Ronny Chieng

Sure, no, I think you're gonna get me in trouble in some ways.

Why?

I mean, I just think we're in a state of the world where, you know, it doesn't matter where you come from.

Music, art, it all connects you in different ways.

Yeah, yeah, well, that's really the state of the world right now.

We feel really connected and there's no racism, yeah.

I think that's where culture can, like, transcend and go above politics and all that, hopefully, sometimes.

Yeah, I mean, this is... Hopefully.

Hopefully.

Yeah, what does this mean that these guys are, you know, so popular?

I never thought I'd see the day, you know, when you see, quite frankly, white people, you know, tattooing BTS on themselves and going to concerts.

Yeah, I mean, I... Usually they just tattoo, like, shitty Chinese writing on them, but...

That's usually MAGA people, too, for some reason.

But I would say that, you know, when I got to see them in concert a few years back at SoFi Stadium, there's, like, you know, 90,000 people.

And half the audience, more than half the audience, wasn't Asian, but they were singing all the Korean lyrics.

And that was, like, something that was really... As an Asian-American who hasn't seen many people that look like me on that type of stage, like, to see that was really inspiring.

Sure.

Be...

BTS is big in Korea.

Yeah, no duh.