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theCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Wish You a Happy New YeartheCoderBros wrap up their Season 2 with a recap of some of their favorite episodes including a countdown (for New Years, get it?) of their top 3. No kiss at the end, but they do talk about what they wish for in the new year.
2025-12-2635 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Have a Bigger Bro Pt 2Hear from Haniel the conclusion of racism in Iowa, how he got on national TV, and the advice he gave both of his super Asian tracked kids (a UPenn graduate that works at Accenture, and a Brown graduate that works at Apple. Whoa.)
2025-12-2338 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Have a Bigger Bro Part 1Haniel Lynn is the CEO of Kastle, a company with hundreds of millions in revenue and almost 1000 employees. As you can guess from the name, he's also the brother of Hansel. In honor of the holiday season, we celebrate with family by talking about how these two grew up in Iowa with a single mom and how Haniel's perfect Asian track record came to be.
2025-12-1627 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Don't Meet Jeremy LinPatricia Sun is the sister-in-law of Jeremy Lin and co-founder, co-boss, and CEO of JLin, LLC. Hear the inside perspective on what makes Jeremy so successful beyond the NBA, why he played balled with some pretty crazy hairstyles, and how it was really Patricia who kicked Jeremy out of his brother's apartment during Linsanity (in the most loving way, of course!). Is Patricia the boss or is Jeremy the boss? You decide.
2025-12-0950 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Go to Yale LawJan Foo is a graduate of Yale Law where she became close friends with a certain JD Vance, met Vivek Ramaswamy, and even had Amy Chua, the original Tiger Mom (yeah, the one who wrote the book that started the phrase!), as her professor and mentor. Jan grew up with the opposite of Tiger Parents though, and instead credits her success to what she calls a "benign neglect" parenting style that she grew up with. Does the opposite of Tiger Parenting really work? Find out from Jan.
2025-12-0242 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Ask How Asian R U?theCoderBros wish you a Happy Thanksgiving with a pre-recorded episode of their patented HARU quiz. How Asian R U, exactly? Find out how Asian theCoderBros are as we run through a few of our questions from our world-famous HARU quiz, available online at www.thecoderbros.com.
2025-11-2538 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Try SF's Sushi Bistro RestaurantDavid Chien is the backwards baseball cap wearing owner of Sushi Bistro in San Francisco. A Chinese guy running a Japanese style restaurant for 20 years isn't all that common, and neither is Dave. Find out what goes into running a sushi restaurant, why a handicap patron makes you think twice, and why some of that really red looking tuna isn't exactly natural.
2025-11-1839 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Explore AlaskaMeet Arva Chiu, Stanford educated doctor who decided to move to the tiny village of Barrow, Alaska to be one of six do-it-all-doctors after getting her medical degree. She's since become what we laymen would call a Butt Doctor (other people call them Endoscopists) doing multiple colonoscopies a day until she recently retired. Take a cue from Arva - if you're going to walk up to a sleeping bear, make sure your snowmobile is pointed in the "away" direction.
2025-11-1133 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Go to the ERKaren Foo is a Type-B ER doctor, if there's such a thing. Laid back up-for-anything is her motto. But she also can't sit still. That's what led her to becoming an ER Doctor - everything else was just too boring. If you've ever watched the Pitt on HBO, you'll know what her life is like. Get ready to cringe at some of the gross stories that can only come from an ER doc.
2025-11-0432 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros do some Tiger ParentingErvinna Lim was born and raised in Malaysia. She went to college in Australia and then made her way to the bay area where she gained experience at companies such as Ebay and Stubhub, before making it all the way to Senior VP at Jumio. She's the proud Mom of 2 boys. Is she a tiger parent? She says no, but we say otherwise.
2025-10-2837 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Survive a Shark AttackTony Lee has told his shark attack survival story to National Geographic, Newsweek, ABC7, KITV, Island News, and even theCoderBros. Relive our shortened episode replay as we focus on the craziest story we've ever heard. Tony is the epitome of an Asian using math to live, so make sure your kids get their A's in math!
