
to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Eddie and Natashia Huang is delayed pleasure. Eddie and Natashia—the power couple behind the Canal Street Dreams podcast and the upcoming documentary Vice Is Broke—moved back to New York so you...
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Eddie Wong
Throw gang. We're joined by the content king and queen, the Murray Hill milf, the production princess slob on his knob because he's the based. Check in with her on the Vice doc. Calm Abercrombie because they don't give AF that they're too long and one wipe Taiwanese back shots going bow, bow, bow. He was a real muncher at the Vice office, but he never goes South Second. They're having a blast. No Baja, but who let the dogs out? He puts the coming documentary. Not a priest, but he's bodying these proud boys. They put the eat anal reams and Canal Street Dreams had an Asian fusion pharaoh after they rolled California call Sun Wapanese. The fit, tasteful. The wrist glitch, glacial. The crib, palatial. The sex interracial. Vice Media disgraceful. The movie money shot Facial. Co host of the Canal Street Dreams podcast and producer and director of the documentary Vice is broke. Natasha and Eddie Wong. Natasha.
Natasha
Eddie.
Eddie Wong
How the hell are you?
Larry
Thank you, brother. Yo, I feel like when Michael dies, you got to take his job.
Unknown
Sure.
Natasha
You're a poet.
Eddie Wong
Thank you.
Unknown
Let's get ready for interracial sex.
Larry
Yo.
Unknown
For the rest, it's a similar skill set.
Larry
South first Street. I always go down first.
Eddie Wong
Okay, okay. But the. But the offices on south second. I lived. I lived. I lived on south second. I would watch these miserable, just, like, you know, trudge off to work every morning.
Natasha
Wait, I lived on South 1st and Wythe.
Eddie Wong
I lived on South 2nd and Wyth.
Natasha
So funny. We were neighbors. Maybe.
Eddie Wong
Did I try to hit on you at Freehold?
Natasha
Oh, my God. Freehold is the craziest throwback. No, but it's so funny because we didn't know each other and we have so many. Do you know, like, the Red String Theory?
Eddie Wong
Yeah. No, our whole.
Natasha
Well, it's just like, you don't meet somebody until the time is right, but you're always in the same place. You're kind of like. Your life is so parallel. Like, I lived right there. He was at the Vice office. We never met.
Eddie Wong
But you didn't work.
Natasha
No, I didn't work at Vice, but we just like.
Larry
And then she was buying loose cigarettes down the block when I was here.
Eddie Wong
Do you ever buy a bow at Bauhaus?
Natasha
Oh, never.
Unknown
You're like, this place looks like shit.
Eddie Wong
Chinese food.
Larry
I mean, the bathroom was, like, abominable. It was the most abominable, abominable bathroom in New York.
Eddie Wong
Blood, guts everywhere.
Unknown
Yeah, Yeah.
Larry
I. I thought it was kind of fire.
Unknown
They hand out Awards for that. Literally.
Larry
Yo, it would be us and Mars Bar, I think, have the most.
Unknown
Probably.
Larry
Yeah.
Unknown
Well, welcome, guys. We're so happy to have you. Welcome back to New York. Welcome to the pod, Eddie. First time in person.
Larry
First time. First time I was on Zoom. The first time in 2021.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Unknown
Promoting boogie.
Larry
You guys are, like, dumb famous now. Okay. I was just, like, doing you a favor.
Eddie Wong
One giant back piece later, you're joining us with your wife. Although you're not technically married, right?
Natasha
No, I was a runaway bride.
Eddie Wong
Wow.
Unknown
Wow.
Eddie Wong
You guys got a little Jon Snow.
Larry
Yo. It's funny. We had a full wedding. We had a wedding.
Natasha
We didn't. We eloped. It wasn't a full wedding. Like, we went to Santa Barbara. You the whole.
Eddie Wong
Are you thinking of the right fiance?
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
Yeah. He's probably not.
Unknown
Well, that's how. She's the one. We know that.
Larry
She's the third one.
Unknown
Yeah. Third time.
Natasha
It.
Larry
Really?
Natasha
Yeah, it has to be. Well, we're not. No, we're not married, but we went to Santa Barbara. We went to the courthouse. He started inviting all of his friends, and I was like, this is not what this is.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
And then Streets was out, and then I decided I didn't want to marry him anymore, and then she canceled the morning off.
Larry
Damn. Damn.
Unknown
Okay, wait. Really bad morning. Oh, you're not a morning person.
Natasha
Well, no, I actually. I think it all started the night before I was pregnant, and so I was hungry and everyone was taking so long to go to dinner, and I think it just triggered me. And then we got in a huge fight. And then I was like, I'm not marrying you.
Larry
Gave me some pills. So I took some pills and was drinking.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
And then she's like, yo, you're lush. Like, you're useless. Getting wasted with my mom. So she got mad at me and her mom.
Eddie Wong
Oh, damn.
Natasha
My mom was getting everybody up. Yeah, for sure. That comes out all the time.
Larry
Why don't you just marry my mom?
Natasha
He loves my mom, like, more than me. I swear to God, I think he's with me to have access to her.
Eddie Wong
Do you? With his dad?
Natasha
Yeah, I do. And his dad with me. He showed me his foot before he, like, took his foot out of a loafer.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Just one?
Natasha
Yeah, just one. And he was like, this is what a foot with gout looks like.
Larry
It is the hardest line. Put a Ferragamo shoe on the table at the Malibu Solo house and says, yes. You ever seen a foot with gout? And then takes it out of the shoe. And this is dumb crusty. Yeah, it looked like a fermented back in the day.
Natasha
Because it's a rich man's disease. Like, he was like, I got goutch.
Eddie Wong
Is a gout chaser.
Natasha
I am. Add that to my list. I'm a gout chaser.
Eddie Wong
Did he have a size 14 Ferragamma and like a size 10?
Larry
Like, oh, luckily his foot significantly smaller than mine. He's like a size 9.
Eddie Wong
No, but I mean for the one. For the one gout foot or does he have gout?
Natasha
No, it flares up. So he was. He was good.
Eddie Wong
This day all the shrimp got poisonous.
Unknown
Bronson gout flaring up at the Malibu Soho House.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
I've been engaged three times. I've been to one of my own weddings. We survived. We actually ended up having the wedding. She decides to come to the wedding.
Natasha
I changed my mind.
Larry
Yeah.
Unknown
Thankfully.
Natasha
And then I think.
Larry
And then I give my dad the papers to mail out and he forgot to mail.
Unknown
No gal was flaring up again. He could have walked to the mailbox.
Eddie Wong
Too busy at the shrimp buffet.
Larry
He was like, no, chill. That's my girl. Yeah, right.
Natasha
Yeah.
Unknown
Oh, yeah, he forgot. How convenient.
Natasha
He was like, you can't have her. That's my girl.
Unknown
What a family affair. We love it.
Eddie Wong
Well, thank you guys for joining us. Taking time off from your marriage.
Unknown
Yeah. Raising your kid.
Natasha
Yeah. Raising our kids.
Unknown
We appreciate it. Yeah. So let's just get right into a fit check and breeze through it.
Larry
We'll go.
Unknown
Ladies first. Natasha, what are you wearing today?
Natasha
I'm wearing an L.L. bean jacket with. Oh my God. I think a Frankie shop skirt. Margiela bodysuit. Oh, Margiela tabby ballet flats.
Unknown
Good fit.
Eddie Wong
So.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Appreciate the effort on Klarna.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Natasha
We'll be paying for this for like the next five years.
Eddie Wong
It's like your bound feet we're doing.
Natasha
Yeah, well, my feet are bound at all times.
Larry
Lotus flower, right? Traditionally, lotus flowers in the Marzella flat.
Eddie Wong
What about the jewelry?
Natasha
Third engagement ring.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
So, you know, wait, was it.
Unknown
Was it a new ring or did you have the same ring?
Natasha
I think there might be some cost.
Larry
Of the first joint into this trade.
Natasha
I think recycled stones.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
I don't think you want money out.
Larry
Of other broads pockets.
Unknown
Wow.
Larry
You know, to cop that baguette, boss.
Eddie Wong
What about the bag?
Unknown
Oh, yeah.
Natasha
Oh, bag is Bottega Andola, Andiola. I don't know. That's my diaper bag though. So shout out to my man.
Larry
I got tricked into Buying that bag.
Unknown
Push brow.
Natasha
This is the best shopping experience of my life. I think I couldn't have paid this woman to help me out more. We were in Bottega. Well, you were buying a watch.
Unknown
I was buying a Bottega watch.
Natasha
No, he was across the street buying a watch. We were in L. A. We were on Rodeo. He was buying a watch, and I was bored, so I went to Bottega. And I was just looking around, and I was making friends with the sales associate, as you do. And I'm texting him, I'm like, I feel like you would like this guy. He's really cool. So he, like, comes over immediately, and then it's his homeboy, and he's like, oh, shit, it's me, J Rock. Like, And I was like, what? Like, you just told me your name was Jonathan. He was right.
Larry
Dude with, like, a basketball nickname. Like, J Money.
Natasha
Sure.
Larry
And so I was like, oh, J Money.
Natasha
So whatever. I'm, like, looking at this bag and we're like, oh, it's cute. Cute. Whatever. We get the price. And I was like, I don't know. And then you could tell the rest because you kind of.
Eddie Wong
Yo, I was like, maybe when that vice check hits.
Larry
Chill. Yeah, yeah. And the. The bag was just sitting there, but then this other shorty came by and was, like, trying it on, looking wild. Dusty. Yo, I can't let that bag go to that home. Like, that's not a good home, right?
Unknown
That's big of you, dude. Thank you.
Larry
A cops. You have to save a bag sometimes.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
He was, like, looking at her and he was looking at me.
Larry
Go to a halfway house. I was like, yeah, the bag doesn't deserve that.
Eddie Wong
Yeah, let's throw some shitty Pampers in there instead.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
Literally, there's, like, coterie wipes in there and, like, a pair of socks. Great.
Eddie Wong
What are you wearing, Eddie?
Larry
Oh, orally.
Unknown
Oh.
Larry
Light see through polo.
Eddie Wong
Silk. Silk blend.
Larry
You look closely, you could see, you know, like.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Bubble tea nipple.
Unknown
Right.
Larry
Little boba, that ass. Yeah, I got. I got the Evan Connor jeans. Oh, I like the big, like, Evan Connor pants. I got women's Bottega Uggs on fire.
Unknown
Did they throw those in with the back?
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
Yes. It was a bogo deal, too, for.
Larry
And then.
Unknown
Oh, I got the watch.
Larry
The vacheron.
Natasha
Oh, the vast.
Unknown
Very nice.
Larry
You know, with the green dial the wrist.
Eddie Wong
Glacial.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
The wedding band is nice, though. Even though it represents nothing at the vice ring. No, this is. This is the.
Larry
Right.
Natasha
But it's like the emerald baguettes that.
Unknown
Is a really nice.
Natasha
A wedding band. I was like, I like what you did.
Eddie Wong
Looking like Dominique Anel, bro.
Natasha
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Badass Cronut on the wrist.
Unknown
That's cronut Money City boxers on Nick City.
Larry
Yeah, Nick City boxers.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Larry
No, it's got, like, the cityscape. So I got the new pair.
Eddie Wong
City on my cock.
Unknown
This is the new pair. After you auctioned off the other pair.
Larry
Yes.
Unknown
How much of those go go for?
Larry
70, I think $75 and some used draws.
Unknown
Some freak.
Eddie Wong
Who.
Unknown
What freak bought those at auction?
Natasha
I don't know.
Larry
Some random dude copped.
Natasha
It was a guy.
Larry
It was a guy.
Natasha
Wow.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Got the long wang.
Larry
Yeah. I mean, if it's shorty bottom, you might have fist fought her.
Natasha
No, I don't think I would mind.
Larry
Oh, good. That's good. Yeah.
Unknown
Open mind.
Eddie Wong
But if a guy bought it. Hell yeah.
Natasha
Yeah.
Unknown
Your.
Larry
Your.
Unknown
The classic piece.
Larry
The Buddha's always here.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Because the two times I've taken this off, like, I almost died, so it never comes off right off.
Eddie Wong
What happened?
Larry
One time I. I was super high and driving to Mardi Gras, and I got to New Orleans and made a left turn and then got T boned and my car completely flipped over. Jesus. And then the second time, you still.
Eddie Wong
Make it to Mardi Gras.
Larry
I've never been to Mardi Gras.
Unknown
How drunk were you?
Larry
I was not drunk driving. There was no.
Unknown
You got the leader out the window. The yardstick.
Eddie Wong
How drunk was the.
Larry
The dumb was. Me and my buddy were driving this dude crazy. Chris from Rollins College. And we were filming. We were filming driving sea rock and just got chebo. There's actually. I have, like, footy. The camcorder footy. I was just like, yo, we up in Mardi Gras.
Unknown
FacesOfDeath.com exclusive.
Eddie Wong
Dude, you're like a streamer.
Unknown
Yo.
Eddie Wong
You get that?
Larry
Yeah. Second time. This is way, way, way long ago. I broke my first condom because it kept hitting somebody in the face. So I took it off and then the condom broke and I was like, no, I'm never taking this.
Unknown
Got it. Yeah.
Natasha
You almost died.
Larry
I almost died. That qualified.
Unknown
Yeah. No, I'm with you.
Larry
I was more scared of the concept.
Eddie Wong
With an AIDS patient.
Larry
Yeah.
Unknown
Or he's gonna have to. Yeah. Take his own life. Ready to raise another one.
Eddie Wong
Is that. Oh, and you're drinking some liquid death tea.
Larry
I stay Liquid death tea.
Eddie Wong
Sponsor. Eddie and Natasha sponsor us.
Larry
This is my favorite Bev. Right.
Eddie Wong
And the Dubai latte that has a trash sprinkling Of Cleveland Steamer. You're an influencer. What is it?
Larry
Terrible. It was from Froth Froth, the coffee shop down the street. Very nice barista lady in there. She's, like, really working hard. She's. She's putting her whole back into every coffee there, right? This just concoction, the viral Dubai latte. It's not hitting okay.
Eddie Wong
As people that are, like, adjacent to, like, the la or we're adjacent to the LA influencer scene is our girls getting flew out to Dubai to get, like, on for, you know, Birkin.
Larry
Absolutely.
Eddie Wong
Yeah, absolutely.
Larry
You know what's funny? I wrote this into a script that is out to the market right now, and all of these executives are like, that seems too crazy. It's too crazy. Like, we don't believe it. I'm like, yo, this is happening, right? Yeah, this is absolutely happening. And it was funny. They didn't believe me that people were.
