Not Emily in Paris, but Desmond in Irvine (w/ Desmond Chiam, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier)
Asian Not Asian
Jenny Arimoto & Mic Nguyen
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
HOT BOY ALERT! This week actor/hot asian guy Desmond Chiam joined the boys to talk about Asian-Australians vs Asian-Americans cultures and why he think Australian/British-Asians are landing more more roles in America relative to Asian-Americans! We also talk about him minoring in b-boying at UC Irvine, Asian hair struggles in Hollywood, and the how the era has ended for HOT ASIAN GUYS using their abs as their entire personality.
It’s all right here on Asian Not Asian!
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U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !
HACK CITY COMEDY IN BROOKLTN 2/11 7:30pm @ Union Hall (FUMI WILL BE AT THIS ONE)
OUR FIRST HACK CITY IN LA! 2/26 @ The Airliner (Sorry this got bumped from 1/15)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello anils. This is Fumi Abe here to tell you about two HAC City comedy shows coming to New York City and Los Angeles. |
| 0:06.5 | If you're in those two cities, listen up. February 11th, we're gonna be at Uni Hall at 730. |
| 0:11.5 | Me, Fumi and Mike will both be there. I'm gonna be in town, so it's gonna be crazy. |
| 0:14.8 | And then if you're in LA, February 26th, I'm gonna be at the airliner at 8 p.m. |
| 0:18.8 | That's gonna be your first HAC City LA show. So if you're in the greater LA area, |
| 0:22.2 | we would love to absolutely see you. Go to Fumi Abe.com for tickets. That's if you M-I-A-B-E.com. |
| 0:29.8 | Is that such a comment on like a whole generation's like problem with our own like self-confidence? |
| 0:35.8 | Like we put something out there and then expect zero people to pay attention. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm still that with like Falcon and like Marvel. Really? I put it out there and I was like no one's |
| 0:43.7 | gonna get a ship. Even though it's fucking Marvel. I was so excited about it. |
| 0:53.2 | And welcome back to another episode of Asian Not Asian podcast. The podcast we're two |
| 1:03.2 | Asian guys. Not from Asia. Talk about American issues. No American cares about. I'm your host Fumi Abe. |
| 1:09.2 | Today we recommend you live from New York and LA. Today's Sunday, January 16th. We hope that this |
| 1:13.6 | podcast finds you COVID-free. God damn. Everybody is so sick. Holy shit. It's everywhere. |
| 1:21.1 | It's everywhere. Yes. If you're if you got COVID or not, you know what? Leave us a review. |
| 1:26.3 | Because that's what we're looking for. If you're listening on the Apple podcast app. Leave five |
| 1:31.2 | stars. Leave a comment. Let us know what's going on. If you're on Spotify, hit follow. I think you |
| 1:36.0 | can leave a review as well. And if you're on YouTube, leave us a comment about you know what? Give us |
| 1:41.3 | a hip a violation and you tell us what if you're if you're COVID positive or naked. Do it. Do it. |
| 1:47.0 | Okay. We're not medical professionals. Okay. It's the the hip it doesn't apply to us. I don't even |
| 1:50.6 | realize. We know how people like post about that shit now. They're like post negative tests and |
| 1:54.8 | like, you know, be all cute on Instagram. That's a hip violation, bro. I don't even think about that. |
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