Ippo two times in a row! Listen in as the Southern Senpais give their review of Hajime No Ippo! Episode 11 through 20.

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No, I think you just need to learn how to do it.

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It shows realness.

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So we've done 30, 30 episodes with the last one the last one,

because Ippo was number 30.

29 right before that so we've done this too many times for you not to know To do

this, but what are we talking about today?

We are talking about Ippo's anime 11 through 20.

Ippo's anime.

That's the title of it.

It's called Ippo's anime.

Ippo What is it called?

Hajime no Ippo.

Hajime no Ippo.

Yes, and A lot kinda happened.

He beat that guy Oda.

Yeah, so he he Boxes against Oda Yasuka.

The boxer from Osaka.

I'm gonna let you say that last name.

I don't know you suck So he's actually really nervous before he gets into the

fight because he's is his first pro fight It's just bloody has beat right?

But yeah, I mean he's gonna win because this is his anime, right?

It's anime, but initially, he doesn't do well.

No initially That's what I think that it was a real roller coaster Of a fight.

I will have to say in this anime, they choreographed these fights really well.

To be fair, it's only punches.

So it's alright, so let, lemme get this straight.

I have to make a anime.

Apparently this first season's something like 75, 76 episodes.

It is crazy.

. But think about it like this, you had to do 75 episodes

of a show, of a boxing show.

Okay.

Potentially, half of those are the fight episodes.

That means, bro, you're talking about like at least, at least like over 30

punt boxing matches where people are just straight up punching each other.

You gotta make it interesting.

You gotta be good at choreographing that stuff or else

it'll get boring immediately.

Obviously, so he does the match.

Ippo.

It's a powerful body blow that knocks out Oda.

And The crowd's cheering him on, but also what we haven't, what we haven't

stated is over time Nobody knows Ippo's a boxer because he's in high school, right?

He's a loser in high school that smells like fish.

Oh, yeah, he's still fish loser, even though he just beat someone up.

Also one of the things I Think he's weird None of his boxer friends ever bring that

up bring it what that he smells like fish Probably because they're all sweaty in

the gym, too that's that's what I thought.

I was like, they all probably really stink.

There's no women around.

No They all probably stink they get no women at all.

They all probably stink as well One of the boxing gym characters,

this is whole reason for boxing.

He's like I want pretty women to like me.

But the crazy part is one of the friends likes really ugly women.

Yeah, that's like his thing.

That's his thing.

Yeah, that's the dude, that's the Aoki, right?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, Aoki's oh, I box for women to like, locker or something like that.

And it's all eugh.

Yeah, apparently he's really attracted to ugly women.

It's the sentiment.

Hey man, everybody has their thing.

Some people like people being tall and small, and some people like some people

with a little Some people are chubby chasers, yeah, some people like them with

a little baggage, some people like skinny, screen beings, you know what I'm saying?

Now, I will say this I think that one of the, one of the greatest things

about Ipoh that I've seen, one of the episodes, I really locked in on one

of the characters in the background, because we're talking about appearances.

The boxers they like, they're like, Oh, we're muscular,

we're flexing, and whatever.

But it's okay I don't really care about that.

And animation, especially in the animation back in the day, and this

is how really the rest of the world learned how to animate, was from

the animated minstrel shows, right?

With the, the monkey, black people being monkeys, and the big lips, and the, that's

where Bugs Bunny's hands come from, that's why he wears gloves, and stuff like that.

Are you talking about the so there's a frame.

You ain't gonna stop me.

There's a frame in which, cause usually what happens in anime is every time

there's a black guy, he has these big giant lips, even in today, in 2024,

they will animate a black guy who is the most stereotypical, like racist

looking black guy at an animation.

And they're like, yeah, no, that's fine to put.

Because again, they don't know about America is very attuned to racism.

Like everyone in Japan is fucking Japanese.

They think it's hilarious.

But in this show, I saw a white guy with giant lips, and that, I don't know,

that just made me feel a lot better.

You guys don't understand, this man actually texted me the picture

I couldn't, I had never seen it before of the TV, with the white

dude that had the black guy lips.

It was crazy.

It was like, can you believe this?

Wow I have a whole new respect for this anime.

But anyway, so after the fight he gets some acknowledgment from

his peers of, they find out.

They're like, oh wow, you're a boxer?

And he's yeah, haha.

And then the bullies are like, bro, seriously?

Cause the bullies, they kept trying to, they tried to still try to bully

him, but he's him doing his road work, he like runs away from them and it's

like too fast and stuff like that.