Unknown
Getting like, ask your daughter. This happens.
Larry
Yeah, yeah. Ask if Ashley's been on her testicles, you know.
Unknown
Jesus Christ.
Eddie Wong
The Dubai steamer.
Larry
Mainstream culture. The Dubai or it's in the coffee now.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Everybody, the dookie latte. All right, fit check.
Larry
60 racks. Get your chest on.
Eddie Wong
That's it.
Unknown
That seems what business class, five star hotel. Like, there's other.
Larry
Called her and was like, it happened.
Natasha
Yeah. Somebody I know was telling me, like, a friend of a friend's intimate story. And this was before it had kind of gone, like, viral on the Internet. This was like, early when we were dating and I told was cool.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
And he was horrified. But, yeah, it's not a lot of money for what it is because I think, like, the mental trauma of that.
Unknown
Okay, so she wasn't like, yo, I kind of like this.
Natasha
It wasn't.
Unknown
This is the worst thing, right?
Natasha
I don't know. I don't know if she liked it. She may. Someone's into it.
Eddie Wong
60 racks. I get on for 60 racks.
Natasha
So quick.
Unknown
Yes.
Natasha
Like, I could shit on every day for less. What do you.
Eddie Wong
It's no what I spent 60 racks on.
Natasha
But, like, no.
Eddie Wong
I take a.
Natasha
Like. No. I feel like it would go so quick. Like, what do you do? Yeah, the anaconda.
Larry
Anaconda joints worth getting? I guess.
Eddie Wong
Depends.
Unknown
Why?
Eddie Wong
Why do you think the Bottega loafers are called daddy loafers?
Unknown
Oh, God.
Natasha
Wow.
Unknown
Wow.
Natasha
The Dubai loafers.
Unknown
Nice mocha leather.
Larry
Yeah, that doo doo bra.
Eddie Wong
All right, let's get into the mean potatoes. The only podcast matters. I mean, first off, how's the move back to New York City been the.
Larry
Best choice we've ever made.
Eddie Wong
Why did you guys decide to move back after how many years in la?
Larry
Well, the thing for me was really that, like. All right, so I'll explain it like this. You guys shoot dice. Like, when you go to Vegas, you play craps.
Eddie Wong
We're very bad at gambling, but I like shooting. Ceelo silo.
Larry
Okay. 3, 2, 1, right? It's like you can hit a point like, 4, 6, 8, 10, right? 4 or 5, 6, 8, 10. And it's like in, In L. A. It's like, there's no money to be made unless you hit, like, the actual point, right? Where it's like, you got to do TV or you got to do film. Otherwise, like, there's just not, like, the mid bag or the, like, the mini bag.
Unknown
We're the kings of the mid bag. Yeah, I get it, dude.
Larry
Yeah, I love the mid bag. I love, I love a mini bag. You know what I mean? Like, I love a telfar.
Unknown
Yeah, dude.
Eddie Wong
Yeah. A little clutch, bro.
Larry
Friday night, let's get some luar money, right? And it's just like, I'm just getting.
Eddie Wong
Pissed on for the luar.
Larry
Yeah.
Unknown
You know?
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Larry
And in la, the only money to be made right now is, like, if you hit the four, you hit the 10. But the odds are very low. In New York, you could put money on the six, you put money on the eight, you put money on the nine. Like, you could just make money off somebody else's role, you know? And so I think the just economy and business is in LA right now. That's one. And I'm also, I don't really. I think people in LA, because they make 10 off of you. Like, there's a. There's a lot of people making managers, agents, etc. Yeah, they try to, like, control which bag you're getting to. And in New York, like, I can't be controlled. Like, I show up at Joe's Pub on a Friday night and make a few hundred bucks. Yeah, I'm happy, you know? Like, I'll go make a few hundred bucks with Cream Rama. Like, I'll go.
Unknown
They add up.
Larry
Yeah. I'll go do an auction with Substack. It's fun, right? For me, it's just like, I love the hustle. I like staying active. But also it's that I wanted to come back and open a restaurant, and.
Eddie Wong
I was like, notorious moneymaker.
Larry
Notorious moneymaker. And my thing was just like, I, I, I was thinking about opening a restaurant in la, but I was like, I don't really want to be an LA restaurant, like that restaurant scene is not fun to me. Everybody's pocket watching. Everyone's keeping up with the Joneses that.
Eddie Wong
That everyone's eating the cats.
Natasha
Yeah, yeah.
Larry
They choking, masturbating and it's like it's. Everybody's just going to places to be seen. I'm like, yo, New York, there's actually people who like understand and are interested in food.
Unknown
Gotcha.
Larry
You know like.
Unknown
And you want to serve to those kind of people.
Larry
Yeah, I care like to me like, I care about food and like the artful way which.
Eddie Wong
So I thought that you had hung up the apron permanently. Coming back?
Larry
Yeah, I'm coming back.
Eddie Wong
There's a restaurant still.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
On the menu.
Larry
Yeah, I'm working on one right now with talking to a few people in New York, some well known operators and things. So I think we'll have one by probably top of next year.
Eddie Wong
Is it going to be like the classic Wong kind of repertoire?
Larry
Yeah, it'll be like, have you've been to some of my like private dinners and like that?
Eddie Wong
I mean I had some bowels at the sample sale at Wine and Kennedy.
Unknown
Oh damn, that's a mid bag. That was a mid bag day.
Eddie Wong
Shout out Phil, bro.
Larry
Yeah, shout out Phil Chang.
Unknown
You know, like the goat.
Larry
But no, I cooking a lot of private dinners for brands and people over the years. And like the restaurant concept is really me cooking like celebratory Chinese food. Like the you would cook for an anniversary or a birthday or like, yo, I got a big bag. Let's eat lobster this way. Yeah, yeah, on me. Exactly. So I want to do that and banquet. I've been collecting art for 10 years, so it's in so many ways it'd be like my Mr. Chows.
Eddie Wong
Oh, okay.
Larry
I would never say that I'm not inspired by Mr. Child. I with y'all.
Unknown
Wait, Natasha, what do you think of Eddie's plan to mortgage your entire future? You and your son, are you on board with this?
Natasha
I'm into it.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
I believe in him.
Unknown
Do you want to be involved?
Natasha
I think I'm involved in everything he does.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
Like just Eddie's dream in life is that I. We like work together on everything really.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Natasha
Which. Which we do now. I think I was resistant at first, but now I'm just like, okay, if you're doing it. Whatever he does, it becomes his. It's all consuming.
Unknown
So like I need to be there or I'm gonna be.
Natasha
Well, yeah, it's like he's. It's all Consuming. It's just. It's every day. It's in our living room, it's an arcade. Like, everything is happening. So if you. If you don't jump on board, it's like it's happening in front of you. You might as well involve yourself.
Eddie Wong
What's the secret to working together without killing each other or it affect your relationship? Or does it.
Unknown
I don't know.
Eddie Wong
Maybe I do hate each other. Maybe.
Natasha
No, I think we used. I think we've gotten so good at it.
Larry
Yeah, well, you're right. She really didn't want to be involved at first. And then it was like, all right, then, like, 70 of my day. You're just not gonna see me because I'm in the lab, I'm in the cave, just, like, sharpening the sword. And then she was like, all right, this shit's cool. And I think what it was was when you believed that, like, you had a place in every work and that, like, it was really, really helping me. Because I think for a while you were just like, you're being nice. Like, you don't actually need my help. I'm like, no, I. I need you.
Natasha
Yeah, for sure.
Larry
And like, you saw, she. I think what it was, was there was a couple times she put out some insane fires. Like, I. I think I might have thrown a box of pizza at my producer on the Vice doc fire. Yeah, there were pizza at a producer because he was just annoying the out of me during lunch break. Like, he kept trying to talk to me about, like, legal. And I was like, yo, I'm on lunch break. Like, I'm in every scene. I'm directing every scene of this film. I'm booking every guest. I'm doing all the research. Like, lunch to me, stop fucking talking to me.
Eddie Wong
Right?
Larry
And he just. I gave him like two warnings and he kept talking to me about, like, a release for somebody, and I just threw the box of pizza at him.
Unknown
You assaulted him when he wanted to talk about legal? Smart move, dude.
Larry
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Eddie Wong
Produced a black guy.
Larry
Yeah. So then it was a five alarm blaze. They're calling all the managers, they're calling all the agents. Eddie threw a pizza and walked off set. And then obviously Natasha got roped into this and she took me to go eat ice cream, which was really fucking cute. Like the cutest thing.
Eddie Wong
Don't you have ibs?
Larry
Yeah, I mean, so I definitely took a right.
Eddie Wong
But then that's when you're. When you're busy in the bathroom.
Natasha
It's the best.
Eddie Wong
Blowing it up.
Natasha
Yeah. Okay, we can fix it.
Unknown
Damage control.
Eddie Wong
And he's out.
Larry
I mean, we got 20 minutes. 45 minutes minimum. 45.
Unknown
So Natasha's raising two boys. Got it.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
100. I'm. I'm a mom, too.
Larry
Yeah. And I remember we ate ice cream, and she just gave me this talk. She's like, yo, this doc means a lot to you. Like, you fought to get this doc made. You gave up, like, your rights, contractually with mice to, like, get to tell this story. And you're. You're going to throw it away because this producer annoyed you during lunch. Yeah. That doesn't make sense.
Unknown
Yeah. When you put it that way, yeah.
Eddie Wong
Cooler had prevailed.
Larry
Yeah. Yeah, he is annoying, that dude.
Eddie Wong
But that's his job to be, right?
Larry
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Eddie Wong
But, Natasha, so you work with a lot of agents and managers on behalf of, like, what you guys do. Are the stereotypes true that they are the slimiest on earth?
Natasha
I think they can be, but you can catch a really good one.
Larry
Oh, Phil. Sun is good.
Natasha
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Larry
Our manager is the best. He'll straight talk me, he'll grab me, he'll yell at me, and I'm like, all right, good.
Eddie Wong
Sounds like you need a lot of that in your life.
Unknown
Wrangling.
Natasha
Yeah, for sure. That's what I say. I, like. I'm like, my job is really wrangling him. It's just like, I wake our son up, and then I'm like, okay, cool. Like, you're good. Now I have to, like.
Larry
Right.
Natasha
I have to start on him.
Eddie Wong
I gotta put him to bed.
Natasha
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Eddie Wong
Is there. Do you ever feel any resentment about, like, not getting credit for. Well, now you are, but, like, you know, being the glue that holds it all together?
Natasha
No, not really.
Larry
I think you get a lot of credit from the team.
Natasha
Yeah, for sure. They. I do feel like I get a lot of credit there. But no, it doesn't bother me because I'm, like, genuinely a fan of his work. So. There's so many projects that I'm just like, I don't care. I just want to, like, see it be made. That's. That's the goal. That's the only thing.
Eddie Wong
When did she become a fan of Eddie?
Natasha
I think when he. We were. I don't even know if we were dating yet, but you had sent me a script. I don't know if I can say.
Larry
The name of it.
Natasha
And it was. I read through it in, like, 45 minutes.
Unknown
It was page turner.
Natasha
It was so good. I didn't want it to end. I Like, wanted to live in the world, and I was just like, this guy's brilliant.
Unknown
Were you like, I gotta meet this guy?
Natasha
I think we had already hung out.
Larry
We had hung out.
Natasha
Yeah. We hadn't. But once I was reading it, I was like, for sure. I was like, for sure gonna let this guy.
Unknown
You were turned on by his mind.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
I was telling me about her life and I was like, yo, there's some in the script, tuna melt that I think you'd really relate to.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
And I mean, she. She helped me cast it up. Like, she helped me identify the people to cast for and everything. Like, she's always the first one to read everything I do.
Unknown
The opinion you trust the most, right?
Larry
Absolutely.
Eddie Wong
The feedback that. That, like, hits the hardest.
Larry
Yes. Like, if she. So a lot of times, whether it's your executive or your publisher, your producer, like, they all have different interests. Right. And so sometimes they'll discourage you from, like, pushing a story in a certain artful direction.
Eddie Wong
Right.
Larry
If she tells me that she likes it and it's fire, then I'll fight for it. Oh, if she doesn't like it, then I'll open up for notes.
Eddie Wong
You can compromise on that.
Larry
Yeah, yeah. I'll be like, all right, cool. Because if Natasha is not feeling it, then there's something to this. It's. I'm literally. If she says, like, it's okay to listen to other people, I'll open up my ear. Otherwise, I keep it locked up because everyone. What I've learned in the business is everyone has an interest in pushing your work into certain directions.
Eddie Wong
Sure.
Unknown
Yeah. So they get paid.
Larry
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't trust people.
Eddie Wong
We're watching the studio. We got it.
Natasha
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
So you're talking about, like, in la, everyone's, like, going for the big. It's like big bag or nothing. Right. Is that, like the. I believe that we're talking about the. The industry time. It's like film and tv. What's the current state of the film and TV world is as fucking chopped as everyone says it is right now, where it's just, like, impossible to get anything done unless it is, like, oh, it's starring for, you know, whatever.
Larry
Starring Brad Pitt is definitely, definitely shot. Unless it's like, huge ip, right? Or, like, extremely castable and viral and something that they just know is going to, like, hit their algorithm and their metrics.
Unknown
Totally.
Larry
People are chicken jockey.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Yeah. It's like that. Unless you're, like, on the bullseye of what is in their, like, focus group meetings. Yeah, it's just not happening. And then like if you speak the like cinephile done language and like, like, you know what those like financier art want, like that'll get made still because there's still like super rich people in Nepo babies like making that kind of stuff. But if you're like wacky and challenging, it's very, very difficult right now. Like luckily for me with the vice doc, it's the financier Ted Ham, that finances film, he just has incredible taste and he was aware of vice and he knew of like everybody around it. So he wanted the like insider take. He didn't care that I wasn't focused mainly on like the economic down.
Unknown
Right.
Larry
You know, he didn't want the like Gibney doc of it.
Unknown
He wanted the God, the hot goss. Right. He's like, make that. I want that story. Yeah. He was like, what people probably want generally.
Larry
He was like, tell the freaky version.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
And so like, I'm really lucky. He just has good taste. He also financed like Get Out.
Unknown
Oh, wow.
Larry
Black Klansman. So like that guy knows. And it's just about finding that financier who understands your work. But there's just not many of them right now.
Eddie Wong
Is it that, like, because there's so much money involved in these projects, they're people are conservative. Right. They don't want to take the risk or there needs to be like a more certain ROI with like. And that's why people are financiers are drawn to like existing IP where it's like, yeah, kids love Minecraft.
