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Hairy Butthole

Hairy Butthole is a podcast based on the Korean saying "If you laugh while crying, hair will grow out of your butthole!" Each week Youngmi Mayer is joined by a guest with a sad story and counters it with a funny one in hopes of causing hair to grow out of their butthole.

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All Episodes

56:12

Stay Sexy And Don’t Get Murdered w/ Maria DeCotis

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/12/30

This week Youngmi is joined by Maria DeCotis (comedian, Rolling Stone), who discusses her experience with a psychologically abusive relationship. Maria discusses how after leaving the relationship, she struggled with the long process of healing. She talks about the difficulties of enduring lingering emotional wounds that most people think disappear immediately after abusive relationships end. She also touches on how psychological abuse is viewed as “not that bad” in comparison to physical

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68:04

Keep the Meter Running After Your Dad Dies w/ Kareem...

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/12/29

This week Youngmi talks to Kareem Rahma (Keep the Meter Running, FIRST! with Kareem Rahma podcast) about the art of comedic hosting. Kareem’s new show has recently blown up and he discusses the art of hosting as a comedian, and why the art form isn’t considered as a role. He talks about the importance of centering the stories of people in society who are generally ignored. He also discusses the death of his father and the emotional destabilization that led to him doing things he deeply

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64:41

If Being a Shaman is Wrong, I Don't Want to be Right...

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/12/20

This week, Youngmi talks to Mudang Jenn (shaman, @shaman.mudang) about her work as a Korean shaman. Jenn talks about why it’s important to her to continue these ancient Korean traditions for Koreans of the diaspora. She discusses how her immigrant parents hated these traditions as born-again Christians and Catholics. Jenn discusses the various types of abuse she endured as a child, including religious abuse, when her grandmother was convinced she was Satan reincarnate. Youngmi talks about

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64:59

One Foot In The Grave, One Foot On A Banana Peel w/...

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/12/15

This week Youngmi talks to Kevin Hayes (artist, director, son of Lili Hayes) about LA, dive bars in the LES, open mics in the basement of a Holiday Inn, his mom and the death of his dad. Kevin talks about being placed in special ed as a teen for having dyslexia and how that tainted his view of himself versus the world. He also discusses his eccentric parents and their unusual marriage. Kevin talks about the events leading up to his dad's death and why he has chosen not to find out the cause

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85:51

Crying at My Dad’s Pain, Laughing at My Mom’s with Susie

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/12/08

This week Youngmi talks to Susie (TikTok star @soogia1) about the feeling of being “too much” as an Asian woman and how she was told all her life to quiet her voice, only to become a viral TikTok sensation known for her unique voice. She discusses her transition from making videos about politics to food while maintaining the core subject of racial identity politics. She talks about not being able to handle the sad past of her father, and Youngmi discusses how she has the opposite reaction

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60:09

My Dad Abandoned My Family And All I Got Was A...

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/12/01

This week Youngmi talks to Samuel Hyun (director of federal relations for the city Of Boston and Mayor Michelle Wu) about balancing a social media presence while having a “real” day job. Sam talks about the reasons he decided to start creating content and the difficulties of having a large Internet presence. He discusses his dad leaving his family when he was a teenager, the present state of toxic Asian men online, and the concept of holding them accountable for causing harm while also

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76:37

Korean Fuckboys with Milly Tamarez

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/11/23

This week, Youngmi is joined by Milly Tamarez (comedian, host of The Betches Sup podcast). Milly discusses a sad story that happened in her early 20s when she lacked the confidence to stand up to bad behavior from men she was dating. She also touches on a phase in her life when she only dated Asian men because she was influenced by stereotypes about Asian men. Youngmi discusses how those unfair stereotypes and exclusion from sexual viability has led to some Asian men developing “fuckboy”

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71:08

My High School Crush Was Racist w/ Whitley Watson

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/11/17

This week, Youngmi speaks with Whitley Watson (comedian, host of Club Video). They discuss their shared experiences as biracial people and the similarities and differences as biracial people who are half Asian and half Black. They also touch on the idea that race is a social construct and therefore not “real” yet respecting the fact that racial identity is deeply important to a lot of people in their respective communities. Whitley discusses a traumatizing incident in high school where her

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65:42

Healing Your Inner Child Who Loves Heroin with Geoff...

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/11/08

This week Youngmi speaks with Geoff Rickly (lead singer of Thursday) about his heroin recovery. After struggling with addiction for years, Geoff decided to take a powerful psychedelic treatment known as Ibogaine. Because of the risk of death during the treatment process he had to travel to Mexico. He discusses what he learned about himself and his ultimate journey out of heroin addiction. He also discusses self-hatred, hating your inner child, and the compartmentalization of different

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58:11

America's Next Top Abortion Activist w/ Sarah Hartshorne

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/11/03

This week, Youngmi chats with Sarah Hartshorne (comedian, writer, abortion activist, former ANTM contestant). Sarah discusses how so many things in life exist on both sides of the moral boundary. She touches on how in the fashion industry, a lot of the harm is perpetuated by former victims. She also discusses how abortion transcends people's individual ideas of "good" and "bad". She talks about her work as an abortion advocate while breastfeeding her newborn (metaphor alert).

