Yin & Young Podcast

Mike Newman - writer, comic, specializing in writing idiot comedy with his writing partner.

Guest host Gordon justifies watching “Ghost in the Shell”. Theater has lots of seats available.

Industry demand has changed from spec scripts to original pilots.

Studying chemistry these days to help tutor students.

"Get Out" film review.

Are Asians complicit in racism against African Americans?

Iron Fist and its crappy martial arts

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Martial Arts tips -

James: Two arms in, two arms out to avoid a submission in BJJ.

Dan: Throw a punch correctly - a straight fist should land on middle and index knuckle.

Mike: Keep your shoulders down.

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Sorry for the delay! James has been busy with his thesis, but…the wait is worth it with our biggest episode yet!

Introducing actor Freya Adams! Freya starred in “Advantageous” and has been in quite a few TV shows. (link below)

Return of LGBTQ community champion, Brazilian, and suburban woman Laura Cox!

Topics:

• Recently moved from NYC to LA, just in time for pilot season.
• Freya Adams origin story begins in Illinois and being one of the few people of color.
• Whitewashing
• Women aren’t allowed to have emotions
• Stereotypes of Asians
• Roles written for Asians are few
• Brazil is in a bit of a mess.
• Freya having to be better than her peers due to greater scrutiny
• Teacher said  "You'll need to work twice as hard to get half as much”
• Cultural erasure
• What actors look for in a script.

LANGUAGE CORNER:

Daniel: Japanese

しまった - shimatta - we’re screwed, oops

James: Mandarin Chinese

螳螂捕蟬，黃雀在後

Tángláng bǔ chán, huáng què zài hòu

lit. mantis catches the cicada, the oriole is behind the mantis.

Don’t be too focused on an immediate goal that you forget your surroundings and other potential dangers.

Laura: Portuguese

• Puta merda: Horse shit
• Salsicha - Little sausage *

Freya: Urdu

بندر لڑکی - Bandaria - Monkey girl *

*note: used google translate on these, not sure of accuracy

Related links:

Freya Adams credits:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2633431/

Advantageous: the feature film

https://www.netflix.com/title/80038420

Dave Chappelle and his white friend Chip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ3dk6KAvQM

Doug Loves Movies - Anne Heche, Sandra Oh and Onur Tukel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJBRFxCPap0

Disney show “Andi Mack” (correction: James incorrectly called it Hallie Mack)

Episode 1 on youtube, check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wQGEngPFE

Alan Yang’s Emmy Speech on Asian representation

https://youtu.be/A16JW_xhtuU?t=61

Box office sales numbers for movies

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/

Man traveled to New York from Maryland “for the purpose of killing black men”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/03/23/white-man-who-targeted-black-people-viewed-fatal-stabbing-as-practice-for-more-attacks-police-say/?utm_term=.6caa55c12f97

Teacher Allegedly Paid Student Hush Money After Sex

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/01/24/teacher-allegedly-paid-student-hush-money-after-sex/

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Gordon’s origin story and how he decided to get into the editing field

Gordon has secret Vlogs locked away for Old Man Gordon to rediscover

Delving into interracial dating

How one scene from Full Metal Jacket ruined the reputation of Asian women

White Savior Myth

LANGUAGE CORNER

Gordon:

NEET - Not in Education, Employment, or Training

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET

Daniel: Japanese

Mottainai - もったいない - what a waste

James: Taiwanese

機會, ki-hōe (ji1hui4 in Mandarin) - opportunity

related term in Mandarin: 危機, wei2ji1 - crisis

Related links:

• Gatebox - Virtual Home Robot (Hologram girl) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg&t=3s
• Riz Ahmed - https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10154616232846939/
• Ghost in the Shell PSA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ll7gt0meuU&feature=youtu.be
• Steve Harvey says Asian men aren’t sexy: http://blog.angryasianman.com/2017/01/steve-harvey-cannot-believe-anyone.html
• Paul Mooney responds to the Last Samurai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ttuVhGTDw
• Eurasian Writer on WMAF parents: https://longingfordeath.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/asian-women-and-white-men-the-truth-from-a-eurasian-male/

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In this episode James shares a tale of the Latina that ghosts him and of the mysterious drunk girl from Fullerton. Gordon Greer joins us for the first time and he relates his terrible Tinder date.

Highlights (chronological):

James and Dan talk Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, takedowns

The Latina tale.

When do you ask a girl, “Where’s this going?”

The Girl from Fullerton tale.

Gordon talks Survivor.

Gordon’s Tinder catfish.

Language Corner

Gordon: Mid-west slang

skedaddle - to run away hurriedly. 

Dan: Japanese

どきどき, doki doki - a mimetic word that mimics the sound of a heart beating, especially when near someone you like.

James: Mandarin

塞翁失马，焉知非福 (Sàiwēngshīmǎ, yānzhīfēifú) - Old man Sai loses a horse, who's to say it's bad fortune?

Related links:

• Correction: Tenri is a JUDO school, not a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school. Their website: la-tenrijudo.com
• “20 30 40” directed by Sylvia Chang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaIOCAie1ZY
• Stalk yourself:  http://www.familytreenow.com/

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In Episode 8, we talk with filmmaker Ivy Chu about her formative years moving from Taiwan to the U.S. during high school, finding her calling in film after college and eventually moving back to Taiwan to work on international co-productions. 

• Differences in education between Taiwan and the U.S.: stress levels, getting enough sleep
• How an economics background helps as a producer.
• Film opportunities in Asia versus the U.S. 
• Standing up for yourself
• Culture shock going back to Taiwan
• The perception of Trump in Taiwan
• Carrying on a social life and relationships while traveling all around
• Conservative views of an older generation regarding LGBT
• Having your age and photo on resumés in Taiwan.

