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**Shirley Ju** (1:44)
Thank you for watching Shirleys Temple. Please subscribe and turn on your notifications to find out when I'm dropping my next interview. I'm so excited y'all. Welcome to Shirleys Temple. Today, we have someone who truly turned her pain into resilience. The baddest tattoo artist in New York City.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:02)
Welcome Young Bae to Shirleys Temple. Hi.

**Young Bae** (2:09)
Nice to finally meet you, Jesus.

**Shirley Ju** (2:11)
It feels like I've known you forever.

**Young Bae** (2:13)
We talked for a long, I know baby.

**Shirley Ju** (2:15)
Oh, so cute.

**Young Bae** (2:16)
I know.

**Shirley Ju** (2:17)
I'm so happy you're here.

**Young Bae** (2:18)
I know.

**Shirley Ju** (2:19)
You look beautiful.

**Young Bae** (2:20)
Thank you, you too.

**Shirley Ju** (2:21)
My girl is a published author.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:23)
Okay.

**Shirley Ju** (2:24)
Put some respect on her name.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:25)
Okay.

**Shirley Ju** (2:26)
Young Bae, Young Is Blessed, out now. Order yours on Amazon.

**Young Bae** (2:30)
Anywhere. Yeah, Amazon works.

**Shirley Ju** (2:32)
I literally ordered one off Amazon and I swear to God. It probably is because I'm Asian, but I literally started crying within like two minutes.

**Young Bae** (2:39)
Like, no way.

**Shirley Ju** (2:41)
Your story is so inspiring, but also like so relatable.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:47)
Is it?

**Shirley Ju** (2:47)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:48)
Is it because you're Asian?

**Shirley Ju** (2:49)
I think so.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:50)
You think so?

**Shirley Ju** (2:50)
Because my parents beat me too.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:53)
Like how?

**Shirley Ju** (2:54)
Girl, like crazy, like shit that made me hate them. Like really? But then as I got older, I realized like low key, that's what they grew up to in China. Like, they don't even know any better. Like that, you know?

**Young Bae** (3:07)
Yeah. But they still beat you with like love, right?
Not like some psycho shit, right?

**Shirley Ju** (3:13)
But I read in your book that he poured gasoline over you. So I was like, wait, maybe this might be deep. I'm sorry, y'all. But I have like fond memories of my dad making us hold lawn chairs in the garage and beating us with a belt.
And then he would leave us to hold the lawn chairs for like hours in the dark.

**Young Bae** (3:34)
That's some Asian shit for sure.

**Shirley Ju** (3:35)
Yeah, right.

**Young Bae** (3:36)
But that's some regular Asian shit though, not psychotic shit.

**Shirley Ju** (3:39)
That's crazy.
But yeah, I just really feel for you when I hear about your story, you know? Because like, that shit's hard.

**Young Bae** (3:49)
You know, since I was young, I just, yeah, I know I've been through a lot, but I realized that as I got older, because when you're born into that, you don't know.

**Shirley Ju** (3:58)
That's normal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Young Bae** (4:00)
That's what's normal.

**Shirley Ju** (4:01)
Right.

**Young Bae** (4:01)
You know?

**Shirley Ju** (4:02)
For sure.

**Young Bae** (4:03)