In this episode, Zeke sits down with some friends to discuss their experiences with anime, sports and traveling.
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Introduction
Zeke: I’d like to welcome everyone to the first episode of the less color podcast which is available on all major podcast platforms. I’m your host Zeke, and this episode my guest on tear cat forever and Matthew, which couple friends of mine from college. In this episode we talked about anime, sports and traveling and our experiences with each subject. Unfortunately, this episode does I have a video because of cameras that we couldn’t get to the first 20 minutes. I want to first give a content warning on for any strong language that is used in this episode. Also spoiler for any series as mentioned in this episode, and I hope you have a good day and that you enjoyed the podcast.
Origin Stories
Zeke: Right here we have Farez, Tea, Kat and Matthew. And I will start off by asking everyone what their origin story will be. Starting with Farez.
Farez: So yeah, origin story let’s go ahead and this started (origin story). So I’m in the tech right, so I’m in the tech space. So I think my origin story would be like something like a matrix. Like you know I grew up with video games, so my entire childhood is me playing video games –
Matt: I can relate to that.
Farez: Yeah yeah but then one day I wake up and I’m like wow we’re in a video game and that’s when I realized I just started the game.
Matt: You just watch the matrix.
Kat: I feel that-
Farez: Okay fine I just watched the Matrix. But come on I love the Matrix.
Kat: I feel like I would get the scene, you are dead a lot. Finally finished; you are dead.
Tea: Just like the GTA wasted.
Farez: It’s always the Dark Souls,
Tea: Boss music just always playing
Farez: That’s scary bro, you you have no idea what the feeling is when you playing a game and then Boss music comes in you’re like
Kat: I just got here
Farez: yeah
Zeke: After you defeat the boss the first time,
Farez: Yeah,
Tea: It continues
Farez: You turn around, you’re gonna go towards the door, but then it’s like
Kat: I feel like I would want to be like the Street Fighter version. Possibly.
Tea: My life is just 8 bit music.
Farez: Yeah, that would be my origin story that would be like my launch into like, tech the world tech. Yeah, I guess so. Like Twitter hit me up, Twitter just hit my line.
Tea: My origin story. So I’ve always pictured my origin story as a DND origin story. I’ve always played a rogue in d&d, so I like to start Yeah, for the ultra nerds hit me up. Um,
Farez: That’s them physical interaction.
Tea: In more ways than one.
Farez: Okay.
Tea: So I don’t know I’m the child of a teen mom. My father was formerly a convict and I don’t give a shit about anything but my friends were here with me. And I travel a lot. So I always pictured myself as a rogue because I like to take things from places not steal.
Kat: Part time convict I see.
Matt: Most wanted
Tea: Not steal, but I always take my Mentos
Kat: 911 we got her.
Tea: Mentos with me from everywhere I go, um, I don’t know, I’ve always pictured myself as the scrappy type. I always got something to say and I always have a story to tell.
Farez: Basically, she’ll kick your ass.
Tea: And read you a fucking lullaby
Farez: Exactly.
Kat: Okay, well, I guess I’m the boring one. Because I feel like I just like have a very chill life.
Zeke: You have two parents.
Kat: I get roasted a lot. Yeah, I have two parents and you know two dogs and a like fence its beige. It’s okay. It’s fine.
Tea: You have a brother.
Kat: I have a brother so I feel like I’d be on the chiller side of maybe like anime style. So it might be like a slice of life. Like, you know, all the experiences you get into and stuff. Like Yeah, I’m going to be the one that like eat ramen in the corner.
Farez: It’s just a bunch of ahh.
Kat: (Sound)
Zeke: Everything else is going on in the world.
Kat: Yeah, it’s like everyone else’s like, like destroy asteroids and I’m just doing an exam. Like I just live here everyone else is having adventures.
Tea: Hey, you’re the anime character that’s in the back of the class by the window just staring.
Kat: I am the anime character with black hair. Everyone else was like pink or green or yellow.
Farez: She’s literally lo fi hip hop.
Kat: It’s true, it’s true.
Farez: You need help.
Kat: I am the black haired character.
Tea: How are you a background character in your own life?
Zeke: Matt.
Matt: Oh, I mean, I’ve tried my life to be like a boring telenovela. I wasn’t really I mean growing up, around very heavily Colombian culture around me, you know, family and all that. So it’s, you know, we say we learn from your own, you know, culture and all these things. You live in New York, really. So.
Kat: I could definitely see him being a telenovelas. It’s actually jokes.
Matt: Yeah,
Zeke: Dramatically or?
Matt: It depends doe depends really. I mean,
Kat: It would be like a sports telenovela too.
Tea: It would be Haikyuu his life like would actually be
Kat: It would dead be Haikyuu. How would you say Haikyuu in Spanish?
Tea: I don’t know. Haikyuu but Colombian.
Kat: It’s a volleyball anime. He doesn’t watch anime.
Matt: Oh, I think my little brother is watching it.
Farez: Oh, really?
Matt: Yeah.
Tea: Ahh so we need to be friends with your brother.
Matt: Yeah.
Tea: Next question.
Farez: Well, damn, yes.
Matt: Well, I mean, that’s the first section. Oh, yeah. Well,
Zeke: We talk about it Good job guys. Do, do we do any sponsorships here? Not yet.
Kat: Do we get paid?
Zeke: I’m trying I’m trying
Kat: Run your pockets.
Zeke: So now we can get into the questions personally. We have three anime nerds plus Matt plus the host. We’ll start with Farez first.
Farez: Right Yeah. Yeah so it says here what was your favorite anime? My favorite anime, its a hard position to be put in.
Kat: That is a hard…(chatter) Your like I don’t care.
Matt: I did care but just said I’ve never had time to watch. I mean I seen like the like
Kat: I usually have to split them out by genres.
Farez: I don’t want to give like a Shounen like Naruto, Bleach. I don’t want to give everybody watches that either by peer pressure by interest.
Tea: Hmm,
Farez: Yeah, no, I think um.
Kat: I split them up by genre. That’s the only way to do it.
Farez: By genre. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
Tea: Just go on your Crunchyroll.
Farez: I don’t have Crunchyroll.
Tea: Oh, I’m sorry I forgot that you’re broke.
