Akil and Hong welcome Agatha Louie to the show! Agatha is a Student Program Advisor in Financial Aid, although when she first started at SBCC she worked with Akil in Admissions and Records. After highlighting Financial Aid, Agatha discusses what brought her to SBCC (while highlighting her family's history in Santa Barbara), and then follows with a thorough breakdown of some of her favorite dishes to cook and eat, and a discussion of Chinese medicine and oral tradition. Akil mentions what he's been reading during Ramadan, and Hong chimes in with his favorite manhua (Hong Kong comics) he read growing up.
Mentioned in this episode:
SBCC Financial Aid - https://www.sbcc.edu/financialaid/?page=1
Solomon Islands - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands
Guadalcanal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal
Honiara - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honiara
Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens - https://www.sbthp.org/jimmys
Chinese-American Badges during WW2 - https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Chinese_Americans_in_San_Francisco_during_World_War_II
Fried Wontons - https://rasamalaysia.com/chinese-recipe-fried-wontons/
Steamed Glutinous Rice Cake - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeAE2rQr-WU
Spring Rolls - https://rasamalaysia.com/spring-rolls/
Dumpling - https://thewoksoflife.com/dumpling-recipe-youll-ever-need/
Braised Pork Belly (Closest thing I could find to mom’s) - http://www.blueapocalypse.com/2013/06/claypot-pork-belly.html
Chinese Tamale (joong) - https://thewoksoflife.com/zongzi-cantonese-style/
Tofu Fa - https://en.christinesrecipes.com/2008/06/tofu-fa-recipe-chinese-dessert.html
Purification of the Heart - https://sandala.org/shop/books/purification-of-the-heart/
Ramadan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan
Ayurveda - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
Hot and Cold foods in Traditional Chinese Medicine - https://www.dw.com/en/healthy-eating-in-traditional-chinese-medicine/a-18619239
Tak Shing Hong / TS Emporium - https://www.tsemporium.com/en_us/location-intro.html
House blessing (doesn’t cover ceremony, but a good idea of the customs involved) - https://fengshuibeginner.com/8-must-see-chinese-custom-and-cultures-for-moving-house/
Tony Wong (Wong Yuk-Long) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Yuk-long
Blood Sword - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Hero:_Tales_of_the_Blood_Sword
Dragon Tiger Gate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Tiger_Gate
Oriental Heroes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Heroes
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Hong Lieu: hello, and welcome to another episode of SBCC Vaquero Voices - a podcast highlighting the unique voices that comprise our campus culture and how we're all working together to serve our students in the community at large, as usual i'm joined by co host Akil Hill.
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Akil Hill: what's good?
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Hong Lieu: And today we're honored to welcome agatha Louie to the show. welcome agatha!
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Akil Hill: Welcome Agatha.
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Agatha: Thank you for having me guys.
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Hong Lieu: So agatha you work in the financial aid office as a student program advisor in terms of your.
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Hong Lieu: day to day activities, what does that kind of entail.
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Agatha: or tea every day is so different how y'all so us, we might not my path to the financial aid is quite different than probably normal others.
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Agatha: I have no experience with financial aid, so my day to day experience at first, is that you know getting to know what what.
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Agatha: What student wants to what see the need so i've been there for at least five years now, so what I usually do is I help students with.
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Agatha: Financial aid class or the dream Act or the cpt G, which is the California dream, the California promise graph.
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Agatha: And you know it's really different daily really depending on what student needs are because their needs is so vast right, we are public.
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Agatha: Institution, so we range from students who are coming from high school to someone who is we entering the workforce.
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Agatha: to someone who is still learning the path housing, you know, having some goals that you want to meet and they're at the age where you know.
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Agatha: they're ready to retire, but they do have a goal that this you want to do, then they want financial aid assistant, so we kind of meet with the students to see what the needs are, and then we go from there, and you know, to see what they're really needs are so we really custom to the students.
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Agatha: knee and yet the same time, we have to follow the you know not only the state guidelines, but you know the federal student aid guideline to assist those students that they need, and we do have workshops available for them to but really think on what their needs are.
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Hong Lieu: yeah and we had.
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Hong Lieu: Maureen on the show earlier, you know a few episodes ago, so we got kind of the overview financial aid so it's nice to get that kind of.
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Hong Lieu: granular singular approach in terms of.
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Hong Lieu: What does it mean to be student centered and focusing on students it really just means you have to be ready to go in a different directions and cover.
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Hong Lieu: All different aspects so many different aspects because, like you said we're a public institution and students come to us from all walks of life, and we have to be ready to kind of help them so it's good.
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Hong Lieu: it's good to see that that kind of that that's how it plays out and that, at the folks are ready to meet the task and that's kind of what you kind of just built, you know this going in kind of this is what it's going to be like.
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Agatha: Exactly I remember hearing your projects with marine on there, and I think it's.
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Agatha: You know it's it's where we are, we we wouldn't be here if we don't want this job right because we were student centered and at the same time, been there, done that, having.
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Agatha: kids have gone through colleges, not knowing what financial aid is that is probably more of the most driven part of my job is.
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Agatha: Trying to help students who does not know who and how to navigate through the financial aid system because it's so complicated and it at times, it could be.
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Agatha: Very daunting knowing you know, not knowing what to do and how to do it because most of the time they are first generation students.
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Agatha: Even coming from high school, we have to start helping them to doing that part of the Roadmap as to what financial aid is what aid is available, how they can obtain that and whether you know what what they have.
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Agatha: To offer us it's also a learning curve, for us, also because every student student is so different like you said you know we we have not knowing who's coming in that day, and what we need, what the what the needs are and we have to be ready system.
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Hong Lieu: yeah so it's a grateful to have you and it's Nice, you know, in terms of I think of customer service kind of.
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Hong Lieu: positions where you kind of have an idea of what people want coming in, and you have that vague idea of they want financial aid, but in terms of the details of it it's just yeah so.
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Hong Lieu: So definitely definitely is a lot to work through but but, judging from the performance of the department you y'all do a great job so so definitely worth you know to be commended.
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Agatha: Absolutely yeah especially remote environment right we.
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Agatha: Try to figure it out how to assist students and we are moving fast enough, and you know, do you know, this is, this is a new environment was but we getting in we taking students, you know any way, we could live with phone email, fax.
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Agatha: And chat we also have a zoom virtual desk now which we really hope that student utilize that tool that we can be talking to them, just like in person.
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Agatha: And to assist them, even though remotely but we're able to share screen with them and try to system, the best we could and we find it, we have been very successful in doing all those areas which is quite Nice.
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Hong Lieu: yeah at the end of the day, there are still those documents to fill out, I know I was helping Elsa get some documents on the website, a couple months ago.
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Hong Lieu: So yeah it is one of those like first kind of wake up calls for folks as they transition to adulthood.
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Hong Lieu: Just how much paperwork and stuff like that plays in the process so it's kind of like a first kind of salvo in that process of filling out this paperwork information right having.
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Hong Lieu: corroborating documents I mean it's it's a daunting process but folks like agate they're here to help so if you're still listening definitely definitely get on that contact your department.
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Akil Hill: yeah you know and and i'm thinking a little bit also as well how you know Agha this job is so impactful because.
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Akil Hill: You know a lot of students after they graduate from high school, especially maybe Christian Generation Students or or even students coming back, but.
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Akil Hill: You know the financial aid piece is a huge piece of of giving students, the realization that there is support and hope for them to complete whatever they're attempting to complete in and.
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Akil Hill: And it's a you know I just remember what am I good friends his son is filling out the fast food, and you know, he was just he's just like last right, and so the piece of having all these tools and that just spoke about different ways to communicate and reach people and financial aid.
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Akil Hill: In fact, in financial aid department is super supportive and, but I think the fast one realizing that you can get funding straight out of high school.
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Akil Hill: To help assist you like to a lot of students that's that's a game changer.
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Akil Hill: And having people who are positions that know how to assist the students, I mean you've already heard her allude to each student's need is different, and then the federal guidelines in the state guidelines and.
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Akil Hill: Being able to kind of work it's almost like a rubik's cube right, and so you know.
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Akil Hill: it's super it's an impactful I think that's the first realization for a lot of students, where they're like oh I gotta fill out a fafsa oh wait they're going to give me money.
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Akil Hill: away like it's a really outside the application process apply NSPCC it's the next most important thing, I really believe that.
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Agatha: yeah you mentioned something about like basketball right and most students, I say okay i'm going to do two or three Max application.
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Agatha: Okay, or the CG that they have that it's because of all those variations of application, they have no idea which one, they should be falling and then, if they do file.
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Agatha: Now what what's The next step, so you know I hope and wish that students, you know not only just contact us but visit our website, because I left, I have so many instructions, like the website instructions, how they.
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Agatha: How they apply each application, what is this application they is that application for them and then all those things you know and with the workshop that we have.
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Agatha: We always want to students to say utilize those services were there for you, we are not in high school, therefore, we can't really kind of like go to your classroom and drag you out and say hey you know I kill, you have not done X, Y Z.
