April 15, 2025 • 61 mins
What happens when musical talent meets motherhood and cultural heritage? Bay Area vocalist Acari joins us for a captivating conversation that weaves between her professional singing career, parenting journey, and creative aspirations.
From her days playing basketball as a self-described tomboy to commanding the stage at Mastro's Steakhouse, Acari shares the surprising path that led her to find her voice—literally and figuratively. After being discovered through Instagram, she now balances performing at an upscale venue with raising her two-year-old son, while simultaneously working on new music including an EP she describes as "genre fluid." Previously fronting the alternative rock band April Chase that once graced the Warped Tour stage, she reflects on how the Bay Area's economic realities shaped her musical journey.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn as Acari, born in Quezon City, shares spine-tingling stories of Filipino folklore and paranormal encounters that defy explanation—from the infamous "white lady" ghost to tree spirits that demand respect and tiny "duendes" with supernatural powers to cause illness. These cultural beliefs remain deeply intertwined with her worldview despite her contemporary life as a working musician.
We also dive into the evolution of confidence, as Acari reveals how she transformed from a shy performer into someone comfortable in her own skin. She shares candid thoughts on relationships, dating app disasters, and how persistence from her current partner ultimately won her heart despite not actively seeking romance.
Follow Acari on all social platforms @acarimusic to catch her upcoming releases, including a special track featuring lyrics in Tagalog. Her story is a testament to balancing artistic dreams with real-world responsibilities while staying connected to cultural roots.
• Born in Quezon City, Philippines, and now living in San Jose, California
• Currently recording new music including an EP with various genre influences
• Discovered for her Mastro's Steakhouse singing gig through Instagram
• Former member of alternative rock band April Chase that performed at Warped Tour
• Considering homeschooling options for her son due to concerns about the education system
• Recently collaborated with Ray Resurrection and preparing to release a song with Tagalog lyrics
• Shared fascinating Filipino folklore and paranormal experiences from growing up
• Once shy despite being a performer, now embraces confidence and caring less about others' perceptions
• Finding balance between motherhood, music career, and relationship
Find Acari on all social media platforms @acarimusic and look out for her upcoming releases including a new song featuring Tagalog lyrics.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Relationship Method
Podcast.
I'm Chris and today I have alovely guest Coming from Kila,
california, the Bay.
Motherfuckers, she's a mom,she's a professional walker,
she's an artist man.
I I got akari on this hoe.
(00:27):
What's up, girl, how you doingI'm good man, I'm doing great oh
my god, that sounds soseductive.
You better calm down with thatshit, girl is that what this
podcast is about?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
like no, no, not even not even, not even.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Uh.
It can't be.
I know uh, before we get umthis motherfucker going um akari
.
How did I get the yes from youto come on?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
um, you know what I'm just honestly.
Just I'm trying to be more likeout there, like as far as a,
not just doing music.
I want people to kind of likelike uh, fuck I I don't know I
just want people to know me moreas a person instead of just
like a musician, because youknow you got to share your story
and stuff these days and I'mnot very good at talking, so
(01:22):
that's why we're here oh, I feelthat.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
No, I feel that, um it, uh, I never took public
speaking classes, but, um, like,I'm in the military, so I am
forced to speak in front ofpeople even though I don't want
to right so yeah, my problem isis when I'm in front of a crowd
I go super fast, like because Ijust, I just want to get the
(01:51):
fuck out of there.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, you just yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I was like yeah, girl , exactly, exactly, and you and
I was chopping it up and then Iwas stalking your story.
Where were you coming from?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I just came from Oracle Park in a Mestiza
restaurant in San Francisco.
I was doing a shoot with myhomie rapper, jf Bayani, and
yeah, we were doing a songtogether.
Oh okay, yeah, it's like myfirst little dabble in like
(02:29):
hip-hop, like trappy type shit,and I'm doing a hook in Tagalog.
So I'm kind of nervous but alsolike super excited.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Ooh wow, are you full Filipino or are you like some
type of Iwanese or anese or anigra or whatnot?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh no, I'm straight from Quezon City.
I was born there, grew up there, oh, no way.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Okay, well, mabuhay, motherfucker.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, it's not lumpia , by the way, it's lumpia, I'm
just saying.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Lumpia.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So to me you're crispy lumpia.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Hey, you know what it's.
It's better uh crispy thansoggy that's true yep, take that
to the back.
And um, and akari, you told methat you was a mama bear.
Yeah, oh, that's cute.
Um, how many?
Uh, if you don't mind me asking, and is it a boy or a girl or
is it an it?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, it's a little alien, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Fuck them aliens.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, I'm just kidding, he's a two-year-old boy
, my little guy.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Thanks, man.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, so I have a six-year-old, an eight-year-old,
an 18-year-old and a20-year-old.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Holy shit.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, girl, I'm telling you my age, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So that right there should give you like my age kind
of you know womp, womp, butshit, yeah, I know, I know right
, but shit.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Eh.
Yeah, I know, I know, right man, but still, man, fuck them kids
, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, dude fuck them kids.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
No, that's cool, so huh.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What do I have to look forward to at six and eight
?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh, okay, what can I?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
watch out for.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So that's when the personalities kick in.
So, whatever they're watching,whatever they're around, that's
what they're going to pick up on.
If you read to them a lot,their vocabulary becomes pretty
vast.
You know what I'm saying.
So, yeah, that's what I'mworking with right now, with the
(04:43):
six-year-old Talking back theeye rolls.
Oh my gosh.
If you're eye rolling them nowand they catch on that, oh got
mom.
You know that's going to pissyou off, but you can't do
nothing but laugh at it.
You feel me?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah man, I'm just waiting for the age he figures
out like hey, my mom's actuallykind of dumb.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right Like oh gosh, let your boy take home a math
assignment.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And you're like dog.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The stereotype is not real.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's like this is too easy.
You can't figure it out.
See, I'm already coming up withcomebacks.
Yeah, hey.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's like man, you know what?
We both dumb men.
All right, we both dumb.
We can't figure it out.
I can't figure it out.
This is just too hard for usparents.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, but cool, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Hey, exactly, Wait, let me ask you this, Since you
have a seed if your kid wantedto drop out of school and, let's
say, pursue music, would youlet him do that, or would you
still have?
You know, hey man, graduate andthen fuck college, go do your
(05:54):
music.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's hard.
That's hard because, just like,based on my experience, like,
yeah, like based on um myexperience, like yeah, I would
have done so much better if I,if I pursued music like
full-time way earlier on, or ifI was just like I'm gonna just
go to music school, butobviously my parents were like
we're not funding art school oh,so you had the typical filipino
(06:29):
parents that wanted theirdaughter to to be in the um the
medical field yeah, you know,and I think it just they just
wanted me to have somethingstable.
But of course, like back then, Ididn't understand that.
I was just like, look, I'm justtrying to do like my shit, you
know.
Yeah, I just want to be in aband and like play music all day
(06:52):
.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
But yeah, were you a rebellious kid when you told
your parents that, hey, man, Idon't want to do this, I want to
do something else.
Like, did you rebel?
Or were you like, oh okay, butthen you know, low key, just did
your thing anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, that's exactly what I did.
I was like, oh yeah, I can payfor my own school, I'll go to
like the community college andlike fund myself.
Actually, I just never went toclass and I just played shows
here and there.
But see if he's interested inmusic, I would say go to music
school, Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
After high school, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Mm-hmm.
Okay, I mean shoot, I'm alsothinking of homeschooling,
though I don't know.
I don't know what's going tohappen with our education system
or the future of our educationsystem.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh, is it because of Trump?
Or is it because of likeCalifornia, like the California
standards of educating kids?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I think both.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Mm.
Okay, interesting yeah, hmm,hmm.
Um are you putting it?
Would you put them in public orprivate?
Do you have enough funds forprivate?
Because I sure as hell don't.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Fuck, no, fuck, no.
Okay, who enough funds forprivate?
Because I sure as hell don't no, no, okay, who has funds for
private school, especially inthe bay area, like oh, I know
you're like getting homeschooledoh, okay, okay, well, um, let's
see.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Uh, when do you think you'll decide um like
homeschooling the kid?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I think I have to decide pretty soon because he's
gonna be in like preschool andall that.
So, yeah, I got to chop it upwith my partner and come up with
a legit plan.
What did you guys do?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
We put the motherfuckers at school.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
We're like man, we need our motherfucking rest
throughout the day.
I need to decompress, becauseonce 6 am or 6.30 am hits, it's
like go, go, go, go, go untilthey go to school.
And then it's like, ok, now Ihave a little time to slow the
fuck down, get myself ready forwork and then, you know, do my
(08:59):
thing until they get out.
So it's like, yeah, Idefinitely liked them going to
school, but the whole what's itcalled, the whole homeschooling
thing, like I was really open tothat shit too.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, because I feel like Icould, I'm around, or my job,
luckily, like you know, likelets me be around a lot more at
home, so yeah, I think I canhandle it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Oh, you know what mama bear you can yeah, yeah
yeah, um akari, uh, if you don'tmind me asking, what do you do
like on the outside world?
What's your uh, what's yournine to five or what's your
whatever hour it is?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I sing at um mastro's Steakhouse.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, I've heard of that Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes.
Oh, that's what you do at night.
Yeah, that's my like you knowsource of income.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's your thing.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, that's my thing .
Speaker 1 (09:56):
How cool is that Like you get to work on your vocals
and get an audience response orreaction.
Yeah, do you like it?
Okay, get an audience responseor reaction.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Do you like it?
Okay?
Okay, wait, hold on.
Do you like it?
Do you like working there?
I love mastro's.
I'm so lucky that they found me, and you know hooked me up with
that job it's it's been super,super fun do you get free food
fuck.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
No, there's like 50 off, but like 200, so I never
eat there bro, I would have beenlike how much is a fry, how
much are the fries?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I know they sell fries.
You got free bread or some shit, I don't know.
Okay, free bread, free breadGet them.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Carbs in girl Get them carbs in.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I'm a carbs girl.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So my show.
How did you get this gig?
Because you're the first onethat I've had on the pod that
said that's what they do for aliving is seeing at um, at a
state joint so how, yeah, how'dyou get this gig?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
they found me um just on instagram shut your ass
really yeah, so wow I just gotreally, really, I don't know
what happened.
Her Right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh well, do you have to dress a certain way when
you're there, like you know?
Dress, or sultry, you know,like them old school, you know,
yeah, singers Like jazz artistsyeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you have to dress like that,or are you in like jeans and a
shirt?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, you're definitely not allowed to wear jeans and a
shirt.
It's just, it's like cocktailattire.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Hmm, okay, yeah, oh.
So mommy be going dressed towork then, huh.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, and I'm just like Hmm, okay, good stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
How does your partner think of you singing at these
places?
Because I could only imaginethere's guys there that you know
maybe shoot the shot or giveyou the look or whatnot.
How does he handle that shit?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You would think there would, but I mean not really,
not for me, I guess.
Maybe I just give off thatenergy like stay six feet away,
motherfucker you know, you got,you got the rbf I do.
I do have an rbf.
I was born okay I don't knowhow to get rid of it, yeah and
(12:17):
I'm always just like out ofthere real quick.
I don't like drink or anything,so like as soon as my shift is
up, I'm like I'm out.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Oh okay, that's good girl, that's good.
I am happy for you and I hopeall these um.
Are you going to college oranything, or are you just
straight working?
Oh, excuse me, working anddoing this other stuff just
working and doing music.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, okay, last year I've just been doing the music
thing kind of full time.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh, okay, are you working with producers or
anything?
Or are you just doing covers orwhatnot?
What's on your list of songs?
Are you writing?
Yeah, I already asked that shit, so what are you doing?
Yeah, I'm writing, like, areyou writing?
Yeah, I already asked that shit.
Yeah, so, yeah, what are youdoing?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I'm writing.
Luckily, my partner is aproducer.
Ooh okay.
And lately I've been workingwith the Ray Resurrection.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's man, that's dope.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, man, that is dope.
I write my shit.