Larry
Yeah. And I think that because a few streamers control the distribution channels now.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Because they control it all. There's just not a way to like get your money back on a film unless it's just like for right down the middle mainstream. You know, just there's just not ways to make money on stuff tv you can still get it off. Right. Because there's still some very good executives in tv. Like, like FX has land graph. Who's phenomenal. The HBO team is still phenomenal. But like for a couple years they haven't been able to buy, you know.
Eddie Wong
Because of the Viceland up. You're still in debt from that.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
No, I think what it was was the merger that Zazlov discovery that up there.
Unknown
People hate that.
Eddie Wong
Yeah, new logo.
Larry
Yeah, exactly. So like HBO was the best place to get things made for 20 years. And I think think they just don't have the buying power they used to.
Eddie Wong
Right.
Larry
And then, you know, Netflix is Netflix Is Netflix, man. They have a very specific taste. Every once in a while there's a hit like adolescence on there. It's just like phenomenal. But that got through. Like the British side, like, it's a British project. You see a lot more like good British projects on Netflix.
Unknown
Totally.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
You know, British project.
Larry
No, me.
Unknown
You could do an accent, right?
Larry
My showrunner on one of my projects is British.
Unknown
I with him, his colonizing ass was having a kid.
Eddie Wong
Did that was. How much did that go into the decision to move back to New York? Would you guys rather have a thought daughter? LA son?
Larry
I'll let you answer. I've. I've answered to. But you answer thought daughter.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Natasha
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Our LA son. Just like the worst dudes on earth to worse, bro.
Natasha
I just don't think you would want your son to come of age in LA and be a. Like, I don't think they would ever be able to be a man. That makes sense.
Unknown
A predator.
Natasha
Yeah. Maybe not maybe.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
Which is the worst. That's like a possible outcome for yourself, right? As a mom? Mom or anyone.
Larry
Yeah, I would. I would love my child no matter what. But there's probably one thing that I would. If. If. If a child. If a child grows up and is just a completely ineffective human, it would be very difficult for me to have respect for them.
Unknown
Ineffective in what way? Always.
Larry
Or completely ineffective like a scammer or like, you know, always making excuses or lying and just like completely fumbling all the time. I feel like. Like, I can't take this.
Natasha
What would you do?
Larry
I would. I'd be like, we gotta fix this.
Eddie Wong
This is child of immigrant talk. I feel like, probably a little bit, right?
Unknown
Probably.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Well, like, my thing is, is like, I gotta. Like, a lot of my love is tied to respect. Like, I respect her the most, you know, the way her mind thinks and the way she does. I respect you guys. Thank you. You know, thank you.
Unknown
We respect you too.
Larry
Thank you. Yeah, it's just like, I can't with people I don't respect. Respect. And there are a lot of like, LA men. I got no respect.
Unknown
I would say the majority probably don't respect.
Eddie Wong
What are the qualities of theirs that you. That contribute to your lack of respect?
Larry
I think the inability to give a straight answer and look someone in the eye.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Larry
Like, if you don't like something, just say you don't like it.
Unknown
So honesty.
Larry
Honesty. That's policy. Yeah. Just like stand, stand, you know, Stand on what you believe in.
Unknown
Like.
Larry
Yeah, yeah. A lot of people hate what I have to say. But you always know where you stand with me.
Unknown
That's a good point.
Eddie Wong
So did having. Having a kid, did that contribute a lot to moving back to New York to raise him here?
Larry
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Eddie Wong
What do you miss the most about New York City while you're. How long were you guys out there for?
Natasha
I was out there four years. You were out there longer than.
Larry
Yeah, I did a bit. I was out there from, like, halfway through 2014 all the way till 2019. And for those five years, I was back and forth between New York, La. But I spent a lot of time. Then 2019, I was home to make boog. That was great. 2020 pandemic. I was in Taiwan then 2021, till literally now I was posted in LA.
Eddie Wong
Right.
Larry
It was the worst four years.
Eddie Wong
Damn. Natasha, what do you miss the most about New York City?
Natasha
I missed just being connected to people. I think LA was super isolating for us.
Eddie Wong
It's the plot of Crash.
Natasha
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Oscar winner.
Natasha
Yeah. We were just like, up in a mountain. It was very disconnected. It didn't feel like a life that we should have been living at this stage in our lives. Like, we were too young to be in Bel Air. Secluded.
Unknown
Right.
Natasha
Just kind of cooped up. Beautiful. For when you're retired.
Larry
Yeah. People in LA love control. They're obsessed with control. Like gatekeeping.
Natasha
Yes.
Larry
Everything's arm's length. Okay. I'll hang out with you in two weeks on Wednesday at 3:00pm right here. Okay. I'll confirm the day before through my assistant. I'm just like, New York people just roll up on you like Kramer and Seinfeld.
Natasha
Yeah, yeah.
Larry
What up?
Natasha
Even hang that. People's houses in LA get very weird. It's so curated. It's like you go. And it's. It's not just like you're going to your friend's house and you're kicking it. You're like, oh, cool, I'm gonna, like, sit on your couch and have a glass of wine. It's very, like you said, arm's length. Like, I've created an informative experience for you. Come enjoy and then tell me you liked it later. Yeah, but, like, have fun and post a pic.
Unknown
Oh, right. It's about.
Eddie Wong
This is what you post. Well, whenever I watch, like, selling Sunset or whatever, it's always just like, great. And this is the.
Larry
A.
Eddie Wong
What a great home for entertaining.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
What are you talking about? I just want to live here.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Look at all my.
Eddie Wong
Right.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
You never feel like you could take a. In their Toilet.
Unknown
So they want a foot.
Eddie Wong
Do you?
Natasha
Yeah, that's everywhere.
Larry
Yeah, I can't help it.
Natasha
Yeah, like he like has a glass of water somewhere.
Larry
He's like, it's coming.
Unknown
So they're inviting you over to flex on you and then have you amplify their flexing on social media.
Natasha
Yeah. And it's not insidious, it's not intentional, but that's just the culture there. So it's not like they're like we're gonna flex on everyone. But that is the. That's even worse in LA is it's baked in.
Eddie Wong
But is this at a certain tier of like successful people? It is if you're young and broke.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
But yeah.
Larry
So I'll say this. When I lived in Mid City, I had friends mid. Okay. I had friends in Mid City and that was cool.
Natasha
Yeah. But his friends like were the people that like posted up at a liquor store. But his years.
Eddie Wong
Gas station.
Natasha
Yeah.
Unknown
People with rock in their nickname.
Larry
If she didn't believe me, I would tell her I would hang out at discount liquors on Washington. I and knew everyone. And for my probably it might be a lush.
Unknown
Eddie.
Larry
I had a birthday at Mini bar at the Hollywood 101 diner and these dudes came in and they're like, yo, we ain't seen you with discount liquors in three years. And I was like, yeah, I moved. And she's like, holy. Like you really were up in discount liquors every day.
Eddie Wong
I never see you at the club, I never see discount liquors.
Unknown
I'm watching that.
Larry
I see you with discount liquors in a minute.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Larry
But I love Mid City because it was a neighborhood.
Eddie Wong
Right.
Larry
Like I knew the squeegee dude at the gas station and just post with him.
Natasha
Mid City's walkable too. But then that's the other thing just missing for me especially. I know so, so many people are the opposite. They have kids, they move to la. I once we had our son, I was like, I need to move back to New York. It's so much easier for me to have a kid here and move to the playground. Cuz I'm like, okay, get in your stroller, we're going. And then be home at 8pm like it's just a different life. LA kids hate the car as well. Our kid does.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
He doesn't want to be in a car seat for 45 minutes driving to like, oh yeah.
Larry
So restless.
Natasha
Wherever than to go sit in a high chair. And like, it's just, I don't know, I was like let's just go out. Let's have fun.
Larry
I will preface this by saying we know one couple who, like, they do really well and they do throw the functions with, like, the servers and the whole setup. Nick, JMA and Holly List, they're the only people where I still feel comfortable going to their. Okay, yeah, it's still family, but that's, like, a hard thing to nail.
Natasha
Nobody else nails it, but they're just. They're like the leaders I think of hosting. When I think of anybody in LA who's like, I will always go to their function. If they're like, word, whatever they're doing, I'm like, yes, I'm coming over.
Unknown
Thought leaders and hospitality.
Eddie Wong
Thought leaders? No, LA Sons. Well, speaking of getting run up on, do you, Eddie, do you run into entitled white who don't leash their dogs all the time or just the second week that you're back in New York?
Larry
It made me the second week I was back, you know, like. Like, ever since that video, people have pulled up on me like, yo, leash dog. Leash dog. I'm like, like, the Le Dog guy now, you know? But no, that dude was wild out of pocket.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Larry
I literally got knocked off a bench with my Doberman from his dog jumping at us.
Eddie Wong
And then he did not take it kindly.
Larry
No, when you were like, he thought I delivered Chinese food to the building.
Eddie Wong
Oh, that's right.
Larry
He straight up was like, you're from hualong.
Eddie Wong
Do you. Okay, so he's your neighbor in the building. If you haven't seen this, this viral news story on, like, Daily Mail or New York Post. Yeah. Do your Googles have you run into him again? It's a big building, right?
Larry
I've run into him twice. Natasha's running times.
Eddie Wong
How. How did that go?
Natasha
I don't know that he knows that we're, like, together. I don't know if he knows who.
Eddie Wong
I am probably, since you don't have a white wife.
Natasha
Yeah, he definitely doesn't think he has a white wife. But he was fine to me. I mean, he always just, like, appeared angry, though. Like, every time I see him, I'm.
Unknown
Like, oh, he's got his own issues.
Natasha
Giving a bad vibe.
Larry
Yeah, like, coke jaw, you know, he got locked all the time.
Eddie Wong
How was he to you?
Larry
He just like, he still looked angry and sheepish and, like, saw me and then just, like, looked down in a way. Like, he refuses to apologize, won't acknowledge. And I'm just like, it's cool. Your life got up.
Eddie Wong
Did his life get up?
Larry
I think it got up.
Unknown
There was ramifications.
Natasha
I think a lot of people. I was like, in the comment section, I was checking.
Eddie Wong
Sure.
Natasha
And there was a lot of people being, like, in whatever viral video you had posted on Tick Tock, being like, I just canceled my account with Blah Blah Blah Fitness. I think he was a trainer and he had, like, his own gym and studio. And I think a lot of people. Which is crazy that people do that. They're like, I saw this video. I'm not gonna work out here anymore.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
You see the one where in a hot Pilates yoga studio or hot yoga studio, influencer girl was like, I got yelled at and bullied for drinking water when I wasn't supposed to. And everyone just, like, canceled their membership to the hot yoga studio.
Larry
Really? Yeah.
Natasha
And the teacher was the teacher.
Eddie Wong
Like, I might have said something, but, like, I didn't. I didn't bully her.
Unknown
So they destroyed that person.
Eddie Wong
Pussy. Yeah.
Larry
That's why, like, I really didn't want to do him. Like, I did him. But what? Pause. But what happened was his mother in law, like, ran up on me in the lobby when I was just picking up food for us one night, and she was like, yo, my husband is a supreme court, is a superior court justice, and was like, trying to lean on me in that way. And like, like, you know, I found out that they made a complaint to the building. And I was like, all right, so now it's on. I gotta get the ratchet out.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Because I was like, you're coming for me. Like, I was giving you a pass, bro. You know, but, ma'am.
Eddie Wong
Damn, bro.
Unknown
Welcome to the building, baby.
Larry
Welcome.
Eddie Wong
Welcome back in two weeks later, making ops neighbors are your ops in New York.
Larry
Yo, I moved to Murray Hill too, just because I was like, I can't get in trouble here. What? Yeah, literally.
Natasha
He was like, we can't. We won't run into anybody. We'll just be in a bubble. It'll be so nice, bro.
Eddie Wong
Yeah. Is Murray Hill still, like, the same, like, stereotype or. Or vibe that maybe, like, it was, I don't know, 10 years ago when it first.
Larry
I think so Low level traders, like.
Eddie Wong
Third and long, bro.
Larry
Yo, people are up in there. I literally chose Murray Hill because there was like a panty incident in our house two years ago.
Eddie Wong
What?
Larry
And like, it just like our whole lives up. She found a rogue pair of panties that I got nothing.
Natasha
I love that guy. Called it a rogue pair of panties. He's still calling it rogue.
Larry
It's a rogue pair of panties.
Natasha
Well, I was freshly postpartum, and I found panties in our house.
Unknown
It almost brought the whole situation to a collapse.
Larry
The whole house.
Natasha
But I don't think that's why we moved to Murray Hill.
Larry
No, no, no. It is for me.
Unknown
Not a panty in the.
Natasha
This is new to me.
Larry
We've never lived in New York together, so I was like, yo, I don't want to move to, like, a hot neighborhood where we're going to run into, like, bodies, you know? I don't want to see zombies. Yeah. And I was like, what if we're, like, walking our son and someone's like, like, hey. And she's like, who's that?
Unknown
I'm like, right?
Larry
And then, of course, today, what do.
Natasha
You think I'm gonna do? Let me see your panties that I found in my house.
Unknown
Show me your draws.
Larry
75 leopard thong.
Eddie Wong
Freaky. Freaky ass Cinderella.
Natasha
Yeah. I'm, like, carrying them around.
Eddie Wong
Try these on now.
Natasha
Yeah.
Unknown
Wait, Natasha, are you a jealous. Are you a jealous person or was this just so flagrant of.
Natasha
It was so flagrant because I just birthed a baby out of my body.
Larry
That's fair.
Unknown
Okay.
Natasha
And I was like, you're gonna have some other baby just panties in my house after I just gave you a son?
Eddie Wong
Where the panties come from, bro? And then some of you guys were hosting.
Natasha
You know what the thing is, is I find a lot of women's clothing around, and I'm like, this isn't mine. It's, like, straight from Asia too. That's the thing. And it's crazy because I'll look up the brand. Like, I'm not a jealous girl, but I'm just like, let me find out. The brand is like, love, love. It's like Kobe love or something.
Larry
I got new pants yesterday. So this morning, I'm hanging. I'm up, and there's just, like, this weird pair of, like, stretchy black pants on one of my hangers. And I was like, oh, must be her john. So I take it off and just put it on.
Natasha
Also insulting that he was like, must be hers.
Larry
Her side of the class. I didn't look at this dog.
Unknown
Shirt is probably yours.
Natasha
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Larry
I go to write on the.