Kat: You give me 50 cents for Crunchyroll rent.
Tea: Well, you got like 15 people in your account I think is fair.
Zeke: You got like 16 now
Kat: Crunchyroll is like $8 a month, she sends me 50 cents.
Tea: But you have so many people in your account we split it evenly.
Matt: I mean,
Farez: You know what as a placeholder I’m gonna say Steins Gate. Steins Gate. Yeah, honestly Steins Gate was good. Um, the only reason I put Steins Gate first is it’s the only anime that made me tear up a little bit. Like legitimately like I actually was like,
Matt: Those are good moments, on the show, like yeah, that’s,
Farez: Like no other anime. Like, I’ve had animes that you know, made me stand up like, Oh, you know, like, Yeah, but like, tear up. Only that.
Zeke: Spoiler alert why?
Farez: Spoiler alert. Why? Yeah. It’s just like a really, really I that’s not the animes already too short. I’m gonna spoil everything if I give this one out, but it’s just.
Kat: Take it out cry also.
Farez: It’s just like, it’s something like relatable, you know, I mean, yeah, so
Zeke: Yeah, like,
Farez: You’d be sad if you were put in that situation too.
Kat: Stay prepared.
Farez: Yeah, yeah if you’re a person who empathizes a lot animators really gonna get you,
Tea: Yeah my favorite anime it’s hard so I do split it up by genre I know slice a life it is on Anohana because that that one made me fucking cry, it made me cry. It very predictable ending but it made me cry. I have
Zeke: Isn’t that the one with the girl who died.
Kat: Yeah, and
Farez: Spoiler alert.
Kat: I mean they tell you the first episode is fine. Yeah,
Zeke: It’s it’s in the promo.
Tea: But I always have had an affinity towards Shounen anime and spirit particularly horror. So anything by Junji Ito I fucking love because I love being terrified. So Another is my favorite horror anime
Zeke: This the that killed people in school.
Tea: Yeah, yes. And Hell Girl, Hell Girl is the other one that I’ve continuously watched and every season the stories are like practically the same but it’s still so like inviting and gripping. Um I also really like I’m now getting into sports animes so,
Zeke: Nice.
Tea: Yeah so
Zeke: Prince of tennis.
Tea: Yeah, Prince of tennis and
Kat: They dropped the Netflix live action actually. I haven’t seen it yet. It literally just came out. They did drop one.
Tea: Yeah, Free! Iwatobi Swim Club because I’m also trashed for that almost half way gay shit. Suha Fujoshi. Yeah. Yeah. Right now I’m really into My Hero Academia.
Kat: For me. I mean, I love I love, love love Sword Art Online but it’s not my favorite. Sorry, favorite.
Farez: Too repetitive I always say that
Kat: I love Sword Art.
Farez: The first season, good second season, good third season eh.
Zeke: Second series why?
Farez: Yeah second series why? Yeah,
Kat: It’s great. They’re really good
Farez: To each their own.
Kat: Um, let’s see if I had to break it into genres. I would say like the romance ones. I loved Kodocha, which is I think it’s like a 90s anime. It was the first anime that I watched it is about six seasons long. That is amazing I love the love the story of it and everything. If I had to go for an action I’m with Demon Slayer. Honestly, I think it’s a really really good
Farez: You Shonen Jump right to 2019,
Kat: Nah, Demon Slayer really did win for a bit like I think honestly visually storyline wise. Yeah. Visually and storyline wise it was absolutely amazing. I honestly was thinking about it versus Attack on Titan, but like if I had to rewatch one of them I’d watch Demon Slayer.
Farez: Everyone says oh the graphics don’t really matter it’s make stories. It won’t matter until you watch Demon Slayer then you’re gonna realize oh,
Kat: I’ve been watching garbage.
Farez: man Yeah,
Kat: yeah, I think that Demon Slayer probably wins in the action department
Matt: Yeah, I gotta watch.
Farez: You yeah,
Matt: I been missing out,
Farez: You watch you watch demon Slayer like whoa, like
Tea: You got a nine hour flight going to Madrid you can watch anime. Yeah, download it on your laptop.
Kat: Another really great one was The Promise Neverland. Oh, yes. Yeah, that one was the fire.
Tea: The Promise Neverland, I fuckin read the manga. I’m not gonna spoil it but the shit gets better.
Kat: Wow. Yeah, I was actually watching that on the I watched it all at once. So thank God it was like a binge worthy thing. I was honestly shook at every point of that.
Zeke: And then when they see like, oh my god,
Kat: Yeah, so like if it’s if we’re going for thrillers Yeah.
Tea: Anything a little kid This is just like um, anime that revolve around children. Oh, wait doesn’t mean our NSA agents are all having a date. That’s so nice.
Zeke: So Matt, did you watch Pokemon, Yugioh as a child? No, not really.
Matt: Avatar the last Air Bender.
Farez: That’s an anime. Anime.
Zeke: People say it’s American anime.
Farez: Who cares.
Tea: It still has it,
Kat: Okay to be fare, Avatar wins, no matter what like whatever pool you put it in Avatar wins.
Tea: Zuko’s redemption arc like,
Kat: Put it in romantic ways if you want to put in thriller it wins. Did you not see that episode? Where Katara learns blood bending. Yo.
Matt: That was a scary episode.
Zeke: See you watch anime, that was something.
Kat: That was-
Matt: The Avatar was my childhood.
Zeke: Yeah, for all those reasons. It’s just a great story. It’s like, you know, a lot of character drama in the action. I think my favorite sequence of that series was the what was the eclipse sequence that was especially the action massey was great. Yeah, like leading up to eclipse? Oh, yeah.
Farez: Yeah, I thought you know what, I was gonna say the comet the whole deal. Yeah. It was Sozin’s Comet, right. I was gonna say Sunzu’s Comet.
Zeke: I predicted we all know is gonna happen. Yeah. So I mean,
Kat: I was actually shocked when the eclipse happened and like, what was his name Sozin was it was like, Yeah.
Zeke: It was um
Farez: Yeah,Sozin was the ancestor
Kat: Oh what was his dads name?
Farez: Yeah.
Zeke: Ozai, Ozai.
Kat: Yeah, I’m not emotionally prepared.