It's special to me, I guess.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh, and how would you describe your music?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
genre I guess.
I would say I'm a genre fluid.
Right now I'm coming up with anEP and it's got a little bit of
everything.
I'm so excited for it to comeout.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Oh girl, I'm excited for you.
I've been brewing.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, I've been brewing some music and I just
can't wait to put it out.
That's also kind of why I'mhere.
Doing this podcast is to letpeople know the music is coming.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Oh girl, the people in Hawaii will know.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Oh, for sure that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I'd love to play a show out there.
Hey, girl, do it.
And then, um, let me know, so Icould like show up and be like
hey, I know her oh yeah, I knowher, you're guest list for sure,
motherfucker.
Oh yeah, and then, um, what, uh?
What part of uh cali are you in?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
San Jose.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Oh, San Jose 408.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, 408.
Where were you?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
at before.
I lived in Marina, the MontereyCounty.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh, okay, nice.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, like right near Pebble Beach, Santa Cruz and
shit.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh, okay, I love Santa Cruz and Monterey.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh yeah, I know we have like the best clam chowder.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, the pier huh.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yep, I'm glad you fucking agree.
Hell yeah, hell yeah.
Sanho man, I miss Sanho becausefor the longest time In-N-Out
was there and I wasn't a bigcheeseburger guy but I loved
their animal fries and that'swhere all the racers would link
up at like super late at night.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Oh, that's where I live, on Capitol Expressway.
Oh shit, no way.
Yeah, dude, it's nonstop Likethose racers.
Go crazy, it's wild.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, back in the day, yeah,that's where we would link up,
like friday, saturday nights wewould go there and then, you
know, race, and then I would.
I would ditch school, I wouldditch class just to go to
independence independence bro no, no, no, no, don't get up, it
(15:42):
was.
It was the thing you know, likeyou know, it was the thing like
oh, because you know, uh, backthen it was all you know,
fucking chat rooms, right, andthen oh, like AOL chat rooms
yeah, so it's like ASL yep yep,asl pic please we would just
(16:04):
randomly do that or give outthat information and just
randomly like send pictures tofucking internet strangers girl
for real.
So I would meet, dude, I wouldmeet a lot of uh females in
sanjo at independence and um,I'm not gonna lie, it was like
the time of my life.
(16:24):
Why are you laughing?
Is Independence cracked out orsomething?
Is it bad?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
No, my partner went there.
I just hear stories Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That's where we went, and then we would chill at
Nickel City.
Is Nickel City still there?
Hell yeah, no, it's definitelynot there anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
My old band would play shows there and then we
would chill at nickel city.
Is nickel city still there?
Oh yeah, no, it's definitelynot there it's gone, huh, but
yeah, my old dad would playshows there, hella fun for real
yeah oh wow.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
But yeah, nickel city was a spot and then we would
always meet up.
Well, me and the boys wouldalways meet up with females that
like what was it called excelor perfect studios or whatever
where's that at?
I've never oh god, it's likeone of them, you know before
cell phones and shit, it's oneof them, uh, photo boot, photo
shoots, uh, photo buildings,where oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
(17:16):
like the sears type shit yeah,yeah, but it'd be like one of
them holding the walls and shityeah, yeah yeah, so, oh man, I
missed it there ah and I used toskate in that indoor skate park
at the mall at eastridge yeah,eastridge, I used to be there a
lot.
I used to skate there, holy shit, wow, that's oh my gosh, yeah,
(17:37):
so much, so much fond memoriesand stuff wait, are you talking
about a san jose?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I think, because at Eastridge there was an ice rink.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
No, so in one of those malls I forgot what it was
Inside of it there was likethere was a legit.
I don't know if it was a Vansstore or whatever, but inside
this place there was like askate park.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
At Great Mall.
It was a Vans.
Yeah, okay, great Mall.
Okay, if that's what it wasyeah, great Mall, oh my God.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And then what did they have?
They had Mr Rags over there, no, or those old stores that don't
even.
They're extinct now.
Basically, but oh my, goshBringing me back, girl Bringing
me back.
So you and Sanho, what highschool did you go to?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Silver Creek.
Okay, I heard of Silver Creek.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I think we played y'all like in football.
I think we lost, we got prettygood support.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I don't remember yeah .
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So I've seen and heard.
I think y'all whooped us inbasketball.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Ah, who cares, though ?
Who fucking cares?
So, who fucking cares?
So, Akari, when you are, let'ssay, doing these projects, right
, you're singing, and everythingdo people like guys
particularly, do they?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
shoot their shot at you, like in any way, shape or
form you know what, to becompletely real and honest.
I wish they would, but theydon't, oh shit.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I wish a motherfucker would man Goddamn I'm over here
.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I just want to turn someone down one time Like, oh
shit, sorry, I have a kid, Ilove my family, I'm sorry yeah
yeah.
I don't know.
I think it's just my energy.
I'm just like.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You're here for work, and that's it.
I'm not here to fuck around.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, maybe no, you know what?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's good.
That means you're super focused.
You know what I'm saying.
You're super focused and noone's going to fuck with you.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You feel me?
Yeah, I guess, or if that evengets close.
I'm just like I'm out, like ifI feel anything weird, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Really, is that how you do with like, let's say, in
your past, when people weretrying to get to know you?
You're like, nah, I'm good.
So you would go like theopposite direction and
everything.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, pretty much.
Have you seen the movieSuperbad?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yes, I did Bye.
Yeah, seen the movie super bad.
Yes, I did bye.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
yeah, exactly, I do the 360 playing and I just oh my
gosh, uh-huh.
Or maybe I just like act weirdon purpose, so like they don't,
you know really but they get theick like instantly I don't know
, oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
But guys like the, I guess the weirdos and stuff, you
think so yeah, oh, I know.
So I definitely know, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Explain further please, because oh man.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
So you know, you say ics, right, but to some guys
it's like, oh man, that's kindof cute, like I had this
conversation with one of my boys.
I had this conversation withone of my boys and we came to
the conclusion that we likewomen that other guys don't like
, and then when these guys startliking them, it's like okay, I
(20:55):
don't like her anymore, I'mgoing to back off, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Why is that that type of shit?
Why is it Like a territorialthing or like?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Bro, you know what girl I?
I don't know.
I honestly don't know, becausethere's been a situation.
There's been situations whereI've been what I, where I've
been in, where I think like afemale's cute, right, and then
everyone else around me is like,oh no, I wouldn't no but then
no, it doesn't make me like hermore, but it makes me like okay,
(21:26):
cool, you know like, but Ithink she's cute.
So I'm gonna I'm not gonna likespit my game, but I'm gonna get
to know her.
You know, like, have aconversation or two, but then
let's say I don't know like day,a couple days of like talking
to her, getting to know her.
My guy friends would be like,you know, she actually kind of
cute.
You know she becomes cute allof a sudden.
(21:48):
I'm like what the fuck, likeman?
So when they start spendingthey shot, I'm just like, ah,
whatever.
So I would like back off or I'd, uh, I'd see how would she
handle.
You know all the, you knowthese, you know hand her up.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
But yeah.
So I mean, I'm telling youright now like it happens.
It happens when guys are justyou know, they see the weird
ones talk to them and then allof a sudden guys in the
background is like oh damn, shecute.
All of a sudden I was like okay, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool,
cool.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Do you think that's kind of like a herd mentality?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
kind of thing.
You know what it can be, butexplain the herd mentality thing
.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Because I don't know like when me and my sister
watched, like we used to watchK-dramas a lot, like during
COVID.
Ah yeah, and I wouldn't.
I'd be like, eh, whatever thisguy's, and then my sister would
be like so crazy in love withhim and I'd be, like I'd start
to imagine like, oh, why wouldshe think he's cute?
It doesn't happen all the time,but sometimes you're like, oh
(22:57):
yeah okay, I could see why he'scute.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Has that ever happened to you, where you
thought a guy was cute, cute andthen all of a sudden you're
like, oh he is.
Or the opposite, where hewasn't cute but then he became
cute afterwards or after like aweek later, or some shit?
Has that ever happened?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
oh yeah, like the ones that build up over time.
I like that a lot betteractually.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I think I know myself enough to know that the instant
attraction thing is just notgood.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Really, yeah, not good as in like oh man, I'm
finna, get at that or not goodas in like man.
I've been in this situationbefore and it didn't pan out the
way I wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It fades quickly, I think.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
But I'm curious what are these like icks in girls
that you and your guy friends?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh, so my main ick I can't speak for them, but my
main ick is dirty fingernails.
That's a very big ick.
Okay, don't make fun, but toes.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Dirty feet.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Dirty feet is a very big ick Because, oh and long
toenails, oh my gosh.
Like you know, like this is theend of the sandal, this is your
toe and your nails are likecoming over Hell.
No, Hell.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
No, you don't want them on your back, like just
scratch your back.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Girl, if I wanted to get scratched, man, I'll buy a
cat.
You know what I'm saying, youknow.
And then, oh, what else is theick?
Uh, my another ick is when,okay when, when women wear, you
know, they wear the, the, the,the strap shoes, where, or the
(24:59):
strap sandals.
They got the sandals and theyhave to strap it around their
leg or whatever.
All right, so if, oh gosh, thisis kind of bad, but I don't
care.
Um, if, if you have to put iton the last hole and the strap
is like hanging on for dear life, yeah, that's a fucking egg too
(25:19):
you know what I'm saying veryspecific oh, it's super specific
because if it's holding on fordear life, that means your ankle
or whatever is not getting incirculation.
So it's like the thing is likefolding over.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You know what I'm saying?
Oh, it's like just gives youtoo much anxiety.
Yeah it does.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I'm like, oh my God, it's like Miss, can I go buy you
some like flip flops orsomething, some 99-cent
flip-flops, because your anklesis fitting a freaking bleed yo
Like for real, straight up.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Your whole life must be hanging by a thread if you
wear your shoes like that.
Oh my gosh, definitely, Maybethat's why, or why do you think
these are icks for you?
I guess?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Why, oh wow, are you like self-medicating me?
Like, hold on, why are theyicks?
Okay.
So with the hands and feet, Ithink if you don't take care of
these, because they're veryspecific, right, I think you
don't take care of everythingelse you know.
(26:21):
Because with the hands, it'slike okay, I see my hands every
day, all right, cool.
With the feet, it's like if yougot claws, it's like, oh my
gosh, yeah, it just tells methat everything here is like
unkept.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
You already let yourself go?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
huh, there's probably some yeah, yeah, pretty much
yeah musty shit going on inother places you know.
And then you know like, um, I'mI'm used to.
You know, like I have a wifeand everything and I'm used to
the underneath boob sweat.
You know, like I'm used to that.
So if I smell that it's okay.
(27:02):
You know what?
I'm saying Like I'm like I'm allfor it.
You know, like you know theboob, and you put it up and you
go like this and you're like oh,okay, it smells like my armpit
kind of.
I know, right, you just go likethis and you're like oh, yeah,
yeah, just go like this.
(27:27):
And you're like oh, yeah, yeah,um no, but also like, oh, I, uh
, I play, I used to play with alot of like female, uh,
basketball players, right, andthen of course I would see, like
the boob sweat, that would likekind of ache me out.
But then you know, I'm justlike dude, I'm sweaty all around
too.
So there's like I shouldn't belike like that.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
So, yeah, I got, I got used to it and yeah yeah, I
played basketball in high schooland it's just like the, the wet
, like the sweaty, like hair,you know, and it just like rubs
against you oh yeah no, I'm donewere you, uh, were you a big
sweater when you playedbasketball in high school, or
(28:04):
when you played basketball?
No, but I turned really, reallyred and it's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Really.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I turned super red.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I don't know why I'm not a sweater I wish Like drunk
red Like Asian glow red, yeah,or just.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Like everywhere, like my neck, like Asian glow red
yeah, or just Like everywhereLike my neck.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Like, yeah, oh, it's like.
Oh, man, she got an allergicreaction to something.
Man, you better give her somegoddamn Benadryl or some shit.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I'm going to give her a shot, yeah right.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Hey, she's finding her croak right now.
