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AMA: Answering Listener Questions / Ep. 61 · Daebak K-Rambles Podcast: K-drama Reviews

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I'm Jessica, and this is Teba Kay Rambles for a couple of
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friends review Korean dramas and hello, welcome back.
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This is technically the first episode of season 5, the first
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episode of 2024, and it's actually something totally
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different. I thought I'd kick off the
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season by finally doing that AMA that I promised I do at the end
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of 2023. So this episode is a solo pod.
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It's a mailbag episode. There was no guest.
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It's just me. And I'll be answering all of
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your burning questions that you've submitted via the socials
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at Tibac Pod. Now, I did want to intro this by
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saying that I I so appreciate interacting with all of you.
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I love hearing from you guys. I love getting DMS, even voice
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messages from you guys. Fun fact, if you send me a voice
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message on Insta, I'll more than likely send a voice message
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back. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
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for supporting the podcast, for supporting me on this journey.
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It's been so gratifying to build a community around Tabak, like
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around our love for dramas. And I know that sometimes it's
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really easy to forget that there's a, there's a real person
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behind all the drama content. So this episode is to sort of
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bridge the gap. It's it's kind of a
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reintroduction as much as it's for fans of the podcast.
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So without further ado, I'm just going to get right into it.
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I was initially going to say exactly who asked the question,
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but then I was like, I think I would just get tongue tied
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reading out everyone. Everyone's instant handles and
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Twitter handles and whatever else.
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So I'm just going to say oh, this next question, whatever.
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So you know who you are when you asked it.
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So thank you for asking your questions.
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I really appreciate it. So the first three questions,
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they all kind of have to do with the same thing.
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So they are all intro to me questions.
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How did you get into K dramas? When and how did you start
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watching Asian dramas? Did you start with Korean
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dramas? So all these go hand in hand, so
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I'm just going to answer all of these three at the same time.
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This story starts in 2011 or 2012.
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I sort of use these years interchangeably just because I
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have like a shit memory. I I never sat down and said
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today I've watched my first gay drama in my diary like it never
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happened. So that's why I just say like,
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oh 20/12/20 11:00-ish. I had just graduated from
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college and I was living back home and I had just started my
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first full time job. I had suddenly all of this free
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time. I had nothing like no test to
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study for, no papers to write, no classes.
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So I would just come home from work and be like, what?
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What now? So also, I guess I should say,
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like, in college I really broadened what I watched my
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taste. I went to a small liberal arts
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college and I took out like all kinds of classes and had friends
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from all over with varied interests.
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And I remember I had a friend who studied Mandarin.
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My roommate was a theater major, like another friend was a huge
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horror fan and made us all go to Halloween Horror Nights, which
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is a whole debacle in and of itself.
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Another friend was she was really sweet and would crochet
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during our movie nights. And I still have a beanie that
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she made me. And I think like any other young
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person I was trying new things. I was very open and willing to
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try different experiences whether it was food, movies, TV
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shows, music, etcetera. So the I remember, let me just
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set the scene though, because despite me being open to
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watching new things, the TV shows that I remember watching
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around this time or like Glee, I remember vividly watching the
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pilot episode of Glee in my freshman dorm room.
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So yeah, there was that ABC Family show Once Upon a time.
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I remember watching season one and a little bit of season 2.
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I remember watching Lost with My Family just as the last season
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of that was airing. I remember watching Walking
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Dead, which that premiered in 2010, I think, and Oh my God, I
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was fully in love with Tom Welling from Smallville.
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I watched a smattering of CW shows as well, like Greek.
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But I can't, like, I personally can't say that I was truly
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married to Western television. Like, I wasn't like watching TV
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all the time. I was always just like a movie
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person. So the same summer that I
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started watching K dramas, like, this is the chain of events.
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I started by binging. This is going to sound so
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stupid, but I started by binging True Blood, that raunchy, racy
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vampire show on HBO. So yeah, and it wasn't, I didn't
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even have HBO. Like, we didn't have HBO.
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It was on this, like, illegal site that I was streaming it on.
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It was crazy. So I I think of that time as
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sort of a fever dream. And then I watched a French
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movie on Netflix, and then the BBC Robin Hood show, also on
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Netflix, before Netflix figured out that I was watching stuff
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from all over, like global stuff.
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And it suggested that I watched the movie A Moment to Remember,
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which is a 2004 melodrama obviously from Korea starring
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Sonia Jin and Jungle Sung. Yeah, so it was strange and just
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ridiculous. Ridiculously sad.
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I loved it. Back then, you could rate movies
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and shows out of five stars on Netflix, which gave you really
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good suggestions from their algorithm.
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Now it's just up for thumbs up or thumbs down if you like it.
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But back then I was like 5 stars.
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So after that, after I rated that movie high on Netflix, that
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changed my life 'cause then Netflix started suggesting K
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dramas and it suggested that I watch Lie To Me, which is a 2011
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K drama starring Yunnan, Yunnan Hai and Kong Diwan.
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I freaking loved it. Like as soon after that I
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watched Boys Over Flowers, which is addictive and trophy and
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toxic. And I mean that was it.
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Like the rest is history and that's it.
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That's a full back story of how I got into K dramas, which is
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over over a decade ago. So yeah, next question.
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How many have you watched so far?
