But Where Are You Really From?: An Asian-American Struggle

Have you ever wondered if you could know your best friend even more deeply? We're going to answer that question for you this week as we play 36 Questions to Fall in Love for our 100th episode celebration (we only had time to answer 20 though, lol!).  It's both incredible and humbling to have been doing our podcast for over 2.5 years. What started as a pandemic hobby has really grown into an a...

With the red hot popularity of Korean content flooding the market now, did you know that Netflix's new "Money Heist: Korea" is not a standalone original, but rather an adaptation of the widely-celebrated, Emmy-award winning Spanish version ("La Casa de Papel" aka "Money Heist") that just ended the year before? While it's well known that Hollywood has ripped off countless pieces of non-American med...

In this episode we mix two controversial topics together: religion and racism. Friend of the pod Keith Koo (previous guest on EP#21 Adulting 2.0) joins the show to share a whirlwind situation he's been in for the past year and a half involving freedom of speech within the church. He was wrongfully terminated from his role as a volunteer teacher by his church for "bringing race into the church" by...

As people who struggled hard to successfully pay off our own student loan debt, we aren't thrilled with Biden's new student loan forgiveness plan, but not just for the reasons you might think. We are in fact happy for the one-time beneficiaries of this program because we know how hard the road to repayment can be, but there's a lot we're not so pleased with. Namely, the lack of attempt to fix the...

Tensions between Taiwan and China have been high since essentially the beginning of modern-day Taiwan as we know it (circa 1949). But if you've been following the headlines of late, you'd have seen that things reached a boiling point in early August when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi paid a visit to Taiwan and became the highest ranking US official to do so, seemingly challenging the One China...

What the heck is a "himbo?!"  We're discussing the rise of the Asian himbo (male bimbo) as an evolution from the traditional portrayal of Asian men in western media. How did we go from sexless and nerdy characters like Long Duk Dong ("Sixteen Candles") to ultra hot but super dumb characters like Jason Mendoza ("The Good Place")? How do we feel about this change an...

What does the promise of America look like in 2022?  For some, the promise of the American dream still rings true. For others, the idea of America is beginning to wear thin. In honor of 4th of July weekend, we revisit what being American means to us and how that's changed since we first did this episode a few years ago. We dive into the transformative changes the country has gone through - cu...

Where in the WORLD is Angela? Angela and her husband Ramon have been on the road for more than a year now as digital nomads! We catch up with her in her current home base in Korea, as they wait for their next stop (Japan) to open up for tourism. We discuss what it's been like as an Asian-American who is NOT the local ethnicity to live in that country - from language barrier, to potential assumptio...

Have you been following the recent cascade of dumpster fires in the crypto space where the entire ecosystem has been taking one beating after another, first with the crash of Terra, followed shortly by the Celsius fiasco? (Don't worry if you have no idea what I'm talking about. Read on...) Though the crypto hype has been real for quite some time now, many people still don’t know much about what cr...

As a twist on our usual "Asians Doing Cool Sh*t" subtrack, while Angela is living abroad in Asia, we're finding Asians *in Asia* doing cool sh*t to hear from! Sunbin is a Korean-born Korean who has split many of her formative/developmental stages going back and forth living in the U.S. and Korea. In this episode, we discuss what her experience has been like as a third culture kid, technically hold...

Does it feel like things are spinning out of control sometimes? You're not alone!  This week we discuss how being on social media has put us in a 24/7 fast-paced lane. With all of the different things happening around the world, having access to all of that information can be overwhelming. We discuss the ways that we have dealt with all of the news anxiety as well as what we have done to reco...

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be in an open relationship and what it's all about? This week we put Jesse in the hot seat as we discuss the topic of open relationships. We put it all out there as we discuss our own opinions and experiences with the open relationship concept. From why you'd want to be in one to relationship agreements to managing jealousy, Angela asks all the questions yo...

The Internet has made wonderful things like our podcast possible, but what are the downsides of the world wide web? This week we discuss the shadowy world of internet trolls and how the constant stream of negativity can have a real impact on mental health. We explore the mounting pressure from anonymous commentators as we have expanded across social media. From icy comments to pure vitriol, we exa...