Man, oh, that's funny.
So you hooped back in the dayyeah, did a lot of guys find you
more attractive because youwere an athlete?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I don't fucking think so.
I think I was a tomboy.
I think I still am.
I don't know if that kind ofdeterred a lot of people away.
I just do my own thing.
You know, you did your ownthing.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, you know what's funny when I talk to a lot of
guys and you know, and also likeback in the day I was attracted
to like the tomboy look forsome odd reason, I don't know,
like yeah, like I don't knowwhat it is, but and also my
friends too when we see a womanjust dressed in boy clothes, I'm
(29:24):
not saying it's a turn-on, I'mnot going to fucking jack off
real fast, but it's like, oh, Ifind her very pretty because I
don't know, it doesn't make megay.
I'm just saying it doesn't makeme gay, but it's like it's an
attraction thing.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Oh, interesting.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Well, I guess everybody's got you know, got
some yeah.
Yeah, some weird fetishes andshit.
What are your?
What are your?
Icks in a guy?
Yeah, miss Akari, uh if yousmell weird you know, okay,
(30:09):
what's a weird smell if I getclose to you.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Uh, there was one person that was pretty cool that
I was like when I was datingback in the day before I had a
kid, he was like really cool andhad a cool personality, but
it's like it was just the smell.
I couldn't you know you smelllike vinegar.
Kind of like a little muscule.
I can't explain it A littlesour, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Do you think that's his natural smell?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Did you ever brought it up to him Like, hey, dude,
that I like let me tell yousomething.
You kind of smell a little off.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
No, I just did my Fogel thing and I was like bye.
Oh poor guy.
You couldn't just been like hey, man, you kind of, you know,
you kind of smell and shit.
Do guys appreciate that more?
If I was just straight up likelike you know he's stinky, like
I can't do this because I didn'twant him to try and like make
(31:17):
himself smell better, I was justlike nah, I do think like when
a woman says something, but likelet's say you know the right
place, right time, right.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
You're not dogging them out in front of everyone,
you're just you pull them to theside.
I think we take it a little bit, a bit more like oh, dude girl,
thank you, you know I'll workon that bitch.
You know, as opposed to likedamn motherfucker, you stank as
hell, you rancid.
You know For real, for realdeadass, like it's better to do
(31:51):
it in private than you knowblasting him in front of
everyone.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Ah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, yeah, you should.
You should have Akari Fine.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Sorry, akari, let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I'm a little rancid.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you for not busting it.
Let me ask you your partnerright?
If he had a booger in his nosein public.
What would you do?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I would just.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Pick it for him.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I'm like I got you.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
That's love, that is love.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I'd be like hold on, stop, I'll batter.
You just gotta make it romantica little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Then it's not like how about if he had bad breath?
Would you Be like?
Or would you just be like, hey,you want some gum or a tic tac
or some shit?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I'd be like mmm curry , I like that.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Oh, that's your safe word, like he would know what.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
No, no, no, no, I'm just kidding.
I was like curry.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
How long have you guys been together for?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Three years.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Three years.
Three years, yeah, okay.
Are you open to marriage or areyou happy?
Just the dynamic of what youguys are right now?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I'm open to it.
I feel like all girlsromanticize that and I'm really
at the point in my life where Iwant to build and he's
definitely like he's got thesame mindset like he wants to
build.
You know, we have, we have achild and we want to raise him
right and teach him about loveand yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Oh, that's cute.
What's one thing he did to likesay to get you, you know, like
make you think like, hey, thisdude is a he's a pretty straight
edge fellow.
You know, I might give him someof my time.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
He, just he was persistent.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
He was persistent.
Oh, okay, persistent, okay.
So if he wasn't persistent, itwouldn't have gone nowhere,
because would you have chasedhim too, or no?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I don't think I was actually looking for a
relationship when we met, so Iwould have just kept my head
just on music.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I was like I was on Tinder for like a year during
COVID.
It was the worst fuckingexperience ever and I was like,
yeah, I'm done, I'm done withthis shit.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I'm just going to, like, do my thing and do music
and yeah, speaking of Tinder,there he is Poof, there he is,
there he is.
Um speaking of tinder, uh, giveme an experience on, like, why
you hated it.
What made it so un akari-esque?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
well, first of all, let me clarify why I was on
there in the first place.
My little sister, who is mylittle sister, was on it and I
was like, what the fuck are youdoing on this app?
And I was like, oh, maybe it'sokay for me to be on it because
she's on it.
She's way younger than me.
I was like, what's this allabout?
What are you on on here?
But I think what I didn't likeabout it is it felt like
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everyone was expendable.
You know, mm-hmm, yeah, like itdidn't feel like I was actually
talking to humans.
I was just the next thing likeon the app.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, like everyone had an expiration date on Tinder
.
Yeah, and there was always thenext one, you know like if yeah
and you didn't know in that wayspeaking to old school uh, how
did you and your partner meet?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
he slid in my dms on instagram On Instagram, but we
met before then though.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Apparently.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
According to him, we had met and spoken before that.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Oh, was he talking about like elementary school?
Like oh yeah, man, I was likeright behind you in science
class, you know what I'm saying.
You talked to me and shit, nowI'm here, baby, type of
situation like right behind youin science class, you know I'm
saying you talk to me and shit,now I'm, now I'm here baby type
of situation we were actually no, we were actually um in battle
of the bands at san jose stateand his, his band went against
my band.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Uh-huh, I remember, um, his singers are the rapper
and singer from his band I dondon't remember him because I
don't know, I was really shy, Ididn't really go out of my way
to talk to people or anything.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
When you were in this band, were you the lead singer
or were you a guitarist, bassplayer?
What were you?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, I sang.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
So how were you shy if you have to sing?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
I know right, it's so weird, it makes no sense, sense
, I don't know it doesn't missakari, it doesn't I really have
to put myself out there.
Yeah, I was really fucking shylike way back then.
I'm a lot different now, Ithink really what?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
what's what's switched, because I was a shy
kid as well.
What switched to where Akari'smore confident and ready to be
outspoken?
What changed?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I think just like my self-esteem and like just you
know, building that up like inmyself, yeah, yeah, I used to
like really care was how I wasperceived, you know.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
But now I'm just like I don't care, like if you think
I'm weird or you don't like me,like yeah yeah oh, um, I think
because I was shy, I think whenI started playing basketball
heavy and when I started likejust break dancing in the
(38:25):
hallways, I think that's when,like, my confidence started
getting up there, because, ofcourse, basketball you are in
front of, like your school, soyou have to I guess, guess
perform at your greatest rightright and then with breaking,
it's like you're by yourself.
So it's if you fuck up, you fuckup.
(38:47):
If you do good, you do good.
So it's like I think that wasmy confidence booster and where
you know what fuck what thesemotherfuckers start thinking.
You know like I could do thisand they can't fuck what these
motherfuckers are thinking youknow like I could do this and
they can't.
I'm finna like go ham, you know.
(39:10):
Oh, so you break dams.
I did.
Yeah, I girl.
Let me tell you back in the dayI went to any better time battle
motherfuckers yeah I hadcyphers like that at indie yeah,
like back in the day, yeah, andthen um, remember when, uh, so
you think not, so you think yeah, um, so you think you can dance
and fucking um, was it?
What's that thing that's on mtv?
Uh, america's next best whenthat shit was popping, like
(39:34):
that's when I started, uh youknow, dancing like I used to uh
dance with, uh uh, mvp San Joseyou ever heard of, or VIP San
Jose okay, yeah, yeah, I used tolike, I used to take classes,
like over there, and then, um,and then when uh, funks was
popping up in Frisco, I tookclasses up there too.
(39:55):
so that whole fad, like I waswhole dancing, I was in that
dancing, oh wow Like heavy yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Were you in a dance crew.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, I was actually yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
What was your crew name?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
So I was into two.
One was INR, it's calledInfamous Night Rockers and
Choreology.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Choreology.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, yeah, so, so, yeah, and then yeah, so, uh,
yeah, and I trained with like,and I trained, I watched all
these other dance crews, likeyou know, the company grv um
cookies and everything like Iwatched them all through up and
down.
You know cali, when world ofdance was popping.
So, yeah, I used to do all thatshit when I used to live in
(40:40):
Cali before I joined the Army.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Oh, wow, cool, Cool.
Little background on you.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I know, right Cool.
Oh, thank you I love dancerenergy.
Oh word, could you tell, I havethat.
Yeah, for sure, if you don'tmind me asking.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, a little bit.
Stop Kind of I think it's thehand movement oh, or I play
piano, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Oh my god, that's funny.
Okay, in your band, right?
Was this like punk or were youplaying alternative right?
Yeah, was this like punk orwere you playing alternative
music?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah, what was?
Speaker 1 (41:23):
alternative.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Yeah, like alternative rock type shit what
type shit Not a lot offemale-fronted Asian people were
doing that at that time.
Uh-huh, yeah, oh, that's cool,are you still?
Speaker 1 (41:36):
with these bands Like are these members like on your
team still, or you guys?
Excuse me, you guys drifted anddid your own thing.
Oh, we're also friends, likewe're family you know, mm-hmm,
yeah, some of them are musiciansTim, our old guitar player, he
just won a Grammy.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Musicians Tim, our old guitar player, he just won a
Grammy.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Yes, wow, good for him.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
I know right, I'm so proud, I'm so proud.
He's from San Jose, like fromour neighborhood, and he won a
Grammy.
You know, that's so fuckingdope.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
You're next, akari, you're next.
I'm going to manifest it, I'mgoing to say it to the world
Akari is going to get a Grammy.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Hey, you said it here first.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Hey, hey, oh my gosh, if they do a documentary on you
like years, years, years now.
I want them to pull up this oldpodcast and be like oh yeah.
And then they interview me,I'll be like man, I knew she had
it.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Crispy lumpia.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, lumpia, lumpia.
Uh, yeah, lumpia, it's.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Oh, yeah, I'm like yeah, man, you know I knew akari
when she only had one kid um,she wasn't even married.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
She wasn't even married yet.
You know, she was just comingfrom a photo shoot.
You know I'm saying we werejust we're just chopping it up,
shooting the shit, that'stalking about independence, high
silver creek independence.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah, talking about Independence, high Silver.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Creek.
Talking about Independence yepEastside.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Talking- about bands in Nickel City.
Actually, my band did playthere at the birthday room.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Really yeah.
Did y'all do cover songs or didyou have original songs for
your bands?
Speaker 2 (43:15):
We did both because that was like the beginning of
the YouTube era, kind of Uh-huhyeah.
So we did covers, but we alsoput out originals.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Are you on the tube?
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Is it under Akari?
Speaker 2 (43:31):
No, it's a different name.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
What's the name?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
We were April Chase.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
April Chase, just regular spelling April.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Chase Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Okay, why didn't everyone continue in the band?
Was there something that madey'all split up, or y'all just
wanted to do y'all's own thing?
Speaker 2 (43:53):
We were really young, you know, we didn't fucking
know.
We were honestly like a garageband that ended up getting paid
and playing shows and we playedlike a Warped Tour show and we
were just I don't think we knewthe business part of it as much,
even though we were trying.
And then yeah, it's a Bay Arealike you just got to have a job.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Oh yeah, Facts you want, girl, you, you, a Bay Area
, like you just got to have ajob.
Oh yeah, facts, girl, you ain'tlying.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Miss San Jose.
Let me ask you is San Jose, isit?
Is the Winchester house stillthere?
Yeah, okay, good, yeah Becausebefore I left there was like
talks of it like getting shutdown or whatever, because it's
like right near the highway,right.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Not so much.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
It's on Winchester Road.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Kind of close to the highway, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, like they wanted to like tear it down to
make more highway or something.
I forgot the back story, butbefore I left, left I remember
them saying that they weretrying to like tear that
motherfucker down that's wild.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
I can't even imagine that thing being down.
I think it's like haunted andshit right oh my gosh, it is
haunted, it is.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
I love that part of no mobile shit.
