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Promo Episode! · Asian Adjacent

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hi there, Welcome to a new show from JLJ
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  Speaker 1: Med and Me James Lodd Junior. This is called Asian
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  Speaker 1: adjacent yes, meaning that I'm a person who actually grew
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  Speaker 1: up with bonus parents or godparents who were both Asian,
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  Speaker 1: Japanese and Chinese, and I grew up with them. They
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  Speaker 1: were friends of my parents in high school. They became
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  Speaker 1: part of my family and I became part of their
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  Speaker 1: since birth. Uh. And I do a show because I
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  Speaker 1: do a lot. I also have Asian part Asian grandchildren.
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  Speaker 1: I have half Asian cousins. I dated Asian. There's certain
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  Speaker 1: Asian culture world things I love and practices and music
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  Speaker 1: and TV and movies. And so I was asked by
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  Speaker 1: someone else who is going to be collaborating with me
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  Speaker 1: some later episodes, to do a show this, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have a whole society and culture and
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  Speaker 1: cross culture sections of my company Jaja Media. For example,
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  Speaker 1: I have a show called A Black Guy and a
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  Speaker 1: White Guy confront and literally it's me who's black, and
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  Speaker 1: my friend Jared, who's white. We actually picked topics and
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  Speaker 1: we dissect them, We confront them in quotes, and we
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  Speaker 1: talk about them civil civil discourse. Sometimes we agree so
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  Speaker 1: as we don't. But it's getting a conversation going cross culturally.
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  Speaker 1: So this will fit under that umbrella of shows that
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  Speaker 1: I do. I will share with you things from the
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  Speaker 1: silly to the sirius. I will talk about certain Chinese
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  Speaker 1: artists that I like and Japanese arts like in music.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you some of my favorite Asian movies
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  Speaker 1: in the past. But then we're gonna trow some serious
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  Speaker 1: topics on some of the atrocities that happened to for
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  Speaker 1: me my bonus grandparents here in California during World War
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  Speaker 1: Two when they were in turn in tournament camps. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about everything between.
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  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be basically a lot of my experiences,
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  Speaker 1: how I grew up, how it affected me as a person.
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  Speaker 1: There's some great stuff that came out of it, things
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  Speaker 1: that it taught me, some of the fun family members
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  Speaker 1: in my life that let the mark on me. The
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  Speaker 1: show is dedicated to my bonus mom, Wendy, who passed
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  Speaker 1: away from breast cancer in twenty eighteen. Every episode was
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to her. She was a great second mother to
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  Speaker 1: me and I called her mom and she was the best.
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  Speaker 1: That's so funny stories about that you grew up in
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  Speaker 1: the seventies with Asian godparents. So it's gonna be a lot,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a very I'm not a good time,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope you haven't come along with me and
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  Speaker 1: have a good time too. I will have guests on here,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we're just we're doing some cross cultural stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in the world, many of us are more
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  Speaker 1: mixed up, meaning we have all kinds of cultures with
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  Speaker 1: us than not and everybody's homoginized. Some of us have
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  Speaker 1: grown up in cities where it's very diverse or schools
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  Speaker 1: or families, and just want to give voices to a
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  Speaker 1: corner of this, which is the Black and Asian or
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  Speaker 1: you say, African, American and Asian experience together. So all
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  Speaker 1: that is the show that I am Asian Adjacent, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you by DNA set and ancestry and do
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  Speaker 1: I have Asian also in me? That to find out
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  Speaker 1: on that episode. So we have some fun stuff planned
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  Speaker 1: and some serious stuff planned. So I hope you will
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  Speaker 1: join me on this new series Asian Adjacent. I'm James
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  Speaker 1: LTD JR. If you are watching this and want to
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  Speaker 1: go to like an audio version. We will have that
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  Speaker 1: on every streaming service platform out there, at Heart Radio, Spotify, Apple, Google,
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But here, if you're listening
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  Speaker 1: you want to watch it, There'll be some episode. There'll
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  Speaker 1: be some episodes that will be audio only, some will
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  Speaker 1: be video and audio together. Go to the grand daddy
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  Speaker 1: of them all, YouTube at JAILJ Media of course. Yet
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  Speaker 1: I'm James L. Junior. If you haven't heard of me,
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  Speaker 1: nice to meet you. I'm excited for this new series
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  Speaker 1: and I will talk to you soon