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Do you have your own personal list?
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How do you rate? OK, so I looked at my drama list
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and I've watched 7 Taiwanese dramas, 215 Korean dramas, 41
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Chinese dramas and eight Japanese dramas for a total.
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As of today of 271 Asian dramas total.
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I have also dropped because I think this is important, 7
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Taiwanese dramas, 42 Korean dramas and 10 Chinese dramas.
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I thought that number would be more but I guess not because
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over time I just get more picky with what I watch.
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So do I have my own personal list?
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Yes. I just use my drama list.
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I used to keep a tiny notebook that I got for free from
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somewhere, and I would write down the dramas that I had
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watched, like the names of them. And I wish before I had switched
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to my drama list, I had kept this going for a while, for a
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few years. And then for some God awful
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reason, I threw it out. Why the hell I threw it out, I
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have no idea. I think I moved and I was like,
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I don't need this anymore, like, whatever.
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And I threw it out. I'm so mad.
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I did because I want to see in my own handwriting, like all the
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all the dramas. Because by the time I switched
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to my drama list, I was just going off memory.
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Like when I filled out my drama list on this one epic day, I was
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literally going year by year trying to figure out what I had
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watched from memory. So I'm I'm sure that it's skewed
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like this is probably different. What I'm saying is it could be
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different. My My Drama list is as accurate
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as I could make it based on my memory, but I had a running
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tally of everything. What I used to do with that
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handwritten thing was I would write it down If I highlighted
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it in blue, I really liked it. And if I put a star next to it,
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I freaking loved it. That was my old rating.
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So now I read it on the podcast. I read it out of five Soldier
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bottles. I like to keep it 5 Soldier
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bottles because I've been using Letterboxed for years, which is
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a different app, and that's how I log all of the movies that
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I've watched in my entire life. And that is very accurate.
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That one I went through again, like there was a several days
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that I went through every single year of release in letterbox and
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logged every single movie that I had watched and rated it.
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And now I keep it on going, like even rewatches.
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I'll say like I rewatched this on the 11th of December.
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So Letterbox is extremely accurate, I think more accurate
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than my My Drama List account, as a matter of fact.
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So I log movies separate, then, then dramas, and because
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letterbox is out of five stars and you can do half stars.
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That's kind of why I thought 05 Soldier bottles and you can do
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half bottles on the Baci rambles, if that makes any
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sense. Like how do I rate the drama?
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I think a lot of it has to do with how it made me feel.
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How how I thought the plot went, how the writing was vibes, how
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the acting was, if everything was well cast, the production
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value, although I I'm very forgiving with production value
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to be quite honest with you. And then I think I also do
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rewatch ability in the back of my mind.
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I'm also like would I recommend this and what I rewatch this.
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If the answers are both no, then it my rating kind of dips.
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So that's in a nutshell how I rate things.
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Next question, how did you start podcasting?
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So I've been a podcaster since actually 2018, just not for K
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dramas. So I'm sure many of you know I I
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said this before, I love movies and I Co host the movie podcast.
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Always the critic with my good friend Rico.
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Rico's been on the podcast several, several times.
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He was my exclusive Co host on season one.
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That's when I got the most bang for my buck.
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And now I was like, you have to do this season with me, please.
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How did this all happen? Well, I'll tell you the story of
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always a critic. So back in 2018, there was this
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movie subscription service called MoviePass.
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You paid $10 a month, and it allowed you to see as many
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movies as you possibly could in theatres.
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And so Rico and I had some friends and and some of our
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friends had this had this MoviePass thing.
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We were seeing movies like you would not believe.
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We would just show. It was it was like Wednesday
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night. We'd show up Thursday, we'd show
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up Friday. It was non-stop.
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We were seeing movies. It was ridiculous.
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And Rico started his own podcast called the I Have A Movie Pass
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Podcast. And he did a couple of episodes
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reviewing movies on his own solo pod.
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And then he invited, you know, his brother Miguel, who's been
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on Tebac a few times as well. I'm sure you've heard Miguel, he
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was on the Glory episode. He was on 25/21.
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He was on the J drama first Love episode with me as well.
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He's such a great drama friend, one of my first drama friends
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ever. So Miguel and Rico are brothers,
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if that makes any sense. So for I have a movie past
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podcast. Miguel was one of the first
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guests and then they have a sister.
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So it's super Rico and Miguel's sister guested.
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And then Rico of course started tapping our friends group to
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guest on movie reviews with him and I guested on the Deadpool 2
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review. It was so much fun.
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It felt like an extension of conversations that we were
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already having, you know, just very natural.
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So Rico asked me back the next few reviews until finally he
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like just stopped asking and I and I that was it.
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I was his Co host and when MoviePass crashed and burned,
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because that was just not a sustainable business strategy,
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we renamed the Movie podcast to always the critics.
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So now how does Tabak fit in? So I started the Tabak blog in
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2017 directly as a result of how bad The Bride of Habek was.
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That is a show starring Nam Tu Hiuk and I needed a place to
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vent. And I thought, why not just
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write down my thoughts and set up a blog just as sort of like a
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review diary, and if someone reads it then great, if not,
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this is for me. So the blog was started in 2017
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and I called it Tebaki rambles, like TV Reviews or something,
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something like that. But it was always Tebaki
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rambles. So come early 2021, I decided to
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look at the blog numbers for once.