I'm into that shit so Iwouldn't go there if I knew the
way.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Are you kidding me?
No, I live really close to itactually oh.
Yeah, I want to do their nighttour on Halloween.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Oh right.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
I would love to do that.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Are you into that stuff?
Huh, I think a lot of Filipinosare Into like the paranormal.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Oh, like the aswang and the anting-anting, huh.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
And fucking the white lady.
Yeah, dude, don't even talkabout the white lady, because
I've seen one in the philippinesgrowing up tell me that story.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
I want to hear it but why is it?
Speaker 2 (45:48):
it's just I don't know if this is gonna like get
me canceled for thinking thatlike a white lady is terrifying
you know what we'll say.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Disclaimer right now, we ain't talking about your
race, we're just talking about amotherfucking lady in a white
dress.
So if you're listening to thisshit and you're getting offended
, we're talking about aparanormal ghost that wears a
white sheet with black hair andshe is not white.
Slash Caucasian.
Get that shit out your butt Allright, there you go.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Go ahead, Not white, yeah, yeah, I'm not scared of
white people Fuck no, hell, no,pasty ass motherfuckers man.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
No, oh my gosh.
No, I go on their head man, Igo motherfucking putting raisins
in fucking potato salad.
Who does that shit?
Speaker 2 (46:37):
That's a weird combination, you know.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
You know, putting mayo with everything.
No, I'm sorry, Mom, but tell meabout the white lady.
I want to know.
I want to know.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah, I saw a white lady and a capre at our old
house in the philippines it'slike the really really tall guy
apparently that like lives inthe trees.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
I don't know is that the one where he's supposed to
be smoking a cigar?
Speaker 2 (47:04):
that's him right yeah , isn't that weird, that's like,
it's so specific.
But multiple people, like allover the Philippines, have seen
this exact same capre man thing,you know.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
I don't know if it's because, like, we're really
close to the equator, that justthere's just weird shit going on
in the Philippines all the time.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Girl, one of my homeboys.
He lived in the Philippines,you know, for like a good seven
to nine years and he would sayand he lived in the Philippines
and he lived in Japan andthey're semi close together.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Was he born here?
Was he born here.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
No, he was born overseas.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
Yeah.
So he was living in Philippinesbecause his dad was stationed
there.
Living in Philippines becausehis dad was stationed there and
for the seven to nine years alot of paranormal things was
happening in his home.
And then you know how Japan isclose by, he would go to Japan
and Japan.
He loved Japan.
Nothing happened there.
So he honestly believes thatit's just like you know how the
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Philippines is like superreligious, right.
So if they're all praying forsome good stuff, of course some
bad stuff you know, I guesswhat's that word Some bad stuff
do exist because you know likethey're praying and shit.
So he honestly believes thatit's just a fight of like good
and bad.
But the bad is like winning forsome reason because of all
(48:29):
these religious people prayingand shit.
So the bad is like for somereason, because of all these
religious people praying andshit.
So the bad is like oh yeah, youknow what.
You keep on praying.
I'm motherfucking here, let'stest your faith, type of
bullshit.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
So yeah, maybe yeah, or maybe because they, we are.
So it's such a religiouscountry that the first thing you
think would be like oh, it's afucking demon.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Right, I don't know, I can't explain it.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
I really believe it's like just something about being
close to the equator.
Like there's just weird shitgoing on in like that middle
realm.
You know, like maybe that'swhere, like everything comes
together, do you?
Speaker 1 (49:11):
believe in the paranormal, like that.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
I can't say I don't believe in it, but I also can't
say I do believe in it 100%.
There's some shit that I justcan't explain.
That's happened and that's allI know.
I'm not going to say I like Ibelieve or not.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Does it give you goosebumps just saying it, or
are you like you get theheebie-jeebies girl?
Speaker 2 (49:39):
I do, I do, and in the Philippines it's like it's
very, very enhanced, like herein the US.
Like I don't I'm not as, like Idon't get as many weird tingly
feelings.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
But over there all the time.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Oh, fuck, yeah, Like the Encanto shit.
Speaker 1 (49:56):
I believe that's real .
I think that's real.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Like the ones that live in the trees and stuff like
the spirits, because there's somuch more like trees and you
know over there, yeah.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
How about Duendes?
Do you believe in those littlemotherfuckers?
Speaker 2 (50:13):
so I've heard so many stories about that, about like
people from here that don't evenknow what the duende is and
they would step on like themound or whatever and just have
all these like ailments andsicknesses that can't be cured
by doctors.
I how do you explain that?
Speaker 1 (50:29):
You know, oh, you know, what Funny story my cousin
, he was playing by one of thesemounds in the Philippines when
he was like super young, I'mgoing to say, I'm going to say
like in between the ages of likeseven and 10, right, he was
playing near these mounds andthen the next day he had all
these like uh, they look like,um, is this cyrus?
(50:51):
No, oh, cyrus, no, uh, what isthat?
Eczema?
Okay, eczema or psoriasis, isthat?
right, am I saying all rightyeah he had all these psoriasis
thingies on his body and we'relike what the fuck is that?
And then his mom would tell us,like yo, he was fucking around
some little, um duende mountain,and that's how he got that shit
.
And I was like bruh, I ain'tever fucking with no little
(51:14):
mounds, you know I'm saying, buttill this day he, I mean he
still has it, but he lives inminnesota right now and it's um,
I guess it's inflamed by the,by the weather, so the cold,
like, I guess it doesn kill it,but it doesn't inflame it as
much.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
But throughout, like from you know, when he was young
, till you know he's like late30s now, he had this all over
his body.
So I remember there's this oneyear where he went back to the
Philippines.
His aunt took him to one ofthem Um, I don't want to say
Bruja, but it's like yeah, yeah,One of them witch doctors and
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he came home and that shit waslike damn, you're fucking gone.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
Right yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:03):
And then his dumb ass went back another year and then
that shit came back.
I'm like, oh my God, anotheryear and then that shit came
back and I'm like, oh my god,dude, what the fuck are you?
I was like, dude, what the fuckare you doing?
So, yeah, so I really believein that shit, like the whole
little dwarf mountain where, um,uh, bad things happen to you
when you're like either step onthe mound, near the mound or
(52:24):
whatever like that stuff.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
I honestly believe and I was like, oh my gosh, and
like he was living proof of thatwell, yeah, I was taught as a
kid to always apologize, likesay sorry, never point at trees,
apparently okay, I never heardthat one.
If you point at a tree.
You gotta like bite your finger.
You never heard of that forreal well, because like a spirit
could like marry you or put aring on you or something, and
(52:49):
like attach themselves to youwow, yeah, bro, I'm finna.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
Go on youtube or, like you know, the filipino
channel, and look up like moviesof fingers and getting rings on
it and seeing if there's like amovie on that, because, dude,
I'm super interested in thatshit.
Tell me another folklore oranother fucking, uh, philippine
superstition shit.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
My grandpa.
He lived in Pateros and, likehe, he lived like by an elog or
whatever, and um, their familywas very poor so they went to
like witch doctors.
But um, he told me the story oflike one of his friends it was,
it was another mound storywhere they like had gotten a
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lump and gotten really sick andthe way that the witch doctor,
or the albolario, cured him waslike they put a mirror on like
the lump on his back, prayed onit and the albolario was like
okay, when this mirror falls offand breaks, that means like the
curse is gone.
And that's exactly whathappened.
(54:00):
They put the mirror.
It just stuck on their back,fell, cracked after like a
couple days and the lump wasgone.
So fucking weird, I don't know.
I don't know how to explainthis shit.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
Wow, akari.
Um, you and I could be talkingfor hours about this shit,
because I'm like oh, I know Igot so many, maybe next time
yeah, next time dude girl.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
Oh my god you know what my grandpa's got?
Speaker 1 (54:26):
all the stories but I love, I love like oh my gosh,
the old people of thephilippines.
Because I love, like, I loveopen, because in hawaii there's
a lot, there's a lot of ilokanoshere, right oh yeah and um,
girl, I'd be chopping it up with, like the old folks, because
you know I could, I could kindof speak the dialect, like, but
(54:48):
when I speak it it's all Ilocano, tagalog and Bisaya, it's all
jumbled.
So they laugh at me because I'mlike trying, but yeah, I
understand what they're saying.
You know like 100%.
I'm like, oh shit, for real, ohman, no way, you know.
So yeah, I know, come on.
(55:09):
So yeah, I, yeah, I know, oh,but it's uh, it's crazy because,
like, I do really chop it upwith these, you know with.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
You know nanas and shit.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (55:20):
So yeah, they're so.
They're so fucking cool, andlike the stories that they say
about growing up in the, youknow, in the province, I'm like,
wow, you know just I just Ilove it.
I love it, maybe it's because Ilove history, you know me too.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
It's.
It's very, very interesting.
It's just the things that youcan't explain, that aren't
written in books.
That's why it's so interestingto me um akari, before we dip.
Speaker 1 (55:44):
Uh, what else interests uh you?
Speaker 2 (55:51):
that's such a weird question.
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Um, okay, I'll spit, I'll spit something, and then,
uh, be quick with the answer,all right okay um cooking yes,
that was like a question, I waslike yes I just want to get
better at it, okay, okay.
What interests you?
Okay writing, for sure, yeah,Because you like writing.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
Okay reading yes, what kind of books.
Recently, actually justyesterday, kenny's mom Let Me
Borrow you.
Speaker 1 (56:27):
I haven't read it, but Is it a mystery novel or is
it like a non-fiction?
Speaker 2 (56:29):
Yeah, or it's.
You know that Netflix show showyou it's like based on that um
he's like a stalker or somethingoh no.
Speaker 1 (56:41):
So you like, you like books like that, like um
thrillers I like greek mythologya lot.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
Oh shit, Okay yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:51):
Okay, that's, do you believe?
Okay?
So I like the Viking, I'm intolike that Viking whole era.
Speaker 2 (57:00):
Have you seen the Last Kingdom?
Speaker 1 (57:01):
Oh my gosh yes.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (57:05):
That's my shit Is that the one with my name's
Uhtred son of Uhtred, son ofUhtred, fuck yeah.
Dude and Vikings too, likeBjorn.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (57:14):
And Ragnar, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (57:16):
Yeah, I don't know why I love Vikings in just that
whole era.
Speaker 1 (57:20):
Right, oh my, we got a lot of things in common, miss
Ikari.
Speaker 2 (57:24):
Yeah, man, I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (57:26):
Maybe it's because we're from California.
Speaker 2 (57:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (57:28):
Yeah, it's a Cali thing you know I know right?
Oh, my gosh Shit.
Miss Akari, that was fun.
I wish we could go on.
You know more tangents and shit.
Do you have any shout outs andwhere can these people find you
(57:49):
at?
Speaker 2 (57:50):
I am everywhere.
I'm on pretty much all thesocials.
Speaker 1 (58:01):
Ew, akari, you better get your ass on.
Ew, ooh Ooh, still recording.
Yeah, I am technicaldifficulties, everyone.
(58:52):
Akari's computer died.
I'm actually on a messengerright now.
I'm like yo, your computer died, get your ass back on the on
your cell phone.
So that's what we're doingright now.
Yeah, thank you for listeningto this shit.
(59:12):
I do appreciate y'all.
I cuss a lot, so thank you forbearing with me and I do hope
you love and enjoy.
You know the guests that I haveon here and the topics that are
you you know on here as well.
Um, what else, uh, do I gottasay?
(59:36):
Uh, dude, kudos to y'all fortuning in every week, watching,
following, giving me topics andquestions, for you know my
guests to answer and also me tolike ponder on.
So, yeah, I do appreciate y'.
You know my guests to answerand also me to like ponder on.
So, yeah, I do appreciate y'all, you know.
Thank you, so much.
As of right now, we're waitingfor Akari to come back on.
(59:58):
Oh, there she is.
Yeah, she a loser as hell too,but your phone quality look good
though.
Okay, cool, cool, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, so your computer
(01:00:19):
died was.
Is it a macbook?