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Agatha: We can do that anymore, what we do, can do is we send students, he now once we receive the fast law, but sometimes they've been selected for verification, they have no idea what that is.
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Agatha: But if they utilize our service when they contact us we get to look at the file right, and then we get to see what.
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Agatha: They need to so we can talk to them and say hey I kill you still have to do for verification the Department of ED has selected for verification.
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Agatha: So this is what you need to do here, the steps, how to be real your and satisfy requirements and and complete that and if you didn't declare major the federal guideline is that you have to declare major.
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Agatha: And if you do need help you still want to do all these things, and you still comfortable attend, one of our workshops just just just sit and listen.
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Agatha: or just you know and you're going to learn something or you're going to go away, having one more piece of information that it's a little bit more clearer.
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Agatha: And that's All we want is the student contact us if there's any questions and doubt and we will assist them, you know it's just sometimes it's a timeline that may not be instantaneously at that that's okay we're there for them so.
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Hong Lieu: yeah if this info gets out there, as long as folks aren't in that line, the first couple days of Semester, the financial aid office line like snakes all the way around out the building like it's super long know that you can.
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Hong Lieu: pick up the phone, you can make a phone call you can email, you can get on the online chat there's many ways to reach folks.
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Hong Lieu: Try to avoid that line, the first couple days of semester, you know I mean if you have to go then there's no way to avoid it, but if you can avoid it please take advantage of these other options available to you, those workshops and whatnot.
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Akil Hill: That line is like a Holland raise line.
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Akil Hill: that's if you guys don't know about.
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Akil Hill: You look Google Holland raised see how long people wait in line for that, for the chicken it's pretty much like that that's pretty much what the financially line is like.
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Hong Lieu: And, in both cases it's worth it, because you will get you will get help you will be served yeah there are ways around that as well.
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Agatha: But how I kill they don't have to do, that the application for fast for dream at all those applications started the year previously so.
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Agatha: For example, the.
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Agatha: Application it started in October 2020 already.
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Agatha: They just apply early and be active.
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Agatha: In the files as search and to find the answer I can promise them by the time school start.
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Agatha: That line they shouldn't be on that line they should be already ready to go and get the financial aid ready and it's, sad to say that, even though the application started a year before we have students who will not and.
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Agatha: Or do not know how to self application into the need of the Semester, or even a way after the semesters ended.
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Akil Hill: yeah.
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Agatha: You know that's that's a hard lesson, but you know we're always comes to applying early.
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Akil Hill: Just to work.
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Agatha: Early at night.
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Agatha: yeah that's snake is not good to be asked, but if you do need help.
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Agatha: that's the best that's the best way.
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Agatha: that's where you're going to be, but it's not a good feeling for us also knowing that the students are there, waiting for us and we can't get them soon enough.
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Akil Hill: Yes.
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Hong Lieu: it's good to know, no matter what you will be helped so it's like you will be helped, no matter what but there's ways, you can mitigate those circumstances.
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Hong Lieu: and make it a better situation for you so that's kind of what there's so many options so many things you could take advantage of.
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Hong Lieu: Please do so and start early, but if not, no matter what you will be helped so exactly, thank you for that agatha besides besides.
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Hong Lieu: Besides, you experience a financial aid, it is also May, which is API plus heritage month, so we also wanted to have you on the show agatha to kind of segue that into our what brought you to SPC or your past SPC stevie wonder just talk about kind of.
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Hong Lieu: Your heritage and your experience growing up and how that kind of segue into you kind of coming and working here today.
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Agatha: wow do you have about a year.
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Hong Lieu: we'll do what we can we'll do the best.
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Agatha: With the one hour to go.
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Akil Hill: that's.
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Hong Lieu: The broad.
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Agatha: I came from a very interesting path born and raised in the South Pacific island and it's called the Solomon Islands.
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Agatha: And was born in the island called gorda can now can anyone hear about the Second World War, so.
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Agatha: You know the invasion of quarter canal, they would find my hometown capital is one era grew up there spent about nine years in Hong Kong went back to the island.
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Agatha: list a little bit in Australia and I decided to come to the state, because I do have a long history of family members.
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Agatha: That is in Santa Barbara and at that time my sister my sister was studying in the state here, so my mom thought you know what.
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Agatha: you're going to go to your sister because she has no one there and I have a large family, so I thought I said Okay, no big deal, you know.
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Agatha: been there, done that to other countries what's another what's another country right so came here fell in love with the cultural and having my other family members who are now you know, establishing the Santa Barbara, which I found it on that were how they came about.
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Agatha: And how they became a resident of Santa Barbara which is you know what gosh probably my great grandfather came here way before the Second World War, with the railway.
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Agatha: On the Northern Canada and they kind of push the way down to United States and, eventually, I never learned how they decided to station in Santa Barbara but the now called.
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Agatha: used to call the chinatown in Canada data straight, a lot of my family members has established business there, which is, I think I kill know, like my my uncles and as a genius oriental garden.
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Agatha: Oh in here for.
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Agatha: gosh who knows how long.
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Agatha: And my you know, and my heritage is has gone that far you know, so you know my parents born and raised in China somehow they bought out of China because of the communism and they moved to Australia and then somehow.
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Agatha: migrated to the Solomon Islands and that's where I was born and raised so there's a lot of different history that's why I laugh a joke, I said, you have a year because it's just.
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Agatha: there's so many components to my stories and my family history, it just is in Spain just try to figure it out the pieces How is that possible into who I am today and.
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Agatha: It just it's very interesting and then from from there, I decided to stay in Santa Barbara and I got married and had two kids had a restaurant on stage tree.
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Agatha: And with that that downtown Development came in and then from there, I decided to say not it's either wait for the downtown redevelopment complete.
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Agatha: Go back into that restaurant mode, but at that time, I have a decision to make like like two kids it is, it is, it is a good.
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Agatha: For me to be in such a busy, and anyone who has restaurant know that you're there 24 seven pretty much family life it's like on the side on the sideline right so so I didn't want to give up the chance of watching my kids grown, so I think I say you know what for Back to School so with.
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Agatha: You know, with with with that my mother in law was watching the kids or the kids were in school, while I was going to school.
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Agatha: And as soon as they're done with school I get to come back and spend time with them, so one thing led to another, I did volunteering for the accounting department, because I was a business major.
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Agatha: And, and from that point on, I was hired to be a lab monitor and, from that point on, I did that for part about a good 12 years and hourly worker.
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Agatha: And to my kids have gone to college and my last daughter was a sophomore in college and I said to myself.
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Agatha: I think it's my time to find a full time job because I was quite antsy and I was like I want to do something yeah and I don't want to do the part time thing I wanted to do the full time.
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Agatha: So I kind of looking around and I eventually found admission tonight curves.
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Agatha: shutter open up a position yeah.
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Agatha: that's.
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Agatha: me yeah.
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Akil Hill: that's what my life forever changed because I had I got this cooking we'll get into.
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Akil Hill: The food section well I just.
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Agatha: In 2007 I got I got into admissions and records and I was there for nine years and then I said to myself Okay, I learned what I need.
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Agatha: Now I want to do, learn something else at that time I was doing some projects with a financial director and at that time I was told that there's a position, open and I said.
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Agatha: I don't think I can do that and he's questions for me was why can't you and I said I don't know, maybe I could he said well look at my website and then apply and I did, and then there was was it in 2015 i've been there since 2015 so.
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Agatha: Few loving it, you know challenging at times but loving what i'm doing and the goal is like a customer service student Center I think I was kind of like.
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Agatha: meant to be because you know if you, if I look at all the things i've done all the years i've done since I was six I was running the business for my family helping the family business.
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Agatha: Just imagine security on the cash register, you have to learn how to give out change, so I kind of a customer service a on, so I think it's meant something that I need to do continuously anything with customer service so.
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Agatha: Just variations of customer service right.
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Hong Lieu: What was the name of your restaurant on state street.
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Agatha: Well it's called Bamboo garden at first, and then it changed the name to go Bamboo palace.
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Agatha: And my husband's.
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Agatha: I think they work like 16 or more hours a day, from what I remember my father in law, told me and my my great grandmother grandmother has told someone my family members that the law of our state and door, it has to do with what family value.
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Agatha: And the fruit of the Labor hopefully can translate to wealth and that's what I was taught to do and that's why I think it's ingrained in me that work so.
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Agatha: For the time that I didn't work going to school, but finding ways to work, whether it's volunteering or doing side jobs.
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Agatha: that's something that it's like embedded in me that integrated that I have to work, this is what I need to do in order for to continue on learning and also well I don't know and prove me wrong, I don't say rocket.
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Akil Hill: I can, I can I can actually testify to that because you know I worked with you know I worked with academic records and and she used to she was a beast up in their van she.
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Akil Hill: You know it's true agatha i'm not saying anything that's that's not true, and you know it's true she was she would always be like first one in last one leave it's that's what it was, and you know that's that's the that's the absolute truth.