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And I was kind of shocked at how many people came to the site to
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read the Tibaki Rambles blog. So I went to Rico and said,
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like, look, there's a market for the like, think of it like, I I
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don't remember, I don't remember the show.
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I think it might be Arrested Development, that meme where
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it's just like a conspiracy wall and the guys like like looking
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crazy and is trying to tell you know whoever about, you know
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what the findings like what was going on.
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And this is how I came to Rico. I was like, look there's a
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market for this. People really want to really
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want to hear about the key dramas.
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Like maybe we could try doing one season of a Tebow K Rambles
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podcast. Like, what do you say?
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And I swear I I must have looked like a crazy person.
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So that's how it happened. Like even though it's not his
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thing, Rico said. Sure.
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And I went nuts creating a logo, setting up the socials,
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designing posts, and just getting immersed in the K drama
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community, which I I just had never been a part of in any real
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capacity up until that point. So quickly.
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Quickly, I found that I loved it.
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I love talking to people about what many would consider like a
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guilty pleasure, something so odd.
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That is, watching television shows, not from your culture, in
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a different language, reading subtitles.
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And the podcast and the social aspect of it has been a really
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fulfilling part for me, You know, it's just been really
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fulfilling for me. So thanks again.
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And next question, Where are you from exactly?
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And how old are you? So I was born and raised in
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South Florida and most people don't recognize the names of the
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towns. So I often just say I'm from
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Miami. The place I'm from is halfway
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between Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
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I have since moved away so I lived in.
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I now live in Central Florida in a magical city known for theme
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parks and bad traffic. Orlando, The legit only thing I
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miss about Miami is the food because you cannot get good
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food. Well, good authentic Cuban food.
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That is the only thing that you really can't get outside of
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Miami. Slash South Florida.
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That's a fact. I will not be taking questions
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on that. If the question meant what is
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your ethnicity then I'm half Cuban and half Puerto Rican.
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And then because I said when I graduated, you could probably do
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the math, but I'm. I'm 32.
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I forget that. I'm 32 all the time.
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I feel like I'm still in my 20s mentally.
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And it's really jarring that like, I pay taxes and have a
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mortgage. So there's that next question.
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How do you think the K drama scene of this year 2023?
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Do you think of any reasons that make a certain year more
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exciting than others? I've been watching the old K
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dramas for this year, so this is a great question.
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It's a little weird to be answering this question two
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months into 2024, but that's because I decided to say this
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AMA late for later instead of releasing it at the end of 2023.
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So that's on me, not on this person.
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I actually guested on 2 vastly different podcast episodes
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wrapping up the year 2023 in Asian drama.
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So if you want to check those out, by all means I highly
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recommend it. I was on TN Soulju podcast with
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the drama trio for an end of the year wrap up episode and then I
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was also on Carol's K Drama Amusing's podcast.
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I think it was like 2023, the year in dramas.
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That's what that episode was called.
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So here's a in a nutshell, I don't I personally don't
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consider 2023 a good drama year for me, I there were around like
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114 K dramas released in 2023. It's always around that number,
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sometimes more, sometimes a little less.
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I personally completed just 121212.
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I dropped 2 dramas and right now I'm only mildly interested in
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starting like 13 dramas from 2023.
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When that will happen, anyone's guess.
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I don't know. I think the quality of dramas
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went down. I think the consistency that
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drew me into dramas is nowhere to be found.
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Instead of like 16 or 20 episodes, we're getting dramas
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with all kinds of runtimes. You know, 5055 hour, hour, 10
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minutes, hour and a half. All kinds of episode counts. 12
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episodes is becoming increasingly common.
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So is having multiple seasons, which I think is a direct result
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of Netflix intervention and money.
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To me, the trope that was overplayed in 2023 was past life
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slash time travel. It was too much, too much, and
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honestly, the trope wouldn't bother me so much if the quality
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wasn't an issue. I feel like other than a few
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shows, the rest are so forgettable, So forgettable.
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Like overall, other than a handful of shows, the biggest,
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like the bulk of 2023 shows are so forgettable.
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And that's a problem. You asked any reasons that make
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a certain year more exciting than others, and I think it has
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to do with how memorable shows are.
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Even if I don't particularly like a show, I feel like if it
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had an impact on the collective, on the on the zeitgeist, if
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people were moved in some way, shape or form and I'm left with
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like a visceral reaction to it, then I think it counts as being
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memorable and contributing to the overall excitement for a
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given year. People, myself included, love to
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talk about the year 20/20/16 and is because even after all this
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time, eight years now. That year was like a renaissance
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for gay dramas, in terms of both quality and how memorable the
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shows are. And by comparison, in just a
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couple of months, I'm left with a small list of shows for 2023.
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I can count them on one hand that May 2023 what it was.
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It's the glory, moving, and my dearest.
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The rest will be lost to time. Like you'll bring them up in
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conversation and Best of Less and go, Oh yeah, that's right.
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Crash Course and Romance came out that year too.
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It makes 2023 look embarrassing. It looks unremarkable.
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So that's my thoughts. That's the that's the end of
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that question. Next up, what's your watching
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system? Do you have a life outside Asian
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drama? So I'm.
