the Jake Busey?
[01:00:30] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:00:30] Speaker B: Oh, okay, cool.
[01:00:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:00:31] Speaker B: All right, I'll check it out. And we.
[01:00:34] Speaker A: We.
[01:00:34] Speaker B: You're looking for people to back it right now to distribute it?
[01:00:36] Speaker C: No, it's completed. I'm looking for a distributor. It's a completed comedy, horror. I have a cameo in it and I wrote it. And.
[01:00:43] Speaker B: And who directed this?
[01:00:45] Speaker C: Rebecca Cochin, who is the scream queen? Horror comedy actress and comedian.
[01:00:49] Speaker B: Oh, excellent. All right, well, look, for that I
[01:00:52] Speaker C: co wrote it with her and. And she directed it.
[01:00:54] Speaker B: And is it filmed down here?
[01:00:57] Speaker C: We filmed it in Los Angeles.
[01:00:59] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:00:59] Speaker C: And. And it's. It's ready and we're shopping it around. So if anyone wants to buy a movie or distribute it.
[01:01:04] Speaker A: Okay, right on, right on.
[01:01:05] Speaker B: No, all you need, you know, all you need is a poster. Could just get a poster made and someone will buy it. Just ask Francis Ford Coppola.
[01:01:13] Speaker A: Yeah, no, that works. That's how Doris Wishman used to do it. Yeah. She think of the title. That would make a good poster.
[01:01:18] Speaker B: And then.
[01:01:19] Speaker A: Then she would write the movie based on that.
[01:01:22] Speaker B: But Coppola sold the movie just based on the poster.
He got buyers. But he's Coppola.
[01:01:28] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm not Coppola.
[01:01:29] Speaker A: So now can we talk about your Only fans page?
[01:01:32] Speaker C: Sure. Yeah.
[01:01:34] Speaker B: That's dangerous.
[01:01:36] Speaker A: I think this is the first guest that we've had on that has an Only Fans page that I know of.
[01:01:40] Speaker C: Yes, I have an Only Fans and I'm proud of it.
[01:01:42] Speaker B: All right.
[01:01:43] Speaker A: Yeah. No, no shame there.
So. So you're a lovely girl. You engage in people. You have a lot of subscribers to that.
[01:01:52] Speaker C: Yeah, I have a lot of subscribers. I. So I wanted to do it for many, many years.
And my husband was very against it.
[01:02:00] Speaker A: Sure.
[01:02:00] Speaker C: Not because.
[01:02:01] Speaker A: I get that.
[01:02:02] Speaker C: Not because of me posting the content, but he was. I'm very sensitive and he was worried about me getting stalkers and other creepy.
[01:02:09] Speaker A: Sure.
[01:02:09] Speaker C: People. Because as a comedian, I've had stalkers before.
[01:02:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:02:13] Speaker C: So he was just more worried about me having to deal with. With toxic people.
[01:02:19] Speaker A: Sure.
But. But he lets you come on the show?
I don't know. I don't know.
[01:02:27] Speaker B: And he just dropped you off like, bye. He like, see you. Been nice knowing you. Yeah.
[01:02:34] Speaker C: But I was posting. So my only fans is what we would call PG17R, not X. So I don't do anything pornographic.
[01:02:43] Speaker B: Good.
[01:02:43] Speaker C: It was just like sexy photos, and I was posting those on Instagram for free.
[01:02:48] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:02:48] Speaker C: So I was like, well, why can't I just post it in Only Fans and just make money from it? And he was like, okay. And then one of my girlfriends, I don't want to out her, so I'm not going to say who it is, but she's a comedian, and during COVID she was making 10,000amonth on Only Fans.
[01:03:01] Speaker B: Wow.
[01:03:02] Speaker C: And I was like, well, so without
[01:03:03] Speaker B: even telling a joke.
[01:03:04] Speaker C: No, just posting her sexy content or whatever, so. Her sexy, silly content.
[01:03:09] Speaker B: Content.
[01:03:09] Speaker C: So I told my hubby, I was like, well, so and so is making like 10,000amonth in OnlyFans. And he's like, okay, okay, you can try it So I started doing it. And I'm not making an insane amount of money, but I'm making enough money that he's now super supportive of my only fans.
He's like, you need pictures, babe. What do you need? Okay, so he's now my. My editor, my part time photographer.
[01:03:32] Speaker B: Your art director.
[01:03:33] Speaker C: He's my art director.
[01:03:34] Speaker B: He's everything.
[01:03:34] Speaker C: Once he started seeing some money come in, he was like, okay, okay, all right.
[01:03:38] Speaker B: I. I tried only fans, but I only got one fan. Only. Only one?
[01:03:42] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And it was me.
[01:03:44] Speaker B: Crazy. He didn't even give me any. A buck or two. Nothing.
[01:03:47] Speaker C: Renee. Horrible.
[01:03:49] Speaker A: I sent him some buttons as I recall.
[01:03:53] Speaker C: So, yes, I do have an only fans. And I encourage everyone to subscribe. Follow. Give me money.
[01:03:58] Speaker A: Right on. We'll put all of your links up there in the show notes of this show. And you have a.
A rosytran.com website that they can find all of these links to.
[01:04:11] Speaker C: Yeah. And actually, I just wanted to say too, all of my. If you like photography or artistic photography, all of my only fans photos are professionally shot. Most of them professionally shot. I just shot with the New Orleans photographer Daniel Gray.