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Hong Lieu: and your story touched on so many things that I think a lot of listeners can relate to, I mean your parents are running or we're moving moving Australia do do internal you know strive in the country, you know you are.
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Hong Lieu: And it's kind of speaks to the idea of today, you know you kind of have to figure out what you want to do when you grow up and kind of you go you go to school, you do things to kind of build that way.
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Hong Lieu: But you're the classic example of why experiences matter so much because you weren't built from you weren't put on a path do something.
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Hong Lieu: have just served you well, so you can do really anything that gets thrown at you so it's one of those things where I feel like we're really kind of moving away from that, I mean, with good reason, because there's a lot of trauma and it kind of developing that kind of.
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Hong Lieu: You really have to build yourself to be really strong and really tough because i've seen it myself in my life and a smaller scale, because.
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Hong Lieu: yeah my parents, I saw that my parents had to go through, and I just like that's what toughened me up to kind of go through the things that anything that came my way.
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Hong Lieu: But it's it's a it's not an easy path, but something that we should reward more in terms of when when folks apply for jobs and folks interview for jobs and you look at a resume or you look at.
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Hong Lieu: You know what they did their description of what they've done before, and it doesn't It might not quote unquote apply.
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Hong Lieu: But if you, you should be able to look someone in the eyes just meet them and talk to them and know.
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Hong Lieu: Whether they can handle business or not, you know to, to put it in a broad sense, can you handle business can you can you get this done and there's a lot of people that look good on paper interview well.
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Hong Lieu: I just don't want that, I mean and it's and it's hard to do it's hard to actually implement because you have to like.
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Hong Lieu: I mean there's no way to actually make it happen, but I wish that more folks would you know and i'm glad that that whoever financially told you to apply and just said hey.
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Hong Lieu: I know you can do it, and then doesn't matter what your you know what you may have done in the past, or how much experience you have doing this, I know from what i've seen you do and what what you've done in other departments, you can do this job I mean that's that's just that's awesome.
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Akil Hill: Well, I appreciate so much about the stories one is highlighting the API plus experience in this country, and what I really liked about it agatha.
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Akil Hill: is how you brought it to local to the local level, meaning, like the whole chinatown down on canon perdido street.
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Akil Hill: My mother, my mother's side of families for Santa Barbara so I knew that but there's a lot of people that don't understand that context where that whole area where there used to be like the the Buddhist temple was down there.
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Akil Hill: All of that people really need to hear and understand that there was and there still is a.
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Agatha: yeah I appreciate you guys being the honest, because you know I you know I kid knows me right, I could be loud, at the same time, with an Asian and and having that strict respect you must respect.
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Agatha: Whether its authority or seniority or what have you it's kind of ingrained in us where you just you just work you don't you don't talk much you just work.
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Agatha: I wish we would we were taught be more outspoken because i've seen the environment has slowly changing, who I am and what i've been taught to do.
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Agatha: But at the same time it's not happening fast enough where we've always been kind of quiet side we do our job we don't bother anyone, which is do it because that's what we were good at.
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Agatha: But that's what we were told that's what we should do, but with the current environment I wish I was taught being a little bit more outspoken and tougher in that area being outspoken.
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Hong Lieu: And that and that's content that part of the context has definitely shifted because I know I was taught the same way, but because I mean if you from my parents perspective perspective.
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Hong Lieu: Like you don't you don't speak out to soldiers who were saying we're going to take your House, because we don't want Chinese people here anymore.
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Hong Lieu: There are a lot of problems there's a lot to be grateful for, where we have that ability to speak out and it's been a slow adjustment because.
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Hong Lieu: And you don't have any money and now you've caught and come back so so the consequences are so dire before and and and folks here today, I mean it's still a very serious thing.
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Hong Lieu: But, but the consequences of losing the bit where we have that extra wiggle room to speak out and.
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Hong Lieu: And we're seeing more more young folks speak out in that respect, because yeah i'm the same i'm the same as you and I was raised to work hard.
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Hong Lieu: Put your head down and build generational wealth for your family that's all that matters doesn't matter who your friends are doesn't matter what you're doing.
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Hong Lieu: If the check clears and your family gets the money than you then you put your head down and you keep doing it so it's it's taken a lot for me to kind of get out of there too, because the other side of that.
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Hong Lieu: I was raised to be terrified by the other side of that if I got fired for speaking Africa five or anything.
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Hong Lieu: That wasn't a life or death situation because taking care of the family is the life or death situation you know it's.
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Hong Lieu: it's preserving that lineage that heritage and and and for the future generations so it's it's one of those things where it's it's it's one of the things that i'm glad i'm here in America that I.
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Hong Lieu: have more opportunities but it's also makes me think back at the reason for that people I mean you call it people call it festivity people call it being meek but it's like.
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Hong Lieu: You have to contextualize the trauma and the consequences that mean that I mean there were straight gangster stuff out there, he will he was semi auto semi automatic weapons, you know, like like it's no joke like what.
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Agatha: we're in a country where it's kind of it's pretty much foreign to us it doesn't matter is i'm consider myself as Chinese American or Asian American, but when you're not being accepted.
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Agatha: And that someone who call you out and say, if you cannot drive a shopping cart you should go back to your own country, and you ask yourself, I am in my country.
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Agatha: But, yet I inside my heart, I know what they're talking about and I think when I did got that confront by someone who told me that.
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Agatha: I think that was my first time to even was a to even speak out for myself, and when I was speaking I don't know what I did I just asked him to look up the history book to find out where he came from.
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Agatha: And maybe he should re educate himself to classify himself as American and I told him I said, the real American that is truly American, which is the American Indians.
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Agatha: So I said we all integrate here, so how here you put me in that line line and if it's not the because I didn't say i'm sorry but it's what he said to me that kind of like.
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Agatha: Should I continue to just shy away from that conversation or, should I just let him know that you're not and most of the time they don't think I speak English so when they talk back to me or the way they treat me.
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Agatha: Are they treating a little bit differently so it just it's it's kind of hard thing.
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Agatha: But I teach my kids I say you know what you know the wrong and the right, you have to speak out so my kids do speak out now, these days, if there's something but.
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Agatha: I don't know what to tell you how long it just i'm grateful for sharing the story from my father in law's even heartbreaking because, like you said right the Japanese has been.
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Agatha: And at that time, the Chinese were asked to wear batches to differentiate between are you a Japanese or the Chinese and for us is that.
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Agatha: We also come in the same community, why do we have to do, why do you have to call me out, who I am and why does it make any difference and at that time, my father.
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Agatha: didn't work because he was working so hard the restaurant, but just following those rules it's almost like we found the room, we listen we do what we're asked to do.
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Agatha: But 10 years later and learning what happened.
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Agatha: it's just if that's something that I remember him telling my kids his experience in United States and how his first job in United States after the railway is earning him five cents an hour and where's he at today it just unbelievable.
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Hong Lieu: And that's yeah go ahead, you.
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Akil Hill: know what I what I hear a lot of, that is, you know and we've talked about it, you know previously on the show with different guests to just you know just the past trauma of of experiencing you know racism.
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Akil Hill: sexism, but what what one thing that really stood out to me is the perpetual foreigner right, so you know that label that are that slapped on.
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Akil Hill: People from Asian descent is like always like Where are you from and they could never be from America and and you know that's so ignorant so unfortunate in so many ways, where people just kind of perpetual, we think that you're not from.
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Akil Hill: America and I experienced that you know, over and over again, you know i'm just you know my daughter's you know biracial she's half Asian and.
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Akil Hill: You know just with different life experiences, where people just don't think that you're American that's your from here so Where are you from i've heard that multiple times it's unfortunate.
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Agatha: it's better if they ask you where you're from a kill they usually ask me what are you.
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Agatha: yeah what are you and I just come in at first I just like i'm human.
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Agatha: we're seeing so it's that it's you know because maybe I have an accident, I don't know I At first I didn't know where they're coming from Is this the way they asked to say what are you and i'm just like a.
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Akil Hill: you're like you're like happy, most of the time.
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Hong Lieu: But that extra content providers important negative because yeah So while I while I highlight how far we've come in the ability, we have to speak now the context you provide of what Asian folks in America went through.
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Hong Lieu: Even just 5060 years ago not too long ago in history in terms of and where we are today, I mean a serious debt of gratitude to the folks that put in that work.
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Hong Lieu: Even if they weren't being explicitly you know advocating for this and that just living in that environment and persevering and saying i'm going to do this, no matter what.
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Hong Lieu: speaks volumes because they stayed they built that generational kind of wealth for for their you know followers you know, following generations to stay as well.
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Hong Lieu: And to kind of carve out that history and and and for folks who don't know who weren't here man jimmy's was open jimmy's is a landmark restaurants Santa Barbara I always here for the last couple of years before it closed.
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Hong Lieu: And that bar, I mean I could feel the history on that bar top and you know, like eating the food there you could just you could just feel it, I mean.
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Hong Lieu: It just it was just a great place it felt good to be inside that restaurant and i'm glad I got eat there before it closed.
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Hong Lieu: And I wish I would have stayed open the pickle room is in jimmy's place now it's fine okay it's nothing wrong with that go grab a drink.
