A dedication to all those times we said we were only going for one. *A late note, but I just wanted to add how thankful I am for my coworkers during my dark times. Thanks yall for being there when even I didn’t want to, listening to me blabber on, and making sure I found my way back home.
Obviously, the music is by the UK band Spector; I just bought the MP3 on Amazon. Spector “All the Sad Young Men” MV: https://youtu.be/KQlMvtMI-II
Talking about Skyline Festival in Los Angeles. Sorry, I had been sitting on this video for a while. Been busy with work and other projects, which I hope to share with y’all as soon as it’s published. Ray and Anthony join me to talk about our Skyline Festival 2023 experience. It was super awesome.
Also, the song “Age of Love” (1990) is a self-titled track by Italian-Belgian duo Age of Love. I guess you can say the track is in 90s era trance style. Paul van Dyk and Cosmic Gate remixed this track in the mid to late 2010s. I just wanted to clarify that comment near the end of the video.
As Xmas ends and Mariah Carey sealed away til next December, I finally got the time to coerce my friends into doing a podcast thingy! In this Festies with Besties episode, Lance and Ray join me alongside new faces Lucy and Layal to recap our Tranceventures at Dreamstate SoCal last November. The event was hella sick as we saw the likes of Bryan Kearney, ATB, and Trance Jesus Armin Van Buuren!
You might want to skip around if you’re looking for a comprehensive discourse about Insomniac’s trance festival. But if you want to hear some friends share some laughs, please come along for the ride. If you were at Dreamstate this year, comment below about your experience and why you loved/hated the event.
A collection of videos and photos from my Ireland trip set to Lane 8’s “Don’t Let me Go” and Mumfords and Son’s “Little Lion Man.” I, obviously, don’t own any of the music and am not monetizing this video so in no way or form, I am making money from this. I just want to share my adventures with the amazing people I was with….and I also have the receipts for these songs in case anyone comes looking!
This is also my second attempt at making a video like this. After viewing it a few times I noticed there were some spots where I could have made the edits tighter but I will keep that in mind for the next time I try my hand at another music video.
Hi hi, on this episode, I had some new faces with me as we discussed some of our favorite Slice of Life animes and the ending of Attack on Titans S4P2. With my friends Patrick and Josh, we talk about what animes made us cry and why we love Haikyu, Your Lie in April, and (of course!!!) Shingeki no Kyojin. The first half is pretty lighthearted, but towards the end, we pulled a college discourse about the themes within AoT and why they are essential for us to think about as our world continues to repeat history.
If you have any inputs or want to share some of your top picks of Slice of Life or wanna tell us to bugger off with our hardons for AoT, comment below.
Animes We Talked About:
My Dress-up Darling Haiykuu A Silent Voice Love Hina Run with the Wind Attack on Titan Jujutsu Kaisen Made in Abyss The Promised Neverland Josee, the Tiger and the Fish Clannad: After Story Ahiru no Sora Ride Your Wave Beast Stars 86 Saikano
Timestamps 00:00 – Some of Our Favorite Slice of Life Animes 12:07 – Meme Responsibly and Why We Love Your Lie in April and Hayikuu 25:13 – Animes That Made Us Cry and Gojo’s Eyes 44:43 – Our Reaction to Attack on Titan’s Season 4 Part 2 Ending 53:55 – Reflecting on the Themes in Shingeki no Kyojin IRL
**** WARNING: THIS IS FULL OF SPOILERS ***
IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED SHINGEKI NO KYOJIN, MY DRESS-UP DARLING, HAYIKUU, OR ANY OF THE ANIME WE NAMED, WE'RE PROB GONNA SPOIL IT.
Hi hi, sorry for the long hiatus, but I’ve been gone on a holiday in Ireland. I should have some videos about that coming out soon. But here is a recording where Will and Erick joined me in a conversation about growing up in Visalia as nerdy hoodrats. We talk about what it was like in a multicultural community, racism, economic disparity, being nerds, finding anime, and being hoodrats running around the ghettos of the Central Valley.
If you have your own stories about growing up in Visalia or being a nerdy hoodrat, comment down below!
Link to the second part of this recording (the realllll weeby anime stuff) Weebthusiast EP12 | https://youtu.be/ksyWX87ffGA
Timestamps 0:00:00 – The Oh Wow Nickel Arcade 1:10:48 – Skipping School to Eat at Gumbo and the Buffet at Adventure Park 1:20:41 – Being First-Generation Kids without Adult Supervision 1:31:48 – Rebelling Against my Asian Parents and Finding my Crew and Avoiding Gangs 1:41:44 – How I found Anime and The New Generation of Kids in Visalia 1:51:55 – My DDR Story and the Beef Between Fresno and Visalia Nerds 1:04:23 – I Love Growing up in the Central Valley and Bless Nobles Mom’s Heart
I sat down with local Bay Area DJ JustJovani to talk about his debut release, “It’s All the Same,” on DTL Records. The interview was over an hour, but this is just 30 minutes of essential bits of knowing Jovani Melendez. I will release the entire video in a few days, but you’ll have to make do with the Cliftnotes version.
Below are links to his new track, socials, and a show he will be playing this weekend.
Hello, hello. I am back with some new faces. This video is a cut from a #sorryasianparents recording where we ended a 3-hour conversation with anime. Will, Noble, and Erick joined me discussing growing up in the Central Valley and the anime we watched. The whole video is about an hour and a half, but I felt like it was a crime to cut some of the laughs out. So, essentially, this video is four men in their 30s gushing over Naruto, Bleach, and other classic animes…and our shared experiences of “accidentally” finding La Blue Girl and Bible Black.
So I hope you enjoy! Also, feel free to throw in some names of the animes you watched growing up in the comments.
Timestamps 0:00:07 – Our weeb origin story…and accidentally finding Bible Black/La Blue Girl 0:10:30 – Watching old animes dubs or subs and the glory days of fandubs 0:20:26 – Beserk on VHS and animes that defined our generation 0:30:56 – Finding anime late at night and talking about Bleach and Naruto 0:44:10 – Finding anime through AMVs and I hate harem animes 0:55:03 – Old animes we thought ended awkwardly and talking about JOJO 1:05:10 – Gushing over iconic scenes from Bleach and Naruto 1:16:02 – Beach and Naruto had some amazing animations and delved more into Japanese culture 1:24:11 – Saying our final thoughts and recommendations
Well, well, well, after taking a year off, Anime Los Angeles returned last weekend at the Long Beach Convention Center. I, of course, went and did a little cosplaying, made some friends, and even had my own slice of life moment. IT WAS AMAZING. So in this video, you’ll see me recount (the stuff that I’m allowed to say on YouTube) to Emilio as we share a few laughs about my Weebventures!
Also, I say nerds and weebs a lot in this video but I say it out of love. Because, as you already know, I’m a huge geek and share the highs and lows of what it means to be a part of this culture. So, I jest.
Timestamps 00:00 – Start of recapping my otaku weekend
02:08 – Getting into Anime Los Angeles
13:45 – What were my favorite things at ALA 2022
28:54 – What I didn’t like about the anime convention
39:52 – The Cosplay Deviants Afterparty at ALA 2022
#SorryAsianParents 
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