**This is the Mandarin-based audio interview with our moms, available for those who are able to speak our mother language! For those who aren't able to, please head over to our YouTube version of this episode where we provide the English subtitled version of the video. Alternatively, you can listen to our shorter English recap of the episode where we reflect on our discussion with our moms (withou...

Happy Mother's Day weekend and start of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! To celebrate, we had two incredibly special guests on our show... our moms! Because we recorded the episode with them in Chinese (Mandarin), we also recorded this shorter English recap for those who do not speak our moms' native tongue. With that said, if you do speak Mandarin, feel free to either listen...

If you could go back and revisit another life, would you?  This week we sit down with Angela and recap her experience with past-life regression. She recounts her journey to experiencing her past lives and the lessons that she's learned from this therapeutic adventure.  We dive fully into the ins-and-outs of this hypnosis-based therapy, from the prep work required beforehand to the actual...

We're following up on our first episode about the Ukraine War that featured a Russian civilian with a counter-episode featuring a Ukrainian guest from the capital city of Kyiv - Alexey Siniavtsev. It is a strange and amazing world we live in now, that through the power of the internet we have all crossed paths. Alex saw clips from our first Ukraine war episode on Tik Tok and reached out to offer a...

They say the only way out is through, and we are truly still going through a lot when it comes to COVID-19. Two years after the initial rolling wave of shutdowns, what have we and the world collectively learned?  In this episode, we reflect on both the positive and negatives that COVID-19 unleashed upon the world. From government responses to the "end of COVID" to the mental health debt, we t...

Everything Everywhere All At Once is maybe one of the best movies we've ever seen...?! Starring the legendary Michelle Yeoh, this movie is seriously unlike any other. Your podcast hosts were lucky enough to be invited to watch advanced screenings of this multi-verse movie, out now.  This episode is a (largely) NO SPOILERS review of the movie, discussing the major themes that stood out to us w...

There is a war being waged on Ukraine, and we need to talk about it. In this episode, we are joined by an anonymous Russian civilian to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine. Did you know that even calling this war "a war" can get a Russian citizen thrown in jail for up to 15 years? It's heavy stakes to speak the truth, and we are so grateful to our guest for being brave enough to do so. We start wit...

It's our 2 year pod-versary!!  We are truly in awe that we've made it this far, and so much of that is because of all of the support from you, dear listeners! In this episode, we reflect back on "then and now" in terms of why we started the pod vs. what keeps us going now, our favorite guests, topics, and formats, what our future goals are for the pod, how this community has expanded over the...

Must...eat...brainssss! On another edition of "Go Home We're Drunk," we raise a glass to the cinematic adventure that is Train to Busan. We wanted to revisit one of the older zombie films that's now source material for the current wave of Korean/zombie content being consumed by global audiences ("All of Us Are Dead," anyone?!).  With a meticulous ensemble cast, dramatic story pacing, and powe...

Who else obsessively watched Sailor Moon growing up? We did! We're rebooting our previous format of "Go Home We're Drunk" where we drink on the show and discuss stuff! In this rebooted format, we're watching Asian content across the board and reviewing what stood out to us, problematic/weird things we noticed, our favorite characters, etc. In this episode, we watched Season 1 Episode 1 of Sailor M...

Wheel! Of! Fortune!!! Who hasn't thought about taking a lucky spin and peering into their future? This week we talk all about traditional fortune-telling from the motherland (as told indirectly to us by our parents) and how it contrasts with Western styles of fortune-telling. We explore the different themes of traditional fortune telling, from arranging one's surroundings to become more auspicious...

Did you know that there are actually two forms of written Chinese - simplified and traditional?  We're bringing you a schoolin' lesson this week (while we teach ourselves too lol), diving into the differences between simplified and traditional Chinese. We take a look at the history of the divergence between the two forms, from the origins of simplified Chinese and han yu pin yin (aka the phon...