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Hong Lieu: But it's not jimmy's is not the bar jimmy's it's not the lunch specials at jimmy's so and I didn't get eat at your restaurant I get that but I wish I wish.
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Hong Lieu: So, but yeah so just seeing that history in that context is important, I mean it everything matters now, these conversations yeah.
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Hong Lieu: hey because in the past, what would they do when they have this conversation together oh i'm just kidding oh just words lighten up you know or some of that it's like, no, no, no we're we're past that now yeah like it, we have to, we have to go beyond that we have to be better than that.
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Agatha: Right, I think I think I think it's you you're absolutely right, it history taught or something right within their we know what happened moving forward.
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Agatha: Because we please learn something from history and then better myself the Community the nation, the world, you know it's just.
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Agatha: Why do we have to repeat history or why, why do we have to label someone it's just not only not sensitive but not knowing or not learning that cultural and assume what that culture is like assuming what who that person is.
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Agatha: It you know you're not helping yourself grow I always said, life is such a learning process when you stop listening and when you will stop learning and you know it's it's not that hard to listen and it's not that difficult to learn.
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Agatha: and get you know get along or what have you and, if you like, Chinese food you're not.
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Agatha: You know, find out what Chinese food is all about and find out what Japanese food about you know find out who, who, I am rather than swear what are you, you know that should matter.
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Agatha: But you know, unfortunately, we see, you have the climate has you know why you know, things are changing, but the racism still exists in different format in different ways, you know whether it's in a workforce or in our society.
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Hong Lieu: And people are quick to say this, you know young folks are too sensitive young folks that tuition close to that.
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Hong Lieu: Young folks have had to deal with their parents trauma repressing stuff like this, so it's one of those things where they've heard the stories and their parents that that parents can tell you what else and they've had internalize that and they've.
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Hong Lieu: they're going to speak out and they're going to be more vocal about it, and you know what that can't that cancel culture stuff black put him on blast on social media.
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Hong Lieu: To a certain extent it works, because a lot of these people who are these closet races and stuff they like working the shadow they don't like being called out.
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Hong Lieu: Because they were putting their heads down and trying to grind it out and get the work done because they're trying to build generational wealth, because capitalism is holding them down.
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Agatha: And we live in a very beautiful city and beautiful SP.
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Agatha: value the administrator some seniority but at the same time, but I know now I do hope and wish and and hope that the administrator hierarchy.
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Agatha: will see what they should do when a staff member experiencing some hardship or a bad experience they need to hold those people accountable for they should be the example.
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Agatha: Of what we're learning because we're education institution with education that should have no room for excluding they should have.
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Agatha: moved but anything else but working in harmony, as a group together and with the with it with environment and atmosphere, we are at that SEC.
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Agatha: when somebody brings a subject to the matter and not going to do, deep it of history, but they should be acknowledging that people are suffering when they are not holding those people accountable for.
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Agatha: Well there's also accountability, what I have to do so, I always say in education feel, what are we doing you need to be accountable for it doesn't matter what environment you're an accountability is what we need to focus on.
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Akil Hill: Absolutely.
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Hong Lieu: Absolutely and and that's a good segue into our good eatin section because.
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Hong Lieu: Nothing like nothing like food, the whole to hold a hold accountable, you know people and places.
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Hong Lieu: All right.
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Hong Lieu: yeah So are we going to do the one time deep dive now or how.
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Akil Hill: You don't know why.
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Akil Hill: Man listen for all you listeners out here, if you ever have the opportunity to try agatha as one times you you just have to do it, I will eat I would even suggest emailing her I go.
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Agatha: No, no, please.
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Akil Hill: email in the show notes and you people out there listeners out there y'all need to go ahead and email her and find out when's the next financial aid potluck.
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Akil Hill: So you can slide through and try the one time, I mean, first of all, not just a one time that she liked actually already alluded to, she had a restaurant she she's a chef.
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Akil Hill: Anything she would bring into the office or you know she would make cheesecake That was good, she would make spring rolls out we're good.
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Akil Hill: Anything she would make in the office is literally like what am I eating, this is not your average like store bought mixed together and put in the oven i'm going to bring this to the potluck type of thing this is like hey this should be at the biltmore on a Sunday brunch.
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Akil Hill: Type thing.
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Akil Hill: So you know it is actor I got many people that can testify to it, you can ask Michael waddell he's another one that will literally like.
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Akil Hill: Cut your write them off to get it to get some adjectives want on this Sweden, and let me tell you about this she makes the sweet and size sweet and sour sauce from scratch so.
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Akil Hill: i'm going to just leave it there i'm just saying that's when I was like let's get agon i'm like i'm so excited to talk about her.
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Akil Hill: Her cooking in her food so i'm just gonna leave it there, email agatha Louis.
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Akil Hill: pipeline.edu.
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Agatha: I guess, I guess, are you sure I think it's more kill.
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Agatha: Fortunately, I know who i'm going to call the next time and I have a car.
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Agatha: A spokesperson for agatha.
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Akil Hill: I am the official.
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Akil Hill: song hi i'm a system.
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Akil Hill: that's my official title dude.
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Hong Lieu: i'm not going to put his email in the show notes and unfortunately the way folks and spell Chinese last names multiple ways will keep you.
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Hong Lieu: Pretty anonymous because you know they ll e l ui.
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Hong Lieu: So you'll have some editing it there, but I am curious about the waltons what feeling, are we talking about what kind of rapper we use it, or we are we see, I mean what what what am I dealing with it, I need I need some I need to visualize a little more these.
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Akil Hill: don't give away all the.
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Hong Lieu: secrets I don't see.
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Hong Lieu: You know.
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Agatha: Okay.
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Agatha: I can't give you.
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Agatha: know until you get to Chi.
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Agatha: never, never in my life that I was I when I was growing up that knowing that my mom would never let me go into the kitchen to Dan cooking for kill so.
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Agatha: that's that's that's the real story, where I was never allowed to be in the kitchen, because I was admitted child I was just like in Chinese day I just don't get means you know I mean i'm in a way, most of the time so so no and just never learned how to cook and to we have the restaurant.
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Agatha: more focused on the Cantonese food that kill, I was not a chef I was just a shoe staff, which means I run errands and do everything else who else wants to do at that and the back of the kitchen, so thank you for promoting my my title anyway, but.
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Agatha: By having that you're not just like learning how the chef's coat and i'm just like oh i'll just I can tweak a little bit differently, because I like certain things different.
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Agatha: So I just came about in one time is just like what's the big deal, I can put chicken in there, I can put for whatever that I want that day right so so what I kill.
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Agatha: it's a little bit different than the one in a restaurant is because I just a little bit more ingredients in there, so.
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Agatha: You know, some some black mushroom maybe some shred maybe you know it really depends, what I want I want that day so it's.
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Agatha: it's something that i'm so it's so easy to do and it's so therapeutic when i'm cooking and I can't get to just eat some some of those vicious where I just like it's quick to fix.
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Agatha: But but there's a but there's a lot of other items that you know I wish I can cook it the and bring it to those potluck but you know a lot of time, I prefer fresh rather than like our to oh.
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Akil Hill: And that's good.
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Hong Lieu: yeah you can't minimize the role of a sous chef in a Chinese restaurant, because my dad was a cook you know, in the restaurant for many years.
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Hong Lieu: And the folks at the prep folks associate folks they do most of the work they're the ones chopping everything down at a certain consistency, you know grind it up me doing all this stuff.
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Hong Lieu: The the cook have the time I mean they're doing a lot of work, because their shoulders and research are throwing walks the whole time.
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Hong Lieu: But it's just throwing a bunch of stuff and some oil and just tossing it, you know so it's so the prep the prep is like 80% of the way there.
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Hong Lieu: Once you've done the prep like like you know dumplings and spring rolls and things of that sort are just family kind of gatherings like when you get a lot of people together.
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Hong Lieu: you'll make those kinds of things so i've seen how it breaks down and once you get the prep done then you're just sitting there shooting the breeze you know, making making your thing.
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Hong Lieu: But like that prep is that's no joke, so you got it yeah you definitely I think I think that that that that qualifies for chef status in the Chinese Chinese kids.
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Agatha: it's it's more like.
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Agatha: You know, you can never go wrong, what you need is that a what you want a good and it.
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Agatha: So happened to try to do something I love to cook but, yet I have not, I have branched into other cultural food like Italian and Mexican and you know, Google American priceless that's something that I love to kick out the agent and how to cook it yeah it's something I love doing.
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Akil Hill: Listen i'm gonna i'm gonna also put the listeners on notice to I get that also makes the most amazing cranberry sauce y'all one year for thanks giving she had brought in some cranberry sauce I can see, you know what i'm talking about that cranberry sauce man I.
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Hong Lieu: got yeah I did.
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Akil Hill: I did like I said, like you know this slap your mama good but.
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Akil Hill: yeah we should.
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Akil Hill: We should do something we should do something once we're able to kind of return back, and you know, obviously, you know i'm vaccinated for six months, I guess the shots so.