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I'm sorry. I started laughing.
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Let me read that again. What's your watching system?
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Do you have a life outside Asian dramas?
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My watching system is really simple.
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I'm usually a bit of a mood watcher.
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Uh, an impulse watcher. I see things on different
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platforms and read the synopsis, look at the cast, check a
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trailer if there is one, and make a decision on the spot.
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I rarely succumb to peer pressure, so to speak, or FOMO
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during the podcast season. My watch system is not so fluid.
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With a few exceptions, I plan everything out and stick to the
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shows that I've picked, which is like a combo of what I think
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people want to hear about shows that seem interesting and have
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enough stuff to talk about on a podcast and requests from all of
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you guys. So that I hope that answers that
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question. Do I have a life outside of
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Asian dramas? Absolutely.
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I've said this on other podcasts, I am not constantly
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watching Asian dramas. I love them.
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I do. But sometimes I get burnt out or
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I watch a few duds in a row and I get kind of turned off by them
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or just life happens. So I go through seasons of
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watching a ton of dramas and seasons of watching next to no
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dramas at all. And it's been years of this on
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and off of just like, I'd rather watch movies.
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I'd rather like, read a book. I'd rather, you know, things
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happen and I just don't have the time or what have you.
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And it just like trickles in where I'm watching a drama and
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then sometimes it's like a flood or waterfall and I'm like
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watching tons of dramas. So it just depends.
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And that's why I guess my watch, like my totals that I said at
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the beginning are not so inflated.
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Like it's not thousands of dramas, you know what I'm
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saying? So to follow that up, I do work
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full time. I am.
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I've had this conversation with people in my DMS.
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Like people think I'm a full time content creator.
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I am not a full time content creator.
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It's kind of flattering to think that the amount, maybe quality
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of content that I produce would make you think that this is all
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I do, but absolutely not. Because I host, always a critic,
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I just got in the habit of watching most new theatrical
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releases. So most weekends I'm at the
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movies. I watch movies at home
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throughout the week. I hang out with friends.
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I go thrifting. I love working on home projects.
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If the mood strikes, I visit my parents.
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I'm really close with my family and that is all like built into
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my life along with watching dramas.
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So yeah, work full time, regular person, go out to eat, it's it's
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all all there. So next question, what are some
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of your K drama pet peeves? My example female lead who wears
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her hair down all the time? Yeah, that would bother me too.
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So some of my K drama pet peeves are different, like some are
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tropes and some are not. So the biggest one is the Met as
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children trope. I just dislike it so much.
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I think it's so lazy and it's such a Korean thing too that
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this faded mates thing that they met when they were children and
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they had some sort of connection and inyon or whatever and
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they're going to like circle back on it later.
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And it's like most dramas. It is so rare that they do this
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well where I'm like, oh wow, yeah, like it was so needed.
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But usually I'm like they had such a strong connection even
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before we found out that they met his children and they could
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have just stuck with that. So I'm.
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I'm almost never in favor of it. I think it's just so overdone,
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disapproving and overbearing parents.
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This is another part where I again, I'm Hispanic.
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I can't. I understand to some extent like
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disapproving and overbearing parents, but like to to it.
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It gets to a point where I'm like, Oh my God, enough sudden
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illness slash amnesia. This is one that's going like by
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the wayside. You don't see this that often
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anymore, but what you do see is a surprise car crash.
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This hasn't gone anywhere. I still dislike getting run over
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by the White Truck of Doom. I think it's a joke at this
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point. I find I find it a joke.
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It's never in earnest that I'm like wow, he they got.
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They got run over by a white truck.
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Like it is never serious to me. I think it's a joke at this
25:49
point. The main couple break up in one
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of the final episodes due to some like contrived reason.
25:58
I hate the reasons to like. It'll be like cliche, like if
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you love someone let them go or they're better off without me.
26:04
Or even like an ex lover coming back into the picture like get a
26:09
hold of yourself. I I think it's really cheap so I
26:15
I hate that as well. Pet whenever it happens.
26:18
I'm like nails on a chalkboard. Ugly duckling is another.
26:24
Like, I because I love makeovers, but I don't like that
26:28
we're all tiptoeing around the fact that this isn't a stunning
26:32
person in in glasses. Like are you joking?
26:36
Like that the ugly duckling thing never works.
26:38
So I I don't. I I just don't think it works.
26:42
I think. I think they think we're stupid.
26:43
So yeah, it's just never done right Back Pats like when they
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pat someone on the back to to comfort them.
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That to me is I like not very comforting in in my culture,
26:59
that's not necessarily very comforting.
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Like just give them a really strong bear hug, you know what
27:05
I'm saying? Hold them until they need, you
27:08
know, like that's it. Not like a little backpack.
27:14
It seems like they're a dog. Like it makes me think, oh, but
27:16
it's that's what I do to a dog like you pat a dog not a person.
27:20
So backpacks, it's, it might be a cultural thing, but to this
27:23
day I'm like, Nope. And then it depends.
27:28
But almost always this product placement gets me in a frenzy.
27:33
And it's Subway product placement, because it's fucking
27:38
Subway. Are you are you out of your
27:40
mind? So those are some of my K drama
27:43
pet peeves. There are probably many more.
27:46
But those are just some that I came up with on the spot when I
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was answering this question. Next up, your top.