Unknown
The.
Larry
The. The 29th floor for, like, three hours. I'm so hype. I came back, finished the script, and then she's just like, what is this? I'm like, what? And they said like, love me from Taiwan.
Natasha
If you look up the brand, it's not even you. I couldn't poss. Order from this brand. It's all in Chinese. There's not a lick of English on there. I don't know my size. I don't even know how to. I don't know how to press order.
Eddie Wong
You don't want to get Alibaba panties. That's how you get cancer.
Natasha
Yeah, exactly. I don't want synthetic fib like girlfriend would wear.
Larry
So I'll put it on her.
Natasha
Whatever. The thing is, is that I genuinely don't care. I was more insulted. I was like, again, the level of. You're with. If you are with one needs to change. Do you know what I'm saying? It's disrespectful to me. Because then I'm like, so is that how you see me? Oh, you know what I mean?
Larry
Those are definitely.
Natasha
I'm like, if you're gonna. With a whack.
Larry
Those are pants you wear with, like, a chunky platform sandal that she would wear.
Eddie Wong
Well, you moved to Bury Hill. Those pants just materialize out of thin air, right?
Larry
They did.
Natasha
No, that's the thing. There's a lot of. There's a lot of women's clothing floating around our house. And I'm just saying step it up. Like, get his. Get his credit card. Go to Bottega. Like I do. Like, treat her better.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
You know what I'm saying? Like, if she's.
Eddie Wong
Well, Eddie's wearing women.
Natasha
She's popping it.
Eddie Wong
He's wearing women's shoes right now. Maybe he's wearing. Maybe he's wearing women's panties.
Natasha
They were much too small. That's the thing.
Larry
So the truck. Yo.
Unknown
And. And to be clear, the panties that started this all were never identified.
Natasha
Never identified.
Larry
Interesting.
Natasha
And you know what's crazy?
Eddie Wong
What?
Natasha
I thought they were my mom's.
Unknown
What a twist. That's a screenplay.
Natasha
And now I'm thinking. And now I'm thinking about it. Right. Recall call. Maybe they were.
Larry
No, Come on.
Eddie Wong
Did she ever stay with you guys?
Natasha
Oh, she was staying with us while this happened. And I was like, why do you have these lacy ass panties? You know what I mean? And that's. Again, again. She took his side. She kept telling me, natasha, he would never. Why don't you get over it? And I was like, oh, it's the.
Unknown
Whole time they were hers.
Natasha
My mom.
Eddie Wong
Damn.
Natasha
Damn.
Eddie Wong
Red lace herring.
Larry
I will not find another I since 20, 21 and 25.
Unknown
Because he killed them all.
Natasha
He killed them all. And their clothes are in our closet.
Unknown
Oh, I'm happy we can move past.
Larry
This and we're all, yo, I thought we weren't going to make it here today. I'm like, yo, babe, please, we're on throwing fits. Like, let's keep this together.
Unknown
Well, what's save the fits to be thrown in the studio?
Larry
Exactly.
Natasha
Exactly.
Eddie Wong
What's the. You guys always typically fight over?
Larry
Usually?
Unknown
Rogue clothes, Rogue panties?
Natasha
No, rogue.
Eddie Wong
You ever find any rogue brogues?
Natasha
We haven't fought in a very long time.
Larry
Very long time.
Eddie Wong
Really?
Natasha
Not.
Larry
Not gone well. What.
Natasha
What do we fight over? You're just. We. We have fought over have. I think when you have a kid, you just start fighting because you start keeping score. Oh, you don't want to. But then you're like, oh, are you taking a nap right now? Oh, do you know what I mean? I was just up all night. And how dare you lay down in your bed of.
Larry
It is when we, like, are in between nannies or something. And I in my head will be like, this is the amount of childcare I've told myself I will be providing today day.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Larry
And after that amount of childcare, I'll just lay down and, like, watch the Knicks or I'll watch, like, the Charlotte Hornets, you know? She's like, yo, you're watching the Charlotte Hornets. Yeah.
Unknown
It's not a league pass type situation. Yeah.
Larry
Oh, I got league pass.
Eddie Wong
Lamelle's going crazy.
Larry
Yeah, he's swerving. Been in that corner.
Unknown
He pulled up from the logo.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Yeah. And I can tell when I have not provided enough child care because she's like, once he goes down, she's got the scowl on her face and she doesn't talk to me until, like, the next day. And in my mind, I'm like, I have not provided enough child care. Oh, you're not like, mellow is going crazy.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
How do you typically make it up to each other?
Larry
Foot massage. I make a very good coffee in the morning.
Natasha
Yeah. There has been times where I won't start a fight at night. Because if we fight, like, for him, I feel like he gets back at me by not making me a coffee in the morning.
Unknown
Oh, you're like, I need this.
Natasha
And there's. There's fights that I have been like, actually, like, I actually you. Yeah, exactly. After I. Because I'm like, whatever. Let me get the coffee first.
Eddie Wong
Yeah, I need to poop tomorrow. Yeah, we'll get that coffee.
Larry
Exactly.
Natasha
So I gotta get things moving. You cook?
Eddie Wong
Do you cook a lot in the household now, Eddie?
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
Well, no, since we moved here, we don't cook anymore.
Larry
Well, I feel like I do. I made. Yo. I made the.
Natasha
Not nearly as much as we did.
Larry
I made the cheesesteak pasta the other day.
Natasha
That was crazy.
Larry
And made a cheesesteak pasta.
Eddie Wong
Are you making like viral like Tick Tock recipes?
Larry
I should.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Larry
No, I can't do Tick Tock. It's funny.
Natasha
I know. I tried to get him to do Tick Tock. I was trying to do it.
Larry
Or to be honest, this isn't my voice. Like I'll put videos that I make for like the pod or like another. I would do a show on Tick Tock but I can't be like. So hey, I'm here. It's just. It's not the way I like talking.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Larry
But I no shade. I like watching other people do it.
Eddie Wong
Natasha, what's your for you page look like these days?
Natasha
Oh, what is it? I feel like right now it's a lot of mom stuff. It's a lot of like kind of mom tips, MILF content. Weirdly I have a lot of Coachella right now which I don't want you the residual laness.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Unknown
Seeping through them.
Natasha
That's what I'm getting. But no, I have a lot of like interesting like weird. You know those like obscure videos. It doesn't. It doesn't really make any sense. It's just like a sound like a really odd person. Like my for you pages kind.
Unknown
Okay.
Natasha
You've seen it before. It's like, it just. I love when it gets so weird.
Unknown
Okay. Some real brain rot.
Larry
Yeah, animal too. Like you follow that big ass bird. There's that big ass bird.
Natasha
Yo, there's a big bird. It's like in the middle of Russia and there's just this massive. I don't even know what kind of bird it is. It's like a duck, but it's huge. And this dude, it's like in like a village in Russia. They're like concrete walls. Like it's really down bad Chernobyl duck. And this bird just flies and they like make videos with it. It is the funniest, like coolest thing. A lot of crazy ass Russians. Yeah. A lot of things happening in like a Kazakhstan like the Stan. I'm.
Unknown
You're a global source up her algorithm.
Larry
In a good way too. Because he loves watching like little kids playing basketball.
Natasha
Oh my God.
Larry
So her is like all over time.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
You know.
Unknown
Okay.
Natasha
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Like those kids that like do a layup and then they're like too small.
Larry
Like three feet tall.
Unknown
Okay.
Eddie Wong
Did you guys push the habit kid agenda up to get him in under the buzzer before race mixing is outlawed.
Larry
Race mixing is outlawed now.
Unknown
It will be soon, potentially on the table. I think.
Larry
Vers Virginia is back.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Natasha
What are we. What are we gonna do?
Larry
Whoa.
Natasha
We have to have another baby right now.
Eddie Wong
No. That's gonna become more rare.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
And then more desirable.
Unknown
Pokemon status. Yeah.
Natasha
Wow. Damn.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Natasha
That is a holographic child.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Natasha
No, we didn't think of that. We're just clearly on the forefront of things. Yeah.
Larry
I was just shooting the club. I've been shooting the club. I don't think I kind of broke. I think there's like one time I didn't shoot the club up. Like, I can remember one time.
Natasha
Okay.
Unknown
Yeah. Wait, this. So when you guys. You guys always wanted to have a kid, then you were actively trying or what was that discussion like?
Natasha
No, we weren't actually so nice in there.
Larry
Like, it's really hard in the close club. Yeah. In the club that you're like, nice in that club. It's hard.
Unknown
Let me shoot this up.
Larry
I'm always just like, being able.
Eddie Wong
Is that when you knew you were in love? Is that when you knew you were in love, Eddie, when you entered the club for the first time?
Natasha
Yeah. You had told me you loved me.
Larry
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I told her I love you.
Eddie Wong
I'm in. I love you.
Larry
Yeah. Did I tell you I loved you before or after?
Natasha
Before.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
That's what I thought too.
Larry
Yeah. I.
Unknown
To get into the club, you have to say it sometimes.
Natasha
Well, I. That's was like, do you.
Larry
Yo, I was like, too move for like nine days. I didn't make a move. It's like, yo. So, yo, great night.
Natasha
That's not at all what happened.
Larry
Good night. Yeah. How did happen nine dates before I like, made a move.
Natasha
Oh, yeah, yeah. No, we hung out a lot. We hung out a lot. And like, we didn't even. Like, I don't think we even touched hands. Like, we were just like.
Eddie Wong
Were you getting impatient?
Natasha
Yeah, not impatient, but I was like, maybe we're friends.
Eddie Wong
Like, is this guy gay?
Natasha
Like, maybe we're friends. I don't know. Like, I was like. Like I was a little confused.
Larry
Well, she told me to delay pleasure, so I was cool.
Eddie Wong
What is that edging?
Natasha
No, I just. Yeah, like, edging. Like, you know, I was like. I was like, why don't we just.
Larry
You know, understand what's edging?
Natasha
It's like delaying pleasure, not busting. Like, you don't come right away.
Eddie Wong
You look, you walk up to the.
Natasha
Club, like, wait, Wait, you walk up.
Eddie Wong
To the club and you hear it and you see it, but you're like, all right, I'll come back later.
Natasha
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you, like, really want it. It. And then you go back.
Larry
She said the delay pleasure. And I was like, all right, whatever. I thought she was curving me, so I was like, I'll curve you harder.
Unknown
Oh, you know, miscommunication.
Larry
So I just really, like. I knew I was crazy about her when I met her, so I just was like, whatever you say.
Unknown
Right. I'm not gonna rush it.
Natasha
But it was cool. Like, in hindsight, I had never. What did I.
Eddie Wong
When did you know that you were in love?
Natasha
Oh, I knew that I was in love with you when you had sent me the email that went into my spam folder.
Larry
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Natasha
He sent me this. Really? Because we were playing cat and mouse for a second. Like, he was in la, I was in New York. Whatever. We're bouncing around. And then he had sent me this really long email. Just being vulnerable. Just being like, I like you, actually, and I want to be serious. I don't. Yeah. Being honest. And I don't. If this isn't what like, you, yo.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Natasha
If you're not feeling it, just let me know. And I was, like, so vulnerable. And it went into my spam folder.
Eddie Wong
Oh, no.
Natasha
So for like, three and a half days, he were, like, texting, and I was like, oh, like, what's going on? He's like, a little, like, I don't know. You're being a little dry.
Larry
And I'm sitting at home punching my.
Natasha
Found the email, so. And I was edging.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
He was like, well, I really meant delay pleasure.
Larry
Right.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
And then I think you didn't believe me that it was in my spam folder, but I said something.
Unknown
You were like, yo, did you get my.
Natasha
No, no, no.
Larry
Address it. I just went dumb quiet, and, like, was super dry in our texts. And then she just called me. Like, I remember it was a Saturday morning, and she called me and I was like, oh, thank God I didn't get high yet, you know? And I thought she was calling to be like, yo, let's just be friends. I don't like you like that. Because I sent a very emotional email, and it was just like. She was like, yo, so this was in my spam. And I did believe you because I was like, I don't know why you'd make it up. Right. It doesn't make sense to make that up.
Eddie Wong
Yeah, you're trying to hit meat. Not Hit spam him.
Larry
Exactly.
Natasha
Exactly.
Eddie Wong
For real, Natasha, did you wife up a Chinese guy? Low key. Because we're about to enter the Chinese century. And then how pissed were you when you learned Eddie's Taiwanese?
Natasha
I absolutely was trying to secure my spot in one China.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
One China. But China?
Unknown
Well, no, he's.
Natasha
He's Chinese.
Larry
Yeah. By blood Chinese.
Natasha
You know, and then by way of, you know. So we're good. We're good in China. China.
Larry
Yeah. Are you.
Natasha
I had. I did my research.
Eddie Wong
Are you not Taiwanese?
Larry
No, we're. My parents were born in Taiwan, but our family escaped from China with Chiang Kai Shek. Yeah. Yeah, we're the Chian Kai Shek people. So then we went to Taiwan, but the real heroes.
Eddie Wong
Ma was a. And retreated while Chiang Kai Shek fought off the Japanese.
Larry
Wow.
Eddie Wong
Right?
Larry
No.
Eddie Wong
Am I allowed to say that?
Larry
No. Funny enough, no. My pops.
Unknown
No, you're not.
Larry
Even though he's born in Taiwan and Mao kicked our family's ass past. My dad really respected Mao. So, like, I grew up reading about Mao.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Larry
I respect that he spoke foreigners.
Unknown
You were indoctrinated.
Natasha
We had a portrait of Mao in our house.
Eddie Wong
So are you. Are you ready for the Chinese century now that Pax Americana is crumbling?
Natasha
We're ready.
Larry
Yeah, we're ready. Like, yo, I. I love China. I think there's a lot to learn from China, but I will also say this. Like, I'm not. I don't buy into, like, we're better or they're better. Like, my. My middle brother lives in China and loves it and is like, China's the greatest. I'm like, yo, China's fire, but also America's fire, too. Like, we're in a bad era, and there's some, like, really terrible things going on. And I think, like, the corporate oligarchs have taken over. But I do still really love the ideals America's built on. Not to get, like, all corny and serious all of a sudden, but, like, I love this place. Like, I lived in Taiwan, and I thought I may be able to stay there, there, but I missed America, man. Yeah.
Eddie Wong
No guns there.
Larry
No Buffalo wings.
Eddie Wong
Really?
Larry
It's the buffalo wings, bro.
Unknown
It was the wings, Yo.