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Akil Hill: you're vaccinated.
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Akil Hill: Listen my door is always open.
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Agatha: And there's definitely room yeah those.
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Hong Lieu: kind of events on campus you know, in terms of folks that are vaccinated folks it feel like it's safe to have those kind of get together in person moments, because it has been has been a little while for everyone, you know it's it's been over over a year yeah so.
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Hong Lieu: So so there's definitely room to do things safely, as we transition back to campus I mean it and we'll figure those things out as we go, but I mean the you know building that community is still still an integral part of this campus and of the Santa Barbara you know, on the whole.
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Agatha: yeah you know what they always say even life is tough but food would never.
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Agatha: would never, never lie to you, your just your comfort that's what they always say comfort food is always the pump it down, and I agree with that 100% with all the uncertainty, we have, but we have one thing to rely on.
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Hong Lieu: yeah yeah So do you have any you have any specific killer should we just riff on this, and more, because I, I mean this was kind of going into what my PIC was as well, I was gonna do like spring rolls something that just to highlight that communal aspect, the family aspect of food, but.
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Hong Lieu: Because that's I mean that's really what most of our family gatherings are built around that we would we would get together and we've either make.
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Hong Lieu: You know agro spring rolls we'd make dumplings we'd make there's a steamed rice flour cake, or you put it's a.
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Hong Lieu: Like mostly it ends up being like kind of.
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Hong Lieu: jelly consistency, but you put like pork and whittier and shrimp on the top and then you eat that with a vinegar sauce.
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Hong Lieu: So it's always is calming of thing where this big dish comes out and you eat at the end of it, that was a lot of our family gatherings the profiling ash most folks so it's just one of those things where you know it's.
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Hong Lieu: When the Q mention one time, I was like oh yeah I definitely.
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Hong Lieu: made one tons tons of times growing up, maybe a ton of spring rolls and I can see where that's kind of where you honed your craft probably.
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Hong Lieu: This is, it will I did before I knew, you had a restaurant where now it's easy when you're on the graph, but it was just one of those things where yeah.
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Agatha: yeah always always involved around to it, yet, and like you said when your family gathering, we always do something like dumpling expect to go to it's like.
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Agatha: pick up and then we always make like interns and we're always make that that don't like a Chinese a tamale.
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Hong Lieu: The Cantonese dishes of my users are actually you know.
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Hong Lieu: We wrap junk every year for Chinese New Year, you know and and my mom does it more like Vietnamese style with like the like a piece of me in the middle and some you know, like.
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Hong Lieu: The various but it's it's it's Vietnamese town that Chinese people in Vietnam or making it that way, where sometimes it's a different shape but yeah Jones is the classic we use the code New York, which is like the braised pork belly so yeah this is.
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Agatha: How we do to it it's it's like the best but it's the most difficult to make it takes about your parents with but I remember just waiting for that to be cut in with five hours and hours and crazy.
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Hong Lieu: And it's it's one of my favorite dishes but, as always, the one where I want to slap my hand because, like you're already fat don't eat too much pork belly son cuz.
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Hong Lieu: it's like good, but she knows that's why she make it, partly because you know the youngest son like you know girl and boy so she would definitely pull it out, but the thing is yeah what happens is you, first, you have to like kind of fry the purpose here the edges, so to speak, so.
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Hong Lieu: So me as a as a young, you know this American kid like wait, why do you keep cooking after this This is basically bacon just slice it thin and make bacon so she was sometimes take.
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Hong Lieu: chunks of it and put some aside and make bacon with it, where she would fry it further and crisp it up, but then the rest of it would go into brace and that's like you know, like you said five or six hours.
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Hong Lieu: Until it's just like just fall apart, and you can spoon that sauce all over the rice oh yeah ponyo ponyo and the Joan are the two big ones, we also for Chinese, do you know the oysters and all the with the peaks the port nickel that you get in the yeah so.
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Agatha: yeah i'm here can you never taste that because it takes so much work you think, for I want time is a lot of work, the job is like intense.
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Agatha: just watching my mom has to soak that i've got the Bamboo leaves for days or even a week on and just make sure it's all clean and then the prep behind all the feeling.
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Agatha: And then, on top of that, we have to wait for another five six hours once it's all wrapped up just like Okay, once you can't do too many.
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Hong Lieu: Oh yeah my my I used to make us, you know soy milk you the first soy milk, whereas like you could first you get the the tofu tofu file, where you get the curt on top, with the sweet.
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Agatha: And then.
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Hong Lieu: But then you get the soy milk after that and it doesn't the soy milk that people drink it tastes kinda like milk, but when you get swim up the actually tastes like soy milk like exactly what it's supposed to be with all man where it's like thick and nicely sweetened yeah.
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Hong Lieu: But that's a long process to yeah it's all these long processes.
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Hong Lieu: That didn't get passed down to me because i've got none of that to go, like, I want to be able to make these these my moms like my phone, I just want to go to the trouble of teaching me because she knows.
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Agatha: Right, he knows.
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Akil Hill: So it did get passed down if he knows what he likes.
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Akil Hill: Absolutely dig it.
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Agatha: As a kid I know how to eat one time comes to making all those things they say mom when are you going to teach us and I said, like like like homes mom say now fine you know.
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Agatha: And I would usually tell my my daughter's preceding the current state when I made them you either stand next to me either videotape it or write it down and and I sort of.
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Agatha: Whenever I do, that I said okay i'm making it now you think they're going to say that because it's just it's so they look at me at this month, so much work and i'm just like back it's the reward after that.
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Hong Lieu: and appreciate the appreciate the work you know they do because that's The one thing I will never learned how to make it, but I do appreciate when I see it, on the on the plate for sure.
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Akil Hill: i'm have to get on the call i'm have to get on the call and adjectives daughter works at Santa Barbara city college i'm gonna be like i'm have to get on there man i'm like look man you gotta you gotta learn you don't do anything in 2021 dude learn how long Johns dude we gotta.
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Akil Hill: Do.
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Akil Hill: We gotta keep it alive man.
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Agatha: i'm a tester so I kill i'm a good tester what my mom cooks i'll let her know if she missed something or not.
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Akil Hill: Yes, he will.
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Agatha: call me up on the phone right they'll call me on the phone, they said mom, how do you make.
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Agatha: I remember when I seen a call me on the phone it's a month i'm trying to make some broccoli be, how do you do it and i'm just like Okay, I know how to cook meat instructions over the phone.
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Akil Hill: yeah.
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Agatha: Just like you ask any coke they just do it without thinking right, but if you have to ask them to think about it, I say.
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Agatha: Oh boy I said, none, and I can't do that so when I start telling them the instructions, but the time I tell them backwards and it frustrates the heck out of them at the same time to say, well, this is what happened we don't learn when i'm doing it, you know.
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Akil Hill: Absolutely, but that's a sign that that's the sign of a good chef right you just you don't know it's all about field tastes taste chemistry it's like it's an art man it's it literally is an art.
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Hong Lieu: yeah because, even when you get recipes like tapes two and a half teaspoon sometimes taste right because it's that's not exactly the amount they use it was like.
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Hong Lieu: Like three pitches like that and he's like pinch that into the spoon in the quantify it so yeah a lot of times it's just just it's all a lot of it is feel you're right yeah.
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Agatha: yeah it's it but it's so much fun down there you know get get you know, especially when I get to cook for my family members que nos you know.
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Agatha: thanksgiving Christmas is like 30 plus people in my house yet and it's just it's just a fun time just get together and that's why like I said from the beginning, I said we're such a.
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Agatha: It it's just that's what we're taught to do and that's why we've always been right, you know how do you use the live with grandmother, and your mother and.
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Agatha: your father can remember, I remember those days, you know that's that's just a single agent on.
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Hong Lieu: Perfect perfect segue into a higher learning akil you think you got it.
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Akil Hill: You want me to go first.
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Hong Lieu: yeah we can you talk about food forever, I know, but but yeah we we we we gotta we gotta drop some knowledge on the on the people to be beyond beyond the gastronomical interests.
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Hong Lieu: yeah he wanted.
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Hong Lieu: to kick us off.
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Akil Hill: So my choice for the week.
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Akil Hill: Is in light of I mean it's Ramadan right now, so you know a lot of people are fasting itself included so i've been really kind of focused on a book it's called purification of the heart.
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Akil Hill: And it's actually translated by.
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Akil Hill: A man by the name of Hamza Yusuf he's in a.
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Akil Hill: Big time scholar here in America, but he translates the book from the original author is a man my loots book and it's called matar of collude that's the Arabic word.
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Akil Hill: For it, but it translates into purification of the heart and it really focuses on the different ailments of the heart right and and and it gives you it talks about the element, it talks about what the cure is for the element like like like greed envy.
445
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Akil Hill: hate.
446
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Akil Hill: miserly in this it talks about all the different diseases of the heart and what do you need to do from you know, the summit perspective to try to rid yourself of that.
447
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Akil Hill: it's a really, really, really good book I would highly recommend this book and it's one of my favorite books that i've read.