They were like, this guy is, I don't know what he's doing, but he just

keeps getting faster and stronger.

And eventually they're like.

Aren't we going to catch him?

He's no man, like, why are we going to do that?

And then one of them, they take his his pro card, like

his card that he fought for.

And Basically, he almost knocks all of them out trying to get it back.

He's bro, hey, listen to me.

I ain't down for this bullsh t no more, bro.

I will beat your ass, give me back my boxing card.

The next episode we're Coming to is the Rookie King title, right?

EPO's next challenge is to compete in the Rookie King title.

The Rookie King Tournament.

Tournament.

And one of the, one of the scenes is, we were talking about this the

last episode, One of the scenes was they're at the ramen shop, right?

Cause apparently this guy makes great ramen.

Apparently.

And what ends up happening is they just clown on the ramen guy the

whole time because they're like, oh, yeah, Ipoh, you can do this.

You got this.

Blah, blah, blah.

I'm like, this loser who needs a second job.

Is he so bad at boxing?

This guy right here, he boxes like this and he can't do

anything and blah, blah, blah.

And I was like, bro, these guys are And then Ipoh's just there, just I don't know.

That's how you know they're really friends.

Because I ain't gonna lie if if we were doing like we were both boxers, right?

And all the other boxers are able to make a living wage by boxing,

and you are the only boxer in the gym who has to have a second gym.

I'm like, bro, what are you doing?

Honestly like you, you taking LS right now, dog.

Like in life, not in life.

not in life, but you're taking some life Ls right now, bro.

And it's like how you go get your ass beat and then go.

Make some ramen.

It's Oh, you can't go home and rest.

Got a clock in, bitch.

But the thing is also, it's in there, in a guy's own weird way.

It's we're trying to make fun of you so that you come up on our level.

We're not making fun of you because you just a bitch.

We're trying to egg you on to become a better boxer.

Other people might not see it like that, but.

I know, there's one thing I also really like about this show, it's

like, The culture, it's I the fighter culture There's gonna be dark jokes.

These are the type of people where a lot of fighters are that way.

Where they're, like, very harsh with each other.

But it's not out of admiration.

It's not because they actually hate each other.

And then also what me and DJ have been talking about a lot in this

anime is they do a really good job of making you empathize with the loser.

Yeah.

Depot will win.

And you'll be like yeah.

And the guy goes, I guess my girlfriend's gonna leave me now.

We're like, oh yeah.

We forgot about that.

I hope you guys don't break up and then they stay together.

She's oh, all I really wanted was for you to, see the old, whatever his name was.

Wait, break out of that rut.

Old Oda, the old Oda, and then he's I guess my boxing career

is over with, and it's no, your boxing career is not over with.

She's yeah, actually, we're not gonna quit on you, we just wanted you to care again.

And now that you care, we'll never hear from you again.

Now there's exactly.

But there is this new guy, apparently with some like shotgun punch.

Or something like that.

The first the next guy is the black dude.

Yo, yes.

Remember?

Yeah.

There's a black dude that comes out.

He's in Japan because reasons.

And.

Because anime.

Because anime.

He's an American black guy.

And, to be fair, it's pretty smart.

If I was Japanese.

Now, this is a little bit about writing.

Because if I was.

Boxing.

Almost all the boxers they mention.

In this anime, so far, are just straight up American.

They're not talking about any Thai boxers.

They're not quoting any Japanese boxers either.

They only talk about, All oh, the flicker jab.

This was invented by this American boxer.

Oh, he's doing peek a boo style, like Mike Tyson.

It's Okay, and, you know what's crazy?

Since they all talk about, I think, Was boxing invented in America?

I don't know, maybe.

I do not believe.

That, before 1776, no one threw hands with each other.

I genuinely don't believe that.

Hold on.

Boxing invention.

You looked it up.

out to, Jason Azuma comes out, that's his name, comes out to challenge Ippo, right?

And he comes from the sticks of Japan.

Eight Six Eighty Eight B.

C.

was the first Box Boxing first came into the Olympics in Greece.

So then why are you only quoting Americans?

Not you, but did you also know that the Olympics were so prevalent in

Greece and of the culture at that time that they used to stop wars

so they could do the Olympics?

Yeah.

Same thing happens here with football.

Yeah, I guess so.

Yeah, and literally remember, it was like Christmas that one time during

World War II, and everyone was like, oh yeah, we're gonna just stop fighting.

We'll just stop fighting, and we'll have a great Christmas day.