Larry
Chinese people cannot make a buffalo. This is what's. Because the best fried chicken is, like, the hood spot. The Chinese bulletproof 100, the number one chicken, fried hard, but they cannot make a buffalo wing for their lives.
Unknown
Get just Frank. Frank's red hot and, like, do it yourself.
Larry
Yeah. I'm like, just toss it in butter and Frank's red hot. And for some reason, they just can't do it. They don't do it. Like, I've had the worst buffalo wings I've ever had in China and I was like, I cannot live in a country without a fire buffalo.
Unknown
You can make them yourself.
Natasha
I know. Like, why don't get the wing and.
Unknown
Then make sauce at home, right?
Natasha
Why isn't that the thing?
Larry
I kind of like stepping out, watching a game and getting. America.
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Eddie Wong
Was your IBS worse in Taiwan than it was in America? Was it just.
Larry
No, it's worse in America. It's worse in America for sure. Like, it's that. That GMO is here, you know, like all our food is poisonous out here.
Unknown
Yeah, that's why it's so good.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
So good.
Eddie Wong
Natasha, what's it like being white with the last name White Huang?
Natasha
I. Well, we're not married, so I don't. Yeah, I don't have. I don't have a Huang yet.
Unknown
Do you want one?
Eddie Wong
You're in the vices broke documentary. Credited as that.
Larry
Yeah, I put it.
Natasha
Yeah.
Unknown
Spoiler alert, by the way. Yeah.
Natasha
He's trying to take ownership of me. Okay.
Larry
No, they were funny like that. I was like, you're in there as Natasha.
Natasha
Well, I feel like the intent is that eventually that take your name.
Larry
We got to go get married this summer and.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
Well, we actually have a priest here today.
Eddie Wong
Oh, yeah.
Natasha
Well, you got. No, I'm kidding.
Unknown
Let's do it.
Natasha
Bring it in.
Eddie Wong
Because there's a such thing as the secret Asian where you have, like, a white person like me, right?
Natasha
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
You have a white person named show up, and they're like, what? But a secret white. Oh, that's crazy.
Unknown
Trojan.
Natasha
I know. Actually, that's kind of a flex because I then think people will take me more seriously, like, if I'm inquiring about something on email. Like, this is. Oh, just a. Yeah, they're like, oh, it's a white bitch from Boston. This is. This is.
Eddie Wong
What's the most stereotypical Italian thing about you?
Natasha
Stereotypical nothing, really. Because I feel like I wasn't roast beef. My mom spells roast beef.
Larry
Shore of Boston, north shore of Massachusetts.
Natasha
But I feel like, culturally, I'm not. Yeah, culturally, I'm not very Italian.
Unknown
Are you nice in the kitchen?
Natasha
No. No.
Unknown
You got lucky.
Larry
She makes some good.
Natasha
No.
Larry
Okay.
Natasha
Yeah, I can bake.
Larry
She bakes.
Natasha
I can bake, but I. I don't enjoy cooking at all. Like, I don't like it. Just not fun for me.
Larry
Me, baking, wiping, like, the most ass knife skill.
Natasha
Can't chop anything. I can't do. Like, it will take me 45 minutes to cut a tomato. It's wild.
Larry
That is funny, though. When she talks mad to me, I'm like, how you talk this much and you can't use a knife, you know.
Natasha
I'm like, I know.
Unknown
The first human invention.
Larry
Stab you with a knife.
Natasha
I could definitely stab you, but you don't got knives.
Unknown
It might take you 45 minutes.
Natasha
I could do a crime of passion because I'd want to stab you. I don't want to cut the. The tomato. That's why it's taking so long, actually.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
That might be the most Italian thing about me is that I would.
Unknown
You're always on the verge of committing a crime.
Natasha
I would. Lorraine.
Eddie Wong
Domestic violence.
Natasha
I was Lorena Bob at My man.
Eddie Wong
Right.
Natasha
For sure.
Eddie Wong
Most telling thing about you.
Larry
She's always looking for Janice Rossi, you know?
Natasha
Yeah.
Unknown
Got it.
Eddie Wong
What's your favorite thing that Eddie makes at home? In the kitchen.
Natasha
Lion's head meatballs for sure.
Eddie Wong
Nice.
Natasha
Which.
Unknown
That's the one.
Natasha
That's the one. That's my favorite dish he's ever made. And then also he. She invented a pasta called Natasha pasta.
Unknown
Can we hear what's special about Natasha pasta?
Larry
This is fire. It's. It's kind of a racist dish that she inspired because I started noticing, like, every Greek dish, you have oregano, lemon, feta cheese, and then, like, parsley. So I just get fusilli pasta and then I basically chop up, like, chicken that I marinated in cherry pepper juice with oregano. Yeah. Sear it dumb hard, chop it up and then toss it with, like, olive oil, feta cheese, crumbled oregano, parsley, squeezed lemon juice, some chopped up spinach as well. Because they love putting spinach and everything.
Eddie Wong
There's some tick tock.
Larry
Yeah. And I'm like, bang. Natasha pasta. It's fire. It's like a.
Natasha
Leave it in the fridge and you just have it cold. It's the best. Also, his tuna fish is the best tuna fish I've ever had in my life, which is. I don't even. I don't care whose tuna fish it is. Yours. Yours is better.
Larry
Yeah. My tuna fish. Fire.
Eddie Wong
What's the secret?
Natasha
I don't know.
Eddie Wong
Wasabi. I don't know, like, tuna fish salad.
Larry
You know what I think it is? So, okay, it's simple. I chop up shallots. Dumb thin. If I have time, I'll like, sear the shallots a little and then put them in. But usually just raw shallots. Dumb thin Cornish on chopped up cherry peppers. Chopped up a little bit of the cherry pepper juice. And then. Then relish. Oh, no, no, not relish. Chopped up cornichons, chopped up cherry peppers. Because in my head, there's a lazy man version. I do, and then there's the, like, fire version. But the fire version is the shallots, the cornichons, the cherry peppers, mayonnaise, salt, black pepper, squeeze of lemon juice. Boom.
Eddie Wong
Is cooking your girl and meal the best way?
Larry
Oh, capers.
Eddie Wong
Oh, yeah, of course.
Larry
What a.
Eddie Wong
Salt. Salt and, like, pickled stuff. Is cooking a girl a meal the best way to apologize for up and getting out the doghouse?
Larry
I think putting her foot in my mouth. Yeah, it's number one. It's number one. Yeah.
Eddie Wong
What? How many dates before that happened? Another nine.
Larry
Shrimp, when you turn your mouth into a bubble.
Natasha
No, he put my. He put my foot in his mouth before we even, like, kissed. I think.
Larry
What I did.
Natasha
Yeah.
Unknown
Okay.
Natasha
We were in Boston at the Encore. Modern Memory, yo.
Larry
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We went to the club and yeah, that was like. We were partying with Guy Fieri in the club.
Natasha
Right.
Larry
I was putting out his new tequila and then we get into the room and I put her foot in my mouth and I'm like, damn, this tastes like Guy Ferry's tequila with soda because someone has spilled a drink on her foot. Oh, yeah, it was wild.
Unknown
Nice little chaser.
Eddie Wong
What about date night? What restaurant you guys hitting for date night now, now that you're back in New York York?
Larry
Eel Bar. Eel Bar. We love Cafe Chelsea. What else?
Eddie Wong
Eel Bar's right around the corner here. You know, before.
Natasha
Good. We could have a little lunch.
Eddie Wong
Open at 5.
Larry
Yeah, done. We're there.
Eddie Wong
Do you guys. And you said you exclusively use mannies or was that just a mannies like a male nanny?
Natasha
Oh, no, no. We have female nannies, but I would have a male nanny for sure.
Unknown
We trust a male nanny. A gay guy.
Natasha
Yeah, gay guy for probably more.
Unknown
Straight man.
Natasha
No.
Larry
Ben Stiller from Meet the Parents. Nurse name.
Eddie Wong
Gaylord Focker.
Natasha
Yeah, yeah. I don't think I would trust with my man Gaylord.
Larry
I with soccer.
Natasha
No. But I think there's something cool about if you have like a. A son and then they have more male energy.
Eddie Wong
Yo, you guys should keep flipping the, you know, stereotypes and get like a white nanny.
Larry
Yeah. If there was like a non famous rizzless Larry.
Unknown
Thank you. Ok.
Larry
But it's like if there was a rizzless.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Not famous Larry. That would be down to do this for $30 an hour. I feel like Larry's personality.
Natasha
Yeah.
Unknown
No Diddy. No Diddy.
Natasha
Whatever.
Larry
You would be a cool dude to have in the.
Unknown
I was a camp counselor, so honestly, I think I have that energy. You know why? I'm a big kid at heart.
Larry
Yeah.
Unknown
You know, so.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
You want to be our Manny?
Unknown
30 an hour.
Natasha
30.
Unknown
I got some free time.
Natasha
You could go up to 35.
Unknown
Let's go.
Natasha
You know, just, you know, tariff, tax.
Eddie Wong
All right.
Unknown
Good to know that I have something to fall back on.
Eddie Wong
Natasha, what is the dumbest purchase that Eddie's made recently?
Natasha
Oh, the dumbest purchase that Eddie has made recently.
Unknown
He know. I'm sure he has a lot.
Natasha
Yeah, maybe I don't know about it.
Larry
Oh, probably the $800 I lost to.
Natasha
I don't even know about it. Yeah, I was going to say probably a watch.
Eddie Wong
What's the watch rotation? Is it just this?
Natasha
No, he. Okay.
Larry
He literally was a bad purchase.
Natasha
No, I mean I love that was a great purchase. But I think just in general, like watches have been but.
Unknown
But they. There are in sometimes they can be like an instrument for investment. Like you know, it goes up or give it to your kid.
Natasha
I love that for sure. But like then when you don't buy.
Eddie Wong
A Patek Philippe, you take care of it for the next generation.
Unknown
Shout out John Hammer dude.
Larry
100% essay.
Eddie Wong
Like an essay.
Natasha
Sales associate.
Larry
Yeah. Larry would be a fire D. You would be a fire sales associate.
Natasha
Wow.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
For you good price. All right, so watch. What about you, Eddie? What's the dumbest purchase Tash has made recently you could think of?
Larry
Probably. Probably paying our concierge pediatrician twice a month on accident.
Natasha
Oh my God. For the past year.
Unknown
Oh, how does that even happen?
Eddie Wong
They didn't tell you. Do they owe you a year of.
Natasha
They are child care. Yeah. So basically what I did was I created a savings account for us.
Eddie Wong
Right.
Natasha
So I don't think that's a bad purchase because we're getting a fat check in the mail. So I think that that was a phenomenal purchase.
Larry
Basically this pediatrician, whether we see them or not, but they're on call via like WhatsApp for us.
Natasha
Yeah, they're just coner.
Larry
Whatever you need. Right. But then they made and they paid us. They charged us double for an entire year.
Natasha
So they accidentally made two files for our son. So they were charging two accounts as if he was two separate kids on my card. And I had looked and I was like, I'm not spending that much money. Like this is crazy. How am I, how am I racking up these types of bills?
Larry
I kept getting alerts that like she was over her limit and I'm like.
Natasha
What am I buying? What am I doing? And then I, I was looking and I'm like, oh, we're getting charged twice. Hit them up. They were like, we've been charging you twice for the past year. So maybe over get a free.
Eddie Wong
Are you going to get a free year or you going to like the next time you have a second. Maybe they get one year free.
Larry
I'm going to cop another watch. We.
Natasha
We're getting a. Exactly. So you're welcome.
Eddie Wong
You're spending watch money on.
Larry
Actually you were just saving money.
Natasha
We spent it on his health. We have a pediatrician here in New York now cuz they're in la. And I'm like, how are we going to do this when you can't touch him?
Unknown
It's good to know you can put a price on your kids. Health. Like that's.
Natasha
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Is that like a status symbol in LA is getting like the one medical for kids? Kids?
Natasha
Me. No. They were just like the best doctors. They truly just not the best accountants though. Not at all.
Larry
Mad Sunny's Angels. Sometimes I'm like. Cuz our son just takes the heads off now I'm like, yo, maybe maybe the Sunny's Angels investments weren't the best investments.
Natasha
Maybe I feel like I spend less money than you do.
Larry
Yeah, absolutely. My online gambling is just like it's.
Unknown
Yeah, you have a problem.
Larry
But I only. I only bet sports. Football season and the NBA playoff.
Natasha
That is a lie. His homies will hit me up and be like, we're betting on the Chilean men. To the Chilean boys soccer team.
Eddie Wong
Oh, wow.
Natasha
Like youth boys.
Unknown
The child soldier shout out Mills like.
Natasha
He is lying to you.
Eddie Wong
Powder.
Natasha
They are getting so niche with it. Like there's that you can bet on. I didn't even. They were betting on the Oscars. They were trying to use a VPN to bet on the Oscars. Like this is a sickness.
Larry
Well, Casimu Lou told me he was going to dance with Ryan Gosling and you could bet on it for sure. Yeah. I was about to bet the house and I.
Natasha
We couldn't do it from L. A.
Larry
Like the one time I knew who was going to win, I couldn't bet it. And then, yeah, for the first year we were together, I was kept telling her my boy Mills was my coworker, but really we just gamble together.
Eddie Wong
Wow. Are you up?
Natasha
No, he's never up. You're never up.
Larry
Sometimes I'm up. I was up 60 cents. I was stopped.
Unknown
You can't be right now.
Larry
Stop parlay.
Unknown
Shut up.
Natasha
Played the magic.
Larry
And I had also parlayed the grizzlies with the spread. And I actually hit that parlay, which got me 60 cents over all my prop bet losses.
Unknown
Oh, okay.
Larry
I was up 60 cents Wednesday.
Unknown
Gotcha.
Larry
Wednesday night.
Natasha
Did that feel amazing for you?
Unknown
The best 60 cents he ever made.
Eddie Wong
Dude, 99 of gamblers quit right before they're about to hit the parlay.
Natasha
Yeah, that's true.
Larry
Never, never quit working.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Gotta keep working, right?
Unknown
Never shout out all the co workers out there.
Eddie Wong
You bet on your own teams or is that. Do you not want to mix like money with emotion?
Larry
I always bet on my own team.
Eddie Wong
I only bet on my own teams.
Larry
Yeah, I have to. It's like manifesting the victory.
Eddie Wong
Exactly.
Larry
It's like I'm paying for victory.
Eddie Wong
It makes it that much sweeter.
Larry
Yeah. Like when the commanders say, you must have a good season.
Unknown
Well, before. Yeah. Until. That was incredible.
Larry
Yeah, it's incredible. I was killing in the NFL playoffs.