448
00:59:55.440 --> 01:00:06.210
Akil Hill: So i'm revisiting and I try to revisit it during the month of Ramadan so it can actually help me reset so can get balance so that's my pick for the week it's kind of funny how we were talking about.
449
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Akil Hill: Food right now, and how it's you know how it's comforting and stuff like that, and so this is for me it's kind of like it's like that spiritual so food.
450
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Akil Hill: it's book so that's my pick for the week purification the heart by Hamza Yusuf i'm sure you can find it on Amazon.
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Akil Hill: it's it's I can't you just have to read it it's a really, really book really good.
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Hong Lieu: Without going too in depth into the kind of solutions in more kind of changing how you accurate changing how your your mindset going into things I mean.
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Akil Hill: yeah I meant like you know I think the book does a really good job at pointing it out like you know and a lot of ways that you know the spirits are hard is just like any other muscle in your body, where you have to work on it right, and so you know it's always amazes me how.
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Akil Hill: We live in this this age of where people are just infatuated with working out and you know they'll work they'll spend days on in just like for a tiny muscle on the back of your tricep right but.
455
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Akil Hill: But what are we doing or how are we implementing our spiritual exercises right we don't talk about that we just are so occupied with the with the external right and so.
456
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Akil Hill: And so, this book does a good job at recognizing your heart is your spiritual hearts like muscle, so you have to train that too, as well.
457
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Akil Hill: And it talks about like certain without going too much into it, but it does give you the ailments and the in the cure for it so whatever you may call these that you made find in yourself.
458
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Akil Hill: That you like you know what I really need to work on that, like if I talk bad about other people if i'm backbiting.
459
01:01:54.960 --> 01:02:02.310
Akil Hill: How I would love to stop that How would I would stop how How should I go about stopping that and then book talks about that it talks about.
460
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Akil Hill: different things, but it gives you calisthenics I guess is what the best word for it gives you calisthenics on how to addressing those ailments you know so.
461
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Akil Hill: it's great i'm not gonna I don't want to tell you guys too much about it because it's really one of those things that you have to really experience on your own so that's that's my pick for the week and so i'm really enjoying it.
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Agatha: You have to send me that book titled account.
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Akil Hill: yeah i'll send it to you and I think we'll put it in the show notes as well, but it's it's a really it's a such a good book it's you know.
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Akil Hill: You know.
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Akil Hill: And I think truth be told, that's that's where, when we talk about these issues of injustices.
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Akil Hill: Racism sexism all the things that ailments that we have it literally comes down to the heart that's where it's at and that's the piece that a lot of people really choose not to.
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Akil Hill: address in it it's it's something in an individual's heart that's turning that is allowing them to to spew or this hatred.
468
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Akil Hill: Or the racism or these these type of hateful speech it's it all repeat it can be reduced, down to the heart so.
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Hong Lieu: yeah definitely definitely speaks to a lack of.
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Hong Lieu: cultivation or you know, like yeah you're not working on that on that part of yourself.
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01:03:26.940 --> 01:03:28.590
Hong Lieu: You know you work on all different aspects but.
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Hong Lieu: Without balance you don't you know you will always lash out and unbalanced ways, you know just by definition.
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Agatha: yeah they're cheap they don't they they need to get into the in the sky yeah.
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Hong Lieu: that's my my middle name.
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Agatha: Oh, is it.
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Hong Lieu: yeah my middle name is Chad and.
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Hong Lieu: school, and the reason I asked you about how these solutions because you know with the Chinese food is a lot of like hot and cold foods, yet he lucky, so I was wondering if that was like an overview is like an IRA Vedic thing.
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Hong Lieu: But it sounds like it is more just like a yeah just a spiritual just keep digging your mind right in your heart right and then your body will follow kind of thing which is, which is always good advice yeah.
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Akil Hill: yeah it's true, I mean that's the piece, you know, like we said, you know, like just being able to tap into that and be present, you know what I mean.
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Akil Hill: And everything that in our not everything, but a lot of our culture in our society is.
481
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Akil Hill: Is is the job is to distract you from it right and so that's why we were.
482
01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:40.020
Akil Hill: You know habitually finding ourselves in states have have houses still occurring Well, we know why it's still occurring because we haven't really addressed the real issue right so so much.
483
01:04:41.160 --> 01:04:45.600
Akil Hill: Things are you know out here to distract us from actually doing this self work.
484
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Akil Hill: And so, but yeah that's my choice that's what I hope you guys can check it out, hopefully, you can be well pleased with it because it's it's really good yeah.
485
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Hong Lieu: society built on efficiency faking it till you make it, you know just plow forward keep working doing this, this this and this.
486
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Hong Lieu: be present and be patient is the exact opposite of what you told that you need to be successful, but it's what you need to be successful, with your own self with the third eye with you, you know with the true spirit of yourself so it's like yeah.
487
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Akil Hill: That consumer culture continue to buy continue to shop keeping up with the joneses.
488
01:05:20.040 --> 01:05:33.060
Akil Hill: All these type of things all prevent you from really getting to the core because the nature of it all is to continue the more you get the more you want, and the further away from you really are some of the richest people i've ever met.
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Akil Hill: In my life were in West Africa, and they didn't have i'll tell you i'll tell you, much like they didn't have like they would be by our standard, they will be lived.
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Akil Hill: In the thresholds of what we would consider property like didn't really own much didn't have anything people slept outside intense.
491
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Akil Hill: But these people that I met were just the richest people are very experienced completely present completely in in the moment and I there's something to be said about the more you acquire the further away.
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Akil Hill: You get from from that that type of work but.
493
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Akil Hill: that's just you know that's just my wow look at it so.
494
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Akil Hill: What do you guys who's who's up next.
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Hong Lieu: So you want to go you want me to go it's.
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Agatha: So interesting to just that it's just the word richness right can be defined in management level by so many different depending on who you ask right and it just it's funny why they wouldn't accuse that.
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Agatha: He went to the.
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Agatha: Cultural and the.
499
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Agatha: Visa is bigger than the wi fi.
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Agatha: right but, yet we are happy and we are satisfied with what what what what we are, but that doesn't mean that we don't work hard, but it's just that you solo to acquire happiness or the richness right.
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Agatha: So, you know as a few is more.
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Agatha: of an i'm more like because my mom is getting older, so I decided.
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Agatha: I do.
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Agatha: Skype with my mom in a Skype with my mom is that understand.
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Agatha: That about just be Chinese.
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Agatha: History that she can and, most importantly, because she's very much into you know she and.
507
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Agatha: I can help you and all those herbs right So for me, I think, as i've grown older i've just like I need to know that things because even though i'm always interested.
508
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Agatha: But to learn more about it, built in stuff I see what better yet, because my has all those resources, I need to tap into her resource before she you know didn't even remember them.
509
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Agatha: anymore, and all the work that happens, like my mother should have asked those things when they were alive, knowing every single part of body and what kind of herbs.
510
01:08:21.930 --> 01:08:30.120
Agatha: That you should take to get towards that and also focused on your body, knowing you know, knowing your body.
511
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Agatha: So, having that type off observation on your own self, then you kind of knowing what herbs to take so I was more interested in that recently it's like you know calling my mom to say okay.
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Agatha: What happens if you know if my grand challenge TV, what do you guys use to do an herbal wise for the that level right it just like I want to use more natural thing, what did you do when you have us.
513
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Agatha: And what did you do what you know, have you seen what part, did you know what i'm on it, yet so all those things, I think all this history.
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Agatha: So what i've been doing is just writing them down, you know kids eventually kind of kind of you know, one day, they probably be interested, they can go back to their and knowing that you know oh if they have a slight you know.
515
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Agatha: sample you have a coat you kind of make this skirt suit and how to make it what's in there, so I was really more interested in that essentially years that I was.
516
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Agatha: A pretty much up to my father two times, or three times a week just just to tap into her memory, to try to figure it out what is that that we do and how we do it and.
517
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Agatha: And just learn from her, and you know, then I can probably hopefully eventually i'll be more interesting probably probably taking classes with that right, because you know there's always things outside.
518
01:10:01.350 --> 01:10:06.630
Agatha: That we can learn from and that's kind of been doing, recently, not as much as the kill, but you know.
519
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Hong Lieu: it's that's that's really cool because you know I I grew up with that kind of stuff to in La there's a small kind of mini chain of places called taxing Hong.
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Hong Lieu: you're like or biology shops and in every taxing hunger every kind of or Chinese herbal shop, that is, that is out there there's a small room and everyone that has a Doc quote unquote doctor.
521
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Hong Lieu: And so the dodger game three pulse, yes, you what's wrong.
522
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Hong Lieu: And then he writes a prescription that you take the prescription to their biologist and they will give you the herbs and you get this you have you have the ceramic medicine pie, I get that the little.
523
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Hong Lieu: The one with the handle and that's about that way you put it in there, it tastes like.
524
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Hong Lieu: he's like God I should tell them every time like i'm not drinking that stuff unless you put like 80,000 teaspoons of sugar in it.
