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Fumi wants to know what kind of h*ndj*bs you might get at a Vegas Cirque du Soleil show. Mic can de-escalate any fight with pancakes. Natasha forgot that there was a video element to this podcast and legit ran to the podcast from her home.   U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - FUMI’S GOOD BYE SHOW @ Canal Street Market 7/28 8pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fumis-goodbye-show-tickets-1...

Something really really bad happened. Fumi talks through his guilt that made him sick to his stomach. Mic talks about feeling Asian guilt in the voting booth in the NY primaries. It’s raw. It’s Unprotected. It’s Asian Not Asian.  U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - Hack City Comedy Show @ Union Hall 7/16 7:30pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-city-comedy-with-fumi-abe-and-mic-nguyen-tick...

Comedian/Actress/Fun Aunt Julia Shiplett joined the ANA boys on the pod this week to talk about Jon Stewart actin’ up on The Late Show and the recent backlash “In The Heights” faced regarding casting!  U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - Hack City Comedy Show @ Union Hall 7/16 7:30pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-city-comedy-with-fumi-abe-and-mic-nguyen-tickets-159934782239?aff=odwdwds...

Mic took a 2-week break so he's been demoted to guest-status. He tells us about his travels to Utah, Orange County, and the army surplus store., as an Asian person.  U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - Hack City Comedy Show @ Union Hall 7/16 7:30pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-city-comedy-with-fumi-abe-and-mic-nguyen-tickets-159934782239?aff=odwdwdspacecraft  M E R C H - WE ARE S...

Fumi is joined by comedians SJ Son and Woody Fu this week to talk about this sister’s wedding where neither of the families spoke English, making an excel sheet of people you’ve slept with, and Naomi Osaka dropping out of the French open for her mental health!  U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - Hack City Comedy Show @ Union Hall 6/25 10pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-city-comedy-wit...

It’s just Fumi and Kenice this week talking about hoe-ing, racist dating algorithms, and white guys being fragile on twitter!  U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - Hack City Comedy Show @ Union Hall 6/25 10pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-city-comedy-with-fumi-abe-and-mic-nguyen-tickets-158019672093    M E R C H - WE ARE SELLING ANA MERCH NOW https://www.asiannotasianpod.com/m...

The ANA boys sat down with Swedish comedian Evelyn Mok from the Rice to Meet You Podcast this week to talk about the survey that went out recently that revealed that the most famous Asian-American person in America right now is…..”NONE”, as in “I can’t think of any”. We then challenge ourselves to name famous Asian Americans and we quickly lose steam, so we’re probably cancelled by now but at...

**We did a cross-over episode with the good folx at Feeling Asian podcast! This episode is only half of the conversation, so be sure to tune into Feeling Asian podcast on Wednesday 5/26 to catch the FULL conversation!** Not the podcast 4-some you asked for but the podcast 4-some you deserve! This week Brian Park and Youngmi Mayer from Feeling Asian podcast joined the boys IN PERSON to talk horny g...

This one got goofy AF! Comedian Tien Tran joined us this week to talk about growing up in the Midwest (Erie PA but close enough), what the Filet-O-Fish means to many Asian families in the US, and straight guys who refer to women as “females”  U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - RSVP https://linktr.ee/asiannotasianpod  M E R C H - WE ARE SELLING ANA MERCH NOW https://www.asiannotasianpo...

Gastor Almonte (Comedy Central) joined the boys this week to talk about East New York culture (the one part of Brooklyn that has not been gentrified yet) and how YouTube conspiracies are coming after our immigrant parents. SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”   https://forms.gle/ZtNB5VFKQfq6Z64R8   U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - RSVP https://...

Fumi went on a date and realized that he’s so weird now.  SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”   https://forms.gle/ZtNB5VFKQfq6Z64R8   U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - RSVP https://linktr.ee/asiannotasianpod  M E R C H - WE ARE SELLING ANA MERCH NOW https://www.asiannotasianpod.com/merch  ---   P A R T N E R S  &nb...

We had an incredible conversation with stand-up legend and correspondent of the Daily Show Roy Wood Jr about complexities of the Stop Asian Hate movement, Roy’s struggle to find his son a Mandarin tutor, and how the best comedians are journalists. SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”   https://forms.gle/ZtNB5VFKQfq6Z64R8   U P C O M I N G E V E N T...