2025-10-2130 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Sue TrumpDavid Chiu is San Francisco's City Attorney, known for a lot of things, chief among them being the leader of the Birthright Citizenship lawsuits against the Trump administration. The kind of guy who has three degrees from Harvard, he somehow still disappointed his Tiger Mom back in the day (sort of). As one of the co-founders of HAPI Hour, an Asian bar meetup group in San Francisco back in the early 2000s, he's as laid back as the rest of us all while being the best of us.
2025-10-1428 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros and Chinese ParentsAlice Loo was raised by her grandparents in China while her parents were trying to make it in life. She finally "met" her parents, who were basically strangers to her, when she moved to the US at the age of 13, leaving the grandparents who had raised her since a month after birth. She's since spent her time ratcheting up the Chinese way of working hard to be successful by getting into Duke for undergrad and then working at Deloitte for what seems like a million years.
2025-09-3052 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Look Down UndahDean Ku is a proud house spouse who spent his kids' formative years down undah in Australia. He's been around the block, having opened Asia's first Starbucks and taking clients out to drink fresh snake blood to working at Red Octane, the Netflix of video games back in the day. He was even there long enough to be a part of Guitar Hero when it got bought eventually by Activision. As Dean taught us that boys down undah would say, welcome to our podcast, c*nts! (Seriously, that's a thing in Australia. But not here, so we bleeped out...
2025-09-1649 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Design DisneyGreyson Lum has the most magical job in the world - he designs themed entertainment. After working 27 years at Disney as an architect for many of their theme park villages, he struck out on his own to found Baker-E, a themed entertainment architecture and design company (who knew those were out there?). Tune in to see how smart, creative, and persistent you need to be to have a magical life.
2025-09-0953 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Meet Tony SharkTony Lee isn't Ironman, but he's not unlike Tony Stark. He's built uber-successful companies (but in biomed, not weapons). He designed his own special prosthetic legs for each of his sports (though they don't have rockets on them). And Tony's sheer perseverance and Ironman-level craziness brought him to China to close a funding round right after a near-fatal shark attack where he swam to shore with his foot in his pocket. No shortage of inspiration from a man that came back from the literal jaws of death to raise millions for his company. Give it up for Tony Shark...
2025-09-021h 09theCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Find Religion in CanadaShu-Ling Lee is the Executive Pastor at North America's largest Chinese church, the number 2 guy at a church of 4,000 people (Asians!) in Toronto. Shu-Ling was a bit of a rebel in his youth, maybe even failing some "Asian Six Pack" classes, as they call them in Canada, before turning to a life that serves Christ. Tune in to check out Shu's religious yet progressive views on life, and how Christianity doesn't necessarily make you a better person, but it does give you a place to heal.
2025-08-2652 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Read PlayboyWarning - Mature Themes, for 18+. Kaila Yu is a former Playboy model, K-Pop band singer, and is currently a freelance journalist - and she's got a memoir coming out. It's called Fetishized, and in it, she talks about yellow fever, fetishizing of the Asian female, and how she herself may have contributed to it in her youth. Tune in to find out what her strict Asian parents thought, how she became one of the race girls in a Fast and the Furious movie, and why not giving a _bleep_ got her to where she is today.
2025-08-1949 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Are SO AsianSeason 2, lesss goooooooo! Drop in to our short Season 2 intro where theCoderBros talk about why they changed the podcast name, what they did this summer, and most importantly a preview of Season 2 guests. Me so Asian, you so Asian, we all so Asian.
2025-08-1219 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Guess How MuchtheCoderBros spend their last episode of season 1 playing a game of Guess How Much - Net Worth edition. Play along as they pull out Asian celebs like Simu Liu, Andrew Yang, and Jackie Chan and find out how much their estimated net worth is, according to the internet. Have an awesome summer everyone, chat you up in the Fall!
2025-06-0346 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Learn Their FractionsHa Nguyen is ready for some football, at least Wayne thinks she is. On top of being a big college football fan, she's won tens of thousands playing poker back in the day too. Alas, she decided not to play poker professionally and is now a fractional COO, helping a multitude of companies run their operations. From a last-minute escape from Vietnam at age 2 during the fall of Saigon, her life trajectory changed through the selflessness of a foster family who supported Ha's low-income upbringing to eventually attend some of the top schools in the world and finally find...
