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**SEASON 2 EPISODE 21!** It is **Wednesday, July 15th, 2026** and this is GOOD EGG immigrant grocery store standup comedy tour take over ***What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang***. This week you will hear from my dear friend Yoom Nguyen, a long-time Vietnamese restaurant owner in Minneapolis who explains how the I.C.E. operations in Minneapolis affected his family, his workers and what the city did to fight back. Then you’ll hear a very A for Effort attempt at a bilingual Spanish and English interview with Tania, a Lotus Restaurant worker who JUST welcomed back his son from I.C.E. detention. Listen to their stories and you will be moved, angered and inspired. Please let me know what you think and if these interviews have at all been enlightening. Thank you! Next week, you can expect a part two of my interviews in Minneapolis. Consider becoming an OnlyPaid to help support stories like these. **\*\*\*** ***PRE-SALE TICKET DROPS! JULY 16TH CHICAGO SHOW IS SOLD OUT!*** MILWAUKEE WI 🥚 JULY 18 - GET TICKETSMO’S FOOD MARKET on CLYBOURNbenefitting VOCES DE LA FRONTERA MADISON WI 🥚 JULY 24 - GET TICKETSHMONG LEGACY MARKET+DELIbenefitting FREEDOM INC. PHOENIX AZ 🥚 JULY 31 - GET TICKETSJERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL MARKETbenefitting ARIZONA AANHPI FOR EQUITY & CAIR ARIZONA SAN DIEGO CA 🥚 AUG 1 - GET TICKETSSIN LEE benefitting a local grassroots organization protecting our communities. *Sign up here* jennyyang.substack.com *to get first dibs on pre-sale tickets. Ticket links always up at* jennyyang.tv **\*\*\*** ***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 some of the sources behind today’s episode and whatnots that caught my eye. On today’s agenda: \* Interview with Yoom Nguyen of Lotus Restaurants in Minneapolis. ***FREE PREVIEW ENDS HERE. FULL EPISODE FOR MY ONLYPAIDS!*** \* Interview with Tania, Lotus Restaurant worker whose husband, son and brother were all kidnapped by I.C.E. 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