Asian Not Asian

THIS WEEK WE GOT JOEL KIM BOOSTER AND WE’RE SO EXCITED. We talk about Joel’s experience as a queer comedian of color, why Viets love coups, and the Mahjong Line. Plus Fumi gets a new nickname.  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/asiannotasia...

First episode of 2021 baby! Fumi was told by a girl that she doesn’t f*ck Asian guys on the last day of 2020! Mic depends on Amazon packages to provide him with a reason to keep living! We talk backlash on Andrew Shulz's Netflix special! And we conclude on a mismanagement consulting segment about how you cannot trust men who have yet to c*m.!  SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGE...

Fumi is BACK. This week, comedian and writer Ismael Loutfi gives us the rundown on teen marriage, writing for Patriot Act, and comedy roommates. Then on Mismanagement Consulting, we talk about how to date a white woman in a chill way.  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 !&n...

Happy holidays my lovely ANALS! We are concluding 2020 with a very strange holiday gift exchange episode! Go to our YouTube page (link below) for the full experience or just keep listening to the audio-only version if you’re into that kind of thing! https://www.youtube.com/asiannotasianpodcast  SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”    https://forms.gle/Zt...

THIS WEEK WE GOT SHERRY COLA (Good Trouble). We talk about making white people uncomfortable in the hot tub and making Bobby Lee insecure. Plus on race news we talk about having a side hustle on only fans.  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...

This one’s a bit unconventional because Fumi is reporting to you live from a TikTok house in Palm Springs!  Fumi sat down with stand-up comedian, housemate, and perhaps even new friend (debatable) Hanna Dickinson to talk about what it’s been like living together in a tiktok house as grown-ass adults, how straight guys continue to be dishonest and hurtful in quarantine, and creepy high school...

Fumi is away on business/seeing his second podcast family, so Mic is hanging out with up and coming comic Anhtriet Tran (Today Show). They talk about how thirst traps improve language retention, why men ain’t nothing but corn cobs, and why Biden needs a gold chain to win over Viet voters. Du ma!  SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”    https://forms.gle/...

ITS JUST DA BOYS TODAY!! In this episode we talk about Thanksgiving, Asian-style, Mic’s totally badass grandpa, and why we need to stop the SAT score stigma.  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 AR...

This week we got writer, director and show runner Tze Chun (Once Upon a Time in America and Gotham)!!! An actual Asian working in TV!!! We talk about how he got his start, how things have changed in the writing room, and how to know your worth. Plus a Mismanagement Consulting where we help a jungle Asian and mountain Asian come together.  SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT...

THIS WEEK WE GOT JENNY YANG! Jenny is a former labor organizer turned stand up comedian, and we talk with her about how comedy and activism can co-exist in this political climate, doing Asian comedy shows with problematic names, and how she shares a birthday with Fumi!! PLUS ANOTHER MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING that’s all about code switching table manners!!!  SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGME...

WHITE PEOPLE ARE DANCING IN THE STREET AND THE ANA BOYS DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. This week we recorded our episode literally an hour after it was announced Biden had won. We talk about Viet republicans, Trump becoming the anti-president, and Asian moms growing weed in their houses. PLUS another Mismanagement Consulting segment!  SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING”...

This week, ya boys are joined by Courtney Parchman (@AverageFashionBlogger)!!! Courtney is a certifiable Instagram comedy star and Fumi’s coworker! We talk to her about growing up in a cult, cyber bullying, AND we answer a listener’s question on our FIRST EVER Mismanagement Consulting segment!!!  SUBMIT YOUR PROBLEM TO OUR NEW SEGMENT ‘MISMANAGEMENT CONSULTING” https://forms.gle/ZtNB5VFKQfq6Z...

This week we got Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Stephanie Hsu!! We get to talking about Broadway, theatre school and learning to unhate yourself. Things get real weird when we go on an aside developing very inappropriate consumer goods. Special thanks to Stephanie and her million voices. Don’t miss this one !!! Stephanie is producing an election night detox party/show - all proceeds will go be split a...

Rapper/Comedian DUMBFOUNDEAD joined the ANA boys this week to talk about losing relevancy as a rapper in his 30s, surviving battle rap as an Asian artist, and the super specific racist casting call for Asians who don’t have mono-lids! Listen to Dumbfoundead’s podcast “Fun with Dumb” here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fun-with-dumb/id1419836220  U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  - R...