2025-05-2747 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Go Roller SkatingTiffany Chin is a 3rd generation Chinese American raised in the Bay Area. She has built a successful career as an AI and Design leader. Both of her parents were also designers so I guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree so they say. Most interestingly, her White Castle is roller skating. Yes, you read that correctly, it's roller skating at skate parks and dropping into bowls!
2025-05-2049 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Go On Broadcast TVMarcella Lee, weeknight news anchor for CBS in San Diego and 24-time Emmy winner, is a nice person. Some have even said TOO nice. But listen to all the lives she's impacted from foster families to homes in wildfires and you'll see that being nice doesn't mean you won't succeed. In fact, it's a big reason why she did.
2025-05-1346 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Downsize into a Toyota Rav4 SUVRebekka Lien has lived a very unique life so far, especially for an asian. She was born in Germany, moved to Taiwan at age 5 and then to America by age 8. She had a tough childhood which she's had to overcome. And eventually she made her way into becoming an Actor, Screenwriter, Comedian, Voiceover artist and more. She's living with her boyfriend in extreme downsized fashion in their Toyota Rav4 SUV.
2025-05-0650 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Go To the TheatreMarie Yuen is living her White Castle life in Chicago where she's probably the one and only Asian playwright. Starting with an advertising career in Hong Kong, she started to find her calling after winning the South China Morning Post Short Story Competition there and came back to the US to start her life as a playwright. She's currently raising investments for her next play on a New York stage, Roxane of Bergerac, with an all-Asian cast and a new twist on an old classic. No numchucks included in the Cyrano de Bergerac fight scenes (unfortunately?).
2025-04-2942 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros become AconicSoon Yu, bestselling author and podcaster extraordinaire, joins us to reminisce about our old Asian rock band days in the late 90s Bay Area. A marketing/user experience guy by trade, Soon also has a successful podcast called Aconic which also interviews guests of Asian descent, including big names like Andrew Yang, Elaine Chow, and soon Martin Yan (can cook!), and two successful books called Iconic Advantage and Friction, available on Amazon and elsewhere. Soon hails from the Davis, CA area where he lives with his son and wife, who he met through a 7-day whirlwind first-date experience and...
2025-04-2251 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros say AbracadabraDan Chan, aka the Millionaires' Mentalist, is an Asian magician. It's not often you hear those two words together, but that's who he is. He loves to wow people, and that's what makes him a great magician. From random street magic to balloon animal gigs with his wife, Dan figured out a long time ago that if you can book a couple shows in a day, that money can add up to a real income. Having wowed the likes of Draymond Green, Eric Yuan (CEO of Zoom), Elon Musk, and yes, even Hansel and Wayne, Dan's the real deal...
2025-04-1554 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Open Five BusinessesJimmy Hsu runs five businesses in San Francisco, all within a block of each other. Starting with a coffee shop, he soon expanded to a hair salon, a print shop, a laundromat, and most recently a bake shop. He's the proud owner of all of them, and currently thinking of adding a pizza business to the portfolio. Moving from Kansas to California with $1500 in his pocket, Jimmy learned how to network with people and take advantage of opportunities he found. And he had the balls to go for em, too.
2025-04-0948 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Get Into Real EstateMitch Wong works in the craziest industry in the Bay Area - real estate. With per-square-foot prices well into the thousands and more, it's not a bad place to be. From going to high school in Hong Kong to opening a micro-brewery in Beijing, Mitch has been around the world and then some. His wife started a successful pre-school that almost did Cantonese immersion (Hansel is bummed they didn't), but instead went to Mandarin immersion. Mitch wraps up the podcast with a real estate tip that'll make you rich, immediately. Or something like that.
2025-04-0143 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Go F1 RacingKelvin Fu, engineer extraordinaire, tells us about the life of an executive on Honda's racing team. His job is to spend marketing money to make Honda look good by winning as many races like Indy 500 as he can. From wind tunnels to bleeding edge engine designs, Kelvin's team tunes race cars into speed demon machines so you, fair consumer, would think Honda is cool and go buy one. But as the engineer Asian on the team, do you think he ever got to drive one? You'll have to tune in to find out. On the way to racing success...
