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Yo, Is This Racist?

Sub-Optimal Preview: Big Trouble in Little China Watch-Along (with Dave Callaham and Jessica Gao)

Yo, Is This Racist?

Andrew Ti, Tawny Newsome

Comedy

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this preview of a special Sub-Optimal episode! Tawny and Andrew watch Big Trouble in Little China with writer Dave Callaham (Shang-Chi, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), enemy of the show Jessica Gao and a few drop-ins throughout the episode!

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0:00.0

Yo, this is a very special intro to this episode because all three of us, me,

0:11.1

Tari, Kevin, had reasons why we couldn't record this week.

0:15.7

I'll be honest, mine was a little bit hangover based.

0:21.8

But I wanted to give you guys a little sample of the watch along for Big Shuffle, a little

0:28.5

China.

0:29.5

And also, I just had a few things that I was like, I probably should just do these, get

0:37.2

these out of the way, news things quickly.

0:41.0

Just so also, there's something original in this free feed.

0:44.7

So I think the two little news asks things I wanted to talk about.

0:51.1

One is obviously the endless drama I have for the worst Asian American people.

0:58.5

In the world, this time, this fuck face, John Wang is basically suing, claiming that he's

1:06.8

been hurt by affirmative action and that Asian people are hurt by affirmative action, which

1:11.6

is false.

1:12.6

There's a particularly hilarious bit because he says he was rejected from UC Berkeley because

1:19.0

of the fact that he's Asian.

1:22.2

And you know, beyond the fact that UC Berkeley actually does not have any kind of race-based

1:26.8

affirmative action, Berkeley is also one of the most Asian schools in America.

1:33.4

So they are certainly letting Asian people in.

1:37.2

There's a pretty strong argument.

1:38.4

They're letting too many Asian people in and the students there are being cheated of

1:43.2

a diverse experience.

1:45.6

But yeah, mostly just fuck this guy.

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