Eddie Wong
Oh. See, I was betting on the Giants, my team, to lose and suck. That's.
Larry
That's smart.
Eddie Wong
Still betting on my team.
Larry
That's smart.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Larry
I mean, I've hit crazy, too. Like, I pick Xavier worthy to have the most receiving yards in the Super Bowl.
Unknown
Okay.
Larry
I hit that. I hit Jaylen Herz. Most rushing yards in the Super Bowl. I hit crazy. Props.
Natasha
Yeah, you really do. Like, God, I just know too much about gambling now. Like, he'll hit like, an eight leg parlay.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
And he'll hit. He'll hit a lot. Like, it's like. And it's very.
Eddie Wong
But not all eight.
Natasha
Yeah, he'll hit like seven if he.
Unknown
Needs a sponsor, you know, you got.
Eddie Wong
But every night you're hitting a 10.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
Oh, wow.
Unknown
Well, yo, that with the save. Wait, so how much were you fighting to name your kid Jaden? Was that on the table?
Larry
Yo, I wanted to name him the Destroyer. The Destroyer.
Unknown
Legally.
Larry
Legally.
Natasha
That was a serious conversation. He said. He said Don Don Juan.
Larry
Yeah, Don. That was Fire Don Juan.
Unknown
That's pretty hard.
Larry
That was my.
Unknown
Better than the Destroyer.
Eddie Wong
Not Don Julio.
Larry
Taiwan Wong. Taiwan Wong.
Eddie Wong
That's pretty good.
Natasha
China.
Larry
I like those football players. Boss and Champ Bailey brothers. So I did get Boss as Senna's middle name.
Natasha
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Okay. Oh, really?
Natasha
Senna, Boss.
Larry
And if we have another son, I'd be like, Champ is his.
Unknown
That's cool. Champ and Boss.
Eddie Wong
China is a fire would be a fire name.
Natasha
I would use that for a girl. I think China had a daughter.
Larry
China.
Eddie Wong
But then that's like the. The wrestler.
Natasha
I know. I tried out of my head.
Unknown
And then Black China.
Eddie Wong
Black China.
Natasha
Taiwan is good.
Eddie Wong
Taiwan Wong is.
Natasha
I hate the, like, strippery implic Of Asia because I like Asia for a girl.
Eddie Wong
Same with China, though.
Unknown
But you could spell Asia the Steely Dan way.
Natasha
Oh, okay. I like that.
Unknown
A J.
Natasha
A. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Unknown
Pronounce Asia.
Larry
You know, that's kind of fire.
Unknown
You're welcome. That's a free one.
Natasha
I like that.
Larry
Thank you.
Natasha
We'll throw that in to your bonus when you're. When you're Nia. Thank you so much.
Larry
Thanks.
Unknown
Yeah, I can do it all.
Larry
Honestly, Larry the nanny guy.
Eddie Wong
All right, Eddie, what can you tell us about the Vices Broke documentary?
Larry
I could basically tell you anything about it besides the release date.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Larry
You know, like, movie has acquired it, but, like, they're not announcing the release date yet, but it will be coming out, I would say. I think it's fair to say it's coming out this year.
Eddie Wong
What's like the angle that you took with this? What is it about? What's the synopsis sell us?
Larry
Well, you saw it, right?
Eddie Wong
I think we saw it yesterday.
Larry
Yeah, but don't.
Natasha
Yeah, but nobody watching.
Unknown
You forgot that you are my.
Larry
I was like, hey, wait, you guys saw it?
Eddie Wong
You did a press run for anything? Like, you're rusty.
Larry
It's been a minute.
Unknown
What the hell, dude? It's been 20, 21. Boogie those hard liquid.
Larry
That's the thing that LA does to you is they're like, yo, you can't be out too much. So it's like you have a project every three years, every four years. So like, no, I'm type rusty with the press clearly. Oh, my gosh.
Natasha
But like, it's good.
Larry
Yeah, I feel.
Eddie Wong
Natasha, give him feedback on this press run right now.
Natasha
Let's talk about this later.
Larry
I feel like the way I approach it wasn't like the economic downfall and the like, objective view of it. I took a very personal, subjective. Yeah, it is the latte Larry spike doc.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Larry
Yes, I think it is a spike doc. And I told it with everyone that I know that like built that company and got left in the lurch. And it's like employee furloughed, employees gone wild, you know?
Eddie Wong
Yeah. Do you think people. Do you think like, Gen Z understands how influential Vice was back in like the two 2000s, even like 2000s.
Larry
So, yo, I don't really think in the generational thing much, but I know like, that dude Adam Faze that does gymnasium, he's like Gen Z, right? Yeah, yeah, he definitely is, like, very aware of Vice. Like, when I talk to him, he totally gets it. He knows like the thread between what he's doing at gymnasium with Vice.
Unknown
Gotcha.
Larry
So I think like someone like him who is like a thought leader of that demographic and age of people, he. He's aware, but I don't know if like the average. I think the culturally interested Gen Z person is probably aware.
Eddie Wong
Do you think they're aware of how much money was involved in this initiative? Like, you know, billions and billions of dollars.
Larry
I think. I think they're aware of the money and the business of it. I don't think they're aware of, of like, how we got down, like the parties, you know, like how crazy it was in the office. I don't think they know the characters. Like, I don't think they would know like which issues of the magazine were the most fire.
Eddie Wong
But I actually think eating.
Larry
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Incredible. The cops issue is crazy. Yeah. Like Vice was though, like almost like it was, it was this central hub for indie sleaze culture in all of the 2000s.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
And we got, all of us, we got to Gavin McInnes's penis.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Thanks to you.
Unknown
Or his, his nut.
Larry
And it's like how many parties?
Eddie Wong
Like, no, we saw.
Unknown
Oh yeah, that's right. It's cock is in. Yeah.
Larry
We all drank for free for 20 years because of vice.
Eddie Wong
So many PBRs.
Larry
All of those Buffalo Trace parties. And it was just like we all. They subsidized. Are drinking.
Eddie Wong
Right.
Larry
Party.
Eddie Wong
So this was a documentary made out of spite.
Larry
Yeah, out of spite. And also like in the like corny way. Like I care. And I wanted it to be a cautionary tale for any kids that are part of the next cultural movement. Right. Like it's, it's, it's. I, I just. Because the next thing is coming.
Unknown
Something in media that, that big or potential.
Larry
You think media or music. Just like there's something that's going to pop up that's like all of the kids downtown are going to go get a job at this place and believe and someone is going to be like, I'm Genus Khan, like Shane Smith. And I just want people to think twice about that.
Eddie Wong
So what, like approach with like a healthy disrespect or distrust of like the powers that be. Like, this guy's awesome.
Larry
Well, yes.
Unknown
I'm getting free drinks.
Natasha
This rocks.
Unknown
We're never going to die.
Larry
Yeah, Like a healthy distress.
Eddie Wong
I'll do coke off this guy's dick.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Like a healthy, healthy distrust of scaling. Like, let's talk about your guys show. Right. You probably could go to some ad sales company, you could go to Wonder or whatever. They take a bigger cut of your show. They say they're going to bring you to a bigger audience. They're going to scale your show. But it's like you guys are. You built this from the ground up. You own it yourselves and you keep it the size that you want it. And you work with these brands, like, that's the way to do shit. And I think a lot more people of this generation know that. But I remember our generation. So many of our artist friends sold out as soon as Nike gave them a check or Beats gave them a check. Apple, like Vice, it was just like, yo, let's go. They said they're gonna give me stock and this company's gonna scale and yeah, everybody just got like, wide eyed. And I, I want people to question.
Eddie Wong
Like, I think the wide eyes are from the.
Unknown
Yeah. Something else dilated.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Natasha, how pissed were you that Eddie spent a few months making this documentary right after you gave birth?
Natasha
I was so mad, I could, like, I can't even think about it or go back to that place because that is the worst possible thing that could happen to you is you have a baby and then everybody just leaves and you're like, alone with your baby in your house that you don't, you're like, what? This is brand new.
Eddie Wong
This is part of the project, like, for you to just get away, just.
Unknown
Get out of the house.
Natasha
No, I feel like he was sad.
Larry
I was bombed.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
So. And I also was just like being like, directing any film, I think any director directing a film, in those moments, you're a complete neurotic, emotional wreck. Right, Right. You're holding it together as you're doing this thing. And I felt bad for her because even that day I threw the pizza, like, our son had just come out and she's out there at the ice cream shop being like, yo, you care? You want to do this? You know? And it's like, I definitely was like, what is wrong with me that I can't keep it together right now? You know? But when I think, like, I'm a very passionate, emotional, honest filmmaker, like, you're gonna be neurotic, right? You're gonna spaz.
Eddie Wong
One of the big, big pivotal scenes or important scenes in this documentary is when you met up with Gavin McInnes. What was the first thing that went through your head when you linked up with that swagless piece of con man?
Larry
Yo, I mean, I heard him off camera talking to people. Well, he was on camera. I was off camera. I think I went to the bathroom.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
And to take a. Yeah, I think I pissed, but I went to the bathroom and I could hear him being like, does Eddie speak English? And I was like, yo, I'm in for one with this fool.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
You know, you think he was saying.
Unknown
That knowing you could hear him 100, right? Or that he's on camera.
Larry
Right.
Unknown
It's in the dock, I believe.
Larry
Yeah, yeah, it's in the dock. It's in the dock. They got him on camera doing it. I don't know if he meant to do it. I, I, I, I honestly don't think I could say. But I was definitely like, damn, man. Like, this dude's as bad as everybody says. He is. Or, or he's putting on a front. And I was like, yo, don't get overly. Don't take anything he says personally. Because I was like, I think a lot of people are counting on me for this doc. Like old vice employees, friends. I was like, I'm not going to make this personal and get into it with Gavin.
Natasha
React.
Unknown
He wants you to react, right? Probably, yeah.
Larry
That was the hardest scene to do because he was saying a lot of shit that I, I just. It makes your blood boil.
Eddie Wong
He's baiting you.
Larry
He's baiting.
Eddie Wong
Do you come close to losing it or no? Like, think of the, think of the, think of the pizza.
Larry
Funny enough. Yes, I did come very close. I, I could weather him telling all the Chinese jokes. Like, I've grown up with that my whole life. I could weather a lot of other stuff. When he started to come for women because she had just given birth, and I felt so much guilt not being home helping. I got tight mad. And that's why.
Unknown
Correct answer.
Larry
In the film, I'm like, yo, let's arm wrestle.
Unknown
Oh, yeah.
Larry
It's like, I cannot fight you. I cannot put my hands on you. But I need to do something physical right now to get out of my head because I was like, I'm in my head upset right now. And that's when I was like, yo, let's arm wrestle.
Unknown
Was that improv? That was like, it wasn't planned. Wow.
Larry
Like, I was so mad that I was like, yo, I need a physical device to get through this scene.
Eddie Wong
Who do you think was a worse, worse person to work for? Because I don't think you, you didn't overlap with Gavin advice. Who do you think just in speaking to, like, friends and former co workers, who do you think was worse to work for? The Nazi misogynist Gav McInnes or Griff Lord of the century, Shane Smith?
Larry
So that is the most interesting part of the documentary to me is that like, the easy answer to cover my ass would be to tell everybody. Shane. But the truthful thing I think we did in the documentary and I'll do now is just like I spoke to so many employees that worked with both of them and to a woman or a man, every single one was like, Gavin was the better person.
Unknown
Yeah, right.
Larry
That was the craziest thing.
Eddie Wong
This Nazi was better than Nazi.
Larry
The guy cowboy was better than Shane. And they were like, yo, at points of my life when I was down, Shane never checked on me, never cared. Gavin showed up for people crazy. There were so many stories of people that were like, he showed up for me. And that's why everyone's like, I don't know what happened.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
That it was like almost like former cult members being like, yeah, man. Like, I knelt down, was, you know, blessed with a Hitler doll. And like, I felt. And now I'm like, I realize now that I was. That was up. But like, yeah, you know, I was in it.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
I was warped by it.
Natasha
Stockholm syndrome.
Unknown
Yeah. And like the lame guy who's like, obsessed with power money is actually worse than the guy blessing with the Nazi doll. Right?
Natasha
Like crazy.
Unknown
Yeah. Wild.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Did you get pushback while filming from these former masters of the universe?
Larry
Oh, Shane was texting me the whole time.
Eddie Wong
Really?
Larry
Yeah. And like, also not being a real man, like, trying to check in. Yo, let's have a gentle wine. Let's. You know. And so I just played him the same. I was like, yeah, yeah. And I saved all the texts because I was just like, you know what I'm doing? Doing.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
And like, if you want to talk about it, come on and talk about it. And he wouldn't. He's like, oh, the lawyers will never let me. Like, let's meet together, just you and me and, you know, so I can murder you.
Unknown
Or hush money. You think, like, he would have hush money for you? Like, would he pay to kill this? Or could he?
Larry
I think he absolutely would. He hushed a lot of people.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
That dude, like, we know some bad stuff he did that was also a catalyst for why I went for his ass.
Eddie Wong
Vice is broke. Is Shane Smith broke?
Larry
No, No. I think he hid all his bread.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
What's he up to now?
Larry
He lives. He lives behind the Malibu Country Mart.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
I think he's just perpetually trying to figure out a way to like make Vice his again.
Eddie Wong
Really?
Natasha
Or whatever that looks like. That's just.
Eddie Wong
He wants to come back and be a guy. He's not happy to sit on his.
Natasha
I think he wants to be a guy. I think he's a guy. Cuz when you. You have some power, I think you become addicted to it.
Eddie Wong
Gout chaser.
Natasha
Yeah. It is the fatal flaw. Right. It's like, yeah, nothing. Enough is never enough.
Larry
Right?
Unknown
Totally.
Eddie Wong
So what was the moment during your time Advice when you're doing Wong's World, when you realize that something didn't smell right because you have. You always had a healthy distrust. Like we talked about and like we talk about in the documentary, there's a lot of moments where you're like, yeah, was just like, felt awful. Like, what was the single moment? We're just like. Like, this feels something's got to go.
Larry
When they did the Viceland deal, I just knew something was wrong because I was like, we're dominating the Internet. It's working. We have no masters we have to answer to here. We get to be ourselves. It's fire. Why are we going backwards into cable television? Cable television is so washed. And he just kept telling everyone, like, that was the better deal. We want to be on cable. It's bigger, it's better, better. And then I got sent to the LA office, and all of a sudden they started hiring executives from, like, A E and, like, other channels. And everyone was really passive aggressive, like, we're gonna teach you how to make television. I was like, well, what were we making before?