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29:54

I See Dead People

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/10/27

With Halloween right around the corner this week, Youngmi discusses how she sees ghosts! She shares the most vivid encounters she's had to date (and scares herself in the process). She talks about intellectually refusing to believe ghosts are real and the journey she had in trying to diagnose her visions as mental illness, before ultimately accepting that there are things out of her understanding. She touches on viewing this aspect of her life through a white lens as well as a Korean

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49:00

Victims of victims (with Jeremy Holt)

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/10/20

(CW: SA) This week, Youngmi talks to Jeremy Holt (graphic novel writer) about their identity as a transracial adoptee and nonbinary person. Jeremy talks about how growing up in an all-white community, they couldn't recognize their reflection as their own. They also discuss the reason they set out to explore their Asian identity. Jeremy also shares a sad story about a reaction their friend had to hearing about their sexual assault, and how that person's reaction stemmed from his inability to

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68:50

In and Out of the Closet (with James Tison)

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/10/13

This week, Youngmi talks to James Tison (standup comedian) about the impact living in the closet for the first 15 years of their life had on them. Being taught to hide and lie about their personality has had a lasting impact on them, in ways that are visible to this day. They discuss learning how their parents' emotions were deemed more important than their own, leading them to believe that there is no room for their own emotions to this day. Youngmi and James also joke about their times

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63:28

Sex and Soft Suicide (with Ai Vy Luu)

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/10/06

(CW: Suicide) This week, Youngmi speaks to Ai Vy Luu (comedian, Comedy Central, Reductress). Ai Vy and Youngmi talk about sex. A lot. Then Ai Vy opens up about a very difficult period of her life and the factors that led to her attempted suicide. She discusses personal hardships but also touches on the large-scale traumas we are all facing as a society, causing us all to be “soft suicidal.”

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40:43

The Hairy Butthole Queen (with Audrey Taylor)

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/09/29

This week Youngmi talks to Audrey Taylor (@audreytaylorvisuals) about a huge fight they had a year into the pandemic. Audrey and Youngmi are personal friends who went through a tumultuous time after being reunited. They discuss how the pandemic deteriorated their mental health, as well as the explosion of anti-Asian hate crimes, led them to behave in two distinct incompatible ways and “break up” for a year. They also discuss how they mended their friendship, which involves Youngmi

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66:35

Not Sex Work, Not Not Sex Work But A Secret Third...

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/09/22

(CW: SA) This week, Youngmi speaks with Yurie Collins (actor, filmmaker, TikTok personality) about her life as a hostess in a Japanese hostess club. Yurie discusses a sad story about how a male patron assaulted her during a drunken bout and how the transactional nature of sex work-adjacent work is directly tied to deep self-hatred of men who believe they cannot be loved. They also touch on the ubiquitous nature of hostess bars in East Asia and why shame is placed on the women who work there

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38:14

You Can Never Go Back Home

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/09/14

This week Youngmi Mayer discusses returning home for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic. She talks about the ways in which therapy has completely changed her brain and her outlook on life. She talks about noticing how her mind has moved away from a heightened trauma state and how that transformation took her by surprise. She talks about continuing her relationship with her family despite childhood trauma, as opposed to completely cutting them off, and the difficulties of maintaining

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66:53

Taking My Bussy Back To Saipan w/ Roberto Santos

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/09/06

This week Youngmi Mayer talks to Roberto Santos (Chair of Pride Marianas). Roberto is Chamorro, Carolinian and white and recently moved back to the island of Saipan in the Marianas. He discusses what it feels like to be from a remote part of the world that people typically do not know anything about. He talks about the reasons he moved back on island and how “pride” for him encompasses the intense pride he has for his ethnic background as well as LGBTQIA+ advocacy. He also touches on how

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49:36

I Bet You Did NAZI That Coming! with Roger Mayer

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/09/01

This week, Youngmi talks to her father, Roger Mayer. Roger talks about the lives of his mother and father who were both first-generation Americans from European immigrant families. He discusses how the world wars affected his family directly, causing his German-born family members to move back to Germany in support of the Nazi party. He also talks about how even as a child it disturbed him that they were allowed to return to America after the war. Youngmi talks about the strange experience

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55:21

Bossam (The Act Of Kidnapping A Woman For Marriage)...

Hairy Butthole ·

2022/08/22

This week I talked to my mom, Ippun Mayer (AKA the person who said "If you laugh while crying hair grows out of your butthole). She talked about my great-grandmother getting kidnapped, my grandmother being forced to marry a poor guy, my uncle being murdered by Japanese soldiers, and the suicides of my other uncle and grandfather. She also talked about why it's important to her that Koreans do not continue to hate Japanese people. Also she laughs a lot while talking about these horrors

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