S2E16: Adopted Asians with One Man Shows feat. Ed Pokropski

Asian Not Asian

Jenny Arimoto & Mic Nguyen

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

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The Asian Friends make themselves cry. Mic does a half hour of comedy. The studio springs a leak. Then, comedian and producer Ed Pokropski talks about his upcoming one person show based on his adoptee experience.

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0:00.0	And this is just consistently what I tend to do
0:03.7	is that I start to feel either not worthy of love
0:07.8	or I am only lovable if I'm being funny and fun and type A.
0:13.2	Because I am also the planner of the group,
0:14.6	so I plan a lot of stuff.
0:16.4	And I just hit a point where I was like, wow,
0:17.8	I'm tired of planning.
0:19.1	I'm tired of organizing every part of my life.
0:21.6	And welcome to another episode of the Asia, not what.
0:38.0	The end was so long.
0:39.8	And this corner is a Vietnamese American 40-something-year-old man
0:47.2	who knows not who he is.
0:49.4	And in the other corner,
0:50.8	we've got a 31-year-old Japanese American woman
0:55.0	who tweeted about emotional breakdown this week.
0:59.9	Welcome to the Asia, not Asian podcast.
1:03.1	Yeah, and we just came up with a new tagline.
1:08.8	Tagline.
1:10.1	And I want you to do it.
1:11.5	Yeah, how about this, folks?
1:14.0	Asia, not Asian.
1:14.9	A podcast where two Asian people are your best friends.
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