South Beach Sessions - Sheng Wang
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This gentleman is a bit of a mystic. I believe he's got some of the secrets to life, and one of them is just slow down. Just slow the hell down. Thank you for joining us. I have enjoyed your special, Purple, on Netflix. Shang Wang is somebody whose observational comedy, if you're not familiar with it, is spot on. Thank you. A cornucopia actually is not a very good container. Thank you for being on with us. And the reason I say you're a bit of a mystic and somebody who knows a little bit about life is at least in part because of how connected you are to nature, that everything seems to be moving too fast all around us. So let's start there with your love of the outdoors and botanical gardens. Sure.
Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me. I'm grateful to be here. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's something that most of us as kids had, like an enjoyment for the outdoors, an appreciation for just being outside the house, running around outside with no supervision, riding bikes around the neighborhood, playing in the backyard, playing with my dad's tools, using shovels and different implements to just dig holes. That time is dead.
Yeah.
That time is dead? Just for everybody. Everybody's in their devices. There are no kids outdoors anymore. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think naturally they still want to get out. But we just live a very different... Yeah, we have a very different situation with how we parent and how we raise our kids these days. But yeah, I used to just be free. I was outside running around all the time, hanging out at the bayou, catching tadpoles and frogs and turtles. And then, you know... I eventually grew up a little bit and I think middle school, high school, you start to drift away from those kinds of, you know, things that you found entertaining before. Now you're into like hanging out at the malls and the food court and, you know, trying to talk to girls and stuff like that.
So we kind of drift away from that and then you go to college and you go to work and, you know, I think I'm kind of at this point in my life coming back around to that, what I used to enjoy as a child. And it's just, it's just a feeling, you know, like you can just, you can just standing next to a giant tree, just stand next to a giant tree and look at it, you know, look at this thing, look at how big these roots are, how thick this trunk is and how many individual leaves are shivering up there in the breeze, you know, amongst the thousands. And that's one tree, you know? And when I, I feel like When you just hang out there next to a tree and you recognize this is a giant living thing that's intelligent and totally at peace and thriving, and there's something inside you that is also that, and there's a connection.
You can bond with that. You can be with that tree. You can have that tree remind you of what it is to be alive, what it means to be here, and how to be. what does it mean to be here not to go too deep on this but like if you're sitting here we've started with the connection between a living thing you're talking about a gratitude for life and an awe for life right i don't really know exactly what it means but i think it's just enjoying life enjoying this moment being present being here and taking none of it for granted And I think partly it's the immensity, the infiniteness of nature, right? In terms of the styles, the colors, the technology, the stories, the ecosystems, all of that is incredibly advanced.
And we... lose sight of that. We lose connection and then we don't value it as much as we should because it is everything.
I got to think, though, you're not running to a whole lot of people in comedy who have this particular commonality with you where it's a competitive field, it's crazy, there are a lot of distractions, you're looking for the validation of the laugh. I don't know how many people are going to the botanical garden because they need to connect with earth. Right.
Part of it, I think it's important to have that awareness, especially for the comedy that I do.
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