It shows you how frivolous these wars actually are.

They're like, oh, what, I hate you, I'm gonna kill you, but, how about Christmas?

That's messed up, dude.

What do you mean?

This is no man's land.

What do you mean?

Imagine you're like, 5, 000 of my friends died yesterday.

Like I murdered 20 of your friends, you murdered 50 of mine, so I'm like, we

hate each other, because we murder each other's friends, and it's oh wait oh!

The Chiefs are playing.

The Chiefs are playing, we can't I was like, oh, yo, this is the common ground.

When both of us go to Buffalo Wild Wings we didn't just murder

each other's best friends.

But anyways this dude comes from the country of Japan, right?

And He means the apparently there's some stick boonies in Japan.

Let me go back to what I was saying real fast.

So the black guy, this is a really great rating.

So they're always referencing American boxers and black boxers.

It's sports, American sports, but whatever.

But talking about American boxes, right?

Here's the thing.

There's no better way to get someone interested.

If I was Japanese, I would do the same thing where it's okay, how do I show

that these fighters are real fighters?

Have him be an American black guy.

Show that the Japanese Japan's Mike Tyson The 16 year old Japanese kid

and featherweight Who's 5'5 can somehow can dominate this, I, first

of all, I, he's supposed to be like 5'10 5'11 and he's a featherweight?

Again, it's hard to believe, but this guy who's like in his, again, mid

twenties, black guy from America.

I don't believe it, but if I was Japanese, I would have written it that

way as his first opponent too, because it's okay, cool I'll let you know that.

We're on this, we're, we up here.

We, I'm not saying it's not possible, but he's 16.

Yeah.

This other guy is, this is a full grown man.

Forget that fact that he's black.

This is a full grown man with hair on his chest.

This is like Miata all over again.

This man has been training since he was born.

This, yeah.

Yeah.

This Miata, but him and Miata I, IPO and Miata were the same age.

But it's the same concept of this dude is a grown man, boxing for

years, and Ippo beats him the same way Miata's been training for years.

Yeah, and it's like Bro, what you mean?

Now one thing I will say, is that Again, they hit you with, in the feels, right

before you're about to fight someone.

Cause you're always like yeah, if I want you to knock him out.

And then it goes, plays our super sad backstory.

He's I was just a lonely black guy in Japan.

And then these Japanese people embraced me.

Now, for some reason, a lot of them have the Timmy Turner syndrome.

When they had that weird, U buck teeth.

As Southerners, can we stop doing this?

Yeah, that would be great.

To the world, like a whole bunch of people in the South

don't have Timmy Turner mouth.

All right, I don't what some of them do but

Toothbrushes right what's not freaking?

We're talking like we're Britain or something.

But anyway the thing is he comes from a very poor, country, Japanese

This man's hidden hay sacks to train.

community.

And the only way that this community seems like it's gonna survive is

if He starts winning these fights.

Yeah, he's Yeah, you guys did so much for me, I'm gonna do this for you guys.

And he loses his first round in the tournament.

It's really sad.

And they're like, look, it's okay.

As long as you tried your best.

And then you like never hear from these boxers ever again.

Ever again.

They have been banished to the shadow realm.

They're like, oh, it's okay that you lost.

It's really sad that you lost.

Let's go off to the shadow realm.

You'll never hear from us again Because you lose or you lose and the craziest

part is shadow realm that takamura was like hey, man, That's life.

Someone wins and someone loses both.

Y'all can't win.

You should tell the epo He's even though you're a good guy, like

That's how it is Right, and the thing is, Ippo still sucks at footwork.

Yeah, and he's beating like everyone.

This man is just doing it off of pure willpower and punching power.

Wait a minute, I like boxing.

So they're like, hey man, you gotta get faster, stronger, and better footwork.

And Takamura's yeah dude, you fucking suck.

And to be fair, when I was with Ippo, I was like, oh yeah,

then how come I keep winning?

If I suck so bad This I fought exclusively adults.

I am a child fighting exclusively adults who have 10 years on me and winning.

Eh, I don't know if I believe all that.

I don't know if I believe that hype.

So then his next his next opponent is I don't even know how to pronounce this.

Agatski?

Aitigaxi?

Manabu?

Yeah, my nebu, whatever.

Like the whole point with this guy though is that he's some sort of pretty boy

that, like a lot of people like Yeah.

He's a pretty boy.

A lot of people like him.

