Amateur Hour with KY

Ever wondered what gambling looks like when you can’t get into the high roller rooms or miss your exit onto the Las Vegas strip? Dweng, Brett, and Jon/Gomez show their hands on playing back-room card games in New York City, making a 3-hour commute to the local casino "worth it", and dipping their toes into online poker / sports betting.

Recording date: 10/09/2019

Kevin's Cornell friends Iggy and Andrea share their journey in getting their families to buy into their interracial relationship. Iggy talks about his experiences with the police as an ethnic minority (11:00) and how they kickstarted his journey from the basketball courts of the Bronx to Big Law (26:20).

Recording date: 08/18/2019

Kevin sits with neighborhood hypebeast Caleb Chen to untie the knot on the sneaker game. Caleb explains the cult of Supreme (22:10) and lays down the hammer on fakes (42:50).

Recording date: 05/07/2019

Celebrate the 10-month anniversary of Crazy Rich Asians with this September 2018 discussion of the film with Rohan George and Arthur Chen.

Rohan gives a local’s perspective on the movie that sent half of the world searching for his hometown on Google Maps while Arthur shares an Asian-American perspective on the film’s cultural impact. They then turn their focus on the Asian experience in the American workplace (1:08:00) and stack up Singaporean food against New York’s (1:23:13).

Also, today is Arthur's birthday. Happy 26th!

Recording date: 09/28/2018

Hate him or love him, the smartest kid in class has a story too - and of course, it's about kicking ass and taking A's. Tony Lee talks 1L at Harvard Law and student leadership at Columbia (26:25) before giving the dirt on life as a "law firm analyst" (35:34). He also makes the case for lawyers as modern magicians (47:35).

Recording date: 07/29/2018

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Online dating strikes again, this time for Yvonne Ye. The biggest personality in central New York returns to her hometown to find herself a man on Coffee Meets Bagel as a "first time user" (6:36). Little does she know that there is an irreconcible difference between her and her new Romeo (17:13).

Recording date: 07/22/2018

Forest Hills’s daughter Yohanna Kim discusses building her Korean-American identity in the churches and school cafeterias of American suburbia (06:20) before sharing her 6-year long battle with an improperly diagnosed health condition (15:30). She also finds some time to hop on the hot seat for some spitfire questions (32:00).

Recording date: 07/20/2018

Marty and Julia restore our faith in online dating apps with their "how we met" story, starting with the first text in 2015 before bringing us through the fateful "re-match" to the present day. Henry thinks big picture on Tinder's usefulness in NYC. Henry and Kevin get a dating profile makeover.

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Kevin sits with Yesung "Ryan" Lee in Queens's K-town, Murray Hill, to talk Korean dating apps, kindling friendships in undergrad and grad school, and final thoughts on transitioning careers from cancer researcher to Yale medical school student.

Recording date: 05/10/2018

The inaugural episode features an impromptu conversation with Wiley Xu in LAX about Asian nightlife, flight attendants, finding the ideal spouse and reasons not to bring your child into the bathroom.

Recording date: 04/28/2018