From James: Taiwanese

• 你幾歲？
• Romanization: Lí kúi hòe
  • English Translation: How old are you?
  • Explanation: A common phrase used in Taiwan. There seems to be less of a social faux in Taiwanese culture to ask people about their age.

From Ivy: Mandarin

• 我可以加你的LINE？
  • Romanization: wo3 ke3 yi3 jia1 ni3 de LINE?
  • English Translation: Can I add your LINE?
  • Explanation: In Taiwan, almost everyone with an electronic device uses LINE, an instant messaging application. So if you see an attractive person that you want to get to know, getting their LINE is the way to go.

*correction: Dan and Ivy met before on set for a short film production, "Painting Hands" by James, James just forgot. Link: https://vimeo.com/174963663

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Hot Springs, Arkansas 2017

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Yin & Young are back from hiatus. James recaps his trip through the southern states, starting from Austin, James then heads to Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta, and finally to New Orleans.

HIGHLIGHTS

Austin - Esther Follies, Salt Lick BBQ

Too much heart clogging foods

To intervene or not to intervene

Memphis - Elmwood Cemetery

Nashville - Free lesson at a boxing gym to work off calories

MARTIAL ARTS MINUTES: Punching techniques, hip first or hip and fist together?

Going to an all black bar

Little Rock - Checking out bars

Hiking in the Ozarks (and getting lost)

Atlanta - Taiwanese with Southern Accents

New Orleans - Swamp tour

Going around the French Quarter

Asians in the South

LANGUAGE CORNER:

Dan: 迷惑 - meiwaku - to cause trouble

- in reference to how people should not cause trouble for others.

James: 就是這樣 - tøsi an-ne - this is the way it is.

• used to clarify, verify a claim or how something is done.

Yin & Young Song

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Tell us everything you want to be

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Share with us all of your dreams

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You gotta learn how to fight

Be yourself in this life

It’s alright

Relationships getting you down

Yin & Young

Racism’s making you drown

Yin & Young

Feeling shamed and alone

Right now you got a home

It’s alright

It’s alright

with

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In this episode we speak with martial artist Eddie Niwata.

Eddie has been practicing Choy Li Fut, a Chinese martial art, for over 20 years and currently teaches Choy Li Fut and Tai Chi

Heads up: this episode is going to be heavy on martial arts (techniques, training, style comparisons, etc...) with a bit on Asian American identity and racism in the first section.

HIGHLIGHTS (in chronological order):

Revised Guitar Intro Song!

Kendo

Choy Li Fut

Mixed Race (Hapa)

Japanese identity

Racism

The Death Touch

Finding your martial art is like finding your religion.

Tai Chi

Pedagogy: How to teach

Traditional vs MMA

Muhammed Ali vs Bruce Lee

The importance of sparring

Push hands

External vs Internal

Zhan Zhuang (standing meditation)

MARTIAL ARTS TIPS

We each share some advice we’ve picked up over the years.

James

Master Huang’s Five Loosening Exercises: good for loosening the lower back and body tension.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1S78x0fOJo

Eddie

Keep your butt tucked in: lessens lower back pain and increases stability.

Dan

Doing things with intent: makes movements more powerful.

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Spend Valentine’s listening to the soothing voice of Dan Yin = )

In this episode, Dan and James speak to storyteller, grammar queen, LGBT advocate, beer drinker, cat and breakfast burrito lover, Laura Cox.

HIGHLIGHTS

New guitar intro song!

James and Laura re-enact James's online dating texts.

Sibling bullying

Double dating

Third wheeling

James's unhealthy obsession with the other Laura in The Glass Menagerie.

Laura's healthy obsession with the other James in James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl), podcasts, and the Gilmore Girls.

...and more!

Questions for the audience:

1) Is it weird to have a double date as the first date? Why or why not?

2) When do you start holding hands with someone you're dating? First date? Second? Tenth?

Please respond in the comments below, DM, or email!

LANGUAGE CORNER

James - Taiwanese

我給你講

goar ka lie korng

Let me tell you.

Dan - Japanese

ナンパする

nanpa suru

To flirt, to hit on someone.

Laura - Portuguese

saudade

A deep nostalgia or melancholic longing for someone.

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Yin & Young are back with our first official guest podcast! We took a month off for the holidays, but promise we'll have a weekly schedule from now on.

Ronnie Alvarez is a Los Angeles based actor and a good friend of Dan’s. He shares his philosophy on approaching and dating women, a year long diet, mental approach towards auditioning, why not to be a whipping boy and more valuable life lessons.

Also we have our first language corner where we each share a phrase from a different language.

LANGUAGE CORNER:

Ronnie: “A una mujer ni todo el amor ni todo el dinero.”

Don’t give a woman all the love or all the money.

(Spanish)

Dan: 我慢 (gaman)

To endure.

(Japanese)

James: 靠腰 （kaoyao)

Lit. so hungry you cry out. Commonly used like “bullshit”, to call someone out for saying something false and/or annoying.  

(Taiwanese)

*Note: there's some crackling sound in the audio that I did my best to remove. Apologies!

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Happy Holidays! In this episode, Dan and James talk about the different nuances of Americanness. James shares a bad date he had with a overly critical girl and the concept of being thirsty versus being hungry sexually (thanks to DS for the share). Dan reveals his knowledge of forbidden martial arts, his terrible matchmaking experience, and why it’s ok to ghost.

James's movie review of "Arrival": https://letterboxd.com/film/arrival-2016/

For another perspective on why ghosting might be bad: http://lifehacker.com/why-i-stopped-ghosting-1789214550

Here's a short clip from the episode:

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