525
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Hong Lieu: But then, like you know once I got older I realized like okay it's not bad at all like.
526
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Hong Lieu: cuz cuz This was our healthcare, this was our insurance, we had there was no obamacare yet so when I was sick that we didn't go to the doctor until we got because we were you know we were low income, so we got Meta cow once we did the paperwork.
527
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Hong Lieu: But before that we would go to taxing honks either a biologist drink that for seven days, and even if he didn't get better it was good as it got so you just have to tough it out so.
528
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Hong Lieu: But it's one of those things where I I think about that all the time in terms of.
529
01:11:15.180 --> 01:11:18.690
Hong Lieu: Where is that pipeline, we fill those doctors are biologist that boxing hall.
530
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Hong Lieu: When they move on, or they retire, because there are schools, there are Chinese medicine, schools, you know these oriental medicine, I actually got a summer job at one of those colleges down really emperor's college, when I was younger yeah and bread emperor's college yeah these to be.
531
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Agatha: A constant of our trainees.
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Hong Lieu: oriental oh yeah so they have they have one here too yeah so so there's.
533
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Hong Lieu: yeah there's definitely classes, where you can get that higher ED level, but in terms, these these folks have the toxic homes I don't think they went to these Chinese medicine, schools, I think they were.
534
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Hong Lieu: Either either learned it in the old country or were had someone to teach them here because there's there's kind of two jobs, I think about that a lot in terms of those are values that toxic home.
535
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Hong Lieu: And there's other folks that come and bless houses like when I bought my house like oh my mom bought our House, we had have a guy come and bless it, you know he.
536
01:12:01.650 --> 01:12:06.690
Hong Lieu: He did this, he did this elaborate ceremony hung hung papers on the wall, you know set everything up.
537
01:12:07.140 --> 01:12:13.200
Hong Lieu: And it was like they're like fortune tellers you know they weren't in the phone book and i'm just kind of found them in the end, he came in and helped us out.
538
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Hong Lieu: And those are both kind of lost arts, I see that aren't kind of you know or or i'm wondering where that the next generation is going to come from, but I don't know so i'm glad you brought that up because it stirred a lot of devices storage in my in my own mind so.
539
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Agatha: yeah phone is such a big deal for my mom you know just like knowing learning all the things from her and like you said.
540
01:12:35.940 --> 01:12:42.480
Agatha: you're going to those back room there and all they asked you to do is show me a tone and then they take your post.
541
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Agatha: And then they get to know what you need to take and i'll just like, and now I kind of was once i've gone to a couple of them, then it kind of memories that coming back.
542
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Agatha: and say that's what a Paul usually asked me to do when I don't feel good to say show me all the time and it just it's it's so interesting and it's all by just what they were taught I said growing up, so this is very much like self taught.
543
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Hong Lieu: Personal and it's the difference between prescriptive medicine, which is what Western medicine is about you know you you, you have a problem first and then you get medicine for it.
544
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Hong Lieu: This is more proactive medicine, where you may not have something wrong, but if you go there every week and drink that medicine tastes like garbage but you probably feel like a million bucks after if you do it all the time, you know so.
545
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Agatha: Like my kids.
546
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Agatha: My kids.
547
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Hong Lieu: it's not.
548
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Agatha: mom you want to kill me.
549
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Hong Lieu: Because a lot of that stuff is not meant to cure specific elements like, if I have like.
550
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Hong Lieu: A specific like kidney stones or something that medicine is not going to help, but if I just you know it's just good it's just a lot of herbs and different things that are good for you, so if you just taken that on a regular basis, I can see where be very different.
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Akil Hill: I just thought about something really quickly, no one to pivot the conversation in a different direction but speaking of sick and I was thinking about another something else that agate that would make and bring into the Office every winter.
552
01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:12.210
Akil Hill: It was what was it, I think you know when you're not feeling good you make the coke Coca Cola ginger.
553
01:14:12.570 --> 01:14:14.100
Agatha: Because you cannot stop.
554
01:14:14.100 --> 01:14:14.760
Agatha: coughing.
555
01:14:14.850 --> 01:14:29.400
Agatha: Okay yeah Okay, you cannot stop coughing after his code and I said it's time to make my paws Western type or Asian cross a remedy and it's basically is Coca Cola.
556
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Agatha: And a ton of slices of ginger and you boiled it and you simmer it when our and you drink it I don't care how spicy it is you're going to drink it.
557
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Akil Hill: it's so good i'm sorry i'm sorry coffin right now.
558
01:14:45.720 --> 01:14:46.680
Akil Hill: that's how good it is.
559
01:14:48.570 --> 01:14:50.940
Agatha: very, very close to mine, so you can hear.
560
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Akil Hill: This is pre Kobe just just a disclaimer.
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Akil Hill: as well, this is years before coven actually just because.
562
01:15:01.860 --> 01:15:05.400
Akil Hill: It is Dr you alluded to it she's been in financial aid for the last.
563
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Akil Hill: Six seven years.
564
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Akil Hill: This was when she works in a mission, the records I don't want anyone all you're thinking that i'm being contagious in the office.
565
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Hong Lieu: I.
566
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Hong Lieu: I distinctly remember what I was really sick with fever flew my mom would beat me and ginger like green onions and stuff like.
567
01:15:20.880 --> 01:15:23.610
Hong Lieu: I like are you trying to eat me, are you trying to make me feel better but.
568
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Hong Lieu: But you know what it would work because I got after that I come out feeling like oh man that did help because you get all the sweat out and you get the aromatics and that's really what clears up your yeah so yeah.
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Agatha: that's where the coal and the hot comes in.
570
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yeah.
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Hong Lieu: yeah.
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Hong Lieu: Thank you, thank you for that agatha.
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Hong Lieu: Okay i'll go i'll bring i'll bring up the caboose, so to speak, and I just a.
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Hong Lieu: Real quick my PIC for this week is comics the first comics I read growing up before I got in tomorrow for identity see where Kung fu comics they you know in Japan, they call manga.
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Hong Lieu: I guess I didn't know, there was a name for him for Chinese versions of these comments, but the call man why men or something I don't know I never called me I just call them comics so they get man, while, but there is.
576
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Hong Lieu: A couple big names in Chinese comics Tony Wong I knew them is 21 but his name, he has a Chinese name was.
577
01:16:12.780 --> 01:16:20.400
Hong Lieu: Seeing or something like that, but his name is Tony wall because he brought them he translated to English I can't read Chinese so he translated into English in 1989.
578
01:16:20.820 --> 01:16:24.240
Hong Lieu: And we started releasing these Chinese comics and that's when I first picked him up.
579
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Hong Lieu: And one of the comics that he decided to translate was a story called the blood sort original by it's going in my wing xing and.
580
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Hong Lieu: The blood sword is is like like the probably my number one yet in terms of in terms of if you want to get in it to Chinese Kung fu comics at all.
581
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Hong Lieu: that's the one there's another one called dragon tiger gate they made a movie out of it with donnie yen.
582
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Hong Lieu: Maybe 1015 years ago that's one of Tony was comics Tony Wang is a big kind of head he's like the Stanley of Hong Kong comics but my wing shane and the blood sword.
583
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Hong Lieu: Is is the one that really kind of guided me a lot because they're you know if you watch a lot of Kung fu movies, you know what these stories are like.
584
01:17:01.800 --> 01:17:06.960
Hong Lieu: they're going to be, you know something something traumatic happens, of course, because we all have our stories are rooted in trauma.
585
01:17:07.260 --> 01:17:14.520
Hong Lieu: And then the the the person learns how to become a hero and and in the process exact revenge for what happens in the blood sort of this tale of a.
586
01:17:14.850 --> 01:17:20.820
Hong Lieu: His name his hero in the American translation I don't know his real name is penny but heroes parents, you know get killed by this.
587
01:17:21.180 --> 01:17:28.890
Hong Lieu: You know ruthless warlord he he finds his family heirloom the blood sword, and the minute it makes contact with blood, it turns into this super like.
588
01:17:29.220 --> 01:17:35.790
Hong Lieu: Unbelievable sword, and so people always come in, after trying to get the sword he goes all these adventures, and he he learns under various.
589
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Hong Lieu: You know seafoods and he becomes a disciple of various martial arts and he ends up by the end of it becoming one of the greatest martial arts they live and they kind of split it between.
590
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Hong Lieu: Internal Kung fu which he's a master of which deals with energy and an external conflict which all the folks are like can kick 1000 miles an hour and things of that sort, so it's.
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Hong Lieu: it's it's a really great like overarching world like you talked about the marvel Cinematic universe, the blood sword Cinematic universe is full of all the characters with crazy powers and magical you know.
592
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Hong Lieu: This and that, but the art is really good the story, it really is really good and really spoke to me and and now the inking and the line work in terms of the the action scenes.
593
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Hong Lieu: I mean, I put those I put a lot of action scenes on up with any Kung fu movie I grew up watching so.
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Hong Lieu: yeah i'll pull up there's not much in terms of getting your hands on these comics today because they're they're very out of print.