Tea: I love the fact that Korra like it turns out she was gay this whole time.
Farez: Spoiler alert.
Kat: She was bisexual.
Tea: Yeah, like, I love that at the end of it. Everyone was like all her and her best friend and then they kiss and you’re just like aaaa,
Zeke: Almost like in the next 5 seconds.
Kat: The writers were definitely like we have nothing to lose here.
Farez: On these televisions.
Zeke: But it was online though.
Tea: Yeah, they released it online?
Farez: Really?
Zeke: Yeah, cuz Nickelodeon, the first season was on Nickelodeon and then Nickelodeon was like we’re going play around with the show. Yeah they didn’t get a lot of I didn’t get into it until the third season and was like it’s online.
Kat: Maybe I’ll watch it now.
Farez: Yeah,
Kat: Yeah, maybe I’m emotionally prepared for it.
Zeke: Season One is nice. Season Two is the weakest.
Tea: Yeah. And then season three and season three kicks you in the fucking ass at this point.
Zeke: Season Four is just like fuck.
Tea: Yeah. Season Four is so emotionally gripping that you’re just like what the hell did I just watch? Yeah.
Matt: I I got to see it now.
Tea: That’s the thing I like about Legend of Korra is that they deal with post traumatic stress disorder in a very realistic light after like, something happens to Korra. And they do a post traumatic stress disorder in a way that you’re just like, Damn,
Zeke: And it doesn’t go over like the first is like,
Tea: Yeah, like the thing that she goes through, carries on and all other seasons and you see the deterioration of her mental health. And it’s very realistic. Like, you see, she’s a 19 year old girl and she’s got some heavy shit on her, and she’s questioning her sexuality. And the way that it dealt with
Zeke: And she’s the Avatar,
Tea: And she’s the Avatar.
Kat: She actually becomes the avatar?
Tea: She is the Avatar,
Matt: She’d been known that.
Zeke: Like the first scene is her being the Avatar.
Kat: I don’t she was like she was fighting to become the Avatar.
Tea: Korra’s
Matt: You’re born into being the Avatar.
Zeke: This is different they their idea was they switched from the Avatar, likeAang this one she’s more physically she’s more confident.
Matt: And no because in the in the world be like you die the avatar dies so next one is Aang was Earth. The next one is water.
Tea: Aang was air and then she was born into a Water Tribe but the first scene is like her being five years old and she busts into her like house. Because though some people from like the Earth Kingdom are like we’ve gotten some word that the avatar is here and she busts into the house and she’s just like on the avatar deal with it but she’s doing fire water and earth Yeah, but she can’t airbender and that’s her struggle. That’s her struggle element is more spiritual, and she’s more physical. Yeah, she’s very confident but again, how they break her down and rebuild her up again. I think that’s why I really like that and also how they deal with the other characters is very nice.
Kat: Got a bunch of shows, we’re gonna watch it.
Tea: Tell you,
Zeke: I’ll say The Boondocks since we’re counting Avatar.
Tea: The Boondocks, yeah.
Zeke: Because it’s black, I’m black.
Kat: That’s enough for him.
Tea: Not only that, but The Boondocks is really
Zeke: It’s very smart.
Tea: Yeah. It’s very satirical and like politically charged, where if you watch it from. First of all, I wrote a whole like essay on The Boondocks for my media analysis class. But yeah, Aaron McGruder did a really really great job in depicting like, what it’s like to be a black teen growing up in a very predominantly white neighborhood when you come from the south side of Chicago. And I love the the contrast between Huey and his brother. Yeah,
Matt: Do identity for the voice actor. Yeah grandad
Tea: Yeah, yeah.
Zeke: RIP.
Farez: You know, it’s funny, not that, thats not funny, thats sad. I was first introduced to The Boondocks in elementary school through Adult Swim.
Kat: How long has it been going on?
Matt: From the mid 2000’s
Tea: It started off. It started off as a comic strip and then Adult Swim was like we like this. Season Five is coming out actually very soon.
Farez: Yeah, my uncle watched it. Because he was like in his early 20s. So he watched it. And he, I simply asked him, What does that mean the boondocks. And my uncle was like, oh, it legitimately means, like, out of like, out of nowhere. Yeah, I mean, yeah. So I used that in elementary school when the professor the professor the teacher was like whats that word? I’m like, yeah, I’m like, wow, it’s actually a legit word.
Kat: The Boondocks is actually like something that like Trinidadians like colloquially, like when ever your like going to go visit your family and like downunder they’re like call you go to the boondocks?
Tea: Yeah, when I was a when I used to visit frequently down south. We would go visit a friend. He lives in South Carolina and just like are you gonna fucking boonies please Jesus?
Farez: Boonies, right? I couldn’t make the like the association until later but like I’m like, yeah, people do use that word. It’s not just a show name that you use to impress a teacher.
Zeke: I remember watching it in middle school. It was funny, though. Yeah, and now I get it more I’m just like, yeah. So,
Tea: Now that you are an adult and a person of color in the United States, and you’re rewatching it you’re just like, wow, you always understood you never, because I never understood why Huey was so mad. And I was so Riley was the best character and as I got older, I was like, these motherfuckers.
Zeke: And having a brother like
Tea: parallel
Zeke: brothers like, Oh, yeah, almost like key moments. I’m the oldest like
Tea: Granddad in these situations.
Kat: I’ve never seen it.
Tea: You got to watch it. I think you will
Zeke: Let me get your black card.
Kat: You know how many times I got my black card revoked?
Tea: You grew up with a white picket fence and two families. I should have revoked it automatically.
Zeke: Two families what?
Tea: Two parents, families,
Zeke: Two families?
Kat: I get my black card revoked once a week. It’s fine.
Zeke: It’s on Hulu, you don’t have Hulu.
Kat: I do have Hulu probably gonna watch Legend of Korra. But I’ll get to the Boondocks.
Zeke: You can skip season four.
Tea: Season four except four freedom land freedom was a really good episode. That’s the that’s the one where they were dressed up as slaves. And uncle ruckus was in charge. Yeah, I feel like that’s true. Yeah,
Farez: So many spoilers in this episode, like, all right. Yeah.
Matt: Yeah. When you added this, you say a lot of spoiler alerts.