2025-03-2545 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Go Into PsychiatryKiki Chang, father of a one year old (congrats!) in his late 50's, is a talker. Not only on this podcast, but to his pediatric patients in his psychiatry practice. He's also the dad of a 22 yo musical prodigy who currently studies songwriting at Berkelee (no, not Berkeley; BERKELEE, one of the top music colleges in the world). Shout out to Zach, check him out at https://www.zachco.com/. As for Kiki, after graduating from Princeton and while attending Tufts medical school, he decided he hated medicine and dropped out to pursue a career in music production. Turns...
2025-03-1852 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Grow Up KoreanEunJin Raney is Korean through and through but you'd never know it because she married white. Born in Korea, she immigrated to the US first in the Bronx and then to outside Boston where she picked up English. Her first big disappointment in life was not getting into Harvard, but it sounds like she's lived a pretty awesome life since. Having found her White Castle, EunJin now lives in the suburbs of Boston with plenty of time to spend with her two boys and amazing (white) husband Colin, who is busy running a new fitness company he founded (Ray...
2025-03-1147 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Go Non-Binary in ChinaMaile Lynn is none other than Hansel's own oldest kid. A sophomore at NYU in Shanghai, they are non-binary (they/them). How did they come out? Why do they think they are non-binary? What does that even mean? And maybe even more interestingly, what's the Chinese word for non-binary? Did Uncle Wayne find out any tips about how to work the college system for his own daughters? If you have kids going to, or about to be going to, college, give this episode a listen and find out what it's like to be a non-binary college student.
2025-03-0437 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)SPECIAL EPPY - theCoderBros Launch!In this special book-launch episode (that's right, our book launches today!), theCoderBros share insights about the book, personal nuggets, and of course some valuable life tips. Listen in and find out about Hansel's cool thumb ring trend, Wayne eating pigs feet, or the hilarious punk-pop band they were in together, Timmy Ramen. And don't forget to check out our book, theCoderBros Go To White Castle, available now, nationwide! (because, you know, it's on Amazon)
2025-02-251h 02theCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Get High on the SuperSonicsJudy Chen is master of the dance. As an 18 year old freshman in college, she made the dance team for NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, back when they were crazy good, with Shawn Kemp, Gary Payton, and a host of other talent. Her daughter was passed the dancing genes, as she, at only 13, is attending San Francisco Ballet School while performing live shows for the San Francisco Ballet. In the recent past, Judy started a company that infuses CBD into a beverage (can we get a hit of that??), and now works to invent new flavors of food, like salted egg...
2025-02-1842 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Learn How to Run theCoderSchoolLynna Tsou runs one of our top theCoderSchool locations, is a founding member of a Mandarin immersion program in Oakland (Yu Ming), a part-time educational psychologist, and a part-time professor teaching other teachers. If that weren't enough, she's also the Chair for the Berkeley Public Schools Fund Board. A long time foodie and master chef, Lynna grew up in Wisconsin in a town of about 5,000 white people. What's her secret to running a top theCoderSchool location? You'll have to tune in to find out.
2025-02-1147 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Talk Fake Meats and Private JetsSteve Leung's got some crazy stories. Coming from grandparents in Hong Kong so wealthy that they didn't need any formal education, his father decided to give all that money up to pursue his own dreams, including coming to the US to eventually get his PhD from MIT. While we're sure Steve often wonders if he should connect back to grandpa for a big inheritance, he says no, and instead learned to follow his passion - money be damned. Today, Steve works at Beyond Meat, the meat alternative company, and tells us why that's the next big thing. Along the...
2025-02-0449 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Get Accepted to NorthwesternJim Yang, not to be confused with Jimmy O Yang, is a chill dude. This Philly fan moved from super Asian Bay Area to white and cold Minnesota after he was married, only to eventually head back to LA. These days, he's heading up marketing at a bunch of startups, but it's how he marketed his son that's most interesting. Marketed his son so well that he got admitted into Northwestern recently. Get a glimpse of the "dirty game" we're all playing to get kids into a good school these days. College Counselors - are they worth it? You...
2025-01-2846 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Escape from VietnamSarah Nguyen (pronounced WEEEN, in Viet!) is your regular good-old San Franciscan. Except she had a hell of a childhood. Sarah was born in Vietnam and was 3 years old when Saigon fell and the commies came to town. Soon after, her family planned to escape. Coming from a poor fishing village, Sarah, with her brother, followed her mom in the dark of night to get on a boat and set off to anywhere but Vietnam. With barely anything to eat and only a sugary drink to keep her and the entire boat full of people alive for a week...
