I yelled F*ck ICE in Chinese on Chicago Live TV, Chinatowns don’t just happen, Auntie power on WeChat groups - Chicago’s CBCAC & ICIRR (S2 E25)

**SEASON 2 EPISODE 25!** FULL EPISODE FOR ALL! NO PAYWALL! It is **Wednesday, August 12th, 2026** and this is GOOD EGG immigrant grocery store standup comedy tour take over ***What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang***. Checking in from Portland, Oregon! We just released the final tickets of the tour for Raleigh, North Carolina! Because then I’ll be home and prepping for my September 26 taping of my first-ever one-hour special! EEEE! Stay tuned for presale tickets. *Sign up here* jennyyang.substack.com *to get first dibs on tickets. Ticket links always up at* jennyyang.tv NO INTRO FROM ME TODAY BECAUSE I AM TIRED!!!! Turns out touring the country and coordinating indie shows inside grocery stores with local activists takes effort? We got straight into my time in Chicago during my GOOD EGG TOUR! PORTLAND OR 🥚 AUG 13 - GET TICKETSFUBONN benefitting CLEAR CLINIC(co-presented by A’misa Chiu + White Lotus Foundation) DALY CITY CA 🥚 AUG 14 - GET TICKETS **(GREAT OPTION IF OTHER BAY AREA SHOWS ARE SOLD OUT)**SEAFOOD CITY benefitting FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER(co-presented by City of Daly City and Pin@y Educational Partnerships) **OAKLAND IS SOLD OUT!** SAN FRANCISCO CA 🥚 AUG 22 - ONLY 2 VIP TICKETS LEFTNEW ASIA SUPERMARKET benefitting CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION RALEIGH NC 🥚 AUG 28 - GET TICKETSORIENTAL STORE OF RALEIGH benefittingNORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER (NCAAT) ***What Should We Talk About? with Jenny Yang*** is your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people to find joy in an unjust world. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty! From pop culture to the personal and political. Catch shorter preview episodes wherever you pod. But if you want FULL episodes UNCUT and bonus episodes, become a Paid Subscriber at jennyyang.substack.com. So if this episode cuts out mid convo – don’t get mad - get subscribing. Hit follow and give us a rating and review wherever you pod. Become an OnlyPaid via Substack, I will read your reviews and messages on the pod! **Check this week’s ”**LINKS we should talk about**”** for what I’ve been enjoying and thinking about this week. On today’s agenda: \* I yelled F\*ck ICE on WGN local news \* Chatting with activists from the CBCAC - Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community (https://www.cbcacchicago.org/) \* Chatting with activists from ICIRR - Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (https://www.icirr.org/) Because you don’t want to feel like you are losing your mind and because we long for a better world filled with fun, love, joy, and cool shit. This is ***What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang at*** *jennyyang.substack.com* **If you are as obsessed with the intersection of pop culture, politics, and personal growth as I am, please consider becoming a paid member of my Substack for $8 a month or $80 a year ($6.67 a month). You will get:** \* Weekly newsletters of the podcast with access to the EXTENDED CUT OF EACH EPISODE (only available on Substack). \* Complete access to all chats and comments, exclusively for my Substack subscribers. \* Access to all breaking news analysis and personal essays. jennyyang.substack.com Hit that subscribe button if: \* you care about building a better world filled with joy, love, comedy and cool sh\*t. \* you are tired of doomscrolling on social media and want a way to get a run-down of the week in news and culture without triggering your fight or flight response! \* you want to get what you need as someone who cares about the world and then go touch grass. \* you are as obsessed with food, self-care, building community, TV, film, pop culture, AND politics as I am AND you think it should all be in the same conversation. \* you are freaking out because you hear about the wild news of the day, look around and everyone is just living their life like business-as-usual, so you’re tearing your hair out and think, “WHY ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS?” **Follow Jenny Yang on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube!** \* IG: @jennyyangtv \* TT: @jennyyangtv \* YT: JennyYangTV **Email**: contact@jennyyang.tv 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*. Follow her weekly podcast “What Should We Talk About?” on Substack: jennyyang.substack.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jennyyang.substack.com/subscribe