Farez: You should just say whenever you hear something you want to see just pause this video.
Kat: Skip it skip 10 seconds.
Farez: Skip 10 seconds.
Zeke: If you hear the name of something you want to watch just skip it.
Kat: I think all of us started with the title first.
Farez: Don’t forget to like and subscribe. Twerk on that bell button.
Tea: You live in New York City nobody cares about sanitary
Kat: Please don’t twerk on your notification button.
Matt: Come live here like SNL.
Kat: If anyone sees you twerking on your notification button, you’re gonna have some,
Farez: Your going to get a raise.
Zeke: Now that we talked about your favorite, what is your least favorite anime?
Kat: My least favorite anime.
Farez: Yo, hello. Hi. First of all, I don’t offer they’re very they’re very few animes that I watch from start to finish and I don’t like the beginning so I can’t really say Yeah,
Kat: I watch it. I put myself through a pain and suffering.
Farez: Oh really? Yeah, I can’t do that. I have too much time. I don’t have too much
Zeke: I would say Code Geass I couldn’t get into it.
Kat: I didn’t get it either. I didn’t get through it either.
Zeke: I couldn’t get into it.
Farez: I love the Lelouch of rebellion. It was great.
Kat: I’ve watched a lot of trash anime, but you know what? It’s almost worth it. No, it’s not, it’s not almost worth it.
Farez: My least favorite anime
Tea: I’m like looking at
Kat: I’m looking at all my Crunchyroll, like what are we doing.
Tea: I’m on your Crunchyroll I pay rent shut up.
Kat: I split it. This is what the fence is good.
Tea: Um, I think my least favorite anime I don’t know there’s there’s so many that like, look good animation style. And this is,
Kat: What I’ve learned is good animation does not, I fucking hate isekai shows, that’s it. I’m just going with the genre. I’m like I’ve taken you take like a normal character and then you just put them in a different world. I can’t stand it. Why? Because they’re all the same like it’s like okay, you have like the one op character, and like they get into this world and you’re like, I’m still op I’m gonna just win everything and it’s like they really have no character development. Yeah, I hate your movie that which I hate. I hate Dragonball Z. Nevermind I,
Matt: I actually one I mean yeah, there was.
Kat: The genre is safe the iskei genre is safe, Dragonball Z takes it I hate I hate it.
Tea: Yeah. Anime I fucking hate is My Girlfriend Is a Gal. Just because like, I have this thing where I don’t mind Shonen and shoujo. But there are like harem animes, where all of the like funny. They’re funny but like when they over sexualized, especially the tiniest character that are like
Kat: That’s the whole point of animes.
Tea: Yeah, it’s fucking Yeah. My My Girlfriend Is a Gal is like the fucking dumbest story ever I hated it for so many reasons. And it was it was really one of the because it’s like she’s the hottest girl in school and everyone wants to fucking be her and fucker but then like yeah the guy that she wants to be with, like he can’t and he’s just like I can’t be with you because your
Zeke: Spoiler.
Tea: Yeah, because you’re I mean, it’s the first episode and I can tell you because you’re a virgin. So then like her goal is you have to sleep with 100 guys and then she can get with him. I’m like, What the fuck are your standards?
Kat: I feel like she might have misinterpreted rejection
Tea: And then like all of her best friends are like, encouraging her sleeping with 100 guy I mean if you want to sleep with 100 guys cool but don’t sleep with 100 guys because some other guy told you I can’t be with a virgin.
Kat: Yeah, I feel like she misinterpreted that,
Tea: Oh yeah, but then like.
Zeke: I need some practice
Kat: 100 guy seems about right
Zeke: A thousand hours to become an expert.
Tea: Yeah, also I just can’t stand the voices everything is
Kat: Like level up
Tea: Voices I understand anime has a lot of voices but like this anime is very like oowoo I’m like oh fuck.
Farez: Yeah man it says your least favorite least favorite types of anime. So I think this is anime that has pointless
Kat: Okay, okay, It’s a copy.
Matt: I’m the host I make the questions.
Kat: Oh
Farez: Okay, okay, okay, you want an actual anime out here? Okay, okay.
Matt: Gotta add the drama in this podcast yeah
Farez: I don’t know, man. I feel like Ah, you
Kat: You don’t like sword art
Farez: No no one one anime that came to mind was Deadman Wonderland
Kat: I hate
Zeke: I love that.
Kat: I actually I did give up on that one.
Zeke: It was only 12 episodes
Farez: Because it was very short. And yeah, I think that’s why I don’t like it because I wanted more I wanted more so that’s the sort of comes full circle. I hate animes that are like, good story, but it’s short and like, cliffhanger. Yes.
Kat: Understand their hard work like these people are really just right. But also like 12 episodes relax man, I’ll wait, just don’t drop it don’t drop.
Tea: If It’s going to be 12 episodes at least make it 45 minutes this whole like 22 minute bullshit. I’m like, why
Farez: Are you 22 minutes? You mean? You mean me skipping to five because recap into.
Matt: You know there’s one series that show episode that was good, Chernobyl.
Farez: {inaudible}
Matt: That’s good
Kat: Isn’t that the place that got like rocked
Farez: Yeah milly rocked
Matt: No, the HBO series one.
Kat: Oh, you’re watching documentaries.
Matt: Like a like a how you say it?
Tea: Zombie thing right?
Matt: No zombie thing is now let’s see. It’s like a real generational thing like he
Kat: It’s a documentary.
Tea: Your a fucking nerd okay.
Matt: Drama series like recreation,
Kat: Oh, I think I know you’re talking about Yeah,
Matt: So they refer to events
Farez: Like live action.
Matt: Yeah, pretty much Yeah.
Tea: It’s like a retelling of what happened a couple days before Chernobyl happened well,
Farez: Not saying Chernobyl wasn’t live action. Pretty sure it was pretty live
Tea: Yeah, this Russia Could be demonetized. Yeah, also Russia just gonna like block this shit. I’m sorry. So it was in the Ukraine playing
Farez: Play the Russian theme song. The communist theme.
Tea: Start a little Russian dance. Yeah, so it was a little
Kat: Strong like baby yak
Tea: Strong like baby yak.