27:53
So this person gave me some serious ass homework and I'm
27:56
really upset with them and I know who they are, but I won't
27:59
name them your top ten dramas, K dramas, C dramas, talgooks,
28:05
anything slash everything and a little happy face emoji.
28:10
That is not very nice to do to me because I don't like giving.
28:13
I don't like ranking dramas like this, pitting them against each
28:17
other, especially like between crossing genres and stuff like
28:22
what? This was very difficult.
28:24
This was so difficult for me, but I did it for you.
28:28
This ended up being a very personalized list and I ended up
28:34
not ranking them. I just put 10 together and I was
28:37
like, these are 10, not not in any particular order.
28:42
OK, so here's my top 10K dramas on this particular day and it's
28:49
specific to me. This is not like an object
28:53
trying to be objective. This is completely subjective.
28:56
OK, don't come from me. I don't really want to argue
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about these. OK, here they are. 2521 Goblin,
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The Red Sleeve, Happiness, Splash Splash Love, which is
29:15
like a mini K drama. I think it's only two episodes.
29:18
Move to heaven. The Princesses Man.
29:22
Our beloved summer coffee prints 9 and two outs which is a a
29:28
older drama. It's a friends to lovers it's
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one of the best All right. I had I just have have some
29:35
runner UPS so I'll name them Just you know to be well-rounded
29:39
here but that those are my top ten.
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I made cuts. These are the cuts.
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The glory. My dearest moving healer, the
29:47
crowned clown cruel city which is a noir tomorrow with you
29:52
because this is my first life. And Cain and Abel.
29:55
All right. Top ten C dramas.
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This is a lot easier to pull together.
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So we have love like the Galaxy till the end of the moon.
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Eternal love AKA 10 miles of Peach blossoms.
30:09
Love between fairy and devil and I got to be honest, these these
30:13
are my top four and they're in order.
30:15
The rest, I cannot put them in order.
30:19
Reset story of Kunning Palace. Hidden love, The starry love who
30:25
rules the world, The romance of Tiger and Rose.
30:28
Goodbye my Princess and unrequited love if you counted
30:31
correctly. I added two more bonus in there.
30:34
So there's actually 12 on this top ten.
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All right, Top 10s. Hagooks we have.
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And this. The top five are actually
30:43
ranked, so you're welcome. My dearest Mr. Sunshine, the red
30:50
Sleeve, the princess's Man and the crowned clown.
30:54
Here's the rest, and I'll give you 2 extra ones as well.
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So it'll be 12 shows. 100 days. My Prince.
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Kingdom Love in the Moonlight Moon.
31:05
Embracing the Sun. Rookie historian Guhe Yong.
31:08
Ruler. The Master of the Mask and the
31:11
Forbidden Marriage. So those are some really good
31:13
saguks if you want some. And don't ask me to do that
31:17
again. OK, next question.
31:19
What's the longest binge session you've ever had?
31:22
Hashtag team? No Sleep.
31:26
I'm pretty bad at noting down when I binge and for how long,
31:30
but I'm honestly not that bad. I I don't do well when I don't
31:35
get sleep. So there's stories of me going
31:37
on family vacations and having to get on flights at like 6:00
31:42
AM and doing full days. Like right when we land we do a
31:45
full day at our destination and just losing my mind.
31:50
So I have a history. I like my sleep, worst bin set.
31:55
Binge sesh has to be like 1/2 a day or something like definitely
31:59
less than 24 hours. When I lived alone, there were
32:04
quite a few weekends where I would just shut away and did
32:06
like a Friday night into Saturday.
32:08
So maybe maybe 7:00 PM Friday to like 6:00 or 7:00 AM Saturday
32:16
morning. Then I'd finally go to sleep,
32:19
would be out of Commission until later on that day.
32:24
Like get up, I don't know, pick up sushi and then come back home
32:27
to watch some more. But I would never do
32:29
back-to-back giant binge sessions like that on a
32:32
consistent basis, like this is normal.
32:35
On a consistent basis like Monday through Friday, I can
32:38
realistic realistically do 7:00 PM to midnight or or a little
32:45
later, so that's five hours straight.
32:48
But as I've said, I'm trying to get to bed at a reasonable time
32:53
now and set better habits for myself.
32:56
So going to bed at 123 AM is like becoming a thing of the
33:02
past. It's just I'm doing that way
33:03
less almost never now. So great question, Another three
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best underrated dramas is the next question.
33:17
Three best underrated dramas. I don't, I can't.
33:22
So I gave you, I did 1212 underrated dramas.
33:26
Here they are and they're all from all genres.
33:31
The Crowned clown Signal for Supernatural Slash, Crime
33:35
Thriller, Cruel city for a a crime noir.
33:39
Do you like Brahms? It's a romance because this is
33:42
my first life. Also a slice of life slash
33:45
romance. I'm not a robot.
33:47
It's OK That's love. King Two Hearts, Love All Play,
33:53
Temperature of Love, The Forbidden Marriage and Tomorrow
33:57
With You. So you asked for three.
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I gave you 12 because that's like torturing me to only do
34:04
three. Any dramas.
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Oh, this is the next question. Any dramas you wish.
34:09
Another actor slash actress played the lead role instead.
