Roy Choi
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Podcast Appearances
It makes you extremely agile at a very young stage.
As you're a kid, like with the bits of it that you didn't like?
Worst part of it is you're poor.
You're literally watching your adult figures in your life struggling, you know, struggling.
But you don't comprehend it yet.
But you do feel it, you know, because as children, we feel all the pain and we feel all the, you know, the complications and abuse and everything in life.
You know, it's just we don't have the...
the vocabulary to put it together.
And you don't know any different.
You don't know any difference.
So when you're exposed to it very early instead of being sheltered to it, sometimes it can be tough to see adult figures cry.
to see them, you know, avoid things like COD, collectors phone calls, collection agencies, you know, have lights just go off, you know, in the middle of service, you know, because the bills aren't paid, you know.
Those things are really tough to witness and not just from your parents, but from everyone around.
Because anyone, again, going back to like who works in a restaurant, anyone working in a restaurant in a lot of cases are day to day, you know, not even month to month, day to day.
So to see the ups and downs of people's like disposition and mood and everything, like it's a trip when you're young, you know.