Matt: Just gave the nuclear plant exploded after
Kat: You said, She said yak milk is pretty good.
Tea: Yak milk is good it’s good for you. Yeah series I’ve heard a lot about it.
Matt: I mean the guy they won the Emmy or something so yeah, yeah.
Zeke: Since Matt doesn’t watch anime
Matt: I watch Dragonball Z. I’m still gonna finish. I want to see the new ones Super.
Farez: Which one’s your favorite?
Kat: What’s the green one that looks like a booger. I’m really gonna get hate.
Zeke: You mean Piccolo the black the black dad of Dragonball Z.
Tea: Oh, okay, thank you. Even though I hate Dragonball Z. I’m glad that everyone agreed Piccolo was black.
Zeke: He took care of Gohan and everything.
Tea: Yeah, he was black.
Zeke: He was a single dad.
Kat: His character is great.
Matt: He was a father figure to Gohan.
Zeke: Gohan used to switch between calling him and Goku dad .
Kat: Gohan is how you say grace in Japanese
Tea: And lunch.
Zeke: To sports I guess.
Matt: That’s a whole different like,
Kat: No, no so that he can feel included.
Zeke: Some athletes
Farez: How do you like to burn your calories Matt.
Matt: Many ways running,
Tea: How do you like to waste your time?
Farez: Oh,
Kat: {inaudible}
Matt: Wow.
Zeke: So Matt’s a two sport player, plays volleyball and does cross country
Kat: Two? I thought you did way more than that.
Farez: Tell us about your accolades Matt.
Kat: Yeah. What are you doing?
Matt: I mean, I did the New York City Marathon this past few years. It’s been a great experience, me and my mom got into running so it’s like, you know, like if she could do it I could do it too. At first she was too fast for me.
Farez: So you say, it runs in the family.
Kat: actually, Like your ears are just gone.
Matt: Yeah, I mean, I used to play volleyball in high school too. So great time likes me. I’m big sports fan like even I I’ll go home later like 12 or 11 I’ll be watching like sports. The SportsCenter all those shows are late nights. I mean like is really mean what else not only sports was auto racing too, NASCAR from day one.
Tea: You like NASCAR?
Zeke: NASCAR a sport?
Matt: Yeah, NASCAR,a sport.
Tea: NASCAR a sport, but cheerleading isn’t.
Farez: I thought Matt said watch sport, late night. Sport. What?
Matt: The show I be watching ESPN, I’ll be in the background.
Farez: Oh, okay. So you just have those channels. Listen, don’t criticize that. I used to watch. motorcycle racing. Moto GP. Yes.
Matt: See,
Kat: That doesn’t seem safe. I was not good at sports. Anything that involves a ball. It’s just it requires me way too much hand eye coordination. Um, gymnastics. I did dance. I did ice sKat:ing.
Matt: Oh yeah, those are still sports. Like
Farez: those are definitely yeah those are so
Kat: I mean like I’m really like any ball like tennis ball soccer ball so no for me down
Tea: I didn’t really,
Zeke: Soccer ball is not a sport
Kat: I ment sports to involve like actual ball to be played.
Tea: I didn’t really play sports I had a lot of my childhood happened in DR so I was really like a jungle baby most of the time.
Kat: Swinging from the vines I see.
Tea: I used to swing from vines
Farez: So essentially T played Temple Run in real life.
Tea: Yeah. shook you know, like this. I can’t do any like actual sports except for going to the gym and swimming but put me in the fucking forest and I will survive that will fucking survive.
Zeke: Tea: against the wild.
Farez: Yeah, I
Kat: Count me out as dead.
Matt: Have you been camping before?
Kat: Yes I’ve been camping before.
Tea: With a cabin like a tent or with a cottage?
Matt: I mean camping as in as in actually leaving your house like yours?
Farez: Yeah, you white picket baby.
Kat: I went camping in PA I stayed there for three nights I made it my only like,
Zeke: Obviously still here.
Kat: Yeah, see either. The only requirement was that they had to have bathrooms I can’t do the whole dig a whole.
Matt: I went camping once like when I was 8, 10 me it was good experience
Zeke: 8, 10?
Matt: but like the bathroom, that person then
Kat: Plot hole
Tea: What happened at 9?
Farez: What happened at 9? Ah yeah I just didn’t want to go camping.
Tea: What happened at 9? I just don’t want to do it.
Farez: Yeah.
Tea: And that’s a show.
Farez: I did Taekwondo when I was a kid. I did karate too
Matt: I think everyone does that. It’s like that’s a piece of your childhood.
Zeke: My mom said it’s too far. My mom said it’s too far.
Matt: Oh,
Kat: Plays the world’s tiniest violin.
Farez: Listen, bro. Yo, y’all save a lot of money Taekwondo and Meyer.
Kat: Yeah, it’s super excited,
Farez: Bro this dude charge my dad 1500 a year.
Kat: Oh, no.
Tea: How long did you do?
Matt: Do you still remember the moves or anything?
Farez: Yeah.
Kat: The YMCA is where I did all of mine. So
Matt: Y M C A. No, we can’t say that. Yeah, yeah.
Tea: Yeah, just
Zeke: Matt I can’t get sued on the first episode.
Kat: What are the lyrics to YMCA?
Farez: It’s just YMCA stupid.
Tea: Yeah, I didn’t. I feel like my mom wanted me to shoot. My mom wanted to put me in sports, but like,
Farez: This is money, though.
Kat: It’s really expensive. I mean, but the thing is that I think that’s a fair thing to do. Because it’s really really expensive to be putting your kids in something that is just, you know, for them to actually like learn a skill and stuff like that.
Farez: Yo, listen, if you go to a actual dojo. Let me tell you the world the WTF you like to call it. It’s the World Taekwondo Federation they have a weird acronym. Yeah. These these tests for like belt upgrades cost like 50 $60 a rank up and then in the middle of the year like like the couple years that I went, they introduced the stripe update the second new update like a patch like they’re like, oh, now we’re gonna go set you put on your bar? Yeah, no, it’s like right, it goes through the bells like it’s a completely different system.
Tea: I think sew that shit in myself,
Farez: Bro. It’s like It’s like white before it was white, yellow, orange, green. Yeah, right now it was white, white, yellow, yellow, yellow, orange orange. So now it’s money. Money money. You what my dad said you’re out. My dad said I can teach you how to beat your ass.