And this is the guy that all the girls like him, I'm pretty sure,

like here's the one thing I will say about Ippo, and it's really,

hurting my memory of these episodes.

Is that they all feel like one long movie to me.

They all, they, Cause they, cause it flows, this is crazy, I'm gonna say it

as if it's a negative, but it's not.

It flows so well, and you just watch the episodes in one binge,

so you're like, yo I feel like I just watched a long movie, right?

Yeah, and you're sitting there Okay what happened?

And, who is this?

And then you're like oh, that's the guy.

What what did Kevin Hart say?

The snap finger famous?

Oh, that's that's that's But now, the Battles, and the fights that

Ippo is on, it almost seems like he's skinning by, by the skin of his teeth.

He's getting by the skin of his teeth.

I don't think he fights the guy with the shotgun the second time.

No?

No, I don't think so.

It's that's not important.

What were you saying?

But it seems but but that's part of the storytelling, right?

That he gets by the skin of his teeth.

Literally every time.

And it's oh you have to train that much harder next time.

And if you don't, and it always seems like this dude is just Miles better

than like They always seem like they're always way better than him.

He's oh my gosh I don't know if I can beat them and it's It doesn't matter if you

think you can beat them or not because you have to now one thing I will say

I did like I think was like episode 17 where they go to the training camp, right?

Right people wants to be a super hard worker, And that the person

you were trying to pronounce before that was the American black guy.

They named him No, they named him Jason The black guy was Jason What?

It doesn't matter.

I don't want to talk about the training.

It's just training camp.

Episode 17, they go to their training camp.

And they're like, yeah, we're gonna go over here and learn.

And Ippo thinks he's about to have a really great shot to like train for stuff.

And get really, a lot stronger.

But all they really do is just dick around on the beach.

They just dick around and try and get ladies and Epo's hey, I

thought we came here to train.

He said, no, don't worry.

We're going to train.

Just not right now.

We're just going to be perverts right now.

So when there are people on the beach and there's women on the

beach, they like, they're all about that, but then they say, okay, we're

going to work on your footwork.

And so they make this guy like run, but he's not as fast as they are on the beach.

And then also they throw tennis balls at him and stuff like that.

This is another thing that I think is so interesting about the series.

You actually do learn a whole bunch about boxing.

Takamura is oh, it's cause you're not running, it's cause you haven't developed

your like, you're developing your calf muscles, but you haven't really developed

your toe strength for you to push off.

To really put more, even more power than you already have in your punches.

So they have him running on the beach to like, strengthen that up.

And it's crazy.

Because then they also are shooting off fireworks whenever they feel like it.

Which is crazy.

Yeah.

I get it, to commemorate the camp, but that's.

Like one of them goes loose and is tipped over and like firing, like

into like where someone can get it.

And I guess they just don't care.

I want, it's also very, I actually find this anime actually funny.

Yeah there's definitely times that where I'm just I'm laughing and I'm

like, oh, this is this is pretty crazy.

There's a lot of action, but it's also pretty funny.

Now, there's, and then also you see his rival fight, Yes, not his rival.

The guy before the pretty boy that he fights this guy who has this style

in which he can't punch hard, right?

He he, and they're like, look, dude, you can't punch hard.

Because, straight up, genetics, alright?

Imma lay it to you out like this.

It was someone like, just put there.

Oh, this is the guy that clinches.

Wait, so this is Fighter, who's won a whole bunch of matches.

He on points alone.

He tags people 40, 400 times.

Clenches the rest of the time, because he has no defense, he's super weak.

But he wins all of his matches through points.

And people are like, Oh, we hate you, boxing that way, oh, you suck, boo,

because you don't get any knockouts.

Boo, boo.

Bye.

Then again, his trainer is Hey, look, man, all that matters is that you win.

Yeah, like honestly, like all that matters is that you win.

And if you become champion with this boxing style of yours,

that's just mainly on points.

That's all that matters.

And he gets it.

So like he's the complete opposite of Ippo.

Ippo has all this like raw strength.

This guy is like only technical.

He doesn't have any strength at all.

It's like only technical.

But he's worse technical than his rival, which is Mador miata.

I keep wanting to say Midoriya.

I know you do, I don't know why.

But Miata is better technically, but this guy has really great technical skill too,

and It's funny, Ippo beats him by allowing him to get one really good hit in, and

that one really good hit was so solid, he was like, oh, maybe I can get a knockout,

and people stop making fun of me, and then Ippo just wipes the floor with him.

Yeah, cuz he was like Cuz he stops clenching, right?