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Like, television is just furniture. You project whatever you want on it. I can project my homemade pornos on there, you know? Like, oh, yeah. I mean, it's just like, you know, it's. I. You don't need to teach me how to do it.
Unknown
Right.
Larry
Like, we were already doing it, and they. They were just trying to control us and ga. Gaslighting everyone that worked there, being like, you don't know how to do this. And I was like, we've been doing this. That's why you copped the channel. Yeah, right. And I hate when people do that to you. Like, I became good friends with the cinematographer, Sam Levy. He shot, like, Lady Bird. Great guy. Think he. He might even still live on the street. But the first time I met Sam, we were talking about potentially doing Boogie together, and he was like, I don't know if my schedule is going to work, but I'm going to tell you one thing. He's like, as you go on this path to be a director, there's going to be a lot of people that pop up that are like, I have the cheat code that you need to know. I have something that you need to learn. And he's like, nobody has anything that you can't figure out yourself. If that's the door, they're coming in. He's like, don't try trust them.
Unknown
And he's right by, like, nagging you out the gate.
Larry
Yeah, yeah.
Eddie Wong
There's a YouTube tutorial for everything.
Larry
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got YouTube, bro.
Natasha
Straight up.
Larry
Yeah, yeah. I got my wife. I got my wife. Exactly.
Eddie Wong
But if those guys. If those guys that came in, those suits, if they. If you don't allow them to tell you what to do, then they don't.
Larry
Have A job, right, Exactly. And I, like, led the rebellion with this one other guy, Evan Rosenfeld, who, like, he did the you documentary and he was in charge of, like, sports advice. Me and him, like, led the mutiny in the LA office. So then, of course, like, they came for us first. You know, that's why Wong's World ended was because I was speaking up and being like, nah, like, we already know what we're doing.
Unknown
They punished you?
Larry
Yeah, yeah, like, they punished me. They brought in a new guy. The new guy was like, can you do. Can. Can we lower the budget and do Wong's World domestically? And at this time time, I was smoking every show. I was a number one rated show. The closest show was Desus and Miro. Shout out to those guys. But their ratings was for the entire week because they had five episodes a week. Mine was one episode a week. And I was crushing.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
And they were like, we're going to reduce the budget on your show. We want it to be domestic. What do you think? And I was like, well, it wouldn't be Wong's World.
Unknown
It's the title.
Eddie Wong
It's in the title. Wong's Country World.
Larry
Right?
Unknown
United States of Wong.
Larry
Yeah. And I was just like, no, I'm good. I was just. I kind of, like, broke boy. Him. I was like, if you don't got the money, we don't got to do it.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
So how much money did Vice owe you that you forfeited to make this documentary?
Larry
The minimum. The minimum actual dollar amount we could prove was 380something.
Eddie Wong
But this is just to you?
Larry
Yeah, just to me. And that was my cut of the show that they owed me since 20.
Unknown
2018 residuals or is that.
Larry
Okay, residuals. All that. But the. The attorney that I hired was like, yo, it's most likely upwards of 600,000 because we can't even get into their international deals. We would have to, like, get into litigation and force discovery, see all the deals. Because he's like, I also don't have visibility on, like, the Internet ad dollars because all of those videos have millions of hits.
Unknown
Damn right.
Larry
So what we could prove on paper, on the deals that were public was 385, 386, and, like, that's the bare minimum.
Eddie Wong
The film is dedicated to Anthony Bourdain. What is the memory you cherished most with Uncle Tony?
Larry
I think probably when I was getting a lot of, like, heat, because when I was coming up as a chef, a lot of the establishment chefs and media. Media didn't really, like, want it to happen because I was such a loudmouth and I was, like, exposing certain things about the business. And Tony Bourdain went out of his way to just call up Foster Kramer and did an interview to clear the air and support me and was like, yo, Eddie's a good dude. Like, this is what I think about him, and this is why I think he keeps getting into trouble. And almost like Omar from the Wire, he got everybody to back off. I've never met anyone that generous and kind in my entire life.
Unknown
Tony Cummings.
Larry
Yeah, Tony.
Unknown
Coming.
Larry
Tony just went out of his way, and he's like, I will shoot anybody in the face with Eddie. And I was like, that's crazy. That was the nicest thing anyone in a professional setting has ever done for me.
Unknown
Is your career totally different if that doesn't happen, you think?
Larry
Yeah. I don't even know if my career fully happens the way it did. If Tony doesn't come out and is like, I'm translating him for you, right? He would straight up tell executives, like, why they needed to work with me, because a lot of people just looked at me like this oriental alien child that liked hip hop, you know, like, that's how they saw me. Was like, Asian Guy Fieri. And Tony was like, no, he can write. Because I'd share my writing with him. Like, he got to see Fresh out the Boat dumb early. And he just. He knew that I had, like, light imposter syndrome.
Eddie Wong
Him.
Larry
He really helped me out with that.
Eddie Wong
Was he good at playing the game and the politics of. And kind of like, with the suits and the creative or what? Like. Or was he just. His track record was too goated that the suits had to, like, listen to him.
Larry
Struggled like me until he made the CNN move. And then I think when he made the CNN move, he was at the peak of his power. He really. He got over his imposter syndrome, and that's when he started to lean on people. And, like, he threw his weight around in a good way. Like, Tony. Tony, like, stepped into his power, I think, in those CNN years.
Eddie Wong
Got it.
Unknown
Is. Is there any part of you that still has imposter syndrome or have you totally like. Or is that a good thing to some degree, a chip on your shoulder? I don't know.
Larry
I honestly think I had imposter syndrome until two months ago when the fires hit. And, like, having a family and being on the run, we lived in, like, five places in January, right? I was just like, I don't really have time to not believe in myself anymore.
Unknown
Good call.
Larry
Is. Is I just go time.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
And she's. You know, Natasha's really helped me out with that. Like, she don't let me fall off anymore.
Unknown
Right. Behind every good man.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Larry
No, for real, straight up.
Eddie Wong
Well, we want to welcome you guys back to New York. So happy that. Welcome home. The question we have for you is.
Natasha
Thank you.
Eddie Wong
If you're elected mayor of New York City tomorrow, what's the first executive order?
Larry
You go first.
Natasha
Oh, better coffee.
Eddie Wong
Really?
Natasha
Yeah.
Unknown
For real.
Natasha
Straight up.
Eddie Wong
It's cheaper here. What is it? What's iced coffee and LA now, like $8?
Natasha
I don't know, but it's better. The New York Barista.
Eddie Wong
Yeah. Because they're all struggling actors.
Natasha
Yeah, I know, but they put their whole back into it, you know what? Their career in the coffee shop.
Unknown
Okay.
Eddie Wong
In New York, it's the. It's the he. They busies that they're putting.
Natasha
Damn. It's not good.
Unknown
The blue hair.
Natasha
It's not good.
Unknown
So you want to. You want to personally be the coffee czar?
Natasha
Yeah. Better coffee. Better coffee leash.
Unknown
Better ingredients. Mama. Natasha.
Natasha
That would be. That would be mine.
Eddie Wong
All right. Eddie.
Larry
Yo, I'm actually gonna crib one from Zoron because I actually think Zon has some chance. Yeah, I do. I think. Yeah. I mean, the establishment's going to try to kill him.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Larry
Like, I think he. I mean, yo, he better have a chance because I think he's probably the best candidate now. But I like a lot of what he's doing about child care. Because my. My theory is this is like, people are just like, there's so many bad people in this world. I'm like, yeah, like, all of it is coming from childhood. And if you're broke, it's really hard to raise children properly.
Unknown
Right.
Larry
Like, functional members of society. So I do think that if we want the birth rate to come up and we want better people in our country, yo provide, like, government subsidies for child care. Like, we subsidize corn soybeans. Do we need this for, like, we need better people.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
And so, like, I really. I would get behind a lot of Zorans stuff for, like, government subsidized child care.
Eddie Wong
Better coffee, better children. Natasha, Nettie.
Unknown
Yeah, let's go.
Eddie Wong
2026.
Natasha
Portable child care and coffee.
Eddie Wong
Speaking of being broke, how much money do you guys make?
Natasha
Not a lot.
Larry
Not a lot, bro. I was. I was negative in my bank account I was negative in my bank account last March.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Larry
And then I was negative in my bank account account this January.
Eddie Wong
But America you can live off debt.
Larry
Yeah. Yeah. Cuz my thing is I don't like taking out loans and I don't really like using a credit card. I pay my credit card every month. So, you know, it was, it was tough. But like I wrote my ass off, I sold a few things and we back up.
Eddie Wong
Does being financially in the red ever motivate you to be like, you know what, I'm gonna just write some that I know like the execs want to buy. Like, I'm gonna check every box, whatever, like compromise creatively just to like get a check so I can send my. Get Natasha some good coffee.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
What's really funny is yes. And they always offer me this stuff and I get probably 75% through and I never turn it in.
Unknown
Oh really?
Larry
I can't.
Unknown
That's. We need Natasha to get that, get you over the line. She's like, this is dog.
Natasha
That's really. When they try to tap me in, they're like, so what's, they're like, what's happening? Algorithm movie.
Unknown
Yeah.
Natasha
Where did that one go?
Unknown
What about Minecraft too? Where's that?
Larry
Yeah, no, she, she, she's been pushing to get across the line of some of them, but what I, what usually happens is I get like 75, 80 down the road on one of those shitty projects and then I pull the rabbit out the hat. The like, you know, the self titled joint, like self generated joint and it saves my life.
Eddie Wong
Wait, what, what is, what's the hurdle? Is it like, you know what? I can't, I can't debase myself anymore with the shitty ones.
Larry
I'll tell you, writing to me is literally alchemy magic. I, I'm not even doing it. I'm like a vehicle. It's like, you know, I black out, I spaz out.
Unknown
Okay.
Larry
I'll listen to like Eastside Bird gang on a loop. The same.
Unknown
Oh, wow, you're in a trance.
Natasha
Yeah, I, I just, I black out.
Eddie Wong
Bro, you're like the accountant.
Larry
You're on Ben Affleck.
Unknown
You might be neurodivergent, brother.
Larry
Yeah, I, I think so.
Eddie Wong
But on care about.
Larry
I can't black out. I can't like get into that zone. Like I can't finish.
Eddie Wong
Yeah, maybe not in New York. The dipset will hit harder. I don't know.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
What do you guys like to spend your money on besides your kid and besides clothes?
Larry
Food. I mean like I spend, we spend money on dinner. I love dinner.
Unknown
Where you, where you been, big dinner guy? Over.
Eddie Wong
Been in New York. Two months. Where have been besides Eel Bar? What have been like, the spots you've been hit, you've been going to that really hit.
Natasha
I've been in the house. We didn't have a nanny, so I was like Cinderella trapped. I was trapped in the Murray Hill Tower with all of the unleashed dogs. I was running around the city and I was like, can I have some?
Eddie Wong
Please, Please.
Unknown
Have some social life, please.
Larry
I. At the Palestinian restaurant, we order.
Natasha
We order a lot.
Unknown
Okay.
Eddie Wong
Oh, yeah, you wrote about that.
Larry
Yeah. Iat's very good. I mean, always New York noodle town. Sad. They're not open later than 11.
Unknown
Right.
Larry
Classic. Where. I mean, like a cafe. Chelsea.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Eel Bar. We talk. Oh, I had a great meal at Keens.
Unknown
Oh, yeah.
Larry
And I hadn't been since it got acquired, so I was a little nervous. But like all the old servers, nothing's changed.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Keens is still an institution. Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Big old martinis.
Unknown
You get a mutton check shop.
Larry
Yep.
Unknown
Okay.
Larry
Oh, there's that bar down the street from Luger do Chat. That was really nice. We went to. I think the name is Duat D.
Natasha
Oh, yeah, that was really cute.
Larry
Chat. That was a great bar. Yeah, I really like.
Natasha
And Luger is always good. He went to Lugers.
Unknown
Never knock.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Yeah. What?
Eddie Wong
All right, so steak is what you said de agua.
Larry
I went there.
Eddie Wong
Okay. Yeah.
Larry
The one on Rivington. I always hit the. That I hit Shopson. Shopson is still fire.
Eddie Wong
And now that you're, like, walking around the start of people like, yo, Eddie's back. Yo, Eddie coming.
Larry
There was a nice kid from the Stucy store that like, popped out, was like, yo, you ever want to come to Stucy, I'll get you in.
Unknown
I was, okay, cuz there's a line now.
Larry
Thank you.
Unknown
Around the block, you'll have the opportunity to spend your money by, like, you'll at least get that. Yeah, yeah. The only Asian person not waiting in line, Stucy. Eddie Wong.
Larry
Yo. Yeah, I don't think I'd cop anything, but I'll come say hello.
Unknown
The store is nice.
Larry
Yeah, the store is nice.
Unknown
So I hear.
Larry
I don't wan Willow. Pepper Perrin designed it. Have you been in?
Unknown
No, I'm not gonna wait in that line. And I don't want to ask because I feel like a herbivore.
Larry
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Eddie Wong
Whenever I text the manager, he's like, yo, sorry, I'm. I've been. I'm asleep. I'm like, it's 2:00.
Unknown
We got a line to get through Here?
Eddie Wong
Yes.
Unknown
Come on, Rob.
Eddie Wong
What is. What's the secret purchase that you guys have made that the other person doesn't know about that you want to come clean on?
Natasha
Oh, I feel like.
Eddie Wong
Who wants to go first?
Natasha
You go first.
Larry
You. You go for a secret purchase. This is good.
Natasha
A secret purchase.
Unknown
Black leggings from Taiwan. It was her all along.
Eddie Wong
Yeah.
Natasha
Yeah. Maybe it was the panties.
Larry
Oh, you cop.
Unknown
She planted them.
Natasha
They were my panties. I mean, no, it's. It's annoying when you're, like, married, because you could just. We could see each other's, like, credit card statements. I don't know that I have secret. Are we doing what?
Eddie Wong
Like, are you. Are you, like, reviewing the credit card statement?
Natasha
No, but you could. I mean, we could. We. We could.
Larry
I mean, we didn't review for a year. We didn't know that doctor was double charging. I know.
Natasha
I've never. I've. I've honestly never made a secret purchase that I, like, didn't want.
Eddie Wong
You spent a million dollars on only fans this year.
Natasha
I feel like yours is probably gambling.
Larry
Yeah, mine is his online gambling. Mine, Mine.
Unknown
That's your vice.
Larry
Secret online gambling?