Kat: Wow. That’s like super parenting, teach you how to beat your own ass.
Farez: It’s true man.
Matt: No money though. Like I remember I did Taekwondo. I just did the free trial. I mean, I don’t have to yell No, I was able to go quickly and then I was like it’s money though. I also like to say I tried to be in the soccer leagues and all that but like I feel bad for my parents nights is ridiculous amount of money, especially in the United States.
Kat: It was something that like I enjoyed as a kid, but like, didn’t shape me to be like the human I am today
Zeke: I had asthma so.
Kat: Ha ha weak lungs
Matt: I don’t know who you are. I’m not friends with you.
Tea: I love how we said a lot of fucked up shit but that’s the one that made the room go quiet.
Kat: I’m done.
Farez: Hey man Zeke stills plays basketball so I gotta give him.
Matt: You see the Zeke playing underneath the post. I remember playing it the intramural
Zeke: My man Matt shot the ball and it went over the backboard. Yeah.
Kat: How did you get it to go over the backboard?
Matt: I was like, wait, I put too much power on like, Draymond Green I could play I could pass defense. No, no, I defended you well.
Kat: That looks like in anime like I just imagine like the scene of the ball leaving his hand.
Farez: Matt saw Jesus and Praise the Lord.
Matt: That’s, I sick to running volleyball I play now.
Zeke: Yall hear something?
Farez: I missed. I love volleyball, volleyball.
Kat: I didn’t like volleyball, actually, uh,
Farez: If you didn’t like volleyball, there must have been
Kat: Hand eye coordination, man.
Farez: No, like he’s like, it’s like it’s you must have not tried it with the really, really cool group of friends. I feel like it
Kat: Yeah, it does.
Farez: Yeah, your team. Works. Your team has to be your fucking team. Yeah, yeah.
Matt: My high school
Tea: Your team has to be your team?
Farez: Your team has to be your team. You know,
Matt: The only reason why I played volleyball in high school was because I hadn’t no experience playing volleyball. This one because I didn’t make the trial for soccer. Summers I didn’t have time. I had to ten, I used to play tennis my first year.
Farez: I thought you said I used to play tetanus I’m like
Kat: That’s a illness.
Tea: That’s not something you win.
Matt: I used to play tennis. We didn’t have like we had a good coach but it was like for me I want to be competitive. And we weren’t competitive. We literally lost eight games out of two.
Zeke: Okay, wait, wait wait,
Kat: You guys are trying. Wait yall lost eight games out of two.
Farez: My man said Alternate universes. My doppelgangers.
Matt: We were so terrible
Kat: You were so bad you lost more games then there were.
Farez: You was so bad in the span of two games you lost eight?
Matt: Thats how it is you play multiple games.
Tea: Well why the hell is that in tennis like what I used to play Wii tennis you would say like 14 love
Kat: Turkey. Wait.
Tea: Thats badminton
Zeke: Thats bowling.
Tea: Turkey
Farez: Thats a bird
Tea: I’m thinking of birdie, birdie, badminton.
Zeke: Bowling has turkey
Matt: Yeah you have to get three shots in a row and then
Tea: What was it? Why is turkey equivalent?
All: {inaudible}
Tea: First of all, I’ve never gone Bowling for fun. I’ve only gone bowling like because it was someone’s birthday party.
Matt: I went to one in Time Square. It’s pretty good. It’s like a restaurant with the bowling thing inside.
Tea: Oh Lucky Strike, yeah. every New Yorker goes yeah.
Zeke: Melody Lanes shout out to Brooklyn.
Matt: Lanes. Yeah.
Farez: Appreciate if you live in Queens. You probably want to like Bolero someplace like that. Yeah, me too. I’ve been to the one um freaking the intrepid there’s a bowling alley yeah.
Tea: Oh yeah because the it Chelsea Piers has like a series of games. Did you know they have laser tag for $8 and all you can like drink beer
Kat: We’re not sponsored by these people. They can sponsor us if they like to.
Farez: Size both sides right? Yeah, yeah
Kat: Yeah you’re just logos everywhere man.
Matt: Nah these are just letters yeah.
Kat: Probably iPhones on the deck like Apple
Farez: Yeah that’s why I put on this is sponsored by Mother Earth
Matt: Global Warming.
Tea: I want water.
Matt: Why this is my water.
Tea: Can I have some?
Farez: That’s how we do it Matt say no.
Zeke: I guess we’re done with that conversation.
Matt: I mean are we done I feel we sere all over the place. I mean that’s that’s fine. It’s booming. That’s enough.
Tea: I think
Kat: Where do you want to go first? Where are you going first?
Zeke: Japan because of anime.
Matt: Thats all they talk about right.
Zeke: Matt like all they talk about is anime.
Matt: Nah nah I mean about Japan,
Tea: Japan is one of the countries I haven’t gone to. I really haven’t gone to like Asia. But I do know that when I do go to Japan, I want to go to Kyoto because it still looks very much like the Edo period. And like, I want to see what feudal Japan look like. That’s
Farez: As long as you want to see what it looks like not feel what it felt like.
Tea: Just gonna start rubbing myself on everything. I’m gonna get kicked out of the country. All right. That’s a goal of mine to get kicked out of a country.
Matt: How are going to get kicked out of a country
Kat: With the way that I look getting a kick out of a country can be very easy. So I’m just gonna go ahead and say that’s not on my list.
Tea: Ever heard of Guantanamo? We’re gonna send you super Guantanamo.
Matt: We see Europe is always a common place to go to.
Zeke: I should go to Africa because I’m black.
Kat: People tell me that too. But wait, I’ll go I want to go. But not because I’m black. It’s because I think the culture and experiences that you can go, there’s so many countries in Africa that you can do that.
Farez: I want to I want to go to Egypt. Egypt, Egypt looks.
All: Yeah, yeah.
Zeke: Yeah.
Kat: Definitely. I think Africa is definitely on my list. Just I’ll get there. Next, I think I want to go to Morocco. I want to do like Colombia. I want to I want to do a show again, but I want to I want to do Singapore, Thailand. I want to go Thailand, Philippines and then South Korea.
