Ronny Chieng (performing a bit)
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Okay, okay. That's great. That's the ball. First of all, New York forever. And second of all, so how did you become the mayor of Boston instead of Anson? Like, I don't know if you've been to Boston, but this is not the demographic for mayor of Boston. Like, you came to my show when I was there. I was doing stand-up there. You were very nice. You came. Sold out show.
Sold out shows at Wilbur, not to brag. And you came. And my DJ was there. My DJ is like a Chicago, Korean, American guy. And I was like, oh, that's the mayor of Boston. And he was like, what?
But how did you convince these guys?
They gave you a standing ovation. Why did you... No, no, this isn't about New York versus... This is not about New York versus Boston because New York is clearly better. I'm saying... I'm saying... No, no, no, it's not about that. It's not about who's a better city, which we clearly are. It's more that how did you get those guys to vote for you?
Because this is not the demographic that... How did you convince them to put you in charge?
Okay. But right now, it feels like everyone, you know, politicians, everyone hates politicians now more than ever. Like, why did you get, like, what made you want to put yourself out there to get into this? You know, it's a very thankless job.
We hate the mayor.
Yeah.
Sure. And so, again, like, you... I think you won your last election at 64% of the vote. Is that right? Is that right? So you're incredibly popular in Boston, and they trust you to run the city. How did you convince these Boston people?
What, and they just believed you? They just believed you? What...
Okay, you see, this optimism, I'm not, I can't. So you became mayor of Boston at like 36, which is pretty insane.
Yeah, well, I know, because we're born in the same year. So I'm like, damn, this woman became a mayor already. I'm still here telling dick jokes. But like this, no, but like something about Boston, you're like the youngest successful Boston person running Boston since like Theo Epstein, right? the best of the Epsteins. He was like the youngest GM of, I don't know why they trusted you.
I mean, obviously you're very good at your job. What's the toughest thing you face in Boston?
So you're mayor, you're running the day-to-day of the city, right? What's the hardest thing day-to-day, like mayoring in Boston?
OK. Um, so, like... I just, all right. So right now, you know, you ran as a Democrat as well. Democrats, I don't know if you've seen the news lately, incredibly unpopular in this country. I could not be less popular. Everyone hates everything they're doing. So how do you, everyone hates that. Like, I don't know what the, like 10% popular, whatever it is, it's horrible.
How do you, as a Democratic mayor, like do outreach to what I assume is a large percentage of your constituency that probably voted Republican and MAGA and Trump?
So you're saying you outreach by focusing on... Doing the work. Doing the work that everyone agrees that should be done. Is that your method for success, actually just doing the work?
little thing yeah so that's actually what you found i'm genuinely curious how i know you don't find this weird i'm telling you most people watching this are like how the hell let me tell okay let me tell you a little bit more about boston um you didn't tell me boston boston's my childhood chinatown okay i know boston yeah i used to live in manchester new hampshire you drive to boston uh for that was like our local chinatown we'll go there for supplies to bring it back to new hampshire
Because I don't know if you know, there's not a lot of Malaysian grocery stores in Manchester, New Hampshire. So we would go to Boston to get it. So I know Boston. That's why I'm even more surprised that you became mayor.
Do you think people are feeling this on the streets? in Boston?
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