2025-01-2153 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Play Ping PongAlex Poon was a champion ping-ponger back in Louisiana growing up, only to find out California had a lot better ping pong players. An early eBay employee (around number 25!), he eventually went on to start his own mobile app company before the iPhone days, and now bounces back and forth between running a Venture Capital company and playing pickleball in semi-retirement mode. He's definitely not a tiger dad, allllmost shared a horse with Steph Curry, and seemed like he definitely could have been the inspiration for the Season 1 finale of Silicon Valley when he presented his app onstage to...
2025-01-1446 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Invest in Crypto... and Monogamy?Gin Chao - if you know the name, you know the reputation. Partier extraordinaire from back in the day (and maybe even today), Gin's had some of the most enviable jobs for guys like us. From working in the NBA along with greats like Yao Ming and Jeremy Lin, to being the Strategy Officer for one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world (Binance), to being friends with the CEO (CZ, once basically the richest man in the world) before working there, Gin's got quite the interesting background. With no wife and no kids (that he knows of...
2025-01-0752 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Calibrate Their AsianMay Ngeow is a career woman, spanning 19 years at Accenture where she made partner, to now VP at Visa. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania near Gettysburg meant she was the single Asian in the world who actually knew what the Mason Dixon line was at the time. Afraid she maybe isn't "enough" of a Tiger Mom, May balances her corporate life by spending family time balancing that, too, making her kids do all the requisite activities like piano, tennis, etc etc - but having them do the practice at the last minute. And the jury is still out...
2025-01-0139 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Get Down to BusinessSimon Ru, founder (with successful exit) of UpNest, a marketplace for real estate agents, has had an amazing life. From first gen Chinese with parents working minimum wage at the garment factory, to Army reserve, off to Berkeley, and finally founding two companies, he's done it all. Relive his biggest White Castle as he talks about what it's like to start a business from scratch, and without any real investment money, sell it for big-time bucks for his grand exit. Great rags to riches life story. Now that he's sold his company, he'll have plenty of time to binge...
2025-01-0142 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Go Through a Mid-Life CrisisKenny Chen will tell you he's Taiwanese, not Chinese (dammit). Growing up in super-white Michigan, he didn't even know he was Asian back then. But he soon found his way through college and eventually started his own successful marketing agency (two, in fact!), which he eventually handed over to his wife Kathy to run (she still runs it). That's because he realized he already found his first White Castle, and was in search of his next. So he then founded a community group of like-minded middle-agers, all going through that similar life transition. Did you know that if you...
2024-12-2448 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Go from Ivy League to Rural LivingJoe Cha, boilerplate Stanford undergrad and Harvard business school? No way. He may have gone to the top schools in the country and become mad successful founding companies and making the big bucks at first, but unlike most of us, he decided that wasn't his White Castle way early on. He's no longer chasing the golden handcuffs, in fact, just the opposite. He's now a professor at a community college in rural Washington (rural as in he's got 5 acres of land, he's the only Asian there, and has a survival bomb shelter) raising his three daughters and teaching them...
2024-12-2449 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Get Plastic SurgeryVicki Pao tells all (or at least some) about the glamorous life of a plastic surgeon. Unlike the plastic surgeons you see on TV, Dr. Pao is not an egomaniac. She's actually pretty down to earth. Helping people is something she's always wanted to do, and even after a ridiculous amount of schooling (something like 14+ years) to become a plastic surgeon, she says she'd do it all over again, because helping people - that's her White Castle. She met her husband by fixing his knee, gave Hansel great advice after he broke his fingers ("dude, don't break your fingers...
2024-12-1741 mintheCoderBros Go To White Castle (Cuz We Ah, So Asian)theCoderBros Retire to HawaiiAlan Tien ruminates about retiring and living the good life after having run the Paypal China group years ago. A long time friend of the bros, Alan was a Stanford undergrad to the dismay of his parents, who wanted him to go to MIT. Two pretty good choices when you're accepted to both. He's also lived around the world from Shanghai when it was thriving, to Singapore when it was hot (i.e., all the time), to now spending half his time in Hawaii. Early on, he founded an Asian social club called M-Society that, cheesy as it was...
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