Decolonized Tea Party x Good Egg Summer Tour - Mama Yang, Kim Chi, Curly Velasquez, Charlene Kaye, Chef Wendy Z, Shantira Jackson (S2 E12)
SEASON 2 EPISODE 12! (NOTE: Please pardon the sound! We were all eating and there were so many guests! Thank you for forgiving the sound quality)
It is Sunday, May 10th, 2026, this is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang! Mama Yang is here! Happy Mother’s Day to my Mama, Mothers Everywhere and EVEN the Mothers without children (LIKE ME) who mothered our mediocre ex-boyfriends every - single - day. WHERE ARE *OUR* FLOWERS.
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My first guest today is a sickening drag queen, fierce business mogul [https://kimchichicbeauty.com/], and lifelong culinary connoisseur who has authored an INCREDIBLE cookbook Kim Chi Eats the World and the children’s book Donutella Hamachi and the Library Avengers. He is also a super fun and sweet friend who shares my love of food and togetherness. Please welcome SAENG aka KIM CHI! (https://kimchithequeen.com/ [https://kimchithequeen.com/])
My next guest is expanding palates & minds through cooking, urban gardening, advancing culture & building community through Drizzle Catering and the Mogu Magu project. You’ve seen her on Beat Bobby Flay and as a winner of the Chopped 420 cooking competition and she’s one of my best buds, CHEF WENDY Z! (https://www.instagram.com/chefwendyz/ [https://www.instagram.com/chefwendyz/])
My next guest was born and raised in Los Ángeles, one of my favorite Salvadoreños, former BuzzFeed editor and the creator of its digital series “Pero Like,” and is currently LatiNation Media’s vice president of development. He also co-hosts the iHeart/Sonoro podcast “The Super Secret Bestie Club” with his longtime collaborator Maya Murillo, and we first met a long time ago when he ran the Buzzfeed offices and I was a regular contributor to early Buzzfeed comedy videos! Let’s welcome CURLY VELASQUEZ! (https://www.instagram.com/thecurlyvshow/) [https://www.instagram.com/thecurlyvshow/]
My next guest is an Emmy nominated writer and comedian whose credits include Big Mouth and The Saved By The Bell reboot. You can listen to her as a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait...Wait... Don’t Tell Me, and we met when we were writers and performers for a late night talk show and subsequently went to Little India to buy matching 22 Karat gold chains to celebrate the job! Let’s welcome, SHANTIRA JACKSON! (https://www.shantira.com/ [https://www.shantira.com/])
My next guest is a musician and comedian based in New York that Rolling Stone has recently called a “breakout comedy star.” You might know her from her wildly viral “Every Taylor Swift Song” and JUST premiered her new solo comedy show, Diversity Shredder, at Netflix is a Joke Fest this past week, last December while I was hanging out with Atsuko Okatsuka in Japan, an Asian American fan stopped us to get a photo with Atsuko and then said “I know you too” to me and I was like oh really? That’s nice. And she said, “Of course! You’re Charlene Kaye!” Please welcome, CHARLENE KAYE! (https://kayeofficial.com/ [https://kayeofficial.com/])
And on the final mic, heard but kinda seen today? He’s the co-founder of the marketing and branding company “Let’s Brand!”, my sweetie and co-producer of life, and today’s White Man who is going to serve us today at the Decolonized Afternoon Tea, Corey Higgs (http://okletsbrand.com/ [http://okletsbrand.com/]).
Check Monday’s ”LINKS we should talk about” [https://open.substack.com/pub/jennyyang/p/links-mama-yang-voting-rights-act?r=1ngis&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web] for some of the sources behind today’s episode.
On today’s agenda (more of a free-flowing conversation)
* Jenny’s Updates
* Good Egg has been kicked off on TikTok and Instagram! Join my email list at jennyyang.tv [http://jennyyang.tv/] for tour announcements.
* More LA work-in-progress shows at a reasonable hour last three Saturdays in MAY. Tickets at jennyyang,tv. It’s where I’m prepping my show for the summer tour and eventually my first ever one-hour standup special!
* Why a Decolonized Tea? What’s on the menu?
* What are we wearing and how does it represent what we wanted to be growing up if we were more “decolonized”?
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* How can we “Decolonize” our lives? Our minds?
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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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