Tim Chantarangsu (formerly known as Tim DeLaGhetto) joined us this week to talk about his experience being the only Asian cast member on Wildn’ Out and his feelings towards “low hanging fruit Asian jokes” that would repeatedly be told on the show.  SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”   https://forms.gle/ZtNB5VFKQfq6Z64R8   U P C O M I N G E V...

We had so many fire guests booked over the past few weeks that we realized we never took the time to talk about what’s been going with the Anti-Asian hate thing with just the boys. This is that raw/no-condom convo y’all deserve.  “Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?” - Avril Lavigne AND Asian-Americans SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”  &n...

Recorded 3/13/21 This one is goofy as hell! Comedian Alex Babbitt joined the boys this week to talk about playing Yu-Gi-Oh in the projects, learning to spit game before coming out as an anime fan, and how Piccolo from DBZ is actually black. SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”   https://forms.gle/ZtNB5VFKQfq6Z64R8   U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !&nbs...

Last week was loco but we got Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast this week to make sure this week doesn’t suck! Michelle joined us to answer the question “Is Not Knowing How You Feel Asian or Not Asian?”. We get into what it felt like getting texts from friends asking “are you ok?” Re: Georgia attack, the significance of H Mart, and how Asian people macgyver their way into making Asian food whe...

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Lili was supposed to be on the show exactly a year ago. For the one year anniversary of COVID, we had Lili on and asked her questions we were gonna ask her in 2020. SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”   https://forms.gle/ZtNB5VFKQfq6Z64R8   U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - RSVP https://linktr.ee/asiannotasianpod  M E R C H - WE ARE SELLIN...

Pulitzer prize winner and author of “The Sympathizer” VIET THANH NGUYEN blessed ANA with his presence this week, and what’s the first thing the boys ask him: if he pees over the band over through the slit. All jokes aside, Viet eloquently talks through his journey as a writer and how Americans should care about sandwiches in the midwest AND stories from the diaspora population. Get a copy of Viet’...

This is a HOT ONE Folx! Our friend Jared Goldstein joined us this week to talk about his Japanese-Long Island identity, being a child actor, and the recent uptick in anti-Asian sentiment! Check out Jared’s upcoming ZOOM comedy show: SATURDAY 3/13 between 6-8p PT / 9-11p ET All ticket sales will go to The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (www.aaldef.org) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/...

Just the boys this week! Fumi and Mic discuss if being single in your 30s is Asian or Not Asian. Follow us on IG: www.instagram.com/asiannotasianpod www.instagram.com/thefumiabe www.instagram.com/nicepantsbro SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”   https://forms.gle/ZtNB5VFKQfq6Z64R8   U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - RSVP https://linktr.ee/asia...

If you’ve seen the Benihana episode of The Office, you definitely remember KULAP VILAYSACK! Kulap joined us this week to talk about her documentary “Origin Story” (available on Amazon) where she embarks on a journey to find her real family after finding out that the man who raised her was not her biological father at age 14. This one’s RAW EMOTIONS Folx! Check out Kulap’s podcast “Add to Cart” whe...

If you grew up watching music videos on MTV before catching the school bus, you definitely remember SUCHIN PAK! Suchin joined us this week to talk about her MTV News days and what it was like to work in entertainment before social media. We also so another MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING segment about how to talk to your mixed babies about race.  Check out Suchin’s podcast “Add to Cart” wherever you...

This week we got Andrew Ti from “Yo Is This Racist?” and Mixed-ish. We talk about the first week of the post-Trump world, Bling Empire on Netflix, and the new editor for a magazine at Howard University who is apparently Asian! SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”   https://forms.gle/ZtNB5VFKQfq6Z64R8   U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - RSVP http...

THIS WEEK WE GOT SABLE YONG! Fumi had a kinky experience on ZOOM. Mic smells like a wet puddle. Sable fires shots at the New York Times. And we discuss how hard it must be to represent Mia Ponsetto as an attorney!  Find it all on this week’s Asian Not Asian! SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”   https://forms.gle/ZtNB5VFKQfq6Z64R8   U P C O M...