Tea: Well, Filipinos are just Dominicans of Eastern Asia. So I really want to go there.
Matt: Yeah. The Spanish system. So
Tea: Yeah, they’re a fantasy sense. So like, every Filipino I’ve ever met I’ve gotten along with just because they’re so there’s so much in common with the cultures. I’m like, you’re Gonzalez. Gonzalez.
Matt: Yeah. Yeah, exactly, first mistake. Mistake that mistaken for a lot of them for being Filipino.
Kat: Really?
Tea: Only from the north of the island.
Kat: Really?
Tea: Yeah, actually.
Zeke: People ask me if I speak spanish.
Tea: I get to see this right here. No one ever guesses that I’m Dominicans. That’s the only real Dominican. I don’t know. slavery. Yeah, everyone never guessed that American there was like, are you Trinidadian? Are you guyanese? Are you Bengali and I was like, huh yeah. I see. Now, if my hair was straight
Farez: No Bengalis have Yeah, like that.
Matt: Like the special taxonomists?
Kat: Yeah. Can I get like butterflies? Like when I talk about my life?
Tea: No one the anime characters are pissed off that they have the orange or like the purple aura around them I want that one
Farez: Fucking Yami has it all the time.
Kat: Um, so I guess like next on our trip actually cuz we’re travel buddies. Nevermind. We’re going Trinidad in February. Yeah. Yes, my homeland. So we’re going to take her to carnival.
Tea: I’m gonna get real quick. Last, yeah. Last
Kat: Friday morning, and it’s just non stop parties until Tuesday night.
Tea: Yeah, but I feel like the times I’ve gone traveling, I’ve always traveled By myself, surprisingly. And then I’ve met them and we started traveling together. Castle person. Those are wild times.
Kat: I mean, there was three of us there three. Well, there’s four of us. Yeah. I’m one of them. It was fun.
Matt: Yeah, we have us having the opportunity to go around the world is, you know, there’s really
Kat: So much of the world that people do not see. I like getting to travel is actually one of those opportunities to be like, this is how other people live in the world. So I think like it was, yeah, it was the first time we went was um, my first travel abroad was to Europe and,
Tea: Yerrr
Kat: Yerrope,
Tea: Just know that prior to this, I have lived in Europe, Budapest. So when they were like we want to do a study abroad trip to visit our friend who was studying abroad. I was like, perfect. I can take them and show them. Like, yeah, it was like taking babies to a petting zoo.
Kat: That’s not true. Like once I feel like once you’re in New York or you’re kind of like prepared for like the world so like you don’t get scammed as often because you don’t trust don’t you don’t get beat up because everybody nobody okay yeah, I mean for all the lack of a bucket of sand because I want the game to be for all the knowledge I have in that department. I think I can operate in the streets just fine
Tea: And you have common sense yeah.
Matt: Common Sense and that’s what people need now.
Tea: Yeah. Especially gypsies.
Kat: Honestly New York is a pretty difficult Oh, okay. Not New York like Albany Albany people you don’t count New York City the five boroughs? That’s also not Staten Island Sorry guys. But no. Once you
Farez: Nah, bro, but I have friends who live in Staten Island.
Kat: Are they cool?
Farez: They live in Manhattan practically. So like they’re literally here. From Like maybe 18 hours a day 24 hours a day so
Kat: But yeah once you like you live in New York City area everything is pretty much easier to travel around like the train systems are kind of like this is so much better than New York. This is easy. Um I think the hardest part about being abroad really is like learning how to read the streets every country does they’re seeing signs differently
Tea: And in some countries even have street signs they’re literally like in Spain they’re plastered onto the building so if you’re not looking like up yeah just like what the fuck were am I?
Kat: So
Matt: I literally I was at Columbia going over to Western Agus not even any have no signs at all.
Tea: You just gotta figure it out. Like,
Kat: My my GPS is like, left on Frederick Street and you’re like, oh, which one is it?
Matt: I mean, I know. It’s like I went back to my parents. City. So I’m really telling like when these days like where you know where you’re going, I it’s easy. I mean, I call by the building. That means something my dad said like, first of all, there’s no signs out there. Like, it’s just, it was crazy. It’s like, you know where it is. What are you telling, you know, telling you where you are. So it’s like,
Tea: Especially love those instructions when you’re asked for directions are like, Oh, you’re gonna make this direction this direction this turn, but like once you’ve hit this landmark you’ve got too far. I’m gonna go what I’ve got too far. Let me know where to go.
Kat: You know what I was thinking of like the fact that Hon, I lost it.
Zeke: Farez have you traveled?
Farez: Yeah, man. I think it was the farthest the farthest place I’ve ever gone without my parents just solo traveling. It’s Sweden. I love Sweden. I went to Sweden. That was pretty cool Icelandic country. They’re really nice people and they know how to speak English.
Tea: Most of Europe does.
Kat: Yeah. Well, we went to Japan. This guy goes here. No, it’s basically like you’re in Japan.
Zeke: Universal language, English.
Matt: I mean, I’ve heard in class. A lot of companies. foreign companies are trying to chew English with English like trying something English translation. So I mean, because
Tea: Yeah. It sucks because, like, a lot of countries Yeah. And a lot of countries like when I was in Denmark, they basically just speak English. And a lot of the Danish is just like, woven in with English. And there is this fear and like a Danish culture that they’re just like, well, aren’t you afraid that you guys are becoming very Americanized, because Denmark is a democratically socialist country. Fucking loved it there. Everything was great. prostitution is legal. So that’s why she loved it. No. It was it was one of those like progressive things that it makes so much sense but because it’s so Americanized, one of the fears within the older Danish generation is they’re like, aren’t you afraid that like our Nordic history will disappear. And the younger generation, they actually have this mentality of like, well, cultures change all the time. So if we change, we change Denmark is very, it’s a very homogenous country. But like now with everything changing this part of Denmark that I was in was like one of the neighborhoods that had the highest concentration of biracial families. I thought that was like chill as hell. Um, but the fact that they have to learn English is starting in primary school and you cannot like do entrance exams into college without knowing English. I was like, That’s crap, because you’re not forced to learn a second language here in the US, like
Matt: A second language.