34:14
OK, at first nothing came to mind here, but then I just
34:19
thought of every child, no drama and every song Kong drama.
34:23
I think at this point there's got to be some hot ass ace actor
34:28
who can actually act who's just actually act.
34:32
Just he. This person has to be fed up
34:35
with trying to go for these same parts that are likely just being
34:38
given to these two actors. I I feel terrible for this
34:42
hypothetical person I know is out there for actresses.
34:48
Maybe I'll throw a moon kayung out there from true beauty.
34:51
Of course, BAE Susie, I'll throw her into the proverbial bus as
34:55
well, so I do not want to stick around to catch some bullets on
35:00
this. So next question, a trope you
35:02
love in dramas when done right and some dramas that did it.
35:07
Well, this was really difficult, 'cause I couldn't, I didn't have
35:13
an easy time picking the trope that I loved because I feel like
35:17
as long as it's written right, I it it's written right, like it's
35:21
it's it'll work. So the tropes that I picked were
35:26
nuna romance, sudden amnesia and rich man, poor woman.
35:30
So here's some good Nuna romances.
35:36
You know, it was done right and I liked it.
35:38
So when the Camellia blooms Don't Hate Me, Something in the
35:43
Rain, Temperature of Love and Reply 1988.
35:47
Reply 1988 is an ensemble cast with lots of different stories.
35:52
It is extremely long. Each episode's like an hour and
35:55
a half, two hours or something. So there is only one storyline
35:59
that has the Nuna romance for something in the rain.
36:01
Beware of that last half of the show.
36:03
It's a doozy. But that nuna romance is
36:06
extremely special and magical. So I think when you just zero in
36:12
on the Nuna romances, all these shows do really well.
36:15
Sudden Amnesia. I have Cain and Abel, 100 Days,
36:21
My Prince, The Moon that Embraces the Sun, Autumns,
36:24
Concerto, which is a Taiwanese drama, and The Innocent Man with
36:29
Hong Jun Ki as well, which is a bit of an older drama, but I
36:33
remember really like it, really liking it.
36:35
It was a Mukchang I believe, but I was like eating it up and then
36:40
the last trope I picked was rich man, poor woman and these this
36:44
is like a dime a dozen. Like you could hit throw a rock
36:48
and you'll hit a rich man, poor woman show in K drama.
36:51
But these ones did it really well.
36:53
I like them. They're it's not a supposed to
36:56
be a very serious trope or or a story.
37:00
So these ones I think are fun coffee prints, Secret Garden
37:05
Cinderella and the four nights Bride of the Century business
37:09
proposal. I'm not a robot goblin and so I
37:13
married an anti fan. All right, next question, can
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you do a list of recommended C drama only on Netflix or Vicki?
37:23
OK, recommended C drama. So Chinese dramas only on
37:26
Netflix or Vicki. I can, but just just FYI like
37:32
this is the biggest caveat. I am in the state.
37:36
I'm located in the United States.
37:37
So if you are outside of the states, in Canada or wherever
37:42
else, you might have different stuff available on your Netflix
37:46
or Vicki because of licensing or whatever else like that.
37:52
Just might is always the case. Things that are available here
37:55
might not be available where you are.
37:57
Plus things change all the time on Netflix and Vicki.
38:02
Licensing deals expire and things get taken off Netflix and
38:06
Vicki all the time. So just beware of like this is
38:10
as of today in the United States in February of 2024.
38:15
This is what is available on Netflix and Vicki for me.
38:20
And the next caveat that I want to state is I have not watched
38:24
every single see drama. I, and I've said this before on
38:29
other podcasts, but like, I tend to ration my sea dramas because
38:33
I have so many that I want to watch that are interesting to
38:36
me. That it's almost like when I
38:39
have nothing else to watch, I'm like, Oh my God, I can dip into
38:42
this sea drama well and watch something that I've been wanting
38:45
to watch that I know that people have been recommending to me
38:48
that people are passionate about.
38:50
And like, I almost know that I'm going to enjoy, so there.
38:57
It's almost exponential how many see dramas I have not watched
39:02
and have on my watch list. So please, like bear with me.
39:05
I have separated this list into like things that I've watched
39:10
and things that I haven't watched but are I would feel
39:13
comfortable recommending because I also like, have had this
39:17
recommended to me and am planning on watching it at some
39:19
point. So here we go on Netflix.
39:24
These are modern sea dramas. Like present day sea dramas are
39:27
not historicals. Hidden love I Hear You with with
39:32
Zhao Lushi. I thought it was cute.
39:34
Not bad. Meteor Garden obviously a remake
39:37
with Dylan Wong unrequited love from 2019.
39:44
Hear me on this. Don't watch the later one.
39:47
Watch the unrequited love that aired in 2019.
39:52
And then I also have Autumn's Concerto, which is a Taiwanese
39:56
drama. And I hear me on this y'all are
39:59
going to watch Want to watch Autumn's Concerto?
40:01
Because it's coming up soon on season five.
40:04
And then for costume dramas or historicals, I have Princess Wei
40:08
Young, which we just did a podcast review on the drama trio
40:12
over on Tian Soju. That was a lot of fun love
40:16
between Fairy and Devil, which is also available on Vicky, Who
40:20
Rules the World. Word of honor, which is ABL that
40:25
people love to recommend to me. Eternal Love, which is also
40:29
available on Vicki, and The Untamed, which is also available
40:34
on Vicki. It's ABL and we covered it in
40:35
season four of Tibac. I will go out on a limb and
40:39
recommend it because people love to recommend The Untamed.
