Are we trying too hard?

Asian Not Asian

Jenny Arimoto & Mic Nguyen

Comedy Interviews, Asian American, Self-improvement, Brooklyn, Education, Asian Culture, Pop Culture, Bay Area, Alternative Comedy, Japanese Culture, New York, Stand Up Comedy, Comedy, Comedy Podcast

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Alex Sujong Laughlin (Defector Media) joins one of the last pod episodes to discuss tortured mixed race shit (and doing new things). Mic tells his clubbing story (again). Jenny meets some ABGs.

H A C K C I T Y C O M E D Y

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-city-comedy-with-mic-nguyen-and-jenny-arimoto-tickets-1607178587419

F O L L O W U S

https://www.instagram.com/asiannotasianpod

https://www.instagram.com/nicepantsbro

https://www.instagram.com/jennyarimoto/

P A T R E O N

https://www.patreon.com/asiannotasianpod

P A R T N E R S

-Check out friend of the pod John’s cabin on Airbnb! https://www.airbnb.com/slink/penXRFgl

- Helix Sleep Mattress: visit helixsleep.com/asian

- Nutrafol: www.nutrafol.com (Promo code: Asian)

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, check out the last Hack City of 2025 happening December 12th. Doors are at 7,
0:07.2	shows at 7.30, just visit Asia not Asianpod.com or Google Hack City Comedy. I'll be there.
0:15.1	Supposedly, Jenny will be doing stand-up comedy for the first time ever. So check that out.
0:20.4	Come celebrate the last
0:22.7	comedy show of the year or maybe ever a hundred percent i think i feel um like with things
0:31.6	ending i feel it's like oh it'll be nice to have time to like think of new things because right now
0:36.8	i feel like i'm kind of don't have enough time to think.
0:48.9	It's the Asian, not Asian podcast, the podcast with all of your favorite Asian friends.
0:53.6	I'm saying Asian now instead of
0:54.9	redacted because you know it's it's this is one of the last choppers out of out of the
1:01.3	out of the country. Yeah. We're almost we're almost we're almost out of here. Yeah,
1:06.7	we're almost out of here. We're almost out of here. Yeah, we're, we're lame duck now. But it feels, you know what, what it is? We're at the stage. We're like a, like Soviet Russia collapsing, right? And it's where we're burning the documents. Uh-huh. We're shredding documents. So dark. Yeah. We're, you know, we're just like like get rid of the evidence i'm deleting whole
1:30.9	data the whole hard drives yeah but except for me it's just like deleting tictock off my phone
1:37.1	i haven't deleted my account i've just deleted the app off my you did you did yeah yeah i it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, uh, I'm impressed. Thank you.
1:46.9	Yeah. I have a lot more time in the day. I was thinking about getting one of those, um,
1:53.5	I get the ad server to me all the time, that brick thing. Do you know who I think has them?
1:59.1	Brian Park. Brian Park. Oh, and also our guest maybe.
2:02.4	Oh, really?
2:03.2	Okay, our guest has it too.
2:04.5	Okay, we'll get into it.
2:06.2	It is, I can't tell if it's anti-capitalist to use it or to not use it because then if you use it, you're more productive, but then if you don't use it, you're on the thing that
2:18.4	the capitalist want. I can't tell. It's literally capitalism creating something that then becomes a
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