Yes, hp, all day I'm justplaying.
Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
I used to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
Now hp, android, oh no, I got an iphone, so I mean
shit, it's so easy.
It's's so easy to continue whatwe were saying.
Where can these people find youat, and do you have any like
shoutouts for them or anything?
Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
oh yeah yeah.
You can find me on all thesocials under aparimusic and I'm
coming out with a new song withmy friend Jaya.
I'm gonna sing a song.
I'm gonna sing my hook inTagalog, so I'll put that out
for that.
Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
I got more songs coming Another one, hey, and do
you understand the Tagalog?
Do you understand what you'resaying?
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Yeah, I grew up there .
Okay, I'm just playing.
Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
I was just hoping to get something out of it.
I was just playing, I'm justplaying, I'm playing, I'm
playing.
I was, I was just hoping to getsomething out of it.
I was just playing.
Well, akari, hey man, you'vebeen a lovely guest.
Um, shout out to oh, you'revery welcome.
You're very welcome.
Uh, shout out to KO Studios.
Thank you for the lovely home.
Rafi Bite, thank you for thelovely vibe and with that,
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Relationship Method
Podcast.
I'm Chris and today I have alovely guest Coming from Kila,
california, the Bay.
Motherfuckers, she's a mom,she's a professional walker,
she's an artist man.
I I got akari on this hoe.
(00:27):
What's up, girl, how you doingI'm good man, I'm doing great oh
my god, that sounds soseductive.
You better calm down with thatshit, girl is that what this
podcast is about?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
like no, no, not even not even, not even.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Uh.
It can't be.
I know uh, before we get umthis motherfucker going um akari
.
How did I get the yes from youto come on?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
um, you know what I'm just honestly.
Just I'm trying to be more likeout there, like as far as a,
not just doing music.
I want people to kind of likelike uh, fuck I I don't know I
just want people to know me moreas a person instead of just
like a musician, because youknow you got to share your story
and stuff these days and I'mnot very good at talking, so
(01:22):
that's why we're here oh, I feelthat.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
No, I feel that, um it, uh, I never took public
speaking classes, but, um, like,I'm in the military, so I am
forced to speak in front ofpeople even though I don't want
to right so yeah, my problem isis when I'm in front of a crowd
I go super fast, like because Ijust, I just want to get the
(01:51):
fuck out of there.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, you just yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I was like yeah, girl , exactly, exactly, and you and
I was chopping it up and then Iwas stalking your story.
Where were you coming from?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I just came from Oracle Park in a Mestiza
restaurant in San Francisco.
I was doing a shoot with myhomie rapper, jf Bayani, and
yeah, we were doing a songtogether.
Oh okay, yeah, it's like myfirst little dabble in like
(02:29):
hip-hop, like trappy type shit,and I'm doing a hook in Tagalog.
So I'm kind of nervous but alsolike super excited.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Ooh wow, are you full Filipino or are you like some
type of Iwanese or anese or anigra or whatnot?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh no, I'm straight from Quezon City.
I was born there, grew up there, oh, no way.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Okay, well, mabuhay, motherfucker.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, it's not lumpia , by the way, it's lumpia, I'm
just saying.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Lumpia.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So to me you're crispy lumpia.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Hey, you know what it's.
It's better uh crispy thansoggy that's true yep, take that
to the back.
And um, and akari, you told methat you was a mama bear.
Yeah, oh, that's cute.
Um, how many?
Uh, if you don't mind me asking, and is it a boy or a girl or
is it an it?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, it's a little alien, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Fuck them aliens.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, I'm just kidding, he's a two-year-old boy
, my little guy.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Thanks, man.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, so I have a six-year-old, an eight-year-old,
an 18-year-old and a20-year-old.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Holy shit.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, girl, I'm telling you my age, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So that right there should give you like my age kind
of you know womp, womp, butshit, yeah, I know, I know right
, but shit.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Eh.
Yeah, I know, I know, right man, but still, man, fuck them kids
, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, dude fuck them kids.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
No, that's cool, so huh.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What do I have to look forward to at six and eight
?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh, okay, what can I?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
watch out for.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So that's when the personalities kick in.
So, whatever they're watching,whatever they're around, that's
what they're going to pick up on.
If you read to them a lot,their vocabulary becomes pretty
vast.
You know what I'm saying.
So, yeah, that's what I'mworking with right now, with the
(04:43):
six-year-old Talking back theeye rolls.
Oh my gosh.
If you're eye rolling them nowand they catch on that, oh got
mom.
You know that's going to pissyou off, but you can't do
nothing but laugh at it.
You feel me?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah man, I'm just waiting for the age he figures
out like hey, my mom's actuallykind of dumb.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right Like oh gosh, let your boy take home a math
assignment.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And you're like dog.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The stereotype is not real.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's like this is too easy.
You can't figure it out.
See, I'm already coming up withcomebacks.
Yeah, hey.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's like man, you know what?
We both dumb men.
All right, we both dumb.
We can't figure it out.
I can't figure it out.
This is just too hard for usparents.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, but cool, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Hey, exactly, Wait, let me ask you this, Since you
have a seed if your kid wantedto drop out of school and, let's
say, pursue music, would youlet him do that, or would you
still have?
You know, hey man, graduate andthen fuck college, go do your
(05:54):
music.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's hard.
That's hard because, just like,based on my experience, like,
yeah, like based on um myexperience, like yeah, I would
have done so much better if I,if I pursued music like
full-time way earlier on, or ifI was just like I'm gonna just
go to music school, butobviously my parents were like
we're not funding art school oh,so you had the typical filipino
(06:29):
parents that wanted theirdaughter to to be in the um the
medical field yeah, you know,and I think it just they just
wanted me to have somethingstable.
But of course, like back then, Ididn't understand that.
I was just like, look, I'm justtrying to do like my shit, you
know.
Yeah, I just want to be in aband and like play music all day
(06:52):
.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
But yeah, were you a rebellious kid when you told
your parents that, hey, man, Idon't want to do this, I want to
do something else.
Like, did you rebel?
Or were you like, oh okay, butthen you know, low key, just did
your thing anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, that's exactly what I did.
I was like, oh yeah, I can payfor my own school, I'll go to
like the community college andlike fund myself.
Actually, I just never went toclass and I just played shows
here and there.
But see if he's interested inmusic, I would say go to music
school, Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
After high school, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Mm-hmm.
Okay, I mean shoot, I'm alsothinking of homeschooling,
though I don't know.
I don't know what's going tohappen with our education system
or the future of our educationsystem.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh, is it because of Trump?
Or is it because of likeCalifornia, like the California
standards of educating kids?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I think both.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Mm.
Okay, interesting yeah, hmm,hmm.
Um are you putting it?
Would you put them in public orprivate?
Do you have enough funds forprivate?
Because I sure as hell don't.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Fuck, no, fuck, no.
Okay, who enough funds forprivate?
Because I sure as hell don't no, no, okay, who has funds for
private school, especially inthe bay area, like oh, I know
you're like getting homeschooledoh, okay, okay, well, um, let's
see.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Uh, when do you think you'll decide um like
homeschooling the kid?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I think I have to decide pretty soon because he's
gonna be in like preschool andall that.
So, yeah, I got to chop it upwith my partner and come up with
a legit plan.
What did you guys do?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
We put the motherfuckers at school.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
We're like man, we need our motherfucking rest
throughout the day.
I need to decompress, becauseonce 6 am or 6.30 am hits, it's
like go, go, go, go, go untilthey go to school.
And then it's like, ok, now Ihave a little time to slow the
fuck down, get myself ready forwork and then, you know, do my
(08:59):
thing until they get out.
So it's like, yeah, Idefinitely liked them going to
school, but the whole what's itcalled, the whole homeschooling
thing, like I was really open tothat shit too.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, because I feel like Icould, I'm around, or my job,
luckily, like you know, likelets me be around a lot more at
home, so yeah, I think I canhandle it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Oh, you know what mama bear you can yeah, yeah
yeah, um akari, uh, if you don'tmind me asking, what do you do
like on the outside world?
What's your uh, what's yournine to five or what's your
whatever hour it is?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I sing at um mastro's Steakhouse.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, I've heard of that Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes.
Oh, that's what you do at night.
Yeah, that's my like you knowsource of income.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's your thing.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, that's my thing .
Speaker 1 (09:56):
How cool is that Like you get to work on your vocals
and get an audience response orreaction.
Yeah, do you like it?
Okay, get an audience responseor reaction.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Do you like it?
Okay?
Okay, wait, hold on.
Do you like it?
Do you like working there?
I love mastro's.
I'm so lucky that they found me, and you know hooked me up with
that job it's it's been super,super fun do you get free food
fuck.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
No, there's like 50 off, but like 200, so I never
eat there bro, I would have beenlike how much is a fry, how
much are the fries?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I know they sell fries.
You got free bread or some shit, I don't know.
Okay, free bread, free breadGet them.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Carbs in girl Get them carbs in.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I'm a carbs girl.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So my show.
How did you get this gig?
Because you're the first onethat I've had on the pod that
said that's what they do for aliving is seeing at um, at a
state joint so how, yeah, how'dyou get this gig?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
they found me um just on instagram shut your ass
really yeah, so wow I just gotreally, really, I don't know
what happened.
Her Right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh well, do you have to dress a certain way when
you're there, like you know?
Dress, or sultry, you know,like them old school, you know,
yeah, singers Like jazz artistsyeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you have to dress like that,or are you in like jeans and a
shirt?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, you're definitely not allowed to wear jeans and a
shirt.
It's just, it's like cocktailattire.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Hmm, okay, yeah, oh.
So mommy be going dressed towork then, huh.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, and I'm just like Hmm, okay, good stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
How does your partner think of you singing at these
places?
Because I could only imaginethere's guys there that you know
maybe shoot the shot or giveyou the look or whatnot.
How does he handle that shit?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You would think there would, but I mean not really,
not for me, I guess.
Maybe I just give off thatenergy like stay six feet away,
motherfucker you know, you got,you got the rbf I do.
I do have an rbf.
I was born okay I don't knowhow to get rid of it, yeah and
(12:17):
I'm always just like out ofthere real quick.
I don't like drink or anything,so like as soon as my shift is
up, I'm like I'm out.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Oh okay, that's good girl, that's good.
I am happy for you and I hopeall these um.
Are you going to college oranything, or are you just
straight working?
Oh, excuse me, working anddoing this other stuff just
working and doing music.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, okay, last year I've just been doing the music
thing kind of full time.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh, okay, are you working with producers or
anything?
Or are you just doing covers orwhatnot?
What's on your list of songs?
Are you writing?
Yeah, I already asked that shit, so what are you doing?
Yeah, I'm writing, like, areyou writing?
Yeah, I already asked that shit.
Yeah, so, yeah, what are youdoing?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I'm writing.
Luckily, my partner is aproducer.
Ooh okay.
And lately I've been workingwith the Ray Resurrection.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's man, that's dope.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, man, that is dope.
I write my shit.
It's special to me, I guess.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh, and how would you describe your music?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
genre I guess.
I would say I'm a genre fluid.
Right now I'm coming up with anEP and it's got a little bit of
everything.
I'm so excited for it to comeout.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Oh girl, I'm excited for you.
I've been brewing.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, I've been brewing some music and I just
can't wait to put it out.
That's also kind of why I'mhere.
Doing this podcast is to letpeople know the music is coming.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Oh girl, the people in Hawaii will know.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Oh, for sure that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I'd love to play a show out there.
Hey, girl, do it.
And then, um, let me know, so Icould like show up and be like
hey, I know her oh yeah, I knowher, you're guest list for sure,
motherfucker.
Oh yeah, and then, um, what, uh?
What part of uh cali are you in?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
San Jose.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Oh, San Jose 408.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, 408.
Where were you?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
at before.
I lived in Marina, the MontereyCounty.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh, okay, nice.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, like right near Pebble Beach, Santa Cruz and
shit.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh, okay, I love Santa Cruz and Monterey.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh yeah, I know we have like the best clam chowder.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, the pier huh.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yep, I'm glad you fucking agree.