He was gonna win!

But he finally got that one solid punch on the chin.

And I was like, Oh, let's go punch for punch.

And that's when, And then and then that's when Ippo was like,

yeah, let's go, motherfucker.

Let's go punch for punch.

I'm an infighter.

And then, so that's whenever that's whenever he gets knocked out and it's

also sad too because he's like man I want to be a really great boxer.

I want to be the best but just based off my genetics I just

can't throw that dealt right?

I just can't throw good punches Even though he trains super hard everyone at

this other guy's gym and like bro You can't throw punches harder than that.

You'll never be a great boxer, but it's like dude He's winning all of

his matches though, but they're like, yeah, but you just have people on

the side and then you clinch It's not very flashy, you know what I'm saying?

But then, again they name an American boxer who like, that was

who won almost all of his points, boxes boxing matches on points.

Yeah, Floyd.

Floyd?

Is that who they name?

Floyd Mayweather?

Is that what, is that who you're saying they're no, they didn't reference him.

Oh.

But did Floyd Mayweather win mostly on points?

I don't think so.

He's got great defense, don't he?

Yeah, but Floyd Mayweather has knockouts.

This guy this this, He's the, so Ippo beat the black guy, they go to advance, right?

Then you got the clinch guy.

This, the clinch guy is like his second rival, right?

And his second rival, it's really sad, cause he's Way more pathetic.

Then when Ipoh was like getting bullied, essentially.

And so he is also risen up through the ranks.

So it's like Ipoh is facing another version of him.

But instead of being good at punching, this guy's really good at techniques.

The effect, this guy, like before the fight was like crying to Ipoh.

Like he meets Ipoh.

Yeah, that's great.

And he starts crying.

And Epo's Bro, were you spying on me in the gym?

And he's I know, I'm sorry, I'm so pathetic, it's cause I had to like,

learn, like, how you box, so I could like, Kinda decipher, like, how I can beat you,

I'm sorry, it's cause I'm so pathetic, I had to like, come up with a strategy

how to beat you, cause I can't punch.

And then Epo sends him his book back!

Yeah!

And the guy's this dude's a sucker, he'll even send me the book!

Not that he thinks he's a sucker.

He thinks oh, like this guy.

Oh, this guy's really nice.

Yeah, he thinks he's really nice.

It's his trainer who's oh, this guy must be a sucker.

But actual boxer, he's oh, this guy must be super nice.

And so it's like He basically had to beat up the nicest guy in the entire

world, who then eventually, because he got beat up, goes to the Shadow Realm.

Goes to the Shadow Realm.

Goes to the Shadow Realm.

And you never see him again.

You get nothing.

You get nothing.

That's it.

You should, what's that phrase?

You take up, you serve no purpose.

You should kill yourself.

Now.

What?

But Ippo, during each fight, is just I'm nothing.

I don't know what I'm doing.

I don't.

Sounds like our professional careers.

Yeah.

Sounds like us every single day.

I have no idea what's going on.

We have no idea what we're doing.

Oh, we're successful?

No way!

Oh my god.

Anyway.

That's up to episode 20, and then in episode, episode 20 he sees his next

rival, the guy with the shotgun punch.

Yes!

And that's the one that all the girls are really like, and they're like,

oh don't he has all these fangirls.

And that guy's kind of a a douchebag anyway.

Wait, cause he's never lost before.

He's never lost, he's never really, I'm not gonna say he doesn't train

hard, but he's never had any real motivation to train real hard.

He has this secret weapon called the shotgun.

And the shotgun is basically him just punching really fast.

Yeah.

And, Then he's got an infighter killer, which is, even if you do get

in deep Because he's an outboxer, so even if you do get in deep,

he has this killer upper left.

If you get in, if you get in fast, he just go ahead and just

cut you right up the middle and that's also what he likes to do.

He likes to get people this false like sense that they can

hit him so they get in close.

So then he hits him with the upper left and then he just shotguns

him with this super fast punches and the guy that he does it to.

You're just like, damn man.

Yeah, it's people's like watching his.

Opponent fight for this dance and he's bro, he just massacred that's one fight.

Are you serious?

That's who I have to face.

Oh, I should say this the second is second opponent the pathetic guy He

was like the same age as Ippo which was refreshing because all these dudes look

like grown ass No that they didn't look like they are An anime logic the 16

year old five five fighter wins, right?

And it's the other fighter, the second guy, who's pathetic, this is more

realistic, it's look, I can't beat these bigger guys I'm not, my puberty's not

over, so I don't have heavy punches yet, so I gotta use technical skill, right?