40:43
I'm not going to stop you from having a good time if you want
40:45
to get in on it, but I personally did not like The
40:49
Untamed. All right, Vicki.
40:52
See dramas. These are the ones that I have
40:56
watched personally. Have watched Reset Till OK for
41:02
Reset. It's 15 episodes.
41:05
It's Groundhog Day meets Speed. We just did an episode on it on
41:09
T and soju with the drama trio. Till the End of the Moon covered
41:13
it in season four of Tivak. I adore it.
41:16
The romance of Tiger and Rose covered it on the Patreon feed.
41:21
Love Like the Galaxy also did an episode on it in season 4.
41:26
The Starry Love guessed it on Tian Soju with Liliana and
41:33
reviewed that one. Ashes of love, Eternal Love,
41:37
which I just mentioned prior, AKA Tanos of Peach blossoms.
41:41
Goodbye My Princess is on Vicki. It'll break your heart.
41:45
It's an unhappy ending, but I mean, I I freaking loved it.
41:50
So and then Maid's Revenge for shits and gigs.
41:52
Maid's Revenge is not a serious show.
41:57
It's just not. You'll see what I mean when you
42:00
just even look at it. All right?
42:02
And then this is the list of shows that I would recommend on
42:06
Vicki that I have yet to watch. Here we go, the long ballad,
42:13
because we'll be covering it on Season 5 shortly, you know.
42:17
You know, in a few episodes or so you'll see it come up on
42:20
season five, meet yourself again.
42:23
We'll be covering it on season five.
42:26
It'll be fun amidst a snowstorm of love with Wulay.
42:30
I have yet to watch it, but it comes very highly recommended
42:33
from all my drama. Besties.
42:35
It is not a historical, it's a modern day drama.
42:39
More vibes than plot it seems. But if that's your thing, then
42:42
by all means the love you give me lighter and Princess nothing
42:49
but you also with Olay. Go ahead, immortal samsara.
42:55
That is a Shansha, Nirvana and fire and that's it.
43:03
Those are all of my wrecks. There are so many more sea
43:08
dramas on these on on Vicki, especially not really that many
43:11
on Netflix. But holy shit, Vicky is bursting
43:16
with Chinese dramas. So if at any point you want more
43:20
recommendations, please reach out.
43:23
But you know, just that's just the tip of the iceberg.
43:26
And obviously Vicky's going to have a lot more recommendations
43:28
as well and playlists and all kinds of things.
43:31
Next question, Favorite actors? Is this my last question?
43:35
No, it's not. OK.
43:37
Favorite actors and actresses that you look forward to in
43:41
their next projects. OK for male actors, I guess this
43:46
is. Well, yeah, this is how I
43:49
interpreted the question to me. Like, these are actors and
43:52
actresses that you love, you follow closely and you love to
43:57
see them and you are excited to watch them in their next
44:02
projects, you know what I'm saying?
44:04
So that's how he took it to me. For male actors, I chose
44:08
Treyushik. He's kind of quickly becoming a
44:12
favorite of mine. I loved him in our beloved
44:14
Summer. I loved him in The Witch, The
44:15
Subversion part one, which is a movie.
44:17
Loved him in Parasite, obviously, which is, you know,
44:19
best picture. We a June is up and coming and I
44:23
really liked him in Little Women in Squid Game Eden.
44:28
I loved him and moved to Heaven Signal tomorrow with you.
44:31
I personally love him as an actor, but I think my two
44:35
favorites that I'm kind of like, oh, I should definitely give
44:40
most of their things a shot, even though I don't like I'll
44:46
get to this after but the names are Tonghan from DP and
44:50
Something in the Rain and 1 Spring Night and Connect and
44:55
Namtu Hook from 2521 Start Up and Weightlifting Ferry just to
45:00
name a few of his projects. Everybody has flops, OK?
45:05
Like every actor and actress will have flops and will have
45:11
questionable things on their filmography.
45:14
So I'd never expect every project to be perfect.
45:20
That being said, like I kind of I know when people are good,
45:24
when actors are good. I kind of like, oh, I pay a
45:29
little bit more attention to them.
45:31
And it's not that I'll press play on every single thing.
45:34
And if I do, if it's bad, I'm not going to continue watching
45:38
like that. That's out of the question.
45:40
I will never continue watching a bad show, even if my fave is in
45:43
it. So just a little about me.
45:47
Female actors, it's a much shorter list, but actually it's
45:53
not that short. But I have sung He Kyo.
45:56
I have Chung Su, Min Kim Gun and IU.
46:00
I love them. Songhai Kyo.
46:03
I didn't put the shows, but Songhai Kyo's from Descendants
46:06
of the Sun and the Glory. Jung So Men is from Alchemy of
46:11
Soul Season One and because this is my first life, among other
46:15
things. King Gun, obviously.
46:16
Goblin Goblin's Bride, Little Women.
46:20
IU, Moon Lovers Hotel de Luna. What else has IU been in Dream
46:29
High? And then of course my favorite,
46:33
like, I do have a favorite female actor.