Kat: I think that’s definitely a disadvantage. Like I would definitely have love to learn another language like and I wish I would have actually taken it seriously because I’m not like they give you the like, you know, Spanish classes in high school and stuff, but it wasn’t like, really Spanish. No, it wasn’t even that it wasn’t Spanish. It wasn’t like given to me in a way that like made me value actually learning this.
Farez: Basically what Kat: saying is, I should have failed it.
Kat: You pass it. I didn’t. I didn’t.
Matt: For me, I started realizing, like, you start realizing as you get older, like you say, appreciating your culture where your parents are coming from aguma as a kid like, I was like, I was like I should be focused on we should be focusing English shouldn’t be caring about like Spanish and a culture column here in America. Like Yeah,
Farez: Yeah, I think it’s just because we’re like, once we’re like middle elementary, middle and high school, we’re like learning how to pass certain tests. Yeah, yeah, a standardized test of English they’re teaching us English. Like why am I gonna be learning Spanish for I need to be learning SAT words.
Kat: I wish they would have packaged it in a way that value into learning Well, yeah,
Matt: I was gonna waste my money.I took the SAT’s I just didn’t take prep for like,
Kat: I take
Tea: My school gave free SAT prep on Saturdays. Yeah, I went to school. I went to school in Spanish Harlem and they were like, Nah, these poor children of color can’t afford SAT prep. So we’re going to do it.
Matt: Now you’re allowed to take the ACT’s exam. Yeah, that’s a that’s B right there.
Tea: Yeah, but like I really do wish that I mean, I grew up speaking Spanish because it was a dual lingual household and I was in the dual language program for like a lot of my life. So I wish that when they did offer other languages took it seriously and college it took Japanese I’m like, that was okay. But I wish it was like other countries where it is like instilled in you you have to know the grammar. You have to know how to speak it properly and they give you like oral examinations. Here. It’s like we slack off so much and then all the other. All the other students that come to like the US because I work in admissions at another college. All of us do. Come in speaking in like four or five languages and I’m like I can speak to you in two.
Kat: Yeah, I think my my goal in life is definitely the language.
Tea: Yeah, I want to be a polyglot.
Farez: In high school. They did. I didn’t actually take any languages. In middle school. I took Italian and I pass the proficiency. Yeah, and like to pass the proficiency like I was using English in and out of this proficiency exam and like one of the one of the questions was like, I remember this vividly, he was like, Oh, um, you know, where would you like to go like name a place you like to go and why you’d like to go and I’m like, bro, you know me pIace California for their eleganza Tina, my like, I don’t even know like for their big cinema.
Matt: Pastors.
Farez: Cool.
Tea: No, no Hollywood Boulevard.
Matt: Right.
Tea: I love California. We’ve been everywhere. I’ve been mostly everywhere. I want to start expanding.
Kat: If you’ve never traveled outside of like she doesn’t want to travel do you guys do like in domestic flights and stuff? Yeah.
Tea: You know, never been on the flight. That’s crazy. Your ears hurt. Yeah,
Kat: Yeah, I’m gonna do like a passport to do domestic enhanced places.
Matt: Yeah you only need like some driver ID.
Kat: But I love road trip road trips are lit I love
Tea: I’m getting my license
Matt: License. Okay.
Kat: Hi.
Tea: Are you up to this?
Kat: Yeah, I need to get my license.
Zeke: Once I get it I’m not driving anybody.
Farez: We say for your benefit for you, but not for you and you’re traveling.
Zeke: I want to travel. Once I get the money. Do I want that’s all I’ve got which is working in a bit. takeoff and just travel for no reason.
Kat: That’s Everybody.
Zeke: Waiting for the podcast to blow up, to interview people from different parts of the world.
Matt: Yeah,
Tea: I had three jobs at the same time at one point in my undergrad and that’s able to travel so much, although
Matt: You went to class or anything?
Tea: That was the thing. I had three jobs and I went to class full time. Yeah.
Kat: I had three jobs when I started here.
Matt: Yeah, three jobs.
Zeke: I had three jobs. A job.
Farez: A job. I can barely hold one job.
Kat: Like, I’m not rich. So I had a lot of jobs. I was 14. I’m working since I was 14. Yeah, no one like to look into
Zeke: Working papers.
Tea: I think the camera turned off.
Matt: I think somebody checked. Yeah, turn off. I think
Tea: I heard it click like the show. I mean, if you leave the shutter alone for a while, it’ll click off. So if you want to just tap it Now the Back button the button says Lv
Matt: Yeah, yeah.
Tea: And click it again.
Kat: How long does it turn off?
Tea: I mean it just want to just make the shutter sound Yeah,
Matt: I thought someone’s banging on the window.
Farez: Why would somebody
Matt: I would push ah Zeke first right here. Take Zeke first.
Zeke: Why take the strongest first I bet
Matt: No. So you’ll be sacralized
Kat: Once again. Take me
Matt: Take the host first.
Zeke: Want to do this in two parts is part one and then we come back to part two.
Tea: Oh, it’s the battery. Yeah, die shutter release disabled recharge battery. Okay.
Matt:So yeah. We got it. We got tired of having this one like this.
Zeke: All right, so good night. Good night. sign off baby sign off. sign off.
Farez: Yeah, man. {sound} Can ever sign off for a life’s a game we talking about my origin story
Tea: Start player one get the We have to name our origin stories.
Matt: I mean we still have a second part though so so Part Two coming soon. Yeah. Well that was it Matt
Kat: Matt Matt:
Zeke: Matt, Kat
Kat: Wave the ryan got
Farez: Your boy Fez.
Tea: Oh, that’s 70 show fucking hilarious. I love that line where it’s like okay, do I have to leave the country? Once I finish school?
Zeke: Are we are we done? Are
Kat: We done done guys.
Tea: You know what his name was even funny. They just labeled him as foreign exchange student. Oh shit.
Kat: People who think they can be Japanese because they watch anime.
Zeke: So part two of this episode will come eventually once I get everybody together which my behind in aspects is Matthew. Currently at con this recording is in Spain. In the meantime, next week’s episode, another friend of mine, and will sit down with me to talk about psychology from a student standpoint. I hope you continue Have a nice day and hope to see you there. Peace.
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