[01:04:22] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:04:22] Speaker C: And I like to do.
I feel guilty just putting my photos out there, so I feel like they have to be high quality. So actually most of the photography is like very high quality. Boudoir, like just. It's like artistic, right? Yeah. So it's not just like, whatever.
[01:04:38] Speaker B: So, Rosie Tran, do you ever get anyone, you know, with the LGBQ high five community thinking that you're trans with that last name?
[01:04:47] Speaker C: So I will tell you guys a story.
[01:04:50] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:04:50] Speaker C: There is a comedian in Los Angeles named Robin Tranquil.
[01:04:54] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:04:55] Speaker C: Who is also Vietnamese and happens to also be a trans comedian. So Robin was born a male and he identifies as a female.
[01:05:05] Speaker A: Sure.
[01:05:06] Speaker C: And his name obviously is very similar to mine. Robin Tran. Rosie Tran.
So I have had people come up to me before and been like, wow, you look really, really good.
[01:05:17] Speaker A: So much like a woman.
[01:05:19] Speaker C: And I'm like, no, I. I'm not a trans comedian.
I'm not Robin Tran.
[01:05:25] Speaker B: I'm glad I asked that question. I wanted to know. Yeah, yeah.
[01:05:27] Speaker C: So.
[01:05:28] Speaker A: And.
[01:05:28] Speaker C: And Robin is lovely, but Robin is also a clearly trans comedian. So whenever someone comes up to me and they're shocked how feminine I look, I'm like, I'm not Robin Tr.
The other one.
[01:05:41] Speaker B: Excellent.
[01:05:42] Speaker A: It all makes sense.
Right on. Excellent. Well, man, thank you so much. Much. Rosie, I know you got got. You know, you got to run down and do your spot, but you have anything else? Any. Anything else you want to get in before we wrap the show up?
[01:05:56] Speaker C: No, but I didn't feel you guys were that troubled.
[01:05:59] Speaker A: Well, really, you know, this show makes us less troubled. This is the way that, you know, the fellowship that we get. Here.
[01:06:06] Speaker B: Oh, here, here. Give her one of those.
[01:06:08] Speaker A: The ceremonial presentation Troubleman podcast stickers. One to stick and one to save.
[01:06:13] Speaker C: Okay.
[01:06:14] Speaker A: If you need another one.
[01:06:16] Speaker B: I guess we're losing it, Renee. Cuz I think I'm very. Still very troubled. I think I made her laugh too much is why she thinks I'm not troubled.
[01:06:23] Speaker A: Well, we try to keep it light.
[01:06:25] Speaker B: Listen. Listen to some of the shows.
[01:06:27] Speaker C: Okay. You're very troubled.
[01:06:28] Speaker B: Yes. You'll see who's more troubled, Manny or Renee?
[01:06:32] Speaker A: It would be Manny.
[01:06:33] Speaker B: It would be me. Now.
[01:06:34] Speaker A: Now on certain nights, I'm quite troubled because of what's going on, so.
[01:06:39] Speaker B: Right.
[01:06:39] Speaker A: But you know, I. I only seem less troubled in comparison to Manny.
[01:06:45] Speaker C: Okay.
[01:06:45] Speaker A: So it makes me feel better. Just in general, Manny is more troubled.
[01:06:49] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:06:49] Speaker C: I'll have to go back and listen to past episodes to see how troubled.
[01:06:52] Speaker A: Manny, he's the original troubled man.
[01:06:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Check it out. You know, if you hang out with me more than an hour or two, then you'll realize, okay, I'll run for the hills.
[01:07:01] Speaker C: Right.
[01:07:01] Speaker B: You know what? Go talk to my wife for a while. She'll tell you no.
[01:07:05] Speaker A: You know, someone recently this came up again. It's come up before, where a longtime fan, a friend of Jeff Treffinger's, said, does it make me a bad person if I really like Manny Chevrolet?
And I. And I said, the answer was yes. Welcome to the club.
All right, thank you so much, Rosie.
[01:07:27] Speaker C: Thank you so much for having me.
[01:07:30] Speaker A: Everybody go check out her. She should see her at. At zeitgeist on what, May 3rd there.
[01:07:39] Speaker B: And only fans follow her.
[01:07:41] Speaker C: Follow me on Only fans watch my Amazon show, Amazon.
[01:07:46] Speaker B: Renee will post all that.
[01:07:48] Speaker A: Post all the links.
[01:07:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:07:49] Speaker A: And Rosie, as always on the Troubleman podcast, we like to say trouble never ends.
[01:07:54] Speaker B: But the struggle, Rosie, continues.
Good night.
[01:08:12] Speaker D: But now I'm dreaming about forgiveness in my cold water flat Cold water flat Cold water flat I dream and by forgiveness in my my cold water flat Someday I will find you.
We'll find you Riding around this country in my red Cadillac Red Cadillac Red Cadillac I'm going ride around this country in my red Cadillac Someday I will find you.
Can Jesus give salvation to a loser like me? A loser like me A loser like me me Could Jesus give salvation to a loser like me?
Someday I will find him.
Someday I will find you but now I'm riding around this country in my red Cadillac Red Cadillac I'm going riding around this country in my red Cadillac Someday I will find you Someday I will find you Someday I will find you.