46:36
It's Han Yoju. Han Yoju, Han Yoju.
46:38
I want to be here when I grow up.
46:39
I think she's so cool. I love her so much and I think
46:44
she's done such a great job at picking projects.
46:47
I think she's so choosy and I think she's varied up her resume
46:51
a lot and I just like I have such a go crush on Hanyonju.
46:56
So that's my #1. Even I have have more passion
47:00
for Hanyonju than I do for like any of the other names that I've
47:02
mentioned. Truly.
47:04
OK, this might be my last question.
47:06
Yes, OK, last question that you guys have submitted to me.
47:12
What are your most anticipated K dramas coming out in 2024?
47:20
So I don't have that many because I just don't.
47:24
But the two that I have are Mom's friend's Son starring
47:29
Chung, Sun Min and Jung Hin, which are the two names that I
47:33
just mentioned on my faves list. So here's the synopsis of the
47:37
show. Che Sung Kuyo, which is Jung
47:40
Hin's character, is the most noteworthy young architect in
47:44
Korea, and he runs the architecture atelier in What's
47:49
the Name of It. Not only is he nearly perfect as
47:52
an architect, but he is also very attractive and has a great
47:55
personality. Yet, Che Song Yo has experienced
47:59
moments that he wants to erase from his life.
48:02
Those moments usually involve BES Sokrio.
48:05
When they were four years old, their moms became friends.
48:08
Because of their moms, Che Song Yo and Bec Sokrio spend a lot of
48:14
time together, like bathing together at a women's bathhouse.
48:18
Now Che Song Hyo meets Bei Sokrio as adults.
48:23
While growing up, Bei Sokrio's life was smooth sailing.
48:27
During her school days, she never missed ranking first
48:29
academically at her school. She was always passionate and
48:32
energetic with things she did. After graduating from a
48:35
university, she got hired by a large company.
48:37
She works hard as a project manager, but for some reason she
48:40
quit her job. She has been unemployed since
48:42
then. She meets Che Song Hyo.
48:45
So this is like two childhood frenemies like meeting up again
48:51
and their moms are besties and I'm like, yeah, I'm totally in
48:57
and I love those two actors. I'm I'm so ready to see Chung
49:01
Han in ROM com type situation. And he has expressed that he
49:07
wants to do this type of project.
49:08
He doesn't want to play a freaking military man anymore.
49:11
He doesn't want to play a cop anymore.
49:13
And I'm like, baby, I'm here, I'm in your corner.
49:16
So I'm really excited for that and the second show that I'm
49:20
excited for. And I hope it does come out this
49:23
year because I think it was slated for last year and it
49:25
never ended up airing. It's called Ask the Stars,
49:30
starring Emmanuel and the Kung Hyo Jin.
49:33
So it's also, I think the English title is When the stars
49:36
Gossip and the synopsis reads set in a space station and on
49:42
Earth, a romance takes place between Korean OBGYN Kong Ryong,
49:47
that's Lehmann Ho's character, and Korean American astronaut
49:51
Eve Kim, that's Kong Hyun's character.
49:56
Yeah, that sounds so cool. And the visual, like they have a
50:00
screen still that's floating around and I'm like, bro, give
50:04
me that fucking sci-fi romance. Give it to me right now.
50:10
So I'm excited for that. I hope it's good because I I
50:13
freaking love Kung Fu Jin. And let me know like I, as much
50:16
as people like to shit on him, like this is not his typical
50:19
bag. Like he's not typecasting this
50:21
at all. He's playing an OBG riot.
50:24
OBG Ryan in space. What am I supposed to do with
50:28
this? I need to see it.
50:29
So that's what I'm excited for. So that's it.
50:34
That's it. Those are all of your questions.
50:36
I want to thank you guys again for providing all of these
50:39
wonderful questions and difficult asks and a lot of
50:44
homework for me. But one last thing, I've asked
50:47
this of myself so that you guys have a bit of a heads up, but
50:50
what is up next for season five? Well, I actually built this
50:55
season a little differently. My personal goal for this year
51:00
and the vision for season five, is to only watch shows that I
51:04
personally want to watch. I'd rather not get burnt out
51:08
covering what's trending or watching shows I'm not truly
51:14
interested in. So that's exactly what I did.
51:17
I'm covering shows that are young and old, just as I started
51:22
doing in season 4. I'm covering shows from a bunch
51:27
of different countries, like it's K dramas, C dramas.
51:31
I've got a Taiwanese drama on the DACA.
51:33
I've even got AJ drama. I'm reviewing shows that I've
51:37
watched before and also never watched in my life.
51:42
I'm watching shows that you might have heard of and some
51:45
that you might not have heard of at all.
51:48
But all of them are shows that I personally wanted to watch.
51:52
They've been in my queue on my watch list.
51:55
They piqued my interest. They were recommended to me
51:59
forever ago, and some were even requested by you guys, my
52:03
wonderful K Ramblers. And I hope that you enjoy, I
52:07
hope that you enjoy the ride, but yeah, that's it.
52:11
Stay tuned. Stay tuned.
52:13
It's just getting started. And that's it.
52:16
That's our show. I'm Jessica, and this has been
52:19
the Teba Kieran Rules.