The ANA boys finally reunite in person for a recording sesh and what do they do with this valuable time? They talk scary podcast reviews, whether you’re supposed to pee from the underwear slit or over the band, and sex parties with bomb ass food.  We're doing HACK CITY IRL on OCTOBER 18th 7pm (Sunday) in Brooklyn New York!!!! Social distancing and all COVID-19 regulations will be in practice....

Fumi is away doing another show Bumcrap State Technical University, so Mic invites Pranav Behari (Mango Bae Podcast) on the show. They talk about how Mic can up his Zuncle game, why Fumi is so emo, and how to hit on South Asian ladies. There's no high-pitched Fumi laugh, but there's plenty of hahas in this ep!! Check out Pranav’s podcast “Mango Bae” wherever you get your pod! https://www.youtube.c...

Once in a blue moon we’ll have a guest on who is not one of our dumb comedian friends (chill, we love them!)  This week on ANA, overqualified comedian and host of Fake The Nation podcast Negin Farsad joined the boys to talk about what it means to be a social justice comedian and how often SJWs on the Internet focus on rage rather than forgiveness. She also talks about touring in red states as...

Mic is celebrating his 21st birthday upstate so this week it’s Fumi and Sr. Horny Correspondent Kenice Mobley! Kenice and Fumi get into the NAUGHTIEST topics: white women complementing black women to feel better about themselves, sex parties, sex parties for POC who’ve been told they are too white but have since decolonized their mind and are now ready to f*ck! It’s all in there on this week’...

This man needs no introduction. It’s Nigel Ng aka UNCLE ROGER y’all! Nigel walks us through his comedy journey all the way from trying stand up on college at Northwestern University to getting 14 Million views on his comedy sketch video and making a living as a content creator. Fumi accidentally calls him an “influencer” during this ep and Nigel gets offended but they remain friends! Follow Nigel...

What’s up my lovely ANALs! Hope you spent your long weekend blasting “Reflections” from the Mulan soundtrack at your homes. Jay Jurden (Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon) joined the ANA boys this week to talk…  Giving Christina Aguilera a temporary Asian card for killing the Mulan theme song How Mike Pence hates Mulan Sponge Bob’s homo-romantic relationship with Patrick Why it’s ok for Asian com...

Michelle Obama started a podcast which means we technically have the same job as Michelle Obama! Wow! ANA’s Young People correspondent Terry Nguyen (Vox) joins the boys this week to talk about why transplant New Yorkers aren’t really part of the “community” and if the “racist” Trader Joe’s brand extensions for foreign foods is really just a distraction.  U P C O M I N G E V E N T S !  -...

We hope you’re quarantine relationships are going well! Fumi spent a week in a hotel in Manhattan to give his girlfriend some “space”! Smash the like if this is relatable! This week Sierra Katow (Earth to Ned) joins the ANA boys to discuss Fumi’s reluctance to join online Asian communities, why Asian people don’t understand sarcasm, and what it was like to start stand-up comedy at age 16 as an Asi...

Have you been dining outside? Doesn’t it seem like things are slowly returning to the way it used to be? WRONG! Elena Yamamoto (VICE Munchies) joins us on the pod this week to give us an inside look at the future of the restaurant industry and her insane journey trying to open up a restaurant during a global pandemic. Shit is bleak my friends but we do our best to sneak in a few butt jokes. &...

Picture your dream man. Is he related to Bruce Lee? Does he have an Australian accent? Was he in Crazy Rich Asians and more recently in Andy Samberg’s new movie Palm Springs going down on a woman in an infinite timeloop? If so, then you’re in luck! Certified hot Asian guy Chris Pang (Crazy Rich Asians & Palm Springs) bless the ANA boys with his presence this week and tells us his beautiful lif...

This one is all about INDIAN MATCHMAKING on NETFLIX!  Let’s face it. If we’ve learned anything from the white women takeover of yoga and astrology, it’s that they are only a few years away from appropriating arranged marriages. This is our conversation with Indian Matchmaker Pranav from Bed-Stuy. Check out his parody of Indian Matchmaking here: https://youtu.be/XF6LuANueYg  U P C O...