Hell yeah, hell yeah.
Sanho man, I miss Sanho becausefor the longest time In-N-Out
was there and I wasn't a bigcheeseburger guy but I loved
their animal fries and that'swhere all the racers would link
up at like super late at night.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Oh, that's where I live, on Capitol Expressway.
Oh shit, no way.
Yeah, dude, it's nonstop Likethose racers.
Go crazy, it's wild.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, back in the day, yeah,that's where we would link up,
like friday, saturday nights wewould go there and then, you
know, race, and then I would.
I would ditch school, I wouldditch class just to go to
independence independence bro no, no, no, no, don't get up, it
(15:42):
was.
It was the thing you know, likeyou know, it was the thing like
oh, because you know, uh, backthen it was all you know,
fucking chat rooms, right, andthen oh, like AOL chat rooms
yeah, so it's like ASL yep yep,asl pic please we would just
(16:04):
randomly do that or give outthat information and just
randomly like send pictures tofucking internet strangers girl
for real.
So I would meet, dude, I wouldmeet a lot of uh females in
sanjo at independence and um,I'm not gonna lie, it was like
the time of my life.
(16:24):
Why are you laughing?
Is Independence cracked out orsomething?
Is it bad?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
No, my partner went there.
I just hear stories Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That's where we went, and then we would chill at
Nickel City.
Is Nickel City still there?
Hell yeah, no, it's definitelynot there anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
My old band would play shows there and then we
would chill at nickel city.
Is nickel city still there?
Oh yeah, no, it's definitelynot there it's gone, huh, but
yeah, my old dad would playshows there, hella fun for real
yeah oh wow.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
But yeah, nickel city was a spot and then we would
always meet up.
Well, me and the boys wouldalways meet up with females that
like what was it called excelor perfect studios or whatever
where's that at?
I've never oh god, it's likeone of them, you know before
cell phones and shit, it's oneof them, uh, photo boot, photo
shoots, uh, photo buildings,where oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
(17:16):
like the sears type shit yeah,yeah, but it'd be like one of
them holding the walls and shityeah, yeah yeah, so, oh man, I
missed it there ah and I used toskate in that indoor skate park
at the mall at eastridge yeah,eastridge, I used to be there a
lot.
I used to skate there, holy shit, wow, that's oh my gosh, yeah,
(17:37):
so much, so much fond memoriesand stuff wait, are you talking
about a san jose?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I think, because at Eastridge there was an ice rink.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
No, so in one of those malls I forgot what it was
Inside of it there was likethere was a legit.
I don't know if it was a Vansstore or whatever, but inside
this place there was like askate park.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
At Great Mall.
It was a Vans.
Yeah, okay, great Mall.
Okay, if that's what it wasyeah, great Mall, oh my God.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And then what did they have?
They had Mr Rags over there, no, or those old stores that don't
even.
They're extinct now.
Basically, but oh my, goshBringing me back, girl Bringing
me back.
So you and Sanho, what highschool did you go to?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Silver Creek.
Okay, I heard of Silver Creek.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I think we played y'all like in football.
I think we lost, we got prettygood support.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I don't remember yeah .
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So I've seen and heard.
I think y'all whooped us inbasketball.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Ah, who cares, though ?
Who fucking cares?
So, who fucking cares?
So, Akari, when you are, let'ssay, doing these projects, right
, you're singing, and everythingdo people like guys
particularly, do they?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
shoot their shot at you, like in any way, shape or
form you know what, to becompletely real and honest.
I wish they would, but theydon't, oh shit.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I wish a motherfucker would man Goddamn I'm over here
.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I just want to turn someone down one time Like, oh
shit, sorry, I have a kid, Ilove my family, I'm sorry yeah
yeah.
I don't know.
I think it's just my energy.
I'm just like.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You're here for work, and that's it.
I'm not here to fuck around.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, maybe no, you know what?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's good.
That means you're super focused.
You know what I'm saying.
You're super focused and noone's going to fuck with you.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You feel me?
Yeah, I guess, or if that evengets close.
I'm just like I'm out, like ifI feel anything weird, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Really, is that how you do with like, let's say, in
your past, when people weretrying to get to know you?
You're like, nah, I'm good.
So you would go like theopposite direction and
everything.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, pretty much.
Have you seen the movieSuperbad?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yes, I did Bye.
Yeah, seen the movie super bad.
Yes, I did bye.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
yeah, exactly, I do the 360 playing and I just oh my
gosh, uh-huh.
Or maybe I just like act weirdon purpose, so like they don't,
you know really but they get theick like instantly I don't know
, oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
But guys like the, I guess the weirdos and stuff, you
think so yeah, oh, I know.
So I definitely know, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Explain further please, because oh man.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
So you know, you say ics, right, but to some guys
it's like, oh man, that's kindof cute, like I had this
conversation with one of my boys.
I had this conversation withone of my boys and we came to
the conclusion that we likewomen that other guys don't like
, and then when these guys startliking them, it's like okay, I
(20:55):
don't like her anymore, I'mgoing to back off, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Why is that that type of shit?
Why is it Like a territorialthing or like?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Bro, you know what girl I?
I don't know.
I honestly don't know, becausethere's been a situation.
There's been situations whereI've been what I, where I've
been in, where I think like afemale's cute, right, and then
everyone else around me is like,oh no, I wouldn't no but then
no, it doesn't make me like hermore, but it makes me like okay,
(21:26):
cool, you know like, but Ithink she's cute.
So I'm gonna I'm not gonna likespit my game, but I'm gonna get
to know her.
You know, like, have aconversation or two, but then
let's say I don't know like day,a couple days of like talking
to her, getting to know her.
My guy friends would be like,you know, she actually kind of
cute.
You know she becomes cute allof a sudden.
(21:48):
I'm like what the fuck, likeman?
So when they start spendingthey shot, I'm just like, ah,
whatever.
So I would like back off or I'd, uh, I'd see how would she
handle.
You know all the, you knowthese, you know hand her up.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
But yeah.
So I mean, I'm telling youright now like it happens.
It happens when guys are justyou know, they see the weird
ones talk to them and then allof a sudden guys in the
background is like oh damn, shecute.
All of a sudden I was like okay, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool,
cool.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Do you think that's kind of like a herd mentality?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
kind of thing.
You know what it can be, butexplain the herd mentality thing
.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Because I don't know like when me and my sister
watched, like we used to watchK-dramas a lot, like during
COVID.
Ah yeah, and I wouldn't.
I'd be like, eh, whatever thisguy's, and then my sister would
be like so crazy in love withhim and I'd be, like I'd start
to imagine like, oh, why wouldshe think he's cute?
It doesn't happen all the time,but sometimes you're like, oh
(22:57):
yeah okay, I could see why he'scute.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Has that ever happened to you, where you
thought a guy was cute, cute andthen all of a sudden you're
like, oh he is.
Or the opposite, where hewasn't cute but then he became
cute afterwards or after like aweek later, or some shit?
Has that ever happened?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
oh yeah, like the ones that build up over time.
I like that a lot betteractually.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I think I know myself enough to know that the instant
attraction thing is just notgood.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Really, yeah, not good as in like oh man, I'm
finna, get at that or not goodas in like man.
I've been in this situationbefore and it didn't pan out the
way I wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It fades quickly, I think.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
But I'm curious what are these like icks in girls
that you and your guy friends?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh, so my main ick I can't speak for them, but my
main ick is dirty fingernails.
That's a very big ick.
Okay, don't make fun, but toes.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Dirty feet.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Dirty feet is a very big ick Because, oh and long
toenails, oh my gosh.
Like you know, like this is theend of the sandal, this is your
toe and your nails are likecoming over Hell.
No, Hell.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
No, you don't want them on your back, like just
scratch your back.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Girl, if I wanted to get scratched, man, I'll buy a
cat.
You know what I'm saying, youknow.
And then, oh, what else is theick?
Uh, my another ick is when,okay when, when women wear, you
know, they wear the, the, the,the strap shoes, where, or the
(24:59):
strap sandals.
They got the sandals and theyhave to strap it around their
leg or whatever.
All right, so if, oh gosh, thisis kind of bad, but I don't
care.
Um, if, if you have to put iton the last hole and the strap
is like hanging on for dear life, yeah, that's a fucking egg too
(25:19):
you know what I'm saying veryspecific oh, it's super specific
because if it's holding on fordear life, that means your ankle
or whatever is not getting incirculation.
So it's like the thing is likefolding over.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You know what I'm saying?
Oh, it's like just gives youtoo much anxiety.
Yeah it does.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I'm like, oh my God, it's like Miss, can I go buy you
some like flip flops orsomething, some 99-cent
flip-flops, because your anklesis fitting a freaking bleed yo
Like for real, straight up.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Your whole life must be hanging by a thread if you
wear your shoes like that.
Oh my gosh, definitely, Maybethat's why, or why do you think
these are icks for you?
I guess?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Why, oh wow, are you like self-medicating me?
Like, hold on, why are theyicks?
Okay.
So with the hands and feet, Ithink if you don't take care of
these, because they're veryspecific, right, I think you
don't take care of everythingelse you know.
(26:21):
Because with the hands, it'slike okay, I see my hands every
day, all right, cool.
With the feet, it's like if yougot claws, it's like, oh my
gosh, yeah, it just tells methat everything here is like
unkept.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
You already let yourself go?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
huh, there's probably some yeah, yeah, pretty much
yeah musty shit going on inother places you know.
And then you know like, um, I'mI'm used to.
You know, like I have a wifeand everything and I'm used to
the underneath boob sweat.
You know, like I'm used to that.
So if I smell that it's okay.
(27:02):
You know what?
I'm saying Like I'm like I'm allfor it.
You know, like you know theboob, and you put it up and you
go like this and you're like oh,okay, it smells like my armpit
kind of.
I know, right, you just go likethis and you're like oh, yeah,
yeah, just go like this.
(27:27):
And you're like oh, yeah, yeah,um no, but also like, oh, I, uh
, I play, I used to play with alot of like female, uh,
basketball players, right, andthen of course I would see, like
the boob sweat, that would likekind of ache me out.
But then you know, I'm justlike dude, I'm sweaty all around
too.
So there's like I shouldn't belike like that.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
So, yeah, I got, I got used to it and yeah yeah, I
played basketball in high schooland it's just like the, the wet
, like the sweaty, like hair,you know, and it just like rubs
against you oh yeah no, I'm donewere you, uh, were you a big
sweater when you playedbasketball in high school, or
(28:04):
when you played basketball?
No, but I turned really, reallyred and it's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Really.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I turned super red.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I don't know why I'm not a sweater I wish Like drunk
red Like Asian glow red, yeah,or just.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Like everywhere, like my neck, like Asian glow red
yeah, or just Like everywhereLike my neck.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Like, yeah, oh, it's like.
Oh, man, she got an allergicreaction to something.
Man, you better give her somegoddamn Benadryl or some shit.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I'm going to give her a shot, yeah right.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Hey, she's finding her croak right now.
Man, oh, that's funny.
So you hooped back in the dayyeah, did a lot of guys find you
more attractive because youwere an athlete?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I don't fucking think so.
I think I was a tomboy.
I think I still am.
I don't know if that kind ofdeterred a lot of people away.
I just do my own thing.
You know, you did your ownthing.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, you know what's funny when I talk to a lot of
guys and you know, and also likeback in the day I was attracted
to like the tomboy look forsome odd reason, I don't know,
like yeah, like I don't knowwhat it is, but and also my
friends too when we see a womanjust dressed in boy clothes, I'm
(29:24):
not saying it's a turn-on, I'mnot going to fucking jack off
real fast, but it's like, oh, Ifind her very pretty because I
don't know, it doesn't make megay.
I'm just saying it doesn't makeme gay, but it's like it's an
attraction thing.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Oh, interesting.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Well, I guess everybody's got you know, got
some yeah.
Yeah, some weird fetishes andshit.
What are your?
What are your?
Icks in a guy?
