Soon Yu, bestselling author and podcaster extraordinaire, joins us to reminisce about our old Asian rock band days in the late 90s Bay Area. A marketing/user experience guy by trade, Soon also has a successful podcast called Aconic which also interviews guests of Asian descent, including big names like Andrew Yang, Elaine Chow, and soon Martin Yan (can cook!), and two successful books called Iconic Advantage and Friction, available on Amazon and elsewhere. Soon hails from the Davis, CA area where he lives with his son and wife, who he met through a 7-day whirlwind first-date experience and got engaged to only a few weeks later. Now that's love at first sight!

Dan Chan, aka the Millionaires' Mentalist, is an Asian magician. It's not often you hear those two words together, but that's who he is. He loves to wow people, and that's what makes him a great magician. From random street magic to balloon animal gigs with his wife, Dan figured out a long time ago that if you can book a couple shows in a day, that money can add up to a real income. Having wowed the likes of Draymond Green, Eric Yuan (CEO of Zoom), Elon Musk, and yes, even Hansel and Wayne, Dan's the real deal Millionaires' Mentalist. Find out all his secrets on our podcast.

Jimmy Hsu runs five businesses in San Francisco, all within a block of each other. Starting with a coffee shop, he soon expanded to a hair salon, a print shop, a laundromat, and most recently a bake shop. He's the proud owner of all of them, and currently thinking of adding a pizza business to the portfolio. Moving from Kansas to California with $1500 in his pocket, Jimmy learned how to network with people and take advantage of opportunities he found. And he had the balls to go for em, too.

Mitch Wong works in the craziest industry in the Bay Area - real estate. With per-square-foot prices well into the thousands and more, it's not a bad place to be. From going to high school in Hong Kong to opening a micro-brewery in Beijing, Mitch has been around the world and then some. His wife started a successful pre-school that almost did Cantonese immersion (Hansel is bummed they didn't), but instead went to Mandarin immersion. Mitch wraps up the podcast with a real estate tip that'll make you rich, immediately. Or something like that.

Kelvin Fu, engineer extraordinaire, tells us about the life of an executive on Honda's racing team. His job is to spend marketing money to make Honda look good by winning as many races like Indy 500 as he can. From wind tunnels to bleeding edge engine designs, Kelvin's team tunes race cars into speed demon machines so you, fair consumer, would think Honda is cool and go buy one. But as the engineer Asian on the team, do you think he ever got to drive one? You'll have to tune in to find out. On the way to racing success, Kelvin also tells us about his White Castle living the good life as a PhD student making barely any money and working 60-70 hours - but loving it. Everyone's White Castle is different, right?

Kiki Chang, father of a one year old (congrats!) in his late 50's, is a talker. Not only on this podcast, but to his pediatric patients in his psychiatry practice. He's also the dad of a 22 yo musical prodigy who currently studies songwriting at Berkelee (no, not Berkeley; BERKELEE, one of the top music colleges in the world). Shout out to Zach, check him out at https://www.zachco.com/. As for Kiki, after graduating from Princeton and while attending Tufts medical school, he decided he hated medicine and dropped out to pursue a career in music production. Turns out, there's no money in that - so a year later, he went back to med school and found his calling - talking to people, as a psychiatrist. But who cares about all that, he's a new father at the ripe old age of 58 - Congrats!!

EunJin Raney is Korean through and through but you'd never know it because she married white. Born in Korea, she immigrated to the US first in the Bronx and then to outside Boston where she picked up English. Her first big disappointment in life was not getting into Harvard, but it sounds like she's lived a pretty awesome life since. Having found her White Castle, EunJin now lives in the suburbs of Boston with plenty of time to spend with her two boys and amazing (white) husband Colin, who is busy running a new fitness company he founded (Ray Fitness). Annyeonghaseyo to EunJin!

Maile Lynn is none other than Hansel's own oldest kid. A sophomore at NYU in Shanghai, they are non-binary (they/them). How did they come out? Why do they think they are non-binary? What does that even mean? And maybe even more interestingly, what's the Chinese word for non-binary? Did Uncle Wayne find out any tips about how to work the college system for his own daughters? If you have kids going to, or about to be going to, college, give this episode a listen and find out what it's like to be a non-binary college student.

In this special book-launch episode (that's right, our book launches today!), theCoderBros share insights about the book, personal nuggets, and of course some valuable life tips. Listen in and find out about Hansel's cool thumb ring trend, Wayne eating pigs feet, or the hilarious punk-pop band they were in together, Timmy Ramen. And don't forget to check out our book, theCoderBros Go To White Castle, available now, nationwide! (because, you know, it's on Amazon)

Judy Chen is master of the dance. As an 18 year old freshman in college, she made the dance team for NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, back when they were crazy good, with Shawn Kemp, Gary Payton, and a host of other talent. Her daughter was passed the dancing genes, as she, at only 13, is attending San Francisco Ballet School while performing live shows for the San Francisco Ballet. In the recent past, Judy started a company that infuses CBD into a beverage (can we get a hit of that??), and now works to invent new flavors of food, like salted egg potato chips. Yuck or Yum?