595
01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:26.280
Hong Lieu: There was a reissue that was done a few years ago that picked up all of them, but I don't know if those are even around anymore.
596
01:18:26.700 --> 01:18:30.960
Hong Lieu: But I can lead to the Wikipedia page and then folks you know you can find lots on eBay and stuff but yeah.
597
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Hong Lieu: My wing xing in the blood sword, and then to a lesser extent Tony long and it was translated here's oriental heroes, but it's dragon dragon gate he didn't want called drunken fist.
598
01:18:40.530 --> 01:18:47.700
Hong Lieu: drunken master and he won't do on call the force of Buddhist palm and they're all pretty good but blood sword is like the the one I would have to pick.
599
01:18:49.440 --> 01:18:53.340
Agatha: I went watching reading low fuchun I don't know if you.
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Agatha: it's growing up and then going to Hong Kong it just gets worse like to go to comic book yeah.
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Agatha: yeah.
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01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:02.610
Hong Lieu: And that's that's.
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01:19:02.820 --> 01:19:05.400
Hong Lieu: that's the Tony that's the Tony one that's the that's the oriental heroes.
604
01:19:05.430 --> 01:19:06.930
Hong Lieu: Really anchor wall.
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01:19:07.620 --> 01:19:08.490
Hong Lieu: dragon and.
606
01:19:08.730 --> 01:19:16.440
Hong Lieu: And tiger one was brother gets killed, and they have to go to Thailand to event is dead oh yeah I mean we yeah that one got really crazy by the end of it but.
607
01:19:16.980 --> 01:19:23.940
Hong Lieu: there's like there's two types there's a transition, like the early ones they look like these little squat little characters and then like he kind of brought in that.
608
01:19:24.450 --> 01:19:30.420
Hong Lieu: The realism and ladies and kind of made them more like but yeah it's all those Those are all the stories around that will house where they.
609
01:19:30.750 --> 01:19:35.100
Hong Lieu: They they find somebody to get, be they need to get stronger so they find a new seafood to teach them.
610
01:19:35.370 --> 01:19:43.230
Hong Lieu: New skills they take their their computer like level, it was level eight and they found level nine or secret book that teaches level 10 and then that.
611
01:19:43.530 --> 01:19:53.940
Hong Lieu: story just keeps going but it's those stories of loyalty respect honor tradition, upholding those core values, and you know fighting against the new the new guys coming in, where was taking shortcuts everyone's you know.
612
01:19:54.570 --> 01:20:02.040
Hong Lieu: involved in organized crime is that, instead of using their martial arts for good, you know so it's just those classic beams and it's very basic stuff on that level.
613
01:20:02.310 --> 01:20:08.730
Hong Lieu: But like as a young kid really resonate with me and just and just seeing that kind of representation for martial arts and stuff was was was real Nice.
614
01:20:10.800 --> 01:20:21.120
Agatha: Nice yeah when I was living in Hong Kong I got the I got privileged and lucky that I met a seafood who has taught me some cool moves.
615
01:20:21.750 --> 01:20:30.210
Agatha: On his one of the times that I spend usually you go to the rooftop to garden right so where I was when I was living just a rooftop.
616
01:20:31.080 --> 01:20:45.150
Agatha: It will usually practice Kung fu and it is so cool that you get to work with someone or not alone know someone who does that give you those insights of those things I I used to love going up to the top of that, so you know.
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Agatha: You just brought up a lot of good memories, because I i've always look at those comic book in Chinese, you see, because I read Chinese so it's just that, having now with English version, not used to it home to sing.
618
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Hong Lieu: it's definitely not because what.
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01:21:01.680 --> 01:21:13.740
Hong Lieu: They what he what he did was they were like he he made each issue 60 pages, so he took those little 1015 page books that were that were you know right to left convert them to left to right and crammed like four or five issues and every issue, so he.
620
01:21:14.250 --> 01:21:21.570
Hong Lieu: Basically, work, the people that were here doing the translations to death because they were trying to cram all these issues, you know into one issue and then putting one out every month, so it's like.
621
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Hong Lieu: They were doing five or six years worth of work in every every issue, so they burned out it didn't last very long didn't sell very many because there was these Martin form but.
622
01:21:29.280 --> 01:21:34.830
Hong Lieu: In the folks that got them, they have you know you know you know that kind of thing and the left an indelible mark on me for sure.
623
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Agatha: And i'll.
624
01:21:36.360 --> 01:21:36.930
Hong Lieu: i'll bring some.
625
01:21:38.010 --> 01:21:39.720
Hong Lieu: Just you can see, but yeah.
626
01:21:39.780 --> 01:21:41.610
Agatha: yeah yeah.
627
01:21:42.150 --> 01:21:42.780
Agatha: I still have.
628
01:21:43.050 --> 01:21:43.830
Hong Lieu: I still have.
629
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Agatha: You better keep them.
630
01:21:46.320 --> 01:21:47.670
Hong Lieu: they're not worth anything but I.
631
01:21:47.670 --> 01:21:48.300
Hong Lieu: Still, our.
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01:21:48.450 --> 01:21:49.110
Hong Lieu: yeah yeah.
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01:21:49.200 --> 01:21:51.090
Agatha: You never know yeah.
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Hong Lieu: But, but you know what you said, have a bring it back up a lot of memories like i'm really grateful that you came on the show today I get that it's really, really an honor to.
635
01:21:59.280 --> 01:22:04.350
Hong Lieu: Talk to you because absolutely it was still is just one of those things where you know it is API plus heritage month.
636
01:22:04.740 --> 01:22:09.630
Hong Lieu: And it's beyond that it's just nice to talk to folks on campus you know we were we can kind of.
637
01:22:09.900 --> 01:22:16.920
Hong Lieu: Have those experiences were like oh man, just like when I was a kid oh yeah just like this and it's and that's what that's what this podcast is all about that's what the show is all about.
638
01:22:17.190 --> 01:22:21.120
Hong Lieu: is just how the commonalities and how universal a lot of our experiences are.
639
01:22:21.420 --> 01:22:28.380
Hong Lieu: You know, in every every each one of us is unique we're all individuals but there's so much common ground that we have with each other.
640
01:22:28.620 --> 01:22:35.340
Hong Lieu: If we just take the time to just break it down and like a 2030 minute conversation about your interests, what you like to eat what you like to cook you know, like.
641
01:22:35.700 --> 01:22:43.500
Hong Lieu: Well, what brought you here, like those are just simple questions and then and the richness and the fruit that we bought today, I mean, thank you very much.
642
01:22:43.740 --> 01:22:44.640
Akil Hill: yeah I have.
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Agatha: Welcome, thank you.
644
01:22:46.800 --> 01:22:57.420
Akil Hill: definitely have to echo what Han said, you know it's such an honor and privilege to interview, as well as to be here, you know work with you over the years, so.
645
01:22:59.400 --> 01:23:11.370
Akil Hill: It was definitely a rich show a lot of I love this sitting back listening to the plays off of you and Hong and similar experiences it's just it was it was really delightful for me to listen to be a part of the show.
646
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Agatha: You know how remember, I told you a killer is my brother from another mother.
647
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Agatha: my brother.
648
01:23:22.080 --> 01:23:25.080
Agatha: I always consider his daughter, my name is.
649
01:23:26.040 --> 01:23:26.940
Agatha: yeah she's.
650
01:23:27.540 --> 01:23:36.840
Akil Hill: she's still calls you auntie agatha to she's like have you talked to her that she was asking about you a couple about a few weeks back, and so I mean it's it's.
651
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Akil Hill: it's this great man it's just this is what the show is really supposed to be geared towards it, and I felt this in my.
652
01:23:45.810 --> 01:23:47.850
Akil Hill: I felt it in my in my stomach you know I found it.
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downloads.
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Akil Hill: Or maybe I felt it in my cheat let's say.
655
01:23:52.860 --> 01:23:55.620
Hong Lieu: A little bit better I felt, yes, we did she Lucas.
656
01:23:55.680 --> 01:23:58.080
Hong Lieu: yeah or the quran right next to your heart.
657
01:23:58.110 --> 01:23:59.910
Akil Hill: Where it's all felt it.
658
01:24:00.930 --> 01:24:06.120
Hong Lieu: So I get the any any yeah any parting words before we say goodbye anything you'd like to leave with are.
659
01:24:07.560 --> 01:24:08.310
Agatha: Now you know.
660
01:24:11.040 --> 01:24:12.780
Agatha: You eat with.
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01:24:16.020 --> 01:24:35.130
Agatha: Ultimately, understanding and care for each other it's just that simple, I mean just break it down it's very simple it's not that difficult to understand and just happen mutual respect for one another is basically what my takeaway is and I love you all thank you so much for having me.
662
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Hong Lieu: amen, thank you for being here.
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Hong Lieu: Thanks take care y'all.
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Agatha: Next time.
665
01:24:41.460 --> 01:24:42.180
Akil Hill: so next time.
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Agatha: Okay, thank you.
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bye.