Yeah, miss Akari, uh if yousmell weird you know, okay,
(30:09):
what's a weird smell if I getclose to you.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Uh, there was one person that was pretty cool that
I was like when I was datingback in the day before I had a
kid, he was like really cool andhad a cool personality, but
it's like it was just the smell.
I couldn't you know you smelllike vinegar.
Kind of like a little muscule.
I can't explain it A littlesour, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Do you think that's his natural smell?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Did you ever brought it up to him Like, hey, dude,
that I like let me tell yousomething.
You kind of smell a little off.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
No, I just did my Fogel thing and I was like bye.
Oh poor guy.
You couldn't just been like hey, man, you kind of, you know,
you kind of smell and shit.
Do guys appreciate that more?
If I was just straight up likelike you know he's stinky, like
I can't do this because I didn'twant him to try and like make
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himself smell better, I was justlike nah, I do think like when
a woman says something, but likelet's say you know the right
place, right time, right.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
You're not dogging them out in front of everyone,
you're just you pull them to theside.
I think we take it a little bit, a bit more like oh, dude girl,
thank you, you know I'll workon that bitch.
You know, as opposed to likedamn motherfucker, you stank as
hell, you rancid.
You know For real, for realdeadass, like it's better to do
(31:51):
it in private than you knowblasting him in front of
everyone.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Ah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, yeah, you should.
You should have Akari Fine.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Sorry, akari, let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I'm a little rancid.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you for not busting it.
Let me ask you your partnerright?
If he had a booger in his nosein public.
What would you do?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I would just.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Pick it for him.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I'm like I got you.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
That's love, that is love.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I'd be like hold on, stop, I'll batter.
You just gotta make it romantica little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Then it's not like how about if he had bad breath?
Would you Be like?
Or would you just be like, hey,you want some gum or a tic tac
or some shit?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I'd be like mmm curry , I like that.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Oh, that's your safe word, like he would know what.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
No, no, no, no, I'm just kidding.
I was like curry.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
How long have you guys been together for?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Three years.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Three years.
Three years, yeah, okay.
Are you open to marriage or areyou happy?
Just the dynamic of what youguys are right now?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I'm open to it.
I feel like all girlsromanticize that and I'm really
at the point in my life where Iwant to build and he's
definitely like he's got thesame mindset like he wants to
build.
You know, we have, we have achild and we want to raise him
right and teach him about loveand yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Oh, that's cute.
What's one thing he did to likesay to get you, you know, like
make you think like, hey, thisdude is a he's a pretty straight
edge fellow.
You know, I might give him someof my time.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
He, just he was persistent.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
He was persistent.
Oh, okay, persistent, okay.
So if he wasn't persistent, itwouldn't have gone nowhere,
because would you have chasedhim too, or no?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I don't think I was actually looking for a
relationship when we met, so Iwould have just kept my head
just on music.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I was like I was on Tinder for like a year during
COVID.
It was the worst fuckingexperience ever and I was like,
yeah, I'm done, I'm done withthis shit.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I'm just going to, like, do my thing and do music
and yeah, speaking of Tinder,there he is Poof, there he is,
there he is.
Um speaking of tinder, uh, giveme an experience on, like, why
you hated it.
What made it so un akari-esque?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
well, first of all, let me clarify why I was on
there in the first place.
My little sister, who is mylittle sister, was on it and I
was like, what the fuck are youdoing on this app?
And I was like, oh, maybe it'sokay for me to be on it because
she's on it.
She's way younger than me.
I was like, what's this allabout?
What are you on on here?
But I think what I didn't likeabout it is it felt like
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everyone was expendable.
You know, mm-hmm, yeah, like itdidn't feel like I was actually
talking to humans.
I was just the next thing likeon the app.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, like everyone had an expiration date on Tinder
.
Yeah, and there was always thenext one, you know like if yeah
and you didn't know in that wayspeaking to old school uh, how
did you and your partner meet?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
he slid in my dms on instagram On Instagram, but we
met before then though.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Apparently.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
According to him, we had met and spoken before that.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Oh, was he talking about like elementary school?
Like oh yeah, man, I was likeright behind you in science
class, you know what I'm saying.
You talked to me and shit, nowI'm here, baby, type of
situation like right behind youin science class, you know I'm
saying you talk to me and shit,now I'm, now I'm here baby type
of situation we were actually no, we were actually um in battle
of the bands at san jose stateand his, his band went against
my band.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Uh-huh, I remember, um, his singers are the rapper
and singer from his band I dondon't remember him because I
don't know, I was really shy, Ididn't really go out of my way
to talk to people or anything.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
When you were in this band, were you the lead singer
or were you a guitarist, bassplayer?
What were you?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, I sang.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
So how were you shy if you have to sing?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
I know right, it's so weird, it makes no sense, sense
, I don't know it doesn't missakari, it doesn't I really have
to put myself out there.
Yeah, I was really fucking shylike way back then.
I'm a lot different now, Ithink really what?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
what's what's switched, because I was a shy
kid as well.
What switched to where Akari'smore confident and ready to be
outspoken?
What changed?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I think just like my self-esteem and like just you
know, building that up like inmyself, yeah, yeah, I used to
like really care was how I wasperceived, you know.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
But now I'm just like I don't care, like if you think
I'm weird or you don't like me,like yeah yeah oh, um, I think
because I was shy, I think whenI started playing basketball
heavy and when I started likejust break dancing in the
(38:25):
hallways, I think that's when,like, my confidence started
getting up there, because, ofcourse, basketball you are in
front of, like your school, soyou have to I guess, guess
perform at your greatest rightright and then with breaking,
it's like you're by yourself.
So it's if you fuck up, you fuckup.
(38:47):
If you do good, you do good.
So it's like I think that wasmy confidence booster and where
you know what fuck what thesemotherfuckers start thinking.
You know like I could do thisand they can't fuck what these
motherfuckers are thinking youknow like I could do this and
they can't.
I'm finna like go ham, you know.
(39:10):
Oh, so you break dams.
I did.
Yeah, I girl.
Let me tell you back in the dayI went to any better time battle
motherfuckers yeah I hadcyphers like that at indie yeah,
like back in the day, yeah, andthen um, remember when, uh, so
you think not, so you think yeah, um, so you think you can dance
and fucking um, was it?
What's that thing that's on mtv?
Uh, america's next best whenthat shit was popping, like
(39:34):
that's when I started, uh youknow, dancing like I used to uh
dance with, uh uh, mvp San Joseyou ever heard of, or VIP San
Jose okay, yeah, yeah, I used tolike, I used to take classes,
like over there, and then, um,and then when uh, funks was
popping up in Frisco, I tookclasses up there too.
(39:55):
so that whole fad, like I waswhole dancing, I was in that
dancing, oh wow Like heavy yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Were you in a dance crew.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, I was actually yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
What was your crew name?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
So I was into two.
One was INR, it's calledInfamous Night Rockers and
Choreology.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Choreology.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, yeah, so, so, yeah, and then yeah, so, uh,
yeah, and I trained with like,and I trained, I watched all
these other dance crews, likeyou know, the company grv um
cookies and everything like Iwatched them all through up and
down.
You know cali, when world ofdance was popping.
So, yeah, I used to do all thatshit when I used to live in
(40:40):
Cali before I joined the Army.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Oh, wow, cool, Cool.
Little background on you.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I know, right Cool.
Oh, thank you I love dancerenergy.
Oh word, could you tell, I havethat.
Yeah, for sure, if you don'tmind me asking.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, a little bit.
Stop Kind of I think it's thehand movement oh, or I play
piano, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Oh my god, that's funny.
Okay, in your band, right?
Was this like punk or were youplaying alternative right?
Yeah, was this like punk orwere you playing alternative
music?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah, what was?
Speaker 1 (41:23):
alternative.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Yeah, like alternative rock type shit what
type shit Not a lot offemale-fronted Asian people were
doing that at that time.
Uh-huh, yeah, oh, that's cool,are you still?
Speaker 1 (41:36):
with these bands Like are these members like on your
team still, or you guys?
Excuse me, you guys drifted anddid your own thing.
Oh, we're also friends, likewe're family you know, mm-hmm,
yeah, some of them are musiciansTim, our old guitar player, he
just won a Grammy.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Musicians Tim, our old guitar player, he just won a
Grammy.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Yes, wow, good for him.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
I know right, I'm so proud, I'm so proud.
He's from San Jose, like fromour neighborhood, and he won a
Grammy.
You know, that's so fuckingdope.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
You're next, akari, you're next.
I'm going to manifest it, I'mgoing to say it to the world
Akari is going to get a Grammy.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Hey, you said it here first.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Hey, hey, oh my gosh, if they do a documentary on you
like years, years, years now.
I want them to pull up this oldpodcast and be like oh yeah.
And then they interview me,I'll be like man, I knew she had
it.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Crispy lumpia.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, lumpia, lumpia.
Uh, yeah, lumpia, it's.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Oh, yeah, I'm like yeah, man, you know I knew akari
when she only had one kid um,she wasn't even married.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
She wasn't even married yet.
You know, she was just comingfrom a photo shoot.
You know I'm saying we werejust we're just chopping it up,
shooting the shit, that'stalking about independence, high
silver creek independence.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah, talking about Independence, high Silver.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Creek.
Talking about Independence yepEastside.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Talking- about bands in Nickel City.
Actually, my band did playthere at the birthday room.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Really yeah.
Did y'all do cover songs or didyou have original songs for
your bands?
Speaker 2 (43:15):
We did both because that was like the beginning of
the YouTube era, kind of Uh-huhyeah.
So we did covers, but we alsoput out originals.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Are you on the tube?
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Is it under Akari?
Speaker 2 (43:31):
No, it's a different name.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
What's the name?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
We were April Chase.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
April Chase, just regular spelling April.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Chase Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Okay, why didn't everyone continue in the band?
Was there something that madey'all split up, or y'all just
wanted to do y'all's own thing?
Speaker 2 (43:53):
We were really young, you know, we didn't fucking
know.
We were honestly like a garageband that ended up getting paid
and playing shows and we playedlike a Warped Tour show and we
were just I don't think we knewthe business part of it as much,
even though we were trying.
And then yeah, it's a Bay Arealike you just got to have a job.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Oh yeah, Facts you want, girl, you, you, a Bay Area
, like you just got to have ajob.
Oh yeah, facts, girl, you ain'tlying.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Miss San Jose.
Let me ask you is San Jose, isit?
Is the Winchester house stillthere?
Yeah, okay, good, yeah Becausebefore I left there was like
talks of it like getting shutdown or whatever, because it's
like right near the highway,right.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Not so much.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
It's on Winchester Road.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Kind of close to the highway, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, like they wanted to like tear it down to
make more highway or something.
I forgot the back story, butbefore I left, left I remember
them saying that they weretrying to like tear that
motherfucker down that's wild.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
I can't even imagine that thing being down.
I think it's like haunted andshit right oh my gosh, it is
haunted, it is.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
I love that part of no mobile shit.
I'm into that shit so Iwouldn't go there if I knew the
way.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Are you kidding me?
No, I live really close to itactually oh.
Yeah, I want to do their nighttour on Halloween.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Oh right.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
I would love to do that.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Are you into that stuff?
Huh, I think a lot of Filipinosare Into like the paranormal.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Oh, like the aswang and the anting-anting, huh.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
And fucking the white lady.
Yeah, dude, don't even talkabout the white lady, because
I've seen one in the philippinesgrowing up tell me that story.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
I want to hear it but why is it?
Speaker 2 (45:48):
it's just I don't know if this is gonna like get
me canceled for thinking thatlike a white lady is terrifying
you know what we'll say.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Disclaimer right now, we ain't talking about your
race, we're just talking about amotherfucking lady in a white
dress.
So if you're listening to thisshit and you're getting offended
, we're talking about aparanormal ghost that wears a
white sheet with black hair andshe is not white.
Slash Caucasian.
Get that shit out your butt Allright, there you go.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Go ahead, Not white, yeah, yeah, I'm not scared of
white people Fuck no, hell, no,pasty ass motherfuckers man.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
No, oh my gosh.
