The Men Are Off to War So We Will Make The Porridge (w/ JR De Guzman)
Asian Not Asian
Jenny Arimoto & Mic Nguyen
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Fumi didn’t stand up for a girl who was being picked on. Mic is the richest person among his comedy peers. JR De Guzman talks us through his journey of self acceptance, misguided asian masculinity, and getting off on self-affirmation YouTube videos. It’s all right here on ASIAN NOT ASIAN.
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| 0:00.0 | Sub asian not asian listeners. It's Mike. Listen. Have you ever wanted to take an asian |
| 0:03.5 | American studies class? But you couldn't because you're too busy studying case studies or whatever |
| 0:07.5 | for that big Google interview. Well, we got you. We got a live comedy show coming at you. |
| 0:12.3 | It's called asian American studies 3000. We got funny comedians and experts who are getting |
| 0:16.4 | together to teach you something cool about asian American culture. It's happening September 15th |
| 0:20.9 | at Canal Street Market in Chinatown. Shows at 7 30 doors at 7 tickets are just 10 bucks go to the |
| 0:26.1 | link in our Instagram bio or the link in the description of this episode. See you there. |
| 0:32.6 | I have nothing I've ever said this to another living human person. I jerked off once to one |
| 0:36.0 | of those YouTube like affirmation things. Yo! Absolutely! |
| 0:50.7 | And welcome back to another episode of asian not asian podcast. A podcast where two asian guys |
| 0:55.6 | enough maja talk about American issues. No American cares about it. I'm your little Suomi Abe. |
| 0:59.4 | And I'm Mike Nguyen. Today is Saturday 4th September 4th where we come at you live from all |
| 1:07.1 | all over America once again. New York. Really? All over America. If you're listening to us on |
| 1:11.3 | Apple podcasts, please leave us a review. Hit five stars. If you're on Spotify, go ahead and hit |
| 1:15.7 | follow. So you can always be up on podcast episodes. And if you're checking us this out on YouTube, |
| 1:22.4 | smash smash I've learned is the word smash that subscribe button. But mostly tell your friends |
| 1:28.4 | because that is the biggest social media plug of all. Yes friendship. And we are a quick |
| 1:33.8 | announcement before we move on to the patreon. We are actually looking for a social media manager |
| 1:37.5 | to add to the team. We will pay you. We're looking for someone to kind of manage your Instagram |
| 1:41.5 | account and maybe like help us build up or tick-tock accounts because Mike and our old and we don't |
| 1:46.0 | know what we're doing with that kind of stuff. And also we're busy. And so we will pay you to do this. |
| 1:49.8 | So if you're interested, please send a resume and your portfolio to asian.asianpod.com. |
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