Eddie Wong
You do sports? You do, like, blackjack and, like, roulette sports.
Larry
Just sports. Yeah, I've. I've won a couple poker tournaments, so, I mean, I placed, like, second in a poker tournament recently, so.
Unknown
In the money?
Larry
Yeah, I. I make money on cards. Cards. I make money sports, gambling. I'm. No, hey, hey. I might be better at sports than gambling.
Eddie Wong
You haven't made money yet?
Natasha
Yeah, not yet.
Larry
I used to make bad bread betting on sports when I was in my 20s because I was watching every game more. Locked in the pro. Yeah, I'm not locked in now, but I still want to play.
Eddie Wong
Well, now it's too easy to do parlays. And. And you're like, you know what? He definitely is going to hit, like, nine threes tonight.
Larry
Yeah. Yeah. I used to hit parlays all the time because I was watching every game, but now I'm. I'm not w. I need to watch more.
Natasha
You have a kid.
Larry
Yeah.
Unknown
Honestly, you're right.
Larry
We should.
Unknown
You should raise your son less. Yeah, and watch more.
Natasha
Raise your son less gambling, which is.
Unknown
Make us more clearly an addiction for you. This is great.
Natasha
He's like, I'm not addicted.
Eddie Wong
Yeah, not at all.
Natasha
I'm just.
Eddie Wong
He's, like, thinking of.
Natasha
We're not at the first step right now.
Unknown
He'll get to the first step when.
Larry
He'S buy secret for Senna. You'd Be buying, like, like, all kinds of stuff for Senna.
Natasha
It's not secret.
Larry
Yeah.
Unknown
How drippy are we? Are we talking, like, when it comes.
Larry
To, like, toy stuff? Like, like, apparatus? Like, a kitchen? Like, yo, I'm copying him. Okay. Like, Christmas was wild.
Eddie Wong
What was the biggest Run it up for Christmas.
Natasha
I know, but, like, it's so crazy because Eddie grew up. Like, he didn't get ever Chinese, and I grew up, and it was like, every day, I got everything that I ever. Like, every day was Christmas. Like, I was like, oh, my God. That's why there's a 10,000 y.
Unknown
Honestly, that might be the reason.
Natasha
So for Christmas, I was like, he. I just. I can't even fathom, like, a situation where the tree doesn't have, like, a million, like, a sea of toys, like, spilling out optically.
Unknown
We need all the prices.
Natasha
It just. It makes me feel good. Like, I feel like I'm.
Unknown
Maybe that's your level. Is gift giving your love language?
Natasha
Giving and receiving.
Unknown
There you go.
Natasha
I love to receive a gift. I love to give.
Larry
I tried to get her into more, like, physical touch because it's more affordable.
Unknown
That's not how it works.
Natasha
But I like physical touch. I like receiving physical touch. I don't like giving physical.
Unknown
Right. You want your foot in. You want your phone. You're not gonna suck his popcorn shrimp.
Natasha
Yeah, Right.
Unknown
Got it.
Eddie Wong
No, nothing at the vice office.
Natasha
I think I did, probably more than once.
Larry
Yeah.
Unknown
Okay.
Natasha
For sure. It's just not regular.
Eddie Wong
Right.
Natasha
It's not always on the menu. It's like, menu.
Larry
Yeah.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Special question. But I think the dynamic of shorty's foot in man's mouth is hotter. Like, man's foot in shorty's mouth. I feel like I'm a.
Natasha
No, I like it.
Unknown
You're. You're a real eater.
Larry
Like Christopher Columbus, encompassing, you know, but it is hot. It is hot. Yeah, it is hot.
Natasha
I actually think it's hotter.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
If you're. Men's feet aren't, like, the. The kink. Object of desire.
Unknown
Right.
Eddie Wong
It's always women's feet.
Larry
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Typically.
Natasha
Yeah. I don't know many women that are weird.
Larry
It's definitely hot. When you did it, I was like, oh, we. You know.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
But it's kind of like anal. In a relationship, you only need to do it once. You got to just see it once, do it once, and be like, it's not something you keep doing.
Eddie Wong
We did it.
Natasha
Some people. It depends if you're into it. Yeah. Show if it's your thing.
Larry
I Don't kink shame at all.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
I think it's just for us, good birth control. A one time, you know? Yeah.
Natasha
I mean, anal, it's like 100% of the time. 100%. You will not get pregnant.
Eddie Wong
You can shoot at the club around the corner.
Larry
I'm like, yo, let's have more kids. Yeah, shooting it up.
Unknown
Shoot up. The late. The late night drunk spot, man, that's shooting up harder. Choke pizza. That's what you're doing.
Eddie Wong
It's like, yo, we. We came to the wrong club.
Natasha
Yeah, shoot it up.
Eddie Wong
All right. We've been chopping it up for, I don't know, an hour and a half. We had a few piss breaks there for Eddie, so I don't know, the ex time. But after all this time, now that you guys are back in New York, new parents, not newly weds, because you're not wed yet with a podcast, Canal Street Dreams, do you have any constructive criticism you'd like to give us now that we spent all this glorious time together?
Larry
You. I will say this. I thought early on in the show, like, Larry would interject dumb loud in the right before you were going to hit the punchline, but Larry's mic control is fire now. Okay? Larry's fire. Larry's ad libs are fire, delay pleasure. Larry has mad sneaky jokes. Not for nothing, I feel. I feel like. I feel like Larry might be the top shot on the show now. What?
Eddie Wong
Oh, fire.
Larry
I hate to. I hate to talk.
Natasha
Oh.
Unknown
First of all, it's not. It's not a. First of all, it's not a competition.
Larry
I'll with you. It's not a competition. Larry's Larry.
Eddie Wong
Feed him that.
Unknown
He needs it.
Larry
I feel like y'all don't step on each other's toes anymore. This shit's very very anymore.
Unknown
Yeah, well, I mean, it takes some time, you know?
Eddie Wong
Yeah, it takes like five years.
Larry
Yeah, it's been seven years.
Unknown
No, I don't. I just threw it more number out there. We started potting in 2016, so.
Eddie Wong
More.
Larry
No, this. I listen to this in Nick Fan tv the most. Two pods. I listen to the most.
Unknown
You guys are the only pods that matter.
Eddie Wong
Do you listen to your own or no?
Larry
Yeah, I do. I watch the tape.
Eddie Wong
Okay.
Unknown
Yeah. That's why.
Larry
Because I want to improve. I always watch the tape.
Eddie Wong
Nice.
Unknown
Respect. It's like Jalen, a real student of the game.
Larry
Do you have notes for us?
Eddie Wong
No, I'm excited for the return.
Unknown
I got a note. I got a note for the doc.
Eddie Wong
What's the note.
Unknown
There's a certain bit I don't want to spoil. Spoil it. You. I mean, there might be some physical. You know what I'm talking about? I thought it went on a little long, which then I'm like, is it a family guy kind of thing where it's like. But I'm like, listen, you know, maybe trim that a little bit. Other than that, I thought it was very entertaining. And the fact that it was all about you was awesome and I loved it. So spiteful.
Eddie Wong
Did we. No, it wasn't the final cut.
Larry
Cringy long to just be like, yo, how long is. Are we gonna do?
Unknown
Well, actually. And you know what? Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe the best part of the bit is because then you're happy having a. Someone is just sitting with you, assuming you're having a serious interview or conversation, which is funny. So maybe, you know, you're the. You're the pro, dude.
Larry
No, I think that's a valid note. Like, the producers were most worried about that, really, that moment. And I fought them on it because I was like, no, the joke is that we're really gonna string this shit out. And it's so awkward. And the guest, it was like one of the pivotal interviews and even the guest is like, what the fuck is going on? And I was just like, as a troll director, I was like, I gotta do this.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
I don't know. Did you enjoy it?
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Okay.
Eddie Wong
I really. And for me, it was also just like, nostalgic to. I was. I never worked advice, lived across the street, whatever. But Vice was again, I don't know if people, like, understand like, the cultural phenomenon that it was. And I think it did a good job of kind of like really taking you back, whether. Well, I can't only speak for myself where, like, there is familiarity of like, oh, yeah, wow. These were some. And also, like on the. On the business side, I don't know, was like fully about the business and the money, but it was like, wow, what a. Just hubris. Yeah, just hubris. And like, just, you know, just shadow, shadowy tricks and, you know, stealing from Paul to pay Peter, whatever the. It's crazy.
Unknown
Yeah.
Larry
Was it the most epic fumble downtown, like, has.
Unknown
I don't think it needs to be downtown because we're talking about.
Larry
Billy.
Unknown
Billy.
Natasha
This is.
Unknown
This is. This is an epic fumble.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Yeah.
Unknown
This is Leon let at the 1 yard line type fumble and getting the hearing.
Larry
Sanchez.
Unknown
Yeah.
Eddie Wong
Hearing about the earlier days of, like, when I wasn't an adult in New York Was a lot of fun, too. Like having to, you know, being extorted by a crackhead. Just taking a. On the studio.
Unknown
That's fire. That's this. Best businessman in the whole documentary. Dude, that guy knew what was up. Yeah, let's do Complex next. And you can have us.
Larry
That's good.
Eddie Wong
You're still kicking. You're still kicking. All right, guys, we want to thank you for coming on to the only podcast matters. Where can the kids fall?
Unknown
Call you.
Eddie Wong
What do you want to plug?
Larry
Oh, yeah, Canal Street Dreams. Our pod. It's on substack, Apple, itunes, Spotify, our Instagram.
Eddie Wong
And the substack is also features a ton of writing. Yeah.
Larry
Yes, yes. You get the pod and the writing for $8.
Unknown
Great value.
Eddie Wong
Go.
Unknown
Great value.
Larry
Play. Guys, it's a bogo.
Natasha
Yeah, it's a bogo deal. Cheaper than only fans.
Eddie Wong
Yeah, depends.
Natasha
Cheaper than some only fans, right? You also might get a dick pic.
Eddie Wong
Oh.
Unknown
Oh, that's a tear. You got a. You're slinging.
Natasha
I don't know. I don't know.
Eddie Wong
Maybe there's dick pics in there. There's dick pics in the dock.
Natasha
There is dick pics in the dock.
Eddie Wong
There's. In the dock.
Larry
There's a lot of. In the dock. There is.
Unknown
Yeah. Advice. Yeah, You're.
Natasha
You're. There's ass in the dock, too.
Larry
There's ass.
Eddie Wong
Oh, there is.
Natasha
There's. There's ass.
Unknown
Yeah. Don't stick around.
Eddie Wong
Is there table titties?
Natasha
Me? Yeah, there's got. There has to be a spice. I feel like there were so many titties out all the time.
Larry
Yeah, for sure. I think there's a shot of that girl jumping in the supermarket with the. With the hoohas out.
Eddie Wong
Fire.
Natasha
Yeah.
Larry
Yeah.
Unknown
It was very entertaining, and everyone is going to be very excited.
Eddie Wong
Watch the doc. Sign up for the substack, listen to the podcast, follow these guys on socials, and thank you guys again for coming out to the only podcast.
Unknown
Thank you so much.
Eddie Wong
Welcome back to New York, Chef. Take us out.
Larry
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Eddie Wong
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Larry
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Eddie Wong
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Larry
Out, cooking, even going to the bathroom.
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Podcast Summary: The Eddie and Natashia Huang Interview with Throwing Fits
Episode Release Date: April 23, 2025
In this engaging episode of Throwing Fits, hosts Eddie Wong and Natashia Huang delve deep into their personal lives, professional endeavors, and the cultural landscapes they've navigated. The conversation seamlessly weaves through their relationship history, experiences at Vice Media, the creation of their documentary Vice is Broke, and their recent relocation from Los Angeles back to New York City.
Eddie and Natashia share the serendipitous nature of their relationship, highlighting their parallel lives in close proximity without initially connecting.
They discuss the concept of the Red String Theory, emphasizing how timing and parallel paths eventually led them together despite living adjacent lives.
Their journey culminates in an unconventional elopement story, revealing the challenges and spontaneity of their union.
The couple recounts their time working at Vice Media, painting a vivid picture of the company's culture and internal dynamics.
They discuss the undercurrents of Vice's work environment, including amusing anecdotes about office conditions and relationships with colleagues.
Their roles evolved as Eddie became the co-host of the Canal Street Dreams podcast and produced the documentary Vice is Broke, exploring the company's financial struggles and internal conflicts.
A significant portion of the discussion revolves around the making of their documentary, offering insights into its themes and the challenges faced during production.
They delve into their interactions with key figures like Gavin McInnes and reflect on Vice Media's decline, emphasizing the importance of maintaining creative integrity against corporate pressures.
Eddie highlights Tony Bourdain's pivotal support during challenging times, underscoring the personal connections that influenced their professional paths.
Injecting humor into the conversation, Eddie and Natashia engage in a lively fit check segment, showcasing their unique fashion choices and playful banter about each other's purchases.
Notable exchanges include humorous critiques of each other's clothing and accessories, adding a lighthearted dimension to the episode.
The couple discusses their decision to move back to New York from Los Angeles, citing professional autonomy and a more vibrant community as key motivators.
Eddie elaborates on the economic and creative differences between LA and New York, emphasizing the hustle and independent spirit that New York fosters.
Their plans include opening a restaurant in New York that reflects their culinary passions and artistic sensibilities.
Navigating parenthood, Eddie and Natashia share candid moments about raising their son, balancing professional responsibilities, and maintaining their relationship.
They discuss their strategies for conflict resolution, such as foot massages and morning coffees, ensuring their partnership remains strong amidst the demands of parenting.
Eddie and Natashia provide a critical analysis of Vice Media's financial downturn and the broader challenges within the film and television industry, highlighting issues like corporate control and limited creative freedom.
They discuss the importance of finding supportive financiers who understand and value creative integrity, as opposed to succumbing to mainstream pressures for guaranteed returns.
Interspersed with serious discussions, the episode is rich with humorous anecdotes, playful teasing, and light-hearted moments that showcase Eddie and Natashia's chemistry.
Their playful exchanges about rogue clothing and humorous takes on parenting add levity to the conversation.
As the interview wraps up, Eddie and Natashia reflect on their journey, offer constructive feedback to the hosts, and discuss upcoming projects, including their documentary's anticipated release.
They express gratitude for the platform to share their stories and solidify their commitment to continuing their creative ventures.
Conclusion
This episode of Throwing Fits offers a compelling blend of personal storytelling, professional insights, and candid discussions about navigating complex industries and relationships. Eddie and Natashia Huang provide listeners with an authentic glimpse into their lives, underscored by humor and heartfelt reflections.