No, I go on their head man, Igo motherfucking putting raisins
in fucking potato salad.
Who does that shit?
Speaker 2 (46:37):
That's a weird combination, you know.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
You know, putting mayo with everything.
No, I'm sorry, Mom, but tell meabout the white lady.
I want to know.
I want to know.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah, I saw a white lady and a capre at our old
house in the philippines it'slike the really really tall guy
apparently that like lives inthe trees.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
I don't know is that the one where he's supposed to
be smoking a cigar?
Speaker 2 (47:04):
that's him right yeah , isn't that weird, that's like,
it's so specific.
But multiple people, like allover the Philippines, have seen
this exact same capre man thing,you know.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
I don't know if it's because, like, we're really
close to the equator, that justthere's just weird shit going on
in the Philippines all the time.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Girl, one of my homeboys.
He lived in the Philippines,you know, for like a good seven
to nine years and he would sayand he lived in the Philippines
and he lived in Japan andthey're semi close together.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Was he born here?
Was he born here.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
No, he was born overseas.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
Yeah.
So he was living in Philippinesbecause his dad was stationed
there.
Living in Philippines becausehis dad was stationed there and
for the seven to nine years alot of paranormal things was
happening in his home.
And then you know how Japan isclose by, he would go to Japan
and Japan.
He loved Japan.
Nothing happened there.
So he honestly believes thatit's just like you know how the
(48:08):
Philippines is like superreligious, right.
So if they're all praying forsome good stuff, of course some
bad stuff you know, I guesswhat's that word Some bad stuff
do exist because you know likethey're praying and shit.
So he honestly believes thatit's just a fight of like good
and bad.
But the bad is like winning forsome reason because of all
(48:29):
these religious people prayingand shit.
So the bad is like for somereason, because of all these
religious people praying andshit.
So the bad is like oh yeah, youknow what.
You keep on praying.
I'm motherfucking here, let'stest your faith, type of
bullshit.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
So yeah, maybe yeah, or maybe because they, we are.
So it's such a religiouscountry that the first thing you
think would be like oh, it's afucking demon.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Right, I don't know, I can't explain it.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
I really believe it's like just something about being
close to the equator.
Like there's just weird shitgoing on in like that middle
realm.
You know, like maybe that'swhere, like everything comes
together, do you?
Speaker 1 (49:11):
believe in the paranormal, like that.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
I can't say I don't believe in it, but I also can't
say I do believe in it 100%.
There's some shit that I justcan't explain.
That's happened and that's allI know.
I'm not going to say I like Ibelieve or not.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Does it give you goosebumps just saying it, or
are you like you get theheebie-jeebies girl?
Speaker 2 (49:39):
I do, I do, and in the Philippines it's like it's
very, very enhanced, like herein the US.
Like I don't I'm not as, like Idon't get as many weird tingly
feelings.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
But over there all the time.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Oh, fuck, yeah, Like the Encanto shit.
Speaker 1 (49:56):
I believe that's real .
I think that's real.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Like the ones that live in the trees and stuff like
the spirits, because there's somuch more like trees and you
know over there, yeah.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
How about Duendes?
Do you believe in those littlemotherfuckers?
Speaker 2 (50:13):
so I've heard so many stories about that, about like
people from here that don't evenknow what the duende is and
they would step on like themound or whatever and just have
all these like ailments andsicknesses that can't be cured
by doctors.
I how do you explain that?
Speaker 1 (50:29):
You know, oh, you know, what Funny story my cousin
, he was playing by one of thesemounds in the Philippines when
he was like super young, I'mgoing to say, I'm going to say
like in between the ages of likeseven and 10, right, he was
playing near these mounds andthen the next day he had all
these like uh, they look like,um, is this cyrus?
(50:51):
No, oh, cyrus, no, uh, what isthat?
Eczema?
Okay, eczema or psoriasis, isthat?
right, am I saying all rightyeah he had all these psoriasis
thingies on his body and we'relike what the fuck is that?
And then his mom would tell us,like yo, he was fucking around
some little, um duende mountain,and that's how he got that shit
.
And I was like bruh, I ain'tever fucking with no little
(51:14):
mounds, you know I'm saying, buttill this day he, I mean he
still has it, but he lives inminnesota right now and it's um,
I guess it's inflamed by the,by the weather, so the cold,
like, I guess it doesn kill it,but it doesn't inflame it as
much.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
But throughout, like from you know, when he was young
, till you know he's like late30s now, he had this all over
his body.
So I remember there's this oneyear where he went back to the
Philippines.
His aunt took him to one ofthem Um, I don't want to say
Bruja, but it's like yeah, yeah,One of them witch doctors and
(51:57):
he came home and that shit waslike damn, you're fucking gone.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
Right yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:03):
And then his dumb ass went back another year and then
that shit came back.
I'm like, oh my God, anotheryear and then that shit came
back and I'm like, oh my god,dude, what the fuck are you?
I was like, dude, what the fuckare you doing?
So, yeah, so I really believein that shit, like the whole
little dwarf mountain where, um,uh, bad things happen to you
when you're like either step onthe mound, near the mound or
(52:24):
whatever like that stuff.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
I honestly believe and I was like, oh my gosh, and
like he was living proof of thatwell, yeah, I was taught as a
kid to always apologize, likesay sorry, never point at trees,
apparently okay, I never heardthat one.
If you point at a tree.
You gotta like bite your finger.
You never heard of that forreal well, because like a spirit
could like marry you or put aring on you or something, and
(52:49):
like attach themselves to youwow, yeah, bro, I'm finna.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
Go on youtube or, like you know, the filipino
channel, and look up like moviesof fingers and getting rings on
it and seeing if there's like amovie on that, because, dude,
I'm super interested in thatshit.
Tell me another folklore oranother fucking, uh, philippine
superstition shit.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
My grandpa.
He lived in Pateros and, likehe, he lived like by an elog or
whatever, and um, their familywas very poor so they went to
like witch doctors.
But um, he told me the story oflike one of his friends it was,
it was another mound storywhere they like had gotten a
(53:38):
lump and gotten really sick andthe way that the witch doctor,
or the albolario, cured him waslike they put a mirror on like
the lump on his back, prayed onit and the albolario was like
okay, when this mirror falls offand breaks, that means like the
curse is gone.
And that's exactly whathappened.
(54:00):
They put the mirror.
It just stuck on their back,fell, cracked after like a
couple days and the lump wasgone.
So fucking weird, I don't know.
I don't know how to explainthis shit.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
Wow, akari.
Um, you and I could be talkingfor hours about this shit,
because I'm like oh, I know Igot so many, maybe next time
yeah, next time dude girl.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
Oh my god you know what my grandpa's got?
Speaker 1 (54:26):
all the stories but I love, I love like oh my gosh,
the old people of thephilippines.
Because I love, like, I loveopen, because in hawaii there's
a lot, there's a lot of ilokanoshere, right oh yeah and um,
girl, I'd be chopping it up with, like the old folks, because
you know I could, I could kindof speak the dialect, like, but
(54:48):
when I speak it it's all Ilocano, tagalog and Bisaya, it's all
jumbled.
So they laugh at me because I'mlike trying, but yeah, I
understand what they're saying.
You know like 100%.
I'm like, oh shit, for real, ohman, no way, you know.
So yeah, I know, come on.
(55:09):
So yeah, I, yeah, I know, oh,but it's uh, it's crazy because,
like, I do really chop it upwith these, you know with.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
You know nanas and shit.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (55:20):
So yeah, they're so.
They're so fucking cool, andlike the stories that they say
about growing up in the, youknow, in the province, I'm like,
wow, you know just I just Ilove it.
I love it, maybe it's because Ilove history, you know me too.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
It's.
It's very, very interesting.
It's just the things that youcan't explain, that aren't
written in books.
That's why it's so interestingto me um akari, before we dip.
Speaker 1 (55:44):
Uh, what else interests uh you?
Speaker 2 (55:51):
that's such a weird question.
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Um, okay, I'll spit, I'll spit something, and then,
uh, be quick with the answer,all right okay um cooking yes,
that was like a question, I waslike yes I just want to get
better at it, okay, okay.
What interests you?
Okay writing, for sure, yeah,Because you like writing.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
Okay reading yes, what kind of books.
Recently, actually justyesterday, kenny's mom Let Me
Borrow you.
Speaker 1 (56:27):
I haven't read it, but Is it a mystery novel or is
it like a non-fiction?
Speaker 2 (56:29):
Yeah, or it's.
You know that Netflix show showyou it's like based on that um
he's like a stalker or somethingoh no.
Speaker 1 (56:41):
So you like, you like books like that, like um
thrillers I like greek mythologya lot.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
Oh shit, Okay yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:51):
Okay, that's, do you believe?
Okay?
So I like the Viking, I'm intolike that Viking whole era.
Speaker 2 (57:00):
Have you seen the Last Kingdom?
Speaker 1 (57:01):
Oh my gosh yes.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (57:05):
That's my shit Is that the one with my name's
Uhtred son of Uhtred, son ofUhtred, fuck yeah.
Dude and Vikings too, likeBjorn.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (57:14):
And Ragnar, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (57:16):
Yeah, I don't know why I love Vikings in just that
whole era.
Speaker 1 (57:20):
Right, oh my, we got a lot of things in common, miss
Ikari.
Speaker 2 (57:24):
Yeah, man, I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (57:26):
Maybe it's because we're from California.
Speaker 2 (57:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (57:28):
Yeah, it's a Cali thing you know I know right?
Oh, my gosh Shit.
Miss Akari, that was fun.
I wish we could go on.
You know more tangents and shit.
Do you have any shout outs andwhere can these people find you
(57:49):
at?
Speaker 2 (57:50):
I am everywhere.
I'm on pretty much all thesocials.
Speaker 1 (58:01):
Ew, akari, you better get your ass on.
Ew, ooh Ooh, still recording.
Yeah, I am technicaldifficulties, everyone.
(58:52):
Akari's computer died.
I'm actually on a messengerright now.
I'm like yo, your computer died, get your ass back on the on
your cell phone.
So that's what we're doingright now.
Yeah, thank you for listeningto this shit.
(59:12):
I do appreciate y'all.
I cuss a lot, so thank you forbearing with me and I do hope
you love and enjoy.
You know the guests that I haveon here and the topics that are
you you know on here as well.
Um, what else, uh, do I gottasay?
(59:36):
Uh, dude, kudos to y'all fortuning in every week, watching,
following, giving me topics andquestions, for you know my
guests to answer and also me tolike ponder on.
So, yeah, I do appreciate y'.
You know my guests to answerand also me to like ponder on.
So, yeah, I do appreciate y'all, you know.
Thank you, so much.
As of right now, we're waitingfor Akari to come back on.
(59:58):
Oh, there she is.
Yeah, she a loser as hell too,but your phone quality look good
though.
Okay, cool, cool, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, so your computer
(01:00:19):
died was.
Is it a macbook?
Yes, hp, all day I'm justplaying.
Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
I used to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
Now hp, android, oh no, I got an iphone, so I mean
shit, it's so easy.
It's's so easy to continue whatwe were saying.
Where can these people find youat, and do you have any like
shoutouts for them or anything?
Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
oh yeah yeah.
You can find me on all thesocials under aparimusic and I'm
coming out with a new song withmy friend Jaya.
I'm gonna sing a song.
I'm gonna sing my hook inTagalog, so I'll put that out
for that.
Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
I got more songs coming Another one, hey, and do
you understand the Tagalog?
Do you understand what you'resaying?
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Yeah, I grew up there .
Okay, I'm just playing.
Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
I was just hoping to get something out of it.
I was just playing, I'm justplaying, I'm playing, I'm
playing.
I was, I was just hoping to getsomething out of it.
I was just playing.
Well, akari, hey man, you'vebeen a lovely guest.
Um, shout out to oh, you'revery welcome.
You're very welcome.
Uh, shout out to KO Studios.
Thank you for the lovely home.
Rafi Bite, thank you for thelovely vibe and with that,
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