And all of, but Ippo, who's 16, has Mike Tyson punching power.

And their explanation is oh, he worked on a fishing boat, so

that's why he's super strong.

Huh?

I can see if he worked in in a coal mine.

Or Or if he worked like, in Hunger Games.

The reason why PETA was so tall and big is because his parents owned a flour factory.

And he's lifting sacks of flour.

Yeah, 50 pound sacks of flour.

Yeah.

Every day.

Now, for them, they were like, Oh, he lifts all this really heavy

bait and all this giant fish.

And it's I don't know.

I don't know regardless of which he then has to see then in episode 20 He sees this

guy do the shotgun punch and it is a thing in anime where like he throws one punch

But then like it's shadow clone jutsu's 15 next to it a bunch of punches and then all

the girls are just like I'm not gonna lie like everyone every one of these boxers.

He's face Miata Insert black guy name here.

Jason.

Jason.

You're racist towards your own people, man.

You don't remember his name.

That's cause black guys aren't named Jason.

Alright?

Black guys aren't named Jason.

And if they are, you know what they go by?

They go by Jay.

My name's fuckin Derek.

If you don't hear me say, Oh, call me De I go by DJ.

Cause I'm an actual black guy.

Now, I'm not saying that You are a fake black guy.

I'm not saying that, the creative of EPO had to research black guys.

They probably were sitting in the office and they're like, What's an American name?

Jason.

Okay, yeah, that's the black dude's name.

That's the This is a quick Google search.

It's either To be fair, there's a lot of really Would you have rathered them

call him Jamal Jackson or Jerome or yeah, I mean I know he's a boy I know

he's a boy I want to talk about realism Imagine Ibo saying I have to face

Jamal next I like Jeroen, we like cause I ain't gonna lie that one made the

character like maybe like really and he like Man, I'm facing Miyada I'm facing

Oda Akito, my next character is Jerome.

I'm like, oh shit.

Ibo, you've been trained.

You've been trained.

That's probably why his name is Jason.

Cause if he was named something like Jerome, I'd be like, bro,

Ibo, you're not winning this dog.

You're not.

My name's Tyrone Michaelson.

Yeah, Ibo, you're not gonna win this, bro.

You're just gonna win it.

I'm going around All of the sake joints and getting all the women

they never seen a black dude before.

But that's like how with Chris Tucker whenever he did the rush hour movies and

they went over to, it was China, right?

They went to China and they were all fascinated.

They had never seen a number one.

They'd never seen a black dude and they'd never seen a tall black dude.

Yeah.

It's quite interesting.

My The times I have met some Asians who, they don't speak a lot of English and

they're really from those other countries, there's over here visiting, right?

They're always very fascinated.

By blind people, which is interesting because it's like America has

a whole bunch of different races to get interested in.

We have, there is not a race in the world that does not exist in America.

I do not believe it.

You know what I'm saying?

Everyone has a community here.

But I don't know, I guess black people are cool.

It's been my experience, they don't have a lot of tact whenever they are curious.

It's if they're curious with, you've hung out with Asian people.

I have, yeah.

And, whatever they're curious about.

What?

Asians.

Yeah.

But, whenever they're curious about something with it, they

literally just come out and say it.

They don't they're very open about it.

Yeah, they're quite interesting.

What have they always asked you about dj?

I usually the first thing is usually the hair.

They like to touch my hair a lot of times and I And it's famously known

that african americans don't like their hair being touched, right?

So sometimes they'll just like they'll just reach out and grab

it and this is not like children.

They're like 20 30 year olds Those okay.

Cool.

Just reach out the hand and grab it and that We don't like that.

And then sometimes I remember I was in graduate school and I knew this

person, his name was his name was Sun Won Lee and he really loved hip hop.

He knew so much hip hop, like history.

That he knew more than me just like in just like not that

I'm a hip hop expert, right?

Don't they all call you brother, too?

Yeah.

Yeah, they call me like I feel sometimes they call me like soul brother And

I'm just like Yeah, see you know what I think it is honestly like it feels

super race, but they don't mean it that way no but I think the issue is

like some of our, you know how they say we make it in the West and then

it eventually travels to the East?

I think it's just behind.

I think that's why Korea and like Japan and like China They're really into boy

bands right now because that was 20 years ago for us, yeah, I think that some

people are still watching Miami Vice.

Some people are still back there watching old school stuff Yeah, but hey guys

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