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Cash Cuties w/ Fumi Abe & Steffie Baik Feat. Tim Chantarangsu [Podcast]

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Everyone in the world can relate to these two when they say this, but your finances can be very funny at times.

Cash Cuties is a weekly podcast hosted by stand-up comedian Fumi Abe and social media personality/actress Steffie Baik as they dive deep into their friends and celebrity guests’ finances, spending habits, and life lessons they’ve learned throughout the years with the love, of course.

Fumi Abe: Fumi Abe is a Japanese-American stand-up comedian/writer based in New York City. He has written for NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”, was part of the 2020 Comedy Central Digital Creators Program, and is currently a staff writer on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

Fumi has opened for Ronny Chieng from The Daily Show, and in addition, he was a semi-finalist in the Stand-Up NBC competition in 2017 and 2019.

He currently produces and hosts a comedy podcast titled “Asian Not Asian“, which was most recently included in Vulture’s Comedy Podcast Roundup as well as The AV Club’s Podcast series highlights.

Steffie Baik: Steffie is an Asian American, born in Los Angeles, and raised between the LA and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Steffie can thank this multicultural upbringing for her Portuguese, Korean and Spanish language abilities. She grew up attending school in LA, but the rest of the years in Brazil with her grandparents where she learned about her Korean heritage while immersed in the South American culture. She has proudly written her first comedy drama pilot about vampires and is currently writing a rom com short. 

She has studied improvisation at Uprights Citizen Brigade in LA. She is trained in method acting from Lee Strasburg Institute in Los Angeles. Her hobbies include creative directing shoots, tennis, and katana sword fighting. She’s also a struggling skateboarder. Steffie has booked over 30 national campaigns for well-known brands. Steffie comes from a real estate and modeling background with an as-of-yet-to-be-useful Bachelor of Arts in cognitive psychology from UC Irvine.

In this episode, YouTube God Tim C dropped by the pod to talk about how he went (financially) from selling burned CDs at school to paying for a monthly cryogenic subscription.

Tim Chantarangsu: (formerly known as Timothy DeLaGhetto and Traphik) is an Asian-American comedian, rapper, actor, videographer, and internet personality best known for his comedy videos and music on YouTube. From Season 5 until Season 12, and his return to the show in Season 15 and Season 20, he was one of the recurring cast members on the improv comedy show, Wild ‘N Out, on MTV, MTV2 and VH1. Hailing from Long Beach, California, DeLaGhetto started his career on YouTube back in 2006. From there, he started posting comedy skits, parodies, rants, and a series called Dear DeLaGhetto. Aside from his main channel, he also has a vlog channel, music channel, and a style channel. He currently stands at over 4 million subscribers and in total, has over 770 million views on his regular YouTube channel.

In 2011, he starred in his own television show, The Timothy DeLaGhetto Show on the MXY TV network but only lasted one season. In 2013, DeLaGhetto became a recurring cast member in the fifth season of the improv comedy show, Wild ‘N Out on MTV2.

In 2015, Timothy starred in a few episodes of the fifth season of another MTV2 show, Guy Code. He has also had numerous appearances in the MTV2 series, Joking Off and filmed a stoner comedy film titled “The Pizza Joint“. He has also appeared on 2 different videos for Nice Peter’s Epic Rap Battles Of History.

In 2016, DeLaGhetto had a small appearance in the romantic comedy film, The Perfect Match.

In 2017, he also hosted a web series titled Goin’ Raw, that was available on the “Fullscreen” app. In 2018, DeLaGhetto started co-hosting a web series titled “Basic to Bougie” with his co-star and fellow cast member Darren Brand that airs exclusively on the MTV YouTube channel and later on the official Wild ‘N Out YouTube channel. He also began co-hosting the food show “Send Foodz” with fellow YouTuber, David So. 

On October 14, 2018, DeLaGhetto announced on his YouTube channel that he will no longer be a cast member on Wild ‘N Out after it’s twelfth season.

In 2019, DeLaGhetto began hosting his podcast “No Chaser”, which airs on his YouTube channel and other podcasting platforms. He also hosts the podcast with 97.7 KWIN host Nikki Blades and YouTuber Ricky Shucks.

On April 1, 2020, he released a video on his YouTube channel revealing that he decided to retire his moniker as “Timothy DeLaGhetto” and will start going by his birth name professionally. 

In December 2020, Tim became one of the co-hosts of the Ridiculousness spin-off, Deliciousness on MTV alongside Kel Mitchell, Tiffani Theissen, and Angela Kinsey.

In 2023, he had a recurring role in the second season of the comedy-drama series, Blindspotting on the Starz network.

Checkout previous episodes of Cash Cuties w/ Fumi Abe & Steffie Baik HERE