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SEASON 2 EPISODE 31! FULL EPISODE FOR ALL! NO PAYWALL!
It is Thursday, October 8th, 2026 and this is the GOOD EGG immigrant grocery store standup comedy tour takeover of What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang. jennyyang.substack.com or wherever you pod!
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Today’s episode was recorded in Oakland, California on a gorgeous sunny Friday, August 21st, 2026 where I chat with my dear friend Dr. Connie Wun, co-founder and Executive Director of AAPI Women Lead, a national organization that is headquartered in Oakland, Oakland Chinatown, with a mission to end violence against Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, women, girls, gender non-conforming, gender expansive communities. They do this work through community driven research, education, and wellness and healing programs.
LOS ANGELES! Every Wednesday morning 9 AM until end of October! New material shows in Highland Park from me and Maria Bamford AND a free donut for you. Tickets are pay-what-you-can and support the non-profit theater Outside In (co-founded by Tamlyn Tomita of the Joy Luck Club!)
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In today’s pod we chat:
* How did the Oakland Chinatown GOOD EGG show go?
* Southeast Asian farmers and their role in farmers markets.
* Corey’s mission to make a DEVILED Ostrich Egg! Trying Ostrich jerky from California Ostrich Valley with a Chinatown auntie with bad teeth. Woops.
* #StopAsianHate vs. the systemic violence of our elders living in poverty
* Entering GUM KUO restaurant for a meal but see part 2 of this conversation next week!
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Jenny Yang is a standup comedian, actor, and tv writer who was named one of Variety’s Top Ten Comics to Watch and has been featured at Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, the San Francisco Sketch Festival, and Netflix is a Joke Festival.
Jenny is a former labor organizer who was born in Taiwan and raised in Los Angeles, and stars opposite Michelle Yeoh as an assassin in the Netflix action comedy-drama series, The Brothers Sun.
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