THE WASIAN EPISODE | LUNCHTIME WITH MIC NGUYEN 14
Asian Not Asian
Jenny Arimoto & Mic Nguyen
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We're continuing on with our AANHPI (rebranded as NHPIAA) content. This week: the WAsians meet up in NYC goes viral. AND Mic talks about the beautiful Vietnamese accent.
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| 0:00.0 | Whoa, whoa, whoa, welcome back to lunchtime with Mike Nguyen. |
| 0:05.4 | It's lunchtime. |
| 0:06.7 | It's Thursday. |
| 0:08.2 | This is my little lunch window. |
| 0:10.5 | My glycemic index or whatever, the sugar thing crashing right now. |
| 0:18.1 | I am shaking. |
| 0:19.9 | This is shaking is the optimal condition to be in when making a |
| 0:26.2 | podcast. I don't know if you know that. I always tried to record Asia not Asian in the morning, |
| 0:34.7 | partially because this is when I could, you know, leave my family for a little while, |
| 0:38.7 | but also you just got to get the caffeine directly into the brain, |
| 0:44.3 | smush it all up in your synapses, and in my opinion, that's where some of the best |
| 0:50.4 | podcasting magic comes from, when you're kind of like in this like hyper aware |
| 0:55.4 | coffee slurry state and that's what I'm at right now so it's still Thursday morning I'm |
| 1:02.4 | going to release this within minutes okay not even hot off the presses right hot off of the |
| 1:10.3 | ATP that I'm burning right now in order to |
| 1:13.7 | get my neurons going. Is that how neurons work? I have no idea. And getting, get all my |
| 1:20.7 | thoughts out directly into this microphone that goes into my phone that is being transcribed |
| 1:26.8 | on some hard drive, taking that, air-dropping it to my machine, |
| 1:33.0 | putting that directly into the internet, which goes directly into your brains, which then burns ATP on your side |
| 1:40.7 | in order to comprehend what's going on. |
| 1:44.3 | Woof. |
| 1:45.4 | I apologize for that very crazy manic description. |
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